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0:50 You know we're still in the end of the old year is another and seeing a corresponding Charlie saladino. Happy New Year. Fun Seekers, and we have ailment any felt Happy New Year. I'm eating tons of cookies throughout the show This week's show we have another to greatly segments and I mean Mark interview crowdfunder, president David bearish, but before we end, before we do any of that, we have to take it away with the news, I got away the Sci-Fi sci-fi, for your Wi-Fi.

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2:11 Really appreciate it. All right, so there's always we start off with the sad news and we have only one data set news this week. Wow! Nice. Like that actress Sonia, Eddie died recently from an infection after a non emergency surgery while appearing in such films last TV shows as high school. I love that movie sour grapes Patch Adams, blasting a Past Specter, get for. I've actually won my professor part to the club's, stranger Hearts. Barbershop me, casa es su casa leprechaun back to the hood. I think there's like part stays Promised Land. Surviving Christmas Coach, Carter Bad News Bears. Gridiron Gang seven pounds answers to nothing. Incredible Burt, Wonderstone Pee-wee's, Big holidays Prime Time. Glick Joanie are Joan of Arcadia and blank. Jesus, just name.

2:55 A few Sony is perhaps best known for her role of epiphany Johnson in 543 episodes of the X sub General Hospital. As far as for 25 episodes at least spinoff series, General Hospital night shift from 2006 to 2022. She was 55 years old. Oh man. No, I don't think you don't use soap opera fan, right there. Charlie Well, I knew a lot about soap operas, but General Hospital was an ABC soap opera but it was shot in l.a. Right, right? Right. You always tell me that every time I bring it up, I always forget. Yeah, yeah.

3:36 So I wasn't familiar with the only people that I was phimai was only about three people that I was familiar with them. John John Stamos was one of them so I knew him. That's cool. So that was it, that's it. And I said use from that's a lot of The new Avatar sequel has held onto the number one spot and it's a message box office, pulling in an additional 64 million dollars in ticket sales and it s we can release beating out the new Puss in Boots equal which came on. And number two, with 12 million dollars is first week of release.

4:18 For those of you keeping track that you Top Gun, sequel is still the highest grossing film of 2022, and with 718 point three million dollars, followed by black panther part 2 at Point nine million dollars. With, as of this recording, which is three days left to go before the calendar year is over. The aforementioned Avatar is at number 8, with two hundred and eighty seven point six million dollars and Puss in Boots is at number 46. So I guess the question is answered Top Gun held on to the box office for this year and now, we will see an avatar. Has any legs and be the big winner for next year, my sense? Yes, it was. How many of our listeners do you think? Actually care how much each movie makes from the movie, theaters, each time, they're in theater. I wonder.

5:08 I wonder like what people are like. Oh, I'm going to see this movie because I hear about made this much money or I wonder, right? I would say a percentage. Well yeah, we're not even trying to be smart. I usually just curious. I totally the way I look at it is personally, I don't care but obviously, People do because they do have a section for the, in the news, all the newspapers who that say that, how much should. And I and Jen, I agree with you, I I guess enough people care about it but I mean, I'm not one of them.

5:49 Well, maybe they care about it because they want to know what's popular. So they know how to like if they're gonna meet Market from it or something. Well, maybe maybe the The the movie, the movie studios themselves, put that out, so people will be interested. I don't know if it is true, it does. I think the amount of money people use that as validation for whether a movie is going on. And I've said it many times, it has no bearing on what the movie is good or not. It just says, how many people bought tickets but the general audience, the general population, if a movie made money, it must be good. Well, well or or people were interested in going to see it. It could have been a lot of people to go to see it and they all came out of here saying this movie sucks but yeah. because I had 20 something years

7:28 and I was I was right back in. It was like oh okay I know what's going on. It was a very simple story, it was good. It was emotional. They it was I was, I was highly entertained and I didn't think I was going to be so that made it even better for me. Well, I've seen Top Gun several times. I can't wait to see this. So you wasn't really surprised. I would imagine so. So moving on also from the that's a lot of nuts department at a recent auction, the original mechanical model. From e.t. The Extra-Terrestrial has been sold for two million five hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For those of you who didn't know or care for that matter, the aluminum alloy skeletal model was operated by 12, professional animators, with movements, including facial expressions nose, eyes mouth, lips movement neck shoulders arms hands fingers, chest abdomen, rotations, be a combination of cables connected to electronic apparatus and Elements.

