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It is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-279" data-t="279">Easter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-280" data-t="280">As I'm recording this, as you're listening to it, it is the day after Easter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-285" data-t="285">I hope you had a good Easter. Hope you went to church with your family,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-290" data-t="290">went out to brunch afterwards,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-292" data-t="292">did the whole thing.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-294">4:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-294" data-t="294">If you didn't go to church, I hope you had a good day, a good rejuvenating,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-300" data-t="300">freeing day. Easter's a fun holiday. It's a fun holiday because it it's really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-306" data-t="306">a milestone.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-307" data-t="307">Like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-308" data-t="308">you you got out of winter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-311" data-t="311">You survived winter.</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-313" data-t="313">You're going into the spring. You're going into the summer. It's about to be really nice, you know, when you're a kid.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-319" data-t="319">Easter kind of marked the end of the school</span> <span class="cue" id="t-323" data-t="323">year, going into summer and into the time where you weren't,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-327" data-t="327">chained to a desk, and you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-329" data-t="329">could run around in the grass.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-331" data-t="331">It was a time where you started wearing shorts outside, and you didn't have to bundle up in the cold as much anymore. For many people,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-340">5:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-340" data-t="340">Easter</span> <span class="cue" data-t="340">marks a time of hope,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-342" data-t="342">and and spring marks a time of hope.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-345" data-t="345">As it's getting warmer, you're able to go outside. You're able to get more sunlight. You're able to connect with people more.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-352" data-t="352">One of the things about the winter, about the cold is that it could be isolating.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-357" data-t="357">It'd be painful to go outside and and smoke a cigarette in the cold, but</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-362">6:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-362" data-t="362">as it starts warming up, it's enjoyable. It's really enjoyable to go outside and and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-369" data-t="369">see the the blooming trees, see things become</span> <span class="cue" id="t-373" data-t="373">alive again.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-375" data-t="375">And I hope that's what's happening for you. I hope</span> <span class="cue" id="t-378" data-t="378">you're feeling the stirring</span> <span class="cue" id="t-381" data-t="381">in your soul, this this liveliness, this this sense of hope.</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">I know the world around us is crazy right now.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-390" data-t="390">It's it's really,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-392" data-t="392">really crazy. People are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-395" data-t="395">starting to kinda universally wake up to it. I think I think there's a lot of people like the Bitcoin podcast listeners</span> <span class="cue" id="t-401" data-t="401">figured out that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-403" data-t="403">the world was crazy</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-404">6:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-404" data-t="404">a long time before, but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-407" data-t="407">now the general population's starting to figure it out. They're starting to feel a pain from inflation. They're starting to feel</span> <span class="cue" id="t-414" data-t="414">pain</span> <span class="cue" id="t-416" data-t="416">from just the geopolitical</span> <span class="cue" id="t-417" data-t="417">chaos,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-420" data-t="420">from all these world leaders,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-423">7:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-423" data-t="423">making decisions that they have no control over. They're probably grappling with a sense of powerlessness.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-429" data-t="429">You've probably been dealing with that that feeling for years and and have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-434" data-t="434">found a way to manage it, whether it be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-437" data-t="437">through religion, whether it be through believing in yourself, whether it be through both.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-442" data-t="442">Hopefully, you found a way to to manage that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-446" data-t="446">the feeling of realizing you're you're really not in control and maybe the world wasn't as safe as, you'd been led to believe it was. If you haven't,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-454">7:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-454" data-t="454">I would encourage you to keep on listening to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-458" data-t="458">forty hours Bitcoin podcast week,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-461" data-t="461">and</span> <span class="cue" data-t="461">you'll get the entropy needed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-464" data-t="464">to probably find that that sense of meaning and and and purpose in your life one way or another to be able to navigate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-472" data-t="472">the difficult times ahead. Bitcoin</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-476">7:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-476" data-t="476">why so many people are religious about Bitcoin?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-479" data-t="479">It's because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-481" data-t="481">it's hope in a lot of ways for a lot of us. It's it's the context needed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-486" data-t="486">to understand that you're just not you're not just screwed.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-490" data-t="490">You're you're you're not just subjected to the whims of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-494" data-t="494">of powerful individuals. You're not just</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-498">8:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-498" data-t="498">destined to only</span> <span class="cue" id="t-500" data-t="500">get your content from PodConf. There really is hope for the individual. There's there's hope of preserving</span> <span class="cue" id="t-506" data-t="506">the wealth</span> <span class="cue" id="t-507" data-t="507">that you've generated, the value that you've generated to the world,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-511" data-t="511">and not have it just be completely siphoned away by inflation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-515" data-t="515">and taxation.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-517">8:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-517" data-t="517">That's that's the hope that that Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-520" data-t="520">provides, and it's a very powerful one. It's the it's the hope</span> <span class="cue" id="t-524" data-t="524">that you could transact freely, that you can go and you can participate in,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-530" data-t="530">illicit non KYC</span> <span class="cue" id="t-532" data-t="532">cigarette transactions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-534" data-t="534">in a peer to peer manner, and and and nobody can stop you.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-538">8:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-538" data-t="538">That's a very, like, freeing and liberating</span> <span class="cue" id="t-541" data-t="541">and and powerful position to be in.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-545" data-t="545">And coming like, living today in our society with with the way</span> <span class="cue" id="t-550" data-t="550">that everything is, with smoking bans, with,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-554" data-t="554">just these, like, stupid trends of, like, content.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-558" data-t="558">You know, you turn on the TV and you watch something and it's just making you feel bad about yourself, and then you're bombarded with</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-565">9:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-565" data-t="565">advertisements</span> <span class="cue" id="t-566" data-t="566">for a bunch of products that you don't really want</span> <span class="cue" id="t-570" data-t="570">that are kinda useless, like, you know, the pharmaceuticals</span> <span class="cue" id="t-573" data-t="573">and and stuff like that. It just breaks you down. It breaks down your spirit. It breaks down your sense of, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-581" data-t="581">hope</span> <span class="cue" id="t-582" data-t="582">and humanity. You know, you turn on the TV and it's</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-585">9:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-585" data-t="585">just blasting you with fear. It's just blasting you with stuff that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-589" data-t="589">that makes you wanna be fearful, and then all the examples that are presented to us in pop culture are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-596" data-t="596">relatively</span> <span class="cue" id="t-597" data-t="597">negative. There's not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-600" data-t="600">there's not a ton of examples</span> <span class="cue" id="t-602" data-t="602">out there of what it means to be an actual</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-606">10:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-606" data-t="606">sovereign individual.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-608" data-t="608">And then you escape</span> <span class="cue" id="t-610" data-t="610">into the world of Bitcoin podcast, and you begin participating in the 40 HPW.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-614" data-t="614">Now you don't have time</span> <span class="cue" id="t-616" data-t="616">to watch</span> <span class="cue" id="t-618" data-t="618">bullshit on Netflix</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-619">10:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-619" data-t="619">all day because you're you're actually learning about the world and you're trying to navigate. And you're you're you're not just listening,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-627" data-t="627">to listen. You're you're listening to figure out ways of how to apply this stuff to your life. And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-633" data-t="633">you begin moving forward. And, like, I I think that's that's the feeling we all wanna feel.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-639" data-t="639">We we don't wanna feel stuck. We don't feel we don't wanna be waiting for the world</span> <span class="cue" id="t-645" data-t="645">to just collapse to be begin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-649" data-t="649">be able to start life and to begin rebuilding.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-653">10:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-653" data-t="653">We don't have to wait for that. We can start moving forward. We could start building, and we can start</span> <span class="cue" id="t-658" data-t="658">feeling better about ourselves,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-660" data-t="660">feeling better about our circumstances,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-662" data-t="662">feeling better about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-664" data-t="664">our families, our relationships.