Week 223 - 2026 3l3ction S3ason Kicks Off

I almost forgot where the record button is on this thing nice and wide it's been a while we haven't seen each other I don't think we've talked obviously but we haven't seen each other since week or two after the wrong cup. I know you're looking as surprised ever. Thank you. You look about 12 years older so you look 24. I love the little things. Yeah I'm not feeling spry but I will say this. I just I kind of needed a little break I really said from the pod and from the grotto. I've popped in the grotto a couple of times here and there. But I don't know I don't mind saying it now but I don't know how have you guys really understand how much it took out of me to run that cup. I it's probably you probably haven't exerted yourself that much since what wave one threesies. Yeah I think that's that's actually probably pretty close yeah. Luckily I was not sick during this time. Right that was a yeah confounding sort of come yeah additive and multiplicative effect on on that threesies but yeah you're not not in good health now. But yeah no I just needed to be doing some other things. I've been doing some things and I've been doing some things artistically that have been very cool that at some point you guys will see. I've been in a way working on the project I mean look I'm always working on the project let's be honest everything I do is a part of it right. But the things that I've been working on have been maybe a little less straightforward and that sort of the things that I'm like hey guys I need you to help me do these things or you know let's affect this outcome or whatever like no it's it's been different as I sit here in the the new studio. That's right that's the first this is the first one we've done since. Is it yeah yeah yeah it is this is the first one that's done in the new studio. I mean after visiting this. So that's a part of this too right is I was like moving. Yeah so you do another moving is fun always so boy is it. So so yeah I've had a lot going on to say the least but but as a result I'm. I'm here I mean if we're doing anything I didn't come to just chat today. As much as you all would like that. We're here for the hard numbers and hard news. So today as we're recording this is the 20th of October. It's two weeks till the mid-term elections. Which wouldn't make put us two years since our big election road trip right 10,000 miles 33 days 33 counties 99 paintings. I certainly believe. Yeah because it feels like even longer. I mean honestly really I to me a lot of life has happened in between there but I don't know. To me it feels like it was not that long ago. I think Cruton just gave us a little insight into where he stands in the demographic of this country that he. Time just just flying by here. Thanks are great. I don't know what. Is anything wrong for anybody I don't know anything about. Yeah no it's to me it's been a very very very very long time since that that 2024 election. But that being said let's do again. Well you know I think maybe the better way to say that is that when I think of the 2024 election I really only think of the ground I was election. And that just doesn't feel like it was that long ago to me. I feel like that was. Just before World Cup. I understand that it wasn't but that that is how I really conceptualize it and dimensionalize it now these days. I think about running campaigns for Franklin to Soto and you know that took a lot out of me. The same way that you know these World Cup took a lot out of you boy. Time has just flown here as I recoup and recover from being a campaign manager for Franklin. Yeah and you and you didn't quite get across the line I'm sorry did not did not do that. But the check still cleared. And that being said old grandma still is very much in control of things apparently. Reasonably lucid old grandma just you know picking winners for press secretary left and right. Thanks have never been better than anything like it. Little did we know that you know we ran that 24 election to this was to be like the anti election. And nest nailed it. Yeah. Both candidates wear diapers. So it's election time and this time I don't have it in me to drive 10,000 miles and make 99 paintings and do all of that. So I may be would take it this time. I give you an interesting cross cross section of the United States. Also it would show that I in 99 days I could make it about 12 miles instead of 10,000. I just don't know if you get 99 days into anything if you take for 90 days or I just don't think you get that many days. So here's what we're doing I'm going to run another election. The last one we did after it was a reactionary election. Now we're going to do think of it. Think of it in more like grottolympics terms. We're going to front run the United States Senate election now. I was I was thinking you know there was a moment in time where I did consider running a full congressional election. Both the house and the Senate 435 House seats. And then you remember that you just did the World Cup. That's spot on that's exactly what's like don't even even if you don't do paintings