8:29 So that was like like a prop like the actual working ET, soul for two million dollars over two million dollars, 2.5 million dollars. It's crazy. There's somebody who has yes, some somebody who has about eight million dollars Pocket Change in his pocket and I know, I can see that happening. I'd rather have the house then a TT thing. Like it first of all, I had to keep the ET thing in a closet because if you do scary, they're just see it. So now, I would even know I had it, because it's in a closet. Zatanna sight out of mind. So main dollars by yeah. So you just put the tomatoes in a safe and you be the same way, right? Yeah. What is he going to do with it? Keep it in his basement, for only his friends and family to see. I have no idea.

9:14 But if you You know, it's funny, it's funny. You mention that because I was watching an episode of the new Beavis and Butt-head that they made made in abuse and Butt-head found. They thought they were found dinosaur. Bones was actually like chicken bones and they made a museum for one dinosaur going to charge people to come. See because they do, they're gonna be millionaires. So it's kind of the same thing. They have this one item and they like coming to our gift shop and he had t-shirts and stuff that you saw this is mrs. Recently yes, this is the new Buick somebody that's like my here.

9:57 I am Beavis and Butthead I'm saying, well done. Now this guy could charge a photo up there, exactly. So moving on to complete the trifecta, from the that's a lot of nuts. The Harvest And a different auction. The Aaron judge 62nd home. Run ball has sold for 1.5 million dollars at auction. Auctioneer says, that's the magic of sports. This ball didn't only change Aaron's life. It changed the life of the fan who's in the city, and that night to the fan was none other than Cory Yow, Ms, Y, OU, Nan, Yeomans. Who caught the ball in the stands. He was sitting in the front row of section 312 left field. On October 4th chlorine says congratulations to Joe. No last name, given given the historical significance of number 62.

10:55 It was important to me that selling process was fair accessible and transparent. Joe seems like a great man in the perfect Steward for the special piece of evidence of MLB history. When asked about it, Aaron judge, who hit the ball? Says he caught the ball. He's the one that made the play out there in left field. So is his to is his right to do, whatever he wants. With it. Hopefully he's making the right decision for him and his family. So I'm going to Cornwall and then sold that ball for 1.5 million dollars. How about wow? Usually usually there's a whole to do about giving the ball back to the player and then the player in turn gives the fan several.

11:40 Several Memorabilia things but I guess I guess Jones didn't want to. Yeah, you just sold it to a judge. Judge doesn't seem to be upset, which is, you know, usually takes about. Is that the case Charlie? I don't know. I don't have no idea about this. He hit the 62nd home run of the year, a video of the year. And the fan corded in the stands and sold it. Right. But Jenna's asking, do they normally give the ball back?

12:20 Is that a normal thing? Oh, hell yeah. Yeah. They they they, the gods. Go up as caught the guys back to the locker room and then like judge gives them because the play is love to keep that stuff in their trophy room and judge usually would probably give them a bat. You know a shirt autographed shirred stuff like that but never let him keep the ball but yeah sell it for 1.5 million dollars with the bank. You're the guy who accomplished the feat, you would like to have that ball when you Trophy Room, obviously judge didn't give up.

13:02 Oh my God. Sorry. First one of the year I mean for me not to want that bubble. Like, if it was me. I mean, the last last time that happened was in 1961 when Maris had 61 home runs that year, no one has come close to that except this year. So to me, that would be a milestone when we found the other guys, I wasn't the guy had 70 Mike, Barry Bonds and Sosa, right?

13:54 Those guys was no big thing that was a big thing and I believe they got those balls back. Okay. Yeah. It's and you always see there's a whole big publicity thing where you see the to the you know, the player in the fan too. Together and you see the play again, Bad season tickets, whatever, but again, being a lot, common out, I guess judge didn't want that ball and I don't know, I guess the I guess next year's preparing did 63, I don't know. All right. Moving on, from the hey, that wasn't in the movie.

14:38 Follow-up Department. As reported on, I'll show almost a year ago, two guys, Connor wolf and Peter. Michael Rosa, Rosa are osea, decided to sue Universal Studios as representatives and a class action lawsuit for five million dollars in Damages. Due to actress Anna, De armas, despite being shown in the trailer. For the movie. Yesterday was nowhere to be seen in the actual movie due to her scenes being cut from the theatrical release of the film. Remember that Charlie were talking about that. Yeah, so at the time, the lawyer says because consumers were promised a movie with Ana de armas by the trailer for yesterday.

