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diff --git a/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40.md b/wiki/transcripts/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4559e6b2 @@ -0,0 +1,727 @@ +--- +title: "Transcript: Bitcoin Is Tax Affording Technology | Bugle Weekly Episode 40" +type: transcript +episode: bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40 +generated: true +date: 2024-12-30 +audio: "https://feeds.fountain.fm/R8scBF2Wiykm0YVldsHQ/items/sa2xLC1pK5NcD16rnhcx/files/AUDIO---DEFAULT---55918485-a965-4ed2-b1f4-9dc36509db09.mp3" +duration: "1:29:17" +sources: + - raw/episodes/bitcoin-is-tax-affording-technology-bugle-weekly-episode-40/bundle.json +--- + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3">0:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3" data-t="3">I've been smoking cigarettes since my very first rodeo.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-8" data-t="8">Cigarettes made me into the proud Bitcoin only cowboy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-13" data-t="13">I am today.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-16" data-t="16">The only downside of smoking cigarettes every day</span> <span class="cue" id="t-20" data-t="20">is entropy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-21" data-t="21">of your taste buds.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-24">0:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-24" data-t="24">That's why I get my spicy beef jerky from Barn Jerky.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-29" data-t="29">How spicy is it?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-31" data-t="31">Barn Jerky's grass fed smoked beef jerky</span> <span class="cue" id="t-34" data-t="34">made with organic cayenne pepper sourced from the volcanic craters of El Salvador</span> <span class="cue" id="t-40" data-t="40">is hotter than Lynn Alden.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-43">0:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-43" data-t="43">That's hot.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-44">0:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-44" data-t="44">So head over to barnjerky.hashrootsinc.io</span> <span class="cue" id="t-49" data-t="49">today for all your spicy beef jerky needs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-53" data-t="53">You can also purchase Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-55" data-t="55">podcast themed Zippos,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-58" data-t="58">flasks,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-60" data-t="60">drink coasters,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-61">1:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-61" data-t="61">and cyberpunk</span> <span class="cue" id="t-62" data-t="62">stickers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-63" data-t="63">with lightning powered by BTC</span> <span class="cue" id="t-66" data-t="66">pay server.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-72">1:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-72" data-t="72">Welcome back to the Bugle Weekly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-74" data-t="74">We hope you had a lovely Christmas with the family</span> <span class="cue" id="t-77" data-t="77">and that it was truly a magical experience.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-80" data-t="80">Now that Christmas season is officially over, it means that we are entering into tax season,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-86" data-t="86">which is why you are here. You listen to Bitcoin podcasts</span> <span class="cue" id="t-90" data-t="90">in order to gain the knowledge needed, in order to make the right financial decisions so you have the ability to afford to pay your taxes.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-98">1:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-98" data-t="98">Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin in order to have a roundabout way for individuals to finally</span> <span class="cue" id="t-105" data-t="105">to be able to afford their taxes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-108" data-t="108">This created an entire movement consisting of countless podcasts,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-112" data-t="112">conferences,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-113" data-t="113">and influencers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-115" data-t="115">promoting tax affording technology.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-118">1:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-118" data-t="118">In this movement, there is one podcast that stands out from the rest.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-122" data-t="122">You are listening to it now. So sit back, light a cigarette, and get ready for an hour of the most thermodynamically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-130" data-t="130">sound, pure signal you can find.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-133" data-t="133">You are listening to the Bugle Weekly.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-139">2:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-139" data-t="139">Man, Christmas</span> <span class="cue" id="t-140" data-t="140">from the Bugle. The number one Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-144" data-t="144">bull market podcast.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-145" data-t="145">Wow. We had a great Christmas, and I was I don't know about you, but I was at home with my family reflecting on the year, being thankful,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-155" data-t="155">spend the holidays wealthy and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-157" data-t="157">realizing that, Bitcoin's had an incredible year.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-160">2:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-160" data-t="160">People who've been stacking staff, stacking the ETF,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-165" data-t="165">have really, really, really had a year to be thankful for, and I think it's it's just gonna be like the, the year of the taxpayer.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-172" data-t="172">So many more taxpayers, thanks to Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-175" data-t="175">People are gonna be paying their taxes for the first time. They're, they're thankful that, they're becoming tax paying citizens. I don't, I just think that that's pretty cool.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-184" data-t="184">How was your Christmas, Richard?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-186">3:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-186" data-t="186">Oh,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-187" data-t="187">it was wonderful.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-188" data-t="188">Had a beautiful time with the family, smoking cigarettes,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-192" data-t="192">smoking Bitcoin or listening to Bitcoin podcast.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-197" data-t="197">My wife taught me some</span> <span class="cue" id="t-199" data-t="199">typewriter</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-200">3:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-200" data-t="200">cleaning,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-201" data-t="201">utensils or tools,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-204" data-t="204">and those are pretty nifty. So I've just been hanging out, cleaning the typewriter,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-210" data-t="210">did a Christmas special, which I've gotten some nice feedback on.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-215" data-t="215">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-216" data-t="216">it was just a lovely,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-218">3:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-218" data-t="218">lovely day,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-219" data-t="219">as usual. How how was yours?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-222">3:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-222" data-t="222">It was great. Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-224" data-t="224">To this day,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-226" data-t="226">my mom still smipes cigarettes in the house. So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-230" data-t="230">it's great to go home for Christmas, just be able to sit and watch</span> <span class="cue" id="t-234" data-t="234">your favorite Christmas movies,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-237" data-t="237">and you don't even have to step outside to snipe a cigarette</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-241">4:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-241" data-t="241">You could just be together as a family</span> <span class="cue" id="t-244" data-t="244">uninterrupted and smoke a cigarette and that's my favorite part about going home for Christmas</span> <span class="cue" id="t-248" data-t="248">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-250" data-t="250">one of the movies that we watched,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-253" data-t="253">was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-254" data-t="254">Go ahead.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-255">4:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-255" data-t="255">I can't believe that people smoke outside. It's too cold in the winter to smoke outside.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-261">4:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-261" data-t="261">Finally, yeah. My family lives in up state Maine. It's it's frigid up there.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-269" data-t="269">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-270" data-t="270">you know, my mom is a is a very thin, very she's an elderly woman. She would</span> <span class="cue" id="t-275" data-t="275">she could potentially die</span> <span class="cue" id="t-277" data-t="277">if she had to smack cigarettes outside.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-280" data-t="280">So, it's just a matter of survival,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-283">4:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-283" data-t="283">if you live in the global north.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-285">4:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-285" data-t="285">Yeah. I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-287" data-t="287">these people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-288" data-t="288">with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-289" data-t="289">their smoking restrictions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-291" data-t="291">can legitimately cause physical harm to people by expecting them to smoke outside.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-297" data-t="297">Absolutely insane. And there's there's nothing worse</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-300">5:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-300" data-t="300">than a landlord</span> <span class="cue" id="t-302" data-t="302">that puts</span> <span class="cue" id="t-303" data-t="303">you can't smoke inside on the rent or that's an expectation or like a family member.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-311">5:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-311" data-t="311">How</span> <span class="cue" id="t-312" data-t="312">how</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-313">5:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-313" data-t="313">could you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-314" data-t="314">how could you treat your mother that way to put her outside to smoke a cigarette?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-323" data-t="323">It's not loving, it's not accepted. Well,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-325">5:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-325" data-t="325">these hospitals</span> <span class="cue" id="t-327" data-t="327">are some of the worst offenders, right? Because who's in hospitals? It's largely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-332" data-t="332">old people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-334" data-t="334">that really don't do</span> <span class="cue" id="t-336" data-t="336">well with,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-339" data-t="339">the elements.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-342">5:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-342" data-t="342">And it's Yeah, if it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-344" data-t="344">that is probably my</span> <span class="cue" id="t-346" data-t="346">biggest gripe with the fiat healthcare system.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-349" data-t="349">If they actually cared about patient care</span> <span class="cue" id="t-352" data-t="352">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-354" data-t="354">and and people getting better,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-357">5:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-357" data-t="357">they would they would never send them out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-360" data-t="360">side to smoke cigarettes just because they are in the hospital</span> <span class="cue" id="t-364" data-t="364">for treatment. I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-370" data-t="370">you would never see that in a healthy system. It's just an it's incredible. Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-374" data-t="374">I mean, you said outside they're gonna get pneumonia</span> <span class="cue" id="t-377" data-t="377">from being outside in the wintertime</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-379">6:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-379" data-t="379">when they would be fine if you just let them smoke in their</span> <span class="cue" id="t-383" data-t="383">hospital.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-386">6:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-386" data-t="386">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-388" data-t="388">Our society</span> <span class="cue" id="t-389" data-t="389">just,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-390" data-t="390">it can be cruel at times.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-393">6:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-393" data-t="393">It really can. I don't know. I think that Bitcoin will fix this. Bitcoin will fix this. You will, people will sometimes ask, how do I know that Bitcoin has already won? Or how will I know when hyper Bitcoinization, what does that mean?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-406" data-t="406">Once you can smoke cigarettes in the hospital again, you will know that hyper Bitcoinization is here.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-412" data-t="412">The incentives will finally be fixed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-415" data-t="415">and it will not The savagery will no lie or take place</span> <span class="cue" id="t-420" data-t="420">in the public square.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-422">7:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-422" data-t="422">Okay.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-423" data-t="423">I guess that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-425" data-t="425">is largely what this Christmas was about for my family, was celebrating the reality that that Bitcoin already won. But, yeah, I I wanna hear about your time with your family.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-437" data-t="437">Sorry to to cut you off there.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-440">7:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-440" data-t="440">No. Yeah. We</span> <span class="cue" id="t-441" data-t="441">We watch all the best Christmas movies,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-444" data-t="444">like Elf,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-446" data-t="446">Christmas Story.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-447" data-t="447">And, we</span> <span class="cue" id="t-449" data-t="449">were watching my favorite,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-451">7:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-451" data-t="451">Home Alone and Home Alone two.