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Citizen Podcast

Episode 123 - James Koutoulas

Citizen Podcast

Tetherball Academy Media

Education, Society & Culture

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Multi-strategy hedge fund manager and inspiration behind the Lets Go Brandon coin James Koutoulas joins the show.



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0:00.0

Welcome to Citizen, we have a special guest today,

0:19.0

entrepreneur, hedge fund manager, I guess, a coin developer now as well.

0:28.0

James Catoolas, how's it going? Good, are you?

0:31.0

And well, thank you very much. So tell me about this coin.

0:37.0

Let's go brand a coin. I think it's really funny.

0:41.0

Sure. So I wasn't a developer, but my Halloween costume actually inspired it.

0:45.0

So I addressed up as the president of China with like a big head mask,

0:50.0

like a Biden blow up doll and a sign that's a let's go Brandon.

0:55.0

And then some girl I never even met on Instagram. It's like, that should be a coin.

1:00.0

I'm like, LGBT coin, amazing. And I, you know, joked about it to a couple crypto guys.

1:04.0

One of them made it and went completely viral. Like so one from about zero to four hundred million and about ten days.

1:13.0

And then I'm like, oh my god, this is like a bottle. We have to like do something legitimate with this.

1:20.0

You know, so we began trying to help conservative focus charities, like turning point,

1:26.0

the Goodman Institute, Aquinox Adaptive Aquatics,

1:31.0

which helps veterans with disabilities get scuba dive therapy, you know, things like that.

1:36.0

And then, you know, one of the issues that came up like right away was like,

1:40.0

well, since Brandon Brown, the person was there at the time,

1:45.0

that the phrase was coined, that, you know, we need to go get his name,

1:49.0

image, and like this rights, and work together with them,

1:52.0

or else they could potentially like cease and desist the coin.

1:56.0

So we want to doing a sponsor to deal with Brandon,

1:59.0

who couldn't get any other sponsor since he was essentially canceled by the left,

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