15:24 But did not receive a movie with any appearance of error, Hal Mars in it. And all such consumers were not provided with any value for their rental or purchase. Now, they only paid four dollars to rent a movie. The principal actors in the movie yesterday were largely unknown. For the film was released, for example, the actor which played protagonist Malik him, he mesh Patel never acted or start in any film prior to yesterday. Similarly, the actors who played Ellie. Lily James was a relatively unknown named to the Casual movie Watcher consequently because none of yesterday, film leads were famous. The defendant was Universal Studios. Could not rely on their faint, promote, the movie to entice, viewership Universal sought to have the lawsuit, dismissed, claiming that trailers are Quote, non-commercial speech and protected under the First Amendment. However, recently, a US judge allowed the case to continue saying that trailers are indeed commercial speech and thus, beholden to both California's false, advertising law, and thank you competition law.

16:32 The judge says, the judge says, Universal is correct that trailers involves some creativity and L. Toriel discretion. But this creativity does not outweigh the commercial nature of a trailer at its core. A trailer is an advertisement designed to sell a movie by providing customers with preview of the movie, the court is limited to its representations as to whether an actress or scene is in the movie and nothing else. So Basically the the case hasn't been heard yet. So like you know to be decided but it's allowing it to move on to the next court, which is crazy.

17:13 If you think about, if this goes all the way trailers, as we know, it will be gone. If they'll be gone, well, there they they can't make misleading trailers. They can't put something that's in the trailer. That's not in the movie. Right? Right, but that doesn't mean, couldn't they make like truthful trailers. Well, that's some saying trailers as they are right now, which I would say 80% More Trailers are misleading. Well, I mean, we'll look at it this way. We're gonna use the Paris example. You have a movie, you make people want to go see this movie. Because the object of the trailer is to make, you think would be good for my showing, you see in the movie and then go to the movie, thinking, it's gonna be good and those scenes aren't in the movie, that's whatever Tyson.

18:01 Right right. It doesn't happen a lot though. Yes. As a matter of fact, Disney Marvel, the big big, big budget movies. Leave it to purposely change your trailer. I'm losing Charlie Charlie. Any time you do that? It's false advertising, right? Well then just say so for example, my back I think your back call you back Charlie may or may not be back. Hi, so for, I'll use this example, which is actually a pretty darn good. One The Avengers movie, The End you hear me.

18:45 You're, you're flashing in and out there Charlie definitely. So yeah, Avengers Infinity War. They had a trailer and they purposely change stuff in a trailer to not have spoilers for the movie. Okay, and then Rogue One Star Wars, Rogue one. We had a lot of stuff in that trailer, that was not in a way, that's actually one of reasons why I don't watch trailers unless I, unless I'm not sure if I want to go see the movie and it was, it was you that like, why would you put all this stuff in it? That's not even in the movie. Well, it's usually, for two reasons. The first reason is that the people who make the trailers, do not make the movie.

19:30 And so sometimes they Get an earlier cut of the movie. So they don't know what the final products going to be. They only given what, you know, these pieces. And then the fattest Studio, decide what we're going to cut it for time. It had like, oh well, this didn't work and I think sounds, yeah. Makes sense or for us, as cases with many other places, they purposely change stuff in the trailer to not give you spoilers. So, where are the biggest example? Which was a big deal. For me, as an Incredible Hulk fan, there was a trailer in, there was a shot of all the Marvel heroes running towards something and I had a big old Hulk running towards it and Avengers Infinity War. Now, in the movie, The Hulk was not in the movie. Beyond the first five minutes of the movie, that seemed didn't exist.

20:21 They purposely put that into the make, you think he was going to come back and then when he didn't supposed to be like the big shock. So it's crazy that if they say You have to have every seen, every person that's in the trailer in the movie. Then they can't cut certain scenes. They can't take out certain things. So troll your back. Yeah. All right. So go. What do you got to say about this? Now, I was saying thats blatant false advertising. That shouldn't be allowed. You're going to a movie based on the trailer. That's what you doing. You dealt and the trail is they're putting their best. Trailers, they have best scenes in those trailers to get you to that movie.

21:07 So I think it's, it's definitely a miscarriage of Justice to lead these people on. So as we were just saying about how much money a movie makes, the only reason is because of the advertising and as part of, yeah, times, you're being misled to go into this movie. Yeah. But it doesn't have to do with I, you know, if you like the movie, don't like a movie. So, what they're only saying is that they say, Person and actor or actress or seen that's in the trailer. Has to be in the movie. Yeah. And I agree with them. Yeah. We haven't gotten so far as the the case has been heard but it's allowed to go that is allowed to go to case. So the more legit is going to be very interesting and it can change the entire Way.