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-668" data-t="668">You can look in the mirror and instead of, like, kind of avoiding eye contact with yourself, you can look yourself in the eyes with pride because you're moving forward in life.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-678">11:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-678" data-t="678">You're moving forward in life. This is such a privileged position to be able to experience this. The majority of people do not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-686" data-t="686">experience this and this is why it's so important not to really use</span> <span class="cue" id="t-692" data-t="692">the majority of people as a benchmark to compare yourself on whether you're doing well or not. They're the fiat standard, and you're living on the Bitcoin standard. Why?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-701" data-t="701">They're on an entirely different planet. Like, you need to be comparing yourself to actual good examples</span> <span class="cue" id="t-708" data-t="708">in your life of of people doing interesting things, people actually trying</span> <span class="cue" id="t-713" data-t="713">to push themselves forward,</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">people trying to grow, people trying to build</span> <span class="cue" id="t-718" data-t="718">a better future instead of just extracting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-721" data-t="721">everything they can out of other people that are being productive, the the looters</span> <span class="cue" id="t-726" data-t="726">in society. Right now I'm on vacation.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-730" data-t="730">I'm,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-731" data-t="731">reading nine rands,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-733">12:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-733" data-t="733">Atlas Shrugged, again.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-736" data-t="736">It's a fun book. Every time I read it, I experience</span> <span class="cue" id="t-740" data-t="740">something slightly different.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-744" data-t="744">And these characters like Dagny Tower Taggart and and Howard Roark</span> <span class="cue" id="t-751" data-t="751">are incredible people.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-753" data-t="753">And we need to look for those types of people in our lives to surround ourselves with. We need to look for those people that the people that</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-761">12:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-761" data-t="761">move the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-763" data-t="763">And instead of casting scorn at them, we have to lift them up</span> <span class="cue" id="t-768" data-t="768">as examples</span> <span class="cue" id="t-769" data-t="769">for other people. Tell your kids, hey, look at that person.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-773" data-t="773">They're legit.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-775" data-t="775">You know, have your daughters watching Lynn Alden,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-779">12:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-779" data-t="779">interviews,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-780" data-t="780">hearing about the broken money,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-782" data-t="782">seeing that she's hot,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-784" data-t="784">seeing her as an example of what it what it looks like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-788" data-t="788">to live as a sentient human being, as as somebody to applaud,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-794" data-t="794">as an example, have your sons,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-796">13:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-796" data-t="796">have them listening to Bitcoin podcasters out there. Hopefully, they're listening to if you're a father, hopefully, you've started a Bitcoin podcast and and then that your son can listen to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-806" data-t="806">your your Bitcoin podcast even after you die. If that's a fear, you know, that's something we all have to consider is, leaving something behind for our kids</span> <span class="cue" id="t-815" data-t="815">to consume</span> <span class="cue" id="t-816" data-t="816">after we're dead, that they can be connected to you, that you've you've generated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-820" data-t="820">years and or, well, hours and hours and hours worth of Bitcoin podcast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-826" data-t="826">where they can stay connected to you after you're dead.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-829">13:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-829" data-t="829">What an incredible</span> <span class="cue" id="t-831" data-t="831">incredible</span> <span class="cue" id="t-833" data-t="833">thing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-834" data-t="834">to gift your children. Your years and years of Bitcoin podcast. We need hope. And Easter Easter is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-842" data-t="842">the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-843" data-t="843">holiday</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-844">14:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-844" data-t="844">of hope.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-846" data-t="846">Christmas is too. I would say Easter's more significant,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-852" data-t="852">in the Christian world,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-854" data-t="854">spiritually,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-855" data-t="855">than Christmas is.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-857" data-t="857">Because it's really it it's really about</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-860">14:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-860" data-t="860">the day that everything happened that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-863" data-t="863">that makes Christianity what it is.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-866" data-t="866">Christianity wouldn't even be a religion had Jesus not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-871" data-t="871">died on the cross and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-873" data-t="873">and risen again.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-874" data-t="874">It would have been,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-875">14:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-875" data-t="875">I don't know, just just like a story. Jesus wouldn't have been significant,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-882" data-t="882">like he is. He he would have been another prophet, but it it it's the one thing that that separates him from</span> <span class="cue" id="t-889" data-t="889">all the other prophets in in Christianity. And that's why that's why it's such a big day. That's that's why</span> <span class="cue" id="t-895" data-t="895">people that don't go to church</span> <span class="cue" id="t-897" data-t="897">at all go to church on,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-899" data-t="899">on Easter.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-901">15:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-901" data-t="901">Because it's the day. It's the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-904" data-t="904">day in Christianity. You might not be a Christian. That's okay. The world is very</span> <span class="cue" id="t-910" data-t="910">uncertain.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-912" data-t="912">Very uncertain. It's hard to tell</span> <span class="cue" id="t-914" data-t="914">what is true because you're getting so many different</span> <span class="cue" id="t-919" data-t="919">conflicting messages. A lot of people just want to fall in</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-924">15:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-924" data-t="924">to something</span> <span class="cue" id="t-926" data-t="926">greater themselves,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-928" data-t="928">to have faith in something, to to to be married to some sort of dogma</span> <span class="cue" id="t-935" data-t="935">that brings clarity in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-938" data-t="938">a world that doesn't have very much clarity into a very confusing, chaotic, and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-944" data-t="944">and just strange</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-947">15:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-947" data-t="947">mosh pit of of nonsense. Like, most most of what's going on in our world is it's nonsensical, and it's frustrating, and it wears you down.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-956" data-t="956">Your entire life, your body's just degrading. You're just getting weird down worn out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-961" data-t="961">But for your soul, for your spirit,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-964" data-t="964">that doesn't have to be the case. You don't necessarily need</span> <span class="cue" id="t-968" data-t="968">dogma</span> <span class="cue" id="t-970" data-t="970">in order for your spirit and for your soul</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-973">16:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-973" data-t="973">to grow and to flourish. For me,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-976" data-t="976">smoking cigarettes are a big part of treating my soul.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-981" data-t="981">And why that is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-982" data-t="982">is because I see it as sticking up my middle finger to the man.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-987" data-t="987">The man tells me</span> <span class="cue" id="t-988" data-t="988">that</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-989">16:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-989" data-t="989">cigarettes are gonna kill me. It tells me that smoking cigarettes is offensive. It tells me they tell me</span> <span class="cue" id="t-997" data-t="997">that I am stupid</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1000" data-t="1000">because I'm engaging in this activity of harming myself. But the reality is, is that going along with them blindly is incredibly harmful to myself. It it means I have to sacrifice</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1013" data-t="1013">using my brain.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1015" data-t="1015">I have to accept their dogma. I have to surrender to their authority</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1021" data-t="1021">and trust them. And they don't deserve the trust. They have,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1026">17:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1026" data-t="1026">if anything in the last few years, just shown that they don't deserve any trust whatsoever</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1031" data-t="1031">whatsoever. And so when I when I stand there and I smoke a cigarette, I feel pretty good about myself, and they look at me with scorn, and they do.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1040" data-t="1040">They look at me at scorn, and they you know, in their heads, they're thinking, oh, he's not 25</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1044" data-t="1044">feet away from the door. He's too close, and, you know, I have to smell it. And, you know, I see this. Like, sometimes people walk by me, and they take their shirts, and they put it over their nose, and they look all offended</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1055" data-t="1055">by the fact that I'm smoking a cigarette.