Welcome to BitBoy Crypto!
My name is Ben.
And today I want to talk to you about my chance meeting
with Kevin O'Leary from Shark Tank.
That's right. You guys may know me and Kevin O'Leary,
we've had massive beef.
He's blocked me on Twitter twice.
We've gone after each other.
I made a lot of accusations towards him.
He said a lot of stuff about me.
And I tell you what,
you know, sometimes life just puts you in really funny, awkward situations
and, you know, you're just trying to make the best out of them.
And I'm going to explain what happened
and where we're going to go from here.
So it's pretty interesting stuff.
So, basically, what happened is,
as you guys know,
I'm here at NFT.NYC.
You guys see there's New York City.
And I'm going to a lot of parties, doing a lot of stuff,
so, of course, I had to get some new shoes.
Let me show you my new Gucci shoes.
I had to go get these new Gucci shoes.
Look at these.
Pow!
Hey, those are pretty gangster, aren't they? You've got to admit it.
So I'm going to get some new shoes
and I got a new shirt to go to one of these parties with
because I need a good shirt to match the shoes.
You guys know how it is.
This is the fashion stuff.
Okay? You guys know, fashion icon.
I'm no Richard Heart.
So I'm going to the Gucci store and I'm in Uber.
And as I'm in the Uber going to the store,
I looked to the sidewalk.
I'm, like,
I'm within visual of the Gucci store.
I can see it.
I looked to the right.
Who is walking on the freaking sidewalk?
On the street
with his wife,
yes, that is right, Kevin O'Leary.
So I rolled the window down.
And I turned around. I looked at him.
And I said, "Kevin O'Leary!"
And he turned around and he looked at me.
And I will not tell you exactly what I said to him,
but I cussed at him.
I basically called him some names.
I called him some names.
And he just stood there for a second.
And, basically, there was a moment where he goes,
"Wait. Aren't you the bit guy?"
And so maybe I can--
maybe I can show this, this clip here.
Maybe my editor can put this clip in of me running into Kevin O'Leary.
- Aren't you the bit guy? - I am.
What are you doing, man?
I'm in NFT.NYC.
So, yeah, I mean, you can't really hear much after that what goes on the video.
So a lot of people will say, like,
"Oh, my gosh, you've been so aggressive towards Kevin O'Leary
and then you get out and you go over there and you talk to him
and then you take the smiling picture."
I'm going to put the picture up of me and Kevin.
"What happened?"
So here's what occurred.
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But the point is, is that I go and I talk to him.
And if you guys can tell, from, like, the moment I walk up to him,
like, he was being friendly.
And so,
you know, it's hard not to be friendly with somebody who's friendly back.
Like, that's just the truth of it.
And so I went over there and said, "Look."
Kevin, he said, "Look. We've got some common enemies going on right now.
Like, we both care about the crypto space. We want to push it forward."
That's what he told me.
And so I basically went, you know.
We ended up having a conversation.
And I would just ask him questions.
I was like, "Look.
I have to understand your lot.
Like, how in the world are you supporting Sam?
I don't understand how you're supporting Sam Bankman-Fried when he commingled funds."
And these are all questions that he-- that--
nobody's asking Kevin these questions.
Nobody in the crypto world is getting underneath the things he's saying
and saying, "What is your motivation for saying these things?
What is your perspective?
Why are you defending Sam?
Why are you going at Binance?"
You know, these are questions that I want to ask him.
And so, basically, the long and the short of it is
he said he wasn't going to say anything negative about me again.
He said he would unblock me.
And Kevin O'Leary is going to be coming on the show.
So I'm going to reach out to him.
I don't know. Maybe on Twitter.
I have his phone number too.
But I'm going to reach out.
We're going to set it up from when I get back from the Bahamas.
We're going on a cruise.
Nothing to do with SBF.
We're going on our BitBoy cruise this week.
And so he's going to come on the channel.
And I'm going to ask him these questions.
I'm going to ask him hard questions.
I'm going to give him opportunity.
He was very nice.
He was very friendly.
He was not abrasive at all.
And so we decided that for the good of the crypto space,
for the good of the crypto space,
we are going to squash our beef
and we're going to get this figured out.
And here's the more important thing.
It's not about squashing the beef. Okay?
It's not about, like,
oh, we just shake hands and we just move forward.
Like, he's going to come on the show.
And he's going to answer these questions.
I mean, there's talk about FTX starting back up.
I want to know what he thinks about that for sure.
And I really want to know what his angles are for things.
And if we can get those answers,
then I think we've probably done something beneficial.
And look.
As the market is heading back up and things are going positive,
it's not a super great thing for us to have all these beefs in the world of crypto.
And I know I've done a pretty good job of tearing Kevin down.
And we're going to give him the opportunity to present his side.
And we're going to be fair.
We're going to be like a journalist.
We're going to be fair.
That's what I wanted to do with Sam when I was going to interview Sam.
I wanted to be fair.
It's not about going at somebody with an angle.
It's understanding the right questions to ask
and asking those.
And that's what we're going to be doing.
So it was pretty crazy,
like, absolutely just ran into him on the street totally random.
And super excited to get him on the channel here in a couple of weeks.
And if you guys have questions you want me to ask him,
drop it down below in the chat.
That's all I got.
Be blessed.
Thank you to Stake.
BitBoy out.