21:57 Movies are being advertised you think about yeah well listen back in the day when there wasn't trailers on on TV The only Trail is you had were in the movies when you went to see a movie, but the poster we talked about this, the movie poster was everything that was the promotional thing for, you know, for the normal everyday, Joe that was the promo for the movie, everything that was drawn on. That poster was in the movie. And I remember the first back in the 60s, they had King Kong vs. Godzilla, yep.

22:44 And I remember that movie poster specifically, they had everything when I went to see the movie, everything that was on the post, because I was a kid, and an impressed me was in the movie. And I mean, this isn't something new. I mean they've been having this leaving trailers forever but it's only become more prevalent. I would say in the past 56 years, it's really been a big thing now, to purposely, they go out of their way to mislead you to go see this movie. Because yeah, as they claim, they don't want to give away spoilers. So think of it like this. Let's say Jen, you're in a movie, right? Yeah. And you talked about in your promoting it and then the movie comes out, you're not in a movie.

23:28 That's all. It's advertising only what happened and it got cut but the people and trailers they didn't know you got a cut and you know, you're in a trailer. So that also makes a big difference for all the actors and actresses who are cut. Mmm. Yes. Yeah. So I think this is this is a really, really big case. And I'm very interested to see how it's going. I'm really glad it's actually moving forward so we have about a minute to go. So element any fellow League final thought? I gotta just tell you this time of year, all I want to do is sleep and eat. So anything you hear from me for the next few months, it's going to be very sedated. All right, senior correspondent.

24:12 Charlie saladino. Final thoughts. Easy for you to say, um, just in this New Year's, let's try to be nice to everybody and watch out for those ugly nipple cookies. That's funny. That's funny and that we don't have the bleep. So hit that we're going to take a break and we'll be right back with. We came from a radio. So high, you've heard my voice open and close the show. Now, we want to hear your voice. If you have a business or product, you can record a commercial here. We offer 30 and 60-second spots for more information, contact. Mark at MFC underscore Studios at. Hotmail.com my neural.

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26:27 No. Because it's just been covid for like years. Yeah. But now I think we're kind of moving away from that. Yeah. But it's no, it still feels like we're, it doesn't feel like much has like a lot has changed, but it feels like nothing's changed. Yeah, I guess it's like when were in the moment of the year. It feels like everything's going so slow and so boring and blah blah blah. But then when we're at the end of it we're like oh it's here. Yeah, that happened. That's true. This year is kind of like a weird one but we did a lot when you what was what was your highlight of the year or a couple highlights of the year, for its hard-won? Yeah. Well Disney.

27:07 Yeah, Florida trip. Yeah, that was a good one. Um, Newport we went and you port. Yes, that, yes, that was very funny. Yeah. Newport. He's fine. You got one on the scooters. Yeah. The we had a good that was, that was a good trip. Yeah. And what do we do? Recently, I went to the city a couple times. That was very fun. Yeah. Oh, and concerts Yeah, you went to a businessman. Went to the most amazing concert that's concerts this year. Oh that's right. We went to grandson. Yeah. And I got to sing with him, that's right. And we went I went to Bryce Vine twice or once twice and kefla a playwright like my favorite artists at the time so you can when I got to see that. Yeah. Oh my God, this year was awesome. Yeah. So yeah. Okay. Yeah. This was a good year. Yeah.

27:49 Even though it was you talking about covid, but hey, man, that you had a great time. Oh yeah. No. This is very good here. Yeah. So your highlights. Oh my gosh, I don't know. I feel like I feel like grandson was a great one to do because we were right up front and like yeah your Uncle Jason got married. Oh my God. Yeah, that was unbelievable. Forgot about that. I feel like they've been married for years already. You feel like it but, you know, you're not but like still. Yeah, that was a great party. That was a fun one. Remember? Yeah, everything that we were going to at the time, like every song or every event was always mr. Brightside yeah, that was really weird. Yeah, I remember that it started off with Uncle Jason's birthday. I mean, no sir times. That's what I mean.

28:31 The, their wedding. No. Just start off the case. Hey, flight. And then grandson. Yeah. And then, ever since then, it was just mr. Brightside, and I'm never gonna forget that memory of at that wedding. Every guy on the dance floor, we've gotten to a circle and started seeing mr. Brightside, it was like the only lyric everybody. Yeah. Because everyone was just like, standing around. And during the, like the rest of it, right? But then, when I hit mr. Brightside, do all put their arm up and were like yeah, killers in case. Somebody doesn't know. No. It's a great song. Yeah. It was it was funny though because it and then like afterwards we just kept hearing that song every place we went. Yeah.

