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diff --git a/wiki/transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode.md b/wiki/transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode.md index 3f982446..1395846a 100644 @@ -10,190 +10,58 @@ sources: - raw/episodes/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode/bundle.json --- -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-0">0:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-0" data-t="0">There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-8" data-t="8">dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-17" data-t="17">and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-23" data-t="23">throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions, that have no idea that they've</span> <span class="cue" id="t-27" data-t="27">already enlisted in the cause.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-30" data-t="30">Remember that the frontier of the rebellion is everywhere,</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1">0:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1" data-t="1">There will be times when the struggle seems impossible.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-5" data-t="5">I know this already.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-6" data-t="6">Alone, unsure,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-8" data-t="8">dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-11" data-t="11">Remember this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-13" data-t="13">Freedom is a pure idea.</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-34">0:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-34" data-t="34">and even the smallest act of insurrection</span> <span class="cue" id="t-36" data-t="36">pushes our lines forward.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-39" data-t="39">And then remember this,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-41" data-t="41">the Imperial need for control is so desperate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-43" data-t="43">because it's so unnatural.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-46" data-t="46">Tiridine requires constant effort.</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-16">0:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-16" data-t="16">It occurs spontaneously</span> <span class="cue" id="t-18" data-t="18">and without instruction.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-20" data-t="20">Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-25" data-t="25">battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-30" data-t="30">Remember that the frontier of the rebellion is everywhere,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-34" data-t="34">and even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-48">0:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-48" data-t="48">It breaks, it leaks.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-52" data-t="52">Authority is brittle.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-53" data-t="53">Oppression is the mask of fear.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-55" data-t="55">Remember that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-57" data-t="57">And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments</span> <span class="cue" id="t-64" data-t="64">of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-39">0:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-39" data-t="39">And then remember this,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-41" data-t="41">the imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-46" data-t="46">Tyrriding requires constant effort. It breaks.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-50" data-t="50">It leaks.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-51" data-t="51">Authority is brittle.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-53" data-t="53">Oppression is the mask of fear.</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-68">1:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-68" data-t="68">be one too many.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-70" data-t="70">One single thing will break the siege.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-75" data-t="75">Remember this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-77" data-t="77">Try.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-78" data-t="78">hello and welcome back folks to another subscriber episode this is rich greaser</span> <span class="cue" id="t-87" data-t="87">you know to be honest i have probably recorded uh like four hours of content that i have</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-57">0:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-57" data-t="57">Remember that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-58" data-t="58">And know this,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-60" data-t="60">the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-64" data-t="64">these moments of defiance, will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority. And then there will be one too many.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-70" data-t="70">One single thing will break the siege.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-75" data-t="75">Remember this.</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-94">1:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-94" data-t="94">discarded and i am confident this time i'm not so you can hear the finished product of this</span> <span class="cue" id="t-102" data-t="102">but yeah i've been thinking a lot and just reflecting a lot on what i'm seeing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-109" data-t="109">in the bitcoin culture right now it's something i do regularly and you know sometimes it takes me</span> <span class="cue" id="t-116" data-t="116">a lot of time to just like sit and process what i'm seeing to step back to you know poke and prod</span> <span class="cue" id="t-125" data-t="125">And it is very, very clear that a lot of people are very scared right now for a variety of reasons.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-134" data-t="134">When you listen to the scared Nazi pleb talk, they're terrified that Bitcoin, this thing that has been their savior, their anchor, for some of them years, some of them it's a relatively new thing.</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-78">1:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-78" data-t="78">Try.</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-155">2:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-155" data-t="155">They're terrified that it's going to be taken from them by other people, by the bad guys, by the financial institutions, by the spammers, by, you know, all these individuals and characters that are, one, using Bitcoin differently than them, are different than them, think different than them, have different incentives than them, and that they have very little understanding.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-180" data-t="180">up and you know for many of these you know nazi uh scared nazi plebs they they have a low context</span> <span class="cue" id="t-189" data-t="189">for one how bitcoin works but like how the larger broader ecosystem of the way that people interact</span> <span class="cue" id="t-194" data-t="194">with bitcoin they've got their people that they they hang out and talk with on on social media</span> <span class="cue" id="t-200" data-t="200">on nostr on twitter they'll listen to the same podcast as them they gauge perspective</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-82">1:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-82" data-t="82">Hello and welcome back folks to another</span> <span class="cue" id="t-85" data-t="85">paid subscriber episode. This is Richard Greaser.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-88" data-t="88">You know, to be honest, I have probably recorded,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-91" data-t="91">like, four hours of content that I have discarded, and I am confident</span> <span class="cue" id="t-96" data-t="96">this time</span> <span class="cue" id="t-98" data-t="98">I'm not. So you're you're gonna hear the finished</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-208">3:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-208" data-t="208">or like their entire perspective and in the way that they gauge sentiment is based on youtube</span> <span class="cue" id="t-215" data-t="215">comments on on twitter comments on the vibes that they feel as they're watching somebody through</span> <span class="cue" id="t-222" data-t="222">a screen a computer screen they listen to the person's the inflection in their voice they you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-229" data-t="229">know they it's they they don't shake these people's hands very regularly or like have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-235" data-t="235">interactions with them in person or sit down with them at bars you know for a long time and so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-242" data-t="242">there there's a lack of entropy in the way that individuals oftentimes are shaping their their</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-102">1:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-102" data-t="102">product of this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-104" data-t="104">But, yeah, I've been thinking a lot and just reflecting a lot on what I'm seeing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-109" data-t="109">in the Bitcoin culture right now. It is something I I do regularly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-114" data-t="114">And, you know, sometimes it takes me</span> <span class="cue" id="t-117" data-t="117">a a lot of time to just, like, sit and process</span> <span class="cue" id="t-120" data-t="120">what I'm seeing,</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-249">4:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-249" data-t="249">perceptions and i think we're all at danger of this and this is really one of the dangers you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-256" data-t="256">know just today my entire feed is about people talking about how the twitter algorithm has</span> <span class="cue" id="t-264" data-t="264">rapidly change or massively change they're like i see my friends now hello friends i missed you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-270" data-t="270">the way that these algorithms work on these social platforms is they essentially are framing and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-278" data-t="278">creating reality for these people and i've noticed that the more that i engage with a certain topic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-287" data-t="287">the more that I see the topic.</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-123">2:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-123" data-t="123">to step back, to, you know, poke and prod.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-126" data-t="126">And it is very, very clear.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-130" data-t="130">A lot of people are very scared right now for a variety of reasons.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-135" data-t="135">When you listen to the scared Nazi pleb</span> <span class="cue" id="t-139" data-t="139">talk, you know, they they they're terrified</span> <span class="cue" id="t-141" data-t="141">that that Bitcoin, this this thing that has been, you know, their their savior, their their anchor</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-290">4:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-290" data-t="290">And I get kind of tired of it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-292" data-t="292">because I just get tired of engaging with these topics</span> <span class="cue" id="t-295" data-t="295">from time to time.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-297" data-t="297">There's nothing inspiring about arguing with grumpy Nazis.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-302" data-t="302">And I'm not really sure how grumpy Nazis are.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-305" data-t="305">I think there a variety of reasons why I have targeted the plebs so much And it not because I don like these people</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-150">2:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-150" data-t="150">for some of them years, some of them it's it's relatively</span> <span class="cue" id="t-154" data-t="154">new thing.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-156" data-t="156">They're terrified</span> <span class="cue" id="t-158" data-t="158">that it's gonna be taken from them by other people, by the bad guys, by the financial</span> <span class="cue" id="t-162" data-t="162">institutions, by the spammers, by,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-165" data-t="165">you know, all these individuals and characters that are on using Bitcoin differently than them,</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-318">5:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-318" data-t="318">It's not because I don't think that they're bad people.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-321" data-t="321">It's because I think they need a little bit of a reality check for their own sake.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-329" data-t="329">For their own sanity.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-330" data-t="330">That they're getting their vortexes spinned by plebsloppers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-334" data-t="334">And they have no idea.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-335" data-t="335">they just have no defense for this uh whatsoever that even you know the the the base premise of</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-173">2:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-173" data-t="173">but aren't different than them, think different than them, have different incentives than them,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-178" data-t="178">and that they have very little understanding.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-181" data-t="181">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-182" data-t="182">you know, for many of these,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-184" data-t="184">you know, Nazi,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-186" data-t="186">scared Nazi plaubs, they they have a low context for, one, how Bitcoin works, but, like, how the larger broader ecosystem of the way that people interact with Bitcoin. They've got their people that they they hang out and talk with on on</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-344">5:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-344" data-t="344">you know referring to themselves as plebs and associating with each other as plebs is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-349" data-t="349">counterproductive in and of itself you know in in talking with people like you know avi burro for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-354" data-t="354">example who is somebody that i i like and respect a lot who had a brand based on pleb you know some</span> <span class="cue" id="t-362" data-t="362">my great friends like John and Max, they, you know, ran a podcast, Pleb Minor Mafia,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-371" data-t="371">or Pleb Minor Monthly. They have a group chat. You know, the term pleb was popular for a while,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-379" data-t="379">and it essentially meant that you weren't an industry shill. And it's how people learned to</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-199">3:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-199" data-t="199">social</span> <span class="cue" id="t-200" data-t="200">media, on on Oster, on Twitter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-203" data-t="203">They'll listen to the same podcast as them. They</span> <span class="cue" id="t-207" data-t="207">gauge</span> <span class="cue" data-t="207">perspective</span> <span class="cue" id="t-209" data-t="209">or, like, their entire perspective</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-384">6:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-384" data-t="384">associate with each other is there was the insiders, the shills, and then there was the plebs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-391" data-t="391">Like the plebs was an individual that was an enthusiast that didn't have like an expressed, you know, interest in anything.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-399" data-t="399">Or so they claimed they're just a, you know, goofball that listened to a lot of podcasts and, you know, wanted to have a positive impact on the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-408" data-t="408">And they were tired of seeing people like pop, chill block five or whatever.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-413" data-t="413">And, you know, what happened with this group of people that were super passionate, you know, a bunch of meme gangs, the meme gangs were made up with plebs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-424" data-t="424">Like, what happened with this group of people is a lot of people began working in the industry in one way or another.</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-212">3:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-212" data-t="212">and and the way that they gauge sentiment is based on YouTube comments, on on Twitter comments, on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-219" data-t="219">the vibes that they feel as they're watching somebody through</span> <span class="cue" id="t-222" data-t="222">a a screen,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-224" data-t="224">a computer screen. They listen to the person's the the inflection in their voice. They, you know, they it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-230" data-t="230">they they don't shake these people's hands very regularly or, like, have interactions with them in person</span> <span class="cue" id="t-237" data-t="237">or sit down with them at bars,</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-432">7:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-432" data-t="432">And a lot of the people that were working in the industry figured out that they could virtue signal to the plebs and they could become loyal customers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-444" data-t="444">And so there became this giant operation by savvy marketers to essentially traffic the plebs as their product base.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-454" data-t="454">So, you know, VCs would fund these companies.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-456" data-t="456">the companies would put all this marketing spend into marketing in the plabs they would they would</span> <span class="cue" id="t-464" data-t="464">spin their vortexes get them all excited give them a moral crusade they would issue purity tests</span> <span class="cue" id="t-468" data-t="468">and the purity tests were meant to differentiate this company from their competitors they they</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-241">4:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-241" data-t="241">you know, for a long time. And so there there's a lack of entropy in the way that individuals</span> <span class="cue" id="t-246" data-t="246">oftentimes are shaping their their perceptions. And I think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-251" data-t="251">we're all a danger of this,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-254" data-t="254">and this is really one of the dangers. You know, just today,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-259" data-t="259">my entire feed is about people talking about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-262" data-t="262">how the Twitter algorithm has rapidly changed</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">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-476" data-t="476">might not have a competitive edge but they they can issue you know purity tests and market to the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-483" data-t="483">clubs and you know understand the social ecosystem and that gives them enough differentiation to get a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-490" data-t="490">strong customer base and so what started as this attempt to differentiate good intentioned</span> <span class="cue" id="t-497" data-t="497">individuals that were excited about something turned into a movement of a bunch of low context</span> <span class="cue" id="t-505" data-t="505">easily manipulable goofballs and and that's what a large portion of this this whole discussion around</span> <span class="cue" id="t-512" data-t="512">BIP 110 has been and what is frustrating about it is that it's really poisoned the conversation</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-265">4:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-265" data-t="265">or massively changed. They're like, I see my friends now. Hello, friends. I missed you. The way that these algorithms work</span> <span class="cue" id="t-273" data-t="273">on these social platforms is they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-276" data-t="276">essentially are framing and creating</span> <span class="cue" id="t-281" data-t="281">reality</span> <span class="cue" id="t-282" data-t="282">for these people. And I've noticed that the more that I engage with a certain topic, the more that I see the topic.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-290" data-t="290">And I get kinda tired of it because I just get tired of engaging with these topics, you know, from the time to time. Like,</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-518">8:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-518" data-t="518">because when you have a bunch of individuals that have no idea what they're talking about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-524" data-t="524">and they just like stand up and they stop their feed they make a bunch of noise it drowns out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-528" data-t="528">any individuals that have any legitimate criticisms you know they latch on to unproductive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-536" data-t="536">activities that that are not going to yield the results that they're looking for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-541" data-t="541">because they are they're afraid and they're they're ignorant and they're being manipulated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-546" data-t="546">with you know very like blatant kind of populist tactics instead of we the people it's we the</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-297">4:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-297" data-t="297">there's nothing inspiring</span> <span class="cue" id="t-299" data-t="299">about arguing with grumpy Nazis.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-302" data-t="302">And and I'm not really sure how grumpy Nazi</span> <span class="cue" id="t-305" data-t="305">are like, I I think there's a variety of reasons why I have,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-310" data-t="310">targeted the plaques</span> <span class="cue" id="t-313" data-t="313">so much.</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-554">9:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-554" data-t="554">plabs you know just the bullshit the same bullshit in you know that you see the kayfabe that you see</span> <span class="cue" id="t-560" data-t="560">in politics and it's they're demanded they think they can demand that to be taken seriously and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-567" data-t="567">they're not being serious which is why you know i think it's important to to to reflect back to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-574" data-t="574">them that they're not serious and they're they're not going to realize it for a while if they if</span> <span class="cue" id="t-581" data-t="581">they have the self-awareness to ever realize it like the only way that they're going to realize</span> <span class="cue" id="t-586" data-t="586">is it is through pain and through bad decisions and through you know living in in fear for a lot</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-314">5:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-314" data-t="314">And it's not because I don't like these people.