for don't even go down there. Only 35 that's just that's nothing. That's that's that's not a lot. So well here's the neat thing. I'm not going to spoil we'll get we'll get to it. Yeah. 35 35's the max so we've got 35 elections that we're going to run. Let's think about the things that we have that play into elections. We've got voters. We've got candidates. OK, but the one element of that we we have but maybe you don't think of in the terms of the electorate. We have demographics. OK, so I'm going to reveal to you that all along you've had demographics. As one of the components to the idea of a grotto election. And that of course would be the teams. All of the teams. Are they not demographics are are subs and catmoms. Coaters. Wow. Are they not a part of all of this. I've always wondered you know there is there is a do you know this there is a. There is a congressional election that involves a sub. You know this is now is here in Long Island. I'm sure Nez knows all about this. But there is a house election. And like one of the candidates is was photographed and published multiple times in like a leather catalog. Like a set like a subs catalog. And he's on it. And he's like, yeah, that's me. And I'm like bringing kinky back to when when was this for him in the early 2000s. Like Mr. I. Mr S leather or something but some major leather daddy leather daddy. We got a leather. We've got a leather daddy. We've got a sub. I mean, he's like literally like in, we're in some sub-scare. He's a leather daddy. He's all these things. And so, all of those teams, yes, from the daddies to the subs to the participants. Okay. They're going to play here in our, in our new election. Love it. Can't wait to hear how. So, first off, let me walk you through what you already have. All of you have at least one base card. You have at least one demographic. Okay. In order to participate in this election, these 35 elections. Okay. You're going to pick one of those that you own. Yeah. You don't need to burn it. You're just going to claim it essentially. Okay. And you're going to tell me which demographic you're entering. Now, in this, when we, when we started this, and I was so mad about that last election, the way it played out and having traveled around and seen the problems brought by a two party system. I was very, I was like, fuck two parties, fuck two candidates. Let's have all the candidates. Okay. Well, we didn't do any of that. We're still as red and blue as we've ever been. We're probably more red and more blue. So, we're still red or blue. Yes, we do have purples, but in our world, the purples just go either red or blue. And they get three percent of the vote. So, so your demographic, your, I'll just throw it out there. Your NFT is either red or blue. You're going to choose. You're going to say, I am using dot pigeon, 001 or O 13, but you'll be specific. Okay. You have to hold it in order to claim my annual announced that you are red or blue for the purposes of that demographic. Okay. Okay. So, you're going to say red NFTs. Okay. I mean, they'd be blue. We're Yankee blue. What? The Yankees were the Yankees. Oh, my God. I almost forgot that at one point, yes. It would like the Yankees says the kid who lives in Boston. Well, that could be true. And so, yes, if, if you're thinking of, you know, he's of course, Kruton's thinking they're blue. And they're out there listening to decide that your NFT is red. Equally valid. Okay. So, every, so I'm calling this just for the terms to explain this a little bit, sort of like your free demographic, because you don't have to do anything, but hold it. Hold your demographics. Okay. Um, did you get five elections that one demographic gets to participate in five of these 35 elections? Okay. And you're like, what are you talking about here? Three demographics. I thought we voted in elections. There will be an element of voters, but the real. Crooks of this mechanic is the idea that I'm introducing that all of these teams are demographics. Okay. So stay with me on that that really every time I do an event, this is an event, the 2020 selection is an event. Okay. But it's sort of like the focus is on something. Well, focus here is on demographics. Yeah. Okay. What you're doing with your demographics is you're trying to sway the elections. You're trying to deliver your demographic to a given election. So in Crouton's case, his blue NFTs. Okay. Um, want to turn out the vote in a given election. New York. New York. There you go. New York blue NFT. Obviously. So it's true. Okay. Now, um, it's actually not true in the sense that New York does not have a Senate election. I'm not sure if you're going to have a Senate election. Because I'm so much definitely don't don't interpret it. Don't let me know. I know. I know because I'm just having fun with the saying the Yankees thing. I certainly have not. You know, I'm more about than I did. Yeah, they're not just. I was like, I don't think that I made the whole list of the 30 35 seats there up, but okay. So sorry. I still use your blue NFT. Just in a different. Fair enough. Fair enough. Okay. So there's 35 