How Two Creators Built a $0 to Web3 Entertainment Empire | Crouton Jones DSH #1100

With them for minutes.

Oh, like they're messed up, dude.

I can't imagine.

There were four knockouts that night.

What does it sound like?

Like the best high five of all time.

Yeah, these guys are out.

Like, it's oh my gosh.

You always want to be first.

Yeah.

That rocks.

Whoever goes first wins like 80% of the time.

Pass to bro.

Just

getting palmed.

Oh, yeah.

You're sitting there just waiting to take it.

Yeah.

All right, guys.

Jordan and Travis from Crew Tom Jones.

What up, what's up?

What's up, bro?

What's going on?

What's going on, Travis?

Good timing for this episode with Crypto Pumping right now.

We are, man.

This is going into this year, man.

This is the next big thing.

This is going to be the next four years.

It's going to get crazy for crypto.

And I think that we've timed this launch of Crouton Jones perfectly, to be completely honest with you.

I'm very, very excited.

Damn pumped.

Bitcoin 105.

New all-time high yesterday, right?

Yeah, all-time high.

Saw that Trump's been stocking up on crypto.

I saw him buy like.

You got to do it.

Yep.

Tens of millions of dollars of crypto adding to the wallet.

And now you got these big corporations adding to their wallets, right?

Yep, yep, exactly.

It's just, you know, the more and more it starts to go mainstream and,

you know, work on the regulations, work on the technology, you know, really filter out these scams and, you know, kind of dial in.

what this looks like for the digital world that we're going into.

It's just

more and more mainstream people are going to get involved.

And, you know, you really see the institutional money really starting to flow in.

So it's very exciting.

I've described it as you're moving from an analog world into a digital world.

And that's why I tell people all the time, like, if you're not going to do anything else with cryptocurrency, at least buy like

a dollar's worth of Bitcoin every single day

because that will be the quote unquote gold in that digital world as we move into that digital world.

So at least stock up on that because the more that these corporations see where we're trending to, the more that they're going to do that as well.

So you might as well take the ride with them and because this is like the, you know, a real wealth transformation that's going on right here, and you can be a part of that.

Agreed.

Yeah.

You got guys like Sailor saying Bitcoin's going to these absurd amounts, right?

I mean, yeah, it wouldn't hurt to DCA into Bitcoin and Ethereum, in my opinion.

Of course.

I know people that have been buying it every week for the past like five years and they're chilling right now.

And it's only been five years.

Imagine 20 years.

Right.

Well, I mean, you're DoorDashing like $30 worth of DoorDash every single day.

Why not just do $5 of your DoorDash into Bitcoin?

Oh, I'm not spending that little on.

My DoorDash orders are fat, bro.

Dude, my DoorDash.

I'm over here like, dude, I have $200.

Yeah,

that's normal.

Yeah.

$100 is like the minimum.

Well, my girl eats with me.

I have kids, dude.

You know, me and my wife, four kids.

I do

one of those long hauls, man.

It's pricey.

Well, Sean's like getting DoorDash, you know, the most expensive sushi of all time because I've got that big brain.

I don't get fast food.

I'll say that.

That's great.

That's great.

I used to, though.

Heavy.

Yeah, I've launched a revolt on fast food.

Just what I'm learning about the seed oils and the ingredients, you know.

But I grew up on Burger King.

That was like my shit back in the day.

Of course, you have to have it your way, bro.

Yeah, but I used to have Dollar Different.

When I was in high school, you know, just coming out after school, dude, grabbing a couple of the curves.

I would go just for the crown, bro.

The crown is sick.

Do they still have the crown?

They still have the crown.

Oh, they still do?

I thought they took it away.

The crispy crown.

Okay.

That's what we've called it now.

Does McDonald's still have the playgrounds?

They're getting rid of them because of all the lawsuits and lost kids.

Tons of both.

Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.

One usually leads to the other, they say.

Yeah, I was actually a little scared of those playgrounds growing up.

Were you?

They seem dirty and stuff.

You seem like a ball pit guy.

You're very ball pit vibed up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I can see your hair kind of sticking through the ball pit, even though you thought you were hidden.

Yeah, you're an offense shot.

We all see you, bro.

Yeah.

It's hard to hide the fro and the height, dude.

Yeah, that's wherever I go.

I kind of stay.

I imagine you like a trampoline park, dude, doing like a double backflip, just dunk.

Yeah, you know.

I used to love those.

Yeah.

I haven't been in a while.

Bro, I didn't know, I did not realize that you were going to be this tall.

I get that all the time.

Yeah, I'm a pretty tall guy, too, myself.

And whenever you came in here, I was like, okay, small forward.

Okay, I get you.

Well, you saw me sitting in a love sack out there, and I was

slouched.

Yeah, and your knees were up there past your eyebrows.

Yeah,

I'm a short king.

But power stance.

Yeah, power stance.

Your power stance all day.

Little Danielle Cormier.

Yeah, there's a lot there.

He calls me Dana White, dude.

That's a compliment in my eyes.

Absolutely.

Dana White.

Yeah, okay.

Before the allegations.

Yeah, before the allegations.

I want to say before the allegations.

He's been there a while.

Yeah, tons of allegations.

A lot of allegations.

Yeah.

Shout out to Dana.

He's out here in Vegas.

That's a legend.

Yeah.

I was just at PowerSlot the other day.

No way.

What was that like?

Dude, it's intense.

I'm not going to lie.

Seeing it in person is different than what you guys see on Instagram clips.