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-454" data-t="454">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-455" data-t="455">I always enjoyed and I always really felt,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-459" data-t="459">some sort of connection with that movie. So I've rewatched it many times, but I never understood</span> <span class="cue" id="t-465" data-t="465">the connection and why it felt that way. I never really understood the plot of the movie.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-469" data-t="469">And then I realized it is</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-472">7:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-472" data-t="472">a story about being the only Bitcoiner</span> <span class="cue" id="t-475" data-t="475">in a family full of shitcoiners.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-479" data-t="479">And like everybody, the shitcoiners think that they've got it all figured out and that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-484" data-t="484">they've</span> <span class="cue" id="t-485" data-t="485">crossed off all of the, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-488" data-t="488">the marks that they have to</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-490">8:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-490" data-t="490">not get rug pulled and to, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-495" data-t="495">never have any trade offs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-497" data-t="497">Why? Only Only Kevin. He's the only Bitcoiner. He's the only one that has to show them how to run the house, how to, his opinions, his outlook, his political opinions, everything, his financial advice</span> <span class="cue" id="t-511" data-t="511">is the best in the family. That is what it's like to be a Bitcoiner in a family full of shitcoiners. And that is what a lot of people, I think,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-520" data-t="520">it resonates with them when they're at home with their families this year.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-524">8:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-524" data-t="524">I mean, that's such a good</span> <span class="cue" id="t-526" data-t="526">example.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-527" data-t="527">I mean, if you look at the family in Home Alone,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-531" data-t="531">what's more Fiat than going to France for Christmas? I can't think of anything</span> <span class="cue" id="t-536" data-t="536">more Fiat than being in Paris for Christmas. You You know what I mean? As an American. Exactly.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-543">9:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-543" data-t="543">Exactly. Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-544" data-t="544">And not only that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-547" data-t="547">they go to France, they fly first class.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-551" data-t="551">They, you know, it is it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-554" data-t="554">they have a huge like this guy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-557" data-t="557">somebody did apparently</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-559">9:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-559" data-t="559">didn't tell the dad that real estate's a shit coin because he has a pretty expensive house, right? Like he didn't under he's just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-565" data-t="565">all of his decisions make it make me realize this person is not stacking sets</span> <span class="cue" id="t-570" data-t="570">at the optimal level.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-572">9:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-572" data-t="572">Their DCA could be much higher. Yeah. If they were stacking SATs, they would've flown the kids in first class too.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-581">9:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-581" data-t="581">Exactly. And they would've been smoking on the point.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-583">9:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-583" data-t="583">Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-587">9:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-587" data-t="587">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-590" data-t="590">It's watching and how would you describe</span> <span class="cue" id="t-593" data-t="593">Harry and Marv,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-595" data-t="595">the guys that are trying to break in? It's basically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-599" data-t="599">Kevin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-600" data-t="600">is putting on a master</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-602">10:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-602" data-t="602">display</span> <span class="cue" id="t-603" data-t="603">of OPSEC,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-606" data-t="606">of security,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-607" data-t="607">of personal privacy and security and also, yeah, he covers all of it, right? Like he,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-614" data-t="614">He makes,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-615" data-t="615">it's just a masterful</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-617">10:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-617" data-t="617">display.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-618" data-t="618">So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-619" data-t="619">would you say</span> <span class="cue" id="t-621" data-t="621">that Harry and Marv are the state</span> <span class="cue" id="t-623" data-t="623">or</span> <span class="cue" id="t-624" data-t="624">hackers? How would you describe them? What do they represent?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-628">10:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-628" data-t="628">I think they represent a few different entities. So they represent</span> <span class="cue" id="t-632" data-t="632">scammers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-633" data-t="633">that are trying to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-635" data-t="635">fish for your Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-637" data-t="637">The ones that are sending you emails about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-640" data-t="640">trying to get you to upload your seed phrase</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-644">10:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-644" data-t="644">into a Internet browser.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-648" data-t="648">Then they're so, you know, like, scammers wherever they're</span> <span class="cue" id="t-652" data-t="652">at doing Russia or,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-654">10:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-654" data-t="654">Yeah. Including scammer influencers who remember, like, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-660" data-t="660">Harry</span> <span class="cue" data-t="660">is trying to tell the feds,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-663" data-t="663">he's trying to tell</span> <span class="cue" id="t-664" data-t="664">everybody that they are the wet bandits, he's trying to like, he's trying</span> <span class="cue" id="t-669" data-t="669">to have it, you know, leave his impact and be like a top influencer in the cat burglary thing.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-676">11:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-676" data-t="676">That is what scammers do.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-678" data-t="678">That's how they try. They try to impact the narrative.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-681">11:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-681" data-t="681">Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's like Lazarus group, North Koreans, Like, they're always bragging</span> <span class="cue" id="t-687" data-t="687">about how big their Bitcoin stack is.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-690" data-t="690">Then</span> <span class="cue" id="t-691" data-t="691">they're they kinda represent groups like Mossad,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-695" data-t="695">I think. So like, you know, there there's a lot of fears right now that they've infiltrated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-701" data-t="701">the supply chains</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-702">11:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-702" data-t="702">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-703" data-t="703">are making</span> <span class="cue" id="t-705" data-t="705">hardware wallets explode</span> <span class="cue" id="t-707" data-t="707">essentially.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-709" data-t="709">Hopefully taking out the seed phrase because they're assuming people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-713" data-t="713">stored on paper</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-715">11:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-715" data-t="715">next to their hardware wallets and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-719" data-t="719">yeah, and and only the other people that are trying to come after your Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-724" data-t="724">essentially.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-728">12:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-728" data-t="728">Yeah, and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-731" data-t="731">it also represents,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-733" data-t="733">I would say the,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-739" data-t="739">I lost my train of thought on the original one, but the second one is that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-743" data-t="743">every you could have every</span> <span class="cue" id="t-745" data-t="745">trade off, every risk vector,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-748">12:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-748" data-t="748">every weakness in your security setup, you know, and you could think you had it all</span> <span class="cue" id="t-753" data-t="753">you thought of it all. Every window has Christmas ornaments underneath it. Every handle, you know, is either, you know, it's got the heap thing, so they'll burn their hand and they touch it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-763" data-t="763">or it's, you know, it's covered in ice, it'll slip before they can get in. You have every single entrance covered, but if sometimes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-770" data-t="770">the state and the, area or, or</span> <span class="cue" id="t-773" data-t="773">your adversaries,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-774" data-t="774">they could still compromise your stack. And that sometimes the only, the only thing that can save you is the cops showing up at the end.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-782">13:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-782" data-t="782">Only? No.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-786">13:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-786" data-t="786">Sometimes you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-787" data-t="787">need, then you pay your taxes. Sometimes you need to use the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-792" data-t="792">law enforcement to stop your hackers.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-795">13:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-795" data-t="795">It's an example of how the strategic Bitcoin reserve fixes this essentially because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-801" data-t="801">if it's offered the strategic Bitcoin reserve, the government would be bankrupt,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-807" data-t="807">which means the cops wouldn't come save your Bitcoin stack.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-812">13:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-812" data-t="812">Right. And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-815" data-t="815">part of the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-817" data-t="817">solution there is that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-820" data-t="820">if Bitcoin can fix the fiat system, the way it will fix it is by strengthening the dollar in such a way that they can continue to print money.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-831" data-t="831">But it will it's it's like MMT.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-834" data-t="834">They're using MMT,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-836">13:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-836" data-t="836">modern monetary theory. They can't use Congress</span> <span class="cue" id="t-840" data-t="840">to raise your taxes because people like Donald Trump are protecting you and making sure</span> <span class="cue" id="t-845" data-t="845">that the government can't raise your taxes, that you can always afford your taxes. That's why, you know, Donald Trump got elected. That's what Republicans do.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-852" data-t="852">But the central bankers are following modern monetary theory.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-856" data-t="856">If they can back the dollar, the government backs the dollar with Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-861" data-t="861">they could put as much money as they want and create so much inflation</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-865">14:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-865" data-t="865">as long as we can pay our taxes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-867" data-t="867">and your taxes keep getting raised as you, you know, do the backdoor of inflation,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-874" data-t="874">then the system can continue because Bitcoin would fix that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-878" data-t="878">that thermodynamic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-880" data-t="880">heat loss of printing money</span> <span class="cue" id="t-882" data-t="882">without being able to pay back your taxes.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-888">14:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-888" data-t="888">What what comes after modern monetary theory?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-892" data-t="892">Because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-893" data-t="893">at a certain point, it's no longer modern. You know what I mean?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-898">14:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-898" data-t="898">Yeah. So like progressive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-901" data-t="901">or postmodern</span> <span class="cue" id="t-902" data-t="902">monetary theory, is that what you're thinking?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-905">15:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-905" data-t="905">Contemporary</span> <span class="cue" id="t-906" data-t="906">monetary theory.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-907" data-t="907">Yeah. I don't know why what it will be named. Maybe we could be the ones to name it. I mean, particularly podcasters</span> <span class="cue" id="t-915" data-t="915">are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-916" data-t="916">the leading</span> <span class="cue" id="t-918" data-t="918">researchers and discusors</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-922">15:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-922" data-t="922">of what's happening today economically,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-926" data-t="926">more so than anybody else out there.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-929" data-t="929">We're gonna be the ones victorious writing history. So we might as well choose the name for whatever comes after</span> <span class="cue" id="t-936" data-t="936">modern monetary theory.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-942" data-t="942">I think Bitcoin dollar</span> <span class="cue" id="t-944" data-t="944">monetary theory.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-946">15:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-946" data-t="946">I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-948" data-t="948">Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-949">15:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-949" data-t="949">That's a good point.