elections. All 35 are going to be run in the grotto. Okay. You want to take your demographics and you want to influence those. That's the way you're participating via demographic in the election. Each of you gets at least five. Because you get the pick one of your cards that you hold and it automatically qualifies for five demographic participations in an election. You're going to pick of the 35 elections, which five you're going to enter. Okay. To try to influence it. You can add more elections to your demographic. So if you've chosen the NFTs and you've told me that they're blue. Okay. You can then go in and add them in groups of five, but you can add more elections. So you can add five more for 10 to 15 to 21. But all the way you could theoretically participate in all 35 elections as a blue NFT. Okay. But in order to do that, you're going to commit inserts to the burn. Okay. So now there's a increasing scale here as you hear this. Okay. You get five for free. Your next five cost you 500 inserts. Okay. So if you burn 500 inserts, you would have 10 blue NFT demographic influence. 400 more inserts burn gets you another five 300 another five 200 another five and 100 the last five. Okay. So if you burn that's a total of 1500 if you burn 1500 inserts now these can be any inserts. Any books any inserts law mean don't come on. Not burning dead to bees. Okay. Any insert burn. Okay. 1500 total along with your free one. Right. Get you all 35 elections. Yeah. So you could then say, well, hey, the blue NFTs, the red cat moms, we're going to go into Texas. We're going to go into Kentucky. We're going to go into Montana to try to influence this election. We're going to bring out the support for our demographic in that given spot. Okay. Rock the vote. Rock the vote. You can that's for one demographic. You can add up to four more demographics. So you can play this election influence game with up to five different teams. But to add a demographic, you only need to burn one base card from that team. Okay. From any series any season. Okay. And you do that you get five elections. So proton in this and he obviously loves his blue NFTs. Okay. He can add a blue sub for what by burning one sub any sub. Okay. and he would get five more elections. So you could just take your five free elections for your declared demographic. Burn one base card and pick up another five. Nice. Now those, let's just say you're starting there. Let's not even worry about the insert burn of it. But you have now 10. If you've burned one base card plus your free one, okay, you'd have 10 elections. You can chop them up and say, all right, I'm going to influence 10 different elections with my two demographics. Yep. Or I could double up and do two in five. Jerk. Okay. Or I could do three and seven. Okay. I can mix it up where I'm deciding where these play out where my influence goes. Okay. Same thing goes with your added demographics. You can burn inserts in the same way. 500 down to 100 to add more elections. So 1500 burned gets you all 35 elections for your demographic. Got it. Okay. You can also straddle. You can say, well I have my, I'm going into this. I've got my free demo and I'm going to burn 1500. And so I've got all 35. Okay. With my NFTs. Didn't have to, you know, I picked NFTs. I hold it, but I didn't have to burn it. So I didn't have to judge series two, which is nice. Right. But I fucking, I'm going to burn another 1500. Okay. Get my reds. Because I'm blue NFTs, but now I got my reds except for one little thing there, you didn't get the free five. So if you're at, if you're going to straddle your first five cost you 500 inserts on the, on the other side. Okay. So if you did want all 35 on both. Okay. It would be 3500 2000 for the reds and 1500 for the blues with the free one. Okay. You could also say, well, give me the five free blues. And I'm going to burn 500 inserts and take those in red. Yeah. Right. You don't have to max out in order to read. You could also say here, you know, I'm going to give you a thousand inserts, give me 500, give me five reds and another five blues. So you would have 10 blues and five reds. Okay. Same thing applies when you burn base card to add your demos. Now, why, why are you doing this? Why are you, you, okay, one, you want to affect, you want to go and support a given election with a given color and a given demographic. What are you getting out of doing that? Okay. Well, one thing you're doing is you're deciding what sort of support goes for a given candidate in that election. You follow me? Okay. Well, why do I want to burn inserts just to support a candidate? Well, it's going to change the metadata. Your support is going to leave the mark of metadata on the demographic that you're playing with here. Yeah. Okay. So one, you've chosen dot pigeon 01 and it's blue. Okay. By making that selection already, we're going to go into dot pigeon and say, this was used in the 2022 election, or 2026, sorry, 2026, 2026 election blue. Okay. And it was used in these particular demographics. Okay. These particular elections, right? Because you've chosen that. But then all NFTs, okay. Forever