B (4:41)

We'll see.

A (4:41)

Who knows? Who knows who could pop in a group one on one. It's. It's really fun. But you nailed Punch the Monkey. Like give us. Let's start from the top. Let's start from the beginning because you're a visionary in these markets.

B (4:53)

Well, let's start. Look at us. Cleaned up. Quite nice guys. You know, it's.

A (4:56)

It's not the normal hoodie for me.

B (4:58)

Yeah, no, no, it's no big deal. We kind of look great, but no, hey, pop much. The monkey. We talked about it on the Rundown show. It's something I didn't personally invest in, but it was trending like crazy at the time and I was hot and cold about it because the, the, the cute animal meta has been definitely up and down recently. We've had like the Mudangs of the world, that chubby little spicy pork pig that was viral across the world. But now Punch a little bit deeper. Different story around Punch the Monkey. I'm sure if you're watching the Rundown, you have Internet access, so you probably know everything and anything about Punch the Monkey. But we'll recap it a little bit. It's a monkey in the. In Japan that's at a local zoo that was abandoned by its mother. Never love to like to hear that happens a lot though, in the animal kingdom. World latches on to the zookeepers because they're taking care of them. Then they decide to introduce Punch the Monkey to the other orangutans and the other monkeys. And it didn't go quite as planned. You know, this, this monkey was carrying around a stuffed orangutan IKEA orange monkey, the stuffed monkey, treating it like its mother. And I like to always say we all have a little bit of a punch the monkey in us. You know, the. That vulnerability. You know, we're getting bullied in the schoolyard. You know, not us, but we're getting bullied in the schoolyard.

A (6:24)

Your. Your peer sat in the background. Oh, yeah, that's Joe. We got Jay.

B (6:28)

This is another. Punch the Monkey is welcome.

C (6:31)

I punch the monkey. I am invested. I want to go visit him.

A (6:36)

Aren't you? Yeah. You said that you said you might go see him.

C (6:38)

Yeah. I'm going Japan. Two weeks as a preplanned trip. But I'm going to take a detour.

A (6:42)

When we had you. When we had. We did this episode was February 18th. We're going to pull the charts in a second. And you Said you were going, you might go to the zoo. And we pulled up that tweet where it's like, we're sorry for the long lines for come see Punch the Monkey. So, yeah, we might get a live report from Joe if he's inclined enough to go, but what a. What a call. Any. Any thoughts on Punch the Monkey? Any thoughts on how you guys find these gems?

C (7:04)

You know, I thought this trade was dead, but I'm seeing it more and more on my timeline, and Brian's like, there's no way this can go up. I'm like, you must not have been in a meme world long, my friend. Young, young padawan. But, yeah, major influencers are just starting to make memes out of it to push their own brand. Hey, if Japan comes out and say, hey, this is the national animal, hey, we're going to the moon.

A (7:24)

I think that's a good point is it started off as like, okay, this is a cute Internet thing. It could have legs. And then, you know, you guys kind of put your formula, momentum, money makers of diving in and trying to find these token prices that have this kind of viability behind them. And so we found it, and we definitely thought, like, okay, this is a good formula. We could definitely see this. And then since we released that episode, I think what is the most interesting kind of what I brought was like, hey, I have some old friends at, like, say, barstool, and they started making. They have nothing to do with crypto, but they start making videos about Punch the Monkey. And I'm sending it to you guys, being like, yeah, this thing hit another level. Like, it's another level of jet fuel. And then the token price, which I'll share the screen now, is just soaring with the continued, you know, virality of this monkey. Like, there's. I haven't been watching, like, TV as much because we've been super busy here, but there's no doubt that this is hitting, like, the morning news, right?

B (8:19)

No, no doubt about it. I'm getting text messages from friends asking me about Punch the Monkey, not about the token, about Punch the Monkey. And. And unfortunately, we never. We never personally invested in it, Joe. Or. Or I did not. And then we didn't even give it a call to the community because some of these can get so hot and cold. And the market's been very. In an interesting place a lot with a lot of these meme coins.

A (8:40)

But.

B (8:41)

But this. This Punch the Monkey is starting to give off a different vibe because there's a new story behind it every day. Latches onto this IKEA monkey. It's snuggling. It tries to get embraced by the other live monkeys. And then there's that video. You guys saw the video when the other mother monkey, like, dragged Punch around. It was horrible. It, like, made me feel bad. And he dragged it around. And of course, where did Punch go? Right back to the stuffed animal. To be embraced, to be loved. Now we're getting a little bit more updates here. You just told me a little bit ago that Punch was getting groomed by another monkey. So it looks like the monkeys might be emoting it.