It has to be brutal.

These guys are on the floor after they get knocked out.

They're on the floor for some of them for minutes.

Oh.

Like, they're messed up, dude.

I can't imagine.

There were four knockouts that night.

What does it sound like?

Like the best high-five of all time.

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Yeah, these guys are out.

Oh my gosh.

You always want to be first.

Yeah.

That rocks.

Whoever goes first wins like 80% of the time.

It has to, bro.

Just to get it.

Just getting palmed.

Oh, yeah.

You're sitting there just waiting to take it.

Yeah.

Have you guys ever been slapped before?

Never.

Oh, yeah, a bunch of times.

Oh, you've been slapped in the forest.

Of course.

Oh, yeah, bro.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, it sucks.

Yeah, Florida chicks are wild, bro.

Yeah.

They'll just hit you for no reason and sometimes for a reason.

Damn.

Yeah, yeah, it's wild.

Yeah, crazy.

But we love them.

But we love them.

Shout out to the 304s.

Oh, no, bro.

We're 8-5.

Oh, panhandle.

Shout out to the panhandle.

We're right there on the panhandle.

Man, it's basically Alabama, but you know, we're still, you know, we're still Florida.

Don't you ever say that, bro?

We're not.

I mean, dude, you can.

I'm literally.

Isn't there a show like Florabama or some shit?

There is, and that's about that area.

But, and so

I see where you're going with that.

Big brain.

Well, we have Jersey Shore, so I can't even talk.

I grew up in Jersey.

You're from Jersey.

I can't even talk.

What about that?

Coney Island.

Jersey Shore, man.

Jersey Shore.

So you're a gym.

No tan, I see.

No tan.

Tons of laundry.

Yeah, that show was so misrepresentative of people from Jersey.

Really crazy show, though, dude.

Dude, when Jersey, everybody at this, dude, at our school, started just dressing up, spiking the hair, dude.

Dude, Ronnie was a Krispy King.

Yeah.

I didn't know it had influence in other states like that.

Oh, so absolutely, bro.

It was like viral before the internet.

Yeah, it was like the pre-internet show for sure.

Absolutely.

But going back to Crouton Jones, how did this thing start and what is it?

Man, you want to open up on the story?

Because Travis is actually the originator.

Oh, yeah.

Kind of have a little story about it.

Oh, yeah.

How this all began.

Awesome.

Yeah.

So Crouton Jones, what it is, is first and foremost, it's an animated series.

Okay.

And what we did was,

you know, me and another partner of ours who's in on the project with us, Dennis Gleason, we wrote this storyline out of Crouton Jones kind of vaguely.

And what Crouton Jones is, is he's a detective.

And it's shot in like the 70s era.

And think Shaft, if you will.

I don't know what that is.

Okay, Shaft is like an old school, like real smooth pimp kind of like detective guy.

Okay, like he works with the police force, but he's not with the police force, ladies man, like a ladies' man, Batman, bro.

Something like that.

So, like a Sherlock Holmes, kind of like a Sherlock Holmes, but if Sherlock Holmes is like a pimp, yeah, and he's a bad dude.

Okay, forget Watson and bring the ladies in, and a lot of respect.

That's Crouton Jones.

There you go, respect, respect.

So, you know,

the animated series,

but okay, so with the animated series, it's going to be something like Breaking Bad, okay, or The Sopranos.

We're not going for like a Simpson-style show here or like a Family Guy where there'll just be tons and tons and tons of episodes.

This will be one big story art that we tell over maybe six to seven seasons, and but it'll be, you know, big-time

story arc of like you know, drama, high-tension, things of that nature.

And it all takes place inside of New Snack City is where the Crouton Jones world takes place.

So he comes onto the force force with his partner, Frank Silverstein, who's a hot dog, okay?

They come into the academy.

They're working as police officers for many, many years.

And then what they realize is they can't fight the crime inside of Nooseneck City the way that they really want to.

So Crouton Jones decides to step out of the police force and open up his own detective agency.

And he asks Frank Silverstein to come along with him, and he does.

That way that they can fight against the big crime organizations that is inside of New Snack City, that's controlled by these five crime families that control the underworld inside of News Neck City.

You want to tell them a little bit about the official hub?

Yeah, dude.

That's one of the ones.

Absolutely.

The first thing is, you know, movies from the 70s, we're big movie guys, man.

So we take a lot of the best movies we've seen, you know, Goodfellas,

American Gangster,

just different things over the years.

So we really are storytelling here.

So, man, it's high drama.

You're going to hate us sometimes.

You're to love us sometimes, kill off your favorite character.

You just twist and turn, you know, to try to build that.

But these crime families, there's five major crime families in New Snack City, and there's a drug that goes around that's, you know, starting to poison going around the streets called sugar.

Yeah, and they call it

cane, sugar cane.

It's cane.

They call it cane.

It is sugar, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

So that's the main drug.

And each one of these families kind of work together to, you know, as part of like the distribution, bringing it in, the smuggling of it, and packaging it down getting it into the city you know going through they grow it certain crime families are the one who grow it transported transport it in on boats is another family yes receiving it through the dogs transporting it throughout the cities distributing it through the nightclubs

different things like that this is thought oh wow oh yeah yeah so we have over 40 characters man it's all original all original you know just to hit on our five crime families when we have broccoli of the wontons yep and he's a broccoli he's a broccoli

but think of like the triads or like the yakuza.

Yeah.

You know, they're they're also samurai, so they're big on honor, respect, following a code for their families.

