On episode 30 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, hosts Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher from The Noun Square sit down with David Hovarth, a legend in the Lifestyle Character Brand world and creator of such cultural heavyweights as Uglydoll and Bossy Bear. In this conversation, we dig into David’s past and his development from a curious child into a creative force. We hear his story about founding Uglydoll with his now-wife and working partner Sun-Min Kim, and building that property into a globally successful character brand. We also chat about David’s 2022 Nouns proposal to put Nouns Sofubi and Plush into high end Japanese stores, and how they came back asking for more. Lastly, David talks about his new proposal to Nouns to produce more Nounish Plushes and place them in stores where they can be a trigger for new people to fall down the Nounish rabbit hole. If you enjoy this pod, please mint it and share with your friends on Warpcast and X! Timestamps: 00:00 - Plush down the rabbit hole 00:50 - ZEORPOD Intro 01:33 - First time face to face 02:30 - The David Horvath origin story: Childhood 03:15 - Favorite toys 05:31 - Favorite Collectibles now 06:31 - “Releasing a plushy” vs Plush culture in Japan 07:50 - The power of plush 09:07 - “Caught in the pursuit of awareness” 09:39 - Gary Lee is the Mr. Rogers of this generation 10:50 - “Brands cannot live on nostalgia alone.” 11:11 - Ugly Doll’s genesis 14:14 - Collaboration with Sun-Min 16:28 - “The Eames Chair of Plush” 21:00 - Taking UglyDoll to scale 23:00 - Pounding the pavement 24:36 - How was Bossy Bear similar, different? 27:31 - Misconceptions about breaking into Japan 28:00- In Japan, Lifestyle Character Brands are for everyone 29:00 - Getting people to care vs just knowing about you 30:45 - The BossyBear story 33:51 - Your tribe has to grow organically 34:52 - BossyBear compared to UglyDoll creative experiences 37:00 - 5 o’ clock somewhere
37:34 - David’s original Nouns proposal 39:25 - What is a Sofubi? 41:54 - How were the first run of Nouns plush received? 45:00 - What to expect if the current proposal passes? 46:16 - Taking CC0 ideals to shelf space 48:00 - Prop is designed to be self sufficient in the long run 50:00- Nouns at Toy and Gift Shows 51:05 - How does he answer people who ask “What is Nouns?” 54:00 - “Maybe I shouldn’t explain too much.” 57:00- Talking Snoopy 1:00:00 - “Wouldn’t it be treat if they fell down the rabbit hole?” 1:04:20 - David as a nouns OG 10:06:00 - “We know when we’re being sold.” 1:07:00 - Where to find out more — Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and Santhosh. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher. Music by Toady Hawk x Suno AI. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.

On episode 29 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square sit down with Will Papper, Nouner and co-founder of Syndicate. In this conversation, we learn about Will's career journey, which involves being a trailblazing founder, first in the field of AI and later crypto. We talk about how his company, Syndicate aims to facilitate cooperation and composability for onchain communities like Farcaster and $Degen, the future of Ethereum's rollup-centric roadmap as he sees it, and why he believes Layer 2s and Layer 3s could one day eclipse L1s in TVL. Finally, we dig into what attracted Will to Nouns since early days, how he likes to contribute to the project, and what he hopes to see in the future from Nouns. If you enjoy this pod, mint it for free and share it with a friend + Follow us at zora.co/basedandyellow.eth. --- Timestamps: 00:00 - How did Will get Noun-pilled? 02:25 - ZeroPod intro 03:40 - The Will Papper Origin Story 04:14 - “Decentralization Technologies” 05:35 - Infinite regret 06:14 - What are Mesh Networks? 08:22 - “Timing is hard.” 09:00 - Discovering Ethereum 10:30 - The Coingecko experiment 12:50 - Hysterical NFTs 14:20 - Avoiding hype cycles 15:12 - Librarian AI 17:13 - Remembering the 2018 bear cycle fondly 22:00 - “A few people with a great idea can have a huge impact.” 25:25 - 2018 vs 2022 bear market comparisons 27:30 - The crazy speed of infrastructure development in crypto 29:10 - What is Syndicate? Early days. 31:15 - Enabling onchain investment clubs 35:15 - On L3’s 37:00 - Why are L3 fees cheaper? 41:00 - $Degen and tipping culture 44:00 - “The value of an L2 will never surpass the value of an L1” argument challenged 47:37 - Our video about bridging that never uses the word bridge: youtu.be/fnji_t6hUXc?si=KwKF6i-ahy_KKXT5 48:27 - The Superchain is a messaging protocol, not a bridging protocol 51:00 - Security vs Usage 54:00 - L3 Composability 57:35 - On Farcaster 59:24 - Cow-clicker in a frame: warpcast.com/will/0xefedba2a 1:00:00 - Working with Jacek on Degen Chain 1:04:00 - Will on Nouns 1:06:00 - Noun-pilled by Noun40 1:07:00 - Sponsoring Glitch art proposal 1:08:00 - Thoughts on moving Nouns governance off L1 (Don’t do it!) 1:10:55 - Sharing unique perspectives in governance 1:11:48 - The future of Nouns 1:13:00 - The Yellow Collective, Purple as examples of successful branches into other niches and ecosystems 1:18:00- Predictions for the current cycle 1:19:18 - Syndicate’s goals for this year --- Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and Santhosh. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder. Music by Toady Hawk x Suno AI. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.

On episode 28 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, host Toady Hawk from The Noun Square sits down with Amir Bandeali, the co-founder and co-CEO of 0x and Matcha.

In this 45 minute conversation, we learn about Amir's crypto and career journey, his pioneering work with 0x protocol and we learn all about all the useful features of the Matcha DEX. We also chat about the recently announced partnership between Matcha, Nouns Esports and The Noun Square, and trade insights on Nouns, L2 summer, Farcaster and more.

If you've never tried making a swap on Matcha using their money-saving Matcha Auto feature, you can try to here: nouns.gg/matcha

Also, if you enjoy this pod, please mint for free and subscribe to us at zora.co/basedandyellow.eth

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Amir on why Matcha wanted to Partner with Nouns Esports and The Noun Square
01:03 - ZeroPod intro
02:15 - Onchain origins
04:29 - Why was he able to see the benefits of onchain finance when many in trade don’t?
05:00 - Learning about the benefits of self-custody getting rugged by online Poker Sites
06:44 - Go West young man: Moving from midwest to SF
08:43 - Special guest kitty
09:24 - The 0x story - The first DEX protocol
11:58 - Aggregating liquidity across chains and protocols
12:41 - What kind of apps are using 0x? “Most applications that have swaps use us.”
15:15 - What is Matcha?
18:01 - Favourite features of Matcha - “Matcha is like a search engine for tokens.”
20:20 - MEV protection out of the box
22:58 - “Abstracting away complexity.”
23:41 - L2 Summer
26:18 - The Rise of Base
28:16 - Amir on Nouns ⌐◨-◨
29:00 - “The concept of Nouns was so unique to me.”
31:17 - Nouns is truly decentralized and doesn’t have a scarcity mindset
32:48 - Nouns Esports and the new partnership with Matcha
34:30 - Nouns Esports changing the game with transparent funding
35:28 - The Cat was a paid actor.
37:00 - What does Amir hope to see from this collaboration with Nouns?
39:49 - Amir on the future of Ethereum. “Everything of value will be tokenized.”
42:40 - Thoughts on Farcaster
43:59 - Outro

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On episode 27 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, host Toady Hawk from The Noun Square sits down with James Ross, founder of a modular OP Stack L2 called MODE Network, which is aiming to bring more defi energy to the Superchain.

We hear about James' crypto and defi journey and find out why he wanted to build on Ethereum and on the Optimism stack. We chat about Eigen Layer (which he advised previous to founding MODE), some promising protocols on MODE, Farcaster, incentivizing builders and much more in this one hour conversation.