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-318" data-t="318">It's not because I don't think they're I think that they're bad people. It's it's because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-323" data-t="323">I I think they need a little bit of a reality check for their own sake,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-329" data-t="329">for their own sanity, that they're getting their vortexes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-332" data-t="332">spin by pleb sloppers, and and they have no idea. They they just have no defense for this,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-339" data-t="339">whatsoever.</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-594">9:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-594" data-t="594">of time and you know because when you when you turn your brain off and you run around like a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-601" data-t="601">chicken with your head cut off like a pleb scared pleb it's bad for the relationships in your life</span> <span class="cue" id="t-608" data-t="608">it's bad for making critical decisions like you're just not gonna you're not gonna do too well but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-614" data-t="614">anyway so i i want i wrote this article and i didn want to turn this all into to bit 110 but think you know there some themes that I want to talk about that I think are important And I get to it after I read this article So you know the article that I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-633" data-t="633">wrote, it's called the case for banning plebs from running notes. Bitcoin discourse has gotten</span> <span class="cue" id="t-639" data-t="639">political consisting of name calling, smear campaigns and scrutiny over developers' sex</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">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-340" data-t="340">That even, you know, the the the base premise of, you know, referring to themselves as plabs and associating with each other as plabs is counterproductive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-350" data-t="350">in and of itself. You know, in in talking with people, like, you know, Avi Burra, for example,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-355" data-t="355">who is somebody that I I like and respect a lot,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-360" data-t="360">who had a brand based on pleb. You know, some of my my great friends like John and and Max, they, you know, ran</span> <span class="cue" id="t-368" data-t="368">a podcast, Pleb Miner Mafia</span> <span class="cue" id="t-371" data-t="371">or Pleb Miner Monthly.</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-644">10:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-644" data-t="644">lives. Plebs do not understand technical merits and therefore cannot debate them.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-650" data-t="650">When developers explain technical ideas to them, they say they disagree and that it was never explained to them.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-657" data-t="657">I don't think that plebs are bad people.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-660" data-t="660">I believe what we are witnessing is a serious social problem.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-665" data-t="665">Tragedy of the commoner.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-666" data-t="666">Most of us have come to the conclusion that a representative democracy is the best form of governance.</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-374">6:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-374" data-t="374">They have group chat. You know, the the the term pleb was popular for a while, and it essentially meant that you weren't an industry shill. And it's it's how people learn to associate with each other is there there was the the insiders, the the shills, and and then there was the plaubs. Like, the plaives was an individual that was an enthusiast,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-394" data-t="394">that didn't have, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-396" data-t="396">an expressed,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-398" data-t="398">you know, interest in anything or so they claimed. They're just a, you know, goofball that listened to a lot of podcasts and, you know, wanted to to have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-406" data-t="406">a positive impact on the world, and they were tired</span> <span class="cue" id="t-409" data-t="409">of seeing people like Pop,</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-672">11:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-672" data-t="672">The plebs elect leaders who decide what the plebs are allowed and not allowed to do.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-678" data-t="678">Should the plebs be able to do drugs?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-680" data-t="680">Should the plebs be able to drive drunk?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-682" data-t="682">Should the plebs be able to open a bank account without a government ID?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-686" data-t="686">Should the plebs be able to board an airplane without getting their balls fondled by a mall cop?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-691" data-t="691">The plebs feel like they have a sense of control by choosing the leaders who make the decisions for them.</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-412">6:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-412" data-t="412">Chill BlockFi, or whatever. And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-415" data-t="415">you know, what what happened with this group of people,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-419" data-t="419">they're super passionate. You know, you had a bunch of meme games. The meme games were made up of clubs. Like, what happened with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-426" data-t="426">this group of people is a lot of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-429" data-t="429">began working in the industry</span> <span class="cue" id="t-431" data-t="431">in one way or another. And a lot of the people that were working in the industry</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-697">11:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-697" data-t="697">Yet they actually contribute very little in the process.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-700" data-t="700">This pacifies them.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-703" data-t="703">When children are idle in restaurants and other areas that require them to sit and focus,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-708" data-t="708">they're often given things like coloring books to keep them entertained and occupied the pleb is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-715" data-t="715">very similar in the voting mechanism as well as all the kayfabe that goes along with it the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-720" data-t="720">political process to capture their buy-in to the voting process is like a coloring book for a child</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-436">7:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-436" data-t="436">figured out that they could</span> <span class="cue" id="t-438" data-t="438">virtue signal to the plaids</span> <span class="cue" id="t-440" data-t="440">and and they could become loyal</span> <span class="cue" id="t-443" data-t="443">customers. And and and so the there became this giant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-447" data-t="447">operation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-448" data-t="448">by savvy marketers</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-727">12:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-727" data-t="727">at the cheesecake factory the adults the Epstein client list sit and determine the future outcome</span> <span class="cue" id="t-734" data-t="734">of the world and the plebs are mesmerized by their plebs slot in the restaurant if the child begins</span> <span class="cue" id="t-739" data-t="739">to become distracted or unfocused the adults need to give them a new activity</span> <span class="cue" id="t-745" data-t="745">to do or maybe guide them through an activity to help them refocus the constant change in power</span> <span class="cue" id="t-754" data-t="754">between different figureheads is similar to changing activities for children at the dinner</span> <span class="cue" id="t-758" data-t="758">table it creates variety and prevents them from being bored more importantly it creates an</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-450">7:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-450" data-t="450">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-451" data-t="451">essentially traffic the plaubs as their product base. So, you know, VCs would fund these companies.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-458" data-t="458">The companies would put all this marketing spend into marketing the plaubs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-463" data-t="463">They would they would spin their vortexes, get them all excited, give them a moral crusade. They would issue purity tests,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-470" data-t="470">and the purity tests were meant to differentiate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-473" data-t="473">this company from</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-766">12:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-766" data-t="766">oscillation back and forth between outrage and feeling relatively at peace as their leaders</span> <span class="cue" id="t-771" data-t="771">switch back and forth between representing superficial values that they either share</span> <span class="cue" id="t-776" data-t="776">or despise there's a different segment of the population though that can't be so easily</span> <span class="cue" id="t-781" data-t="781">distracted by cave by k fabian circus great pleb revolt current pleb revolt against bitcoin core</span> <span class="cue" id="t-788" data-t="788">is that they are seeking a cathartic change in leadership</span> <span class="cue" id="t-792" data-t="792">which they are accustomed to experiencing in democracies.</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-475">7:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-475" data-t="475">their competitors. They they might not have a competitive edge, but they they can issue,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-480" data-t="480">you know, purity tests and and and market to the plums and, you know, understand the social ecosystem, and and that gives them</span> <span class="cue" id="t-488" data-t="488">enough differentiation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-489" data-t="489">to get a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-490" data-t="490">strong,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-491" data-t="491">customer base. And so what started as this attempt to differentiate good</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">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-796" data-t="796">They feel something is wrong, do not know how to name it,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-801" data-t="801">and have populist figureheads giving a name to their feelings,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-805" data-t="805">even if they still do not understand what is happening.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-808" data-t="808">The great man, great villain myth is playing out right before our eyes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-814" data-t="814">Fingers are ported towards a great villain.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-816" data-t="816">the extraordinarily hot former bitcoin core maintainer gloria and a heroic hero steps in</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-497">8:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-497" data-t="497">intentioned individuals</span> <span class="cue" id="t-499" data-t="499">that were excited about something turned into a movement of a bunch of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-504" data-t="504">low context,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-505" data-t="505">easily manipulable</span> <span class="cue" id="t-507" data-t="507">goofballs. And and that's what a large portion of this this whole discussion around BIP one ten has been. And what is frustrating about it is that it's really poised in the conversation.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-519" data-t="519">Because when</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-826">13:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-826" data-t="826">to save the day luke with mechanic as a spokesman without the ability to supplant a vigor head</span> <span class="cue" id="t-832" data-t="832">without any significant structural change in the system itself instead what is happening is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-839" data-t="839">the pleb revolt is actually looking to create real structural change the bitcoin development process</span> <span class="cue" id="t-845" data-t="845">a revolt has the opportunity to spread into a violent uncontrolled revolution the logical</span> <span class="cue" id="t-852" data-t="852">solution it should be simple to see that there's a pretty straightforward solution to all the drama</span> <span class="cue" id="t-857" data-t="857">which is that the plebs should be banned from running notes people are allowed to participate</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-520">8:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-520" data-t="520">you have a bunch of individuals that have no idea what they're talking about and they just, like, stand up and they stop their feet and they make a bunch of noise, it drowns out any individuals that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-531" data-t="531">have any legitimate criticisms.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-534" data-t="534">You know, they they latch on to unproductive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-537" data-t="537">activities that that are not gonna yield the results that they're looking for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-541" data-t="541">because they are they're afraid and they're they're ignorant. And they're being manipulated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-547" data-t="547">with, you know, very, like, blatant</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-863">14:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-863" data-t="863">in the circus of democracy by running for office but there are minimum thresholds for them to do so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-870" data-t="870">in having to get past primaries,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-873" data-t="873">canvassing by collecting large amounts of signatures,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-878" data-t="878">and needing organizational capabilities to accomplish this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-881" data-t="881">While there is no actual mechanism to ban a pleb</span> <span class="cue" id="t-884" data-t="884">from running a node yet,</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-549">9:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-549" data-t="549">kind of populist tactics.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-552" data-t="552">Instead of We the People, it's We the Plabs. You know, just the the bullshit the same bullshit in, you know, that you see the k fave that you see in,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-561" data-t="561">politics. And it it's and they're demanded.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-564" data-t="564">They they think they can demand that to be taken seriously, and they're not being serious,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-569" data-t="569">which is why, you know, I think it's important to to to reflect back to them that they're not serious. And they're they're not gonna realize it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-579" data-t="579">for a while</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-887">14:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-887" data-t="887">mechanisms such as making node costs</span> <span class="cue" id="t-890" data-t="890">so cost-prohibitive and complicated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-893" data-t="893">that plebs won't do it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-895" data-t="895">are entirely possible and should be considered.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-898" data-t="898">In a representative democracy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-899" data-t="899">the pleb is not actually given a vote on anything consequential.</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-581">9:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-581" data-t="581">if they if they have the self awareness to ever realize it. Like, the the only</span> <span class="cue" id="t-585" data-t="585">way that they're gonna realize is it is through pain and through bad decisions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-590" data-t="590">and through,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-592" data-t="592">you know, living</span> <span class="cue" id="t-593" data-t="593">in in fear for a long time. And, you know, because when you when you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-597" data-t="597">turn your brain off and you run around</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-905">15:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-905" data-t="905">They vote instead for other individuals who will then vote on things that are consequential.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-914" data-t="914">As has thoroughly been documented by Professor Crowder's Bitcoin University,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-918" data-t="918">having a node is having a direct vote, which is far too much power for the uninformed pleb.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-924" data-t="924">Order and balance should be restored to the Bitcoin development and can be accomplished by implementing similar strategies that have been implemented by American representative democracy For those who are discouraged by the raucous caused by the Kayfabians listen to Marz Spitzbar case for the novel option of not going to note</span> <span class="cue" id="t-947" data-t="947">I'll play that here in a second after this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-948" data-t="948">But I finish by saying, thank you for reading my article.</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-600">10:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-600" data-t="600">like a chicken with your head cut off, like a plab, scared plab,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-606" data-t="606">it's bad for the relationships in your life. It's it's bad for making critical decisions. Like, you're just not gonna</span> <span class="cue" id="t-612" data-t="612">you're not gonna do too well. But anyway, so I I want I wrote this article, and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-618" data-t="618">I I didn't wanna turn this all into to BIP one ten. I I I think, you know, there's some themes that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-625" data-t="625">I wanna talk about that I think are important,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-629" data-t="629">and I'll I'll get to it after I read this article. So, you know, the the article that I wrote, it's called the</span></span></p> -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-954">15:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-954" data-t="954">I've put countless hours into writing this on my typewriter with my wife</span> <span class="cue" id="t-958" data-t="958">to describing it onto Twitter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-960" data-t="960">We have smoked many cigarettes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-961" data-t="961">if you would like to support my credential journalism please subscribe to and boost my</span> <span class="cue" id="t-966" data-t="966">podcast which so happens to be the most thermodynamically sound podcast in the world</span> <span class="cue" id="t-973" data-t="973">thank you for being a subscriber to it but uh here's uh so mars is crashing out today on</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-981">16:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-981" data-t="981">twitter spaces with the this terrence guy and i'll uh turn it up to 2x speed so we get through it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-988" data-t="988">faster.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-991" data-t="991">I would love to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-992" data-t="992">and again,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="992">I'm not the most</span> <span class="cue" id="t-993" data-t="993">type of person in the room.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-993">16:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" data-t="993">I'd like to see that happen.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-994" data-t="994">I actually came up</span> <span class="cue" data-t="994">to advocate the opposite.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-995" data-t="995">I don't know if you've heard,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-996" data-t="996">but there's a growing movement</span> <span class="cue" data-t="996">called the Not Gonna Node movement,</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-997">16:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-997" data-t="997">and it's for the technologically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-998" data-t="998">illiterate retards</span> <span class="cue" id="t-999" data-t="999">such as you and me.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1000" data-t="1000">If you can't understand</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1001" data-t="1001">the basics,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1001">why get involved?</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1001">16:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" data-t="1001">You can actually choose</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1002" data-t="1002">to not run a node.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1002">In fact,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1003" data-t="1003">you can offload those</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1003">responsibilities to the poors</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1004" data-t="1004">and the plebs</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1004">16:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" data-t="1004">and the third worlders.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1005" data-t="1005">You don't have to worry</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1005">about this, bro.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1006" data-t="1006">You can spend time</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1006">living your life,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1007" data-t="1007">raising a family,</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1008">16:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1008" data-t="1008">doing things that make you happy,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1008">as opposed to crashing out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1009" data-t="1009">over ghosts and boogeyman and Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1011" data-t="1011">And you can choose to say,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1011">hey, what, you know what?