And then you have Fingerling O'Boyle.

Fingerling O'Boyle is the Shamrock Syndicate, and they

like the IRAs and different things.

You have Don Caratelli of the Caratelli family.

He's a king, but it's like the Italian mafia.

So he's a king of Little Capicola, bro.

Little Capicola.

Come on, bro.

Little Capicola.

They own casinos.

You know,

they do extortion, the businesses, the unions, you know, all of those different things.

And really quick, Jordan, to touch on that, that's another big inspiration coming out here to Vegas is walking around and seeing all this old Vegas signage and stuff.

I just kept telling Jordan the entire time, hey.

We can use all of this in the show, man.

All of this is just beautiful.

This signage is just absolutely beautiful.

And our animation team that we have behind the Crouton Jones project, this is exactly what they're looking for because that's a question that we get a lot over at Crouton Jones.

It's like, man, this all sounds great, but how are you actually going to get it done?

It all sounds very expensive.

And who are you going to get to do this kind of stuff?

But this is the thing.

We already did it.

We already have made those strategic partnerships with an animation team.

And this team is unbelievable.

Award-winning, they've done everything.

Video games is their specialty.

And they've done like thousands and thousands of these videos.

Software development, AI, docs, all this kind of stuff.

But they've never got to do an animated series.

And they've always wanted to do one to really flex their muscle.

And so whenever Jordan brought this idea to them, you know, months and months ago, they were just salivating.

They absolutely saw it.

You know, that's one of the things with Crouton Jones.

You know, it's three things that we talk about whenever we're talking about crouton Jones.

You get introduced to Crouton Jones, then you catch crouton fever, and then it's full-blown crouton mania.

Those are like the three steps.

And it sounds corny, but I promise you, it's a real thing that happens.

And as we're describing it to people, I can always see that click behind their eyes where they get it.

and they go, oh my God, this is going to be unbelievable.

That's what happened with our studio.

And it's like they pulled these images out of our heads and made the animations exactly what we wanted.

Wow.

It is unfreaking believable.

And the detail that's in it is unbelievable.

You can go on our Instagram and see these little trailers that we've already put out already.

You know what I mean?

And see the animations, hear Crouton Jones speak.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

So it's really, really awesome what they're getting to do over there.

So whenever you're sitting there in your chair as an investor and you're thinking to yourself, well, this sounds great, but how are you going to get it done?

We're already getting it done.

We're already doing those things.

And they can do all of our video game stuff.

They can handle our NFTs, handle all of our smart contracts.

Yeah, well, let's get into it.

No, I know, I know, but I'm just trying to just tell you the level of, because, because I, I get it as from an investor, that is a big question people always want to know, how are you going to execute this?

You know what I mean?

And so I just always want to reassure people, like, we're executing a bubba.

I promise you.

I love that.

Yeah, people in the crypto space got high expectations.

Exactly.

And they should, because you've been scammed over and over and over and over again.

You know, me and Jordan, we've been in this space since 2017.

We're crypto guys.

We're investors ourselves.

You know what I mean?

But we've seen it over and over and over again.

You you buy into these projects boom rug pull

rug pull over and over and over

exactly.

Oh my gosh.

But honestly, if you got burned on that, you deserve it because the writing was on the wall from the beginning of that.

Yeah.

You know, and it's unfortunate.

I guess I shouldn't say you deserve it, but it's just like you have to do a little bit of research, guys.

You have to know that that's a possibility.

And all the signs were there for that to happen.

So, you know, that sucks that that happened, but you know, that's part of it.

But that's what we want to do at Crouton Jones is build a project that's actually good, that has longevity, that has legs.

We're innovative.

We're using technology in AI in a way that these other companies just aren't doing.

We're doing more than simply just meme coin type of stuff.

Crouton Jones is a freaking king of memes, bro.

He's way more than a simple meme coin.

He's a global brand token, the very first global brand token of all time.

Love it.

And so it's all about longevity.

And that's why our mission statement at Crouton Jones also is transparency is our currency because me and Jordan want to be out there in the community and say, hey guys,

here's a project that's not a scam.

It's not a rug pull.

We're fully doxxed.

We're trademarked.

It's an LLC out of the U.S.

You know what I'm saying?

So we have nothing to hide behind.

Come in here and look.

We're going to be fully audited by the time our launch happens, January 21st.

Fair launch, by the way.

Nice.

We self-funded this thing,

entire thing.

You didn't do a pre-sale?

No pre-sale.

Forget the pre-sale.

It was thought about.

We thought about it and thought about it.

And everybody told us, they said, if you don't do the pre-sale, y'all are doomed to fail.

Every single company has told us this, right?

But we believe in the community.

That's the whole thing.

That's the whole goal.

We think that the community is looking for a good, solid project to get behind.

And we're betting on that.

And if we're wrong, okay, sorry about it.

I guess we just screwed up.

But at the end of the day, we can say we did everything possible in our power to put out a good project with a good message and try to go community first with it.

And either people are going to buy into it or they're not.

That's what's going to happen at the end of the day.

That's how far it's been working, man.

This is actually just a surreal moment that we're even on this podcast.

It's dope, bro.

First time in Vegas.

Oh, wow.

First time for both of you guys.

Hit Fremont, staying at the MGM, just seeing all of the art and everything that's here,

just flying out last minute.

Y'all hit us up to do the podcast.

It was like, man,

are we ready to go there?

Stars aligned here.

And it's just.

And now we're seeing Monday Night Football tonight, bro.