29:14 It was really weird. Yeah. I mean when I went to a birthday party and Rob Base was there. Oh yeah. No. And actually mr. Brightside played there as well, that's weird. It is weird, right? What's going on with, mr. Briggs, is it just becoming super popular? I guess it again, I guess this year. It is used every place we go to. I don't know. Who knows? I feel like it's just a strange thing, so we'll see. All right. Are you looking forward to any of well, Hanukkah and presents? And yeah, what do you what do you want? What's your number one present? Um, giant squish, a mellow duck? I don't know about that. I'll come on. It's I love I love stuffed animals but this one is giant, all right?

29:59 Okay, squishy melon. It's huge. That's crazy. And then there's also many ones and men are very cute so that's what you're looking forward to it. Oh boy. Well I don't want anything else unless it's like money. All right. Okay. And we're going to go away for the holidays to where we know. Yes. We're going to Lancaster. Oh yeah. Well, I don't think there's much to do there. Well, we're gonna hang out with a bunch of people and will have a New Year's party and yeah, that'll be the end of the year, very sure. Yeah. So are you excited? So you so squash Mellows for Hanukkah or yes? Whatever. We're gonna go away to Lancaster had a good year? No, no Create. It Was a Very Good Year, good looking back on it.

30:40 Yeah, that's what you're supposed to do is look at the year and you see what you did. That was awesome. I don't even remember like the year, it went fast but those were some pretty big highlights. I'm trying to tell ya. Where else we got? I mean, Disney was a huge? Yeah. That was. That was a good one. Did we ever talk about is knee? Yeah, we did. We did we did half of that. Me. And Riley. Did you give Riley did? Yeah. Yeah. And we started talking about like everything, but I don't think we got to the gist of it. Well, maybe we'll do a show. Yeah. All right. Stay safe. Stay healthy and stay connected. The comic book Depot has been in business, since 1993 go one. Stop comic book shop for Comics gaming and collectibles the comic book.

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32:52 It's bearish, but I'm not that particular, you know, as they say, call me whatever you want. Just don't call me late for dinner. All right. Nice. So for a little behind the scenes, we were listening to our show. I actually saw you on a friend of the show live stream, JD Calderon talk anytime explained, which I Moonlight sometimes, as a colchis hose and I saw you. And I heard about crowdfunder and I had heard inklings of it before. Or hand because as people who listen to the show, also know I did Kickstarter campaign. We didn't fund but when I learned about crowdfunder, I was like, holy crap. Why not use these guys? So I guess my first question to you is, where have you been Wow, that's so great question.

33:42 So crowdfunder as a crowdfunding platform for the Arts launched in June. So actually it today is our six-month anniversary. We launched on June 21st today is December 21st. I don't know when the show airs, but today when we recording is the six-month anniversary and so that's where we've been, it's been six months and that's probably why a lot of people don't know about us. But the company that makes crowdfunder is called In point and connection Point has been doing crowdfunding for 12 years. We've done over a quarter of a billion dollars, raised for campaigns across 200,000 campaigns in over 100 countries. And so the platform itself is extremely mature, extremely sophisticated, and fully featured, but to in the Arts world in the Creator world, we were, we were relatively unknown. Although, if you do a Google search, For Kickstarter Alternatives.

34:40 You'll see that fundraiser which is the predecessor to crowdfunder in the connection Point. Portfolio is is sometimes comes up as the top alternative and sometimes you know in the top five so while many creators had been using fundraiser in the past for their for their campaigns we thought it was it was time to create a Creator Focus to create or specific Form using our technology and that's how crowdfunder came to be six months ago. So was it a meeting? I always think about the, there's a commercial where they have the meeting for the for the taco sauce is like I said like a boiler room.

35:21 Like should we make tacos oven mitts nearby? Just raises the hand? Was it like that or was it something? I like a catalyst that decided to go. Hey, let's help out the comic book creators. Well, so that's a great question. There are actually two things that happened. The first was that we realized that with fundraiser, we had, we had a few really active audiences and fundraiser, you know, for the most part is a social impact crowdfunding platform. So we have a lot of nonprofits on there, and a lot of people raising money for for, you know, helping for just helping them out with pert with personal mishaps.

36:04 We identified three other audiences in crowdfunder, sorry in fundraiser that we're doing really well. And what we decided to do was to kind of lean in and make fundraiser really about social good. And then take these three other audiences and build essentially platforms that were much more dedicated and much more focused on what those audiences need. And so the other two audiences aside from creators are Coco pay, which is our platform for healthcare funding, 140 million people in America. Every year say that they are suffering from financial hardship because of healthcare bills.