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1058" data-t="1058">And I just chuckled to myself. I chuckled to myself because in that act, I'm I'm saying</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1064">17:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1064" data-t="1064">I'm sticking up my middle finger</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1066" data-t="1066">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1068" data-t="1068">these guys, to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1071" data-t="1071">the man. And I'm saying I'm gonna do something</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1074" data-t="1074">because I'm using my brain, and I'm gonna value I'm evaluating the risks. I'm evaluating the risks</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1080" data-t="1080">of doing something that you say is incredibly dangerous. And I'm actually thinking for myself, I'm not just taking what they're telling me</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1088">18:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1088" data-t="1088">blindly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1090" data-t="1090">as fact.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1092" data-t="1092">Bitcoin has allowed me to do that because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1095" data-t="1095">Bitcoin gave me the context of a whole entirely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1099" data-t="1099">different world outside of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1102" data-t="1102">the reality</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1103">18:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1103" data-t="1103">that they have constructed for me to live in. It's a world</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1107" data-t="1107">that can't be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1108" data-t="1108">about self empowerment. Now there's a lot of people out there</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1112" data-t="1112">that are looking to take that away</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1116" data-t="1116">from the from the people using Bitcoin. They wanna make Bitcoin about compliance.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1121" data-t="1121">This is PodConf that I'm talking about. The podcast conference industrial complex.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1126">18:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1126" data-t="1126">They wanna make Bitcoin about compliance. They wanna make it about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1131" data-t="1131">fitting into the system and and and serving the system. Bitcoin is a tool</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1136" data-t="1136">to allow you to comply</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1139" data-t="1139">and to serve the system.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1142" data-t="1142">To you buy Bitcoin in order to be able to afford your taxes. Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1147" data-t="1147">to me, it it it's not about that. And if you're listening to this podcast, it it is probably not about that for you either. We don't</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1155">19:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1155" data-t="1155">I don't wanna comply</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1158" data-t="1158">with these looters. I'm reading Atlas Shrugged,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1162" data-t="1162">and it it it's great. Like, what one of the reasons why the book's so great</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1167" data-t="1167">is because it it really gives you the context</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1172" data-t="1172">of, like, of just how pathetic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1174" data-t="1174">a lot of these people are</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1176">19:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1176" data-t="1176">that just wanna sit there on the sidelines, and they they wanna steal from you. Like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1182" data-t="1182">you know, all the people in Washington, the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1185" data-t="1185">the weaker</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1186" data-t="1186">participants in industry,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1189" data-t="1189">the, like, doc doctor Straddler. I might have gotten his name wrong, but whatever. We'll just continue.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1195" data-t="1195">I'm not gonna look it up. Doctor Stradler,</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1198" data-t="1198">you know, in the Science Institute,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1201" data-t="1201">they wanna restrict</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1203" data-t="1203">so so Hank Reardon,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1205" data-t="1205">this industrialist,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1206" data-t="1206">the one of one of the main characters of the story,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1209" data-t="1209">the really great character. So one of the things he did is he developed a new</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1214">20:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1214" data-t="1214">form a new metal. It's called Reardon Steel.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1218" data-t="1218">And Reardon Steel is significant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1221" data-t="1221">is a significant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1222" data-t="1222">improvement</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1224" data-t="1224">on regular steel. What it allows for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1226" data-t="1226">is for things to be built, it's way stronger, it's way lighter,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1232">20:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1232" data-t="1232">it's just overall better.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1235" data-t="1235">But everybody freaks out about it,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1237" data-t="1237">and they say, oh, it's not safe. You can't use it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1241" data-t="1241">And the government comes in,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1244" data-t="1244">and they're like, if this our economy is in bad shape, and if this comes to market,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1251" data-t="1251">it's gonna challenge</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1253">20:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1253" data-t="1253">the entire economy. It's gonna put people out of business because they're dealing with inferior</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1258" data-t="1258">products. And this is such a weak attitude, and we see it over and over again. We see the subsidies in our economy, the way that seed oils are subsidized, and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1267" data-t="1267">and the farmers, and, you know, the American cars. And it what always happens</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1272" data-t="1272">at the end of the day is when things are subsidized, an inferior product</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1277" data-t="1277">is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1278" data-t="1278">created for the market.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1280">21:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1280" data-t="1280">Because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1281" data-t="1281">market competition</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1283" data-t="1283">causes people to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1286" data-t="1286">compete with each other to try and make a better product. It's very, like, basics.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1292" data-t="1292">If you read Economics in One Lesson, that's a good book.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1296" data-t="1296">You probably been told to read that if you listen to 40 HPW, but it just outlines it. It outlines how tariffs and and</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1304">21:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1304" data-t="1304">how</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1305" data-t="1305">how subsidies are are harmful.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1309" data-t="1309">But this this is this is the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1312" data-t="1312">consensus</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1313" data-t="1313">amongst</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1315" data-t="1315">the quote, unquote experts, the the people resting on their credentials,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1318">21:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1318" data-t="1318">the people flaunting their</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1320" data-t="1320">their credentials without</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1322" data-t="1322">really keeping up with the times, without</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1326" data-t="1326">staying on the ball, the people that that refuse they they scoff at you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1330" data-t="1330">if you suggest that you should listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast a week. They just scoff at you like Mike Brock did to me in the debate. They believe in subsidies. They believe in these controls in the economy, and it's because they have really low opinions of themselves.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1345" data-t="1345">And it's because they're not very exceptional people. They don't they don't have confidence in themselves to be able to compete in the open market with other people. And so what they do have to do</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1355">22:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1355" data-t="1355">is they have to act as gatekeepers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1358" data-t="1358">You to do anything productive, you have to go out there and ask somebody somewhere for permission to do</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1366" data-t="1366">it. That's a system that they've created. If you if you truly have a revolutionary</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1371" data-t="1371">product,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1373" data-t="1373">if it's too revolutionary, they're gonna try and squash it in the same way that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1379" data-t="1379">these characters in Atlas Shrugged tried to squash</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1382">23:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1382" data-t="1382">Reardon Steel and keep it from happening. So the the Science Institute</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1386" data-t="1386">goes and approaches Hank Reardon,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1390" data-t="1390">and they they ask him</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1393" data-t="1393">how much it would he would</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1396" data-t="1396">he would allow them to pay them in order to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1400" data-t="1400">outright buy the rights to Reardon Steel so it never comes to market. And, of course, he says, I'm not interested.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1407">23:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1407" data-t="1407">And they say, well,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1409" data-t="1409">you could get really rich right now.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1411" data-t="1411">Why would you wanna continue to struggle and toil and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1416" data-t="1416">and sell things at a low margin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1418" data-t="1418">over and over again</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1420" data-t="1420">for years when you could make way more money by just selling us the rights?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1425">23:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1425" data-t="1425">And his answer to them was,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1427" data-t="1427">because it's mine.