Definitely going to hit Monday

and the Falcons, bro.

It's going going to be sick.

No, you're hitting the stadium after this.

I have to.

Got to go check it out.

We're here.

Might as well.

It's like Monday.

Yeah, dude.

My first time in Vegas, I couldn't believe it.

Yeah.

Hotels.

It's just a different world.

It's like you see all this stuff in movies and TV shows, and then you get here and you're like, that is right there.

Yeah.

That is crazy.

Are we living in a simulation?

You know, that's what everything around here is like.

The mountains, bro.

I didn't realize there was so many mountains.

Red Rock, yeah.

Unbelievable.

Beautiful.

Yeah.

Hike up there.

You know, do a little microdose.

Have some fun with that.

Yeah, dude.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Vegas, there's something for everyone here, you know?

Yeah.

But, man, I'll tell you this.

I was like, you know, Vegas has this reputation of being like super sketchy outside to the regular people or whatever.

But we get here, everything is so clean.

There's no litter anywhere.

Yeah.

Everybody's super like helpful and very nice.

And it was just completely a different vibe than I thought it was going to be.

It really, really impressed me.

Yeah, we get that rap of you just come here to drink and have fun, cheat on the girl or whatever, all the movie stuff.

Yes,

there's a community outside of the strip, too.

Yeah.

You know, no, it's been awesome.

The people have been awesome, man.

Everybody we've just been in contact with, you know, making connections out here.

It's just been, it's been awesome.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Shopping Vegas.

You know, one thing we do whenever we go to these cities, we like to take taxi cabs.

And, you know, if we have to, we'll do Ubers.

But we love to take taxi cabs because it's just like those are like the real dudes.

You know what I mean?

And they're all just super nice here.

They're so helpful.

They're like, give you all the tips and information and everything.

And it's just, it's really, really cool because, you know, you go to these cities and that's not really the case, you know.

But it's a really, really cool vibe here at this place.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm excited about what's to come here.

We got a lot of Hollywood coming here, actually.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Coming out of LA into Vegas.

Yeah, because it's cheaper.

Wahlberg lives here now.

No way.

So I think we just got a studio announced coming.

So you might have to.

Did he run all the way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas?

Oh, he might have.

That's just healthy as hell, man.

Yeah, it's like, what is it, two rotisserie chickens a day or something?

Oh, he has that?

Yeah.

I know he waits.

I saw like two.

Yeah, I saw that.

His whatever, like his schedule.

Have you seen that?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Fun fact, he has like the same schedule.

Same as his.

Oh, you wake up at two?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What?

Every single day.

It's just part of my

life, I guess you would call it.

I've seen some people.

I have to travel very, very far in the work that I do every single day.

So it's just I have to doing that and doing crouton jones simultaneously.

It's like, as an entrepreneur, you can either do it.

or not do it.

You know what I mean?

Nobody's going to do the work for you.

It's all going to be all on you.

So it's either you just got to lock in and do it, baby.

You know what I mean?

That's what it takes.

And that's what we've been doing for, you know, probably the last nine months.

We've just been completely locked in every single day, all day, just like you, I hear.

Yeah.

You know, you're just absolutely crushing it.

You know, that's why you've been so successful with this podcast is because you're willing to work hard, bro.

50 episodes this week.

Unbelievable.

That is a work hard.

Yeah.

Like a young Elon, bro.

Yeah.

That's a good compliment.

That's my idol, to be honest.

Well, one of our idols too, man.

Yeah, Elon Musk is the go.

I mean, look what he did with Doge.

Yeah.

yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He blessed us with Doge, bro.

That was my very first pop with crypto.

What price did you guys get enough?

Two cents.

Damn.

It's like 50 now.

Did you sell it or?

Dude, my

dad's loaded up.

Me,

I read the cord, baby.

Yeah.

I did.

Yeah, I did.

I can't blame you.

Yeah, every single thing that I've had in crypto, dude, has been to put this all out here for Crouton Jones, bro.

Taking the full risk, going for it, putting ourselves out there.

And we've built something from such a just a small idea of one character in an animated series and just the more and more we've mind-melded and melt more people get this the ideas of everything like just this web started forming yes and we're like hey man you know it could it could be this you know initially we started doing memes with crouton jones just because we didn't have any content yet you're trying to get out there to the world as easy as we're not we don't want to be a meme coin peanut the squirrel exactly exactly exactly we're like we don't want to be a meme coin but crouton jones we love the way that meme coins are marketed.

I mean, you just have to do that.

We love those communities.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Exactly.

And so we just, dude, Crouton Jones is everybody.

He's me.

He's you.

He's been every trending topic, dude.

We just did a 31 Nights of Frights where Crouton Jones was Michael Voorhees.

He was Michael Voorhees?

Jason Voorhees.

Jason Voorhees, bro.

What's the heck was that?

Dude, Luther Vandross, bro.

He was also Luther Vandross, bro.

Jason Voorhees, dude, Michael Myers, dude.

Saw all of them.

So So

Christmas, and then we started rolling out our animations, dude.

It really started to flex our muscles, you know, and it expanded on that.

We cranked up our, you know, we have our own proprietary, you know, our own tech, our own game engine that is with the Faye framework is

we're building all getting all of these tools so our community can come to together and create onto our project to build onto this brand.

So we have an open world sandbox game,

animated comics, digital trading cards merchandise it's a whole universe like the likes of like marvel or harry potter or any of those things you have that here with crouton jones so with our 40 plus characters man that's going to expand the more and more we allow the community to come in and yeah and add on to that lore and we're adding on to our comic lore and connecting it together with the animated series and added into the games It's just endless possibilities of what it can become.

