E24 - Easter Eggs and Embryo Eggs

Agenda:

• Stand up - some exciting and some disturbing news

Takeaways:

• Eric to add one more egg to the digital easter egg hunt
• Set up a Rube Goldberg machine / human mouse trap in the office
• Kate and Thea to have a discussion, NOT as a part of SYT, about Kate’s choices
• Kate to do her daily exercises to remind herself that SYT is not her real family

Transcript

Ben 0:07

welcome to this startup is being recorded. This recording is improvised fiction. Similarities between it and the real world are entirely intentional. Now enjoy the recording.

Kate 0:22

All right. Hey everybody. Um, can't believe what spring is here. It's almost may, uh, just another standup. It's going to be a good day. Uh, I guess we should do intros, um, band. Sorry, just it's such a good season for set. I mean, all the couch sales, the traffic come in in, I just, I feel so bullish about this year. Uh, I I'm Kate Blanchet, um, for anyone listening who doesn't know me yet, I'm the chief of staff. I work under John and really, you know, it's just my job to make set a better place. Make the world a better. a little emotional.

Calathea 1:04

Yeah. you seem full of late.

Kate 1:10

Anyone else

Calathea 1:11

Wow. Sorry. I almost like choked on your happiness. It's just, it's so much,

Matt 1:16

Um, well, I, I feel like I'm going to bring down the mood, so somebody else got.

Calathea 1:24

uh, Califia melanova chief creatives are here at CIT. I don't have some pontification about my value in the world. It's intrinsic.

Eric 1:34

Eric Troy Carter, uh, despite my emoji I'm middle name, I'm just feeling all right today. Um, but have some exciting new, so excited for standing and I'm chief product officer, but I'd say that already.

Matt 1:47

Right. Um, hi, I'm Matt, Matt dyads. That's also my website and I'm the CTO here at CIT. And, um, I think, uh, I'm, I'm the, the frowning face emoji, but not the like slight frown, but like the big one. Um, the

Calathea 2:04

Oh, no.

Matt 2:06

uh, I've got, I've got big news for the standard. As well. Uh, so I guess in a good news, bad news DLT, I want the bad news first get out of the way, rip the band-aid off.

Calathea 2:17

Yeah. Let's yeah, definitely.

Matt 2:19

Okay. Um, there's been a pretty big security breach in the server room. Um, still haven't figured out who got in, uh, we're checking everybody's key cards, um, physical access, physical keys. Uh, so, you know, I would love actually, any information that anyone in this room might have, um, because we have been turning up painted eggs inside of the cabinets, uh, behind the keyboards, uh, in the patch cable walls, um, mini fridge, all kinds of things that are in what is supposed to be a physically secure. Very carefully access controlled room and, uh, you know, like, uh, love celebrating holidays around the office. It's very fun. Scavenger hunt. Ha the that's a no, that's a no for me on the server room and somebody did it up in there.

Kate 3:27

W what kind of eggs?

Matt 3:28

You know, what kind of eggs, Kate, please.

Kate 3:32

I just want to know if it's the same kind of hollowed out painted eggs that I've been finding in the fridge.

Matt 3:39

Yeah, I assume so there they're just regular eggs that have been blown out and painstakingly decorated in paints, sparkles, glitter, uh, some nice ink to drawings. Uh, the occasional.

Eric 3:54

Nah, I don't know a lot. I keep saying this, but as I've said every, every day for the last week, The Easter egg hunt that Iran was digital entirely that it was only on the website and my good news for today. It was going to be that somebody finally found the last egg. And so we've distributed all the prizes and

Matt 4:16

that's great. That's

Eric 4:18

feels like, it feels like you don't believe me, that all of them are digital

Matt 4:20

No, I didn't. I know your team put a lot of work into that. And, um,

Eric 4:26

the doers.

Matt 4:27

yeah, I mean, it was, uh, they had a lot of fun with it. Believe me, there was just a lot of like giggling and glee as those things were going in. And so it's super nice. Uh, also that, you know, uh, we can give out those prices. We can pull, pull those from the app and can go back to the last build. Um, no, and I, I, they don't, they don't look anything like yours.