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1012" data-t="1012">I'm not going to participate</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1012">16:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" data-t="1012">in this faking gay node war, bro.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1013" data-t="1013">I'm going to actually go do something</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1014" data-t="1014">productive with my life.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1015" data-t="1015">So I'd like you to join us.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1015">We could add you the group chat if you want.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1016" data-t="1016">Let me know.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1016">16:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" data-t="1016">Hit me up in the DMs</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1017" data-t="1017">and that's all I got to say.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1017">Why is it no word faking gay?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1019" data-t="1019">Because it's got people crashing out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1020" data-t="1020">all over the place, bro.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1020">We used to call this FUD.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1021">17:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1021" data-t="1021">You know, we used to point out FUD,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1022" data-t="1022">these narratives about how Bitcoin's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1023" data-t="1023">on the verge of failure</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1024" data-t="1024">and we used to laugh at it and call it out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1025" data-t="1025">I haven't heard anyone use the term FUD</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1025">around here in years, you know?</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1027">17:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1027" data-t="1027">but I want to bring that back.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1027">This is FUD, bro.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1028" data-t="1028">That's all this shit is.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1029" data-t="1029">I'm so new here.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1030" data-t="1030">What is FUD-ing?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1031" data-t="1031">See?</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1031">17:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" data-t="1031">Natalie doesn't even know what it means.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1032" data-t="1032">You're on certain candide.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1032">You're doing a disservice to the new...</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1033" data-t="1033">Yes.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1033">Okay, I'm glad you know that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1034" data-t="1034">It used to be calling out these narratives</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1035">17:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1035" data-t="1035">by people from the outside,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1036" data-t="1036">like the politicians and, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1037" data-t="1037">Visa and MasterCard,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1038" data-t="1038">that blockchain will never work,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1039" data-t="1039">Bitcoin will never work,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1039">it's expensive.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1040">17:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1040" data-t="1040">You know, what about solar flares?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1041" data-t="1041">Solar flares are going to crash a network</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1042" data-t="1042">or it's bad for the environment.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1042">We used to laugh at all of that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1043" data-t="1043">And now we got a bunch of people in Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1044" data-t="1044">who apparently don't seem to understand the basics</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1045">17:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1045" data-t="1045">coming around saying bullshit like we're on the verge of collapsing jpegs jpegs are you fucking</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1049" data-t="1049">kidding me jpegs are gonna kill the strongest monetary network ever ever built that's fun</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1052" data-t="1052">that's fun that's why it's a faking gay node war and that's all this is this is show this is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1055" data-t="1055">kayfabianism that's what this is people coming on this app engaging in worldwide wrestling nothing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1059" data-t="1059">more this doesn't matter this this activation will either succeed or fail probably fail in my</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1062" data-t="1062">humble opinion although i'm not gonna note her and i'm barely technology technologically literate</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1065">17:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1065" data-t="1065">as i was saying earlier so i could be wrong with that but bitcoin will continue on i assure you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1068" data-t="1068">mark my words i enjoyed that crash i thought i thought it was pretty good you know i i recorded</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1074" data-t="1074">an episode with max from ungovernable misfits i i don't know when i'm going to put it out you know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1081" data-t="1081">one of the things i've been realizing over you know the past year is everybody's crashing out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1087" data-t="1087">about bitcoin is uh in a variety of ways not everybody but you know what i mean it's it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1092" data-t="1092">really been in many ways a renaissance time to use bitcoin because you you go in there the fees</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1100">18:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1100" data-t="1100">are incredibly low uh there there's a lot of products out there that just make it really easy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1107" data-t="1107">whether it's you know like self-custodial nodes that swap and back and forth between uh liquid or</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1115" data-t="1115">you know the spark or you know whatever it's there there's a ton of places accepting bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1122" data-t="1122">and like as over the last few months as everybody has been losing their shit about nodes you've got</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1130" data-t="1130">steak and shake except in bitcoin this massive fast food chain you know they're doing things like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1137" data-t="1137">trying to make their food at least appear healthier the square terminals are getting</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1142">19:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1142" data-t="1142">turned on everywhere i mean it's just i i go places and and i've noticed it's been really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1151" data-t="1151">easy to spend bitcoin and to use it as money and the transaction fees are low and all the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1161" data-t="1161">circumstances in the world that would make bitcoin a compelling thing are happening the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1168" data-t="1168">government's launching all these crazy wars you know the middle east is exploding the global</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1173" data-t="1173">economy is you know melting down and you know and i was talking with max it's like when you're a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1180" data-t="1180">dissident in many ways when shit starts going bad across the board that's like one of your best case</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1189">19:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1189" data-t="1189">scenarios because it's like okay your dissident ideas which you've been promoting people might be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1196" data-t="1196">more open-minded to it because it's it's a little bit more apparent they're going to be a little bit</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1201" data-t="1201">less uh excited about mass surveillance when they can't afford their taxes and they're getting pissed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1208" data-t="1208">off about it but when everything's working out they don't really have a reason to think about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1213" data-t="1213">anything so at a time that it seems like it's it's one of the most opportune times</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1219" data-t="1219">to promote a technology like bitcoin you get so much of the user base that is active on these</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1228">20:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1228" data-t="1228">social platforms where you know a lot of the other npcs hang out and you get them all crashing out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1235" data-t="1235">and losing their shit and becoming the biggest</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1237" data-t="1237">futter they're the biggest futters</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1239" data-t="1239">of Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1241" data-t="1241">they're attacking it because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1243" data-t="1243">it does not</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1244">20:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1244" data-t="1244">fit their purity test</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1247" data-t="1247">anymore so therefore it's bad</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1249" data-t="1249">and they're going to go and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1250" data-t="1250">anything defamatory that they possibly can about individuals building on Bitcoin, using Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1260" data-t="1260">they're just going to tear it all apart. And it is very interesting to watch. And a lot of people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1269" data-t="1269">that I know are becoming very discouraged by it. They're becoming very confused. What is the</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1275">21:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1275" data-t="1275">proper response like you know should they take all these retarded plebs fears seriously like you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1282" data-t="1282">know should they care about you know all of this fud like is it good use of their time or do they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1288" data-t="1288">just need to put their head in the sand and ignore it and so you know individuals that you know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1294" data-t="1294">historically have been really excited like you know even if they're not all wrapped up and their</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1299" data-t="1299">their brains turned into mush by plebs slop they might be impacted by this in one way or another</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1304" data-t="1304">where they're discouraged and and not only that they're they're feeling like this big shift in</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1310">21:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1310" data-t="1310">you know cultural ethos because like a lot of the the social ecosystem you know when a lot of the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1318" data-t="1318">companies that you know people were working for went under and ran out of vc money last cycle</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1324" data-t="1324">they started pivoting you know to other products and you know things like like paper bitcoin and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1331" data-t="1331">that's where paper bitcoin summer came from and you know it's just people are watching things</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1338" data-t="1338">change they're watching the so-called social ecosystem change and they're going through</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1342" data-t="1342">whiplash and they were promised glory by podcasters and they're not experiencing glory</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1349">22:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1349" data-t="1349">right now and you know you ask why the sentiment's low you know to to like some people like want</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1355" data-t="1355">analysis of like who's who like who are the feds causing disruption in the ecosystem you know who</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1361" data-t="1361">are the good guys or who are the bad guys and i think it's just like a murky game it's you don't</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1369" data-t="1369">know what people's incentives are you don't know what people's intentions are some people that are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1373" data-t="1373">like unproductive provocateurs are a little bit more obvious than others some people are a little</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1381" data-t="1381">bit more subtle than others it's hard to know but uh i wanted to talk about and this is let's see</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1386">23:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1386" data-t="1386">how long i've been around okay 30 minutes of rambling to get to what i actually wanted to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1390" data-t="1390">talk about so that's just setting the stage so i've watched this this tv show quite a few times</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1397" data-t="1397">since it's come out i'd like to say probably like four times it's been a lot and i've been studying</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1405" data-t="1405">it closely because i i genuinely think it is like the best piece of content that i have seen</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1411" data-t="1411">in a very long time especially given you know the social ecosystem which we find ourselves in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1419" data-t="1419">you know being you know very like dissident minded and wanting to take on a powerful establishment</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1427">23:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1427" data-t="1427">force or claiming that we do in central banking which is the the tv show and or and i hope you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1435" data-t="1435">recognized the beginning it was like the mimics uh or whatever the guy's name manifesto he was a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1445" data-t="1445">minor character you know that died early on and he wrote this uh you know beautiful manifesto about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1450" data-t="1450">being a rebel and like having hope you know when the times are rough and one of the things that i</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1458" data-t="1458">really liked in the manifesto was this idea of freedom being this really disorganized</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1465" data-t="1465">phenomena and you know there's a lot of individuals that will you know they they like this aspect of</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1473">24:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1473" data-t="1473">bitcoin culture which is that you know there aren't leaders there's no like party structure</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1478" data-t="1478">I mean, I guess there's PodConf and, you know, the conferences, but in, you know, these media companies, but, you know, there's no like party structure like in the political world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1490" data-t="1490">There's not really any at least, you know, foreseeable top-down control of everything.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1499" data-t="1499">It's a mosh pit of a lot of different people with a lot of different ideas and opinions about things.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1505" data-t="1505">And, you know, people like that because that is how freedom is in a lot of ways.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1512" data-t="1512">That's the alternative to top-down approaches.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1515">25:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1515" data-t="1515">You know, what scares old people is this idea of anarchy, which is just, you know, kind of a less structured way of organizing things.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1527" data-t="1527">things and uh you know there's so many aspects of this show that i love because it's just tracking</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1533" data-t="1533">this this revolution that is uh this rebellion that is growing around galaxy and in the star</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1541" data-t="1541">wars universe and leading into you know the the main story arc which is luke skywalker</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1548" data-t="1548">blowing up the death star you know and eventually confronting uh palpatine or sidious and his father</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1556" data-t="1556">Darth Vader and blowing up Death Star 2 and that whole thing It just shows the shows the pieces kind of forming together and and how this this the spark of rebellion the spark of revolution is started with an ember</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1572">26:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1572" data-t="1572">essentially with with largely one guy named ruth and luthan rail and it shows how the the wheels</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1579" data-t="1579">of bureaucracy and tyranny just collapsed due to to incompetency in a lot of ways it is easily the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1589" data-t="1589">most inspiring piece of television that i've seen in a long time and i would put it at the top my</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1594" data-t="1594">all-time list actually at this point you know i imagine i'll probably watch it a bunch more times</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1600" data-t="1600">going in the future you know and i think it's important as somebody that tries to tell stories</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1605" data-t="1605">to really study how well it's done because the the timing of it is very you know unique and odd</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1612">26:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1612" data-t="1612">too because disney has been putting out shitty you know piece of content after shitty piece of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1618" data-t="1618">content especially with the star wars franchise and and then they just come out with the banger</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1622" data-t="1622">it's just so relevant it doesn't feel like there's uh you know a bunch of like woke garbage in it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1628" data-t="1628">It doesn't feel like there's really an agenda, you know, that is subversive to, you know, you as an individual.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1637" data-t="1637">It feels like it's, you know, a very inspiring story.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1641" data-t="1641">And you probably really get down into it and nitpick some of the stuff going on and make it questionable.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1647">27:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1647" data-t="1647">But I just find it's so above and beyond the status quo.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1653" data-t="1653">It's just, it's really good.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1655" data-t="1655">It's really good.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1656" data-t="1656">You know, and I think one of the things that is different in it than where we find ourselves in this social ecosystem is that in their world, there's a clear understanding of who the good guys and the bad guys are.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1670" data-t="1670">Like, there's this monolith institution in the empire that are the bad guys, and then there's the rebellion, the good guys.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1678" data-t="1678">And, you know, one of the things that I liked about it is it added complexity, and I think this just makes it a little bit more relatable.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1685">28:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1685" data-t="1685">it added complexity to the rebellion that there was a bunch of factions and they didn't really get</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1690" data-t="1690">along and so you have like the the bureaucrat uh rebels and then you've got like the uh the spy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1696" data-t="1696">rebels like cassie nandor and then you've got uh in luther rail and then you've got the like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1706" data-t="1706">crazy deter bob rebels like saul guerrera and you got all these different factions that are you know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1713" data-t="1713">in one episode there there was a really good scene where cassian gets caught in between</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1720" data-t="1720">a rebel group that was infighting it was like a bunch of plebs the cannon fodder</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1725">28:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1725" data-t="1725">that were all trying to kill each other and they were arguing and bickering back and forth and he</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1730" data-t="1730">gets caught up in it he's like aren't you guys on the same team and they're like you know just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1733" data-t="1733">tearing themselves apart and see us to get out of that situation and escape from them these were</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1740" data-t="1740">people that were fighting on the battlefield together against the empire and without lack</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1748" data-t="1748">of leadership that the plebs started tearing themselves apart but i think you know the these</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1754" data-t="1754">types of stories are really inspiring uh there there are types of you know the the stories that</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1761">29:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1761" data-t="1761">i think really resonate and have staying power over time and really are cherished and beloved</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1768" data-t="1768">There are stories that capture this battle of good and evil, this larger scale battle that's happening.