Welcome everybody to the Tech Meet Ride Home experience for June 9th,

2022. This is the week of W.W. D.C. and so Brian are going to start there and then we're going to have a special guest later on in the show to talk about a new raise in the NFT space.

Okay with that so Brian. you raise in the NFT space.

Okay, with that, so Brian, you just mentioned that it sounds like I'm a mile away or at least I'm

far away from my night, but I'm actually very close to it.

I think the difference is that I am now recording from a shed in my backyard.

Oh, so the house that I just purchased.

Hey, congratulations. Thank you. I am now a homeowner, which is a terrible, not terrible, a terrifying idea because now I'm on the hook for 30 years to pay back this massive loan that I just took out.

But, you know, I feel like I finally have grown up enough to commit to something and that's that's the first thing.

I'm not trying to blow up your spot that much but in the Oakland area the Bay Area yes yeah yeah

Oakland just outside of Berkeley actually next to Berkeley well you know

congratulations as I think we've discussed before, that's

something that I've not been brave enough to do since...

Since the last time? 2008 maybe I sold my house. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah and as I said to you I was the definition of when I bought my house in 2005 I was the definition of a subprime

Loan taker. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't I literally I believe I didn't put anything

down not a dollar down think about that. Wow. I mean that blows my mind having gone through what I just went through that you would that well one that there was a deal like that like what an amazing deal but also oh my god like no wonder there was the whole you know housing crisis yeah well

anyways your wife was very helpful in helping us to ask all the right questions I did the whole process without a realtor and so I had to become kind of a, what's it called, like a novice amateur realtor, which probably isn't the thing.

The whole process took a month man a month.

Like it was fast.

Did you, I know this is totally off topic but was it competitive like you were there other

people like outbidding you and stuff like that like you here these days?

Yeah so well I I gotta say like this house house, it's an amazing house. And we found it actually before it went in the market. And so my partner Joe saw it and it was on Craigslist. And I guess it had been rented previously and so the owners they just were over it they didn't want to rent anymore they wanted to sell it also given market dynamics or whatever and so we actually reached out before it went in the market and just we liked the seller.

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