If you want to check out MODE, here is an invite code that should work:
ref.mode.network/AgNTDx
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Timestamps:

00:00 - How MODE fits into the Superchain
01:45 - ZeroPod intro
02:45 - James’ crypto and defi journey
04:31 - GTM consulting with Hype
05:31 - Why Ethereum? Why Optimism?
06:32 - Different models of builder funding
08:30 - The difficulty of measuring impact
11:36 - How MODE fits into the Superchain
13:56 - Renzo brings ETH staking to L2
16:24 - How EigenLayer is changing the game
19:00 - Is EigenLayer a systemic risk to ETH?
22:30 - How has MODE been going so far since launch?
25:00 - L2s as an unlock for defi strategies
28:00 - Points and airdrops meta, difficulty of incentivizing the right things
31:50 - $Degen and Farcaster. The power of “microbounties” and tipping
35:16 - Thoughts on Farcaster
38:00 - Devs will figure out novel ways to do things
41:50 - Builder culture at MODE: Building for the entire Superchain
43:00 - Some of James’ favourite projects on MODE
47:40 - Why build MODE on the Superchain?
51:20 - Where to go to learn more about MODE: docs.mode.network
52:36 - What is he most excited about for the next 6 months? (Some alpha maybe?)

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On episode 26 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, host Toady Hawk from The Noun Square sits down for part one of a two part Home & Away podcast with Nick Hollins from UFO. In this one, Toady puts Nick in the hotseat to find out all about his career and crypto journeys. We talk about everything from onchain media and web 3 distribution to open source and DAOs, and hear firsthand what’s next for UFO. Next week, Toady and Benbodhi from The Noun Square / ZeroPod will join Nick on the UFO pod to chat about TNS, the pod, The Yellow Collective and more. Make sure you subscribe at ufo.fm/ so you don’t miss it!

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Open source wins.
01:54 - ZeroPod Intro
03:40 - Nick’s origin story
05:33 - Intro to crypto and podcasting
07:08 - ETH Berlin pre-covid
07:44 - 0x Labs & Matcha
08:20 - Meeting UFO cofounder Ivano Salonia
10:06 - Voyager Artist Collective
11:05 - UFO Radio / Podcast
14:25 - Onchain Distribution vs web 2 Distro
16:40 - Onchain podcast pioneers - UFO as an Onchain Radio Station
19:35 - “Everything that happens onchain is a broadcast event.”
21:00 - Experimenting with Hypersub
23:00 - What does an onchain radio station look like?
25:00 - The Synchronous Signal
26:05 - Discoverability for onchain media
32:00 - Higher: A new model for DAOs?
33:00 - The Yellow Collective
35:00 - Why “Yellow”?
38:00 - Emojis and Brands — the new flags of Network States?
40:49 - Farcaster chat
47:00 - Twitter’s fall from grace
51:41 - Decentralized orgs and Open Source FTW
53:00 - Retro funding as a key unlock
1:00:00 - Positive Sum mindsets
1:00:51 - Nick on Nouns
1:09:00 - Favourite guests from UFO pod
1:14:20 - Onchain media as Onchain Anthropology
1:16:00 - Outro



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On episode 25 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, host Toady Hawk from The Noun Square sits down with Hong Kim aka Noun 40, cofounder and CTO of Bitwise for a deep dive on all things Nouns! We learn about what attracted Hong to Nouns, and chat about the importance of figuring out ways to fund the things nobody wants to fund (public goods.) We chat about the forthcoming $NOUNS fungible token, the nouns minting culture, Hong's dream proposals, and much, much more. If you're a fan of nouns, this is not one to miss! If you enjoy this conversation, please mint it here for free and share with a friend! --- Timestamps: 00:00 - Teaser: 40 on the importance of repairing market failures and funding public goods, and why nouns appealed to him 02:04 - ZeroPod intro 02:31 - Welcoming 40 to the pod. 04:22 - The 40 Origin Story. 04:47 - Falling down the Crypto rabbit hole in 2016. 05:30 - “Everyone is early” 06:00 - The origin/idea for Bitwise Investments 07:15 - Onchain journey & nouns journey 07:39 - Crypto’s opportunity to repair market failures and fund public goods 10:20 - Nouns: “Maybe we can just build memes that fund public goods” 12:00 - Where did you first hear about Nouns 12:58 - Why Void Head noun? 15:02 - Favourite noun head aside from Void? 16:34 -“The silliness of nouns allows people to be a little less serious than in most governance contexts.” 17:50 - The benefit of nouns’ gradual token issuance 21:36 - What is his definition of nouns & nounishness (aka “40 goes off”) 26:00 - Appreciation for the craft of the art and code base of nouns 27:40 - “We’re doing great on the weirdness front.” 28:10 - Talking $NOUNS (nouns fungible token) 31:00 - $NOUNS broad overview 32:33 - Lessons from Bitcoin’s fractionalization and culture 35:00 - There’s currently no good way to own a fraction of a Noun 40:00 - Who would swap $NOUNS for Nouns and why? 46:30 - Potential future governance participation by $NOUNS holders 47:04 - “Speculation is a superpower.” 49:51 - $NOUNS as an API 52:00 - $NOUNS as a potentially meaningful way to acquire new fans for nouns-funded projects 53:37 - Will $NOUNS have a positive or negative effect on arbitrage? 57:00 - $NOUNS Timeline… alpha? 57:50 - The future of the nouns minting economy 1:02:58 - Mint to support 1:04:00 - Minting as a way to further decentralize nouns funding 1:06:56 - Minting Splits as a way to tag mints as nounish on zora 1:08:00 - How to get enough volume on nounish mints for revenue to be meaningful 1:12:00 - rounds.wtf and possible minting applications 1:14:00 - Ideal nouns proposal (lessons from the DARPA model… but for onchain world) 1:20:00 - Think hyperlocal 1:22:00 - On Bitwise, and what might make wall street take notice of a project like nouns? 1:26:00 - What is 40 most excited about for Nouns? Thoughts on the new delegation governor. 1:31:00 - “Enjoy Nouns!” 1:31:51 - ? --- Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Music by Toady Hawk x Suno AI. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.

Mar 27 2024 ------ On episode 24 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, host Toady Hawk from The Noun Square sits down with Jacob, cofounder of Zora to talk about everything onchain. We hear about Jacob's early days at Coinbase, talk about how Zora came to be and how it has evolved over the past 4 years, what Farcaster and onchain content means for the future of media distribution and much, much more-- including some alpha about what's next for Zora! If you enjoy this conversation, please LIKE & Subscribe so others can find it and enjoy it too! --- Timestamps: 00:00 - Jacob on Farcaster 02:41 - ZeroPod intro 03:20 - Toady apologizes for constantly trying to break Zora 04:44 - Jacob’s personal onchain origin story 05:50 - Messing around with Bitcoin and Colored Coins 06:30 - Discovered by Coinbase, moving from Sydney to SF 06:47 - From literal Coinbase Intern to USDC Project Lead 07:49 - The appeal of Uniswap and the paradigm of protocols 08:50 - SaintFame.com “The Long Sleeve of Crypto” 09:40 - What is the reason for the success of “The Coinbase Mafia”? 12:23 - Four Years of Zora: The History. “Ideas are valuable.” 14:00 - Making it easier to bring content onchain 15:00 - Designing for media first 16:26 - Huge stats, huge growth 19:00 - Zora compared to the other NFT platforms 19:39 - The Zora L2 20:08 - Pepe week, shared PTSD 21:27 - Why OP Stack? 22:19 - The decision to make Zora multi chain: good vibes only 23:36 - Zora abstracting the bridging experience 26:50 - Creator Rewards - A Primary Royalty? 31:00 - The secret weapon: Create in one place, disperse everywhere 32:08 - The evolution of the Zora homepage 33:00 - Experimentation with content discovery 35:00 - Jacob on Farcaster’s 3 year long “Overnight success” 39:00 - The power of crypto content distribution on Farcaster 41:09 - The future of Frames 43:59 - Opens Deals type service in a Frame? 45:00 - $DEGEN Specific Client? 46:11 - Talking about rounds.wtf from Nouns PropHouse 47:29 - What is Nouns could give away $nouns instead? 48:20 - What attracted Jacob to Nouns? 51:29 - Ideas for the future of Nouns, disrupt the film production industry 54:52 - What should Nouns maybe do less of? 55:00 - Lamenting the loss of Nouns AI 56:00 - The future for onchain creators 58:00 - Jacob puts Toady in charge of Zora for 3 months (verbal contract) 1:01:00 - “Have fun, be fast.” 1:03:00 - Alpha! --- Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk. Music by Toady Hawk x Suno AI. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.