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1429" data-t="1429">This is mine. What a powerful</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1431" data-t="1431">statement. What a powerful statement. And I think that's a statement</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1436" data-t="1436">that we all have to make. We we all have to have that thing in our lives. For for me, it's the bugle. We all have to have the thing in our lives that's ours. Most people out there, they spend their whole lives working for somebody else</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1449" data-t="1449">to build something for somebody else. And that's fine.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1452">24:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1452" data-t="1452">That's fine. If you have a day job, you you gotta earn a living. You you know, a lot of people with families, they need health insurance. They need,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1462" data-t="1462">they need to be a part of this system in in some way or another. But the thing that they fail</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1469" data-t="1469">to do</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1471" data-t="1471">is they fail to build anything that's just theirs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1474" data-t="1474">That's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1475" data-t="1475">that's self gratifying,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1477">24:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1477" data-t="1477">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1478" data-t="1478">that's empowering.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1482" data-t="1482">When I'm working on the bugle,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1484" data-t="1484">I feel good. And I it's actually something that rejuvenates me. It helps me feel</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1491" data-t="1491">excited about life. It helps me feel motivated. It helps me to feel</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1496" data-t="1496">present. It helps me to</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1500">24:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1500" data-t="1500">just feel better about myself when I I'd I I can stand taller as a result of it, and the reason why is because it's mine. And so when somebody never, like, comes and they say, hey. I wanna buy it. I plan on having a similar conversation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1514" data-t="1514">as</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1515" data-t="1515">Hank Reardon did with the Science Institute. We've chosen to go a harder direction</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1521" data-t="1521">with this thing. We have chosen to go the route of value for value. And the reason why</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1528" data-t="1528">is because I think it's better. I think it's better than being a marketing agency for somebody</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1533" data-t="1533">else's product that that's probably funded by venture capitalists, which, you know, in many ways</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1540">25:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1540" data-t="1540">are the looters. I was at a Bitcoin conference a few years ago, and I heard a really interesting debate between Jimmy Song and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1547" data-t="1547">Mike Jarmez from from Lightning Labs. And it was all on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1552" data-t="1552">whether or not you should take VC money.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1555" data-t="1555">And I think Mike's a good guy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1559" data-t="1559">I think he's got good intentions. You know, Jimmy Song</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1563" data-t="1563">came at him pretty hard and, you know, essentially said that the VCs are leeches</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1568">26:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1568" data-t="1568">on the on the Bitcoin industry, that they wanna just come in and they wanna control. And what he essentially was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1575" data-t="1575">describing and and and talking about was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1579" data-t="1579">kind of what I'm describing and and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1581" data-t="1581">and talking about is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1583" data-t="1583">this idea of doing something for yourself,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1586" data-t="1586">something meaningful.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1587">26:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1587" data-t="1587">And, like, when you allow a lot of people in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1591" data-t="1591">that have control over your vision and over your,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1597" data-t="1597">decision making powers,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1599" data-t="1599">when you dilute yourself, it's not really yours anymore, which is part of the reason why</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1605" data-t="1605">the value for value just that these</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1608" data-t="1608">these</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1609">26:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1609" data-t="1609">platforms exist is so important.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1611" data-t="1611">It's so important. Because you, audience, you you you're really what makes it happen. You're you're what allows me to do this. You're what allows me to bring</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1622" data-t="1622">cartons of cigarettes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1624" data-t="1624">home to my family</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1626" data-t="1626">to keep everybody,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1628" data-t="1628">properly,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1630">27:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1630" data-t="1630">properly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1631" data-t="1631">supplied with nicotine. Product that I'm selling we we've got some products on Orange label. We just start we just partnered with them</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1638" data-t="1638">doing alpha protocol.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1639" data-t="1639">So now you can buy creatine from us.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1642" data-t="1642">We're capitalizing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1643" data-t="1643">on the on the creatine meme.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1646">27:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1646" data-t="1646">Something I wanted to do for a little bit, but it it kind of got,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1649" data-t="1649">ramped up</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1651" data-t="1651">as a restart person about creatine.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1653" data-t="1653">We're selling some products there, but, you know, why we're selling those products is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1657" data-t="1657">to support this, to support the content.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1661" data-t="1661">Because the content</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1663">27:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1663" data-t="1663">is our product at the Bugle. It's what allows us to do what we do. When you boost us</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1670" data-t="1670">on Fountain,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1672" data-t="1672">it's what allows us to do what we're what we're doing. The more</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1677" data-t="1677">the higher value product</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1679" data-t="1679">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1680" data-t="1680">we can provide,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1681">28:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1681" data-t="1681">I think the the higher that people want to support us. And and so that's always the goal. The goal is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1688" data-t="1688">not necessarily</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1689" data-t="1689">to swindle people out of their hard earned Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1692" data-t="1692">but to make a product so compelling that that people want</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1697" data-t="1697">to to see it succeed. They want to see us</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1701" data-t="1701">continue to grow, to continue to get better.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1704">28:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1704" data-t="1704">And we have gotten tremendously</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1706" data-t="1706">better.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1707" data-t="1707">We brought more people into the mix. We've got people doing all sorts of stuff. If if you didn't get a chance to check out James r p b Stephen's article about the, the cargo shorts, the the inseams and the shorts. That that was a good one. But that's one of the things, like, I I really wanna do with this platform, with the Bugle,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1726" data-t="1726">is to to create a platform for people to really be able to express themselves</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1731" data-t="1731">freely in the same way that I'm able to.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1734" data-t="1734">And bringing Rod into the mix has been great. To just see him grow and develop as a journalist,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1740">29:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1740" data-t="1740">and, yeah. I mean, he's he's absolutely fantastic.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1744" data-t="1744">Absolutely,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1745" data-t="1745">absolutely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1747" data-t="1747">hilarious.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1748" data-t="1748">When I get back from vacation next week,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1751" data-t="1751">when I finish at Atlas Shrugged, I'm looking forward to listening</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1755">29:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1755" data-t="1755">to forty hours Bitcoin podcast a week to to listening to Rod's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1759" data-t="1759">episode with Discovering</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1761" data-t="1761">Bitcoin. I I haven't been able to listen to the rock paper Bitcoin one because I'm on vacation, but we just went on their on their show as well. But, yeah, the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1771" data-t="1771">message of Jesus, the mess the the message of the resurrection, I I didn't really mean for this to be, a church sermon, but I mean, guess that's just what inevitably happens,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1782" data-t="1782">when you're celebrating a holiday</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1785" data-t="1785">like this,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1787">29:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1787" data-t="1787">is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1790" data-t="1790">the message of Jesus</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1792" data-t="1792">he he's such an interesting figure. You know, if you go and you read the bible and you read about him, he he was not PodConf approved.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1800" data-t="1800">That was very clear. He liked to stir the pot,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1805" data-t="1805">and he wasn't trying to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1807" data-t="1807">adapt his message to the culture around him</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1811">30:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1811" data-t="1811">at all.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1813" data-t="1813">He was he was just flipping tables. He was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1817" data-t="1817">causing a a mess. You know? People are getting angry at him because he's healing blind people.