102. Danny Quick Talks Crowdfunding, Mainstream vs Indie and Finding Joy in the Grunt Work

Speaking of drama, speaking of drama.

[laughs]

I have to, I have to apologize to the, the audience here right now, because I've had this man on this show, this, this has gotta be your fifth time between Ace Blade, Kickstarters, Lumberjacks, Harlem, Bequest.

It's probably-

Probably

... it's probably more than five, right? And it has just occurred to me that I have just been offering open space for advertising to a grifter, and I, I can't even, I can't defend it.

They gonna get you.

I don't ...

They're, they're gonna get me.

'Cause, like, why have you been scamming people this whole time?

Well, um, the only way to get ahead in America these days is to, i- is to be a master scammer.

So, uh, but no, man.

I, uh, I did have a, a situation, uh, a while ago.

Um, the man, my man DeMario Hill, he was upset because, um, w- he had not gotten his Kickstarter books for Ace Blade number nine, and I was already selling some on TikTok, on the TikTok shop.

Now, I thought I was being a good businessperson because, as we know, the algorithms over on TikTok are very suppressive when it comes to talking about going outside of their platform.

So the people that I was telling about the, you know, the Kickstarter on TikTok, they never saw those videos.

They never knew that we could get, that they could get Ace Blade number nine.

So I was like, now that the book is out and I'm actually sending books to people, I was actually sending the books out, um, I was like, "I'm gonna make some available on TikTok too," since I got, you know, enough copies.

Um, but it took me more than, took me more than a few weeks to get those books out to everybody [laughs] and while, and while I was sending them out to both Kickstarter and TikTok folks, DeMario's like, "Hey, bro.

I don't got my books.

[laughs] I don't got my books.

Don't be selling books when I don't got mine." And, you know, he had a valid, he had a valid point.

So, um, shout out to the bro DeMario.

Um, we have since, um, come to an agreement.

You know, we, you know, we, we go back and forth.