Kate 4:51

I know a way to resolve this, Eric. I know you've been dealing with this disbelief, but could you define digital? think maybe Matt isn't understanding what you mean by digital. That's probably the case.

Eric 5:08

I think, I think of, I think we all do, but I think especially Matt understands what, what I mean by digital there that are images on the

Matt 5:17

Yeah, they exist only in a virtual space as rendered by our website and our application that, that in, I assumed that you meant that in no way were these physical eggs that had been hollowed out and die, died, uh, painstakingly decorated, and then hidden in locations around this building, including what is supposed to be a securely locked.

Kate 5:40

Okay. And,

Calathea 5:41

solve this. Could have we broken, open one of the eggs

Matt 5:46

no, I mean, they're, they're very light. They seem hollow to me.

Calathea 5:51

okay. Can, um, can one of you provide me with an egg to open?

Matt 5:57

Yeah.

Eric 5:58

I've got

Kate 5:59

They're kind of

Matt 6:00

Oh, you've been finding them too. Yeah. Yeah. Here you go. Okay.

Calathea 6:04

Okay. I know I I'm. I honestly curious, cause we haven't found them around the creative team. Um, they don't match any of the artistic signatures of any of the creative folks. You know, I know their artwork really well. I look at it, I know their style and if I crack it. Yeah. Yep. You get a little V for vendetta trading card. This is definitely the work of Victor.

Matt 6:31

Victor. Victor's on yours.

Calathea 6:34

Now Victor's on.

Matt 6:35

Wait that Victor

Eric 6:38

Victor, Victor.

Calathea 6:38

of on all teams. I mean, he started, you know, in the very

Kate 6:42

before teams.

Calathea 6:43

uh, when we really were kind of all in on this.

Matt 6:46

but nobody's seen Victor. I mean, since before I got.

Calathea 6:51

I agree. It's, um, it's very alarming, but I mean, he, he was a big holiday guy fixture and I mean, he, as you know, his first initial, his fee and he was really interviewed for vendetta. I mean, this, this sounds like an old Victor screw around, you know,

Kate 7:12

I should have seen it leaving the creative team alone, especially targeting the areas that would make us think security, breach, something bad has happened, you know? So.

Calathea 7:24

Yeah. And, um, it would also just explain the single happy meal I found on my desk a couple of days ago.

Matt 7:33

so like kind of a calling card. Was there, is there anything about the happy meal that kind of tipped you off? That it was.

Calathea 7:42

No honestly, uh, was, was very, was very interested. I mean, it was like a happy meal with a like Mick fish filet in it, which I didn't even know they put in happy meals. So I just thought that. it was like some, I just thought originally it was like an F you to our new fish policy. And somebody was just doing that in a horrific way. Um, you know, some members of my team had been taking it hard. It's. I mean, they are vegan. They just don't like to have limitations placed on their body or life. Um, so I thought originally it was just, you know, something like that. It's a big corporation, it's a fish, that kind of stuff. But now it makes sense. I mean, you know, as you all know, we met fixture in a McDonald's parking lot and this could, this could be a side assignment he's back.

Eric 8:34

I just, uh, looked up the email address of all of the people who found the digital Easter eggs. And over 60% of them are from a V Norse fire. Aol.com that's that's gotta be him.

Calathea 8:53

It's gotta be him.

Kate 8:54

so he found the eggs and the digital hunt and placed the eggs and the physical.

Calathea 9:01

That's actually very true. I mean, Matt, didn't you say one of the reasons why you suspected Eric was because all of the eggs match, the like designed eggs at the art department had put up.

Matt 9:15

Yeah, well, I mean, you know, the, the art is like cute eight bit digital picture pixel art. And so yeah, if someone with like incredible artistic skill had taken those as inspiration and done them in. Baroque styles, a impressionist. I mean, these are,

Eric 9:35

Masterpieces.

Matt 9:36

yeah. And I guess, I guess, yeah, they look like, well, wait, how many, remind me, Eric, how many stickers were in the app to find? Okay, well, my team has. Two dozen out of the server room in the last few days, uh, Kate, you said you've been finding them in the break room and other places. How, how many have you found so far?