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1823" data-t="1823">He was just confusing people, breaking their brains.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1827" data-t="1827">He was not willing to compromise</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1829" data-t="1829">at all.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1831">30:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1831" data-t="1831">At all. But the death and the and the resurrection,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1834" data-t="1834">you know, and this message that was presented to people was that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1838" data-t="1838">they weren't ruled by their shortcomings,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1842" data-t="1842">and that they were actually free and that they could live</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1845" data-t="1845">in that freedom. What a powerful message. What a powerful message. It wasn't about complying</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1851" data-t="1851">with</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">the system. It wasn't about complying with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1856" data-t="1856">the world around you. It was about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1858" data-t="1858">rising above it. I think it's a message whether you're Christian or not,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1863" data-t="1863">that we can all be inspired by it, that we can all relate to. If you try and live your life</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1869" data-t="1869">based on conventional wisdom, you're gonna be unhappy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1873" data-t="1873">What the Bible</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1874">31:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1874" data-t="1874">talks about in the New Testament,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1877" data-t="1877">it's a story of Jesus.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1879" data-t="1879">Is it it's a story like Atlas Shrugged</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1882" data-t="1882">in a sense that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1884" data-t="1884">it provides</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1885" data-t="1885">context</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1886">31:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1886" data-t="1886">and contrast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1889" data-t="1889">between</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1890" data-t="1890">the powers that be, the the Pharisees, the Romans, you know, all all these people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1896" data-t="1896">that just were so hell bent on controlling people. They were so they're like, that's that's all they really cared about. They were just cared about control. They care cared about rules. They cared about control.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1908" data-t="1908">They cared about taxes. They cared about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1911" data-t="1911">all these things in order to keep to make people behave a certain way,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1917">31:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1917" data-t="1917">to think a certain way, to to look a certain way, to behave</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1921" data-t="1921">a certain way. And what Jesus came along and and and showed was he just flipped it all upside down. Like, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1930" data-t="1930">the the most</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1932" data-t="1932">the most</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1934" data-t="1934">influential person in human history was born in a manger,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1939" data-t="1939">was not born in a palace,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1941">32:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1941" data-t="1941">was not born in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1943" data-t="1943">into great wealth, was a carpenter. And I I would I would kinda I would say that being a carpenter in in many ways is like be being a blue collar worker. He he didn't go to Harvard or Oxford</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1955" data-t="1955">or the the famous religious schools or whatever at the time,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1960" data-t="1960">the equivalent of Harvard or Oxford at the time. He was just a guy that walked around other guys, that hung out with prostitutes, that hung out with,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1969" data-t="1969">normal people. And we we just we just,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1972" data-t="1972">did an interview with John Seth. And one of the things I like about John Seth and and I liked about</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1977">32:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1977" data-t="1977">Bitcoin Uncensored</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1980" data-t="1980">was that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1982" data-t="1982">they just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1983" data-t="1983">a lot of their interviews, they just interviewed people that were using Bitcoin just like normal people, you know, at a time that was you know, the PodConf wasn't as developed, but there there definitely was kind of like a PodConf</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1996" data-t="1996">type attitude of, like, let's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1999" data-t="1999">make things look a certain way. Let's let's make Bitcoin look</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2004">33:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2004" data-t="2004">clean and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2006" data-t="2006">and compliant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2007" data-t="2007">so that, you know, all the suits would accept it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2012" data-t="2012">You know, he he's running around</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2014" data-t="2014">in orgies interviewing people. Maybe that's that's pretty funny, but, like, you know, talk with sex workers, talking about,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2023" data-t="2023">like, drivers of sex workers that use Bitcoin</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2027">33:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2027" data-t="2027">or people. This is one of the challenges</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2029" data-t="2029">that Polycom throws in in front of all of us. They offer they offer us</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2035" data-t="2035">fame. They offer us</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2037" data-t="2037">gratification. They offer</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2039" data-t="2039">they offer you money</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2042" data-t="2042">in order to</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2044">34:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2044" data-t="2044">influence you, try and get you to be a certain way. Say the same things as everybody else, to think the same things. And if you get out of line, there's gonna be a lot of pressure on you. I think it's important to live by principles.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2056" data-t="2056">You pick the principles, and and sometimes you'll have overlaps with Podkoff and people in Podkoff.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2063" data-t="2063">You get along with them. You you don't have to necessarily be at war with everything and everyone.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2068" data-t="2068">I don't think that's productive to just be violently</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2071" data-t="2071">lashing out at the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2073" data-t="2073">Like, you have to be calculated. And when you when you see something</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2076">34:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2076" data-t="2076">that you disagree with, you you stand up and you you say something about it. But the thing about Podkoff</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2083" data-t="2083">is what they try and get you to do is they try and get you to surrender your principles.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2088" data-t="2088">Just take them and throw them out the window.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2092" data-t="2092">You LARP is having principles. You you LARP with this idea of being Bitcoin only, but it nobody's really Bitcoin only.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2101" data-t="2101">Everybody shit coins in one way or another.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2105" data-t="2105">Before the cross, before before God, we're all shitcoiners. Do you have a bank account? Did you use USDT on Tron? Did you play</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2113">35:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2113" data-t="2113">slots that one time? Did you smoke a menthol cigarette? Do you vape?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2117" data-t="2117">Do you do Zins? Did you eat seed oils? We're all shitcoiners.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2122" data-t="2122">In the eyes of god, we're all shitcoiners.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2125" data-t="2125">Alright? What Podkoff tries to do is they they try to they try to get you to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2131" data-t="2131">to present as if you have principles and to go go on these moral crusades that don't really matter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2136" data-t="2136">They try to suck you into group think. They try to suck you into</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2141">35:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2141" data-t="2141">peer pressure and trends.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2143" data-t="2143">And in doing that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2145" data-t="2145">they try to get you to turn your brain off. Because instead of being an individual, now you're part of a group, you're part of a collective. And like we need friends.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2155" data-t="2155">I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2156" data-t="2156">just don't I don't really believe in being like these lone wolves.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2159" data-t="2159">I don't think it's healthy or productive. We need people around us</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2163">36:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2163" data-t="2163">that build us up. We need people around us that encourage us, that know who we are.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2169" data-t="2169">I think that's something that we all need. I think I I think we're social creatures, but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2174" data-t="2174">that doesn't necessarily mean that we have to be tribal and and and turn our brains off. We just have to to find people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2181" data-t="2181">similar to us with similar values. And I think one of the most important values</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2186" data-t="2186">it's not necessarily,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2188" data-t="2188">you know, if you believe everything,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2189">36:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2189" data-t="2189">you have the same view on economics, you have the same view on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2197" data-t="2197">relationships</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2198" data-t="2198">or or diet or, you know, all of these kind of,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2203" data-t="2203">superficial things. I don't think we have to be too focused on the superficial stuff.