HAU & Frens: Ep-91, NFT.NYC & $UBP Giveaways!

GM from NYC crazy I am traveling right now I'm in the hotel room still Pengwine is on an airplane

and I cannot play any music right now so I'm just gonna kick back and hang out for a minute I love to see that Veronica is here already.

Yes. Hello, hello.

You can probably tell my voice is a little scratchy because I've been yelling at people from five inches away from their face.

Good morning. Good morning, New Yorker.

Good morning. Oh, my gosh. I just went outside to get coffee. I am really not used to being in a city where like five minutes after I am conscious for the day,

seeing like, I don't even know, probably just saw like five to 700 people

in the course of five minutes to go get coffee. It's so wild here.

All right, since you can't play, shall I play some music?

Ooh, yes, that would be lovely.

Let the space fill in a little bit. Shout out Euro Thunder and David Cherry for being here early.

Okay, I will play this.

Ooh, thank you. I don't wanna die young

I'm buying that cold

Or satisfaction

I'll poison each day

Or reason to stay

You won't feel like some of the stars

All right.

We took the streets of the woods.

We could have been in the woods.

We left the same in the woods.

We could have been in the woods.

I'll check the streets of the world.

I'll never get so old.

I've sat it takes you.

The last snow boat.

The satisfaction.

Don't wanna buy gold.

Don't wanna bite low.

'Cause now it's all sold.

That's never been known.

That's never been known.

I'm going to go to the

All right, interestingly, when I listen to this in my headphones, it is much louder. my computer was not really picking up on it so it was not really slow it was not really fast it was

something in between no that was great thank you thank you i was able to go send a couple messages get a couple posts put in the jumbotron

the pictures from the event are amazing first of all you are so so very stylish i love the whole combo the hair the hat the clothes the jewelry the tattoos

like you are a very very stylish person you look like a rock star yes so you look on brand well i am a rock star

no i'm just kidding i mean i'm not but i am you know uh but yeah i mean i felt like i needed to spice it up a little bit.

I like being able to be fashionable. I literally wear gym shorts and hoodies and t -shirts like 99 % of the time.

I didn't wear them. I didn't wear any short shorts.

Oh no. You just disappointed the whole team that was with the speakers.

He's like, where is the short shorts guy? Was he on yet?

Oh my gosh, right? Nah, it was all good but yeah New York City felt like you know I'll be a little professional for the events um but yeah thank you it was kind

of fun I decided yes I'm gonna wear my vintage boots and uh wide brim fedora I guess technically I don't really like fedoras but I like whatever this hat is I've had for years

I think that hats are super cool. But please do tell us, how did it go?

What was happening? Start completely. Oh, my gosh.

It's going to be wild. We're going to be talking about it for, like, weeks. I already know.

It's a bummer that Kamal and Pengwine are flying right now.

But thankfully, Kamal got his flight ticket. I think he bought it, like, four or five hours ago.

And managed to get on the same flight with Pengwine. So they're cruising back to chill in Michigan.

So I guess it's just like the first wave of info for me. But it was amazing.

Yeah, kind of a blur. The Honey Bee Lounge was a fantastic success.

It was really fucking cool to meet everybody. But also Judy, the founder of NFT NYC, as well as I'm going to botch the names.

but I'll get to more info later and help with following up a little bit better because I'm still needing my decompression time and all that, but I'm here.

But yeah, so the founder was there, some really beautiful artists from the space and panelists were there.

The event literally became like the place to go that night. Last night, it felt a little fragmented.

There was a bunch of different events I noticed after leaving and going to one after event and then another one and then another one that everybody was kind of dispersed in various locations.

And what happened on Wednesday night was just like everybody rolling over to the Honey Bee Lounge.

So it was really cool.

Yeah, super honored to be a part of that. Translated so well. I got so many fun compliments and interesting questions.

Our friends did an awesome panel in the morning. I really enjoyed the panel that I was on with Kenneth and Marjan.

Had a great time.

There's a lot to unpack though.

Well, what about the travel? Like how did you find getting to New York?

Was it crazy? Any difficulties on the travel or all was good?

The only thing was I had to check my bag that I didn't want to because the flight was full.

honestly it was super chill. I flew in. I'm like an on the ground kind of person, you know.

I like to experience the city by walking it. I really enjoy genuinely public transit and the vibes like that.

So I know a lot of people just like hop in a car and grab a taxi or Ubers and whatnot, but I grabbed a bus and took that into the city and then got on the subway and brought that over to Times Square and probably

took about the same amount of time as a car would have and I was in my hotel pretty nice and smooth when I got here come all and penguin were already having meetings and down in the lobby so that was kind of perfect and

yeah we settled in got some food went to the check -in party which was sweet that's where you see one of the first photos that I posted there that was at the VIP check -in before the event and got to meet a few people

there but that came and went so fast because then we all wanted to go see the Times Square billboards which that that was crazy like I'm just thinking about like last night and the day before but

on the first night here

we didn't get good footage of it or pictures of it because it was all happening so fast and we were trying but all of us were had our headshots on the fucking billboard in

times square like what that's crazy yeah that's amazing so you got picture of it or not or you do

but it was blurry or i've got i've got some video and some pictures of like when it was happening but I just didn't capture good footage that I could screenshot

when it showed Komal and I on one of the same slides, which was sweet.

I think I did get an image when Penguin popped up there, but it's just like, I don't know, it's kind of zoomed in from far away.

I don't know if you've ever stood in Times Square. It's trippy. Literally, it can be the middle of the night, and it feels like it's noon because there's so much lighting.