Digital Social Hour - How Two Creators Built a $0 to Web3 Entertainment Empire | Crouton Jones DSH #1100

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

🚀 From $0 to building a groundbreaking Web3 entertainment empire - discover how two passionate creators are revolutionizing the animation industry with blockchain technology! Join Sean Kelly as he sits down with the masterminds behind Crouton Jones, an innovative animated series that's combining community-driven content creation with crypto utility.   Learn how they're pioneering the world's first global brand token, creating an animated universe that spans multiple languages through AI technology, and building a platform where creators worldwide can contribute and get rewarded. From their unique approach to fair launch tokenomics to their vision of building a Marvel-level entertainment empire, this episode is packed with golden insights for entrepreneurs and crypto enthusiasts alike.   Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at their journey, their innovative content creation hub, and how they're transforming the way brands are built in the Web3 era. Whether you're a crypto investor, creative professional, or animation enthusiast, this conversation reveals the future of entertainment and community-driven brands.   Watch now to discover how these visionaries are building the next big thing in Web3 entertainment, one crouton at a time! 🎬 Don't forget to subscribe for more groundbreaking conversations with industry innovators on the Digital Social Hour! 🔥   #bitcoin #ethereum #cryptonewstoday #bitcoinanalysis #cryptonews   #bitcoin #cryptonews #solana #crypto #ethereum   CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:30 - Cryptocurrency Trends and Insights 04:58 - Today's Sponsor: Specialized Recruiting Group 07:20 - What is Crouton Jones? Overview and Concept 08:24 - Animated Series: Behind the Scenes 11:36 - How Are You Going to Get It Done? Strategies for Success 16:02 - First Time in Vegas: Experience and Highlights 17:41 - Vegas is Awesome: Attractions and Activities 19:00 - Crouton Jones: The Work Behind the Project 21:09 - The CroutonVerse: Expanding the Universe 23:38 - COD: Changes in the Gaming Landscape 25:00 - Best Horror Movie Series: Top Picks 27:09 - Best Movie of All Time: Iconic Films 30:03 - Best TV Show of All Time: Must-Watch Series 32:30 - Cartoon Network Going Under: Industry Impact 34:53 - Using AI to Translate: Technology in Media 36:10 - How to Watch the Show: Viewing Options 37:53 - Global Brand Token: Understanding the Concept 38:10 - Content Creation Hub: Resources and Tools 40:39 - Closing Messages: Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up   APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail]   GUEST: Crouton Jones https://www.instagram.com/croutonjonescto/ https://linktr.ee/CroutonJones   SPONSORS: SPECIALIZED RECRUITING GROUP: https://www.srgpros.com/   LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/

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Like it's nuts. Oh my gosh. You always want to be first. Yeah. Whoever goes first wins like 80% of the time. Has to bro. Just getting palmed. You're sitting there just waiting to take it. Yeah. All right, guys.

Jordan and Travis from Crouton Jones. What up? What's up? What's going on? What's going on, Sean? Good timing for this episode with Crypto Pumping right now. We are, man. This is going into this year, man.

This is the next big thing. Yeah. This is going to be the next four years. It's going to get crazy for crypto. And I think that we've timed this launch of Crouton Jones perfectly, to be completely honest with you. I'm very, very excited. Damn punks.

Bitcoin 105. New all time high yesterday, right? Yeah, new all time high. Saw that. Trump's been stocking up on crypto. I saw him buy like, yeah, I got to do it. Yeah, tens of millions of dollars of crypto added to the wallet.

And now you've got these big corporations adding to their wallets, right? Yep Yep, exactly. It's just you know, the more and more it starts to go mainstream and yes, you don't work on the regulations work on the Technology, you know really filter out these scams and you know kind of dial in What this looks like for the digital world that we're going into it's just More and more mainstream people are gonna get get involved and you know you really see the institutional money really starting to flow. Right. So yeah exciting. I've described it as you're moving from an analog world into a digital world and

that's why I tell people all the time like if you're not gonna do anything else with cryptocurrency at least buy like a dollars worth of Bitcoin every single day. Because that will be the quote unquote gold in that digital world as we move into that digital world. So at least stock up on that because the more that these corporations see where we're trending to, the more that they're gonna do that as well. So you might as well take the ride with them

because this is like a real wealth transformation that's going on right here and you can be a part of that. Agreed, yeah. You got guys like Sailor saying Bitcoin's going these absurd amounts, right? I mean, yeah, it wouldn't hurt to DCA into Bitcoin in Ethereum in my opinion. Of course.

I know people that have been buying it every week for the past like five years and they're chilling right now. And it's only been five years, imagine 20 years. Right. Well, I mean, you're door dashing like $30 worth of DoorDash every single day. Why not just do $5 of your DoorDash into Bitcoin? five years, imagine 20 years. Right. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, you're door dashing like $30 worth a door dash every single day. Why not just do $5 of your door dash into Bitcoin?

Oh, I'm not spending that little. My door dash orders are fat, bro. Dude, I'm over here like, dude, I have $200 every single time. That's normal. Yeah, $100 is like the minimum. Yeah. That's what I eat every single time. Well, my girl eats with me.

I have kids, dude. Me and my wife, four kids, I do one of those long hauls, man. It's pricey. Well, Sean's like getting DoorDash, the most expensive sushi of all time, because of that big brain. I don't get fast food. I'll say that.

That's great. That's great. I used to, though. Heavy. I've launched a revolt on fast food. Just what I'm learning about the seed oils and the ingredients. But I grew up on Burger King. That was like my shit back in the day of course if you have to have it your way bro

yeah you used to have dollar double cheeseburgers dude I was in high school I mean you know just coming out after school dude grabbing a couple of them I would go just for the crown bro the crown is sick do they still have the crown they still have the crown oh they still do I thought they took it away the crispy crown okay that's what we've called it now. Does McDonald's still have the playgrounds? They're getting rid of them because of all the lawsuits and lost kids. Tons of both. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.