C (9:17)

More than one monkey is now embracing Punch the monkey. And more so than Olympics. This is bringing humanity together. And I'm not invested financially. But more importantly, Brian, which is a key indicator on how we find these memes. I've invested emotionally, my friend. I've never seen Brian so passionate about a content piece he made that did really well. And that's because we love to stay on monkeys, I gotta say.

B (9:43)

I'll tell you what, you know, I'll tell you what. It's bringing people together.

A (9:45)

We have somebody on the team who doesn't hit the airwaves as much. His name's. His name's Cayman. Cayman, come on in here. Cayman texted us three minutes, but he wasn't even in the room. Cayman wasn't even in the room. And he texted us at 9:49, three minutes ago. And it says, Punch crosses 40 million dollar market cap. Cayman, welcome to the show. Welcome to the rundown. You seem to be in on the Punch madness. You're texting us while we're recording a Punch episode. You didn't even know that's true.

C (10:12)

It is true. I saw that come through the airways here. Crossing the 40 million market cap.

A (10:18)

What'd you call that?

B (10:19)

Well, we talked about it on the rundown. I. There's a big difference between calling it. But we talked about it on the rundown and gave everyone a heads up right around a set, an eight million dollar market cap right here.

A (10:28)

We're sharing it on the screen right here.

B (10:30)

Clean 5X.

A (10:32)

Would you like to be on the rundown? Oh, thank you, guys. We're live here at the event and you never know what's going to happen. It's a clean. It was a clean 5x. If you listen to the rundown week in and week out, this is what we do. We surf the Internet, we give picks. Now, again, what you really want to do is you want to go click the link below for the momentum money makers, because that's how you get these first alerts, that's how you get the emails and the videos from Brian, from Joe, who are going to give you these first alerts where, hey, maybe you get it under a million dollars, like where you found it, and that's where you get the generational wealth.

B (11:03)

That's when we talked about on the rundown, I did see this under a million dollar market cap. And this was a hard one to predict because this has happened in the past and it gets run out or you're worried it's a farm, but nothing can stop this. Punch the monkey right now. I'm, it's, it's tough. Where do you, where do you guys think this goes? Do you, you think it, you think we're topping out? Do you, do you think the love from the other monkeys.

A (11:27)

So what, Muang. Muang went what, we're at 40 now? Mudang went to 400 before 500 million. So in Billy, in a bull market, I think this, this goes for, I don't know, goes for the crown of Mudang. You said it best on one of our shorts that we made the other day. If you haven't seen it on the YouTube, go to the shorts page and watch the one.

B (11:45)

Brian.

A (11:45)

It was hilarious. You called Mudang this?

B (11:48)

Yeah, it's like this pork. Yeah. The spoiled little fat, fat pig. Everyone's comparing fat pig. Everyone's comparing punch the monkey to Moo Dang. Mutang was loved, he was fed, he was cared for.

A (12:00)

Just the bear gave in him.

B (12:01)

And I mean, it was, it was adorable. He was cute. I mean, I like, I think that,

A (12:06)

I think people like an underdog story.

B (12:08)

Well, that's why, like, I'm, I don't know, like, if I'm an investor right now, I'm looking at, I'm looking to the technicals, I'm looking at the finance fundamentals, and I'm getting a little shaken up with it being embraced by these other monkeys. I need controversy, right?

A (12:19)

You want the controversy?

B (12:20)

I want to see, I want to see that stuffed monkey go down. Okay, for a price action. Not because it would hurt my heart, but if those other monkeys would rip that stuffed animal apart. This thing's going to 200 million if it gets embraced, if it gets loved. I, I don't know. This might be the top. It is a tricky area right now.

A (12:42)

I'll say if it's bull market conditions that this thing goes due 200 easy.

B (12:46)

Oh, my gosh. It's over a billion. It's a, it's built. Oh, you think you think blast is Mudang?

C (12:51)

Yeah.

B (12:51)

Yeah. Interesting. I mean, Mudang was the appetizer to the main course. So, I mean, there's so many levels of this. The rejection, the embrace that gets rejected again, it being a baby latching onto the zookeeper. Like I say it time and time again, we all have a little punch in us.

A (13:10)

We have a little. We all.

B (13:11)

So we have punch. We all relate. You know, we all have a little mood dang in us too. You know, we eating some big kills, big flavor matches last night stuff. It was like Cal fan burritos friend

A (13:24)

of the show at a night I don't know if he wants. You want to be on?