Mar 19 2024

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On episode 23 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square sit down with Mike Demarais, cofounder of Rainbow Wallet to hear his story. We go deep down the Rainbow Road and chat about buying weed on the Silk Road, why he built a crypto wallet and why they called it Rainbow, his thoughts on Farcaster, BASE and Nouns, and much, much more... including a few pieces of juicy alpha! If you enjoy this conversation, please LIKE & Subscribe!

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Will “Mike Rainbow” Ever Make it Official?
01:00 - ZeroPod intro
02:00 - Mike likes TNS and ZeroPod
03:27 - Mike’s origin story - B2B SAAS roots
04:24 - “Crypto really scratched an itch for me.”
05:20 - Originally thought Bitcoin was a scam
05:50 - Buying weed on the darknet
07:00 - Attracted to the composability of Ethereum
09:20 - The importance of crypto wallets for mainstream adoption
10:11 - Why “Rainbow”?
10:26 - Importance of ‘Emojiability’
11:10 - CryptWallet Pro Coming Soon
12:49- Rainbow’s mobile-first approach
16:22 - The new desktop extension: Going after power users (and aspirational power users)
19:44 - Cross-chain compatibility
22:24 - The Vampire Attack: “It is always acceptable for David to take shots at Goliath.”
24:00 - Rainbow POINTS
27:28 - Fartcaster
29:00 - Twitter API woes
31:00 - Having fun on Farcaster
33:00 - We meme the ones we love
34:55 - On being an unhinged founder, and the importance of approachable raw brand voice
37:36 - Everyone DM Mike all your problems (jk)
37:56 - The Top Signal for this bull run
38:44 - Mike on the growth of BASE
43:00 - Farcaster flippenings
44:00 - Mike asks about Nouns x Farcaster
47:06 - Mike on Nouns, possible future Rainbow ⌐◨-◨ collab
50:00 - The importance of open source
52:00 - ERC 4337 - Account Abstraction: Rainbow Mini wallets
57:00 - What is Mike most excited about for 2024?

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Feb 21 2024

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On episode 22 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square sit down with crypto twitter legend, fashionista and founder winny.eth! We hear about her crypto journey, and the career path that lead her to the founding of Gossip Protocol, and her newest venture "Chipped", a line of NFC-enabled acrylic nails that will allow wearers to keep their social graph at the tips of their fingers!

This was a great conversation with a mainstay of the space, and we hope you enjoy!

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro: Chipped
01:34 - ZeroPod intro
02:17 - Winny Crypto Origin Story
04:28 - “A Spite-Fueled Journey”
06:29 - First peer-to-peer app
07:20 - “My first metaverse was Animal Crossing”
08:36 - Marrying fashion and computer science
09:40 - Political lessons, and moving to France
10:36 - Shillr Days
12:44 - Got ‘em!
13:48 - Serotonin Time
14:36 - Starting Gossip Protocol
17:13 - Chipped! NFC-enabled nails
21:00 - Letting people own their social graph
22:20 - Chipped Art contests
24:14 - The importance of making crypto accessible
26:20 - BoysClub Adjacent
26:50 - Denver-bound
29:00 - Oasis Onchain Retreat
33:00 - Rebuilding the reputation of crypto in the Bahamas
34:00 - The Yellow Collective empowering artists with crypto
34:49 - What events are you planning to attend?
37:02 - “Despite the French, I love Paris”
39:00 - Love on Leverage
40:00 - Winny on Nouns
42:50 - Outlook for 2024
44:54 - Thoughts on Farcaster Energy: “Get on Farcaster, find your real users.”
47:33 - Where to learn more about Winny, Gossip and Chipped. @winnyeth, chipped.social

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Jan 15 2024

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We're starting 2024 off with a bang as Jesse Pollak joins us for episode 21 of ZEROPOD! Jesse is a longtime Coinbase alum and leads the team for their Ethereum L2, BASE.

On this episode, Toady Hawk and Benbodhi from TNS ask Jesse about his crypto journey, his thoughts on the recent BTC EFT approval, and talk about his vision for the future of BASE. They also talk about some of most interesting projects currently being built on BASE, and about our upcoming Yellow Collective launch (going live on January 18 at basedandyellow.xyz.) And of course, Nouns and the common culture that connects many Ethereum native organizations.

This was a fascinating conversation with one of the top contributors in the Ethereum space-- we hope you enjoy! (And if you do, please Like, Comment and Subscribe!)

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro: Jesse Loves Yellow
01:13 - ZeroPod Intro
01:55 - Happy Bitcoin ETF Approval Day!
03:30 - Building the New Internet
04:28 - Why is an ETF good despite not being self-custodial
06:44 - Crypto-pilled by a lumberjack
08:08 - How he ended up at Coinbase
08:57 - “Coindesk’s Most Influential in 2023”
11:37 - The Coinbase Vision for 2024 Tweet
14:44 - “Building a global onchain economy that increases innovation, creativity and freedom.”
17:10 - People feel let down by traditional economy
20:00 - Why OP?
23:25 - Tourists and Purists
25:00 - The Superteam
28:22 - A Question from Chris Carella
30:00 - The benefits of parallel core development
32:50 - Favourite projects on BASE? The Yellow Collective of course!
34:00 - Upcoming Nouns Builder L2 Migration
35:00 - Jesse is a big fan of Yellow! (Also how Jesse stole our yellow circle emoji.)
36:35 - Advertisement: Collective Nouns by TNS & The Yellow Collective, launching January 18 at basedandyellow.xyz
39:27 - Retro funding and the OP Stack
44:48 - What drew him to Nouns?
50:00 - Progress in Ethereum ecosystem is exponential
53:00 - Advice for launching The Yellow Collective
57:33 - Question from Sanya on Farcaster: What can people contribute to BASE?
59:00 - “Do Something at the intersection of your passion and this technology”

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Dec 31 2023 ------ It's the crossover episode you never knew you needed -- on episode 20 of ZEROPOD, our very last episode of 2023, BoysClub cofounder Deana Burke joins us to talk about building a community media organization on the new "ownable internet." We hear about her background, how BoysClub came to be, and what to expect in 2024, with many more interesting topics sprinkled throughout. We really enjoyed this conversation with Deana, and we hope you will too! --- Timestamps: 00:00 - Art Basel flu 00:50 - Intro 02:11 - The Deana origin story 03:30 - Shitcoin-trading beginnings 04:08 - The rabbit hole: Levelling the playing field. 05:28 - A Bitcoin Wallet for Teenaged Girls 07:09 - Crypto: “I love that for you” 07:45 - The birth of Boys Club 08:39 - When Boys Club interviewed Toady about Nouns fork: open.spotify.com/episode/6ETx... 09:25 - “Wherever you meet us on our journey is perfect.” 10:00 - The Boys Club name 11:45 - “We have an opportunity to shape the new internet and be involved int it, and speak to what it becomes, but only if we have a seat at the table if we are learning about it and understanding and building things in and around it.” 13:57 - The Boys Club DAO 16:15 - Going full time 17:00 - Boys Club Events 18:16 - Basel… we are so back? 19:45 - Check the receipts! 20:00 - The Boys Club Zine 23:00 - The impact of physical products in the onchain space 26:30 - Experimenting with different minting mechanisms for physical editions: “Trading scarcity for attention.” 29:24 - Boys Club as an Offchain DAO 34:00 - Protocol DAOs vs Onchain Social Club DAOs 37:00 - AirPod Malfunction 38:11 - The struggles of new onchain media 43:29 - Onchain Spotify wen 44:26 - Crowd-funding PTSD 46:11 - If you build it, they will… not necessarily come. 48:03 - The importance of minimum viable community 49:28 - “Find a parade and get in front” 51:38 - Deana on Nouns 55:00 - The power of absurdity 56:53 - Boys Club live covering the SBF trial 58:42 - Daylight is the best disinfectant (Woohoo!) 1:00:02 - What’s next for Boys Club in 2024? boyclub.vip for more --- Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder. Music by SuperTightWoody. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.