One usually leads to the other, they say. Yeah, I was actually a little scared of those playgrounds growing up. Were you? They seemed dirty and stuff. You seem like a ball pit guy. You're very ball pit vibed up. Yeah.

I like ball pits. I can see your hair kind of sticking through the ball pit even though you thought you're hidden. Yeah, the offense was fine. We all see you, bro. Yeah, it's hard to hide the fro and the height, dude. Yeah, that, I like your hair kind of sticking through the ball pit even though you thought you're hidden Yeah, it's hard to hide the fro and the height dude. Yeah, that's right. Go. I kind of say I imagine you like a trampoline Park, dude doing like a double backflip just dunk. Yeah, you know, I used to love those Yeah, I haven't been in a while bro. I didn't know I did not realize that you were gonna be this tall I get that all the time. Yeah, I'm a pretty tall guy too myself. And whenever you came in here I was like, okay small forward. Okay, I get you. Well, you saw me sitting in a love sack out there and that's true Yeah, yeah, and your knees were up there past your eyebrows. Yeah

Okay, I'm a short king. Yeah you but power stance power stance your power stance on Daniel Cormier Yeah, that's a compliment in my my Man, so yeah, okay, you know White, dude. Yeah, that's a compliment in my eyes. Absolutely, he's Vince McMahon. Okay. Before the allegations. Yeah, before the allegations. I wanna say before the allegations. I've been there a while, so.

Yeah, tons of allegations, lot of allegations. Man, yeah, shout out to Dana. He's out here in Vegas, that's a legend. Yeah, absolutely. I was just at Power Slap the other day. Dude, no way, what was that like? Dude, it's intense, I'm not gonna lie. Seeing it in person is different

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a tailored approach to hiring. Yeah, these guys are out. Like it's nuts. Oh my gosh. You always want to be first. Yeah, whoever goes first wins like 80% of the time. Has to, bro. Just getting palmed.

You're sitting there just waiting to take it. Yeah. Have you guys ever been slapped before? Never. Oh, yeah. A bunch of times, bro. Oh, he was being slapped in the face? Of course.

Oh, yeah, bro. Oh, really? Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, Florida chicks are wild, bro. Yeah. They'll just hit you for no reason, and sometimes for a reason. Damn. Yeah, yeah, it's wild.

They're crazy. I can't say. But we love them. But we love them. Shout out to them. 304s? Oh, no, bro. They're crazy. But we love them. We love them. Shout out to them. 304s? Oh, no, bro. We're 85.

Oh, Panhandle. Shout out to the Panhandle girls. We're right there on the Panhandle. It's basically Alabama. But we're still flooring for those. Don't you ever say that, bro. We're not Alabama. I mean, dude, you can.

I'm literally like five minutes from it. Isn't there a show like Floor-Bama or some shit? There is. And that's about that area. And so I see where you're going with that. Big brain. Well, we at Jersey Shore, so I can't even talk. I grew up in Jersey.

You're from Jersey. I can't even talk. How about that? Coney Island. Jersey Shore, man. Jersey Shore. So you're a Jim Tan. No tan, I see.

No tan. Tons of laundry. Yeah, that show was so misrepresentative of people from Jersey. Crazy show, though, dude. Everybody at this dude at our school started just dressing up spiking the hair dude. Ronnie was a crispy king. Yeah I didn't know it had influence in other states like that. Oh absolutely bro. It was like viral before the

internet. Yeah it was like the pre-internet show for sure. Absolutely. Damn but going back to Crouton Jones how did this thing start and what is it? Man you you want to open up on the story because Travis is actually the originator. Oh yeah. And I have a little story of how this all began. Awesome. So Crouton Jones, what it is, is first and foremost, it's an animated series.

And what we did was me and another partner of ours, who's in on the project with us, Dennis Gleason, we wrote this storyline out of Crouton Jones kind of vaguely. And what Crouton Jones is, is he's a detective and it shot in like the seventies era. And think Shaft, if you will. I don't know what that is.

Okay, Shaft is like a old school, like real smooth pimp kind of like detective guy. Like he works with the police force, but he's not with the police force. Ladies man. Like a ladies man, Batman, bro but he's not with the police force. Ladies man. Like a ladies man Batman, bro. Something like that. So like a Sherlock Holmes?

Kind of like a Sherlock Holmes, but if Sherlock Holmes was like a pimp. Yeah, and he's a bad dude. Okay. Forget Watson and bring the ladies in and a lot of respect. That's Crouton Jones. There you go.

Respect. Respect. So, you know, the animated series, but okay, so with the animated series, it's going to be something like Breaking Bad, okay, or The Sopranos. We're not going for like a Simpsons style of show here or like a Family Guy where there'll just be tons and tons and tons of episodes. This will be one big story art that we tell over maybe six to seven seasons, but it'll be, you know, big-time story arc of like, you know, drama, high tension, things of that nature. And it all takes

place inside of New Snack City is where the Crouton Jones world takes place. So he comes on to the force with his partner, Frank Silverstein, who's a hot dog. They come into the academy, they're working as police officers for many, many years. And then what they realize is they can't fight the crime inside of New Snack City the way that they really want to. So Crouton Jones decides to step out of the police force and open up his own detective agency and he asks Frank Silverstein to come along with him and he does. That way that they can fight against the big crime organizations that is inside of New Snack City that's controlled by these five crime families that control the underworld

inside of New Snack City. You want to tell them a little bit about the crime film? Yeah, yeah. The mafia, huh? Yeah, dude. That's one of the ones. Absolutely, brother. The big thing is, you know, movies from the 70s.