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-953" data-t="953">Wow. The Bitcoin dollar monetary theory, but my</span> <span class="cue" id="t-957" data-t="957">suggestion before you said it that way,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-960" data-t="960">was going to be a modern monetary theory was invented and is made popular by</span> <span class="cue" id="t-965" data-t="965">a hot MIT economist named Stephanie Kelton.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-969" data-t="969">And I don't know if she goes to MIT, but she taught. And</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-974">16:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-974" data-t="974">what better</span> <span class="cue" id="t-975" data-t="975">figurehead for the postmodern monetary theory,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-979" data-t="979">the theory that talks about how to use hard money than Lin Alden.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-984" data-t="984">But maybe Mark Goodwin should be the face and Winnie Webb should be the face, not Lin Alden.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-992">16:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-992" data-t="992">Yeah. That'd be pretty interesting.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-997">16:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-997" data-t="997">People, I mean, they would people would be really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1000" data-t="1000">more likely to pay attention</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1002" data-t="1002">in economics class, in high school, in college,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1006" data-t="1006">if they were learning from</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1008" data-t="1008">the mind of Lynn Alden?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1010">16:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1010" data-t="1010">Why do you think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1012" data-t="1012">Stephanie Kelton's hot? Can you explain that to me? I just don't see it.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1017">16:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1017" data-t="1017">Because she's thin and blonde.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1020" data-t="1020">That's the only requirements I have.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1023" data-t="1023">Tall, thin and blonde I don't know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1027" data-t="1027">That's why that's why miss was a catfish She had everything except for the thin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1032" data-t="1032">She's tall and blonde</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1040">17:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1040" data-t="1040">Yeah. I don't know. I guess I have different standards. I don't I don't see it. I I can't really see a woman as hot</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1046" data-t="1046">unless she's on Bitcoin podcast talking about Bitcoin regularly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1051" data-t="1051">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1052" data-t="1052">she did go on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1054" data-t="1054">what Bitcoin did that one time so I guess that lends some</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1059" data-t="1059">credibility</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1060">17:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1060" data-t="1060">to her being hot</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1062" data-t="1062">a little bit, I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1064" data-t="1064">guess.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1065">17:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1065" data-t="1065">Exactly. Exactly. I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1069" data-t="1069">I guess, I don't know.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1070" data-t="1070">I don't know what the acronym BINBO stands for, but that's what they talk about in the fiat world. If,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1076" data-t="1076">if a girl is just hot and she doesn't understand macro</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1080" data-t="1080">or anything or both the Bitcoin podcast,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1083" data-t="1083">but there is a version of that that,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1087">18:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1087" data-t="1087">I think Stephanie Kelton still kind of,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1089" data-t="1089">is a loophole.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1095" data-t="1095">Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1096">18:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1096" data-t="1096">Agree to disagree. That's the truth.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1100" data-t="1100">Well, I mean, I I I just don't</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1104" data-t="1104">I don't feel strongly about it. I'm not gonna go out there and, like, call her trans.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1109" data-t="1109">You know what I mean? Because I don't think she's a con.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1112">18:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1112" data-t="1112">Oh, that's true. That's it doesn't necessarily it's not like you're gonna, like, sling vicious attacks, but, you know, it's just like some people for the Blockstream JVs and people for the,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1123" data-t="1123">Bitbox, some people for the cold card. Everybody just has their own,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1127" data-t="1127">their own preferences and what they have to tell. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1131">18:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1131" data-t="1131">Well,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1132" data-t="1132">on the topic of hunt,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1136" data-t="1136">I posted a poll and the results were interesting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1139" data-t="1139">on Twitter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1142" data-t="1142">I asked, would you date a Bitcoiner?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1145" data-t="1145">And so the majority</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1147">19:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1147" data-t="1147">sorry, a Bitcoin podcaster.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1149" data-t="1149">Would you date a Bitcoin podcaster?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1152" data-t="1152">Majority of females</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1154" data-t="1154">doubled the The yes is double the no's.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1160" data-t="1160">Interesting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1161" data-t="1161">For the males,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1163">19:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1163" data-t="1163">it was,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1164" data-t="1164">40%</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1165" data-t="1165">yes, 29%</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1166" data-t="1166">no.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1168" data-t="1168">So the there was there was a there was a resounding</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1172" data-t="1172">yes.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1173">19:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1173" data-t="1173">If that was a presidential selection,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1176" data-t="1176">split was like that, they would call it a landslide.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1179" data-t="1179">And so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1182" data-t="1182">what that goes to show me</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1184" data-t="1184">is that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1186" data-t="1186">just based on that alone, people think that being a Bitcoin podcaster</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1190">19:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1190" data-t="1190">is hot and it increases your odds</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1194" data-t="1194">of finding</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1195" data-t="1195">a companion.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1196" data-t="1196">You know what I mean?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1198">19:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1198" data-t="1198">Yeah, absolutely.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1202" data-t="1202">I don't know, maybe people can relate, but if you're a Bitcoin podcaster, I'm sure you can.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1207" data-t="1207">One of the things that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1211" data-t="1211">my girlfriend and I, we got into an argument about over Christmas,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1215" data-t="1215">my, you know, it's her in laws essentially,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1218" data-t="1218">was that,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1219">20:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1219" data-t="1219">that was I was bonding with my dad over listening to Bitcoin podcasts,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1223" data-t="1223">which I assume a lot of people do with their fathers. I didn't think that was, there's ain't anything wrong with that, but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1229" data-t="1229">she was, she told me that she just wishes that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1232" data-t="1232">she wishes that I was, that I showed as much interest in her as I do Bitcoin podcasts. So listening to, you know, I interviewed her the way I interview podcast,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1241" data-t="1241">or the way I podcaster interviews.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1244" data-t="1244">And</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1246">20:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1246" data-t="1246">I think, you know, it's easy in the bull market</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1248" data-t="1248">to constantly be distracted and checking the price for NGU</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1252" data-t="1252">and and for tweets about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1256" data-t="1256">corporations</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1257">20:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1257" data-t="1257">and convert and MicroStrategy buying more Bitcoin, but Yeah. I don't really have that issue. My wife,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1264" data-t="1264">she understands the important of big importance to Bitcoin potash because she knows the only way I could provide for our family</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1272" data-t="1272">and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1273" data-t="1273">you know, supply her and our son</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1276" data-t="1276">with cigarettes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1277" data-t="1277">is</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1279">21:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1279" data-t="1279">if I listen to Bitcoin podcast. And so I think that's like, you know, one of the things we all</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1284" data-t="1284">like, there's gotta be attention</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1286" data-t="1286">in every relationship</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1288" data-t="1288">over how important Bitcoin is because there's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1291" data-t="1291">different people, different backgrounds, different world views,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1296" data-t="1296">will place different valuations</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1298">21:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1298" data-t="1298">on Bitcoin. You know, like your spouse might only listen to twenty four</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1303" data-t="1303">hours of Bitcoin podcast a week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1306" data-t="1306">Yeah. It'd be a part time</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1308">21:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1308" data-t="1308">I think, you know, I think what this but what I told my girlfriend,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1312" data-t="1312">and I think that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1314" data-t="1314">this is a relatable pearl. My girlfriend,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1318" data-t="1318">she comes home from work, or she whenever she tells stories</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1322" data-t="1322">about her day,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1324" data-t="1324">or about her life, or about, you know, something she thinks is funny,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1327">22:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1327" data-t="1327">they're just not very interesting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1330" data-t="1330">And what I told my wife is that or my girlfriend, excuse me, I hope she doesn't even say wife,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1336" data-t="1336">is that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1338" data-t="1338">if you want me to to pay attention to you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1342" data-t="1342">as much, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1343" data-t="1343">and and and listen to you as intently as I listen to Bitcoin podcasts,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1347">22:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1347" data-t="1347">you have to learn to be to tell stories</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1350" data-t="1350">and and have, you know, interesting,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1353" data-t="1353">you know, interesting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1356" data-t="1356">thoughts that you would hear on a Bitcoin podcast. And so she's gonna work on she's gonna work on telling stories and being as interesting as Bitcoin podcasts.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1364">22:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1364" data-t="1364">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1365" data-t="1365">We're gonna need marriage counselors</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1368" data-t="1368">that are literate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1369" data-t="1369">in Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1370" data-t="1370">and can explain</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1372" data-t="1372">to people that listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a week. So like, for example, you know, you have two people sitting in your office. They have some</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1381">23:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1381" data-t="1381">tension in their relationship. They're just wanting to work on it before it turns into something bigger.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1386" data-t="1386">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1387" data-t="1387">you know, they just need it broke it down to them. They need to understand that relationships</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1392" data-t="1392">are like the blockchain.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1394" data-t="1394">Right?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1395" data-t="1395">And, like, sometimes do you have to</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1398">23:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1398" data-t="1398">come to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1399" data-t="1399">compromises on things?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1402" data-t="1402">And, you know, like, for example, like, all of our tensions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1406" data-t="1406">are like the blockchain.