and ever, we'll look back and say, well, this many NFTs got used and these, this many elections and this, okay, it's going to play out in the metadata going forward. How that plays, we're not going to get into future utility. But participation in the 2026 election will result in changes to the metadata of the existing pieces. You know, why do you want to do that? Because you want to participate. Chances are a card that has additional metadata plays differently than a card that doesn't have the additional metadata. We've seen that. Okay. Now in the road, theoretically, metadata affected 2026 election pieces could be called in in ways that those that don't have it aren't. Absolutely. Okay. So you want to do it from that standpoint. But you also want to win this election. Now what do you mean by win the election? Well, there's two ways to do it. What are the two pieces that aren't teams? Or what are the two teams that aren't in play in the election that I said so far? Candidates and voters. Okay. So let's let's focus on candidates to start. Because most of you have candidates. You can burn a candidate to enter one of these 35 elections. You're going to choose which election you're entering. You will burn it. When you announce your candidacy, this is the wrinkle here. You're not choosing if you're red or blue. The support that is given to that election by the other demographics will determine if you're red or blue. Okay, fun. Okay. And so you're burning this candidate to put yourself up for election. You can burn as many candidates as you'd like and enter as many you can only enter one election per though. Okay. You cannot enter the same election with multiple candidates. You can also only enter a candidate once. Go through your collection. See how many candidates you have? How many you feel comfortable in burning to run them in this election? Okay. And then you'll choose which particular election will be Texas, New Mexico, Michigan, where you're going to run them. Okay. All right. Now at the same time that we're running this election, the United States is running an election in these particular states. And they're running their own candidates and they're running them as reds or blues. And there's going to be an outcome. The first Tuesday of November, whether each of these 35 goes red or blue. Right? Right. We're going to run ours on the Monday before our election will be 24 hours ahead of time. Okay. And it'll finalize and we will have our results before polls close in the other one. There are only so many candidates. Like even if like some of you have full sets of candidates, most of you only have singles of some of those. Well, you know, but let's just pretend that you ran all of your candidates. Now, Nez, I will not let you burn old grandma absentmindedly. Come on. Okay. So they're only they're finite number of candidates. Obviously, Nez keeps his one on one. But you're going to if you burn them, any candidate that is submitted to an election, this is the new work that's coming from this is that there's going to be a 2026 election iteration of that candidate. So new painting that painting will represent not only the candidate, but the election they have run themselves in. Okay. Louisiana, Wisconsin, whatever, okay. But I'll also represent the color that that candidate ends up being, which is determined by the demographics that supported that election. Okay. Yeah. So you've got Franklin Disodos. That's what you've got the most of. Let's say you run Franklin, you run Franklin in Florida, perhaps? Sure. Okay. And the cat moms and the subs and the red NFTs and all the different demographics that are in play, some of them will end up falling into to Florida. Let's say that the majority that run in there are going to be blue. Then Franklin Disodos would win that election as the only candidate. Okay. And would get become blue. And then we would check it against the national election the next day and see if we have consensus. Maybe we do. Maybe we don't. If you go blue, big chance that you're not going to have consensus is probably going to go red in the national election. In other words, non-consensus, you get as the person who burned from who turned burns Franklin, you will get three editions of Franklin. Okay. Okay. So demographics that have been burned, well, you're only getting, there's only a birth of demographics. Demographics, pardon me, if you wanted extras. Okay. Demographic play in Florida to turn it blue or red for Franklin does not receive any additions. Okay. So only Franklin's creator, Cruton, that ran the candidate is going to get three editions if you do not take consensus in five if you have consensus. Okay. Okay. So, well, okay. So basically the only way to get additions is to run candidates. No. This is where voters come in. And I know that you guys don't have many voters. I know, I know. Nobody does. I mean, oh, I know that. Yeah. I mean, just I just nicely feel it. You can vote with your voter by burning. Okay. For a given election. And you can vote red or blue or purple. Okay. If you vote, and this will get into this nuance here, it's