And you're a young guy.

You know Roblox.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So with our Crouton Verse, quote unquote, that's what we're doing.

We, with our game engine, we're giving all those tools back to the user so that you, as a user, can come into that universe and make your own game.

Nice.

You know what I'm saying?

The Crouton Verse, to call it that, you know, is just a platform for you to be able to come in as the user and do whatever you want to do.

We give you all those tools.

You got to get them in the new Marvel game.

That game's been blowing up.

Unbelievable.

Have you seen it?

No.

Marvel Legends or something?

No, I haven't seen it.

You haven't seen it?

Dude, unbelievable.

You can't scroll on Instagram without seeing that shit.

Really?

Yeah.

What kind of game is it?

It's like six on six.

I don't even know how to describe it, but it's all the Marvel characters.

Really?

Pretty fun?

Yeah, it's blowing.

You guys play games?

Oh, yeah.

What do you play right now?

I'm playing 2K right now, to be honest with you.

Classic.

Yeah, I'm playing either Madden 2K or Call of Duty, to be honest with you.

Sometimes I'll do

some story stuff, but...

You know, here lately, that's why I'm getting waxed now because

playing it so much, it's like you're practicing is really what it is.

But now we're doing this crouton Jones stuff so much, it's like you ain't got time to play 2K, bro.

Yeah, I feel that.

Yeah, I haven't even, I haven't gotten into a game in a while, but you know, it was big PUBG, big computer games.

He's a PC gamer.

I'm a PC gamer, too.

Yeah, not me.

I'm console, PlayStation, baby.

Yeah, PC's different, man.

It is different, bro.

It's a smoother experience, in my opinion.

The graphics are way better.

Absolutely.

I totally understand it, man.

All of my homies are PC guys.

I'm console, baby.

I'm never going to stop being console.

No, never, ever, bro.

I'm old school.

I want the sticks.

I want you in the house.

I want to talk the shit to your face.

You know what I'm saying?

I want to look you in the eyes while I'm giving it to you, baby.

Yeah, you can do it.

No biddy, bro.

You can't even.

I love that.

You can't talk shit on Call of Duty anymore.

I know, ridiculous.

I'm Modern Warfare 2 lobby, baby.

Yeah.

Oh, bro.

Halo 3, dude.

Back in the day.

It's wretched, dude.

Those lobbies right there was a shit show.

But also the most hilarious times of my life, bro.

These dudes in there were wild, bro.

I loved it.

The Modern Warfare 2 audio logs are all leaked on the dark web.

Yes, I know.

I've listened to a bunch of them.

Yeah, they're hilarious.

They're hilarious.

I I think I'm like 60% of them.

If those ever got leaked, I'll be like, oh, dude, it'd be over with, bro.

Crouton would get crispified.

Do you guys get croutons on your salad?

Absolutely, bro.

Who would we be if we didn't, bro?

Hell yeah.

Crispy, dudes.

Crispy.

Do you like them crispy?

I don't like them soggy.

Oh, you can't have soggy, dude.

You like a soggy crouton?

I don't.

Oh, you don't like a soggy.

Dude, I was about to say, this podcast is over, bro.

You like a soggy crouton.

I've had some salads with, I don't know how they even get soggy, first of all.

That's weird.

It's salad dressing, bro.

That's all that sugar and salad dressing.

Yeah, it soaks in there, bro.

I'm not big on dressing.

Well, I hope not, bro.

I mean, dude, it's like, I'm not trying to make it a health podcast, but there's like seed oils and shit.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, I thought you meant you like to walk around nude.

Oh, no, no.

You're not big on dressing.

No.

Oh, come on.

Took me a bit.

See, when the doctor was in here measuring your brain, he said small brain for a reason.

Took me a bit on that one.

I had to think about that one.

That's okay.

It's high level.

It's black belt.

Yeah.

Yeah, I understand.

All right, you guys are big on movies, you said?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Best horror series of all time.

What is it?

Well, for me, it's Friday the 13th.

Okay.

I'm just, I like Jason.

He's my favorite

movie monster guy, if you want to call it that.

Other than that, though, if you wanted to go like crazy, it'd be hereditary.

Okay.

That one was wild.

Do you ever see that?

I haven't seen that one.

824.

You watch anything by 824?

Nature.

The production series.

Midsomer.

I haven't seen that one.

Yeah.

I mean, they're kind of like an indie production.

Register often C-level movies.

No, no, they're like humongous now.

They're probably like the biggest production.

Oh, they're bigger.

Oh, yeah.

I've probably seen their stuff, though.

Yeah, they've won like Oscars and stuff.

Joaquin Phoenix did

Bo Isn't Scared or whatever.

That's like a no in the discrete one.

Yeah, but anyways, they do like the wildest like horror movies of all time.

But Hereditary, I think, is at 824.

I've heard of that one.

It's like it's literally insane, bro.

Is that a tone back.

I used to watch one every night, but I've been getting wicked nightmares.

Oh, geez.

Well, what's your good?

Mine is Scream.

Scream.

The classic.

I like ones that make you think.

Yeah.

I like more of the thriller style.

The first Saw.

The First Saw is crazy.

Saw's a close second for me.

Yeah.

Saw's a classic.

I'm a Michael Myers guy.

Yeah.

It's dude.

It's just something about the guy just standing there, dude.

Do you like the slashers?

Hilarious.