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1409" data-t="1409">Or sorry, like a like a block. Like, they're they're limited</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1413" data-t="1413">in size.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1414">23:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1414" data-t="1414">And so you have to prioritize</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1416" data-t="1416">certain things</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1417" data-t="1417">into</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1418" data-t="1418">each block.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1420" data-t="1420">And, like, you know, if your if your spouse, for example,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1424" data-t="1424">is really not good at memes</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1427">23:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1427" data-t="1427">and they want</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1428" data-t="1428">to spend a lot of time,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1431" data-t="1431">showing you your bad memes. So it's it's the poor use of block space</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1436" data-t="1436">essentially.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1438">23:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1438" data-t="1438">Right. Exactly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1440" data-t="1440">Then she needs to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1442" data-t="1442">you need to learn to consolidate your UTXOs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1445" data-t="1445">If you want to be able to affordably</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1448" data-t="1448">transact,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1449" data-t="1449">adversarially,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1450">24:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1450" data-t="1450">peer to peer, on chain, even in high fee environments,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1454" data-t="1454">it's a matter of efficiency.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1456" data-t="1456">My girlfriend needs to be more efficient</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1458" data-t="1458">in the way she communicates,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1460" data-t="1460">and she needs to consolidate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1463" data-t="1463">her highlights of her day</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1465">24:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1465" data-t="1465">and kind of just give me the signal</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1467" data-t="1467">and the value of what she's trying to tell me instead of just, you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1471" data-t="1471">know, scatter UTXO scattered fucking points. She just needs to be more efficient in her communication.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1477" data-t="1477">And a Bitcoin therapist would notice that right away. So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1480" data-t="1480">one of the things people talk about constantly, especially in Hollywood,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1484" data-t="1484">is</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1485">24:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1485" data-t="1485">age gaps. The age gap,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1487" data-t="1487">between, you know, like Bill Belichick, the former Super Bowl head coach in the NFL,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1493" data-t="1493">He's like 70 years old and he's recently got engaged to a 22 year old,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1499" data-t="1499">TikTok influencer.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1502" data-t="1502">And that's, you know, an age gap that people talk about as being a potential problem,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1506" data-t="1506">But there's also a gap that very few people talk about, which is</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1511">25:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1511" data-t="1511">a time preference gap.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1513" data-t="1513">If you listened</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1515" data-t="1515">to twenty thousand hours of Bitcoin podcasts, but your wife or your girlfriends only listened to forty hours or zero hours of Bitcoin podcasts,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1524" data-t="1524">that time preference gap is going to cause potential problems in your relationships, and you have to keep that in mind.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1532" data-t="1532">Sometimes it's exciting. You if you meet a girl</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1536" data-t="1536">who is excited to listen to the Bitcoin podcast that you you show her, and she's just will listen to anything you say, and you could orange peel her so easily,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1545">25:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1545" data-t="1545">but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1546" data-t="1546">that's a red flag. Like, you want somebody who is more</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1550" data-t="1550">aligned with your time preference.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1553">25:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1553" data-t="1553">Totally.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1554" data-t="1554">Yeah. I mean, time preference is a big one.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1558" data-t="1558">And there's a lot of decisions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1560" data-t="1560">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1561" data-t="1561">people need to understand</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1563" data-t="1563">or like hard forks or soft forks in the relationship. So, like, there's some things,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1570">26:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1570" data-t="1570">you know, like, people change over time. You know what I mean? Their interests change.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1576" data-t="1576">Sometimes their values change.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1579" data-t="1579">Like, say for example, so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1582" data-t="1582">if,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1584" data-t="1584">like, both parties in the relationship are non religious and they decide</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1589" data-t="1589">they wanna become religious or if they are staunch Bitcoin maximalist,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1596">26:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1596" data-t="1596">but then they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1597" data-t="1597">decide they changed their mind and they wanna shit coin a little bit,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1601" data-t="1601">as well. Or or, you know, they were staunch Bitcoin maximalist and they wanted to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1609" data-t="1609">you know, use Monero</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1611" data-t="1611">for something.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1614" data-t="1614">Like, people need to understand, you know, there's a process of, like, where both parties have to communicate</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1619">26:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1619" data-t="1619">about the decision</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1621" data-t="1621">and make it together.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1623" data-t="1623">You know, if if you're gonna shit coin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1625" data-t="1625">like, it it can cause conflict, you know, if one</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1630" data-t="1630">person in the relationship is eating a bunch of seed oils and the other one isn't. And if one is turning their balance</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1637">27:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1637" data-t="1637">problems, any other problems are staying in the title. That is yeah, that's a parolo. I had a plaid DM me</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1644" data-t="1644">and he asked, he said, my wife</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1646" data-t="1646">wants to open</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1648" data-t="1648">our Bitcoin only marriage</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1650" data-t="1650">to shitcoins.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1651" data-t="1651">She thinks that by opening our Bitcoin only marriage and inviting shitcoins</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1657">27:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1657" data-t="1657">or experimenting with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1659" data-t="1659">trading shitcoins</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1661" data-t="1661">would allow us</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1662" data-t="1662">to acquire</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1664" data-t="1664">more Bitcoin in the in the short term. We could, you know, some things like Doge and these other shitcoins</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1670" data-t="1670">have a, you know, history of</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1672">27:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1672" data-t="1672">of outperforming in the very short term</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1675" data-t="1675">Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1676" data-t="1676">And she just thinks that we need to add that volatility</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1679" data-t="1679">and excitement</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1680" data-t="1680">to our portfolios and to our marriage,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1683" data-t="1683">by, you know,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1685">28:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1685" data-t="1685">maybe just being secretive about it, but opening it up to shit points.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1689" data-t="1689">And I let me tell you,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1691" data-t="1691">that can only go wrong. Like, once you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1694" data-t="1694">once</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1695" data-t="1695">you open that up and you go off the Bitcoin standard, your marriage, you're gambling with your marriage. Dude, shitcoining with your wife is gambling with your marriage.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1704" data-t="1704">Just repeat that. Mars, if you're listening,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1707">28:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1707" data-t="1707">repeat that, repeat after me.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1710" data-t="1710">If you're shit coining with your wife, you're gambling on your marriage.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1717">28:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1717" data-t="1717">Yeah, I mean, it could be argued as a pretty,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1720" data-t="1720">high time preference</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1722" data-t="1722">activity</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1723" data-t="1723">to should coin together in a relationship.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1726">28:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1726" data-t="1726">Right. And, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1729" data-t="1729">but if you trust each other, you know, everybody made their own decisions, but,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1734">28:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1734" data-t="1734">every marriage,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1735" data-t="1735">I think every marriage, they should upload the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1739" data-t="1739">marriage certificate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1741" data-t="1741">signed by the minister</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1743" data-t="1743">through the blockchain as in an inscription.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1746">29:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1746" data-t="1746">Some, I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1748" data-t="1748">some husbands, some Bitcoiner husbands,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1752" data-t="1752">all of their wife's allowance in Bitcoin or her sats,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1757" data-t="1757">in a two zero two</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1758" data-t="1758">wallet. So, like, if she wants to spend Bitcoin, he has to approve it with that second signature. I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1767" data-t="1767">am I to judge that? I don't know. It works for them.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1771">29:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1771" data-t="1771">I mean, think about this. So instead of exchanging</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1775" data-t="1775">rings, you could put your valves</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1777" data-t="1777">on the Bitcoin blockchain.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1779" data-t="1779">And so instead of,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1781" data-t="1781">like say your wife goes out to the bar and some guy's hitting on her, instead of flashing out the ring, she could pull up the,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1790" data-t="1790">the rare sap</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1791">29:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1791" data-t="1791">and show the guy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1792" data-t="1792">Be like, hey.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1794" data-t="1794">You know, this</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1796" data-t="1796">this marriage</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1797">29:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1797" data-t="1797">that Right. Right. I'm watching. Yeah. That's a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1800" data-t="1800">that's a good point. Like, if</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1803" data-t="1803">like a diamond ring,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1805" data-t="1805">not all of them are created equal.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1808" data-t="1808">So if, you know, if you're a woman</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1811" data-t="1811">and your orange pill, your Bitcoiner</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1813">30:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1813" data-t="1813">boyfriend</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1815" data-t="1815">proposes to you using by inscribing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1819" data-t="1819">the date</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1820" data-t="1820">onto the blockchain,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1822" data-t="1822">you know, or or or putting your vows on the blockchain.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1825" data-t="1825">If</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1826">30:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1826" data-t="1826">he uses a rare sat from</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1828" data-t="1828">two avenues ago,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1830" data-t="1830">that that is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1833" data-t="1833">that's gonna be a like a big old blast and diamond versus, you know, like cubic zirconia, which is just like a, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1840" data-t="1840">what's the opcode way of getting like a short message into</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1844" data-t="1844">the blockchain to four ordinals?