We're big movie guys, man. So we take a lot of the best movies we've seen, you know, Goodfellas, American Gangster, just different things over the years. So we really are storytelling here. So man, it's high drama. You're going to hate us sometimes. You're going to love us sometimes. Kill off your favorite character. You just twist and turns, you you know to try to build that but

These crime families there's five major crime families in New Snack City And there's a drug that goes around that's you know starting to poison going around the streets called sugar Yeah, they call it they want to cane sugar can it's cane they call it a cane it is sugar You know what I'm saying yeah So that's the main drug and each one of these families kind of work together to you know As part of like the distribution and bringing it in the smuggling of it and packaging it down getting it into the city You know going through they grow certain families are the one who grow it Transported it transported in on boats is another family. Yes receiving it through the dogs Transporting it throughout the city is distributing it

Different things like that. This is thought out, wow. Oh yeah, so we have over 40 characters, man, it's all original. All original. You know, just to hit on our five crime families, we have Broccoli of the Wontons. He's a broccoli. He's a broccoli character, but think of like the Triads, or like the Yakuza. You know, they're also samurai, so they're big're big on honor respect following a code for their families and then you have

Fingerlingo Boyle finger no boil as the shamrock syndicate and they Irish like the IRA bars and different things you have Don Caratelli of the Caratelli family's it yes, but it's like the Italian mafia So he's a king a little capicola, bro. Little cap. Come on, little cap. Casinos, you know, they, they own, they do extortion, the businesses, the unions, you know, all of those different things. And really quick Jordan to touch on that. That's another big inspiration coming out here to Vegas is walking around and seeing all this old Vegas signage and stuff. I would just kept telling Jordan the entire time, Hey, we can use all of this in the show, man.

All of this is just beautiful. This signage is just absolutely beautiful. And our animation team that we have behind the Crouton Jones project, this is exactly what they're looking for. Because that's a question that we get a lot over at Crouton Jones. It's like, man, this all sounds great, but how are you actually going to get it done? It all sounds very expensive and who are you going to get to do this kind of stuff? But this is the thing. We already did it. We already have made those strategic partnerships with an animation team and this team is unbelievable award-winning they've done

everything they've you know video games is their specialty and they've done like thousands and thousands of these software development yeah dogs all this kind of stuff but they've never got to do an animated series and they've always wanted to do one to really flex their muscle And so whenever Jordan brought this idea to them, you know months and months ago. They were just salivating They absolutely saw it. You know, that's one of the things with Crouton Jones, you know, we could wait It's three things that we talk about whenever we're talking about Crouton Jones You get introduced to Crouton Jones and you catch Crouton fever and then it's full-blown Crouton mania

Those are like the three steps and it sounds corny, but I promise you, it's a real thing that happens. And as we're describing it to people, I can always see that click behind their eyes where they get it and they go, oh my God, this is gonna be unbelievable. That's what happened with our studio. And it's like they pulled these images out of our heads

and made the animations exactly what we wanted. It was un-freaking-believable. And the detail that's in it is unbelievable. You can go on our Instagram and see these little trailers that we've already put out already. You know what I mean? And see the animations, hear Crouton Jones speak, you know what I'm saying?

So it's really, really awesome what they're getting to do over there. So whenever you're sitting there in your chair as an investor and you're thinking to yourself, well, this sounds great, but how are you gonna get it done? We're already getting it done. We're already doing those things, and they can do all of our video game stuff.

They can handle our NFTs, handle all of our smart contracts. Well, let's get into it. No, I know. I know. But I'm just trying to just tell you the level of, because I get it as from an investor, that is a big question people always want to know. How are you going to execute this?

You know what I mean? And so I just always want to reassure people, like, we're executing a bubble. I promise you. I love that. Yeah, people in the crypto space got high expectations. Exactly. And they should, because you've been scammed over and over

and over and over again. Me and Jordan, we've been in this space since 2017. We're crypto guys. We're investors ourselves. You know what I mean? But we've seen it over and over and over again. You buy into these projects, boom, rug pull. Crash.

Boom, rug pull. Over and over and over again. Pock tour. Exactly. Yeah. Oh my gosh. But honestly, if you got burned on that, you deserve it. Because the writing was on the wall from the beginning of that.

You know, and it's unfortunate, I guess I shouldn't say you deserve it, but it's just like, you have to do a little bit of research, guys. You have to know that that's a possibility. And all the signs were there for that to happen. So, you know, that sucks that that happened, but you know, that's part of it.

But that's what we want to do at Crouton Jones is build a project that's actually good, that has longevity, that has legs. We're innovative, we're using technology and AI in a way that these other companies just aren't doing. We're doing more than simply just meme coin type of stuff. Crouton Jones is the freaking king of memes, bro. He's way more than a simple meme coin.

He's a global brand token, the very first global brand token of all time. Love it. And so it's all about longevity and that's why our mission statement at Crouton Jones also is transparency is our currency. Because me and Jordan want to be out there in the community and say, hey guys, here's a here's a project that's not a scam. It's not a rug pull, we're fully doxxed, we're trademarked, it's an LLC out of the US, you know what I'm saying? So we have nothing to hide behind, come in here and look, we're gonna be fully audited by the time our launch

happens January 21st, fair launch by the way. We self-funded this thing, the entire thing. You didn't do a pre-sale? No pre-sale, forget the pre-sale. It was thought about. We thought about it and thought about it. And everybody told us, they said, if you don't do the pre-sale, y'all are doomed to fail.