Eric 10:02

Yeah. Our teams come up with like, I think 18 or 19. So I don't know about 52.

Matt 10:10

have a lot of eggs too.

Calathea 10:11

Yeah, that seems like a lot of eggs to find, but it does make sense. I mean, with the artistic, I mean, we all know that Victor was a, uh, into art forgery before he found us that's like, and actually came really into handy because he was able to connect us, you know, with a lot of his former clients became some of our first investors and said, okay,

Matt 10:36

What do you think he wants?

Calathea 10:38

I don't know. I mean, you know, I usually am pretty good at speaking Victor, so to speak, but, um, you know, he, he likes to play games and things like that, but, you know, usually comes out of the shadows a lot sooner than this. I've always left notes and that McDonald's parking lot, making it very clear if you wanted to come back. Like we would, I mean, we have a lot of questions for him, but like we would welcome him back. So

Matt 11:09

I mean, I have questions, like how did he get into the room? Like we've, we've revamped the entire access control system. None of those locks should be the same. Uh, and if he badged in with somebody's badge, those logs have been erased.

Kate 11:25

we have to find the

Matt 11:26

is he's he's good. Yeah.

Calathea 11:28

Yeah. I mean, as, as, I well know, I thought I was great, but even I activated the bees.

Eric 11:35

Right. None of the bees were out.

Matt 11:39

No, none of the mechanisms in there were tripped. Also, just to be clear, we did not reload the bees after they went off on UK. Califia no, we went, we went with a different system. Uh, so it won't be it. If you decide to come in again, it won't be business.

Calathea 11:55

That's good to know. I mean, I'm tempted to try, you know, just to try to figure out how Victor could have gotten in, but I must admit his skills were always more impressive than mine in that field. And this is another example of that.

Eric 12:12

we could put another egg up on the site. See if he comes back.

Matt 12:17

Oh,

Kate 12:17

then wouldn't that create one more egg in our office? We have two. And

Eric 12:21

exactly You'd have to, he'd have to, he'd have to deliver it.

Kate 12:25

so we w we could try to catch.

Matt 12:28

Hmm. All right, hang on. Let let's pull up the app. Uh, Eric, I'm trying to remember, um, I want to say 24, the two dozen that were found in the server room that matches the same number and type is that right of the ones that we had in the settings pages of the. Yeah. Oh, this is,

Kate 12:56

He considers your tech team. The settings of our company

Matt 13:01

Yeah.

Eric 13:02

Hmm.

Matt 13:03

Okay. And then, oh, uh, I don't know. Would it be, I mean, kind of operate behind the scenes

Eric 13:14

Important, but not.

Kate 13:17

how many eggs were on the home?

Eric 13:21

Uh, let's see 16.

Kate 13:26

That's the number I found in John's office.

Matt 13:30

okay.

Eric 13:31

Okay.

Matt 13:33

let's see. I remember we had a bunch behind the temporary word, old game. Uh, Yeah. Wait, Kate, remind me how many you found in the break room?

Kate 13:44

18, no 14, 14,

Matt 13:49

Well, yeah. Okay. Sorry. I'm having to solve the, uh,

Kate 13:54

That is where I do work.

Matt 13:56

Uh, yeah. 14. Okay. So, so we just need to put a new Easter egg in the. Somewhere that corresponds to a place. We want Victor to put an egg here.

Calathea 14:13

What's the easiest place to stake out.

Matt 14:15

Yeah. Yeah. Set up a watch, set up some live cameras.

Kate 14:21

yeah. And one of those, um, one of those sorts of. Metal baskets that falls when someone stands under it and catches them.

Eric 14:30

the mousetrap.

Kate 14:32

Yeah, but for humans,

Matt 14:35

Yeah, man trap.

Eric 14:36

Yeah,

Matt 14:38

Yeah. We looked at a

Calathea 14:39

Rube Goldberg.

Kate 14:42

we do a Google Burke set up at, throughout the office so that

Matt 14:46

you know, they, they sell simple ones.