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1777" data-t="1777">You know, Star Wars is one.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1779" data-t="1779">Lord of the Rings is one.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1780" data-t="1780">There are a lot of stories like this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1783" data-t="1783">The Hunger Games, you name it.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1784">29:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1784" data-t="1784">If you think of, like, you know, Batman, Marvel franchise, like, if you think of a story, there's a good guy and a bad guy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1794" data-t="1794">There's somebody that represents good, somebody that represents evil, right?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1798" data-t="1798">And somebody goes on the hero's journey.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1800" data-t="1800">And what it is, is it's allowing you as the viewer to role play in the story, stepping up and offering something good in the world and entering into this battle against evil and overcoming it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1815" data-t="1815">And for many people, Bitcoin has been that narrative.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1818" data-t="1818">I think for most of us, you know, to a large degree, Bitcoin has been that narrative.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1822">30:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1822" data-t="1822">it has been that invitation to step into a larger story to think more critically about things and to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1827" data-t="1827">evaluate who the who the good and the bad guys are but i i think like where there's a huge</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1834" data-t="1834">differentiation between these stories in the real world is that in the real world the lines are a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1843" data-t="1843">lot blurrier and in the real world that this battle between good and evil is happening within</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1848" data-t="1848">all of us and some stories capture this well but it's different when you're experiencing it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1856" data-t="1856">on the daily basis when you're getting pulled in in various directions when you're when you are</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1861">31:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1861" data-t="1861">trying to understand the world around you and you're trying to understand yourself and you're</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1866" data-t="1866">having trouble determining truth from fiction you filled with fear you filled with self out you filled with fusion the battle is happening in you and you know a huge part of it is based on like the inputs that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1881" data-t="1881">you're experiencing you know from from the views around you but you know i'm not an atheist i do</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1887" data-t="1887">believe that there is you know a spiritual aspect of this that's happening it's just the the way that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1893" data-t="1893">i the only way that i can really you know understand it well and when you look at these</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1899" data-t="1899">stories like many of them like where where did this roadmap get started it got started in religion</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1905">31:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1905" data-t="1905">and you know i i know the most about the bible i mean i guess i haven't really studied too many</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1910" data-t="1910">other religions but you know it's the world is predominantly dominated by monotheistic religions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1916" data-t="1916">today they have a clearer sense of of good and evil like when you get into the more like pagan</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1924" data-t="1924">religions you know which used to be very uh large it was interesting because there wasn't like a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1931" data-t="1931">a clear as clear of an example as good and bad it was it was a lot more nuanced you know like when</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1937" data-t="1937">you look at the nordic gods for example it's like odin you know is to the the worshipers of those</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1944">32:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1944" data-t="1944">gods like he was he was not omnipresent he was not infallible like the christian god he think he got</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1952" data-t="1952">he he was prophesied to get killed in ragnarok but ragnarok's even interesting i'll talk to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1958" data-t="1958">about that here in a little bit but you know and there were these you know greek gods that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1964" data-t="1964">in the the roman and greek roman and nordic gods you know were similar in the sense of like they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1971" data-t="1971">they were they had personalities that were more understandable to humans because they they lacked</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1978" data-t="1978">perfection and they yeah but anyways they they fought amongst each other and they fought</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1986">33:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1986" data-t="1986">against other creatures that were you know larger than them the so so that's kind of like how the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1994" data-t="1994">framing of good and evil was to some degree it was like the nordic gods fought against the the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2001" data-t="2001">frost giants the the greek gods fought against the titans and the giants and the humans were</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2009" data-t="2009">kind of just like you know caught in the in the middle of this you know spiritual war in a lot of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2015" data-t="2015">ways this is there's been a theme and understanding you know of what is going on throughout all of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2021" data-t="2021">human history in christianity you know there there's a heaven and a hell there's two warring</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">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2027" data-t="2027">battles happening there's there's god and the army of angels fighting against lucifer and the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2033" data-t="2033">army of fallen angels and you know lucifer somewhat has dominion over the earth and so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2040" data-t="2040">you as a human you're you're born into a battleground it's a spiritual battleground in which</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2046" data-t="2046">the you know army of evil is is trying to steal your stole for all of eternity and you know whether</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2054" data-t="2054">you know you believe any of these stories or you may still understand the world this way and like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2060" data-t="2060">even atheists kind of have a sense of you know they create their own moral compass for themselves</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2068">34:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2068" data-t="2068">to some degree like rand and her philosophy of objectivism was all about creating a moral compass</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2077" data-t="2077">that was different from what was ascribed to her through religion or through, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2085" data-t="2085">the Marxist morality of the Soviet Union.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2089" data-t="2089">You know, you look at some of these atheists, they, you know, worship the climate.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2093" data-t="2093">To some degree, you know, humans really, they always choose to worship something,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2098" data-t="2098">whether it's God, whether it's themselves, whether it's, you know, a larger idea.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2103">35:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2103" data-t="2103">is because to deal with adversity and to deal with the battleground of this world that we find</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2111" data-t="2111">ourselves in we need a larger sense of meaning and purpose in our lives to carry us through we</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2118" data-t="2118">need a reason beyond pleasure to wake up in the morning and move this is how you get through</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2124" data-t="2124">struggle is how you get through difficulties which we all inevitably face in one way or another it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2131" data-t="2131">it's a result of living in this world which is an inherent battleground is you will experience</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2137" data-t="2137">pain and difficulties and and and trials and tribulations now a lot of these belief structures</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2146">35:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2146" data-t="2146">are similar in the sense of they they i don't know about like greek mythology as much but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2153" data-t="2153">in nordic mythology and in christianity there there are end times there are prophesied</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2161" data-t="2161">to end times so you know there's the book of revelation you know which i need to read through</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2167" data-t="2167">and you know understand a little bit better i remember reading it when i was younger just being</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2172" data-t="2172">confused by it you know and i think there's a lot of interpretations that that came out of it like i</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2179" data-t="2179">read the left behind books when i was a kid and you know every time i came home and my family wasn there i was like terrified that you know they got raptured or something and i looked for their like clothes bunched up on the ground fortunately that didn</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2193">36:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2193" data-t="2193">happen i was always afraid that i was gonna get left behind but yeah the nordic mythology there</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2198" data-t="2198">there's ragnarok it's the end of the world there's this great battle that's happening you saw the the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2202" data-t="2202">the warriors that go and they die in in battle and they go to valhalla which is odin's hall like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2208" data-t="2208">They sit there and they fight every night and kill each other and then wake up the next morning to do it all over again because they're preparing for this end battle against the opponents.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2218" data-t="2218">And it's like prophesied that Odin dies in it, you know, and all of these things.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2224" data-t="2224">It's the end of the world.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2224">37:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" data-t="2224">And, you know, I think a lot of there's been a lot of times, I think, in my understanding of American history, like people have felt like it's the end of the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2232" data-t="2232">there have been these armageddon apocalyptic situations that have happened you know periodically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2240" data-t="2240">and the society has been you know faced incredible economic difficulties they they've faced you know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2249" data-t="2249">war and famine and all sorts of stuff and i think during those times and i would argue that we're in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2254" data-t="2254">one of those times we're in one of those times where it feels like we're heading towards end</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2258" data-t="2258">times and armageddon and it doesn't help that there's a bunch of people you know in washington</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2264">37:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2264" data-t="2264">and different places in power that seem like they're trying to conjure jesus back and you got</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2269" data-t="2269">like you know one of the richest billionaires in the world that runs like the largest private</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2274" data-t="2274">intelligence company palantir you know doing essays on or lectures on the antichrist like it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2280" data-t="2280">kind of feels like we're going to the end times in one way or another and i think you know the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2286" data-t="2286">the promise that bitcoin has provided so many people is this idea of being able to escape</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2293" data-t="2293">armageddon the bitcoin is their messiah from you know this orwellian future in which the</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2299">38:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2299" data-t="2299">anti-crash rules over them and they all have to like pay using their mark of the beast or you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2305" data-t="2305">know whatever and so i think this is part of the reason why so many people are crashing out because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2309" data-t="2309">they're like this is our last hope you know this is our last chance and i think this is a faulty</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2313" data-t="2313">promise to take you know i spent a lot of time my life thinking about the end of the world and you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2319" data-t="2319">know thinking about armageddon or you know revelation or whatever and i think one thing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2324" data-t="2324">that's clear is that none of us have the ability to really predict when it will happen and that the</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2329">38:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2329" data-t="2329">best way to live life is to know that you will die someday and so you have to have this balance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2338" data-t="2338">between trying to maximize what you're experiencing today with also maximizing the long term.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2346" data-t="2346">So you don't want to do things at the expense of the long term where you you handicap yourself,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2351" data-t="2351">but you also don't want to completely miss out on living in the present for thinking,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2358" data-t="2358">you know, for later because you don't know what's going to happen. You can spend your whole life</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2361" data-t="2361">toiling for retirement to find out that you have cancer. You're not going to make it to get your</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2367">39:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2367" data-t="2367">pension and you could have been you know going and slaving away at a job that you hated your</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2372" data-t="2372">whole life with the intention of gambling away your social security check at the slot machine</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2377" data-t="2377">just to find out that you're not going to make it there you're not going to make it to vegas and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2383" data-t="2383">there's a very real potential that we we don't experience you know this armageddon that a lot</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2391" data-t="2391">of people are feeling in the back of their head or in their hearts or you know this heaviness</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2396" data-t="2396">of the times that we're in but there is a very real potential that we do and and so i think</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2403">40:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2403" data-t="2403">there's like this uh you know kind of dual these two ways to look at it which is that it's important</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2410" data-t="2410">to actually fight you know for the things that you think are important and in my case i you know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2415" data-t="2415">it's it's freedom and you know human liberty you know not not just for like i i've begun to like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2423" data-t="2423">care less about fighting for other people's rights and and and just like really you know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2429" data-t="2429">fighting for my rights and fighting with people that are fighting for the rights if that makes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2433" data-t="2433">sense like allying myself with people that are actually allies versus you know coming up with</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2438">40:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2438" data-t="2438">this like oh we need to make these decisions because you know starving african kids can't</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2444" data-t="2444">afford to run notes like it's just not where my motivation like i'm not going to completely change</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2449" data-t="2449">direction in my life so that starving and african kids can run bitcoin notes like i i am trying to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2456" data-t="2456">maximize my decisions so that i can use bitcoin and like people in my community can use bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2462" data-t="2462">like that's just the way that i think of it but i think it's just you know the best and most moral</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2467" data-t="2467">way to think about it because you know having this paternalistic attitude of you know making</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2472">41:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2472" data-t="2472">decisions for trying to make decisions based on the behalf of individuals that you have no idea</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2477" data-t="2477">about and never mad it's just kind of you know silly and it's a it's a minute it's a pleb slot</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2483" data-t="2483">manipulation tactic but uh but i think it's a it's important you know to fight for the things</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2490" data-t="2490">that you think are important then also trust that other people around you are also fighting for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2495" data-t="2495">things that are important to them and know that this this battle of freedom is it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2500" data-t="2500">it's it's a truly decentralized fun that isn't directable in the sense of like a top-down</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2507">41:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2507" data-t="2507">approach like there's no way that the masses are ever going to come together and be unified in this</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2512" data-t="2512">and i don't really even know if you want that because that then it just kind of turns into</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2516" data-t="2516">whatever you know you were fighting against before most likely and that throughout all of human</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2522" data-t="2522">history there there's been these great you know battles between tyranny and freedom and and so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2529" data-t="2529">you know one of the big ones that's hopefully relevant to you and your understanding was you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2534" data-t="2534">know the the cold war between the west and the east and you know like largely speaking the the</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2541">42:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2541" data-t="2541">u.s and and the soviet union but ultimately at the day i just think that's a you know it's not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2547" data-t="2547">the best framing because as we all know today living in the american empire like the u.s was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2551" data-t="2551">never really the good guys in the story they were just significantly less bad guys but uh but the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2558" data-t="2558">The Soviet Union was like this insanely, insanely oppressive society that had total surveillance over the population, you know, and just had such a low value for human life.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2571" data-t="2571">And felt the tyranny is not permanent.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2574" data-t="2574">And I think that's something that's important to understand, you know, because I oftentimes hear people say things like Bitcoin is humanity's last hope.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2581">43:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2581" data-t="2581">It's like humanity's last hope for what?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2583" data-t="2583">It's not true.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2585" data-t="2585">You can't predict the future.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2587" data-t="2587">If he can say that with so much confidence in predicting the future that Bitcoin is humanity's last hope, then, you know, like, you better be making a bunch of money on Polymarket or Predix or whatever.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2597" data-t="2597">I mean, so much confidence in predicting the future.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2599" data-t="2599">It's like, no.