Dec 12 2023 ------ On Episode 19 of the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast, hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder sat down with Roy aka Zeneca, founder of ZenAcademy, and the 333 Club, cohost of the Two Bored Apes podcast and beloved web 3 educator! We talked with Roy about his journey from playing poker professionally, to teaching NFT-curious people when to hold'em. We dig into what it was like to build ZenAcademy through the bull market and the bear, the realities of founder burnout, and why he believes that many projects should concentrate on building communities not companies. And of course we had to ask Roy for his takes on Nouns and CC0, a topic he has written about extensively. We hope you enjoy this conversation with a true legend of the space! --- Timestamps: 00:00 - Communities and Companies 01:58 - Intro 02:57 - Poker Days 03:50 - Crypto journey 06:00 - The difficulty of HODLing through multiple crypto cycles 07:35 - The “Zeneca” backstory 10:23 - Zeneca x Seneca wen? 11:06 - The Zeneca Spreadsheet Era 13:43 - Experience building a community during the bear market 16:16 - Lessons learned from the previous cycle 18:11 - “Infinite Regret” 22:00 - Taking profits when you know all the project leaders or are in the public eye 24:47 - The Denizens PFP Collection 28:28 - ZenAcademy DAO? 30:57 - How can NFT projects grow without extracting from their communities? 32:00 - Communities vs Companies 33:37 - Recent tweet announcement about the future of ZenAcademy: x.com/Zeneca/status/173166963... 35:00 - Being honest about burnout and mental health 39:28 - Zeneca the Writer 42:00- The importance of education in this space 44:00 - What is Zeneca looking forward to most in this coming cycle? 48:00 - Roy on Nouns 51:00 - Thoughts on CC0 and other IP experiments 56:00 - Roy on Royalties 1:00:00 - Crypto / Poker Overlap 1:03:00 - Outro --- Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder. Music by SuperTightWoody. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more about us.

Nov 28 2023 ------ Episode 18 of the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast is a special one because it’s the first time we’ve ever streamed an interview live. We did so on the Unlonely web3 streaming platform, which only seemed natural, as ZEROPOD’s Toady Hawk and ProfWerder were hosting Grace and Brian Guan, the founders of Unlonely! We talked to them about their individual onchain journeys, why they decided to tackle the difficult issue of decentralized web 3 streaming, their recent hit web series “Love on Leverage”, what’s coming next, and more! --- Timestamps: 00:00 - We do it LIVE 00:30 - ZEROPOD Intro 00:45 - Grace’s story 02:13 - The Sibling dynamic 03:38 - “Big Tech Corporate Girlie” 04:00 - Crypto-pilled 04:38 - Wanting to solve problems seen at Google and YouTube 05:28 - Kitty Cameo 06:32 - Enter Brian 08:10 - Early Unlonley days 11:16 - Love to Farcaster 14:33 - Why Unlonely? 16:39 - The ⁠Frend.tech⁠ Effect (the importance of cashflow positive) 18:54 - Show, don’t tell 22:00 - Any legal concerns with in-chat betting? 25:00 - Gamified streaming 27:49 - Love on Leverage 31:00 - WorldCoin Orb Rizz 32:51 - Love on Leverage Success 36:38 - The Rizz Olympics 39:22 - What is RIZZ? 41:08 - Network Rizz 42:00 - Rizzommendations 44:00 - “Unlonely - It’s in the name.” 47:00 - Esports opportunity? 50:00 - Impromptu biz dev sesh 51:43 - Privy, PWA and onboarding 53:00 - Content is King 55:20 - Pay-Per-Rizz 55:55 - A decentralized alternative for content creators 56:44 - Auditor-gate 1:00:00 - Unfundable.eth 1:05:00 - Guans on Nouns 1:08:00 - The value of being contrarian 1:09:00 - Grace flashes some Nouns swag 1:10:00 - Brian being NSFW 1:11:49 - Brian coming for DWR 1:15:00 - Outro --- Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder. Music by SuperTightWoody. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more about us.

Nov 13 2023

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On Episode 17 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk hosts artist, designer and talented doodler extraordinaire Vinnie Hager. We talk about his early art beginnings making small custom pieces for his friends back in high school, and follow his trajectory all the way through to becoming one of the most iconic and versatile physical & digital artists in our space.

This was a really great conversation and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Please MINT WITH COMMENT and FOLLOW if you do, it helps a lot.

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Art on clothing
01:55 - ZEROPOD intro
02:51 - The Vinnie Hager origin story
04:24 - Diary: opensea.io/collection/diary-b...
06:00 - “Keep everything.”
07:02 - How do you decide what to release?
07:50 - Early style influences
09:50 - High School Hustler
11:09 - NFT journey
13:18 - The Letters Collection
16:32 - Physical vs Digital Illustration
17:50 - How does he plan his doodle pieces?
18:32 - Where do the symbols come from?
19:27 - Drawing on clothing
21:20 - Parallels to CC0 art
22:20 - Toady’s Vinnie Physical
24:04 - Simplicity as a creative cue
25:45 - Clon and the Cool Cats
27:30 - The friends we make along the way
28:46 - Being and artist through crypto cycles
31:44 - Favorite piece from your collections?
35:00 - Vinnie on Nouns
37:00 - DNounScouted?
40:00 - What’s next for Vinnie?
43:00 - Advice for aspiring artists.

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Nov 7 2023 ------ On Episode 16 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk and Prof Werder sit down with Dan Romero aka @ dwr, founder of Farcaster. We talk about his Coinbase origins, his days as a Twitter API dev, and why he and his co-founder chose to tackle the important problem of Decentralized Social. We also talk about Nouns, Network States, permissionless proliferation and so much more. This was an awesome conversation and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did-- Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do! --- Timestamps: 00:00 - Nouns as a great example of decentralized governance 01:54 - ZEROPOD Intro 02:45 - Early career on the West Coast, discovery of Bitcoin and Ethereum 04:28 - Thinking about moving Twitter onto a protocol, Paul Graham essay: www.paulgraham.com/twitter.html 05:15 - RSS to RSS+ 06:00 - Why tackle decentralized social media? 06:28 - History as Twitter API dev, Strawpoll creation 07:59 - Social networking vs Social MEDIA 10:45 - Farcaster the protocol vs Warpcaster the app + The Power of Channels 12:26 - Balaji’s Network State, the power of onchain networks and pseudonymous 15:15 - Network State can be a charged term - Need better retail packaging 17:08 - Kind Internet Strangers 20:00 - Walking the Decentralized Talk 21:34 - The airdrop is the friends we made along the way 22:38 - The value of owning your social network (immunity to deplatforming) 23:03 - Vitalik as an example of someone who walks the walk 25:00 - Future integrations of podcasts into Farcaster? 28:32 - Apps should be opinionated and focused 29:00- Build things you are passionate about 31:17 - A Permissionless milestone for Farcaster: Importance of building culture early, and the novelty of permissionless interaction with the protocol. 36:27 - You own the relationship wth your network. 36:42 - Setting norms on Warpcaster: Building a culture 40:00 - “Good” is Not Great. 42:00 - Freedom of choice of client 42:50 - Flink example: flink.fyi/ 44:46 - “The decentralized approach of Nouns is inspirational to me.” 47:33 - “Why didn’t your fork your noun?” (In it for the meme!) 49:40 - The importance of taking a 10 year horizon on investments you believe in 51:38 - Let memetic compounding happen 52:41 - Almost the Purple Patricio 53:05 - Purple DAO 57:35 - The Grateful Dead as an example of permissionless proliferation 59:00 - Ethereum and Bitcoin as decentralized brands 1:00:00 - Community Questions - Noun40 question about community curation of channels 1:06:00 - Dustmartn question 1: What Superpower?. Question 2: Why will people still be using Forecaster in 10 years? 1:07:00 - “Farcaster is default dead right now” 1:10:00 - Why should someone join Farcaster? 1:15:00 - Outro --- Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder. Music by SuperTightWoody. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more about us.