Kate 14:49

well, but those are

Calathea 14:51

It just seems, it just seems very strange that Victor shows up just as we got all of our, we watched the severe surveillance equipment out of here.

Matt 15:00

Yeah. I mean, I hate, I hate to say it, but like, I, I kind of wish we had access to that. Like we could just roll back the tape and,

Calathea 15:08

Right.

Matt 15:08

and see what he was doing.

Calathea 15:11

yeah.

Kate 15:12

Well,

Calathea 15:12

strange.

Matt 15:13

Well, maybe.

Kate 15:15

this will be.

Matt 15:16

You know, I, I, I feel like, um, I'm responding from emotion here. I felt like, you know, it's my job to keep things secure. That security had been violated. I was feeling like a failure. Uh, and so I wanted to know like, is Victor doing this on purpose as he is? Is this an attack? But maybe I'm thinking about this too emotionally. Maybe Victor doesn't want anything. So before we go trapping him, is there anything we really want from.

Calathea 15:46

I mean, I think there's some information that I don't know you originally wanted from fixture. We've been able to overcome some of his,

Matt 15:57

yeah, I mean, we're working well now I feel like, you know, it's, it was Richard that I was more interested in because he had his own bookkeeping and it turns out we painted over all of that. And,

Kate 16:09

Great.

Matt 16:10

uh, I, you know, I don't know. I feel like things are working. Okay. Maybe this is me coming from a place of emotion, thinking about somebody who came before me and

Kate 16:24

Um,

Matt 16:24

their, their work better than I could. And the thought of them coming back is now something I'm pushing against.

Calathea 16:32

No. I mean, it, it, it reminds me of this time I was in Tibet and we were hiking and we're going to go hunt a snow leopard, but then we saw one and just the majesty of it. And we realized that it was better just to let it go. And I just feel like maybe for so long, I've been waiting for Victor to come back, but maybe we just have to let him pass through.

Matt 16:53

I don't know, Eric, it seems like this was, this was tipped off by, by your Easter egg scheme. Are you a Z says feeling personal you in any way or

Eric 17:04

I mean, it feels like a response, so I kind of feel obligated to continue to engage. Um,

Matt 17:13

like a conversation.

Eric 17:14

yeah. And maybe that's the, maybe that's the answer. We've put a one last egg on the contact us page.

Calathea 17:22

Oh, I left that. And maybe he'll reach out.

Kate 17:28

Yeah,

Eric 17:28

It's worth a try.

Calathea 17:29

Yeah.

Kate 17:30

let's do it.

Eric 17:31

I'll uh,

Calathea 17:32

do it.

Kate 17:34

What was that also? Your stand-up update, Eric, or did you have something.

Eric 17:38

uh, yeah, I guess, I guess it, it turned out to be, um, they found the eggs and, um, I guess a lot of prices are going to Victor somehow. Um, although there was no, there was no physical address associated with that email.

Kate 17:49

Yeah. I don't know how we're going to send him those Easter couches, but

Eric 17:53

We'll see.

Kate 17:54

yep.

Calathea 17:55

I mean, we could also, you know, do want to send him one of our golden ticket to couches or, you know,

Eric 18:01

I

Calathea 18:02

hide our message in the couch and an egg.

Kate 18:06

That's true. Yeah. And I suppose if we, uh, we could drop a couch off at one of those like FedEx centers and then put a notice about the couch in the PO box that, um, was on at least a few of those email addresses so that he would go pick it up.

Eric 18:23

I'll work with someone of your team. Okay.

Kate 18:26

Okay, great. should I go, should I do my own.

Calathea 18:31

Yeah, of course. I mean, yeah.

Kate 18:34

So as everyone knows, um, you know, Lars and David are full on wedding planning. Um, but they are actually planning a little beyond that. Um, and well, I guess this has been in the works for a little while, but I am going to be their surrogate. Um, I am pregnant and then I am actually having twins, but they only want one. So we get to choose and actually as sort of an a

Calathea 19:10

wait, whoa. A lot was happening.

Matt 19:14

There is a lot going on.