Every single company has told us this. But we believe in the community. That's the whole thing. That's the whole goal. We think that the community is looking for a good, solid project to get behind. And we're betting on that. And if we're wrong, okay,

sorry about it. I guess we just screwed up. But at the end of the day we can say we did everything possible in our power to put out a good project with a good message and try to go community first with it and either people are gonna buy into it or they're not. That's what's gonna happen at the end of the day. So far it's been working. It's actually just a surreal moment that we're even on this podcast. Yeah it's dope bro. It's sick. Vegas. Wow, first time for both of you guys.

Yeah. Let's go. Hit Fremont, staying at the MGM, just seeing all of the art and everything that's here, flying out last minute. Y'all hit us up to do the podcast. It was like, man, are we ready to go there? Stars aligned. Right.

And it's just- But now we're seeing Monday Night Football tonight, bro. Oh, yeah. Definitely going to hit Monday Night Football. With the Raiders. Let's go. And the Falcons, bro. It's going to be sick, man.

Oh, you're hitting the stadium after this? I have to. Oh, yeah. Got to go check it out. Let's go. We're here, might as well. It's like Monday Night Football. Yeah, dude.

My first time in Vegas, I couldn't believe it. Yeah. And the hotels. It's a different world. It's like you see all this stuff in movies and TV shows, and then you get here, and you're like, that is right there. Yeah. That is crazy.

Are we living in a simulation? You know, that's why everything around here, you're like, that is right there. Yeah. That is crazy. Are we living in a simulation? You know, that's what everything around here is like, the mountains, bro, I didn't realize there was so many mountains here. Red Rock, yeah. Unbelievable. Beautiful, yeah. It's beautiful.

Hike up there, you know, do a little microdose, have some fun up there. Yeah, dude, yeah. Yeah, Vegas, there's something for everyone here, you know? Yeah, but man, I'll tell you this. I was like, you know, Vegas has this reputation of being like super sketchy outside like to the regular people or whatever.

But we get here, everything is so clean. There's no litter anywhere. Yeah. Everybody's super like helpful and very nice. And it was just completely a different vibe than I thought it was going to be. It really, really impressed me. Yeah, we get that rep of you just come here to drink

and have fun, cheat on your girl or whatever, all the movie stuff. Yes, exactly. There's a community outside of the strip too. Yeah. No, it's been sick. The people have been awesome, man. Everybody we've just been in contact with,

you're making connections out here. It's just been awesome. Yeah, yeah, Shaw is the biggest. You know, one thing we do whenever we go to these cities, we like to take taxi cabs. And if we have to, we'll do Ubers. But we love to take taxi cabs, because it's just like, you know, one thing we do whenever we go to these cities, we like to take taxi cabs and you know, if we have to, we'll do Ubers, but we love to take taxi cabs because it's just like, those are like the real dudes, you know what I mean? And they're all just super nice here.

They're so helpful. They're like, give you all the tips and information and everything. And it's just, it's really, really cool because you know, you go to these cities and that's not really the case, you know, but it's really, really cool vibe here at this place. Yeah. Yeah. I'm excited about what's to come here. We got a lot of Hollywood coming here, actually. Oh, really? Yeah.

Coming out of LA into Vegas. Yeah, because it's cheaper. Wahlberg lives here now. No way. So I think we just got a studio announced coming. So you might have to bring that. Did he run all the way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas? Oh, he might have.

That's his healthy as hell, man. Yeah, it's like, what is it, two rotisserie chickens a day or something? Oh, he does that? Yeah. I didn't know. I know he wakes up at like 2. Yeah, I's like, what is it? Two rotisserie chickens a day or something. Oh, he does that? Yeah. I didn't know. I know he wakes up at like 2.

Yeah, I saw that. His whatever, like his schedule. Have you seen that? Yeah, yeah. Fun fact, he has like the same schedule. Same as I do. Oh, you wake up at 2? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Why? Every single day. It's just part of my life, I guess you would call it. Wow, that's when some people sleep. I have to travel very, very far in the work that I do every single day. So it's just I have to, doing that and doing Crouton Jones simultaneously, it's like, as an entrepreneur,

you can either do it or not do it. You know what I mean? Nobody's going to do the work for you. It's all going to be all on you. So it's either you just got to lock in and do it, baby. You know what I mean? That's what it takes. And that's what we've been doing for, you know, probably the last nine months.

We've just been completely locked in every single day, all day, just like you right here. You know, you're just absolutely crushing it. You know, that's why you've been so successful with this podcast is because you're willing to work hard, bro. 50 episodes this week. Unbelievable.

Fired. That is a workload. Yeah, we got eight to go on, bro. Yeah, that's a good compliment. That's my idol, to be honest. So thank you. One of our idols too, man. Yeah, Elon Musk is the go. I mean my idol to be honest. One of our idols too man. Elon Musk is the go. I mean look what he did with Doge. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He blessed us with Doge bro.

That was my very first pop with crypto with Doge. What price did you guys get in that? Two cent. Damn, it's like 50 now. Did you sell it or? Dude, my dad's loaded up. Me, I ripped the cord, baby. Yeah. I did.

Yeah, I did. I can't blame you. I can't. I honestly can't. Every single thing that I've had in Crypto, dude, has been to put this all out here for Crouton Jones, bro. Taking the full risk, going for it, putting ourselves out there.

And we've built something from such as just a small idea of one character in an animated series. And just the more and more we've mind melded and melt more people, is the ideas of everything, like just this web started forming. And we're like, hey man, it could be this. Initially, we started doing memes with Crouton Jones, just because we didn't have any content yet. You're trying to get out there to the world is the easiest way.