It's just like just something about just seeing that white mask, dude, and you're

so good.

Oh, Scream's a classic.

Scream is Saw because I like ones that make you think saw put really puts you in the movie, and it's like, oh, I would survive that, bro.

When that guy gets up off the ground at the end, you're like, are you kidding me right now, bro?

Are you easy?

Was that?

You know, he was laying there.

Unbelievable.

That was awesome.

Yeah, that's wild.

Yeah, I think they're done making those, though, right?

I hope so.

Would they make like 65 of them, dude?

It was a lot, maybe 10 or 11.

It's like the Fast and the Fury.

They need to change that scene, baby.

Get rid of it.

Yeah.

Well, Michael Meyer, they made a lot of those, too, right?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Absolutely.

It's just all money grabs at this point.

Average now.

The last, just, you know, from the classics, they're just not the same.

You guys like the original ones more?

Yeah, I think so.

But the zombie one was pretty crazy.

But still, man, I'm like, good fellas, departed.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Departed, I've seen like 20 times.

Oh, absolutely.

Gladiator.

Oh, they just made another one, right?

I want to check it out.

So bad, man.

But at first, I was like, is Denzel supposed to be Russell Crowe or what's happening?

You know what I mean?

I'm not sure what's going on there.

Yeah, he had a gay scene in that one, I think he said.

Oh, okay.

Okay, well.

Well, Hollywood's pretty woke these days.

They are, yeah.

I don't like most new movies, actually.

Me either.

Yeah, they're rough.

I, you know, it's been such a long time since I've seen a good movie, and then Top Gun Maverick came out, and I was like, it restored my

dude, I love it.

It was okay.

It was just,

bro, that's not a new, that's a firepower.

It was just great to go back to the theater and watch a movie.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Because we used to love going to the theater.

Theater was the kids.

It was a popcorn and going to the theater.

That was like the whole weekend.

Absolutely.

I remember the very first time,

like the memory I have of going to watching a movie, Twister, like the original Twister that came out, and like filling the sticky floor whenever you're going through the theater, you know, and sitting in a ripped-up leather chair with your fancy children.

Those chairs were so bad back then.

Now they're all recliners.

And you're like, damn, that's Hell and Hunt, dude.

Hell yeah.

I remember watching Goblet of Fire in the movie theater growing up.

Oh, hilarious.

Harry Potter.

Harry Potter, yeah.

Classic.

Yeah, that's one of my favorite series ever.

Dude, love Harry Potter, man.

My kids love Harry Potter.

My wife is obsessed with Harry Potter.

We went to that, you know, down there in Orlando so many times to go to the Harry Potter world.

It's so dope, though, bro, with the dragon breathing the fire on you, though.

It's so sick.

I'm a little worried with the show, if it's going to live up to the expectations.

It's coming out soon.

Yeah, it's kind of hard.

You know, it's like Game of Thrones and then seeing the House of the Dragon series.

It's just that storytelling's not on the same level to me.

You just can't get it.

You can't duplicate something so great.

Game of Thrones, it just hit such a different level.

It's just like you're trying to, everything feels like a money grab after that.

Yeah, even the last seasons of Game of Thrones felt like a money grab.

It did.

The last two.

Dude, that fight scene killed in

That was season 10 or whatever.

Couldn't even see.

It was so blurry.

We didn't win the whole time.

That's all we were here for.

They had one job.

We waited six seasons for that fight, and you couldn't see it.

Yeah, but they'll show you the Starbucks cup, Bubba.

Oh, yeah.

They paid for that.

Yeah.

Man.

Yeah, I watched House of Dragons.

It was okay.

Yeah.

Nothing crazy.

Heavy on the dragon.

Yeah.

Targaryen, you guys like that house the most?

Nah.

I can't say that, dude.

I think winter is coming.

You know what I mean?

It's dark.

Yeah, you have to.

I'm a Leonister.

Oh, and so always pay your debts, though.

Yeah, Jamie,

yeah, Jamie was my favorite character.

Jamie was a character.

What a story arc.

I didn't like how they did him at the end, but um, yeah, good arc for sure.

Yeah, but he went back to Cersei at that, and I was like, what the hell?

Yeah, that's what I did.

It's like, dude, some of the story to come back after that.

It's like, dude, you take a guy that's bad.

He could have really finished out as just a great guy, dude.

Did some like heroic shit, died or something.

Yeah, that's how I would have done it.

Yeah, that last fight he had, that should have been it before he even got to her, in my opinion.

yeah i agree yeah shout out to jamie

jamie dude what's your favorite tv show of all time both you guys oh

man that's a

favorite tv show i'm going breaking bad or prison break for me

come on boy

boy

yeah classic

dude went worth yeah prison break's a classic prison break is crazy bro And then they freaking try to bring that back.

Oh, yeah, they did the fifth season.

What are we doing?

Don't do that.

I think they're trying to bring it back again yeah it's like oh my god prison break was so good breaking bad though yeah it would have to definitely be

dude breaking bad was just so sick iconic iconic you're just hanging on every single episode bro when hank is in there bro and he's doing that ww to him yeah oh man he's like slowly starting to like realize it oh that was the best scene of all time bro come on are you kidding me yeah it's like

the the director in that and the storytelling and that is just off the charts he's next level next level and he followed it up with another good show after.

Better call us all.

Yeah.

Dude, unreal.

Yeah.

Unreal.

But Bob Odenkirk, what a guy, bro.

What a freaking guy.

From a comic to the drama, bro.