Oct 30 2023

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On Episode 15 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk sits down with Noah Davis aka CryptoPunkNoah. We talk about his experience working at Christie's, where he brokered the famous $69 Million Beeple deal, and ask him about the differences between the trad art world and the world of NFTs. We also talk about Cryptoadz, his love for CC0 and his collection "Howlerz", plus we get all the alpha on his new "open edition pfp" collection dropping tomorrow, Halloween Day, called Hellionz!

We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did-- Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do!

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Timestamps:

00:00 - The Hellionz Collection!
00:50 - ZEROPOD Intro
01:39 - Everybody is an artist
03:05 - Christie’s & the Beeple deal
06:00 - Comparing traditional art world with NFT art world
10:00 - Blockchain as an equalizing force for artists
11:30 - Ode to Toadz!
16:00- Onboarding our moms and wives to NFTs
17:00 - Howlerz
20:48 - Lessons from the Howlerz launch
22:00 - The Grinder NFT meta
23:59 - Lessons from Howlerz overall - how to build a community around your art.
26:44 - The Prey Collection
32:22 - Tokenizing traditional art
33:20 - Why CC0? Because it’s punk rock.
37:04 - “Copyright law is kind of absurd.”
40:00 - How can blockchain help solve some of these problems of attribution
44:27 - Hellionz Collection (dropping Oct 31, 2023)
50:26 - Custom Minting Game!
51:28- Style inspirations for Hellionz
52:45 - Inspirations of fatherhood
58:00 - Outro

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Oct 23 2023 ------ On Episode 14 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher sit down with Chris Waters and Eric Towner from Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, makers of Robot Chicken, Marvel's MODOK, and soon a full-length feature documentary all about Nouns called [REDACTED] (you'll have to watch the pod to find out the title!) First with Eric, we delve into his memories of founding Stoopid Buddy alongside Seth Green, Matthew Senreich & John Harvatine, with nothing but a 1972 Winnebago to their name. Eric and Chris talk share their favorite non-Robot Chicken projects, and then we chat in detail about the two nounish projects they're actively working on: Nouns Short Shorts, and the nouns documentary... including some never-before-revealed alpha! These guys are talented, knowledgable and hilarious and we enjoyed chatting with them so much, we could have kept going all day. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did-- Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do! --- Timestamps: 00:00 - Most Noggled Pod Yet? 00:40 - Intro 02:08 - Stoopid Buddy Origins 03:23 - Towner’s unconventional advice for creatives 04:43 - A Winnebago is like a clipboard (or a ladder, according to Josh) 06:13 - Starting Stoopid Buddy Studios 07:48 - Towner’s secret tattoo 08:16 - Favorite Non-RobotChicken Project. Eric: Micro Mayhem: vimeo.com/64585891 10:28 - Driving pun-off 10:55 - Chris’ favorite: Blark & Son 13:13 - What’s it like when someone says “Here’s a check— go make something”? 16:30 - What it’s like creating for some studios under the current IP model 20:35 - The first Short Shorts experiment - Onboarding artists to crypto, and to nouns 28:25 - The importance of trusting pods and teams with certain niches 31:10 - Are you an animator in Antarctica? 31:58 - What are the audacious goals for the most recent Short Shorts proposal? 35:09 - Mickey and friends: Trick or Treat, working with Disney 38:36 - Binding verbal agreement to live stream the next Short Shorts Wrap Party on The Noun Square 41:02 - Q4 Forward-looking projections lol 42:49 - Shark, Pickle, Cone 45:03 - Gif or Jif? 45:52 - The Rose Parade and the Documentary 51:23 - What is it like to work for a DAO? 53:39 - Feedback from outside nouns 59:00- Rose Parade Redux 01:01:30 - Giant Steel Noggles from the Float— who wants ‘em? 01:04:04 - Submitting the Nouns Doc to Festivals 01:06:55 - IP vs CC0 01:10:11 - Would you release all the raw footage? 01:13:54 - The Nouns Walk Around Costumes: Where are they now? 01:15:25 - How did the artists on the short shorts project react to the idea of making their work CC0? 01:18:00 - Minting with mETH 01:19:00 - Noggin’ up, swag off & outro. --- Podcast recorded by Toady Hawk, edited by Toady Hawk and JackWyldes. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher. Music by SuperTightWoody. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more about us.

Oct 16 2023

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On Episode 13 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk sits down with skateboarding legend, philanthropist, and brand new Nouner Bob Burnquist!

Bob talks about his childhood growing up in Brazil under an oppressive regime that actually banned skateboarding in public, and how he made it from those humble beginnings to tearing up the X Games and pulling fakies with Tony in Tony Hawk Pro Skater.

We also chat about his web 3 journey, and why he thinks blockchain is a huge unlock for funding public goods. Two days ago, Bob became an official member of Nouns DAO, and we talk here about what attracted him to this particular onchain community, and his excitement for future collaboration opportunities.

We hope you enjoy this episode. Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do!

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Legends Skate Jam
01:46 - ZEROPOD Intro
02:43 - Early days in Brazil
04:28 - Skateboarding was illegal!
05:28 - Skateboarding is more art than most sports
06:50 - Skateboarding as a grounding influence
08:42 - Early competition circuit
11:26 - Going Pro
12:51 - What was it like to be part of making skateboarding mainstream?
14:30 - Tony Hawk as the “public hero” for the sport
15:15 - Meeting Tony for the first time in 1993
17:30 - Tony always wanted to help people
19:45 - How has skating subculture stayed strong despite mainstream adoption?
23:40 - How did he first encounter Gnars DAO and Nouns?
26:22 - First Nouns Prop (Prop 142)
28:08 - The importance of niching out communities
31:16 - Nouns compared to other big-ticket NFTs
35:42 - Blockchain as a powerful unlock for public goods funding
40:00 - Similarities between skate culture and web 3
43:10 - Any favourite Nouns props?
45:15 - Impact Onboarding (h/t web3beach by carlosjmelgar)
47:08 - The difficulty of being your own bank (and the importance of education)
48:31 - His thoughts on the current Proposal to gift Bob a Noun for his work nouns.wtf/vote/402 (has now passed at time of publication!)
54:55 - What is he most excited about working on with Nouns over the next 6 months to a year
58:00 - Outro