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2600">43:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2600" data-t="2600">You know, I was listening to Shadrack, and, you know, one of the things I appreciate about Shadrack is he doesn't really care a whole lot for living in echo chambers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2607" data-t="2607">I think I live in echo chamber much more than him, and I appreciate him because he's such a good source of entropy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2613" data-t="2613">people one of the things that he said on the podcast is like he's afraid for you know bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2618" data-t="2618">people that they're they're getting too stuck in these like myopic world views or one-sided world</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2625" data-t="2625">views that they forget that there a whole other world that the cypherpunk movement is is way more than just digital money and plebs a lot that technology could be used for freedom in in quite a few different ways and and that there a lot of people that have different perspectives</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2639" data-t="2639">than them that might actually be much closer allies to them than they think you know if they</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2645">44:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2645" data-t="2645">they slow down and and uh stop focusing so hard on stop focusing on like these minute differences</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2653" data-t="2653">that people have and so the idea that bitcoin is humanity's last hope like what what was bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2659" data-t="2659">you know bitcoin came into the it was introduced at a dark time in in human history you know during</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2667" data-t="2667">right after the 2008 financial crisis do any of us have a like romanticized understanding of the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2673" data-t="2673">story you know it's it's what's got our buy-in largely speaking we we don't know a lot about it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2679" data-t="2679">and i think a lot of us you know buy in and propagate this like very rosy perspective of</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2687">44:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2687" data-t="2687">the story because it is compelling but if something like bitcoin can come into the world</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2691" data-t="2691">and change the world we have no idea what the future holds and you know a huge part of why</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2697" data-t="2697">bitcoin has been successful is it's you know not just like the myth of satoshi nakamoto</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2702" data-t="2702">but it's been you know people that have interacted with it and you know a lot of people have gone</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2708" data-t="2708">to prison for using it you know and for promoting freedom like there there have been the martyrs</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2715" data-t="2715">there have been lots of people taking risks and in many ways you know if you're using it today</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2720">45:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2720" data-t="2720">you've been taking risks and this is a huge reason why i just hate the term pleb i think it's so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2728" data-t="2728">stupid it's because i think like you know what like if you believe what you're doing is important</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2732" data-t="2732">then you know it's important to like treat yourself like you're important and calling</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2736" data-t="2736">yourself a pleb is is doing the the polar opposite of that but anyways i think a lot of people are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2743" data-t="2743">having their conviction test tested they're having to you know stop and reevaluate why they're doing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2749" data-t="2749">what they're doing they're feeling pain in a variety of ways whether it's socially economically</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2757">45:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2757" data-t="2757">relationally psychologically like it just i mean even physically maybe all of the above and uh You know pain causes people to question you know to try and get out of pain you know a lot of circumstances Not everybody like handles questioning well but you know it does</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2776" data-t="2776">It does lead to questions.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2777" data-t="2777">And, you know, if you navigate pain properly, it leads to growth and it leads to real opportunity.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2783" data-t="2783">And so that's where I'm going to leave you guys.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2785" data-t="2785">This is what I've been thinking about, you know, for the last couple weeks and really trying to figure out how to synthesize all of this into a cohesive episode.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2796" data-t="2796">And I think I pulled it off.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2797">46:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2797" data-t="2797">Thank you guys for being subscribers of The Beagle Weekly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2799" data-t="2799">Thank you for tuning in.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2800" data-t="2800">If you found this helpful, chill out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2802" data-t="2802">And I will talk to you guys soon.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2815" data-t="2815">We'll be right back.</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2845">47:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2845" data-t="2845">I wanna feel like my life is worth something</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2860" data-t="2860">A reason to live, I'm tired of numbing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2864" data-t="2864">I look around and the crowd is all confused</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2869" data-t="2869">Why do they play like they're trying to lose?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2873" data-t="2873">I know I'm not the one with all the answers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2878" data-t="2878">But I don't wanna be the one feeding the cancer</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2882">48:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2882" data-t="2882">Looking in the mirror, asking if I'm just a puppet in their play</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2887" data-t="2887">I'm just trying so hard to find my way</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2893" data-t="2893">I hear the lies creeping in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2896" data-t="2896">They say all is lost no way to win All around I see the fires burning Flames of freedom the tide is turning</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2910" data-t="2910">Ashes fall, but darkness won't have the final say</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2915" data-t="2915">I'll fight so hope we'll survive another day</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2920">48:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2920" data-t="2920">Another day</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2927" data-t="2927">It's all a chaotic mess</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2939" data-t="2939">What will come next?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2941" data-t="2941">Every time I gain some ground</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2943" data-t="2943">It feels like I control less</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2946" data-t="2946">I have to fight to feel alive</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2950">49:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2950" data-t="2950">It's the only way for my soul to survive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2956" data-t="2956">I need a wind to see some hope</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2967" data-t="2967">It feels like I'm at the end of my rope</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2969" data-t="2969">It's when I'm pushed to the edge I find how far I can go</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2973" data-t="2973">Pain and darkness are what pushes us to grow</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2981" data-t="2981">I know there will be better days</span></span></p> - -<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2987">49:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2987" data-t="2987">It's what lets me carry this weight</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2992" data-t="2992">All around, I see the fires burning</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2996" data-t="2996">Flames of freedom, the tide is turning</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3000" data-t="3000">Ashes fall, but darkness won't have the final say</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3005" data-t="3005">I'll fight so hope we'll survive another day</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3011" data-t="3011">Outro Music</span></span></p> +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-634">10:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Marz Spitzbar</b> <span class="cue" id="t-634" data-t="634">case for banning plebs from running nodes. Bitcoin discourse has gotten political,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-640" data-t="640">consisting of name calling, smear campaigns, and scrutiny over developers' sex lives.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-646" data-t="646">Pubs do not understand technical merits and therefore cannot</span></span></p>
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diff --git a/wiki/transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode.md b/wiki/transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3f982446 @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@ +--- +title: "Transcript: Freedom Is Disorganized by Richard Greaser (Bonus Episode)" +type: transcript +episode: freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode +generated: true +date: 2026-07-15 +audio: "https://feeds.fountain.fm/R8scBF2Wiykm0YVldsHQ/items/kl07Xdq2azPDo7xBCl5g/files/AUDIO---DEFAULT---5bf5cabc-f8ec-426a-98b4-b14b0950ccc2.mp3" +duration: "10:49" +sources: + - raw/episodes/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode/bundle.json +--- + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-0">0:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-0" data-t="0">There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-8" data-t="8">dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-17" data-t="17">and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-23" data-t="23">throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions, that have no idea that they've</span> <span class="cue" id="t-27" data-t="27">already enlisted in the cause.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-30" data-t="30">Remember that the frontier of the rebellion is everywhere,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-34">0:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-34" data-t="34">and even the smallest act of insurrection</span> <span class="cue" id="t-36" data-t="36">pushes our lines forward.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-39" data-t="39">And then remember this,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-41" data-t="41">the Imperial need for control is so desperate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-43" data-t="43">because it's so unnatural.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-46" data-t="46">Tiridine requires constant effort.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-48">0:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-48" data-t="48">It breaks, it leaks.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-52" data-t="52">Authority is brittle.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-53" data-t="53">Oppression is the mask of fear.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-55" data-t="55">Remember that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-57" data-t="57">And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments</span> <span class="cue" id="t-64" data-t="64">of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-68">1:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-68" data-t="68">be one too many.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-70" data-t="70">One single thing will break the siege.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-75" data-t="75">Remember this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-77" data-t="77">Try.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-78" data-t="78">hello and welcome back folks to another subscriber episode this is rich greaser</span> <span class="cue" id="t-87" data-t="87">you know to be honest i have probably recorded uh like four hours of content that i have</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-94">1:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-94" data-t="94">discarded and i am confident this time i'm not so you can hear the finished product of this</span> <span class="cue" id="t-102" data-t="102">but yeah i've been thinking a lot and just reflecting a lot on what i'm seeing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-109" data-t="109">in the bitcoin culture right now it's something i do regularly and you know sometimes it takes me</span> <span class="cue" id="t-116" data-t="116">a lot of time to just like sit and process what i'm seeing to step back to you know poke and prod</span> <span class="cue" id="t-125" data-t="125">And it is very, very clear that a lot of people are very scared right now for a variety of reasons.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-134" data-t="134">When you listen to the scared Nazi pleb talk, they're terrified that Bitcoin, this thing that has been their savior, their anchor, for some of them years, some of them it's a relatively new thing.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-155">2:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-155" data-t="155">They're terrified that it's going to be taken from them by other people, by the bad guys, by the financial institutions, by the spammers, by, you know, all these individuals and characters that are, one, using Bitcoin differently than them, are different than them, think different than them, have different incentives than them, and that they have very little understanding.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-180" data-t="180">up and you know for many of these you know nazi uh scared nazi plebs they they have a low context</span> <span class="cue" id="t-189" data-t="189">for one how bitcoin works but like how the larger broader ecosystem of the way that people interact</span> <span class="cue" id="t-194" data-t="194">with bitcoin they've got their people that they they hang out and talk with on on social media</span> <span class="cue" id="t-200" data-t="200">on nostr on twitter they'll listen to the same podcast as them they gauge perspective</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-208">3:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-208" data-t="208">or like their entire perspective and in the way that they gauge sentiment is based on youtube</span> <span class="cue" id="t-215" data-t="215">comments on on twitter comments on the vibes that they feel as they're watching somebody through</span> <span class="cue" id="t-222" data-t="222">a screen a computer screen they listen to the person's the inflection in their voice they you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-229" data-t="229">know they it's they they don't shake these people's hands very regularly or like have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-235" data-t="235">interactions with them in person or sit down with them at bars you know for a long time and so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-242" data-t="242">there there's a lack of entropy in the way that individuals oftentimes are shaping their their</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-249">4:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-249" data-t="249">perceptions and i think we're all at danger of this and this is really one of the dangers you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-256" data-t="256">know just today my entire feed is about people talking about how the twitter algorithm has</span> <span class="cue" id="t-264" data-t="264">rapidly change or massively change they're like i see my friends now hello friends i missed you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-270" data-t="270">the way that these algorithms work on these social platforms is they essentially are framing and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-278" data-t="278">creating reality for these people and i've noticed that the more that i engage with a certain topic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-287" data-t="287">the more that I see the topic.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-290">4:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-290" data-t="290">And I get kind of tired of it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-292" data-t="292">because I just get tired of engaging with these topics</span> <span class="cue" id="t-295" data-t="295">from time to time.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-297" data-t="297">There's nothing inspiring about arguing with grumpy Nazis.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-302" data-t="302">And I'm not really sure how grumpy Nazis are.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-305" data-t="305">I think there a variety of reasons why I have targeted the plebs so much And it not because I don like these people</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-318">5:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-318" data-t="318">It's not because I don't think that they're bad people.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-321" data-t="321">It's because I think they need a little bit of a reality check for their own sake.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-329" data-t="329">For their own sanity.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-330" data-t="330">That they're getting their vortexes spinned by plebsloppers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-334" data-t="334">And they have no idea.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-335" data-t="335">they just have no defense for this uh whatsoever that even you know the the the base premise of</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-344">5:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-344" data-t="344">you know referring to themselves as plebs and associating with each other as plebs is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-349" data-t="349">counterproductive in and of itself you know in in talking with people like you know avi burro for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-354" data-t="354">example who is somebody that i i like and respect a lot who had a brand based on pleb you know some</span> <span class="cue" id="t-362" data-t="362">my great friends like John and Max, they, you know, ran a podcast, Pleb Minor Mafia,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-371" data-t="371">or Pleb Minor Monthly. They have a group chat. You know, the term pleb was popular for a while,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-379" data-t="379">and it essentially meant that you weren't an industry shill. And it's how people learned to</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-384">6:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-384" data-t="384">associate with each other is there was the insiders, the shills, and then there was the plebs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-391" data-t="391">Like the plebs was an individual that was an enthusiast that didn't have like an expressed, you know, interest in anything.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-399" data-t="399">Or so they claimed they're just a, you know, goofball that listened to a lot of podcasts and, you know, wanted to have a positive impact on the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-408" data-t="408">And they were tired of seeing people like pop, chill block five or whatever.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-413" data-t="413">And, you know, what happened with this group of people that were super passionate, you know, a bunch of meme gangs, the meme gangs were made up with plebs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-424" data-t="424">Like, what happened with this group of people is a lot of people began working in the industry in one way or another.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-432">7:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-432" data-t="432">And a lot of the people that were working in the industry figured out that they could virtue signal to the plebs and they could become loyal customers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-444" data-t="444">And so there became this giant operation by savvy marketers to essentially traffic the plebs as their product base.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-454" data-t="454">So, you know, VCs would fund these companies.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-456" data-t="456">the companies would put all this marketing spend into marketing in the plabs they would they would</span> <span class="cue" id="t-464" data-t="464">spin their vortexes get them all excited give them a moral crusade they would issue purity tests</span> <span class="cue" id="t-468" data-t="468">and the purity tests were meant to differentiate this company from their competitors they they</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">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-476" data-t="476">might not have a competitive edge but they they can issue you know purity tests and market to the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-483" data-t="483">clubs and you know understand the social ecosystem and that gives them enough differentiation to get a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-490" data-t="490">strong customer base and so what started as this attempt to differentiate good intentioned</span> <span class="cue" id="t-497" data-t="497">individuals that were excited about something turned into a movement of a bunch of low context</span> <span class="cue" id="t-505" data-t="505">easily manipulable goofballs and and that's what a large portion of this this whole discussion around</span> <span class="cue" id="t-512" data-t="512">BIP 110 has been and what is frustrating about it is that it's really poisoned the conversation</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-518">8:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-518" data-t="518">because when you have a bunch of individuals that have no idea what they're talking about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-524" data-t="524">and they just like stand up and they stop their feed they make a bunch of noise it drowns out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-528" data-t="528">any individuals that have any legitimate criticisms you know they latch on to unproductive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-536" data-t="536">activities that that are not going to yield the results that they're looking for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-541" data-t="541">because they are they're afraid and they're they're ignorant and they're being manipulated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-546" data-t="546">with you know very like blatant kind of populist tactics instead of we the people it's we the</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-554">9:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-554" data-t="554">plabs you know just the bullshit the same bullshit in you know that you see the kayfabe that you see</span> <span class="cue" id="t-560" data-t="560">in politics and it's they're demanded they think they can demand that to be taken seriously and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-567" data-t="567">they're not being serious which is why you know i think it's important to to to reflect back to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-574" data-t="574">them that they're not serious and they're they're not going to realize it for a while if they if</span> <span class="cue" id="t-581" data-t="581">they have the self-awareness to ever realize it like the only way that they're going to realize</span> <span class="cue" id="t-586" data-t="586">is it is through pain and through bad decisions and through you know living in in fear for a lot</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-594">9:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-594" data-t="594">of time and you know because when you when you turn your brain off and you run around like a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-601" data-t="601">chicken with your head cut off like a pleb scared pleb it's bad for the relationships in your life</span> <span class="cue" id="t-608" data-t="608">it's bad for making critical decisions like you're just not gonna you're not gonna do too well but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-614" data-t="614">anyway so i i want i wrote this article and i didn want to turn this all into to bit 110 but think you know there some themes that I want to talk about that I think are important And I get to it after I read this article So you know the article that I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-633" data-t="633">wrote, it's called the case for banning plebs from running notes. Bitcoin discourse has gotten</span> <span class="cue" id="t-639" data-t="639">political consisting of name calling, smear campaigns and scrutiny over developers' sex</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-644">10:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-644" data-t="644">lives. Plebs do not understand technical merits and therefore cannot debate them.