Kate 19:15

yeah. Um, so basically there there's a baby up for grabs and so no, no grabs. You should never grab babies. Um, but we. have multiple options of what we can do with them, with the baby, the second twin.

Calathea 19:32

don't you want to keep one of the children that you were growing and pushing out of your

Kate 19:39

Well,

Calathea 19:40

well.

Kate 19:40

I've always known, you know, that they were going to go to someone else who, who really had longed for a child. Um, you know, Lars Larson, Dave and I have talked about this. A good bet. So, I guess there's part of me that would be okay with, with someone else having it. But, you know, certainly I would never reject a child that chose me as his mother also. Um, the, the thing is a few of our investors have asked me this before. Um, but I have a bit of a waiting list, uh, for surrogacy and florists. And David had asked first. So I guess I'm trying to figure out if we should work this into the series, a, um, paperwork.

Calathea 20:23

no, no.

Matt 20:25

we

Calathea 20:26

what do you suggest? I know that we. Listen, it's been a hard growth time and we've engaged in, you know, uh, cutting down of special forests and, uh, violating the endangered species act. But this would be adding pretty much human trafficking. Yeah, Um,

Eric 20:48

It counts even if it's well, yeah, it counts.

Calathea 20:52

I mean, you seem very

Matt 20:53

think it counts twice. I think it counts. Even if you volunteer, I think it counts for you and for the baby,

Calathea 21:00

Yeah.

Matt 21:02

logistically, uh, series. They should be close before. Uh, yeah. So.

Kate 21:08

true.

Matt 21:09

Th that let's just defer for purely planning reasons. Let's just move past that.

Kate 21:17

I mean, it doesn't have to be. It doesn't have to be a paperwork. It could be a handshake deal, you know, like you get to adopt this baby.

Calathea 21:26

absolutely. That I've gone to, I am always, always willing to do whatever it takes. And Kate, you take that to it very next level, but I'm going to have to care about. Uh, putting a human life as a contingent of absolutely anything, either over the table or it's actually worse for it to be under the table. Okay.

Eric 21:46

Yeah.

Kate 21:47

Okay. Okay,

Matt 21:49

I want to, I want to pause it and I'm sorry for, cause I brought some really low, uh, kind of dark energy into this meeting and maybe that's, that's clinging a little bit. a breath. And I just want to say Kate, uh, congratulations. Like that's huge. That's huge news all around. That's big for you.

Calathea 22:11

about the maternal energy. I've been sensing it for weeks, and I am just so excited for you to bring that light into the office every day. And for you.

Kate 22:22

Thank you. And I hope you don't, I'm not going to be taking maternity leave. I don't want you all to worry about anything like that. Um, I mean, I'm not really the mother, so it wouldn't be appropriate. Um,

Calathea 22:33

But you are, your body is changing in, in amazing ways. And birth is a strenuous process on the female body. So I feel like you need to take some time to heal.

Eric 22:48

Yes.

Matt 22:49

to like, literally literally let your body heal.

Calathea 22:52

Yeah. I mean, I can refer you to a very wonderful doula that I do yoga with, who can really help you. And she actually recommends that mothers physically lock themselves in a room for 30 days afterwards to have that mental and spirit and body replenishing period.

Kate 23:14

Okay. Um, maybe I can, I can work from that room, you know, as long as we have internet, there's still a lot I can do. Um, but yeah, maybe you're right. I can't do as much couch moving or packing or warehousing.

Eric 23:27

Um,

Matt 23:28

yeah, Kate, you're not supposed to be doing that stuff anyway. That's that's all warehouse team stuff that you've delegated.

Calathea 23:35

right.

Eric 23:37

right.

Kate 23:39

Delegation. That is a goal that I'm working on. Yeah. There are other people on that team some days a week, but

Eric 23:50

a, there's a waiting list.

Kate 23:53

uh, for my womb.

Eric 23:57

Yeah, I guess. Yes. And.