It's just like, and even like Nobody, that action movie that he was in was unbelievable, man.

Next level, again, that guy is unreal.

Coded.

What about you?

Man.

I would say probably Game of Thrones love the Sopranos.

Okay.

Sopranos.

Sopranos so far.

There's just been many, many series, man, just over the years.

I try a little bit of everything just to see.

You know, of course, I haven't watched a lot of TV series recently, but just

the classics.

Honestly, the best one of all time is Chappelle Show.

To be completely honest, I never caught it.

I call it that.

You're too young for Chappelle Show, bro.

But the first two episodes, or the first two seasons of Chappelle Show, it was the greatest television of all time ever.

Wow.

Everybody that was anybody.

I mean, you're tuned into freaking Comedy Central.

Like, I think it was like every Tuesday or Wednesday, right?

But I'm talking about the world is shutting down for this Chappelle show.

It's unbelievable.

Like, highest DVD sales of all time, whenever it comes out for season one, and then season two blows that out of the water.

Like, it was a movement.

That's why Chappelle to this day is still so, so iconic.

You know what I mean?

Like,

it was just unbelievable.

A show that you could never do nowadays unless you did it on YouTube or something like that.

Well, there's one guy trying to replicate it, Matan.

Mattan Evan.

I don't know him.

You don't know him.

Yeah, he's trying to do that.

Funny guy.

Yeah.

You never know what you're going to get.

What did you guys think of Cartoon Network going under?

I didn't know that.

Really?

It went under?

Yeah.

No way.

You didn't see this?

No.

Had no idea.

Yeah, all their shows are gone now.

What?

All the shows we grew up with, man.

So, where did their library go?

I don't know.

They're probably going to sell it off to someone.

So, like, Aqua Team Hunger Force and

Johnny Bohemo.

Dexter's Laboratory.

That was a good one.

All gone.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

I think it was last year.

It might have been this year.

But the channel's still on.

I don't know if it is.

I don't know what they're doing with the.

Oh, well.

I think kids these days aren't.

The cartoons are weird now, man.

They're so woke, dude, and just crazy.

You don't know what you're getting.

Yeah.

But I feel like there's just been a shift.

Like, we grew up watching TV, watching cartoons.

They watch YouTube.

But now it's like on YouTube.

Of course.

And so, you know, one of the things with our show.

It's going to be like an eight-minute run.

We're not doing a 30-minute run.

It might be a a little extended than that, or if we ended up doing like a partnership with like a streaming platform or something like that, we could extend that, but we want to keep it short and we want to make the scenes as impactful as possible so that that way we can take each of the scenes themselves, take those clips out, and be able to use them on like TikTok, YouTube threads, all that kind of stuff.

And it also builds that anticipation of like, oh, I want to go see the show now.

I just saw this really, really cool scene.

And it also challenges us as storytellers to say, hey, here's our 45-second long scene.

Let's get the most out of it as possible.

You see what I'm saying?

Yeah, because, yeah, kids watch YouTube and TikTok these days.

Yeah,

try not to be too long.

You know, of course, go through each episode, and then our final part of the season might be like a mini-movie, 30-40 minutes, something like that, to kind of just finish out the series.

Yeah, well, everyone's attention span is so short these days.

It is.

Because I was watching Lost recently, and I had to check my phone every like five minutes.

I know.

And when I first watched that, it was another great show, man, for like a few seasons.

Yeah, the first two or three.

Yeah, absolutely.

And then

me and my wife try to show it to our daughters, and we watch maybe two episodes, and bro, it's just like, you can't get to it.

You can't do it anymore.

It's tough, dude.

TikTok has ruined our brains.

It really has, man.

It's gotten us.

Dude, get on those Instagram reels, dude.

You're sitting on the toilet or something.

Just like you're doing something.

You stand up, dude.

Your legs are gone.

Yeah.

Now, I'll tell you this, too.

An interesting aspect that we're going to use with the animated series, though, and this is kind of in that same lane with the Global Brand tokens.

is nowadays with AI, and I'm sure you know this, but with AI, so I can take a 30-minute recording of your voice and have you translated into any language in the entire world.

Okay.

So we're going to be able to take our voice actors on the show and translate that into every language across the world and launch that to you.

Okay.

So even though we're in the U.S., we're not just going to be in the U.S.

and hearing that in English.

You'll be able to be in Nigeria and hear that.

You know what I mean?

You'll be able to hear it in Mandarin, in Farsi, in Portuguese, be in Russia, hear it in Russian, but you won't lose anything in translation because it'll be those same actors, you know what I'm saying, saying it in your dialect the same way that you would say it.

And it's all just because of that technology now that's available that wasn't available before.

That's huge.

So you can attract people in other countries now.

Exactly.

So now we don't have to.

That's the thing too.

Another great thing if you're an investor, right?

You're looking for like cutting-edge technology, innovative, like boom, you just checked it off with those things right there because we don't even have to to be big in the us per se we could be big in argentina we could be huge in you know somewhere else where they talk different languages no just joking but

i love it how can people watching this get involved with it yeah so uh you'll be able to go on croutonjoneshow.com and watch it and listen this is another thing too We're building utility into our token, the CJT token, from the ground up because as crypto guys, like I said before, we love getting our tokens, but there's not much you you can do with so many of them other than just pass them back and forth wallet to wallet.

So we wanted to build utility as much as possible into our token along the way.

So one of the things that we do is, so, you know, Jordan, he got his mark really is throwing like big parties and stuff.

You know what I mean?