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2208" data-t="2208">Though, you know, to some degree, it matters a little bit. Like, you have to have some sort</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2212" data-t="2212">of overlapping interest, so that way you can actually relate to the other person.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2217">36:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2217" data-t="2217">But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2219" data-t="2219">there's something deeper. And, like, if you're an actual individualist</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2223" data-t="2223">that believes in using your brain, then that's the thing that's that's that's ultimately important</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2229" data-t="2229">to look for in others</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2231" data-t="2231">that you wanna connect to and relate with. Do they have the capacity</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2235" data-t="2235">to use their brains? Do they value</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">using your brain</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2239" data-t="2239">over</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2240" data-t="2240">being a part of the group? I think that's the key right there. I think that is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2245" data-t="2245">the key to success.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2247" data-t="2247">And that's why</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2250" data-t="2250">I'm interested in interviewing a bunch of people that are different than me, and I'm interested in interacting with people that are different than me, but then we have similar values. Like, I went</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2259">37:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2259" data-t="2259">on the Outlaw Crypto podcast,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2262" data-t="2262">a guy that, you know, tries to promote privacy coins and, you know, sees respect for Bitcoin but really isn't into it,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2270" data-t="2270">in the same way that he's into Monero and these other privacy coins,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2274" data-t="2274">like maybe Zcash or, you know, whatever else there is.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2278" data-t="2278">We we have different philosophies on life and and different philosophies on the world,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2283" data-t="2283">but it seems like he's an individual that that's questioning things, and and I've got respect for that. You know, somebody that's out there,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2291">38:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2291" data-t="2291">you know, doing a podcast,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2293" data-t="2293">talking about these things, trying to get people to actually</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2296" data-t="2296">engage in in using these</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2299" data-t="2299">these tools. I've got respect for that. I've got a lot more respect for that than, you know, a lot of these people that that are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2307" data-t="2307">Bitcoin only, but they they got their brains turned off. They're part of the group. They're part of the tribe. They're they're submitting everybody to the purity test. And we look at a lot of these Bitcoin maximalists. And I think, you know, in the context of Easter, one of the things we have to ask ourselves and, like, one of the lessons, you know, that we can take away from the Bible</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2327" data-t="2327">looking at is, you know, asking ourselves, are are we the Pharisees?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2331">38:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2331" data-t="2331">Or are we, you know, the disciples? Like, where do we fit into this story? Where do we fit into this story?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2339" data-t="2339">The Pharisees</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2340" data-t="2340">were people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2341" data-t="2341">that turned their brains off, that were part of the group thing. They they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2346" data-t="2346">they</span> <span class="cue" data-t="2346">valued this rigid dogma</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2349">39:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2349" data-t="2349">over the truth. Doesn't mean that everything that they were saying was false. But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2355" data-t="2355">in the in the biblical Easter story, the Pharisees were the bad guys. They were the ones that championed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2362" data-t="2362">killing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2364" data-t="2364">the Son of God. If we're gonna be intellectually</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2367" data-t="2367">honest,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2368" data-t="2368">we have to consider</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2371">39:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2371" data-t="2371">and ask ourselves, are we these people? Are we the bad guys or are we the good guys?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2376" data-t="2376">And how do we know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2378" data-t="2378">if we're the bad guys or the good guys?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2380" data-t="2380">And that's where stories like Atlas Shrugged, stories like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2385" data-t="2385">the Easter story come into play as they they provide context for us to understand, are we like, who are the good and the bad guys? They have these themes in it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2394" data-t="2394">Jesus preached the idea of liberation</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2397">39:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2397" data-t="2397">and freedom.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2398" data-t="2398">The Pharisees</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2400" data-t="2400">preached</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2401" data-t="2401">servitude and compliance.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2403" data-t="2403">You were bound by rules, and Jesus</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2406" data-t="2406">taught that you're free</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2408">40:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2408" data-t="2408">of the rules. What a what a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2410" data-t="2410">staunch contrast.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2413" data-t="2413">What a staunch contrast.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2415" data-t="2415">Oh, well, I hope you had a good Easter,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2418" data-t="2418">with your family.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2420" data-t="2420">I know my family had good. One of the things I love to do is so funny,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2425">40:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2425" data-t="2425">If you ever get the chance to do this, it's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2429" data-t="2429">one of the things that I do you know, kids love Easter egg hunts. So we took our son, my wife and I, we we took him to an Easter egg hunt.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2438" data-t="2438">And, one of the things I did is I I put a bunch of cigarettes in all the Easter eggs and then proceeded to watch the parents freak out as their kids were pulling cigarettes out of the Easter eggs. It was great. It was really, really funny.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2450" data-t="2450">They all looked at me and they're like, what are you doing? I'm like, well,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2454" data-t="2454">you know, my family started me smoking when I was six years old, and look at me. I'm the John Galtz of journalism. I'm doing pretty great today.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2461" data-t="2461">Doing pretty great today.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2463">41:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2463" data-t="2463">But, yeah, after the Easter egg hunt, we went out to brunch.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2467" data-t="2467">Brunch is always fun. It's always great</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2470" data-t="2470">on Easter morning. Got a chicken fried steak. Not the best for you. It was dabbled up with seed oils. Guess that makes me a shit coiner. I failed in the eyes of the Pharisees.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2481" data-t="2481">I ate seed oils. But, yeah, we went out to brunch</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2484" data-t="2484">and, had a good time. Had a good time with the family.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2487" data-t="2487">We spent good quality time together, and and I was able to be present with them</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2493">41:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2493" data-t="2493">because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2494" data-t="2494">I'm a man</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2496" data-t="2496">that feels secure in myself. I feel good about what I'm doing. I'm not trying to live into somebody's idea of who I should be. I have chosen a path for myself,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2506" data-t="2506">and I'm walking it, and I'm moving forward.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2509" data-t="2509">I'm not all bummed out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2511" data-t="2511">by all the rest of the world thinking differently</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2514">41:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2514" data-t="2514">than me and trying to convince everybody else to think like I do.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2519" data-t="2519">That's all distraction.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2521" data-t="2521">If you're really secure of what you believe,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2524" data-t="2524">then you realize</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2525" data-t="2525">there's gonna be consequences for what you believe. Hopefully, positive consequences that you feel good about yourself, and and you have success in your life, and you're moving forward.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2534" data-t="2534">And then other people have to reap the cons</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2537" data-t="2537">consequences of their own actions,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2540" data-t="2540">and what they're choosing to do.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2542" data-t="2542">And if they're actually wrong, then there's gonna be negative repercussions for that. And and what you can exist as is an example. You could be an example to these peep these poor people that have their brains turned off and trust the TV and don't listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a week or supplement creatine or smoke cigarettes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2561" data-t="2561">You can be an example. You can be jacked. You can be happy. You can have a happy relationship. You can be,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2567" data-t="2567">dropping fire on your own Bitcoin podcast. Compare earning Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2573" data-t="2573">in a value for value economy. You don't you don't have to be just, like, submitting to the Williams of PodConf</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2580">42:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2580" data-t="2580">in compliance.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2582" data-t="2582">You'd be a dangerous individual.