Kate 24:01

So it's, it's an interesting program actually, where you can get some testing done when you're in your, I guess, really anywhere between 18 to 25, um, it'll assess how fertile you are and how good of a carrier you would be for human life. Um, and I was in the top 5%, uh, so like I just excellent genetics for our creating human life. And so, I mean, imagine. If you had like a dozen kidneys in your body, would you not want to donate those to people who need a kidneys? Like that's that's. I think the gift that my body has given me,

Matt 24:42

I mean, I guess if you put it that, but hang on. What program was this like through your university or a church or.

Kate 24:54

um, No. Yeah, no, it's through the, uh, the holistic medical center of, um, the Northeast.

Matt 25:02

I've never, yeah, just, I'm sorry. I've never, I've

Kate 25:04

I mean, they're not accredited by any specific institution, but they have, have built up a lot of their own institutional knowledge over the couple of years they've been around. Um, but anyway, yeah, it was just, I got on their wires and David were talking to me. Yeah. There hope for having children one day during lunch, I mentioned it, you know, they went on there, got on the wait list. And like, it's kind of one of these things where like, once someone gets on your wait list, other people start like eyeing you and your, uh, all that DNA and genetic information on there. And then they sign up.

Matt 25:43

wow.

Calathea 25:45

Kate. I have to say that's, um, a plus marketing. I CRE I have a lot of questions about this, but it is your body and your choice. Um, choose better for the baby.

Matt 26:01

yeah, I don't think just in, certainly not in this meeting, but I think in this cohort, um, we should not be deciding the disposition of.

Eric 26:12

Yes.

Matt 26:14

Extra child, um, bonus baby.

Kate 26:18

I guess I, yeah, I'm just,

Matt 26:20

Yeah.

Kate 26:21

mine? That's the real question. David and contributed to this child. They just don't want a second. Um,

Matt 26:30

I mean, the law is pretty clear that you are the biological mother.

Kate 26:37

Hmm.

Matt 26:37

it pretty much every Jersey.

Eric 26:39

yeah.

Calathea 26:40

this is a big choice. Was this not a discussion that you had before pregnancy?

Kate 26:48

I mean, we expected there to be one and they would take it, you know, when you're a surrogate. You're kind of a vessel. You're not so much a I just thought of myself as a, as a human vessel, you know, like a train or plane,

Calathea 27:06

Kate. I just want to wrap you up in a Cuban papoose and just hold you for a second. Um,

Kate 27:13

sad that you're cross the table. Yeah.

Calathea 27:17

yeah.

Kate 27:20

uh, we can talk about this more. I understand this is a big decision for all of us and we

Matt 27:24

it's not actually.

Calathea 27:26

our decision.

Eric 27:28

not involved.

Calathea 27:29

Yeah. Um,

Kate 27:31

just off your own. Leave me.

Matt 27:32

I, I, I hate to close the door like this. Uh, Kate, I, I care about you very much. I want good things for you. I think I want better things for you than you do. Um, but I have to recuse myself from this. This is not something that in the context of this company, that we can really talk.

Calathea 27:53

Yeah, I

Matt 27:56

no,

Calathea 27:57

know. We've, we've covered this Kate and we've also talked about boundaries. Um, so Kathy, on this side of the wall is going to say, we don't want anything to do with that baby and Kathy, on this side of the wall as your, you know, not friend friendly. Persona in your life. A maternal figure is going to say, we should have a serious talk about this baby and figure out a good place that everybody feels comfortable with, but that is your decision and should not be anything we talk about here.

Kate 28:37

okay. Um, what was the, what was your standup

Calathea 28:42

Yeah, of course. Yeah. I can, uh, wrap it up. Wow. It's been a really emotional day. Uh, just, just amazing. So I guess it, it, you know, um, we have a storefront in the metaverse,

Eric 28:58

Oh,

Kate 28:59

So we sell couches

Calathea 29:02

uh, virtual couches. Yes. So, um,

Kate 29:05

buy virtual. You mean?

Eric 29:08

digital.

Matt 29:09

digital.

Calathea 29:10

digital.

Matt 29:11

They have no

Kate 29:12

same definition.

Matt 29:13

In the physical world? No, no physical representation.