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Oct 11 2023 ------ On Episode 12 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk and Prof Werder host Bitcoin OG, Nouner and founder of Pizza DAO— SNAX! In this entertaining one hour conversation, we chat with him about how he went from studying mathematics at University to travelling around the world hosting crypto-onboarding pizza parties, and everything in between. Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you enjoy! --- Timestamps: 0:00 - Swag off 01:10 - ZEROPOD Intro 01:41 - The World Pizza Tour 03:21 - The Snax Origin Story 04:48 - Bitcoin discovery: Currency Backed by Math 06:32 - Bitcoin meetups in Philly 08:08 - Buying Cryptopunks 08:25 - South Silly and Clubhouse Days 09:30 - NFTs are to Objects as DAOs are to Corporations 11:20 - “The good thing about the metaverse is that space is free— you can just make a new room.” 11:40 - COVID Days 12:25 - Pizza as a meme 13:12 - What is Bitcoin Pizza Day? 15:09 - What does pizza want? 16:30 - The Power of Pizza Parties 21:13 - Community in a Box 22:40 - Proof of Pizza 24:06 - Pizza = Nostalgia 30:00 - Random Vietnam Story 30:55 - Snax’s Dirty Secret 32:28 - Helping small business owners: A real estate organization that offers pizza solutions. 35:40 - The “Francheese” Model: 2024 Plan 40:00 - Olde English Style Pizza? 41:26 - The Pizza Expo 43:00 - Pizza POS is a problem ripe for Open Source disruption 43:25 - “There’s no scarcity problem, there’s a pizza distribution problem.” 46:00 - Nouns Fork Discussion 47:53 - Pizza DAO’s Dream Noun (and Overpaying for the Meme) 50:54 - “Money’s not rational.” 53:58 - Friends are recession-proof 57:04 - Snax on Nouns: “Everyone should want Nouns to succeed.” 58:39 - Art Basel Prop Draft: Nouns Curatoooors 01:01:30 - Fork talk redux 01:06:00 - Paper Noggle-off 1:06:47 - Snax’ Favorite Pizza 1:07:34 - Pizza DAO Mafia Names 1:10:07 - How to get involved in Pizza DAO --- Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Prof Werder. Music by SuperTightWoody. Zero Rights Reserved, remix any of our content as much as you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @ thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more.

Oct 2 2023

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On Episode 11 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk and Robotfishgirl host one half of the dynamic duo behind Deadfellaz — @psych_nft! We battled against a raging Australian wind storm that caused several wifi interruptions for our guest, determined to persevere and hear about his journey as an artist, the Deadfellaz story, his views on Nouns, and perhaps most excitingly, alpha about their upcoming “Non-TCG TCG” game called RIP! We did our best to polish out the rough patches caused by technical difficulties and we hope you enjoy this one as much as we did. Please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do!

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro RIP Psych’s Wifi
01:49 - Always been an artist
02:21 - Depthcore and the Agency Scene
03:50 - Early NFT experiments
04:36 - Cryptovoxels art community: Meeting 4156 and lastpunk9999
06:00 - The Utility of Being a Person
07:30 - The attraction of NFT immutability and NFTs making digital art respected
10:37 - The Deadfellaz story: Addressing gender representation problems in the pfp genre
12:29 - The Deadfellaz novel take on pfp rarity
15:07 - Why has Deadfellaz been a lasting community (and why some other projects have not lasted.)
22:00 - The difficulty of separating finance from culture in unchain communities
18:00 - Kickstarter vs. NFTs
23:10 - Psych’s candid thoughts on the Nouns fork
25:05 - Psych’s thoughts on Nouns as a project since inception
28:46 - Lamenting all the technical difficulties / wifi disconnections we’ve been battling up until this point
29:52 - The Deadfellaz Twitch team
32:40 - Web3 Discord organization
33:27 - RIP TCG - What is it, and what can we expect from the gameplay?
36:50 - Breaking the confines of physical tabletop games
40:53 - Hearthstone Support Group
42:49 - Banter, back from another bad wifi disconnection
44:22 - Interlude: “The One Where the Gang Loses Wifi”
46:09 - Back to RIP TCG: Factions
49:26 - Community reaction to RIP so far.
52:00 - Check out the RIP TCG sale here: x.com/Deadfellaz/status/17002...

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Sept 25 2023

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In this episode of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast, The Noun Square's Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher interview artist, musician and stop-motion animator Ed Balloon.

We'll hear about his journey as an artist, how the pandemic forced him to think of new ways to engage with this fans, and why he wants to collaborate and use his platform and stop-motion character "Ed B" to bring the culture of Nouns to a brand new audience. (Check out Nouns Proposal 372.) Enjoy!

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Teaser - Ed gets Noun-pilled by Short Shorts
1:45 -Intro
2:10 - The Ed Balloon Journey
4:25- The Pandemic’s effect on artists
5:52 - Ed B the Puppet
11:31 - Moving into web 3
13:45 - Ed rates TNS Twitter Spaces
18:18 - Ed’s creative process
19:58 - Ed B the Puppet as a Cathartic Medium
23:44 - Toady’s Random Canadiana: Ed the Sock
28:28 - Building culture takes time
29:35 - The web series
30:09 - How he got noun-pilled by Nouns Short Shorts
37:18 - It’s not a cult, it’s a movement
40:57 - Noggles as an icon
42:11 - The great Noggle Off
47:33 - The artist exposure trope
55:11 - Nouns Proposal 372
1:00:00 - A little bit of name-dropping
1:05:05 - How will he integrate Nouns culture into this project if funded? (It’s gonna be weird.)
1:09:00 - Run Ed, Run
1:12:00 - Go and vote!
1:15:00 - Banter and outro.

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Sep 19 2023 ------ On "The Purple Pod", Episode 9 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk and Robotfishgirl sit down with artist and 2-time non-DAO founder Chris Carella. We learn about his career and crypto journey, chat about his role as one of the founders of the Farcaster-supporting collective “Purple DAO” and the artist-supporting collective “Energy,” and we ask him for his thoughts on the recent Nouns DAO fork as well. We hope you enjoy this casual conversation with this prolific nounish builder— please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do! --- Timestamps: 00:00 - Teaser: The Network Value 00:47: Intro 01:01 - The Chris Carella Origin Story 02:33 - Startup Studio 04:24 - Pandemic Era 05:47 - Top Shot 7:15 - The Dopamine Hook 9:48 - Tezos Chapter 11:41 - ETH / Peak Mania 12:45 - Bear market benefits 13:07 - DATA science to escape the bull 13:38 - SharkDAO and intro to Nouns 14:51 - Back to crypto 15:41 - Working like like a Charmverse 18:09 - Avoiding the word DAO 19:43 - A troll in Carella Park 21:34 - FUD and the RFV playbook 22:40 - The Fork Time Machine 23:51 - The Forecaster Chapter 27:27 - The Genesis of Purple DAO 30:21 - Jacob Flowers Intermission 31:44 - The Iconic Art 32:30 - Focus on Retroactive Funding 35:20 - Farcaster as a more positive social media experience 39:58 - Farcaster Birthday 41:22 - Energy Launch 46:50 - Share your ideas, because execution is rare 50:02 - “How Chris Carella founded another DAO he didn’t want to found” 51:00 - Different thoughts about DAO founder allocations 55:16 - L2’s as a Game-Changer for deploying DAOs 60:00 - Chris on the Nouns Fork 1:05:00 -Roundtable Space about Nouns Fork with 4156: twitter.com/i/spaces/1zqKVPdB... 1:07:00 - DAO morale has improved post-fork 1:09:00 - The Network Value of Nouns 1:14:00 - Nouns should work more with other sub DAOs 1:16:00 - Named to the Optimism Citizens House --- Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Robotfishgirl. Music by SuperTightWoody. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.