We don't want to be a meme coin. Yeah, like peanut to squirrel. Exactly. Exactly. We don't want to be a meme coin. Yeah, like peanut to squirrel. Exactly. Exactly. We're like, we don't want to be a meme coin, but Crouton Jones, we love the way that meme coins are marketed. I mean, you just have a lot of content.

We love those communities. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. And so we just, dude, Crouton Jones is everybody. He's me, he's you. He's been every trending topic, dude. We just did a 31 nights of frights where Crouton Jones was Michael Voorhees.

He was- Michael Voorhees? Jason Voorhees, bro. What the heck was that, dude? Luther Vandross, bro. He was also Luther Vandross, bro. Jason Voorhees, dude. Michael Myers, dude.

Saul, all of them. So, you know, Christmas. And then we started rolling out our animations, dude. Really started to flex our muscles, you know. And it expanded on animations. We really started to flex our muscles. And it expanded on that. We cranked up our own tech, our own game engine, that is with the FAY framework is we're building, getting all of these tools so our community can come together

and create onto our project, to build onto this brand. So we have an open world sandbox game, that's right, animated comics, digital trading cards, merchandise, it's a whole universe like the likes of like Marvel or Harry Potter or any of those things. You have that here with Crouton Jones. So with our 40 plus characters, and that's going to expand the more and more we allow the community to come in and add onto that lore, and we're adding onto our comic lore, and connecting it together with the animated series, and add it into the games.

It's just endless possibilities of what it can become. And you're a young guy. You know Roblox. Yeah. Yeah, so with our crouton verse, quote unquote, that's what we're doing. With our game engine, we're giving all those tools back to the user so that you, as a user, can come into that're doing with our game engine. We're giving all those tools back to the user

so that you as a user can come into that universe and make your own game. Nice. You know what I'm saying? The crouton verse, to call it that, is just a platform for you to be able to come in as the user and do whatever you want to do. We give you all those tools.

You got to get them in the new Marvel game. That game's been blowing up. Unbelievable. Have you seen it? No. Marvel Legends or something? No, I haven't seen. Unbelievable. Have you seen it? No. Marvel Legends or something? No, I haven't. You haven't seen it?

Dude. Unbelievable. I can't scroll on Instagram without seeing that shit. Really? Yeah. What kind of game is it? It's like six on six. I don't even know how to describe it,

but it's all the Marvel characters. Really? Pretty fun. Yeah, definitely check it out. You guys play games? Yeah. What do you play right now? I'm playing 2K right now, to be honest with you.

Classic. Yeah, I'm playing either Madden 2 playing 2K right now, to be honest with you. Classic. Yeah, I'm playing either Madden 2K or Call of Duty, to be honest with you. Sometimes I'll do some story stuff. But here lately, that's why I'm getting whacked now. Because playing it so much, it's like you're practicing, is really what it is. But now we're doing this Crouton Jones stuff so much,

it's like you ain't got time to play 2K, bro. Yeah, I feel that. Yeah, I haven't even gotten into a game in a while, but you know, it was big pub G big computer game He's a PC gamer. I'm a PC gamer too. Yeah, I mean I'm console PlayStation, baby Yeah, PC's different man. It is different bro. It's a smoother experience in my opinion. The graphics are way better. Absolutely I totally understand it. All of my homies are PC guys. Yeah, I'm console baby I'm never gonna stop being console. No, never ever. I'm old school. I want the sticks. I want you in the house I want to talk the shit to your face. You know what I'm saying? Look you in the eyes while I'm giving it to you, baby

Yeah, you know diddy bro. Can't even have love that you can't talk shit on Call of Duty anymore I know ridiculous. I'm modern warfare 2 lobby, baby. Yeah, bro. Halo 3 dude back It's wretched. those lobbies right there was a shit show. But also the most hilarious times of my life, bro. These dudes in there were wild, bro. I loved it. The Modern Warfare 2 audio logs

are all leaked on the dark web. Yes, I know, I've listened to a bunch of them. Yeah, they're hilarious. They're hilarious. I think I'm like 60% of them. Yeah. Yeah. If those ever got leaked, man.

Oh, dude, it'd be over with, bro. Crouton would get crispified. Yeah. If those ever got leaked, oh, man. Oh, dude, it'd be over with, bro. Croutons would get crispified. You guys get croutons on your salad? Absolutely, bro. It's the king. Who would we be if we didn't, bro? Hell yeah. It's crispy, dude. It's crispy.

You like them crispy? I don't like them soggy. Oh, you can't have soggy, dude. You like a soggy crouton? I don't. Oh, you don't like a soggy crouton? Dude, I was about to say, this podcast is over, bro. You like a soggy crouton? I've had some salads with, I don't know, how they even I was about to say this podcast is over bro yeah I've had some salads with I don't know how they even get soggy first of all that's salad dressing bro yeah soaks in there bro I'm not big on dressing well I

hope not bro I mean dude it's like I'm not trying to make it a health podcast but there's like C2Ls and shit oh yeah yeah oh I thought you meant you liked to walk around nude. Oh, no, no. You're not big on dressing. No. Oh, I see. Come on. Took me a bit. See, when the doctor was in here measuring your brain,

he said small brain for a reason. Took me a bit on that one. I had to think about that one. That's okay. It's high level. It's black belt. Yeah. I understand.

You guys are big on movies, you said? Absolutely. Absolutely. The best horror series of all time. What is it? Well for me? It's Friday the 13th. Okay. I'm just I like Jason. He's he's the my favorite, you know Movie monster guy if you want to call it that Other than that though if you wanted to go like crazy, it'd be hereditary. Okay, that one was wild you ever see that

I haven't seen a 24 you watch anything by a 24 That one was wild. You ever see that? I haven't seen that one. 824, you watch anything by 824? Named some movies from them. The production series. Midsommar. I haven't seen that one.

