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