Okay, I'm recording now.

We're back. We have a special guest I'm really excited to have on the show. A friend of the pod,

Spike Magazine columnists, our writer, Mr. Dean Kisak. Hello. Hi, Dean. Welcome Dean.

Did we shortchange you in any way? I just read in the Spike column that you're the US editor of Spike

Magazine? Is that correct? You are? I have the title. Okay. Okay. It's just a title on a mustard.

Okay. Nice. But still. That's how all titles are. Sorry, I should have said that. It's an

honorary. But no, I just write a monthly column. Which I love. And has been one of my favorite things

over the course of the pandemic, honestly. I always looked forward to your insights, because you see

me as a very well-integrated as a writer. And I like to hear about your experiences and then

your takeaways I found kind of comforting when the lockdown measures and all that was happening.

Yes. Slightly less retarded than most art critics. The column is called Downward Spiral,

which is also a great title. I'm a fan. And you just wrote one about NFTs, the latest installment,

which we will be talking about. Maybe like for the benefit of our listeners,

meaning me and Dasha, you could explain when an NFT is and why anyone should care. We definitely

know, but we want to hear you say it. You're a smooth British. We're for sure. Yep. Yep. Qualified.

Okay. So we've had a pandemic, which is maybe over now. Yeah. And

it's war. Everyone's people have been locked down, sheltering in place. Don't really know what people

have been doing. So you might wonder what guys, guys have been up to. You know what have men been

doing? Yeah. Last year. Yeah. What have we been doing with all this time? What have we been working on?

So what we've been doing is making NFTs. So yeah. Do here.

It's right to talk about NFTs. Yeah. And what? Okay. So what NFTs stand for is non-fungible tokens.

It's a sort of, it's a form of cryptocurrency. And non-fungible just means unique, essentially.

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