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2585" data-t="2585">Dangerous to the establishment. You can you can look the people that are destroying our society,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2591" data-t="2591">you can stick your middle finger up and you can still have a good time. You don't you don't even need to give them power</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2596" data-t="2596">over yourself. They're not the ones in control. You're the one in control.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2600" data-t="2600">You have the power. What a great feeling. What a great example</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2604" data-t="2604">to offer the world. And then not only that, you can identify other people out there like you that feel good about themselves.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2613" data-t="2613">You make friends with people.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2615" data-t="2615">Have real meaningful relationships and talk about things more important than</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2620" data-t="2620">than sports ball or the weather or or, you know, whatever Trump the TV said Trump is doing.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2627" data-t="2627">You can actually have depth to your relationships.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2630" data-t="2630">This is what was so funny about my debate with Mike Brock.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2635">43:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2635" data-t="2635">They're probably</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2636" data-t="2636">I don't know how much longer I wanna I wanna talk about this, but, you know, it was just like it was great context of, like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2643" data-t="2643">you know, he thought it was astounding</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2645" data-t="2645">that I was talking about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2646" data-t="2646">this idea that you should you should focus on your own self interest,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2651" data-t="2651">that the greater good and that altruism's a lie. He he was just astounded by that. And just look at him. Just look how pathetic he was. The world needs to see those types of conversations.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2661">44:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2661" data-t="2661">They need to see</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2663" data-t="2663">the contrast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2665" data-t="2665">between those that are actually</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2668" data-t="2668">have confidence. And there there's a difference between</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2671" data-t="2671">being extremely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2672" data-t="2672">egotistical</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2673">44:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2673" data-t="2673">and narcissistic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2675" data-t="2675">and being self interested</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2676" data-t="2676">and having confidence in yourself. And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2679" data-t="2679">like, you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2681" data-t="2681">you know that you're a competent individual. You know you have actual humility. You have an accurate depiction of who you are and what you're capable of.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2690" data-t="2690">You have a list of accomplishments which you can stand on and feel good about. You built things for yourself. Ego and narcissism, that's all that's all insecurity.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2701">45:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2701" data-t="2701">That's the that's the polar opposite. That's not what I'm I'm advocating for. I'm not advocating</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2705" data-t="2705">for,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2707" data-t="2707">thinking you're the smartest person in the world and and being a compulsive liar and, you know, doing things like that and just, like, screwing people over. No.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2717" data-t="2717">If you actually have self confidence in your own self interest, you you know you don't need to screw people over because you can produce things of value. You don't have to steal from people. You don't have to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2727" data-t="2727">mislead them and and and and get them to to buy into something that, you know, is vaporware is worthless.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2735" data-t="2735">I think that's what we're doing with the vehicle. We're not we're not trying to get you to buy into vaporware.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2741">45:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2741" data-t="2741">We're trying to produce something valuable, and I think it is valuable.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2745" data-t="2745">It's valuable to me. I'm enjoying this,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2748" data-t="2748">and other people find it valuable.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2751" data-t="2751">And I think that's one of the liberating things is, like, why why are we hitting on old cylinders and we're putting out good stuff?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2758" data-t="2758">Because I think we you know, like, I know for myself, I find it valuable.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2763" data-t="2763">It's valuable to me.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2765">46:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2765" data-t="2765">I enjoy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2767" data-t="2767">listening to our podcast. I I enjoy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2770" data-t="2770">the content. I think I think Rod feels the same way. I don't really wanna speak for him, but I think I think he feels the same way.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2776" data-t="2776">You know, Kaylee does. Kaylee feels</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2779" data-t="2779">really proud of what she's been able to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2782" data-t="2782">help us accomplish.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2783">46:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2783" data-t="2783">She feels proud that she's smoking hot, that she's not fat.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2788" data-t="2788">She's smoking cigarettes, that she's able to competently drive drunk. Feels good. But anyways, let's get into the boost for this week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2795" data-t="2795">Or before we get that, go check out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2799" data-t="2799">our shirts or clothing on orangelabel.co.co.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2805" data-t="2805">Go check it out. 40 HPW T shirts. They're great.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2809" data-t="2809">If you're going to Vegas and you're doxxing yourself to all the spooks out there,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2813">46:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2813" data-t="2813">like Ron and I are,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2816" data-t="2816">make sure to to grab some swag.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2820" data-t="2820">And and then show everybody else at the conference</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2823" data-t="2823">that you're a 40 HPW listener. Check out the comply line.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2827" data-t="2827">I'll be repping some comply gear. But, yeah, let's get into the boost. Shadrach, 10,093</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2833" data-t="2833">SAS. It's huge boost. I have not only afforded taxes, but I completely filed them by the end of the episode.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2839">47:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2839" data-t="2839">That being said, I should probably listen again.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2842" data-t="2842">Heart cigarette,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2844" data-t="2844">hashtag</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2845" data-t="2845">40 HPW</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2846" data-t="2846">headphones emoji. Well, thank you, Shadrach. I'm glad you're able to afford taxes. It's one of the beautiful things that, Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2854" data-t="2854">can allow us to</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2857">47:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2857" data-t="2857">to do for multiple reasons, but I don't wanna get into that because,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2860" data-t="2860">I don't really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2862" data-t="2862">I know the spooks listening to this episode too.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2865" data-t="2865">So you gotta</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2866" data-t="2866">sometimes,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2869" data-t="2869">whatever. Oh oh, that's a tangent I don't wanna get into. But, anyways, thank you for the boost.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2874">47:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2874" data-t="2874">10,000 sats. That's that's, like, 10 cigarettes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2877" data-t="2877">at this exchange rate.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2880" data-t="2880">Jason c, the cohost</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2882" data-t="2882">of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2884" data-t="2884">Off the Chain, I believe it is, the fish podcast that him and fundamentals do.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2889" data-t="2889">We're on the chain, back on the chain.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2892">48:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2892" data-t="2892">Gosh.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2894" data-t="2894">They're gonna correct me again.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2896" data-t="2896">But,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2897" data-t="2897">anyways, it's a good podcast. They're talking about fish. They're talking about the bugle lot.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2902" data-t="2902">Fundamentals, big fan of ours, and it seems like he bugle pilled Jason c.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2907" data-t="2907">4,200</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2909">48:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2909" data-t="2909">sets, dear Ron and Dick. Solid content these last two episodes,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2913" data-t="2913">including Dick's commentary following his recent debate.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2916" data-t="2916">I was also amazed by Brock's inability</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2919" data-t="2919">to differentiate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2920" data-t="2920">selfishness from self interest.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2922" data-t="2922">We can share for and relate to others only to the extent that we can care for and relate to selves first and foremost.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2930">48:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2930" data-t="2930">Sincerely, Jason. It's very, very basic stuff.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2933" data-t="2933">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2934" data-t="2934">one of the reasons why, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2937" data-t="2937">Mike Brock, he kept he kept on asking me why I was treating him like 14 year old.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2942" data-t="2942">It's like, well,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2944" data-t="2944">because you're not considering things from the most basic first principles. You're not you're not willing to go</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2951">49:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2951" data-t="2951">to the very beginning of the argument. And and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2955" data-t="2955">this is the problem that a lot of people make is they build their entire world views built on faulty assumptions.