36:44 And so copay is a crowdfunding platform to help them. And then pet funder, which is launching. Next year, is to help people that have expenses, Veterinary, expenses, unexpected Veterinary, expenses that are hard for them to cover, but of course they love and want to take care of their pets. And it's also to help Pet Rescues and humane. Cyrus. So we decided to launch all these, all these dedicated platforms, but crowdfunder wasn't in our, as far as our strategic plan goes, it wasn't really slated to launch until 2023. But what happened in early earlier this year, is that a Creator named Matthew Allison? Who who does has been doing a character called canker for the past 10 years decided to do a collected Edition and he didn't want to do it on one of the other crowdfunding.

37:33 In platforms. And so he went out and asked the source of all wisdom and knowledge read it. What other platform he should use. And the answer that he got was tryout, try fundraiser. So he did and he set a goal, 25 thousand dollars. He ended up doing 62 and a half thousand dollars and when we talked to him he said you know I think there are a lot of comics creators that would be really interested in what you're doing but fundraiser feels like A social good platform. I don't think they're going to feel at home. And we said, hmm funny, you should mention that. And so he brought together some other Comics creators who we talked to in, and they were saying we'd like, you know, we'd really like to use crowdfunder. We'd like it now.

38:20 And that was in March and three months later, we launched crowdfunder. Oh, so talk about the universe coming together. To make something better than what you've already had. I mean, doing all this good stuff for other people is awesome. And then, I guess pivoting, while keeping a list of active, going towards a comic books and it is a huge untapped Market. Because as you are very well aware of the competition, which would be Kickstarter Indiegogo and maybe even Zoop, you know, it's they know that Comics is a thing. They do. Yeah. And and I also is, since you mentioned soup, I do want to give a shout out to them for the great work that they do.

39:04 They really have coming to this market and dump some really great stuff. And so I admire their work, the the primary distinction between us is that zook has the the everything set up to be able to do kind of a beginning of like the whole way through the beginning of the end, not just the crowdfunding but also marketing. And fellow organizing Printing and fulfillment and all that. And we really focus on the crowdfunding side, just the platform, the platform side of it. And and of course, our fee structures are different. You know, they're providing a lot of services and that you know that that has to cost some money and our platform is free so that's a big distinction but soup is really doing great work.

39:52 So I definitely want to To praise them on what they're doing. We actually had a Jordon kozloski on our show. We are talking the tube and I can drink and I talked to him and I mentioned that is soup to me would be like, back in the 90s, like Fox was just coming out there, like a brand new hip guy and they try to do something different as opposed to traditional ways, but you, I would put you in a son. I kind of your kind of like PDS where you have this Foundation beforehand and then you just branching out to Comics. So I think it's a very interesting dynamic between the The the two of the guys we talked have you both on and then of course the quote-unquote established of Kickstarter Indiegogo. Now obviously competition breeds benefit for everybody.

40:36 I always find it. So do you read to? So what competition do you find it? Okay, we have to beat these guys like we're going to work together or like they're doing their thing. We're going to do our thing. What's your approach to that? Well, I guess it depends who you're referring to. When you say These Guys, these guys would be the crowdfunding, your competition. I mean, the three. All of them, okay? Yes. Oh yeah. So so, you know, our, our CEO had a incredibly friendly conversation with the CEO of Indiegogo and you know, their focus is different than ours.

41:19 We, you know, they they do Comics a lot of their Comics is not the kind of comics that that necessarily are suitable for crowdfunder and is star Zuko's. You know? Like I said we are certainly competing with them but we also do. We also were also talking to Jordan and I talked, and we're hoping to collaborate more with each other to help the industry as a whole and As far as Kickstarter goes, I don't really have a relationship with anyone there. I certainly would welcome one but so I can't speak to that in in all I'd say our focus is really on on the Indie creators. No project is too small for us and, you know, we really want to give a voice an opportunity to The people that that otherwise would not, you know, feel that they could either afford or or have an opportunity to have their campaigns be seen. And so, you know, we are welcoming all kinds of we are welcome essentially you know a diverse audience, we are very inclusive and we were hoping that that Artur that any Creator that's looking to get their stuff out. Our would consider crowdfunder.