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-650" data-t="650">When developers explain technical ideas to them, they say they disagree and that it was never explained to them.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-657" data-t="657">I don't think that plebs are bad people.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-660" data-t="660">I believe what we are witnessing is a serious social problem.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-665" data-t="665">Tragedy of the commoner.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-666" data-t="666">Most of us have come to the conclusion that a representative democracy is the best form of governance.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-672">11:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-672" data-t="672">The plebs elect leaders who decide what the plebs are allowed and not allowed to do.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-678" data-t="678">Should the plebs be able to do drugs?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-680" data-t="680">Should the plebs be able to drive drunk?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-682" data-t="682">Should the plebs be able to open a bank account without a government ID?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-686" data-t="686">Should the plebs be able to board an airplane without getting their balls fondled by a mall cop?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-691" data-t="691">The plebs feel like they have a sense of control by choosing the leaders who make the decisions for them.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-697">11:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-697" data-t="697">Yet they actually contribute very little in the process.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-700" data-t="700">This pacifies them.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-703" data-t="703">When children are idle in restaurants and other areas that require them to sit and focus,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-708" data-t="708">they're often given things like coloring books to keep them entertained and occupied the pleb is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-715" data-t="715">very similar in the voting mechanism as well as all the kayfabe that goes along with it the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-720" data-t="720">political process to capture their buy-in to the voting process is like a coloring book for a child</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-727">12:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-727" data-t="727">at the cheesecake factory the adults the Epstein client list sit and determine the future outcome</span> <span class="cue" id="t-734" data-t="734">of the world and the plebs are mesmerized by their plebs slot in the restaurant if the child begins</span> <span class="cue" id="t-739" data-t="739">to become distracted or unfocused the adults need to give them a new activity</span> <span class="cue" id="t-745" data-t="745">to do or maybe guide them through an activity to help them refocus the constant change in power</span> <span class="cue" id="t-754" data-t="754">between different figureheads is similar to changing activities for children at the dinner</span> <span class="cue" id="t-758" data-t="758">table it creates variety and prevents them from being bored more importantly it creates an</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-766">12:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-766" data-t="766">oscillation back and forth between outrage and feeling relatively at peace as their leaders</span> <span class="cue" id="t-771" data-t="771">switch back and forth between representing superficial values that they either share</span> <span class="cue" id="t-776" data-t="776">or despise there's a different segment of the population though that can't be so easily</span> <span class="cue" id="t-781" data-t="781">distracted by cave by k fabian circus great pleb revolt current pleb revolt against bitcoin core</span> <span class="cue" id="t-788" data-t="788">is that they are seeking a cathartic change in leadership</span> <span class="cue" id="t-792" data-t="792">which they are accustomed to experiencing in democracies.</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">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-796" data-t="796">They feel something is wrong, do not know how to name it,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-801" data-t="801">and have populist figureheads giving a name to their feelings,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-805" data-t="805">even if they still do not understand what is happening.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-808" data-t="808">The great man, great villain myth is playing out right before our eyes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-814" data-t="814">Fingers are ported towards a great villain.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-816" data-t="816">the extraordinarily hot former bitcoin core maintainer gloria and a heroic hero steps in</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-826">13:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-826" data-t="826">to save the day luke with mechanic as a spokesman without the ability to supplant a vigor head</span> <span class="cue" id="t-832" data-t="832">without any significant structural change in the system itself instead what is happening is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-839" data-t="839">the pleb revolt is actually looking to create real structural change the bitcoin development process</span> <span class="cue" id="t-845" data-t="845">a revolt has the opportunity to spread into a violent uncontrolled revolution the logical</span> <span class="cue" id="t-852" data-t="852">solution it should be simple to see that there's a pretty straightforward solution to all the drama</span> <span class="cue" id="t-857" data-t="857">which is that the plebs should be banned from running notes people are allowed to participate</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-863">14:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-863" data-t="863">in the circus of democracy by running for office but there are minimum thresholds for them to do so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-870" data-t="870">in having to get past primaries,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-873" data-t="873">canvassing by collecting large amounts of signatures,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-878" data-t="878">and needing organizational capabilities to accomplish this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-881" data-t="881">While there is no actual mechanism to ban a pleb</span> <span class="cue" id="t-884" data-t="884">from running a node yet,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-887">14:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-887" data-t="887">mechanisms such as making node costs</span> <span class="cue" id="t-890" data-t="890">so cost-prohibitive and complicated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-893" data-t="893">that plebs won't do it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-895" data-t="895">are entirely possible and should be considered.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-898" data-t="898">In a representative democracy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-899" data-t="899">the pleb is not actually given a vote on anything consequential.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-905">15:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-905" data-t="905">They vote instead for other individuals who will then vote on things that are consequential.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-914" data-t="914">As has thoroughly been documented by Professor Crowder's Bitcoin University,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-918" data-t="918">having a node is having a direct vote, which is far too much power for the uninformed pleb.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-924" data-t="924">Order and balance should be restored to the Bitcoin development and can be accomplished by implementing similar strategies that have been implemented by American representative democracy For those who are discouraged by the raucous caused by the Kayfabians listen to Marz Spitzbar case for the novel option of not going to note</span> <span class="cue" id="t-947" data-t="947">I'll play that here in a second after this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-948" data-t="948">But I finish by saying, thank you for reading my article.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-954">15:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-954" data-t="954">I've put countless hours into writing this on my typewriter with my wife</span> <span class="cue" id="t-958" data-t="958">to describing it onto Twitter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-960" data-t="960">We have smoked many cigarettes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-961" data-t="961">if you would like to support my credential journalism please subscribe to and boost my</span> <span class="cue" id="t-966" data-t="966">podcast which so happens to be the most thermodynamically sound podcast in the world</span> <span class="cue" id="t-973" data-t="973">thank you for being a subscriber to it but uh here's uh so mars is crashing out today on</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-981">16:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-981" data-t="981">twitter spaces with the this terrence guy and i'll uh turn it up to 2x speed so we get through it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-988" data-t="988">faster.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-991" data-t="991">I would love to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-992" data-t="992">and again,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="992">I'm not the most</span> <span class="cue" id="t-993" data-t="993">type of person in the room.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-993">16:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" data-t="993">I'd like to see that happen.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-994" data-t="994">I actually came up</span> <span class="cue" data-t="994">to advocate the opposite.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-995" data-t="995">I don't know if you've heard,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-996" data-t="996">but there's a growing movement</span> <span class="cue" data-t="996">called the Not Gonna Node movement,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-997">16:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-997" data-t="997">and it's for the technologically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-998" data-t="998">illiterate retards</span> <span class="cue" id="t-999" data-t="999">such as you and me.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1000" data-t="1000">If you can't understand</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1001" data-t="1001">the basics,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1001">why get involved?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1001">16:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" data-t="1001">You can actually choose</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1002" data-t="1002">to not run a node.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1002">In fact,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1003" data-t="1003">you can offload those</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1003">responsibilities to the poors</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1004" data-t="1004">and the plebs</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1004">16:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" data-t="1004">and the third worlders.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1005" data-t="1005">You don't have to worry</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1005">about this, bro.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1006" data-t="1006">You can spend time</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1006">living your life,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1007" data-t="1007">raising a family,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1008">16:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1008" data-t="1008">doing things that make you happy,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1008">as opposed to crashing out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1009" data-t="1009">over ghosts and boogeyman and Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1011" data-t="1011">And you can choose to say,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1011">hey, what, you know what?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1012" data-t="1012">I'm not going to participate</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1012">16:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" data-t="1012">in this faking gay node war, bro.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1013" data-t="1013">I'm going to actually go do something</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1014" data-t="1014">productive with my life.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1015" data-t="1015">So I'd like you to join us.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1015">We could add you the group chat if you want.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1016" data-t="1016">Let me know.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1016">16:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" data-t="1016">Hit me up in the DMs</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1017" data-t="1017">and that's all I got to say.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1017">Why is it no word faking gay?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1019" data-t="1019">Because it's got people crashing out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1020" data-t="1020">all over the place, bro.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1020">We used to call this FUD.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1021">17:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1021" data-t="1021">You know, we used to point out FUD,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1022" data-t="1022">these narratives about how Bitcoin's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1023" data-t="1023">on the verge of failure</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1024" data-t="1024">and we used to laugh at it and call it out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1025" data-t="1025">I haven't heard anyone use the term FUD</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1025">around here in years, you know?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1027">17:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1027" data-t="1027">but I want to bring that back.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1027">This is FUD, bro.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1028" data-t="1028">That's all this shit is.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1029" data-t="1029">I'm so new here.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1030" data-t="1030">What is FUD-ing?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1031" data-t="1031">See?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1031">17:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" data-t="1031">Natalie doesn't even know what it means.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1032" data-t="1032">You're on certain candide.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1032">You're doing a disservice to the new...</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1033" data-t="1033">Yes.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1033">Okay, I'm glad you know that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1034" data-t="1034">It used to be calling out these narratives</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1035">17:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1035" data-t="1035">by people from the outside,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1036" data-t="1036">like the politicians and, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1037" data-t="1037">Visa and MasterCard,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1038" data-t="1038">that blockchain will never work,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1039" data-t="1039">Bitcoin will never work,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1039">it's expensive.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1040">17:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1040" data-t="1040">You know, what about solar flares?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1041" data-t="1041">Solar flares are going to crash a network</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1042" data-t="1042">or it's bad for the environment.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1042">We used to laugh at all of that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1043" data-t="1043">And now we got a bunch of people in Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1044" data-t="1044">who apparently don't seem to understand the basics</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1045">17:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1045" data-t="1045">coming around saying bullshit like we're on the verge of collapsing jpegs jpegs are you fucking</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1049" data-t="1049">kidding me jpegs are gonna kill the strongest monetary network ever ever built that's fun</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1052" data-t="1052">that's fun that's why it's a faking gay node war and that's all this is this is show this is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1055" data-t="1055">kayfabianism that's what this is people coming on this app engaging in worldwide wrestling nothing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1059" data-t="1059">more this doesn't matter this this activation will either succeed or fail probably fail in my</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1062" data-t="1062">humble opinion although i'm not gonna note her and i'm barely technology technologically literate</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1065">17:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1065" data-t="1065">as i was saying earlier so i could be wrong with that but bitcoin will continue on i assure you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1068" data-t="1068">mark my words i enjoyed that crash i thought i thought it was pretty good you know i i recorded</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1074" data-t="1074">an episode with max from ungovernable misfits i i don't know when i'm going to put it out you know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1081" data-t="1081">one of the things i've been realizing over you know the past year is everybody's crashing out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1087" data-t="1087">about bitcoin is uh in a variety of ways not everybody but you know what i mean it's it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1092" data-t="1092">really been in many ways a renaissance time to use bitcoin because you you go in there the fees</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1100">18:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1100" data-t="1100">are incredibly low uh there there's a lot of products out there that just make it really easy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1107" data-t="1107">whether it's you know like self-custodial nodes that swap and back and forth between uh liquid or</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1115" data-t="1115">you know the spark or you know whatever it's there there's a ton of places accepting bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1122" data-t="1122">and like as over the last few months as everybody has been losing their shit about nodes you've got</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1130" data-t="1130">steak and shake except in bitcoin this massive fast food chain you know they're doing things like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1137" data-t="1137">trying to make their food at least appear healthier the square terminals are getting</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1142">19:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1142" data-t="1142">turned on everywhere i mean it's just i i go places and and i've noticed it's been really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1151" data-t="1151">easy to spend bitcoin and to use it as money and the transaction fees are low and all the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1161" data-t="1161">circumstances in the world that would make bitcoin a compelling thing are happening the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1168" data-t="1168">government's launching all these crazy wars you know the middle east is exploding the global</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1173" data-t="1173">economy is you know melting down and you know and i was talking with max it's like when you're a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1180" data-t="1180">dissident in many ways when shit starts going bad across the board that's like one of your best case</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1189">19:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1189" data-t="1189">scenarios because it's like okay your dissident ideas which you've been promoting people might be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1196" data-t="1196">more open-minded to it because it's it's a little bit more apparent they're going to be a little bit</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1201" data-t="1201">less uh excited