B (13:27)

Come say hi. Come say hi. This is the guy.

A (13:29)

This is the guy that does it does it all. No, don't lie. Say hi to the people. This is.

C (13:36)

What are we on?

A (13:36)

You don't have to hold it too close, like. Right. How does this thing work? This thing on? This is.

B (13:40)

This is Ken.

A (13:40)

We were talking about how on the rundown, this guy called Punch the monkey at like under a milli mark market cap. We brought it on the show. The people are getting five, eight x's on the podcast. And we're saying, guys, you got to go check the link to get in the momentum money makers community because then you're getting that under a million dollar market cap. That's 40, 50x. And in a bull market, this thing's going from 40 million to 200. They're saying this is bigger than Mudang. Do you think Punch the monkey is bigger than Mudang?

C (14:05)

What?

A (14:06)

Moon Dang is what people are going to be saying. We think. We think. Everybody. Everybody has a little bit of punch the monkey in them. Compared to Mudang is a spoiled fat hippo. Yeah, absolutely. It's like he's up in the. You know, we want to get. We want to take Mu Dang down. We need to take him down a level.

B (14:22)

Yeah. But the only thing I'm a little

A (14:24)

worried about is Mudang might eat Punch the monkey Mu Dang verse. Punch in some Asian zoo.

B (14:31)

That would cause a major spike in the price. You know,

A (14:37)

can we merge the meme coin market with Poly market and get Mu Dang and punch the monkey in. In a. In a whole, like, what do they call that? Like a WWE cage match?

B (14:51)

I would have to think the monkey, even at its young age, it's resilient. It has the thumb, I think. I think it could take it down.

C (15:01)

You know, bonus on the opposable, though big posable thumb.

A (15:05)

And I guess he could use the arms of the stuffed animal monkey, like maybe a choke.

B (15:10)

Yeah, I mean, look at Tom Aspenwall. He got poked in the eye with a finger and he went down. He's down for months. I mean, that monkey, all he's got to do is poke a little fat piece of pork down. It's game over.

A (15:21)

All right, not personal financial advice for anybody, but punch the Monkey at a $40 million market cap. Going higher for lower from here, Kevin. Going higher. We think, we think in bull market conditions, this is, this would pass Mudang.

B (15:37)

Yeah.

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B (19:11)

What were some other the the cute animal beta metas out there? It was mu dang. There were some other ones out there.

C (19:18)

Yeah, the penguin.

B (19:20)

That penguin.

A (19:21)

Oh the one. The one going into the void.

B (19:27)

So the White House. Well, I mean the White House. The White tweet punched a monkey. That's not off the table. That is not a zero percent.

A (19:35)

Wait, is that the catalyst for the next leg up?

B (19:39)

It feels like a no brainer if I'm Donald Trump right now and I'm talking about tariffs, talking about the Supreme Court nixing my tariffs and I'm like 10%, 15% throw a tweet out about Punch the Monkey, Pull this all together, we're going to 200 million. If that happens, that might be the next call. But as of right now, I'm not buying a 40 million. I'm going to be completely wrong with everyone. But I want this succeed. I want this to go to billions because the money's got flow somewhere. And if you're getting into Punch the Monkey, you're buying these meme coins. You're probably, you probably should be, but you're not rolling that back into Bitcoin. You're looking for the next. You're looking for the next meta out there. Next cute animal that's going to be roughhoused in the. Why is this all happening in. In Japan? Was it Mudang in Japan too?

C (20:27)

Thailand. Thailand.

B (20:28)

Oh, okay.

C (20:29)

So so far we're still. We're staying in the same geographic area. Yeah, but there's no competition.

A (20:34)

Yeah.

C (20:34)

There's no one like Punch.

B (20:36)

Maybe we can start some controversy at the San Diego Zoo later today. Oh, a team outing. And yeah, we got a friend of the show, Alex.

A (20:46)

Alex. Punch the monkey. At a 40 million dollar market cap. Are you buying here or is it going higher or lower? Punch the monkey. Yes. As you can see, not everybody's in the trenches as deep as us. Let's see, we got, I think any. Okay, wrap it up. Let's wrap up Punch the monkey and then we can set up next week's shows with. We had a ton of news this week. However, we've been so busy kind of getting together, being out here in San Diego. We don't have a full rundown sheet ready for you. A little tease for next week. But Punch the Monkey. Where does it go from here? What do people need to know and kind of just what are you looking for to see whether this flame is going to be snuffed out or if it's going to be an absolute wildfire.