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1848">30:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1848" data-t="1848">You know what I'm talking about?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1852">30:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1852" data-t="1852">No. I have no idea.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1854">30:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1854" data-t="1854">People do it all the time for like their, which block their kid was born?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1863" data-t="1863">Using operator, an operator message,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1866" data-t="1866">just a simple operator message.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1870">31:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1870" data-t="1870">Yeah, you could do that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1872" data-t="1872">I mean, that's too simple though. I feel like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1876" data-t="1876">the reason why</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1880" data-t="1880">an inscription is valuable is because inscriptions are expensive just like the ring.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1885" data-t="1885">Like, the ring shows commitment because somebody spends</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1889" data-t="1889">potentially</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1890">31:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1890" data-t="1890">a third of their yearly income or or whatever.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1894">31:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1894" data-t="1894">But what if a woman says, I don't want</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1897" data-t="1897">my husband, my future husband,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1900" data-t="1900">to spend all of our Sats</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1902" data-t="1902">that could fund our future and pay for us to go to Bitcoin conferences, like even across the world?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1909" data-t="1909">I would rather</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1911" data-t="1911">him just</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1912">31:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1912" data-t="1912">all I care about is that it's on the blockchain. I just want it to be a cheap op return message,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1917" data-t="1917">and I want to save that Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1919" data-t="1919">What do you say to those women?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1921">32:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1921" data-t="1921">I would probably check,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1923" data-t="1923">tell the guy to check if they're trans because I'm pretty sure women don't think like that at all. Women have no problem with you spending your Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1931" data-t="1931">The battle is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1933" data-t="1933">preventing them from getting to spend all your Bitcoin.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1938">32:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1938" data-t="1938">That is true. That your wife exists as a temptation to spend Bitcoin.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1943">32:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1943" data-t="1943">Yeah. I mean like women want</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1945" data-t="1945">to feel</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1946" data-t="1946">very important. You know what I mean? And if you're a guy that listens to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a week, or you have hopefully have your own podcast,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1957" data-t="1957">she's gonna understand how much you understand</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1960" data-t="1960">Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1961" data-t="1961">And for you to be willing to spend a fair amount on her</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1965">32:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1965" data-t="1965">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1966" data-t="1966">inscribe,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1968" data-t="1968">you know, something.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1969" data-t="1969">Like, it's it's gonna mean I I don't know. It it mean me probably means a lot to her. Question.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1976">32:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1976" data-t="1976">If if you if you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1979" data-t="1979">propose to your wife</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1982" data-t="1982">and you pay, you know, 10 Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1985" data-t="1985">for that for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1986" data-t="1986">that proposal</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1988" data-t="1988">Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1989">33:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1989" data-t="1989">If if she breaks out, if, you know, if the wedding doesn't happen,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1994" data-t="1994">does she have to give back the private key to that rare set</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1998" data-t="1998">or does she get to keep it?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2001">33:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2001" data-t="2001">Well, I mean, I think the thing that's valuable about this is it's on the blockchain either way. You can't destroy it, right? So it's not really like the private key doesn't really matter. The the what matters is the permanence that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2014" data-t="2014">like, you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2015" data-t="2015">you you if your wife has trouble explaining</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2018" data-t="2018">this or your fiance,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2020" data-t="2020">what you could tell her is that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2023" data-t="2023">you know, the entire world can't see your ring,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2026">33:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2026" data-t="2026">but the entire world can see the blockchain.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2030" data-t="2030">You know what I mean? So it's her ability</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2033" data-t="2033">to show the entire world how valuable,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2036" data-t="2036">you know, her husband.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2038">33:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2038" data-t="2038">What if you're can you imagine</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2042" data-t="2042">what if if</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2044" data-t="2044">you date this girl and she's just, like, such a manipulator</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2048" data-t="2048">instead, like, sometimes girls will be like, hey,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2050" data-t="2050">I want you to get your name tattooed,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2054" data-t="2054">for my name tattooed on your body. Say you love me, but instead she wants you to inscribe</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2061">34:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2061" data-t="2061">on an expensive rear sat, like, you know, lover if you if you don't,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2066" data-t="2066">it's like replaces the tattoo on the body. It's like a a permanent,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2070" data-t="2070">unimmutable</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2072" data-t="2072">tribute of love.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2075" data-t="2075">You can never take it back. No matter how much you want to, you can never take it back.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2082">34:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2082" data-t="2082">Totally.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2086">34:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2086" data-t="2086">So how many dude how many dude are gonna be out there fucking on the hook with like 10 different expensive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2092" data-t="2092">ass inscriptions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2093" data-t="2093">because he's constantly falling for chicks who want him to spend his Bitcoin on them?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2099">34:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2099" data-t="2099">Yeah. But I mean, like, that's the thing that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2103" data-t="2103">I think is kinda hilarious is there's an accountability,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2108" data-t="2108">piece to it is the entire world will see</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2112" data-t="2112">that this individual</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2114" data-t="2114">has 10 expensive</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2116">35:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2116" data-t="2116">inscriptions like that with 10 different How How expensive of an inscription do you think it would take</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2122" data-t="2122">to nary Aubrey Strobel?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2127">35:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2127" data-t="2127">Wow.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2128" data-t="2128">Well, that guy couldn't get her to go to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2132" data-t="2132">waist slice's party with her,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2135" data-t="2135">and those are typically pretty expensive.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2137" data-t="2137">Right? They're like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2139" data-t="2139">they're probably close to a million sets at this point, which is a pretty good chunk of cigarettes.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2148">35:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2148" data-t="2148">So it's gotta be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2150" data-t="2150">pretty significant. Like, I I think Aubrey</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2153" data-t="2153">Aubrey has appears to have pretty high standards</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2156" data-t="2156">for herself. I I don't know her personally, but she she knows her value in the world</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2161" data-t="2161">as far as being a woman</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2164" data-t="2164">in in the Podcoff ecosystem and</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2167">36:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2167" data-t="2167">having a Bitcoin podcast.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2169" data-t="2169">I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2170" data-t="2170">that puts her as far as</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2173" data-t="2173">in the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2175" data-t="2175">in in people's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2177" data-t="2177">beliefs on attractiveness</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2179">36:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2179" data-t="2179">kinda towards the top. I I would call her a Lynn Alden, but</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2183">36:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2183" data-t="2183">a lot of Yeah. That was my question. It's like, do you think that somebody like Aubrey Strobel has any</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2191" data-t="2191">chance, or anybody, does anybody have a chance of having</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2195" data-t="2195">as many</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2197" data-t="2197">certificates or proposals of love inscribed forever on the blockchain as Lynn Alden?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2205" data-t="2205">I don't think anybody would have more</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2207" data-t="2207">on chain inscriptions of of people</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2210">36:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2210" data-t="2210">saying they wanted to marry them than Lynn Alden. Not even Aubrey Strobel.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2216">36:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2216" data-t="2216">Yeah. I mean, I I feel like comparing,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2221" data-t="2221">yeah. I mean, it's just it's like comparing,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2227" data-t="2227">Michael Jordan</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2229" data-t="2229">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2230" data-t="2230">Allen Iverson. You know what I mean? Like, Allen Iverson is great.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2235" data-t="2235">I love Allen Iverson.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2237">37:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2237" data-t="2237">He he was one of the most fun basketball players to ever watch, but he wasn't Michael Jordan.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2243" data-t="2243">But when all the scenarios</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2245" data-t="2245">like the Michael Jordan of hotness and Aubrey's kinda like a Allen Iverson,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2250" data-t="2250">in my opinion,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2251" data-t="2251">or like a Derrick Rose.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2253">37:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2253" data-t="2253">That's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2254" data-t="2254">a good way of putting it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2258" data-t="2258">That, we kind of got off topic, but we're getting into,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2261" data-t="2261">it's only been a couple days since Christmas. Most of us are still hanging out with our families, definitely listening to more Bitcoin podcasts than putting in hours at our job.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2271" data-t="2271">But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2274" data-t="2274">you know, what is Christmas? Yeah, we had a good Christmas. What is Christmas to you? What does Christmas represent to you as a Bitcoiner?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2281">38:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2281" data-t="2281">What kind of perspective does a Bitcoin next and must have on the meaning of Christmas, and how does that compare with, you know, the Fiat system or with with shitcoiners? Like what is the true meaning of Christmas?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2294">38:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2294" data-t="2294">Well,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2295" data-t="2295">as a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2296" data-t="2296">credentialed journalist</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2298" data-t="2298">from like my view of Christmas has evolved over time, right? So, like, when I was working for the the c I CIA ran media,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2308" data-t="2308">Christmas was all about consumerism.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2310" data-t="2310">Right? It was all about capitalism. It was all about</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2313">38:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2313" data-t="2313">advertising. It was the time of the year that advertisers really wanted to give you money.