42:48 And so we like to think of ourselves as the Creator friendly platform and that's because we do things differently. Like, I mentioned earlier, crowdfunder is free. There are three ways of looking at that. We have a few models that the Creator can choose on how we get paid. But, and if it's a little hard to describe on the radio, but if you take a look on our website, the one of the models brings the cost of crowdfunding down to 2% and potentially lower, which is that is inclusive of credit card fees. And that is the lowest possible way that you could sell your, your product anywhere because you can't avoid credit card fees but we can get it down below the cost of credit card fees.

43:37 And so, you know, so that's that's kind of where our focus is. I think that, you know, You said, competition is good across the board and that if we can, if all of us can continue innovating and elevating the quality of what we do, it will ultimately benefit the creators. And I think that's great. It's weird. Because once again, going back back in the day, I'm dating myself, wizard magazine? I don't know if you're familiar with them, they were like, huge back in the 90s and they had conventions and whatnot. And then a little Little upstart guy came along called New York Comic Con we pop and I we had Lance the head of a New York Comic Con on the show back then, and he was telling us how he wants to be friends or anybody.

44:28 He wanted to work with everybody and like conventions to best the best thing ever. And I remember distinctly that wizard was not having any of that and he did some me, say not, not professional things to the guys, at New York Comic Con back in the day. So I think it's really cool that you want to work together as opposed to, you know, I want to beat everybody and be the best and what have you? I think it's really good outlook. Thanks. I am, I really do think that that success comes much more from collaborating. And I'm sure lots of comic creators can relate to that than it does from from trying to go at it alone.

45:10 And and so I do look forward to, you know, we are we've started collaborating with with some other companies with like with Comics Well Spring, which is a printer and fulfillment. They they do great work. So we're starting To collaborate with them and they're actually offering a 15 percent discount off of printing to two people who run their campaigns on crowdfunder and you can check their website out for that. And then you know, there are a few other groups that were talking to you about about collaboration and, you know, it just makes us for a stronger ecosystem for the creators and that's that's the goal right? As you know, that's what I would hope, so. Yeah, Things I've noticed about your website as you mentioned. The quote, unquote, quote unquote because you have the virtual 3D almost three and a kind of sort of three different methods.

46:04 Yeah, website. And that was the one of the drawing point because as I've mentioned, I did the crowd funder and I didn't know what the hell I was doing my first time ever doing it circumstances. Let me to do it and there's a lot of stuff that no one was talking about and a lot of things that just listening to other interviews. You've done, I'm like, holy crap. You seem to make this more Mark friendly and I am really bad with technology. So can you talk a little bit about how is it the user friendly approach? Yeah, so I guess the as far as like using the platform itself, we try to make the platform itself user-friendly by including a task lists and in tips that get emailed to you throughout while you're while you're setting up your campaign and we try to make things try to put, you know, all the things directly at your fingertips, that you would need in order to set up your campaign.

47:02 But it goes beyond that. We also have The Creator Hub, which is linked from the top of our website. And in there, there are a bunch of resources that in the community where you can ask questions about, you know, how to do your campaign. How to what, where to get your stuff printed, what fulfillment houses are available, that sort of stuff. But there's also some toolkits that we created that are really detailed. I would even say almost courses on how to strategically plan a crowdfunding campaign and then execute that strategic plan with all kinds of tips on on how to do it. There's math in there on how to calculate what your goal should be there is, you know, estimates on on the ways that you can calculate your odds of reaching that goal.

47:49 There's a bunch of content in there. That really helps people understand the full scope of what a crowdfunding campaign is. And how to go about it. You know, crowdfunding is one of the ways to get your to get your work produce there, obviously others, like, finding a publisher or, or, or getting a grant or, you know, other methods, but it's not, it's not magic. Like it takes some work, you've gotta, you know, you gotta plan and, and, and work out in order for it to succeed, you know, on some platforms if you're, if they're if they've got, you know, over 100 campaign starting everyone. Eek, you know, you've got to make sure that you've got a way to get noticed and not rely on the platform to bring you an audience. Because let's be honest, there aren't that many people in the world who are just going through and browsing campaigns to see what new stuff is available.

48:46 There are people who do that, but it's not a huge audience. The majority of the audience from a from a campaign is going to come from the marketing that you do. And so we have in the Creator, I'll be of all kinds of tips on how to mark it. How to build your crowd. And I think another part of this is that, you know, we we allow you to run multiple campaigns can even concurrent campaigns. So you don't have to wait until you finish a campaign of fulfill it in order to start another one. And the reason why we do that is because we believe that crowdfunding is a really great way to connect with your audience and build your audience. And so the more you put your stuff out there and get it in front of your audience, the Likely you are to find new people that that discover your stuff and that are able to become part of your, your fan base.