about mass surveillance when they can't afford their taxes and they're getting pissed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1208" data-t="1208">off about it but when everything's working out they don't really have a reason to think about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1213" data-t="1213">anything so at a time that it seems like it's it's one of the most opportune times</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1219" data-t="1219">to promote a technology like bitcoin you get so much of the user base that is active on these</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1228">20:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1228" data-t="1228">social platforms where you know a lot of the other npcs hang out and you get them all crashing out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1235" data-t="1235">and losing their shit and becoming the biggest</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1237" data-t="1237">futter they're the biggest futters</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1239" data-t="1239">of Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1241" data-t="1241">they're attacking it because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1243" data-t="1243">it does not</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1244">20:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1244" data-t="1244">fit their purity test</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1247" data-t="1247">anymore so therefore it's bad</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1249" data-t="1249">and they're going to go and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1250" data-t="1250">anything defamatory that they possibly can about individuals building on Bitcoin, using Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1260" data-t="1260">they're just going to tear it all apart. And it is very interesting to watch. And a lot of people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1269" data-t="1269">that I know are becoming very discouraged by it. They're becoming very confused. What is the</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1275">21:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1275" data-t="1275">proper response like you know should they take all these retarded plebs fears seriously like you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1282" data-t="1282">know should they care about you know all of this fud like is it good use of their time or do they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1288" data-t="1288">just need to put their head in the sand and ignore it and so you know individuals that you know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1294" data-t="1294">historically have been really excited like you know even if they're not all wrapped up and their</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1299" data-t="1299">their brains turned into mush by plebs slop they might be impacted by this in one way or another</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1304" data-t="1304">where they're discouraged and and not only that they're they're feeling like this big shift in</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1310">21:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1310" data-t="1310">you know cultural ethos because like a lot of the the social ecosystem you know when a lot of the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1318" data-t="1318">companies that you know people were working for went under and ran out of vc money last cycle</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1324" data-t="1324">they started pivoting you know to other products and you know things like like paper bitcoin and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1331" data-t="1331">that's where paper bitcoin summer came from and you know it's just people are watching things</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1338" data-t="1338">change they're watching the so-called social ecosystem change and they're going through</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1342" data-t="1342">whiplash and they were promised glory by podcasters and they're not experiencing glory</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1349">22:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1349" data-t="1349">right now and you know you ask why the sentiment's low you know to to like some people like want</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1355" data-t="1355">analysis of like who's who like who are the feds causing disruption in the ecosystem you know who</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1361" data-t="1361">are the good guys or who are the bad guys and i think it's just like a murky game it's you don't</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1369" data-t="1369">know what people's incentives are you don't know what people's intentions are some people that are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1373" data-t="1373">like unproductive provocateurs are a little bit more obvious than others some people are a little</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1381" data-t="1381">bit more subtle than others it's hard to know but uh i wanted to talk about and this is let's see</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1386">23:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1386" data-t="1386">how long i've been around okay 30 minutes of rambling to get to what i actually wanted to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1390" data-t="1390">talk about so that's just setting the stage so i've watched this this tv show quite a few times</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1397" data-t="1397">since it's come out i'd like to say probably like four times it's been a lot and i've been studying</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1405" data-t="1405">it closely because i i genuinely think it is like the best piece of content that i have seen</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1411" data-t="1411">in a very long time especially given you know the social ecosystem which we find ourselves in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1419" data-t="1419">you know being you know very like dissident minded and wanting to take on a powerful establishment</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1427">23:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1427" data-t="1427">force or claiming that we do in central banking which is the the tv show and or and i hope you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1435" data-t="1435">recognized the beginning it was like the mimics uh or whatever the guy's name manifesto he was a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1445" data-t="1445">minor character you know that died early on and he wrote this uh you know beautiful manifesto about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1450" data-t="1450">being a rebel and like having hope you know when the times are rough and one of the things that i</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1458" data-t="1458">really liked in the manifesto was this idea of freedom being this really disorganized</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1465" data-t="1465">phenomena and you know there's a lot of individuals that will you know they they like this aspect of</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1473">24:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1473" data-t="1473">bitcoin culture which is that you know there aren't leaders there's no like party structure</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1478" data-t="1478">I mean, I guess there's PodConf and, you know, the conferences, but in, you know, these media companies, but, you know, there's no like party structure like in the political world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1490" data-t="1490">There's not really any at least, you know, foreseeable top-down control of everything.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1499" data-t="1499">It's a mosh pit of a lot of different people with a lot of different ideas and opinions about things.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1505" data-t="1505">And, you know, people like that because that is how freedom is in a lot of ways.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1512" data-t="1512">That's the alternative to top-down approaches.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1515">25:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1515" data-t="1515">You know, what scares old people is this idea of anarchy, which is just, you know, kind of a less structured way of organizing things.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1527" data-t="1527">things and uh you know there's so many aspects of this show that i love because it's just tracking</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1533" data-t="1533">this this revolution that is uh this rebellion that is growing around galaxy and in the star</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1541" data-t="1541">wars universe and leading into you know the the main story arc which is luke skywalker</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1548" data-t="1548">blowing up the death star you know and eventually confronting uh palpatine or sidious and his father</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1556" data-t="1556">Darth Vader and blowing up Death Star 2 and that whole thing It just shows the shows the pieces kind of forming together and and how this this the spark of rebellion the spark of revolution is started with an ember</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1572">26:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1572" data-t="1572">essentially with with largely one guy named ruth and luthan rail and it shows how the the wheels</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1579" data-t="1579">of bureaucracy and tyranny just collapsed due to to incompetency in a lot of ways it is easily the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1589" data-t="1589">most inspiring piece of television that i've seen in a long time and i would put it at the top my</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1594" data-t="1594">all-time list actually at this point you know i imagine i'll probably watch it a bunch more times</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1600" data-t="1600">going in the future you know and i think it's important as somebody that tries to tell stories</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1605" data-t="1605">to really study how well it's done because the the timing of it is very you know unique and odd</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1612">26:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1612" data-t="1612">too because disney has been putting out shitty you know piece of content after shitty piece of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1618" data-t="1618">content especially with the star wars franchise and and then they just come out with the banger</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1622" data-t="1622">it's just so relevant it doesn't feel like there's uh you know a bunch of like woke garbage in it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1628" data-t="1628">It doesn't feel like there's really an agenda, you know, that is subversive to, you know, you as an individual.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1637" data-t="1637">It feels like it's, you know, a very inspiring story.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1641" data-t="1641">And you probably really get down into it and nitpick some of the stuff going on and make it questionable.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1647">27:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1647" data-t="1647">But I just find it's so above and beyond the status quo.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1653" data-t="1653">It's just, it's really good.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1655" data-t="1655">It's really good.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1656" data-t="1656">You know, and I think one of the things that is different in it than where we find ourselves in this social ecosystem is that in their world, there's a clear understanding of who the good guys and the bad guys are.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1670" data-t="1670">Like, there's this monolith institution in the empire that are the bad guys, and then there's the rebellion, the good guys.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1678" data-t="1678">And, you know, one of the things that I liked about it is it added complexity, and I think this just makes it a little bit more relatable.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1685">28:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1685" data-t="1685">it added complexity to the rebellion that there was a bunch of factions and they didn't really get</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1690" data-t="1690">along and so you have like the the bureaucrat uh rebels and then you've got like the uh the spy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1696" data-t="1696">rebels like cassie nandor and then you've got uh in luther rail and then you've got the like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1706" data-t="1706">crazy deter bob rebels like saul guerrera and you got all these different factions that are you know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1713" data-t="1713">in one episode there there was a really good scene where cassian gets caught in between</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1720" data-t="1720">a rebel group that was infighting it was like a bunch of plebs the cannon fodder</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1725">28:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1725" data-t="1725">that were all trying to kill each other and they were arguing and bickering back and forth and he</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1730" data-t="1730">gets caught up in it he's like aren't you guys on the same team and they're like you know just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1733" data-t="1733">tearing themselves apart and see us to get out of that situation and escape from them these were</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1740" data-t="1740">people that were fighting on the battlefield together against the empire and without lack</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1748" data-t="1748">of leadership that the plebs started tearing themselves apart but i think you know the these</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1754" data-t="1754">types of stories are really inspiring uh there there are types of you know the the stories that</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1761">29:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1761" data-t="1761">i think really resonate and have staying power over time and really are cherished and beloved</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1768" data-t="1768">There are stories that capture this battle of good and evil, this larger scale battle that's happening.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1777" data-t="1777">You know, Star Wars is one.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1779" data-t="1779">Lord of the Rings is one.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1780" data-t="1780">There are a lot of stories like this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1783" data-t="1783">The Hunger Games, you name it.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1784">29:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1784" data-t="1784">If you think of, like, you know, Batman, Marvel franchise, like, if you think of a story, there's a good guy and a bad guy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1794" data-t="1794">There's somebody that represents good, somebody that represents evil, right?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1798" data-t="1798">And somebody goes on the hero's journey.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1800" data-t="1800">And what it is, is it's allowing you as the viewer to role play in the story, stepping up and offering something good in the world and entering into this battle against evil and overcoming it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1815" data-t="1815">And for many people, Bitcoin has been that narrative.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1818" data-t="1818">I think for most of us, you know, to a large degree, Bitcoin has been that narrative.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1822">30:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1822" data-t="1822">it has been that invitation to step into a larger story to think more critically about things and to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1827" data-t="1827">evaluate who the who the good and the bad guys are but i i think like where there's a huge</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1834" data-t="1834">differentiation between these stories in the real world is that in the real world the lines are a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1843" data-t="1843">lot blurrier and in the real world that this battle between good and evil is happening within</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1848" data-t="1848">all of us and some stories capture this well but it's different when you're experiencing it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1856" data-t="1856">on the daily basis when you're getting pulled in in various directions when you're when you are</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1861">31:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1861" data-t="1861">trying to understand the world around you and you're trying to understand yourself and you're</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1866" data-t="1866">having trouble determining truth from fiction you filled with fear you filled with self out you filled with fusion the battle is happening in you and you know a huge part of it is based on like the inputs that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1881" data-t="1881">you're experiencing you know from from the views around you but you know i'm not an atheist i do</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1887" data-t="1887">believe that there is you know a spiritual aspect of this that's happening it's just the the way that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1893" data-t="1893">i the only way that i can really you know understand it well and when you look at these</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1899" data-t="1899">stories like many of them like where where did this roadmap get started it got started in religion</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1905">31:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1905" data-t="1905">and you know i i know the most about the bible i mean i guess i haven't really studied too many</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1910" data-t="1910">other religions but you know it's the world is predominantly dominated by monotheistic religions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1916" data-t="1916">today they have a clearer sense of of good and evil like when you get into the more like pagan</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1924" data-t="1924">religions you know which used to be very uh large it was interesting because there wasn't like a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1931" data-t="1931">a clear as clear of an example as good and bad it was it was a lot more nuanced you know like when</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1937" data-t="1937">you look at the nordic gods for example it's like odin you know is to the the worshipers of those</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1944">32:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1944" data-t="1944">gods like he was he was not omnipresent he was not infallible like the christian god he think he got</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1952" data-t="1952">he he was prophesied to get killed in ragnarok but ragnarok's even interesting i'll talk to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1958" data-t="1958">about that here in a little bit but you know and there were these you know greek gods that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1964" data-t="1964">in the the roman and greek roman and nordic gods you know were similar in the sense of like they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1971" data-t="1971">they were they had personalities that were more understandable to humans because they they lacked</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1978" data-t="1978">perfection and they yeah but anyways they they fought amongst each other and they fought</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1986">33:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1986" data-t="1986">against other creatures that were you know larger than them the so so that's kind of like how the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1994" data-t="1994">framing of good and evil was to some degree it was like the nordic gods fought against the the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2001" data-t="2001">frost giants the the greek gods fought against the titans and the giants and the humans were</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2009" data-t="2009">kind of just like you know caught in the in the middle of this you know spiritual war in a lot of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2015" data-t="2015">ways this is there's been a theme and understanding you know of what is going on throughout all of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2021" data-t="2021">human history in christianity you know there there's a heaven and a hell there's two warring</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">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2027" data-t="2027">battles happening there's there's god and the army of angels fighting against lucifer and the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2033" data-t="2033">army of fallen angels and you know lucifer somewhat has dominion over the earth and so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2040" data-t="2040">you as a human you're you're born into a battleground it's a spiritual battleground in which</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2046" data-t="2046">the you know army of evil is is trying to steal your stole for all of eternity and you know whether</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2054" data-t="2054">you know you believe any of these stories or you may still understand the world this way and like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2060" data-t="2060">even atheists kind of have a sense of you know they create their own moral compass for themselves</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2068">34:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2068" data-t="2068">to some degree like rand and her philosophy of objectivism was all about creating a moral compass</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2077" data-t="2077">that was different from what was ascribed to her through religion or through, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2085" data-t="2085">the Marxist morality of the Soviet Union.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2089" data-t="2089">You know, you look at some of these atheists, they, you know, worship the climate.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2093" data-t="2093">To some degree, you know, humans really, they always choose to worship something,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2098" data-t="2098">whether it's God, whether it's themselves, whether it's, you know, a larger idea.