a little, little nuanced in that you theoretically could vote for an election that doesn't have a candidate because you don't know yet and we'll get to the nuance of what do you know when you make your ballots? Okay. And if you voted for Franklin, because you put a vote for Florida. Okay. Cruton ran Franklin in Florida. The demographics of the grotto said Florida went blue. You voted for him. You voted blue. Right. Mm-hmm. You win an addition. So you turn your voter into a new Franklin addition. Okay. Okay. If you voted red, you voted wrong and you've burned and you've lost your vote. Mm-hmm. If you voted blue and in the real election or not the real election, the US election hurt me. Florida goes blue. You have consensus, which means Cruton gets five for getting consensus. Mm-hmm. And everybody that voted blue and there's consensus gets two additions. Ooh. I guess compelling. So you turn your voter into two when there is consensus in the state. Okay. Now, if you do, if you vote your voter and there is no candidate, okay, you get the participation of having voted. There is no burn. You get your your your voter back. Okay. Okay. So let's talk about that for a second. How would it be that you know or you don't know what's being, you know, what's out there? There's going to be three forms. The first form, okay, is going to be candidates. All right. Are you burning any candidates and in which elections do you want to run them? Again, you can run up to 11 of them. You run as many candidates as you have. Okay. And you choose where they go. It is possible. I'll just ask for this real quick. It's possible that there are multiple Franklin's run. Cruton, you know, I run them once. But Brendan can run-- Oh, there's good, certainly. Brendan can run a Cruton or a Franklin DeSoto in North Carolina. Sure. That's one of the neat things of the grotto. It allows us to run to have multiples. Candidacies. Absolutely. But obviously, you can only run them one time. Sure. So don't worry about that. But first form is going to be are you running a candidate? How many candidates and who is running where? Okay. Okay. Everybody's going to be running all of these. Who knows? Maybe we cover all 35. You never know. We'll find out here soon. It's possible. Maybe we only cover nine. I don't know what you guys are going to be willing to burn or what you're going to do or how it's going to play where. Yeah. If you think about it, if you do run a candidate, you're guaranteeing yourself at least a three X return. If you burn a 2024, if you burn a 2024 candidate, okay, you'll get at least three back. Not too shabby. Okay. If you're running on a post, okay, so we will know when it comes time to vote. Okay. So it's possible that you have multiple candidates running against each other in a given election. You will know when you go to vote. You got three forms. One is to announce your candidacy. The next is to supply your demographics and distribute them how you want. Okay. When and then the third will be voting, casting your voters votes. Okay. You will only be alerted that there are candidates in a given election. Texas or Louisiana or Nebraska, whatever. In the case that there are multiples running. Okay. So if we have, we don't know that we'll ever have multiples going against. It'll have to be whether you guys mesh up, right? If it happens that when you submitted and picked your candidates, if multiples have gone Alaska or Montana, right? Then when the election ballot comes out, it'll know that Montana has multiple candidates. These are the candidates. And it'll say Franklin DeSoto versus voting McVoseface versus GM. Three way. Three candidates going. Okay. In that case, you will know that you're voting for one of them and you will tell me, I am picking GM with my blue. I am voting blue for GM. Okay. Yeah. Every state, when you vote, the only time you, you won't know if there's a candidate or not, unless you ran your own candidate and you know, it? Or if you've been told that there are multiples. If you vote in this state that does not have a candidate, again, you get the participation of voting. It gets counted as a vote for you, but you get, there's no burn. It comes back to you. Regardless, red or blue doesn't matter, okay? Or purple, remember, purples can vote for either way. But if it's ahead-to-head, if we know that there's a match-up, if we know that there's multiple candidates, you will know that, in which case you go, well, I'm not taking a guess here about whether I'm going to get into a, if I'm going to pick a candidate or not, right? So I'd say for me to cast a vote because I know it's going to be in play, but you don't know if you're going to win it. So if you make a vote for an election that has a candidate, okay? You will receive an edition. If you make a vote in a race with multiple candidates, you will win an edition if it wins, okay? High stakes. If you vote, okay, and by the way, sorry, I'm sorry for doing this. I'm looking at my nose, I'm looking at Cruton, I'm also looking at the map here all at the same time. But you must vote for the color that that candidate ends up