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2318" data-t="2318">And so you just kinda fed into that. You know what I mean? Like, it it it's the time for Podkoff</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2324" data-t="2324">essentially in our little ecosystem we find ourselves in.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2327" data-t="2327">But that that has kinda changed, you know.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2334" data-t="2334">I I mean, I don't know. I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2336" data-t="2336">I would say Christmas is about Jesus.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2339">38:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2339" data-t="2339">Right? I know it's a very, like, controversial</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2342" data-t="2342">thing to say</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2343" data-t="2343">in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2345" data-t="2345">our society where there's such a, you know, intense war on on Christmas.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2353" data-t="2353">But I would say it's about Jesus. And I I would say it's largely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2357" data-t="2357">about budgeting</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2358">39:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2358" data-t="2358">too. It's about,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2360" data-t="2360">you know, planning ahead. It's about having</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2363" data-t="2363">low time preference because just after Christmas,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2367" data-t="2367">you have to pay your taxes.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2370">39:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2370" data-t="2370">Right. That's that is why</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2372" data-t="2372">we shouldn't be, you know, it shouldn't be a surprise. There shouldn't be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2376" data-t="2376">a bearish indicator that the Bitcoin price is dropped below</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2380" data-t="2380">100 ks</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2382" data-t="2382">over the holidays. It's not that it's not that Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2387" data-t="2387">you know, it's not that Bitcoiners shouldn't like Christmas, but it's just</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2391">39:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2391" data-t="2391">that people need to are paying their taxes. It's it should be expected. People are selling to afford taxes. And more people now</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2399" data-t="2399">than ever before are selling Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2402" data-t="2402">to pay their taxes?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2405">40:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2405" data-t="2405">Well, I think,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2407" data-t="2407">what the really smart Bitcoiner does,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2410" data-t="2410">right? Is they've been around a while, they've been through a few cycles, they kind of know how things work. So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2416" data-t="2416">you can kind of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2418" data-t="2418">arbitrage</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2420" data-t="2420">bitcoin's volatility</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2423">40:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2423" data-t="2423">by moving in and out a dollar. So essentially</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2427" data-t="2427">in a bull market when bitcoin's trending up, you want to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2431" data-t="2431">hold Bitcoins. You might be watching in, you know, throughout the years putting a little bit aside,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2437" data-t="2437">every month in savings</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2441" data-t="2441">to buy Christmas gifts</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2442" data-t="2442">so that you can afford Christmas and taxes</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2445">40:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2445" data-t="2445">at the end of the year.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2447">40:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2447" data-t="2447">Right? And so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2448" data-t="2448">those dollars that you put to work increase in value.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2453" data-t="2453">That's where you can sell your Bitcoin at the end of the year to pay for Christmas gifts,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2458" data-t="2458">and then to forward capital gains.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2460" data-t="2460">But like in a bear market, you might wanna move those funds as Bitcoin's trending down</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2466" data-t="2466">in the USDT</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2468">41:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2468" data-t="2468">before you buy Bitcoin. Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2471" data-t="2471">It's not what a lot of people did is they they saw Bitcoin going up. They put money into it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2478" data-t="2478">And unfortunately,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2479" data-t="2479">it just looks like the DCA errors</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2482" data-t="2482">are,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2484" data-t="2484">not buying as much and they're they're selling currently</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2487">41:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2487" data-t="2487">to afford those two things. And so I wonder if there's gonna be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2491" data-t="2491">another Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2493" data-t="2493">price dip</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2494" data-t="2494">as we get into tax season as well.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2497">41:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2497" data-t="2497">Yeah. Yeah. That's I think that is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2500" data-t="2500">not perfect,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2503" data-t="2503">or, like, a great way to time the market, especially if you're a trader or you're buying call options, is to and just remember that the price is gonna dip</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2511" data-t="2511">around April.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2512" data-t="2512">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2513" data-t="2513">And going back to the spirit of, oh, what is the meaning of Christmas? And to me, it comes down to two things.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2519">41:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2519" data-t="2519">One is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2522" data-t="2522">Christmas is a great way</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2525" data-t="2525">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2526" data-t="2526">celebrate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2527" data-t="2527">how great capitalism is. Because you look around the world and you look at Christmas celebrations and you look at Christmas presents</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2534" data-t="2534">and you look at, Christmas parties,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2537">42:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2537" data-t="2537">capitalist countries have the best Christmases.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2540" data-t="2540">Much better than communist, much better than these alternative socialist,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2545" data-t="2545">hell holes. Right? Like, capitalism</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2547" data-t="2547">is where Christmas is at, and that that is what it's good to remember at Christmas is being thankful for capitalism.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2557" data-t="2557">And second is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2558" data-t="2558">one of the most important,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2561">42:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2561" data-t="2561">however, like you said, Christmas evolves in meaning,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2564" data-t="2564">and Christmas evolves</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2566" data-t="2566">in how cultures celebrate it over time as well. But one thing we can never afford to lose</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2572" data-t="2572">is the story of Santa Claus. Santa Claus teaches you at a very young age</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2577" data-t="2577">that even when you think it's implausible</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2580" data-t="2580">that all of the authorities</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2582">43:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2582" data-t="2582">and all the authority figures that you respect</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2585" data-t="2585">would be in collusion</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2587" data-t="2587">to pull off a cruel sigh up to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2591" data-t="2591">to control your behavior,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2594" data-t="2594">you can just look back at the story of Santa Claus and realize that that is one of the most common psyops</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2601" data-t="2601">in the world. And if they're doing it to children</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2604">43:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2604" data-t="2604">to get them to behave and to not get on the naughty list, they're definitely doing it to you.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2612">43:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2612" data-t="2612">Totally.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2616" data-t="2616">What Bitcoiners would you say are on the naughty list?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2620" data-t="2620">Do you have any short list?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2622">43:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2622" data-t="2622">Wow.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2624" data-t="2624">I think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2626" data-t="2626">every year,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2628" data-t="2628">Udi</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2629" data-t="2629">and the ordinals are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2631" data-t="2631">on the naughty list.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2633">43:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2633" data-t="2633">I think that if you had, you know, probably most people would agree that Shinobi is on the naughty list,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2641" data-t="2641">Whitney Webb is certainly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2643" data-t="2643">and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2644" data-t="2644">and Mark Goodwin are definitely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2647" data-t="2647">on the naughty list.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2652" data-t="2652">Who else do you got anymore?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2662">44:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2662" data-t="2662">I would say Nick Carter's on the naughty list.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2664">44:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2664" data-t="2664">Nick Carter, for sure.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2667" data-t="2667">Again, he's been on the naughty list for the past few years.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2670" data-t="2670">It's been reported</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2674" data-t="2674">that, exposed, I guess, that, Steve Barber</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2678" data-t="2678">intentionally</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2679" data-t="2679">gets on the naughty list for Santa every year because he,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2683">44:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2683" data-t="2683">you know, he likes getting coal in his stocking.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2687" data-t="2687">So if you know Steve, you know why, you know, he lost dirty coal. He thinks that that's better than,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2693" data-t="2693">nuclear energy. So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2695" data-t="2695">what about,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2696">44:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2696" data-t="2696">I think there's this, like, whole</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2698" data-t="2698">type of individual</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2701" data-t="2701">that's interested in the Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2703" data-t="2703">that tries to move into</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2706" data-t="2706">kinda being a bad boy and, like, thinks that women will find it attractive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2711" data-t="2711">if you're on the naughty list. You know what I mean? And that's kinda like Steve's brand</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2716">45:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2716" data-t="2716">of,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2718" data-t="2718">Bitcoin influencing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2720" data-t="2720">essentially</span> <span class="cue" data-t="2720">is, like, he's gonna be he's gonna be the guy that's, like, a little bit edgy. Like, he's against ESG,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2730" data-t="2730">which is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2731" data-t="2731">essentially bad for NGU.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2733">45:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2733" data-t="2733">Like, he's he's saying a bunch of things that contradict Dennis Porter,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2738" data-t="2738">which is very dangerous.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2743" data-t="2743">And I I kinda wonder if it's, like, you know, attempt</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2747" data-t="2747">to impress his wife or something. You know what I mean? Like like, kind of old guy that that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2753" data-t="2753">rides the Harley to the bar and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2756" data-t="2756">rides</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2757">45:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2757" data-t="2757">I I never I never met Steve Barber. So this might be,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2761" data-t="2761">totally inaccurate, but I just noticed that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2764" data-t="2764">people who</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2766" data-t="2766">people who are really lean into being</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2770" data-t="2770">anti environment instead of just being like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2773" data-t="2773">ESG and climate change or science ops, it's like, I think they're good and using it as a science to say it's good, trying to spin the science up, right? And like leaning into, like, I hate the climate,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2784">46:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2784" data-t="2784">I don't think women should vote,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2788" data-t="2788">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2789" data-t="2789">fuck the government, you know, all this stuff. It's they're usually short, like Svetzke.