I Paid $100 in Crypto Every Week to Citizen Journalists 🌎💸

0:00It’s uh Luchi. Luchi, it’s nice to meet you, man. I’m Maceo. Brody. Brody, it’s nice to meet you, man. This is Tim, yeah? Tim, what’s up? What’s happening?

0:05Nice to meet you. [bleeped] yeah. Can I hear you guys’ mic? I’ll tell you about what I’m doing. It’s like it’s the the stakes are so low. I’m inspired by Channel 5, and I’m trying to do like man-on-the-street content, but get people around the world out like uh going out and asking questions. So, you guys use AI at all?

0:20Yeah. So, you know you can the people say you query the AI. I’m trying to get people out in the world to give away 100 bucks in crypto every week to people that go out and ask our questions on video, pick our favorite ones. And essentially, whoever when we pick our question, we’re querying the globe, right? We’ve had people in India, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda uh to participate so far outside the US. And we want to be able to give people the power to be like, you know, I have a question, post it on the internet, and know people are going to go out and ask

0:42the question around the globe, so we can start to talk together about what’s actually happening. Okay. And I think in this moment where we’re going to war, right? It’s like, how do we even think about the impact of this war in different parts of the planet? Like they were never even going to think about and conceive. So, I think it’s critical that we kind of document this moment from as many perspectives as possible. Cuz they say the the victors write the history books, the victors.

0:59True. So, I think this time we should do our work to archive, you know, from from all sides. True. Yeah, you should, huh? Hell, yeah. What do you bring you guys out to see Channel 5?

1:07[bleeped] I mean, news, bro. Best news on this planet. Yeah, yeah, okay. What makes it stand out? What makes it stand out? You can She can use the mic, too, yeah? She can pass it back and forth. No, no, you’re all good, Brody. You’re all good. I’m just saying you’re both using the same mic, so pass it back and forth.

1:22He’s going for it, and um I support it, man. I support it. What do you think makes him stand out? The way he looks like, yeah, what do you look at? What do you like, yeah, he’s doing that, right?

1:32He’s a journalist, bro. Yeah. He gets in the cut. He gets deep He gets deep in the cut. He gets both sides of this both sides.

1:40Yeah, he He asks the questions that you really want to hear. Mhm. You know what I mean? He He doesn’t even really ask the questions. He lets

1:47People just talk, right? Yeah. He doesn’t ask the questions. He just lets people talk. [bleeped] yeah. [bleeped] yeah. Okay, well, I’ll take that note. Maybe the rest of the night I’m just going to hit people with the mic and say, “What do you want to say about Channel 5? [bleeped]

1:57yeah. What’s your message to Andrew? Keep it up. What’s up, dog? Yo, stay custard free. Stay custard free. [bleeped] yeah. Cheers. Are you offering me some?

2:07[bleeped] yeah. Well, thank you guys.