GEN C: How to Bring an NFT to the Stars With Micah Johnson, Creator of Aku
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Micah Johnson, former pro baseball player, artist and creator of Aku World, joins "Gen C" to discuss art in crypto.
Today we have artist and former professional athlete Micah Johnson on the podcast. From being a successful artist to creating Aku, a character reminding children to go after their big dreams which has shown up at the NBA All-Star Game, on Beats Headphones, to the cover of Time Magazine, hear how Micah embodies aspirational creator culture.
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"Gen C" features hosts Sam Ewen and Avery Akkineni. Executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced by Uyen Truong, with additional production assistance from Eleanor Pahl. Our theme music is "1882” by omgkirby x Channel Tres with editing by Doc Blust. Artwork by Nicole Marie Rincon.
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| 0:00.0 | Audible brings your wildest adventures to life, delivering heart-pounding thrills at the touch |
| 0:05.8 | of a button. |
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| 0:11.8 | solve crimes in the most unexpected ways, brilliantly performed by Leslie Manville. |
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| 0:43.9 | Wondery, UK. That's audible.com slash Wondery UK. And it's very, very rare for any black |
| 0:52.7 | creator to break through. I still have a measuring stick. |
| 0:56.0 | No matter what I've done, you can look at the accolades, |
| 0:57.7 | and I'm still having to do things at another level, at another notch. All right, Avery, we're back here with Gen C. |
| 1:17.7 | Happy Friday. |
| 1:18.7 | Good to see you. |
| 1:20.1 | T-G-I-F. |
| 1:21.9 | We're going to make this quick and go straight into our interview. |
| 1:24.4 | We have an amazing guest. |
| 1:26.0 | We wanted to get Mike on the show for a little bit here. |
| 1:28.8 | Micah Johnson, creator of Aku, digital artist, ex-MLB, a major league baseball player. |
| 1:34.9 | Micah is going to come and tell us all about his journey. He recently was at the All-Star game. |
| 1:38.7 | Very excited to hear about the activation that he did there. Micah, first off, just to give our audience, |
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