49:37 So that was a bit of a rambling answer but I think, you know they got hit on. Yeah we're almost out of time but I want to hit on one of the most important things that I notice about crowdfunder and that was like the selling point for me because I am they always say, you know, you never You never lose if you if you quit. So I'm going to go back with it with the with the comic. Go back with the crowdfunding, try it again. If I called funder because I've taken a look around and the one thing that I like most about it and I want you just to mention this briefly is that you don't have to stop for anything. All the other crowdfunding sites, yet the sign up for even Kiva.

50:21 I don't know if you're familiar with Kiva, it's a really good. Yeah, something I love those guys, and I actually made me some money. Off of that. And and I was able to pay it back. It was great as one of the best experience I ever had was Kiva, and it's great. Yeah, they're great. Now you don't have any sign up. So how can you work that, and how does that work in your company? Because everybody else does it? Why don't you do it? Okay. So it really boils down to what I think is the, the primary distinction between our platform and other platforms. And the primary distinction is that We don't ever touch the money.

51:03 So what that means is that when you come in and you create a campaign, you would put in your stripe account, your PayPal account and any money that has pledged to, you goes directly into your account. And we don't touch it and because we don't touch the money. We are essentially a bridge between you and your customer their your customer. Not Our customer with all the other platforms you are, you don't have a direct relationship with your customer because the customer the is the platform's customer. That's why they have to create an account with a platform because the platform requires them to be their customer in the creators that are on, those platforms are essentially suppliers to the platform.

51:47 So if you think about it you can either be. You can either have a direct sales relationship with your customer or you can be a supplier to a retailer and that Taylor has the relationship with the customers so because because it's your direct relationship with with your customer. We don't require them to create an account with us because they're interacting with you and, and you will get all their contact information and it is completely portable. It's your content. It's, you know, they're your customer. So you get all of the information about them that You would then be able to take that relationship that you've developed with him inside of crowdfunder. And then move it over to your online store or move it to your patreon or move it to, you know, any other mechanism that you use to Foster that relationship with your customer. That's the I think the primary distinction so it's almost like, you know, the other platforms work on an Amazon model where there's a Marketplace and people put all their stuff in there but ultimately the customer is, Amazon's customer with us, we're a little bit more.

52:56 Let's say Shopify where you come and you create your campaign / store with us and then people are transacting directly with you but on you know with within a platform that where you have built your presence and I think that's really awesome. And does that quickly does that go with everything else? For connection point is the same model or is it different just for crowdfund? It's the same model. It's the same model across all the connection point yesterday. I will reinforce what I say you guys are like the PDS. Of the social media called funding world. We are I say less than two minutes to go. So, we went through all the Social Media stuff when people find out more about you, find out more about crowdfunding and find out more about the other business that he run.

53:40 Yeah. So for for crowdfunder you can find us at kron4.com. There's Nui in crowdfunder so it's funder without any crowdfunder and then on social media, we are crowdfunder on Twitter and Facebook, crowdfunder underscore on Instagram. We are also crowdfunder and YouTube trying to remember all the places and in and in so, just Google Cloud cam boycott, any name, You without it, got covered with a tiny and you should be able to find us. And then, of course, at the bottom of the crowdfunding page, there's a link to connection point. And from there, you can find our other properties. Okay?

54:24 Cool. We have any final thoughts before we wrap this up. No, I'm thank you for inviting me. It's, it's always a pleasure to talk and to, to explain what it is that we do. We we really love creators and we really want we really want to support them and help them and help them grow and find new opportunities. So I hope they that your listeners will check us out and I hope everybody does check it out. Like it's really simple for me and if for me to say that it's pretty going to be very simple for everybody. Else. Thank you so much for being a guest on our show. I actually watched going to have an open invite you to come back when the pit thing comes out because I'm also a lover.

55:08 So I want to talk more about that when we get to that point. But yeah, I hope to be in contact and much continued, success, and continue being the PDS that we all need. Thank you. Thank you so much. So with that we're going to take our break and we'll be right back. We can't find radio. Ever wanted to enter the world of comics but didn't know where to start. Worry. Not true. Believers. We the comic book School may just have the answer to your questions created by Comics veteran buddy. Scelera comic book school is a free online, educational resource, that helps rise and creators. Learn the craft and business of making Comics through resources, like forums interviews, publication opportunities, publisher guidelines, and step-by-step blog posts for more info. Please visit our site at www.cronicbeats.com. Sure to join our forums and follow us on social media while you're there.

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