Sep 11 2023 ------ On Episode 8 of ZEROPOD, Toady Hawk and Cardno host the one and only Jack Butcher, founder of Visualize Value and the man behind the Checks and Opepen art projects. We learn about Jack’s childhood in the UK, how he ended up Stateside, and all about his journey as an artist and a creative. We then delve into the ethos behind Checks and Opepen, the importance of CC0 and permissionless protocols for solving “The Cold Start Problem” for artists, and much, much more. We hope you enjoy this one as much as we did, and please LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE if you do! --- Timestamps: 00:00 - Teaser: Jack’s advice to aspiring artists 1:12 - Intro 2:00 - The Jack Butcher Origin Story 3:00 - An impactful internship 5:12 - Civics Lesson 6:16 - Another internship 6:45 - New York New York 7:35 - The Welsh Connection 11:23 - Family Lore 11:55 - “Fixing it in post” 13:03 - The NYC Agency Grind 15:20 - Striking out on his own 19:05 - Visualize Value: The Business of Distillation 22:18 - Jack’s Crypto Journey 25:20 - Foundation-al beginnings 28:01 - Double-posting to Ethereum 30:58 - The Modem Moment 32:24 - Ethereum as an art authentication machine 33:23 - “Provenance is Cumulative” 37:47 - In our post-cringe era? 39:00 - Checks Genesis 42:00 - Meaning is reduced to zero 43:17 - Let him cook 44:42 - Mutable vs Immutable Checks 47:47 - Invisible Blue Check 49:30 - The Persistence of Symbols 50:40 - Let’s talk Opepen 52:39 - The Power of the PFP as a Platform 58:45 - The Nouns AI Platform & Opepen AI 61:01 - NPA (Not PFP Advice) 64:00 - The Cold Start Problem for Artists 68:00 - Jack on Nouns 71:00 - Noggles as a Powerful Memetic Icon 73:00 - Jack on CC0 80:00 - “We’ll make art until there’s nothing left to make.” 80:50 - Community Questions: VV Training Bundle 82:00 - The Success Case for Opepen 84:45 - Physical Claim Opepen Set? 86:27 - What’s next for Jack? 90:19 - Have you read any good books lately? 94:00 - Alpha? Connecting the dots with Ethereum 97:00 - Crypto is for Collaboration 100:00 - Jack’s advice for artists --- Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk. Hosted by Toady Hawk and Cardno. Music by SuperTightWoody. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.

Sep 1 2023 ------ Welcome to Episode 7 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Prof Werder from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down with Binji Pande from OPLabs and the Optimism Collective. The quote in the title is from Jesse Pollak of Coinbase/BASE, and Binji said it sums up what it's like to work daily on scaling Ethereum alongside some of the best minds working on the OP Stack together. In this pod, we dig into Binji's background, talk about Optimism's commitment to broad collaboration and funding public goods, and we learn that the ""Superchain"" is a blueprint for an open source hat warehouse in New Jersey? Enjoy! --- Timestamps: 0:00 - Episode Teaser 1:32 - Zeropod Intro 2:34 - The Binji Origin Story: Coconuts in Cost Rica 3:44 - College Days: Studying Behavioural Economics 5:49 - Incentives, Incentives, Incentives 6:08 - Joining Coinbase 7:20 - Joining Optimism 8:14 - Impact Over Profit 9:10 - Is Optimism Nounish? 9:51 - Conviction + Optimism = Success? 10:38 - What kind of challenges has Optimism faced recently? 11:23 - The Pros and Cons of Tribalism 13:20 - The Superchain Solution 16:00 - One Super Dream 16:43 - So what exactly is the Superchain? 17:22 - The Hat Store Analogy 18:58 - Optimism is a hat warehouse in New Jersey? 20:43 - The Superchain is an open source hat warehouse blueprint 21:52- Builders can now build for all warehouses in the world at the same time 23:00 - Open Source Protocols allow a faster pace of innovation 25:13 - Why is OP Winning The Culture War? 30:05 - Based #OnchainSummer 32:35 - WTF is a PWA? 33:54 - The ease of launching and operating DAOs on L2 35:57 - The importance of Optimism’s Ethereum “sameness” 38:15 - Open source as a Nounish value 39:42 - Nouns + Optimism = Super Alliance? 40:20 - Solving for the current disincentive to working on public goods (great quote!) 42:12 - The importance of retro funding 44:56 - How can builders apply for Optimism retro funding? 47:44 - Where to find ideas to build for OP and information about the next Retro PGF: tinyurl.com/OP-PGF 48:58 - How can builders apply for Retro PGF? 50:18 - Telegram is awful and everyone agrees 51:45 - The Nouns x Optimism x Farcaster VIBE 53:04 - How interoperable will OP Stacks be? (NOMO Nouns example) 55:36 - wen Superchain? 59:51 - ZK vs Optimistic Proofs (Back to the hats!) 64:40 - The Farcaster OP Migration 70:00 - Of all the places you could work, why OPLabs? 72:00 - Possible OP x TNS Twitter Spaces Collaborations! --- Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk. Cohosted by Prof Werder aka The Nounish Prof. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.

Aug 25 2023 ------ Welcome to Episode 6 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Joshua Fisher from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down with Nate Angell from Creative Commons to chat about how his organization created the very licensing protocol that allowed Nouns to be built — CC0. We delve into the history of copyright, and the delicate balance to strike between protecting creators and the public good. We also talk about the intersection of blockchain and licensing, and the important daily work of the Creative Commons Org. But don’t worry, it’s not all serious— we also keep it pretty weird with “The Nounicles of Nounlandia” and not just one but, inexplicably, 5 separate mentions of fax machine technology. As with all our content, this recording is CC0… So please, copy this content. --- TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Teaser: I think Joshua is lying. 0:18 - ZEROPOD Intro 01:26 - The Nate Angell origin story 3:16 - Open Educational Resources vs. The Big Textbook Grift 5:30 - Joining the Commons 6:21 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 1 8:37 - The Creative Commons Licenses 9:41 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 2 11:56 - What is Creative Commons? 14:45 - Open Source licensing, but for content. 16:17 - Joshua The Reappearing Man 16:29 - Comic Book Collection Show and Tell 18:57 - Copyright Strikes This Podcast 20:44- The History of Copyright 23:00 - The Copyright Tradeoff 27:09 - The Mickey Mouse Rule 28:16 - What is CC0? 28:48- How does blockchain affect this dynamic 30:30 - Nate on the Nouns Experiment 31:03 - Welcome to Nounlandia 32:40 - Can a brand become ubiquitous faster with open licensing? 34:36 - Nouns: A Movie 37:57 - CC0 in the Context of Education and Science Research 42:20 - The Nonicles of Nounlandia 42:45 - Should works ever automatically go into the Public Domain? 44:32 - Striking the balance 46:17 - The difficulty for artists of making something popular 48:30 - CC0 is an Experiment Too 48:52 - CC0 is actually not a License 49:46 - Special Guest 50:19 - A Day in the Life of Creative Commons work 52:54 - A Day in the Life Part 2 53:59 - AI and Copyright 54:37 - Open Climate Campaign 55:50 - Josh’s Hot Take: No Such Thing as Big Brains 57:29 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 3 59:17 - Copyright as a protector of the gatekeepers 61:01 - Is Creative Commons looking at Smart Contracts? 63:50 - How can Creative Commons stay ahead of the curve? 65:01 - Sustainability and the Future of Creative Commons 68:25 - Nate on Nouns (Again) 69:07 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 4 70:40 - Crypto is like Camping 72:34 - What’s up with Opepen? 73:41 - The Fax Saga: Chapter 5 73:50 - Toady Explains Opepen 76:59 - Opepen and Nouns: The Power of CC0 + LoFi Art 79:14 - Outro --- Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.

Aug 20 2023

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For Episode 5 of the Zero Rights Reserved Podcast, we have stitched together two excerpts from the @otgwtf Livestream at EthWaterloo, where OTG's Aubtoshi and ZEROPOD's Toady Hawk took turns interviewing each other. Enjoy!

Be sure to check out the OTG YouTube channel for more Live Streams like this from Nounish events, as well as documentary shorts and more: @otgwtf

Small note: Because these interviews were filmed on a Live Stream at EthWaterloo with sketchy Wifi, some of the video in the latter half is a little glitched in spots, but most is great and the audio is clear throughout. Cue ""We do it LIVE!""