B (21:28)

See, this is. Personally, this is a tough spot for me to buy at because it's tens of millions of dollars in a market cap and it's going up in a straight line. But with that being said, we got the barstool boys talking about it. I'm getting friends texting me, asking me about punch and they're not asking about the, the meme coin, they're just asking. They're sharing these memes all around and that's, that's type of community. That's the viral instances you want in these coins. I think the way this goes up is that we need that stuffed animal that he thinks his mom to get ripped apart. Something like the monkeys get on. I don't want Punch anything to happen. Remember, it's a stuffed animal that, that would make the price go crazy. Or we probably need the White House.

A (22:11)

Yeah.

B (22:11)

To like tweet it out.

A (22:12)

I like the Woodhouse plan.

B (22:14)

These are not zero chances. I mean these are double digit probabilities. Maybe I will open a market later on polymarket. What chances are of Donald Trump tweeting punch the monkey? And with the Supreme Court tariff stuff going on.

A (22:26)

I was just going to say it's like the monkey, the monkey meme could be like, that's my tariff. That could be it. We could take. I see that. I could see that it could be it.

B (22:34)

But I, I, it's tough for me to call it. Joe, what's your gut telling you?

C (22:40)

I'm going crazy here. The Simpsons could put them in the show. Gary Vee has utilized. Any action this monkey takes is turned into a meme. Whether he's surrounded by monkey friends, you need a close circle of friends. Whether he's isolated with a stuffed monkey, you need a loving mother. Eyeballs are going to be very close on his next move because it will be viral or made viral. Now on the flip side, controversy. What if Punch punches another monkey? That would just not be good for the token. Yeah, but it would be another viral me moment. It would be Preston bad press, but everyone's eyeballs on it.

A (23:15)

I kind of like the negative press. Whether it was the monk that the monkey gets torn up or he gets in a fight. Yeah. The lovey dovey stuff would, I think ends this.

C (23:23)

I think him punching another monkey might be good because he's grown up, he's.

B (23:27)

It would be great.

C (23:29)

We need him to punch another monkey.

B (23:32)

Yeah. I mean from a humanitarian point of view, we would probably not want that. But for anybody's b.

C (23:38)

Of course. Right.

A (23:39)

This is hypothetical, hypothetical punch, you know,

B (23:42)

but from anybody's bags. If you're a zookeeper and you, you, you could load up a phantom wallet, get a couple soul in there and you, you want to have a little bit of fun in the trenches, that's

A (23:53)

actually a great invitation. If you're a zookeeper. At the zoo, the DMs are open to discuss possible strategies.

B (23:59)

Maybe you just put like a couple adult monkeys on one side and punch on the other. And you just put like one banana and you walk away. You're doing your job, you're feeding them, you're giving them a treat. But he just there's a lot of outs. There's a lot of outs for generational wealth and there's a lot of outs to go to zero. But this is such an important time in the trenches in the meme coin market that we spun up a rundown at one of the most important meetings that we have all year because we needed to dedicate more than just a few minutes of time to talk about punch.

A (24:33)

Well, and we got to take a victory lap. I mean, it's an unbelievable, it's an unbelievable skill set that you guys both have. It's an unbelievable program that Momentum Money Makers is so one final plug. Hit the link below. You want the first alerts again? You can listen to the rundown. There's Alpha here, there's alpha there. 5x is great and 8x is great. But you want 20x's. You want 30x's. No, that's only in the private community. So check the link. We'll wrap up with next week. I have a great show planned for Tuesday. There was an awesome. What was over in West Palm, it was like the crypto White House summit. Not at White House, at Mar a Lago. You know, Brian Armstrong was there, all the Trump fans, family, World Liberty five. The World Liberty five forum, I think that's what it was called. So all the crypto people were there. They kind of were doing their media. They had a bunch of media hits down there. And that was the day that the Clarity act spiked from 50 to 85 and now it's hovering, I think around 70. So we'll have a full update on that. There's a couple people that are saying that the, the Saudis are buying bitcoin again. So we're gonna full update on that. We'll get Brendan with some technical analysis and then again we will continue to cover the Punch the Monkey saga. But that's it for our quick weekend update. We really appreciate everybody listening. Thank you guys for having fun with us on the Punch the Monkey. We, what can we say? We give out winners. That's what we do here at Crypto101. That's what we do at Cryp Nation. We hope you guys have a great rest of your weekend and we'll see you guys next week.

B (25:56)

Bye everybody.

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