1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.520 Jonathan Nelson: We're based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. So 2 00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:04.920 had to get on a plane to come a little bit of a flight, but 3 00:00:04.920 --> 00:00:07.320 definitely worth it. This is actually my first deBanked 4 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:09.690 event. Really enjoying it so far. 5 00:00:09.750 --> 00:00:11.520 Johny Fernandez: So walk me through. I mean, what was your 6 00:00:11.520 --> 00:00:13.860 expectation? And did it meet your expectation? 7 00:00:13.950 --> 00:00:17.670 Jonathan Nelson: Yeah, honestly, I mean, I came in just not a 8 00:00:17.670 --> 00:00:20.040 whole lot of expectations. Honestly, I knew that there were 9 00:00:20.040 --> 00:00:22.950 going to be some clients here and wanted to connect with some 10 00:00:22.950 --> 00:00:26.550 of them, meet some new potential clients shake hands with brokers 11 00:00:26.550 --> 00:00:30.150 as well. I really enjoyed the programming and kind of the wide 12 00:00:30.150 --> 00:00:33.270 variety of stuff you guys touched on. I mean, as general 13 00:00:33.270 --> 00:00:35.820 counsel, I like the nerdy legal stuff. And so the last one we 14 00:00:35.820 --> 00:00:39.180 just did with the guy speaking on new regulations in New York 15 00:00:39.180 --> 00:00:42.210 and California, that was very interesting for me. And I made 16 00:00:42.210 --> 00:00:44.400 sure to get their information because I gotta call them now 17 00:00:44.400 --> 00:00:46.440 and ask him more detailed questions. A little bit more 18 00:00:46.440 --> 00:00:49.590 nerdy, but, yeah no, I've really been enjoying it. Everyone's 19 00:00:49.590 --> 00:00:53.490 super nice. Which, you know, you don't really know what to expect 20 00:00:53.490 --> 00:00:57.540 me coming for the first time but yeah, no, I mean, the the pre 21 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:01.740 pre show party last night was awesome. Very, very well done. 22 00:01:02.250 --> 00:01:07.020 Food, drinks. Great. And today, same. Haven't had one complaint 23 00:01:07.020 --> 00:01:10.140 or one bad situation. So if other people haven't been you 24 00:01:10.140 --> 00:01:10.650 should come. 25 00:01:10.830 --> 00:01:13.380 Johny Fernandez: So this is your first time here for someone else 26 00:01:13.380 --> 00:01:16.830 that's watching this at home. That they did not make it. What 27 00:01:16.830 --> 00:01:17.490 would you say to them? 28 00:01:18.570 --> 00:01:20.790 Jonathan Nelson: Don't miss it. Don't miss the the march event 29 00:01:20.850 --> 00:01:25.260 down in Florida. You gotta. You gota be there. I don't know. 30 00:01:25.260 --> 00:01:28.050 It's great. I think a lot of us have just been looking forward 31 00:01:28.050 --> 00:01:30.990 to getting back to in person. Yeah. And so shaking people's 32 00:01:30.990 --> 00:01:36.330 hands, kissing babies, all that good stuff. Yeah, it's, it's, 33 00:01:36.450 --> 00:01:40.230 it's a not miss event for the brokers especially. But for the 34 00:01:40.230 --> 00:01:42.810 rest of us who work with brokers, you got to learn a 35 00:01:42.810 --> 00:01:44.790 little bit more about them and then have opportunities to 36 00:01:44.790 --> 00:01:48.510 connect with them on their turf. So yeah, highly recommend people 37 00:01:48.510 --> 00:01:48.840 come. 38 00:01:49.020 --> 00:01:51.810 Johny Fernandez: That's awesome. And so you spoke about the law 39 00:01:52.320 --> 00:01:55.140 panel. Was there any other panel that really caught your 40 00:01:55.140 --> 00:01:55.620 attention? 41 00:01:56.520 --> 00:01:59.220 Jonathan Nelson: Well the keynote speaker when Slava spoke 42 00:01:59.220 --> 00:02:02.940 i don't know I There's a lot of things. Yeah, a little bit, a 43 00:02:02.940 --> 00:02:04.920 little bit there. There are a lot of things that he said that 44 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:09.300 I was like, okay. Yeah, I get it. I get it. You know, you hear 45 00:02:09.300 --> 00:02:12.090 it from your buddies when you're having a beer at a bar. You're, 46 00:02:12.090 --> 00:02:14.280 like Yeah, right. Whatever, whatever. And then like, the 47 00:02:14.280 --> 00:02:17.520 more you hear about it, like, okay, okay. And then Slava gets 48 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:20.220 up. And he's like, no, like, this is the direction that I 49 00:02:20.220 --> 00:02:22.950 think it's gonna go. And you're like, alright, yeah, now I'm 50 00:02:22.950 --> 00:02:24.660 gonna pay a little bit more attention to this do a little 51 00:02:24.660 --> 00:02:27.900 bit more research. And I'm honestly going to go back to the 52 00:02:27.900 --> 00:02:30.390 hotel tonight add some stuff to my coin base wallet. 53 00:02:30.420 --> 00:02:34.290 Johny Fernandez: Yeah. That's awesome. So overall, I mean, 54 00:02:34.320 --> 00:02:38.100 there's also there's the panel side of it. But there's also the 55 00:02:38.100 --> 00:02:40.470 networking side of it. Yeah. What's been your favorite out of 56 00:02:40.470 --> 00:02:40.860 those two? 57 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:43.800 Jonathan Nelson: Oh, probably the networking side just to be 58 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:48.450 able to put client faces to names and like, yeah, you can do 59 00:02:48.450 --> 00:02:51.420 zoom, you see this floating head but like when you're actually 60 00:02:51.420 --> 00:02:54.300 shaking someone's hand, you can see how tall they are just like 61 00:02:54.300 --> 00:02:56.400 random stuff like that, you're like, oh alright, and then 62 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.250 you're like, I don't know, just just talking about different 63 00:02:59.250 --> 00:03:02.310 things. And it's a lot easier to talk about, like your personal 64 00:03:02.310 --> 00:03:04.890 lives and where you have that common ground over social stuff, 65 00:03:04.890 --> 00:03:07.620 as opposed to like a business zoom call, you're like, Hey, I 66 00:03:07.620 --> 00:03:10.110 got a call in 30 minutes. We got to get a knock through this real 67 00:03:10.110 --> 00:03:13.380 quick. I mean, everybody's here for the same purpose of learning 68 00:03:13.380 --> 00:03:16.980 and networking. So for me, it's got to be the networking. 69 00:03:17.230 --> 00:03:18.490 Johny Fernandez: Awesome. Alright. Well, thank you so 70 00:03:18.490 --> 00:03:21.160 much, man, Jonathan Nelson, ladies and gentlemen a force to 71 00:03:21.160 --> 00:03:23.680 be reckoned with. I really appreciate it, no problem man. 72 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:25.480 Well go ahead and enjoy the rest of the conference. We'll 73 00:03:25.480 --> 00:03:26.530 definitely see you back around. 74 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:26.950 Jonathan Nelson: Alrighty.