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2795" data-t="2795">So I don't know if maybe like Steve Barber, he just feels like it. He's got short man syndrome, so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2801" data-t="2801">he is a big guy that he he makes his personality about life and cold.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2806">46:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2806" data-t="2806">Well, what's funny about Steve Barber is he's probably like six four, six five. He's a tall guy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2812" data-t="2812">Okay. He's actually the exact opposite of that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2816" data-t="2816">But I could see, like, how his</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2820" data-t="2820">his Twitter personality could suggest</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2823" data-t="2823">that he has short man syndrome.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2826">47:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2826" data-t="2826">Interesting.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2827">47:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2827" data-t="2827">I would say Alex Fetzky is on the naughty list</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2830" data-t="2830">for sure.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2831">47:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2831" data-t="2831">Oh, yeah. Especially with some of the women in Bitcoin for sure.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2835">47:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2835" data-t="2835">Well, he's on their naughty list. That's that's for sure.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2840" data-t="2840">He seemed like he was on JNRSA's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2842" data-t="2842">naughty list when we interviewed her.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2846">47:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2846" data-t="2846">I think he's on, Ninja Granny's naughty list, but I think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2851" data-t="2851">that Ninja Granny's naughty list is really just a list of all the boys she has crushes on in Bitcoin podcast land.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2859">47:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2859" data-t="2859">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2860" data-t="2860">I almost wonder</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2862" data-t="2862">that that's an interesting theory about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2864" data-t="2864">her placing the people she has crushes on on the list. But I almost wonder</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2869" data-t="2869">sometimes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2871" data-t="2871">yeah. It feels like some women are mad</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2873">47:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2873" data-t="2873">at all Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2876" data-t="2876">male podcasters</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2877" data-t="2877">and and maybe even all men.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2880" data-t="2880">But what's been really interesting is these women</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2884" data-t="2884">and I'm not talking about Ninja Granny because I think she</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2888" data-t="2888">oftentimes is rightfully</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2890">48:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2890" data-t="2890">frustrated with certain people, or I can at least empathize with it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2896" data-t="2896">But the some of these women that are just vehemently</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2899" data-t="2899">anti men for whatever reason,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2902" data-t="2902">they they seem to be in love with this Luigi guy. Have you noticed this?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2907">48:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2907" data-t="2907">Oh, yeah. Yeah. The,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2910" data-t="2910">the new UnitedHealthcare,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2913" data-t="2913">phone guy.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2914">48:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2914" data-t="2914">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2916" data-t="2916">Okay. I think a lot of people get into socialism</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2920" data-t="2920">in general because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2922" data-t="2922">they're they're looking for an alternative</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2924" data-t="2924">to the system that we're in. Right? Like, there are individuals that feel marginalized. They haven't been able to afford to pay their taxes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2932" data-t="2932">So when you get frustrated,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2934">48:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2934" data-t="2934">take it out on, you know, billionaires and and people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2938" data-t="2938">providing value to the economy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2942" data-t="2942">and if it gets edgy. Right? And and Right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2945" data-t="2945">Luigi is like the faith of the edginess</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2948" data-t="2948">of of the individual that's disenfranchised</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2951" data-t="2951">and can't afford to pay their taxes.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2955">49:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2955" data-t="2955">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2956" data-t="2956">It's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2957" data-t="2957">it's interesting here that they make their heroes. So, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2962" data-t="2962">it tells a lot about a person who they make their heroes in Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2966" data-t="2966">And the other thing that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2969" data-t="2969">those type of people, those Ninja Granny's I mean, not Ninja Granny herself, but we were just talking about her</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2978">49:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2978" data-t="2978">is in one of the most important things is trying to get more women into Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2982" data-t="2982">and people like them, they don't really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2985" data-t="2985">try to help</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2986" data-t="2986">the cause</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2987" data-t="2987">as much as you think they should. You know, it's like sometimes we'll say women love to spend Bitcoin or, you know, women, you know, might not necessarily know how to use hardware wallets</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2997" data-t="2997">and their first response is,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3000">49:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3000" data-t="3000">Hey, hello, not all women?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3002" data-t="3002">And it's like, it used to be a meme at hashtag, like not all men. It's like people, a woman would say men are, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3010" data-t="3010">doing too much raping in, in,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3012" data-t="3012">in society and they're like, Hey, not all men. I'm a male feminist.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3016" data-t="3016">It's like, it's kind of like the reverse in Bitcoin, Twitter. It's like, not all women. I have a multisit wallet that I know how to use and I run my own node. It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3027" data-t="3027">That's not helpful. I'm proud of you, but that's not helpful. What we need to do</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3031">50:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3031" data-t="3031">is preaching and helping more women</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3034" data-t="3034">realize they can also use a hardware wallet. Totally.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3038">50:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3038" data-t="3038">Yeah, I mean, I like that meme, not all women.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3043" data-t="3043">I think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3045" data-t="3045">one thing people need to understand</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3048" data-t="3048">is that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3049" data-t="3049">not all women that are smart</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3052" data-t="3052">and know a lot about Bitcoin,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3055">50:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3055" data-t="3055">not all of them are actually</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3057" data-t="3057">biologically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3058" data-t="3058">male.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3059" data-t="3059">And this is something</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3061" data-t="3061">that seems to be lost in translation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3064" data-t="3064">when I'm looking at Bitcoin Twitter.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3066">51:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3066" data-t="3066">I see a lot of the replies to the, you know,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3070">51:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3070" data-t="3070">the post that we do.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3072" data-t="3072">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3074" data-t="3074">not a woman are are biological males,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3077" data-t="3077">at birth.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3079">51:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3079" data-t="3079">In Don't get me wrong.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3081" data-t="3081">I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3082" data-t="3082">love our friend Mars</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3084" data-t="3084">and he is, I mean, he works so hard on his video memes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3089" data-t="3089">Sometimes they just don't get the recognition</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3091" data-t="3091">they deserve,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3092">51:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3092" data-t="3092">but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3093" data-t="3093">you know, he made a really good one that went viral yesterday. Did you ever see it? It's like, he's, it's Michael Salish saying, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3099" data-t="3099">women</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3100" data-t="3100">spend all their time on listening to Bitcoin podcasts and I, and being on Twitter spaces,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3106" data-t="3106">they have a word for them, he calls them FEDS</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3108" data-t="3108">and that's</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3110">51:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3110" data-t="3110">a dog whistle</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3112" data-t="3112">for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3115" data-t="3115">implying that women who are into Bitcoin are biologically male, like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3120" data-t="3120">people associate feds with men. It's just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3123" data-t="3123">an Andrean thing. It's a funny meme and I think you should check it out, but it does perpetuate a problematic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3129" data-t="3129">message.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3130">52:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3130" data-t="3130">Yeah. I mean, not all hot women are feds.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3134" data-t="3134">I don't think Lynn Alden is a fed.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3137">52:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3137" data-t="3137">I don't either. Right. Right. Exactly.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3139">52:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3139" data-t="3139">That's a that's a pretty crazy conspiracy theory if you think Lynn Alden is a fed. Right. And they they assume that,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3146">52:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3146" data-t="3146">Cynthia Lummis,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3147" data-t="3147">she must be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3149" data-t="3149">a fed. Caitlin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3150" data-t="3150">Law, she must be a fed. And it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3153" data-t="3153">just,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3154" data-t="3154">it's on par with the antisemitism</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3156">52:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3156" data-t="3156">that people throw at, like, who controls the banks? It's like, who are the feds? It's like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3161" data-t="3161">just because a woman's really into Bitcoin doesn't make her a fed.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3165">52:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3165" data-t="3165">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3166" data-t="3166">It's still like in line with the anti swanism as</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3170" data-t="3170">well.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3171">52:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3171" data-t="3171">Exactly. There was a lot of fed undertones in that one as well.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3176">52:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3176" data-t="3176">Yeah. I don't know why the feds,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3178" data-t="3178">would go after</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3179" data-t="3179">Swan as hard as they did. That was all very strange to me.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3184">53:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3184" data-t="3184">Right. I mean, they covered with Tether. I thought that I thought they would I thought they would be okay. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3190">53:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3190" data-t="3190">I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3191" data-t="3191">would have figured they would have liked Swan</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3194" data-t="3194">in them using</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3196" data-t="3196">dollars to make Bitcoin stronger.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3199">53:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3199" data-t="3199">Right, right, exactly. That gets into our final topic. It's like the strategic Bitcoin reserve</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3206" data-t="3206">And the strategic, you know, Bitcoin reserve is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3210" data-t="3210">well, you know, we talked about this off air.