He big time promoter,

event thrower.

Yeah, exactly.

So we want to throw these big in real life IRL events for our Crouton Jones token holders.

So all those tickets will be available first to our CJT holders first.

All of the episodes, they'll come out first on our website to the CJT holders so they can watch it.

And then it'll go up on YouTube.

Okay.

Smart.

So that way the public can still watch it because that's the thing.

We're not selling you anything at Crouton Jones.

That's kind of the beauty of it.

You can just simply come and just watch the show.

That's fine with us.

Yeah, you could come in, buy the merchandise, play our games.

That's quite a bit more.

Come like a post on Instagram.

You don't have to buy a single

single token, but when you do buy a token, that is where you get that ownership, that part of the brand.

So actually what we're building is the first ever, it's a global brand, but it's built by the community for the community.

Imagine like if you could buy stock in LeBron James when he was in high school and then hold that stock of LeBron James token till he becomes LeBron James of now.

And now imagine how much that token would be worth now compared to when he was in high school.

That's kind of the model that we're really using with Crouton Jones as like a global brand token.

We're showing everybody that you can launch essentially your brand, you know, SMK token.

You see what I'm saying?

And people buy into that because they're like, oh, I like where this guy is headed.

Boom, they're buying your coin along the way.

It's kind of, it's kind of what we're giving that opportunity to you as the

content creation platform for creators of all types.

I mean, if you're a 3D modeler, a graphics designer,

a content threader,

you know, any kind of an artist, any kind of creation, if you feel you have something that can contribute to the brand to take it to the next level, we'll come into the community, drop that content.

And if we're all going to vote on it, if we decide that it'll take the brand forward, we'll come in and you'll get

awarded money there.

It's called the content creation hub.

And the idea there is we're trying to have an outlet to the creatives across the globe that say, you know, if you're living in like the middle of Nebraska and a town of like 50 people, but there's no way to get your art out there or whatever your creative ability is.

Maybe you're like the greatest artist of all time, right?

But you don't have any way to express that because you're limited to the people that are around you.

Well, at Crouton Jones, we're providing you a vehicle, a channel, if you will, a hand extended to come in here and say, hey, look, come here, show us your artwork.

If you're a poet, show us your poetry.

If you're a songwriter, show us your song.

And then we have

there's money there in the content creation hub where if the community says, that's a badass song.

Boom, you get paid out of that content creation hub money.

So because me and Jordan, we're creatives.

We're just regular dudes.

You know what I'm saying?

But we're creatives.

And we found this Crouton Jones vehicle to put our creativity to work.

And we can provide that vehicle to the whole entire world.

You can come in here, get paid for your efforts, and really, really make an impact globally.

Here's the tools.

Here's everything you need to do.

If you have any ideas, here's the platform.

Bring it to life and get rewarded for life on your creation.

As the coin grows, the content creation hub pot grows because it's one and the same.

You see what I'm saying?

So there'll be always always that money there for people to be able to come in and take advantage and take the ride waves.

Exactly.

And with blockchain, with with Web3, with crypto, we're able to have a,

you know, with the currency, having access to people all around the world that can have a payment system to, you know, just be able to have everything kind of moving around so we can make this accessible globally.

So, and,

you know, we're, we're not yet launched yet, but we're pioneering a new way.

You know, right now, we're basically in the steamroller.

We're

paving a new road.

So, hopefully, don't get in the way, guys.

You're going to, you may get ran over because we're starting

a new approach to the way that brands are built.

And I feel that after Crouton Jones is launched, this is going to be the biggest launch of 2025.

He's the rookie of the year.

Let's go.

Top 10 projects.

You're looking for ROI.

You just found it, baby.

The rookie of the year, baby.

We're the Krispy King.

The Krispy King, baby.

And we're going to open up those tools for any token, any meme, any

project that wants to build a brand can build the same exact way.

And Crouton Jones is the pioneer of that.

And we'll guide people to set the new gold standard.

That's awesome.

Any closing messages, guys?

That was a fun one.

Yeah, absolutely.

Well, first and foremost, thanks for having us come on here, man.

This was an absolute blast.

You're a great host.

I can see why you're having so much success.

This is very, very, very smooth.

But yeah, I think our message is pretty simple here.

And I'm going to look right into the camera whenever I do this, dude.

I'm going to cut you a wrestling promo from hell.

Okay.

If you're in a terrible community out there in this crypto space and you're just looking for a project that is cutting edge and has innovation behind it and it stands on three simple goals, Cru Ton Jones stands for positivity, love,

and of course, respect, baby.

Jordan, you want to hit one more thing?

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, guys, get involved.

Right now, we don't launch till January 21st.

Follow us on socials.

We're omnipresent.

We're on all platforms.

Get on the Instagram.

Check out the X.

Get into the Discord.

Get into the Telegram.

We have a massive community we've been building and we have nothing to sell you.

Nothing.

Come into our community.

Check out our official documents.

Our white paper is 47 pages.

47 pages.

Our roadmap is out till 2027.

That's so cool.

You can get in there and talk to all of our characters.

We have over 10 characters.

You can ask them any questions you want.

We have it all, guys.

You know, come into our community, follow us at Cruton Jones, CTO.

Get in, come check us out.

And if you have any questions, we're there to answer them for you, baby.

And you just got to respect it.

You got to respect it.

Sean respects it.

Yes, sir.

We'll link it below.

Thanks for coming on, guys.

Thank you, brother.

Thank you.

Yep.

See you guys.

Take care.