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2962" data-t="2962">You know, the bible is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2964" data-t="2964">described as</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2966" data-t="2966">building a house on sand.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2969" data-t="2969">Jesus tells us to build houses on</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2972">49:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2972" data-t="2972">solid ground,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2974" data-t="2974">not shifting sand. And in order to do that, you have to go back to the very basics.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2981" data-t="2981">You have to go back to the foundational</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2984" data-t="2984">arguments</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2985" data-t="2985">to challenge assumptions. We always have to challenge assumptions. That's one of the reasons why I like hanging out with people that think differently than me is because it gives me entropy in my life.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2994" data-t="2994">They challenge me on my assumptions on a regular basis.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2998">49:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2998" data-t="2998">And if you're actually building</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3001" data-t="3001">your worldview and your opinions and and your values on on top of something solid,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3007" data-t="3007">then challenges</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3008" data-t="3008">aren't aren't troublesome. It just continues to strengthen your conviction</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3012" data-t="3012">in the things</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3014" data-t="3014">that you're doing and the things that you're believing in. It shouldn't be seen as</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3019">50:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3019" data-t="3019">a challenge. Like, how dare you question this very basic thing that I believe in? It get it kinda gets annoying sometimes, like, you know, if people are wanting to challenge me on on my cigarette smoking, like, it's just like, okay, dude. You're annoying.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3032" data-t="3032">You know, but, like, I welcome it every once in a while because it makes me think about it. You know, like, I think we constantly have to reevaluate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3039" data-t="3039">the things that we're doing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3041" data-t="3041">and think about them. It's a productive thing to do. It's a helpful thing to do.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3046" data-t="3046">What's unhelpful is just getting stuck</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3049" data-t="3049">in the motions</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3050">50:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3050" data-t="3050">over and over again.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3051" data-t="3051">Because, like, the thing is is if you go the wrong direction, you might blink and twenty years later, you just realized you wasted a bunch of time</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3059" data-t="3059">doing things that weren't valuable to you,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3062" data-t="3062">that didn't matter to you, that accomplished nothing, and you're not any closer to where you wanted to be. That's a real</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3069" data-t="3069">thing that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3070" data-t="3070">I think we all have to consider and and be afraid of. You know? And it is why I'm a big believer in this idea of, you</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3078">51:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3078" data-t="3078">know, of objectivism and and Randian philosophy, really, like, believing in yourself</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3084" data-t="3084">is because,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3088" data-t="3088">I don't wanna be like that. I don't I don't wanna go like, I've already done that in my life. You know what I mean? I've already wasted time working for the man.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3096" data-t="3096">I talk about every once in a while my my time in the the traditional media establishment and it just sucked. It was soul sucking.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3103" data-t="3103">Why would I wanna do that ever again in my life? Why would I want to set an example for my son of how to be just a servile</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3111" data-t="3111">shell</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3112">51:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3112" data-t="3112">of my potential. I don't wanna do that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3116" data-t="3116">Next boost from Shadrach.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3117" data-t="3117">1093¢.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3119" data-t="3119">Poignant, topical, robust, and balanced.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3122" data-t="3122">That's what real journalism smells like. Cigarette</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3125" data-t="3125">emoji, hashtag 40 HPW. Thank you. Blizzo, 1010¢.</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">Mike Brock needs to pump his Bitcoin podcast hours up. Mike Brock can do whatever he wants. He can have fun staying poor for all I care about. Maggie, 1000¢.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3140" data-t="3140">Maggie Morris, one of her very talented,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3144" data-t="3144">Beagle staff members meant to boost 1,700</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3147" data-t="3147">sats</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3148" data-t="3148">out of respect.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3150" data-t="3150">Well, thank you. I'm not really sure, what that means, but it looks like, Maggie actually double boosted,</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3156" data-t="3156">1,000 sats. So above the,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3161" data-t="3161">1,700</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3162" data-t="3162">sats mark, 2,000 sats for Maggie.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3165" data-t="3165">Really appreciate it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3166" data-t="3166">Jason c again, 420</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3168" data-t="3168">sats. Jason says, I sometimes forget the level of understanding that can only come for 40 HPW.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3175">52:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3175" data-t="3175">The vehicle weekly has been a cornerstone</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3177" data-t="3177">of my 40 HPW training since the first episode. No noise,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3181" data-t="3181">only signal. Thank you, Jason.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3184" data-t="3184">Got five likes on an oster.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3188" data-t="3188">Pink monkey, 500 sats.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3191" data-t="3191">No comment.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3192">53:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3192" data-t="3192">Anonymous</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3193" data-t="3193">says,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3196" data-t="3196">I can't see who this is. It just says anonymous.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3199" data-t="3199">420 SAS. This is the most thermodynamically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3202" data-t="3202">sound,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3203" data-t="3203">high signal content I've ever had the pleasure of engaging with all week.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3208">53:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3208" data-t="3208">Glad to hear that. Glad to hear that you enjoyed it. 300 stats from,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3212" data-t="3212">BTC on board.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3216" data-t="3216">Salute emoji, thumbs up, lightning fire.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3220" data-t="3220">Hunterid,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3221" data-t="3221">77</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3222" data-t="3222">stats again for Maggie.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3224">53:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3224" data-t="3224">Says, I'm interested in hearing your take. Is Richard, Dasha,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3228" data-t="3228">or Rodeo Anna, or the other way around? It's hard</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3232" data-t="3232">one to call. Thank you.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3235" data-t="3235">I have no idea what that means, Maggie.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3238" data-t="3238">But if you message me, I'll try and explain if you clarify a little bit what you mean. Anyways, I wanna thank everybody</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3246" data-t="3246">for tuning in to this,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3249">54:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3249" data-t="3249">special edition of the Bugle Weekly, the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3253" data-t="3253">the Bugle</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3254" data-t="3254">Easter special.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3257" data-t="3257">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3258" data-t="3258">I think Pastor Jeff's is kind of a a tool.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3265" data-t="3265">And I I think his I his</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3268">54:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3268" data-t="3268">his theology,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3269" data-t="3269">I think, is is rather flawed. He he's a shit coiner. He believes the god pump is happening. I I think he would definitely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3277" data-t="3277">if he wasn't so, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3279" data-t="3279">shit coiner Jason, I think Podkamp would be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3284" data-t="3284">friendlier with her with him. But I think one of the things he's right on is I I do think the pump is coming.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3291" data-t="3291">Could feel it in my bones.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3293">54:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3293" data-t="3293">It's been a long, long bear market.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3296" data-t="3296">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3297" data-t="3297">you could argue that we're in a bull market. You know, Bitcoin has pumped pretty dramatically from the lows a couple years ago.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3305" data-t="3305">But, you know, it's going up, and it is gonna con continue to go up because of people starting Bitcoin podcasts. Bitcoin podcast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3314" data-t="3314">power law is real, folks. It's real. Anyways, I wanna</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3318" data-t="3318">thank you again for tuning in. Thank you to all the boosters. Check out our merch.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3323">55:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3323" data-t="3323">Shell the podcast. Go bugle pill somebody.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3327" data-t="3327">Go tell somebody about the bugle. Tell tell them what we're up to. Thanks for tuning in.</span></span></p>