being based on the demographic support that it gets. Okay. Okay, in order for you to claim your edition. Good. So if the demographics that we have determined are going to turn that candidate, which you don't know is your voting, if that candidate is red or blue, you're going to have to anticipate or guess or, you know, align yourself with what's happening in the US election, whatever you're, whatever measuring stick you have to decide, I'm going to use a voter here. Because remember, when you vote, that voter becomes one or two editions, right? If you're successful in your vote, if you pick the winning candidate, right? If there was, let's go back to a scenario where there is only one candidate launched. Okay. The demographics, let's say that the four blue demographics come in and one red demographic comes in. Okay. Yep. For Kentucky. Let's just say that the Kentucky's in play here. I'm not going to talk strategy yet. We'll have a time next week, where we'll go strategy, but ideally you, maybe you had through your demographic blue support into Kentucky. So you know it's getting some blue there from you at least. So maybe you want to vote blue. Good make sense. Good make sense. But what, or maybe you're struggling, maybe you said, I have blues ad reds and I want to make sure I'm in on it. So I'm going to put blue and red there. Okay. You can throw your demographic support both ways, but you can only vote one way. Blue red or well, but if you're voting purple, you're telling me is it a red vote? Choosing. Yeah. Okay. But if there's only one candidate, the demographics and the votes combined will determine what color that candidate is. If you voted a color different from that, you lose that vote or you are risking with your votes that you'll lose. Whether you, it's you know there are multiple candidates and you pick one that doesn't win. Or if there is a candidate and you pick the wrong color compared to how the demographics have determined that that election will go. Demographics plus election, right? Gin or plus vote plus the votes. Okay. But you should have a sense of what you're supporting where you're placing your demographics. And now here's where it gets a little interesting. This is not secret. You can talk amongst yourselves. You can canvas each other. You can try to draw support one way or the other. You can get out there and put feelers out and ask everybody else, what are you doing here? Do some gerrymandering. You can do some gerrymandering. You can absolutely try to get people on board. I can see a scenario where everybody wants to know what Rattro is doing. And Rattro says, sure, I'll tell you for a hundred inserts. Don't we always want to know what Rattro has done? Yeah. Maybe this is where Rattro catches in. Yeah. This is it. This is your payday. Anything goes. And how you determine what it is that'll get you there? I'm not even I'm. Does Rattro want to buy his elections? Who knows? Who knows what he wants to do? No, I'm just saying I'm if you guys want to turn this into a paper play, do it. I'm going to let you guys run this election the way our candidates out there are going to for some reason want to go a certain way. Do it. Do you want to tell people? Yes, do it. Build up my you know, make this a large addition. Do whatever. How do you want to shape what you're doing? Do you want to keep it secret? Do you want to not tell people? I don't know. However, do you want to do it? But when you're voting with your rare voters and now some of you are like, well, my voters are so rare I don't want to do any. Okay, sit on them. How are you going to get any of these new additions? Right. I mean, truly, the only path you have is launching a candidate or voting for the correct one. If you launch a candidate, you're getting it. Unless you end up launching and there's multiple candidates there. Yeah. Thanks for playing. That's right. Now, no guarantees, it's possible that multiple Franklin DeSoto's run Florida. Yeah, that's the case. Let's just say that happens. Three different people run the launch candidate Franklin DeSoto in Florida. Okay, great. It's not a runoff. We're not trying to decide who, you know, they're going to each of them is going to get either three or five additions. Three for winning it be the lone candidate standing. Five if there's consensus. Sure. Okay. So, why on earth would you want to burn inserts to have more elections? Okay. Well, it's more participation, isn't it? Always good. That's always a good thing. Always a good thing. But it's also more coverage, more chances to be in elections that are going to have a candidate they're going to play out. It's also more exposure for the the card that you're saying you're launching with. Your dot pigeon 01, how much metadata you want to get on it as much as possible. Anytime I'm giving you a chance to add metadata to your pieces, who's not wanting to do that? Yeah, that's not something you get to do every day. Also, consensus is big. If you're running if you're running candidates, you probably want to have as much support as possible of a certain type that maybe you can get your consensus