Yeah. I mean, they're like kind of like an indie production. Just drop in C-level movies. No, no. They're like humongous now. They're probably like the biggest production. Oh, they're big? Oh, yeah.

I've priced dinner stuff though. Yeah, they've won like Oscars and stuff. Joaquin Phoenix. Bo isn't scared or whatever. That's like aars and stuff. Joaquin Phoenix, Boe Isn't Scared or whatever. That's like a new one that just came out. Yeah, but anyways, they do like the wildest like horror movies of all time. But Hereditary I think is at age 24.

I've heard of that one. It's like, it's literally insane, bro. I've had it toned back. I used to watch one every night, but I've been getting Wicked Nightmares, so. Oh, geez. Well, what's your go-to? Mine is Scream. Scream, the great classic. I like ones that make you think. But I've been getting wicked nightmares. So oh jeez. Well, what's your what's your go-to? I scream scream

I like ones that make you think yeah, I like the more the thriller style the first all yeah Saw's a close second for me. Yeah, so the classic I'm a I'm a Michael Myers guy Yeah, it's just something about the guy just standing there duty. I like the slashers hilarious It's just something about seeing that white white mask, dude, and you're just coming. But Scream is so good. Oh, Scream's a class. Yeah, Scream and Saw, because I like ones that make you think. Saw really puts you in the movie.

And it's like, oh, I would survive that. Bro, when that guy gets up off the ground at the end, you're like, are you kidding me right now, bro? How many days was that? You know, he was laying there. Unbelievable. That was awesome. Yeah, that's wild.

Yeah, I think they're done making those, though, right? I hope so, dude. They make like 65 of them, dude. It was laying there. It's unbelievable. That was awesome though. That's wild. Yeah, I think they're done making those though, right? I hope so, dude. They make like 65 of them, dude. It was a lot. Maybe 10 or 11. It's like the Fast and the Furious. They need to change that scene, baby. Get rid of it.

Yeah. Well, Michael Myers, they've made a lot of those too, right? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. It's just all money grabs at this point. Average now. The last is from the classics.

They're just not the same. So you guys like the original ones more? Yeah, I think so. That Rob Zombie zombie one was pretty crazy, but still man. I'm like good fellas departed Yeah, you know I've seen like 20 times. Oh absolutely gladiator gladiator. Oh, they just made another one, right? I want to check it out. It's so bad man, but at first I was like is Denzel supposed to be Russell Crowe or what's happening? You know I mean, I'm not sure what's going on there, but yeah, he had a gay scene in that one I think he said oh Okay, well Hollywood's pretty woke these days. They are yeah. I don't like most new movies actually me either

Yeah, they're rough I you know it's been such a long time since I seen a good movie and then Top Gun Maverick came out I gave restored my oh that was a good one. I didn't see that okay. It was just That's a firepower. It was just great to go back to the theater and watch a movie. Yeah, because we used to love going to theaters. Kids get popcorn and go to the theater. That was like the whole weekend. Absolutely, man.

I remember the very first time, like the memory I have of going to watch another movie, Twister, like the original Twister that came out, and like filling the sticky floor whenever you're going through the theater and sitting on a ripped up leather chair yeah those kids were so bad back then now they're all recliners and you're like damn that's Helen Hunt dude yeah I remember watching godlit a fire in the movie theater growing up oh yeah

that's one of my favorite series ever I love Harry Potter man yeah my kids love Harry Potter my wife you know is obsessed with Harry Potter we went to that you know down there in Orlando so many times to go to the Harry Potter world. It's so dope, though, bro, with the dragon breathing the fire on you, though. So sick. I'm a little worried with the show

if it's going to live up to the expectations. It's coming out soon. Yeah, it's kind of hard. It's like Game of Thrones and then seeing the House of the Dragon series. Ugh. Just that storytelling's not on the same level to me. You just can't duplicate something so great.

Yeah. Game of Thrones just hit such a different level. It's just like you're trying to, everything feels like a money grab after that. Yeah. Even the last seasons of Game of Thrones felt like a money grab. It did.

The last two. Dude, that fight scene ruined it. Oh my god. It's the season 10 or whatever. You couldn't even see it. It was so blurry. Can't see it. What are we doing the whole time?

That's what we were here for. They had one job. God. We waited six seasons for that fight, season 10 or whatever. You couldn't even see it, it was so blurry. Can't see it? What are we doing? The whole time. That's what we were here for. They had one job. God. We waited six seasons for that fight and you couldn't see it. But they'll show you the Starbucks cup, Bubba. Oh yeah, they paid for that. Man.

Yeah, I watched House of Dragons. It was okay. Yeah. Nothing crazy. Heavy on the dragon. Yeah. Targaryen, you guys like that house the most? Nah, I can't say that, dude.

I think winter is coming, you know, it's dark. Yeah I'm a Lannister Always pay your debts though. Yeah, Jamie Yeah, Jamie was my favorite character Jamie Yeah, what a story I didn't like how they did him at the end. But um, yeah good arc for sure Yeah, but he went back to her Cersei at that and I was like what the hell? Yeah That's what I did. It's like dude some of the story to come back after that it's like dude you take a guy That's bad. He could have really finished out as just a great guy dude did some like heroic shit died or something

Yeah, that's how I would have done it. Yeah, so yeah that last fight He had he that should have been it before even got to her in my opinion. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shout out to Jamie What's your favorite TV show of all time? Both of you guys? Hmm, that's a favorite TV show. I'm going Breaking Bad or Prison Break for me Prison Break is a classic. Prison Break is crazy, bro. And then they freaking try to bring that back. Oh yeah, they did. The fifth season. What are we doing?