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3212" data-t="3212">We'd like to talk about Bitcoin fixes this,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3216" data-t="3216">and sometimes we lose sight of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3219" data-t="3219">Bitcoin's power</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3221">53:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3221" data-t="3221">to fix things</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3223" data-t="3223">and we wouldn't have even</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3226" data-t="3226">considered</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3227" data-t="3227">that Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3228" data-t="3228">well, you know, we say that Bitcoin fixes the fiat system, but we couldn't have considered</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3233" data-t="3233">how</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3234">53:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3234" data-t="3234">and it seems like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3236" data-t="3236">the strategic Bitcoin reserve</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3238" data-t="3238">is our Manhattan project</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3241" data-t="3241">to finally fix the US dollar fiat system.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3246">54:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3246" data-t="3246">Totally.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3249" data-t="3249">Yeah. I mean, I think this Christmas was,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3253" data-t="3253">definitely about the strategic Bitcoin reserve.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3257">54:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3257" data-t="3257">Yes, ultimately it all boils down to that. I mean, the election itself,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3262" data-t="3262">even though</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3263" data-t="3263">very few people had the vision</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3266" data-t="3266">to see it and call it out,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3269" data-t="3269">People liked the Bitcoin bugle first and foremost, Dennis Porter, of course,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3274" data-t="3274">Mark Goodwin,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3276">54:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3276" data-t="3276">even Audible Magoo.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3279" data-t="3279">The Bitcoin bugle was the most out front other than Dennis Porter about this, and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3285" data-t="3285">that's that's what politics, what everything's been all about, and it's finally here.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3292">54:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3292" data-t="3292">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3294" data-t="3294">I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3295" data-t="3295">I think we're really gunning for,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3298" data-t="3298">so Infowars</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3299" data-t="3299">is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3301" data-t="3301">tomorrow's fake news today. Right?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3304">55:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3304" data-t="3304">Right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3306" data-t="3306">We're we're like, tomorrow is real news today. You know what I mean? Like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3311" data-t="3311">this is just something, like, I I I think journalists that are Bitcoiners</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3317" data-t="3317">are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3318" data-t="3318">way ahead of the curve.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3320" data-t="3320">You know what I mean? So, like, you know, having been into Bitcoin for a while, we've been front running everyone. We've been front running the US government. We've been front running</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3329">55:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3329" data-t="3329">BlackRock. We've been front running,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3333" data-t="3333">Mark Cuban.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3337" data-t="3337">And you you when you're front running the entire world,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3341" data-t="3341">and there's also listening to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast a week,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3346" data-t="3346">You're just kind of in the habit of front running. So you can front run everybody else when it comes to news. Like, I think a lot of these fiat</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3355" data-t="3355">type reporters is they're they just focus on</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3359">55:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3359" data-t="3359">clicks. They just focus on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3361" data-t="3361">the headline. And when you're operating in the value for value economy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3367" data-t="3367">you're not as much worried about that. Like, you don't you don't care about how many likes you get on, mister. You know what I mean? You care about how many zaps you get.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3375" data-t="3375">There's a big difference</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3377">56:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3377" data-t="3377">there. Right, right, right. People who are chasing likes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3380" data-t="3380">and chasing retweets</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3383" data-t="3383">are going to be out competed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3385" data-t="3385">by the people who are chasing zaps</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3389" data-t="3389">in business.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3390" data-t="3390">That's why all Bitcoin podcasts will or excuse me, all podcasts</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3395">56:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3395" data-t="3395">will slowly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3397" data-t="3397">become Bitcoin podcasts because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3400" data-t="3400">it's gonna it's it's more thermal by the content is more thermodynamically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3405" data-t="3405">sound.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3406" data-t="3406">It is the only a Bitcoin podcast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3409" data-t="3409">is the only podcast</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3410">56:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3410" data-t="3410">eventually that people will realize it's the only podcast that's worth their time</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3415" data-t="3415">And they'll demonstrate that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3417" data-t="3417">by</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3419" data-t="3419">using the value for value economy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3422" data-t="3422">for content.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3424">57:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3424" data-t="3424">Totally.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3430">57:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3430" data-t="3430">Totally. On the strategic Bitcoin reserve? Because I know I am.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3434">57:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3434" data-t="3434">Absolutely.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3435" data-t="3435">You know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3437" data-t="3437">back to the point you were making, it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3439" data-t="3439">saying that the strategic Bitcoin reserve, but we it's not just enough</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3444" data-t="3444">to be the first person to make the announcement and get all the engagement on Twitter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3450" data-t="3450">It's being able to make</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3452">57:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3452" data-t="3452">accurate infra or</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3454" data-t="3454">is any profitable decisions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3457" data-t="3457">with the information.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3459" data-t="3459">Being able to see and front run the strategic Bitcoin reserve, just like being able to see and front run the ETF,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3468" data-t="3468">it is, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3471" data-t="3471">the journalists who do that will have</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3473">57:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3473" data-t="3473">the ability to pay their taxes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3475" data-t="3475">and continue to focus on journalism instead of how, how, how am I gonna be able to pay my taxes? Do I have to learn to podcast now?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3482" data-t="3482">Like, what am I gonna do?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3485" data-t="3485">You will be able</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3486">58:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3486" data-t="3486">to take the, you know It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3489" data-t="3489">a feedback loop where Yeah. You know, these individual these journalists not on the Bitcoin standard</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3494" data-t="3494">are just so focused on,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3497" data-t="3497">like, their</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3498" data-t="3498">their</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3500" data-t="3500">impressions on Twitter, for example,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3503">58:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3503" data-t="3503">because</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3504">58:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3504" data-t="3504">that determines You get the out payments there. Exactly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3507" data-t="3507">Yep.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3508" data-t="3508">You have to KYC as long as you KYC</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3512" data-t="3512">and,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="3512">and and pay</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3514" data-t="3514">pay a fee, pay your tax</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3516">58:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3516" data-t="3516">your private taxes to Elon Musk,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3519" data-t="3519">and you you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3521" data-t="3521">you get your fiat payments. Probably gonna come out in USDT soon.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3525" data-t="3525">But, if you get paid in Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3528" data-t="3528">you are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3529" data-t="3529">getting a better you're getting better feedback about the value of your message.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3537">58:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3537" data-t="3537">Very well said.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3542">59:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3542" data-t="3542">Yeah, man. I am extremely bullish about the strategic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3546" data-t="3546">Bitcoin reserve.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3550" data-t="3550">There's two clamps here I think is where we're going to get into the debate I think the strategic Bitcoin reserve is inevitable</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3557" data-t="3557">it's going to fix</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3558" data-t="3558">I think people are going to be surprised at how quickly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3561" data-t="3561">it fixes the dollar system I think that is going to be what Bitcoin's coming out moment really is is like, Holy shit,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3568">59:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3568" data-t="3568">it fixed this broken mess, like Humpty Dumpty</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3571" data-t="3571">all the King's men couldn't put it back together, but Bitcoin fixed Humpty Dumpty like that it's going to be a metaphorical Humpty Dumpty moment</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3579" data-t="3579">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3580" data-t="3580">and we're gonna get into the debate of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3583" data-t="3583">is the strategic Bitcoin reserve</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3585" data-t="3585">a strong central wallet</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3588">59:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3588" data-t="3588">or is it is the Bitcoin strategic reserve</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3592" data-t="3592">creating more security for The United States if it is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3596" data-t="3596">distributed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3598" data-t="3598">as many decentralized wallets</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3600" data-t="3600">and militias</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3601" data-t="3601">people</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3602">1:00:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3602" data-t="3602">were willing to defend it as possible?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3606">1:00:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3606" data-t="3606">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3607" data-t="3607">Well, I think the Trump administration</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3609" data-t="3609">with,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3610" data-t="3610">their new branch, the Dogecoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3613" data-t="3613">branch,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3618" data-t="3618">is like, they they have a lot of foresight. Right?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3621">1:00:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3621" data-t="3621">They they foresee</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3623" data-t="3623">Bitcoin fixing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3625" data-t="3625">everything.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3626" data-t="3626">Therefore,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3628" data-t="3628">you know, it's like one of the chief</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3631" data-t="3631">jobs</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3632">1:00:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3632" data-t="3632">and roles of government is to create problems for themselves to fix. Right?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3638" data-t="3638">Like, that's the that's the point of government.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3642" data-t="3642">And so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3644" data-t="3644">when Bitcoin fixes all the problems that they're trying to create and they just can't they can't out they can't create problems that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3653" data-t="3653">exceeds</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3654" data-t="3654">Bitcoin's ability to fix all the problems.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3657">1:00:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3657" data-t="3657">They're just not gonna have a job anymore. It's not gonna make any sense to employ them.</span></span></p> +