across the board. This is big. Consensus is big. Okay. So, just to recap here, you are going to decide if you're going to launch candidate or candidates. Okay. Again, Krypton has multiple Franklin disorders you can only run one in one election. But you can run as many elections as you have different candidates. You're going to determine what's your demographics and everybody should be taking at least their five free elections. Pick one. Pick one base card, one team card that you want to give your demographics to when you want to play with that metadata. Okay. And then are you going to be adding to it by burning inserts to get more election coverage. Are you going to burn additional base cards to get up to five total demographics? Okay, and if you're doing that, are you going to be doing the same as far as inserts go? Look, the big baller is going to spend 15,000 inserts. Okay, and five demographics, 35 blues and 35 rattled bones. Yeah, exactly. Okay. All right, actually, I take that back. It's 17,500, right? Yeah, blues count. Exactly. Who's counting? 17,500 and you have a foothold in everything. Yeah. Okay. Super back. Plus your dozen or so candidates that you're burdened. So run you run the country. You want to do that? All right. Right. You're going to run the grotto. That's how that's how the real world works. And you're going to have candidates like a motherfucker. And if you played that right, you could probably really shapes when consensus and really go and spend some time. And so yeah, you're going to turn a dozen candidates into 60 and you're going to affect metadata on five in a huge way. You're going to have five like supercharged. Yeah. Base cards, right? There's definitely some plays out there. Now, any inserts play? How are you going to do it? Okay. You guys have tickets? You just say, all right, tickets. Here we go. I'm going to run this tickets wise. Oh, all these inserts that are being burned? Oh, I'm leaving out one little thing. Why would I care about participating in all of these? Why would I want to vote in all of these? Why would I want to have a hand in as many of them as possible? Whoever has the highest consensus on their individual votes, even if their candidates don't win, if in the grotto, let's say, let's say you, you're going to sit there and you're going to vote all 35. There aren't even all 35 elections, okay? Some were head to heads, some whatever, okay? But if your consensus, you're the highest spot on to the US election consensus with your personal voting, the top two first place gets 25% of these burned inserts. Second place gets 10%. Oh boy. That's not a motivation. I don't know what it is. The more you vote and the more you participate in this amazing grotto democracy, the more chance you have. Be good at it. It's against consensus. How good are you at knowing how these states are going to flip? How are they going to turn? How are they going to try and through Kansas? Going to be red? I'm going to start watching a bunch of commercials on YouTube. There you go. By the way, get a feel. Let's just say that across the board, you have one person who does 17,000 inserts because they're going to run this thing. Okay. And that's it. Well, that's 3500, right? More than 4500. 4500 inserts for being the best picker. Not too shabby. Oh, and one last thing, and then we'll put this episode to bed. It's good to see everybody. Good to hang out with you, Kruton. Voter rules apply. What? In other words, red voters, purple voters, blue voters, voter mechanics apply. If you vote red and you win, you get all the blues. If you vote blue and you win, everything gets burned. That's interesting. Purples. Always burned. Always burned. Well, okay. Now, you're looking for consensus. Consensus gets you five editions. Yeah. By risk reward. If you vote red, you take all the blues on a winning vote. If you vote blues, everything gets burned. It's a lot to you on. It is. It is. But it also isn't. Okay. Real simple. Are you running any candidates? You got a burden, you got a burden to run them. Right. You're not, you're not getting it back. Regardless. Yep. If you run uncontested, easy path for you to get your, your editions. Okay. If you run contested, there's a chance you don't get additions. So do you have, are you so worried about that that you're like, I gotta, I gotta go out there. I gotta, I gotta run New Hampshire. Nobody's, nobody's gonna run New Hampshire, right? Also, how do you know nobody's gonna run New Hampshire? Because you're out there fucking figuring it out. You're talking to people. Hey, what are you running? I'll tell you what I'm running. If you tell me what you're running, gotta talk to the teamsters. Yeah, you gotta figure out what demographics are out there. What's that looking like? Oh, are you, is this going, are you all going blue? Is this going to go blue? Are we going to turn fucking Nebraska blue? Anything fun? So, today's Tuesday. I get this published tonight. Seven days to just think about it. That we'll do a day of candidates. We'll do a day demographics. Crew time I'll get together and we'll do another pod in the mean