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2103">35:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2103" data-t="2103">is because to deal with adversity and to deal with the battleground of this world that we find</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2111" data-t="2111">ourselves in we need a larger sense of meaning and purpose in our lives to carry us through we</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2118" data-t="2118">need a reason beyond pleasure to wake up in the morning and move this is how you get through</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2124" data-t="2124">struggle is how you get through difficulties which we all inevitably face in one way or another it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2131" data-t="2131">it's a result of living in this world which is an inherent battleground is you will experience</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2137" data-t="2137">pain and difficulties and and and trials and tribulations now a lot of these belief structures</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2146">35:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2146" data-t="2146">are similar in the sense of they they i don't know about like greek mythology as much but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2153" data-t="2153">in nordic mythology and in christianity there there are end times there are prophesied</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2161" data-t="2161">to end times so you know there's the book of revelation you know which i need to read through</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2167" data-t="2167">and you know understand a little bit better i remember reading it when i was younger just being</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2172" data-t="2172">confused by it you know and i think there's a lot of interpretations that that came out of it like i</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2179" data-t="2179">read the left behind books when i was a kid and you know every time i came home and my family wasn there i was like terrified that you know they got raptured or something and i looked for their like clothes bunched up on the ground fortunately that didn</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2193">36:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2193" data-t="2193">happen i was always afraid that i was gonna get left behind but yeah the nordic mythology there</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2198" data-t="2198">there's ragnarok it's the end of the world there's this great battle that's happening you saw the the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2202" data-t="2202">the warriors that go and they die in in battle and they go to valhalla which is odin's hall like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2208" data-t="2208">They sit there and they fight every night and kill each other and then wake up the next morning to do it all over again because they're preparing for this end battle against the opponents.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2218" data-t="2218">And it's like prophesied that Odin dies in it, you know, and all of these things.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2224" data-t="2224">It's the end of the world.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2224">37:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" data-t="2224">And, you know, I think a lot of there's been a lot of times, I think, in my understanding of American history, like people have felt like it's the end of the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2232" data-t="2232">there have been these armageddon apocalyptic situations that have happened you know periodically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2240" data-t="2240">and the society has been you know faced incredible economic difficulties they they've faced you know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2249" data-t="2249">war and famine and all sorts of stuff and i think during those times and i would argue that we're in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2254" data-t="2254">one of those times we're in one of those times where it feels like we're heading towards end</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2258" data-t="2258">times and armageddon and it doesn't help that there's a bunch of people you know in washington</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2264">37:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2264" data-t="2264">and different places in power that seem like they're trying to conjure jesus back and you got</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2269" data-t="2269">like you know one of the richest billionaires in the world that runs like the largest private</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2274" data-t="2274">intelligence company palantir you know doing essays on or lectures on the antichrist like it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2280" data-t="2280">kind of feels like we're going to the end times in one way or another and i think you know the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2286" data-t="2286">the promise that bitcoin has provided so many people is this idea of being able to escape</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2293" data-t="2293">armageddon the bitcoin is their messiah from you know this orwellian future in which the</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2299">38:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2299" data-t="2299">anti-crash rules over them and they all have to like pay using their mark of the beast or you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2305" data-t="2305">know whatever and so i think this is part of the reason why so many people are crashing out because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2309" data-t="2309">they're like this is our last hope you know this is our last chance and i think this is a faulty</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2313" data-t="2313">promise to take you know i spent a lot of time my life thinking about the end of the world and you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2319" data-t="2319">know thinking about armageddon or you know revelation or whatever and i think one thing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2324" data-t="2324">that's clear is that none of us have the ability to really predict when it will happen and that the</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2329">38:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2329" data-t="2329">best way to live life is to know that you will die someday and so you have to have this balance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2338" data-t="2338">between trying to maximize what you're experiencing today with also maximizing the long term.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2346" data-t="2346">So you don't want to do things at the expense of the long term where you you handicap yourself,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2351" data-t="2351">but you also don't want to completely miss out on living in the present for thinking,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2358" data-t="2358">you know, for later because you don't know what's going to happen. You can spend your whole life</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2361" data-t="2361">toiling for retirement to find out that you have cancer. You're not going to make it to get your</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2367">39:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2367" data-t="2367">pension and you could have been you know going and slaving away at a job that you hated your</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2372" data-t="2372">whole life with the intention of gambling away your social security check at the slot machine</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2377" data-t="2377">just to find out that you're not going to make it there you're not going to make it to vegas and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2383" data-t="2383">there's a very real potential that we we don't experience you know this armageddon that a lot</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2391" data-t="2391">of people are feeling in the back of their head or in their hearts or you know this heaviness</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2396" data-t="2396">of the times that we're in but there is a very real potential that we do and and so i think</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2403">40:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2403" data-t="2403">there's like this uh you know kind of dual these two ways to look at it which is that it's important</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2410" data-t="2410">to actually fight you know for the things that you think are important and in my case i you know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2415" data-t="2415">it's it's freedom and you know human liberty you know not not just for like i i've begun to like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2423" data-t="2423">care less about fighting for other people's rights and and and just like really you know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2429" data-t="2429">fighting for my rights and fighting with people that are fighting for the rights if that makes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2433" data-t="2433">sense like allying myself with people that are actually allies versus you know coming up with</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2438">40:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2438" data-t="2438">this like oh we need to make these decisions because you know starving african kids can't</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2444" data-t="2444">afford to run notes like it's just not where my motivation like i'm not going to completely change</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2449" data-t="2449">direction in my life so that starving and african kids can run bitcoin notes like i i am trying to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2456" data-t="2456">maximize my decisions so that i can use bitcoin and like people in my community can use bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2462" data-t="2462">like that's just the way that i think of it but i think it's just you know the best and most moral</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2467" data-t="2467">way to think about it because you know having this paternalistic attitude of you know making</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2472">41:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2472" data-t="2472">decisions for trying to make decisions based on the behalf of individuals that you have no idea</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2477" data-t="2477">about and never mad it's just kind of you know silly and it's a it's a minute it's a pleb slot</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2483" data-t="2483">manipulation tactic but uh but i think it's a it's important you know to fight for the things</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2490" data-t="2490">that you think are important then also trust that other people around you are also fighting for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2495" data-t="2495">things that are important to them and know that this this battle of freedom is it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2500" data-t="2500">it's it's a truly decentralized fun that isn't directable in the sense of like a top-down</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2507">41:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2507" data-t="2507">approach like there's no way that the masses are ever going to come together and be unified in this</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2512" data-t="2512">and i don't really even know if you want that because that then it just kind of turns into</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2516" data-t="2516">whatever you know you were fighting against before most likely and that throughout all of human</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2522" data-t="2522">history there there's been these great you know battles between tyranny and freedom and and so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2529" data-t="2529">you know one of the big ones that's hopefully relevant to you and your understanding was you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2534" data-t="2534">know the the cold war between the west and the east and you know like largely speaking the the</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2541">42:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2541" data-t="2541">u.s and and the soviet union but ultimately at the day i just think that's a you know it's not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2547" data-t="2547">the best framing because as we all know today living in the american empire like the u.s was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2551" data-t="2551">never really the good guys in the story they were just significantly less bad guys but uh but the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2558" data-t="2558">The Soviet Union was like this insanely, insanely oppressive society that had total surveillance over the population, you know, and just had such a low value for human life.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2571" data-t="2571">And felt the tyranny is not permanent.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2574" data-t="2574">And I think that's something that's important to understand, you know, because I oftentimes hear people say things like Bitcoin is humanity's last hope.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2581">43:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2581" data-t="2581">It's like humanity's last hope for what?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2583" data-t="2583">It's not true.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2585" data-t="2585">You can't predict the future.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2587" data-t="2587">If he can say that with so much confidence in predicting the future that Bitcoin is humanity's last hope, then, you know, like, you better be making a bunch of money on Polymarket or Predix or whatever.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2597" data-t="2597">I mean, so much confidence in predicting the future.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2599" data-t="2599">It's like, no.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2600">43:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2600" data-t="2600">You know, I was listening to Shadrack, and, you know, one of the things I appreciate about Shadrack is he doesn't really care a whole lot for living in echo chambers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2607" data-t="2607">I think I live in echo chamber much more than him, and I appreciate him because he's such a good source of entropy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2613" data-t="2613">people one of the things that he said on the podcast is like he's afraid for you know bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2618" data-t="2618">people that they're they're getting too stuck in these like myopic world views or one-sided world</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2625" data-t="2625">views that they forget that there a whole other world that the cypherpunk movement is is way more than just digital money and plebs a lot that technology could be used for freedom in in quite a few different ways and and that there a lot of people that have different perspectives</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2639" data-t="2639">than them that might actually be much closer allies to them than they think you know if they</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2645">44:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2645" data-t="2645">they slow down and and uh stop focusing so hard on stop focusing on like these minute differences</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2653" data-t="2653">that people have and so the idea that bitcoin is humanity's last hope like what what was bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2659" data-t="2659">you know bitcoin came into the it was introduced at a dark time in in human history you know during</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2667" data-t="2667">right after the 2008 financial crisis do any of us have a like romanticized understanding of the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2673" data-t="2673">story you know it's it's what's got our buy-in largely speaking we we don't know a lot about it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2679" data-t="2679">and i think a lot of us you know buy in and propagate this like very rosy perspective of</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2687">44:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2687" data-t="2687">the story because it is compelling but if something like bitcoin can come into the world</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2691" data-t="2691">and change the world we have no idea what the future holds and you know a huge part of why</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2697" data-t="2697">bitcoin has been successful is it's you know not just like the myth of satoshi nakamoto</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2702" data-t="2702">but it's been you know people that have interacted with it and you know a lot of people have gone</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2708" data-t="2708">to prison for using it you know and for promoting freedom like there there have been the martyrs</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2715" data-t="2715">there have been lots of people taking risks and in many ways you know if you're using it today</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2720">45:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2720" data-t="2720">you've been taking risks and this is a huge reason why i just hate the term pleb i think it's so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2728" data-t="2728">stupid it's because i think like you know what like if you believe what you're doing is important</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2732" data-t="2732">then you know it's important to like treat yourself like you're important and calling</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2736" data-t="2736">yourself a pleb is is doing the the polar opposite of that but anyways i think a lot of people are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2743" data-t="2743">having their conviction test tested they're having to you know stop and reevaluate why they're doing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2749" data-t="2749">what they're doing they're feeling pain in a variety of ways whether it's socially economically</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2757">45:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2757" data-t="2757">relationally psychologically like it just i mean even physically maybe all of the above and uh You know pain causes people to question you know to try and get out of pain you know a lot of circumstances Not everybody like handles questioning well but you know it does</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2776" data-t="2776">It does lead to questions.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2777" data-t="2777">And, you know, if you navigate pain properly, it leads to growth and it leads to real opportunity.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2783" data-t="2783">And so that's where I'm going to leave you guys.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2785" data-t="2785">This is what I've been thinking about, you know, for the last couple weeks and really trying to figure out how to synthesize all of this into a cohesive episode.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2796" data-t="2796">And I think I pulled it off.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2797">46:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2797" data-t="2797">Thank you guys for being subscribers of The Beagle Weekly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2799" data-t="2799">Thank you for tuning in.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2800" data-t="2800">If you found this helpful, chill out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2802" data-t="2802">And I will talk to you guys soon.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2815" data-t="2815">We'll be right back.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2845">47:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2845" data-t="2845">I wanna feel like my life is worth something</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2860" data-t="2860">A reason to live, I'm tired of numbing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2864" data-t="2864">I look around and the crowd is all confused</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2869" data-t="2869">Why do they play like they're trying to lose?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2873" data-t="2873">I know I'm not the one with all the answers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2878" data-t="2878">But I don't wanna be the one feeding the cancer</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2882">48:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2882" data-t="2882">Looking in the mirror, asking if I'm just a puppet in their play</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2887" data-t="2887">I'm just trying so hard to find my way</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2893" data-t="2893">I hear the lies creeping in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2896" data-t="2896">They say all is lost no way to win All around I see the fires burning Flames of freedom the tide is turning</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2910" data-t="2910">Ashes fall, but darkness won't have the final say</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2915" data-t="2915">I'll fight so hope we'll survive another day</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2920">48:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2920" data-t="2920">Another day</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2927" data-t="2927">It's all a chaotic mess</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2939" data-t="2939">What will come next?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2941" data-t="2941">Every time I gain some ground</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2943" data-t="2943">It feels like I control less</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2946" data-t="2946">I have to fight to feel alive</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2950">49:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2950" data-t="2950">It's the only way for my soul to survive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2956" data-t="2956">I need a wind to see some hope</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2967" data-t="2967">It feels like I'm at the end of my rope</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2969" data-t="2969">It's when I'm pushed to the edge I find how far I can go</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2973" data-t="2973">Pain and darkness are what pushes us to grow</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2981" data-t="2981">I know there will be better days</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2987">49:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Speaker NaN</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2987" data-t="2987">It's what lets me carry this weight</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2992" data-t="2992">All around, I see the fires burning</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2996" data-t="2996">Flames of freedom, the tide is turning</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3000" data-t="3000">Ashes fall, but darkness won't have the final say</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3005" data-t="3005">I'll fight so hope we'll survive another day</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3011" data-t="3011">Outro Music</span></span></p>