Calathea 29:16

We have no physical representation though. We have the option to add that if we would like it.

Matt 29:23

yeah, it's pretty cool. I'm really glad to see the south by Southwest assets not go to waste.

Calathea 29:28

Yeah.

Matt 29:29

cause yeah, there were, there was a lot of work doing all of that couch, just situation, um, is who is renting. These couches buying the couches. What is, what did we settle on for these virtual couches in the metaverse?

Calathea 29:47

Yeah. So actually we are selling it for more than couches are in the real life because, uh, metaverse real estate is at a premium. We had to pay a lot for our land in the metaverse and it seems like people really want premium couches. So, you know, we're really focusing on with our couch building. Couches that don't exist in, can exist in the world. So we just sold our first couch yacht, uh, for a hundred thousand dollars. And, um,

Kate 30:17

Oh, real dollars.

Calathea 30:19

yeah, I been Crip

Matt 30:21

I, yeah, it's virtual currency. That, that we then have to do several trades and, uh, find a lot of paperwork to turn into.

Calathea 30:30

Exactly. So, I mean, between the several trays that we have to make between various crypto and real currencies, it actually turns out to be about 50,000 in like U S currency, which is still a pretty good for a couch, you know? Um, I would say we probably can only do one of those. We made a pretty big PR campaign about'em. Um, and honestly that's the only couch we've sold. So, um,

Matt 31:01

It's I, you know, don't, don't feel bad about that. Califia, um, metaverse stuff it's really, it's really tough market. And you know, we're basically, we're competing against huge artists, right? With like millions of followers, people who are like super well known, who've worked to auction their art at Sotheby's. Uh, so the fact that we sold one like that, That's great. Yeah.

Calathea 31:29

Yeah. I mean, I do think like you're right, it is a space in which artists could Excel at this. So given that our team is a pretty creative team, we look forward to trying to, you know, pitch what we can in there and then maybe make some money, you know, um, At least pay for our rent on our land. I mean, metaverse real estate is just getting crazy these days.

Eric 31:52

Yeah.

Kate 31:54

is it also illegal to sell babies in the middle?

Calathea 32:00

Oh, almost a hundred percent. Yeah. I think that that's just Kate, probably the rule of the universe.

Matt 32:10

Ultimately selling, selling things in the metaverse, uh, follows the same laws as selling them anywhere else. It's just a question of how well they're being enforced.

Kate 32:22

That's important, but.

Matt 32:25

it be okay?

Kate 32:27

Couch yacht. Yay.

Matt 32:29

Yeah.

Calathea 32:30

Yeah.

Matt 32:30

Thanks.

Calathea 32:31

And congratulations, Kate really? I mean, I feel like we went through a lot today, you know, and, um, we should just really celebrate, celebrate you and becoming a mother.

Kate 32:45

It's not about me. I mean, it's not about all of me. It's about, it's about a few specific organs, you know, so. But thank you. I do like cupcakes.

Calathea 32:59

We can get you some cupcakes.

Kate 33:01

Great. Now actually, I can't eat cupcakes right now because, um, if I have anything that tastes like sugar, right. I get nauseous and vomit.

Eric 33:10

a couple months.

Kate 33:11

Yeah.

Calathea 33:12

Yeah.

Kate 33:14

Um, great. Any final things or should we just wrap up?

Matt 33:19

um, I'm going to set a basket up in the break room. Uh, if folks could just start dropping off the eggs that they find. I would like to figure out if there's some other message here. Uh, and I'm really hoping we turn up all 255, I guess, 256 with the new one coming

Kate 33:38

True.

Calathea 33:40

Yeah. Um, and let me know if you meet up with Victor, I mean, I'm also always happy to,

Matt 33:46

I mean, let all of us know if you, yeah. If you meet up with Victor. Yeah.

Calathea 33:51

yeah. I mean, if we need to do a Nightwatch, you know, I'm happy to sign up for a couple of shifts. Our team are all big Victor fans, so I'm sure I can get some people if we need surveillance.

Kate 34:03

Hmm. Okay. Well, great then I guess that's our business.

Ben 34:12

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