during that. Guide you along. Grotto questions. First, are you running candidates? Second, pick your demographics. Are you going to burn for more demographics? Are you going to burn for more elections? More coverage for your demographics. I mean, look, a lot of you have a lot of base cards. Oh, just so we're clear. Butchers play dead dads play. That's right. Every rats, baby. My rats play. Everything's going to play. Ideally, everything's minted out in time for this for you to go. I got, I got all this stuff. Okay. Um, oh, the famous Steve Jobs and one more thing. I'm not going to promise that I have it all done, but I'm working on it. And I believe this will be entirely while I connect. Been running for a bit. That's part of me not talking with you guys and doing stuff. Okay. I'm really hoping. I really hope that I can get this done. If not, it'll be shortly thereafter. And we'll do napkin math for the time being. But I really think credible undertaking. It is, but it's what we, I'm, I'm closer than I've ever been to it. I made it for this. And this is built for this. I'm not talking about everything being while it connect yet, but the secular event. Okay. Um, so, ideally, when the election comes, you'll be able to connect and, and, and vote and do all of that on shame. And, and just so you know, so you know, that's actually not that hard, but building out, building out the mechanism that allows you to do it sort of in the dark to not broadcast. That's been the one thing that I've really struggled with, right? Is how do we do this where the sharps like Kruton aren't just sitting there watching all day, all day of a drop and going, well, right? Watching and reacting in real time. Yeah. Yeah. And so I've, I've designed it where it actually plays out. It recognizes what you have. It allows you to do this, but it allows you to do it in the dark. That's an important element. Yeah, it really is. So, um, but it's, it's a complicated element. So that's where I am. So, yeah. Hopefully we get this done in time for, for Monday, uh, election day. Well, I'm excited. Uh, again, I gotta start putting some thought into this thing here. Yeah. Gives everybody something to think about. Are you running a candidate? What are your demographics and what's your voter? situation. Okay. Hey, you got those voters to do things with them. How often do you get a full-blown election? Yes, we had jury duty. Sure. And that's an important part of your civic duty, isn't it? To participate in our jury system. That's right. Okay. But also it's important to vote. So how many people are going to sit at home and not vote and just let whatever happen happen? Probably decent amount. Is that going to be a smart thing down the road? Probably not. Probably not. Probably not. So there you go. Don't ever think just because I'm quiet that I'm not always working on this stuff. Miss you guys, I'd love this project more than anything we've ever done in my entire life. I'm happy to be doing it every day that I can. And I hope you guys enjoy it. I know you didn't expect this. I know I caught everybody sleeping on this one, but I'm giving you two weeks. Time to dial in. When I was watching football this weekend, I saw about 4,000 political commercials. Yeah. I'm saving you guys the hassle of coming up with your campaign stuff because I know what a struggle that was for most of you. But you know what, if you guys spend two weeks thinking very seriously about the US Senate election, even you weary, even you names escaping me or other Aussie boy. Dang. Yes, even you, Bob, I'm being. But the third Aussie. God, you're such a sweetheart. Damn Williams are. Even you, damn Williams aren't, spend two weeks getting to know our electorate, figuring out what happens in the most powerful country. There ain't going to be many more elections where we're the most powerful. Sit back and watch how real pros do it. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but yeah, if any of you spend two weeks prepping for this, you will have a better grasp of what's happening in this election than 99.9% of those will be voting. Let's be honest. That's maybe more. This is going to get a sense. Red or blue, and you're already ahead of the game. So think about it because consensus is huge here. Just like it wasn't grotto limp. That really, really kind of ratcheted things up to a whole new gear when you could get a consensus medal. Yeah, same thing in the World Cup, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I like that. I've always liked it. That's been throughout. I love this idea of letting the real world dictate what happens with our stuff, and sink the two and figure out parallels how much better is it? So that's what we got. It's going to be a hell of an event. The main focus just so you know for me right now is on producing the backend stuff to get Wallet Connect going. I do hope to have all mints out and everything ready to go for you. If there's some napkin stuff, there's some napkin stuff. But we're comfortable with that. So I know you are. Okay. Thanks a bunch everybody. See you later. Thank you, Kruton. Of course.