This is the Gary V. Audio Experience.

All right Gary, first off, thank you so much for doing this.

It's a Monday night at 7 p.m. So I appreciate you jumping on to record a podcast with me.

Thanks for being here.

Happy to do my friend.

Awesome.

So I want to cut straight to the chase.

You do a million different things.

You're an entrepreneur and investor, creator, author, speaker, and I'll even throw in the

future owner of the New York Jets.

But I want to talk more about what you've, what I think you're spending a lot of your

time on lately, which is the digital side and the NFT space specifically.

So let's start with maybe when you first heard about NFTs in crypto in general.

South by Southwest 2014, 15, 13, 16.

It's all a little bit blurry, but I bought Bitcoin in the theory of in 14, 15 because of some

jam sessions at South by some really nerdy characters put me on.

I didn't really think all that much about it.

I remember the theory and the theory I'm caught my attention because the year earlier

I bought Bitcoin, one of my friends was like, well, this one's interesting because it's

a platform you can build on top of it.

I was like, oh, that's kind of cool.

I remember distinctly making the parallels of like Apple versus Android, like Oping

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