Thank you for taking time out of your morning to check out my little publication!

It’s my goal to create something that hopefully gives you a tiny hit of dopamine on Monday mornings while you doom scroll Farcaster to delay doing whatever it is you should be doing.

Each week I will put out a new short form interview on my channel The Casting Couch where I will be talking with the friends I’ve met along the way here on Farcaster.

My first interview is with the turbo Chad photographer and host of /cuteanimals Nate “Igor” Smith

aka @drivenbyboredom

Do you believe in aliens?

I believe that life exists outside of our planet but I don’t believe they are visiting us.

We met because I asked for a recommendation for cool profiles to follow.

You posted a picture of naked girls partying and I immediately reported you because I thought I was going to get banned. Remember that post?

My bad.

Also it’s funny that crypto is all about decentralization and no censorship, but nipples are still illegal in web 3.

But Farcaster lets you post those photos no issue, or do they give you shit?

I talked to Dan about it and he told me that nudity is fine on Farcaster but Warpcast’s image hosts don’t allow it so I try and not post anything too crazy now.

I never really see you posting about crypto stuff, are you into the tokens and all that?

I have some BTC I haven’t touched since 2017 and ETH saved from selling NTFs but I just buy and hold. I gambled with NFTs in 2021 but it wasn’t good for my mental health.

I just don’t have a lot of appetite to be in a space where people only talk about get rich quick schemes. But Farcaster has a decent balance and I hope it gets even better as it grows which is why I started /cute-animals. We need spaces for non degens too.

One of the many many cute animals

I was gonna ask about cute animals…

It’s a space where you can post pictures of cute animals, they don’t even have to be your animal, and you pay people to post.

Why the fuck is that channel not mega yet?

Honestly I have no idea. I think people are afraid to post stuff that isn’t “on brand” with their crypto identity. It’s mostly memes and meme coins on here. But hopefully we can get the word out.

It’s frustrating but also freeing to go from social media accounts where I have tens of thousands of followers to one where I have 300. I’m still spending all my time on Farcaster.

(We start talking about his Drakula channel)

Did you film that balloon guy you posted today? I actually snorted watching it!

Nate "Igor" Smith (@drivenbyboredom) on Drakula

Drakula video from Nate "Igor" Smith (@drivenbyboredom): Hello today.

https://drakula.app

All my Drakula stuff is old video that I’ve shot. I just scroll through my phone and post weird stuff I find.

Did he get the balloons through?

I hate to tell you this but he’s a friend of mine who told me this story about how he was doing a TaskRabbit job and he had to bring 30 helium balloons to someone and he had to take a cab and walk through Times Square with it and I told him we had to recreate it.

Haha still so fucking funny even if it was staged!

I was dying.

What’s your favorite underrated channel?

/Streetphotos

I tend to post in /photography cause it gets more views but everything on there is landscapes and pretty shit which I don’t really fuck with.

Speaking of I’m gonna take a walk in the park and take some photos of pretty shit right now.

Last question. I have one post in the photos channel. How can I shoot this better?

Get closer. Always get closer.

Huge thanks to Igor for taking the time to talk with me and be my first guest on the couch.

If you see him on Farcaster, please be sure to say hi and drop him a tip if you like what he is doing!

I hope everybody has a great week, and remember:

Stay unapologetically true to yourself!

-Oppai