Don't do that. I think they're trying to bring it back again. Yeah. It's like. Oh my God, Prison Break was so good. Breaking Bad, though, yeah. It would have to definitely be. Dude, Breaking Bad was just so sick, man.

Iconic. Iconic. You're just hanging on every single episode. Bro, when Hank is in there, bro, and he's doing that WW to him, I mean, he's slowly starting to realize it. Oh, that was the best scene of all time. Bro, come on, are you kidding me?

It's like the director in the storytelling and that is just off the charts, bro. He's next level. Next level. And he followed it up with another good show after, so. Better call Saul. Yeah. Dude, unreal. Yeah. Unreal, but Bob Odenkirk what a guy yeah yeah what a freaking guy come from a comic to the drama bro it's just

like and even like nobody that action movie that he was in was unbelievable man next level again yeah that guy's unreal go to what about you man I would say probably Game of Thrones love the sopranos. Okay, sopranos. Um, sopranos so far. There's just been many, many series, man, just over the years. I, I try a little bit of everything just to see, you know, of course I haven't watched a lot of, you know, TV series recently, but just, you know, just the classics, you know. Yeah, I just. Honestly, the best one of all time is Chappelle's show.

To be completely honest. I never caught it. I know that you're too young for Chappelle show, bro. But the first two episodes or the first two seasons of Chappelle show was the greatest television of all time ever. Wow. Everybody that was anybody. I mean, you're tuned into freaking Comedy Central, like I think it was like every Tuesday or Wednesday, right?

But I'm talking about the world is shutting down for this Chappelle show. It's unbelievable. Like highest DVD sales of all time, whenever it comes out for season one and then season two blows that out of The water damn like it was a movement. That's why Chappelle to this day is still so so iconic You know, I mean like yeah, it was just unbelievable a show that you could never do nowadays unless you did it on YouTube Yeah, like that. Well, there's one guy trying to replicate it Matan Unless you did it on YouTube or something like that. Well, there's one guy trying to replicate it Matan Matan Evan. I don't know him. You don't know him. Yeah, he's trying to be funny guy. Yeah. Yeah, you never know what you're gonna get What did you guys think of Cartoon Network going under? I?

Didn't know that really went under yeah. No way you didn't see this now had no idea. Yeah, all their shows are gone No, what all the shows we grew up with Matt. So where did their library go? I don't know They're probably gonna sell it off to someone so like Aqua team hunger force and yeah all the old Johnny Bob Dexter's laboratory. That was a good one all gone. Yeah. Oh my I think it was last year It might have been this year, but this but the channel's still on I don't know if it is I don't know what they're doing with it. Oh well. I

Think kids these days aren't um watching TV. They're so woke dude and just crazy. You don't know what you're getting Yeah, but I feel like there's just been a shift like we grew up watching TV watching cartoons But now it's like on YouTube, of course And so, you know one of the things with our, it's gonna be like an eight minute run. You know, we're not doing a 30 minute run. It might be a little extended than that. Or if we ended up doing like a partnership with like a streaming platform or something like that, we could extend that.

But we wanna keep it short and we wanna make the scenes as impactful as possible. So that way we can take each of the scenes themselves, take those clips out and be able to use them on TikTok, YouTube, threads, all that kind of stuff. And it also builds that anticipation of like, oh, I want to go see the show now. I just saw this really, really cool scene.

And it also challenges us as storytellers to say, hey, here's our 45 seconds long scene. Let's get the most out of it as possible. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, because kids watch YouTube and TikTok these days. Yeah, try not to be too long. Of course, go through each episode. And then our final part of the season

might be like a mini movie, 30, 40 minutes, something like that to kind of just finish out the series. Yeah, well, everyone's attention span is so short these days. It is. Because I was watching Lost recently, and I had to check my phone every five minutes. I know. And when I first watched that, it was another great show man for

Like a few seasons. Yeah, the first two or three. Yeah, absolutely And then we me and my wife try to show to our daughters and we watch maybe two episodes And bro, it's just like you can't you can't do it anymore. It's tough dude. Yeah talk has ruined our brains It really has man. It's it's gotten you get on this Instagram reel. You're sitting on the toilet or something. Just your doom's throw. Yeah, you stand up, dude. Your legs are gone. Yeah.

Now, I'll tell you this, too. An interesting aspect that we're going to use with the animated series, though, and this is kind of in that same lane with the global brand token, is nowadays with AI, and I'm sure you know this, but with AI, so I can take a 30 minute recording of your voice and have you translated into any language in the entire world, okay?

So we're gonna be able to take our voice actors on the show and translate that into every language across the world and launch that to you. Okay, so even though we're in the US, we're not just gonna be in the US and hearing that in English. You'll be able to be in Nigeria and hear that. You'll be able to hear it in Mandarin and Farsi and Portuguese, be in Russia, hear it

in Russian. But you won't lose anything in translation because it'll be the same actors, you know what I'm saying? Saying it in your dialect the same way that you would say it. And it's all just because of that technology now that's available that wasn't available before. That's huge. Yeah, it's huge. You can attract people in other countries now.

Exactly. So now we don't have to. That's the thing too. Great thing if you're an investor, right? You're looking for cutting edge technology, innovative. Boom, you just checked it off with those things right there, because we don't even have to be big in the US, per se.