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Aug 9 2023 ------ Welcome to Episode 4 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Robotfishgirl from The Noun Square Media Collective sit down for a fireside chat with Ben West and Azeem from Gitcoin! We talk about: - The history of Gitcoin, - The importance of open source, - Keeping both Nouns & Gitcoin weird, - Why impact funding is so crucial - Plus much, much more... including how you can apply for funding in their current impact round! Grab a coffee and sit down! --- Timestamps: 0:00 - Teaser: “We eat VC’s alive.” 1:31 - Intro 2:40 - The Ben West origin story 4:15 - The Juggler5:11 - The Azeem Villain arc (just kidding)7:28 - Harassing Richard Heart 9:52 - Getting to the kernel of Kernel: www.kernel.community/en/ 12:05 - WTF are the Quadratic Lands? • Quadratic Lands | Proof of Knowledge 14:04 - The Genesis of Gitcoin 16:00 - Funding public goods 16:30 - The ubiquity of open source in software vs. art 18:08 - We like Short Shorts: zora.co/collect/eth:0xd64ce32... 18:42 - Quadratic Funding — what is it? 22:02 - Keep Nouns Weird 22:24 - New funding round that just started! #GG18 23:21 - Everything is beta 26:45 - Quadriga X Side quest. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcast... ; www.netflix.com/tudum/article... 29:10 - Who can apply for funding in a Gitcoin round? 29:18 - Keep Gitcoin Weird 31:48 - Gitcoin x Nouns Prop House? 34:28 - The Pillars of Gitcoin 36:00 - Hidden benefits of open sourcing infrastructure and software 38:18 - Gitcoin Passport. (Our explainer video: • Prove you're human without annoying C... ) 43:20 - Gitcoin as a bridge for non-crypto people 44:20 - In search of humans who don’t use Linked In 45:34 - Everybody hates CAPTCHAS 46:26 - What are Ben’s favourite projects funded by Gitcoin? 47:51 - The $BALD rug solved 49:02 - Trying to explain crypto things to normal friends 49:28 - Crypto Mom story time 50:07 - Azeem’s favorite Gitcoin-funded projects: “We eat VC’s alive.” 53:40 - Nouns and Attention-ROI 55:01 - Why is it so important to fund Public Goods? Azeem 56:27 - And Ben 01:00 - Turning the tables: Ask us about Nouns 01:20 - Where can people go to learn about Nouns? tns.wtf; nftnow.com/guides/an-nft-ever... ; nouns.center ; metaversal.banklesshq.com/p/n... 01:05 - Must-follow Nouners 01:07 - Outro --- Podcast recorded and edited by Toady Hawk. Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.

Aug 1 2023

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Welcome to Episode 3 of the Zero Rights Reserved video podcast, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Jack Wyldes interview Amanda Terry, cofounder and COO of OnChainMonkey.

Learn about the genesis of OCM, the importance of onchain art, why funding builders and doing social impact work is so important to their community, and more in this 40-minute chat!

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Timestamps:

0:00 - OCM Impact Funding Teaser
1:00 - Welcome to ZEROPOD
1:30 - Jack’s bad week
1:58 - Looking back on our month of OCM sponsorship
3:00 - OCM x Prop House
4:45 - Upcoming TNS YouTube content
5:25 - NOMO Nouns Optimism Migration
6:19 - Gas will get ya!
7:40 - Welcome Amanda Terry!
7:58 - Amanda’s / OCM’s origin story
10:30 - The Karma collection story
11:30 - TNS #NounChainMonkey Art Contest
12:03 - The TNS x OCM Sponsorship Collaboration
16:39 - What’s next in Season 3 of OCM DAO funding
20:00 - Looking back on past funding rounds to see what can be improved or changed
21:20 - Why does OCM care so much about funding builders?
24:49 - !RISE
26:20 - Nouns Prop House as a Reputation-building tool.
28:07 - Public goods funding and OCM
31:25 - Afghan girl mission story
34:22 - More examples of OCM social impact funding
36:02 - What is the difference between Metagood and OCM DAO?
39:02 - Why onchain? Why monkeys?
42:00 - OCM Dimensions Collection
45:04 - OCM’s diamond-hand community
45:40 - Amanda asks questions about Nouns DAO
48:00 - The importance of community
48:41 - Outro / Physical Noggles order

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July 24 2023 ------ Welcome to Episode 2 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast from The Noun Square collective, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Jack Wyldes interview Supriyo from Atrium and chat all about The Rise of Blus: A Nouns Movie. Learn about why he decided to transition from a career in tech to making ambitious animated films with a remote team, what drew him to build in Nouns DAO, and what it’s like to make a movie for a decentralized studio with 400+ bosses! Part 2 of the movie is in production now, and we also got some tasty alpha about what to expect. --- Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:42 - Trend of Awesome Animation and Nouns 0:44 - Nouns Short Shorts: zora.co/collect/eth:0xd64ce32... 1:34 - Is CC0 a double-edged sword? 4:29 - World-building in a CC0 environment 6:08 - Short clip from The Rise of Blues: A Nouns Movie 6:35 - Introducing our guest, Supriyo 6:44 - His career before Nouns 8:07 - Supriyo’s favorite movies 9:00 - Why go from tech into movie-making? 11:45 - Who are Atrium? 13:40 - Why Nouns? 16:04 - Why fund the movie in parts? 16:35 - Nouns DAO as Executive Producers, first such arrangement. 18:42 - “10 seasons and a movie” 21:30 - What is Nouns: A Movie? 22:51 - Visual aesthetic inspiration for the film 23:13 - The real life 13 y.o. Nouner 24:37 - Inspiration for the world of Blus: Cloud Punk 26:31 - Will the same team work on all the Parts? 28:50 - Is “DAOs as Patrons of the Arts” a new paradigm? 30:00 - Open IP actually empowers artists 31:06 - Behind the scenes footage 32:29 - Nouny Clock’s cameo, and other Easter Eggs 34:34 - We may see other NFT IPs included in the next Part of the Movie 35:55 - CC0 = ez world-building 37:16 - The casting call! Deadline midnight July 24: twitter.com/nounsmovie/status... 39:10 - Who the heck are the Frouns? 41:50 - How difficult is it to write a plot with a remote team 44:44 - Response to the Pilot so far? 46:05 - 118K Views so far! 47:21 - Settling the score 50:58 - Recapping the Atrium x Nouns story so far 51:55 - What’s next? 52:50 - What’s it like to work for a decentralized org like Nouns DAO? 55:20 - It’s like “Choose your own adventure” 56:03 - Where to find out more: nouns.movie --- Zero Rights Reserved, please remix and reuse our content in any way you like! Produced by The Noun Square onchain media collective. Follow @thenounsquare on Twitter for daily content about Nouns, NFTs, Ethereum and more or visit tns.wtf to learn more.

Jul 14 2023

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In this first episode of TNS's new weekly Zero Rights Reserved podcast, The Noun Square's Toady Hawk and Prof Werder interview Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins.

We'll hear about his formative years, his long list of entrepreneurial successes, and why he believes the pengus can become one of the biggest brands, both inside and outside of the NFT space.

We also chat in depth about Nouns DAO Prop 325, a collaboration between Pudgy Penguins and Nouns DAO to make some fun nounish pengu collectibles!

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Timestamps:

0:00 The Luca Origin Story.
3:30 The importance of Not Giving Up
7:00 Career before Pudgy Penguins, Part 1: Off the Chain
12:40 Part 2: Von Dutch & Gel-blaster
14:45 Crypto/NFT journey before PP
19:30 The Pudgy Purchase
21:00 $Degen minting Mutants during a Hasbro M&A meeting
24:50 Why did he buy PP?
29:44 A word from our sponsors: OnChainMonkey
30:48 On the Pudgy toy launches
36:50 How did Luca meet the Prof Werder and Klim from Nouns community39:00 Why do a proposal instead of just using the CC0 assets permissionlessly?
44:17 Summary of current Nouns DAO Prop
47:35 Luca on the Noggles as a brand/symbol
49:33 Pudgy Penguins will buy a Noun?
53:50 Future Nouns/PP collab ideas

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Zero Rights Reserved (Zero Pod for short) is the new flagship weekly podcast from The Noun Square media collective. We chat with a new guest each week about Nouns, DAOs, NFTs, Ethereum and more!

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