We could be big in Argentina. We could be huge in somewhere else where could be huge in, you know, somewhere else where they talk different languages. No, I'm just joking. But like- I love it. How can people watch this game ball with it? Yeah. So you'll be able to go on croutonjoneshow.com

and watch it. And listen, this is another thing too. We're building utility into our token, the CJT token from the ground up, because as crypto guys, like I said before, we love getting our token, the CJT token, from the ground up because as crypto guys, like I said before, we love getting our tokens but there's not much you can do with so many of them other than just pass them back and forth wallet to wallet. So we wanted to build utility as much as possible into our token along

the way. So one of the things that we do is, so you know Jordan, he got his mark really is throwing like big parties and stuff, you know I mean, big-time promoter, yeah, exactly. So we want to throw these big in real life IRL events for our Crouton Jones, uh, token holders, right? So all those tickets will be available first to our CJT holders first, all of the episodes they'll come out first on our website to the CJT holder so

they can watch it and then it'll go up on YouTube. Okay. Smart. So that way that the public can still watch it because that's the thing we're not selling you anything at Crouton Jones that's kind of the beauty of it. You can just simply come and just watch the show. Yeah. That's fine with us. Yeah you could come in buy the merchandise. Right. Play our games. That's cool. Come like a post on Instagram. You know they have to buy a single. You don't have to buy a single token but when you do buy a token that is where you get that ownership. Got it. So actually what we're building is the first ever, it's a global brand, but it's built

by the community for the community. Imagine if you could buy stock in LeBron James when he was in high school, and then hold that stock of LeBron James token until he becomes LeBron James of now. And now imagine how much that token would be worth now compared to when he was in high school. That's kind of the model that we're really using with Crouton Jones as like a global brand token. We're showing everybody that you can launch essentially

your brand, you know, SMK token. You see what I'm saying? And then people buy into that because they're like, oh, I like where this guy is headed. Boom, they're buying your coin along the way. It's kind of what we're giving that opportunity to you as a customer. It's a big content creation platform

for creators of all types. I mean, if you're a 3D modeler, a graphics designer, a content threader, any kind of an artist, any kind of creation, if you feel you have something that can contribute to the brand to take it to the next level, we'll come into the community, drop that content, and if, you know, we're all going to vote on it, if we decide that it'll take the brand forward, we'll come in and you'll get rewarded on... We have a pot of money there, it's called the Content Creation Hub.

Yeah. So just, and the idea there is we're trying to have an outlet to the creatives across the globe. They say, you know, if you're living in like the middle of Nebraska in a town of like 50 people, but there's no way to get your art out there or whatever your creative ability is. Maybe you're like the greatest artist of all time, right? But you don't have any way to express that because you're limited to the people that are around you. Well, at Crouton Jones, we're providing you a vehicle, a channel, if you will, a hand extended to come in here and say, hey, look, come in here, show us your artwork.

If you're a poet, show us your poetry. If you're a songwriter, show us your song. And then we have a, there's money there in the content creation hub where if the community says, that's a bad-ass song, boom, you get paid out of that content creation hub money. So because me and Jordan, we're creatives, we're just regular dudes, you know what I'm saying? But we're creatives and we found this Crouton Jones vehicle to put our creativity to work.

And we can provide that vehicle to the whole entire world. You can come in here, get paid for your efforts and really, really make an impact globally. Here's the tools, here's everything you need to do, if you have any ideas, here's the platform, bring it to life, you get rewarded for life on your creations. As the coin grows, the content creation hub pot grows because it's one and the same. You see what I'm saying? There'll be always that money there for people to be able to come in and take advantage and take the ride. Well, exactly. And with blockchain, with Web3, with crypto,

we're able to have a, you know, with the currency, having access to people all around the world that can have a payment system to, you know, just be able to have everything kind of moving around so we can make this accessible globally. So and, you know, we're not yet launched yet, but we're pioneering a new way. Right now, we're basically in the steamroller. We're paving a new road.

So hopefully, don't get in the way, guys. You may get ran over, because we're starting a new approach to the way that brands are built. And I feel that after Crouton Jones' launch, this is going to be the biggest launch of 2025. He's the rookie of the year. Let's go. Top 10 project. Looking for ROI you just found it baby. The rookie of the year baby. The crispy king. The crispy king baby and we're gonna open up those tools for any token, any meme, any project that wants to build a brand can build the same exact way.

And Crouton Jones is the pioneer of that. And we'll guide people to set the new gold standard. That's right. Boom. Any closing messages, guys? That was a fun one. Yeah, absolutely. Well, first and foremost, thanks for having us come on here,

man. This was an absolute blast. You're a great host. Thank you. I can see why you're having so much success. This is very, very, very smooth. But yeah, I think our message is pretty simple here. And I'm going to look right into the camera

whenever I do this. I'm going to cut you a wrestling promo from Hill, OK? If you're in a terrible community out there in this crypto space, and you're just looking for a project that is cutting edge and has innovation behind it and it stands on three simple goals. Crouton Jones stands for positivity, love, and of course, respect, baby.

Jordan, you want to hit one more thing for us? Yeah, absolutely. Guys, get involved. Right now we don't launch until January 21st. Follow us on socials. We're omnipresent, we're on all platforms. Get on the Instagram, check out the X, get into the Discord, get into the Telegram. We have a massive community we've been building

and we have nothing to sell you. Nothing. Come into our community, check out our official documents. Our white paper's 47 pages long. 47 pages, guys. Our roadmap is out till 2027. That's so much time. You can get in there and talk to all of our characters. We have over 10 characters. You can ask them any questions you want. We have it all guys. You know, come into

our community, follow us at Crouton Jones CTO. Get in, come check us out. And if you have any questions, we're there to answer them for you, baby. And you just got to respect it. You got to respect it. Sean respects it. Yes, sir. We'll link it below. Thanks for coming on, guys.

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