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   +title: "Transcript: Kim Jong Un's Strategic Reserve | Bugle Weekly Episode 48"
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-6">0:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-6" data-t="6">Welcome back to Plebs on Parade, the show where every pleb is a potential philosopher. I'm your host, Timmy Tether. And today, we're talking to plebs about North Korea's $1,500,000,000</span> <span class="cue" id="t-15" data-t="15">Bybit Ethereum hack. Is it good? Is it bad? What do Plebs think? Let's find out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-23" data-t="23">It's Timmy Tether again here in Flagstaff, Arizona. We're talking to Nate from Tacoma, Washington.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-28" data-t="28">Nate, what are your thoughts on the North Korean Lazarus Group's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-31" data-t="31">$1,500,000,000</span> <span class="cue" id="t-33" data-t="33">Ethereum heist ultimately swapped to BTC</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-35">0:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-35" data-t="35">in order to bolster North Korea's strategic Bitcoin reserve? Timmy, let me just say I'm a little embarrassed. As a patriotic American and a Republican.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-44" data-t="44">The Lazarus Group is running circles around American intelligence agencies when it comes to on chain prowess.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-51" data-t="51">The US marshals can't figure out the difference between a seed phrase and a passphrase to recover the wallet containing the Bitcoin they stole from Ross Ulbricht.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-58" data-t="58">Meanwhile, North Koreans are so elite, Zac xBT,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-61">1:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-61" data-t="61">finds out about their antics from Simply Bitcoin like the rest of us mere mortals. Alright. Thank you, Nate from Tacoma. It sounds like Nate thinks federal agents could use some remedial BTC sessions.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-71" data-t="71">Hardware wallet tutorials? Thankfully, there is no shortage of those to review. Our next pleb is Candace Marie from Boise, Idaho. Candace, what are your thoughts on North Korea's growing strategic Bitcoin reserve thanks to this elaborate Bybit hack? I gotta tell you, Timmy. Ever since my gender reassignment surgery, I've been adapting to my new non KYC hormone supplements I found on Naustr Market.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-91">1:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Candace Marie</b> <span class="cue" id="t-91" data-t="91">Since becoming a trans woman, I've noticed my time preference fluctuates with more volatility than micro strategy call options.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-98" data-t="98">As a result, I've been getting rug pulled by meme coin scams.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-102" data-t="102">I can't help myself.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-103" data-t="103">I am hoping to win back what I've lost on Kanye's new Nazi coin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-108" data-t="108">I guess it feels somewhat comforting to know even professional Chinese money laundering exchanges like Bybit are struggling to afford taxes right now. Interesting perspective from Candice Marie in Boise. We will find out if Donald Trump's new IRS</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-120">1:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-120" data-t="120">accepts time preference imbalance from taking non KYC estrogen as a valid excuse for not being able to afford taxes. Good luck on the Nazi coin lottery, and stay warm up there in Idaho.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-130" data-t="130">Our final pleb is Lee from Albuquerque. Lee, thoughts on the Lazarus Group, the heist,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-134" data-t="134">or North Korea, good, bad, too early to determine?</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-138">2:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Lee</b> <span class="cue" id="t-138" data-t="138">Let me tell you, Timmy, I always know North Korea is most orange peel nation state and OG Bitcoin standard adopter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-146" data-t="146">I read the Lazarus Group even know how to hack air gap the hardware wallet. I only use paper wallet for this reason.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-153" data-t="153">When I see the hackers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-155" data-t="155">ditch shitcoin, Ethereum for Bitcoin straight, raw dot, not even using Monero first, I know Kim not giving a single fuck. He is laughing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-164" data-t="164">at CIA.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-165">2:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-165" data-t="165">Lee thinks North Korea can hack air gapped wallets, and Kim Jong un is laughing at the CIA.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-170" data-t="170">What a time to be alive.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-174" data-t="174">That's all for this week, folks. I'm your host, Timmy Tether. Thanks for watching Plebs on Parade.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-181">3:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-181" data-t="181">Now</span> <span class="cue" id="t-182" data-t="182">let's get some dating advice from Maggie Morris.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-187">3:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Maggie Morris</b> <span class="cue" id="t-187" data-t="187">This is a fun to the moon.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-191" data-t="191">Hello, and welcome to Maggie's relationship</span> <span class="cue" id="t-193" data-t="193">segment. Let's hear the next dumbass question.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-196">3:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Max Bid</b> <span class="cue" id="t-196" data-t="196">Hey, Maggie. My name is Max Bid. I've been dating this girl for about two months. She's super hot, but keeps telling me why I should buy Ethereum. I've tried to explain Bitcoin maximalism to her, and how Ethereum is an unregistered security, but she doesn't care. I really like her outside of the fact she's a shit coiner, but I'm afraid to bring her to meetups and conferences.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-215" data-t="215">Should I keep trying to date her, or do we need to break up? She's the hottest woman I've ever dated, and I'm afraid anyone I date in the future won't be as hot.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-225">3:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Maggie Morris</b> <span class="cue" id="t-225" data-t="225">Max, what?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-227" data-t="227">You need to ask this bitch for regulatory clarity. Either you have dominion over her or you don't. You think she would be with you if you were broke? Are you gonna let her run an Ethereum load in your apartment?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-237" data-t="237">What kind of man are you? What kind of person are you? What do you think is going to happen? You're in big trouble.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-244" data-t="244">She's going to end up giving your children</span> <span class="cue" id="t-247" data-t="247">thousands</span> <span class="cue" id="t-248" data-t="248">of bird flu vaccines.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-249">4:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Maggie Morris</b> <span class="cue" id="t-249" data-t="249">Clear cut pump and dump. We're rooting for you, Max.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-252">4:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-252" data-t="252">Thanks, Maggie.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-253" data-t="253">Let's check back with you later.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-259">4:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-259" data-t="259">Ladies and gentlemen,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-260" data-t="260">the supreme leader of North Korea has officially killed the ultrasound</span> <span class="cue" id="t-264" data-t="264">money, Ethereum.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-266" data-t="266">In a brutal murder, Uns hacker group known as the Lazarus Group is suspected of being behind the brutal $1,400,000,000</span> <span class="cue" id="t-274" data-t="274">hack of the crypto exchange Bybit.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-278" data-t="278">Roger Fear is currently assuring users of the platform that they are in fact solving.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-284">4:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-284" data-t="284">The threat posed by the hack is that North Koreans could stake the coins threatening the Ethereum Foundation's OFAC compliance.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-293" data-t="293">The amount of coins amassed by North Korea could be used to try and disrupt the Ethereum consensus model.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-300" data-t="300">Users are pleading with Vitalik to once again roll back the chain, but doing so would eliminate any possibilities</span> <span class="cue" id="t-307" data-t="307">of anyone</span> <span class="cue" id="t-308" data-t="308">believing it was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-310" data-t="310">immutable or decentralized</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-311">5:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-311" data-t="311">blockchain</span> <span class="cue" id="t-312" data-t="312">ever again.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-315" data-t="315">A North Korean state spokesman stated that</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-318">5:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-318" data-t="318">Our supreme leader has done more for Bitcoin maximalism with this hack</span> <span class="cue" id="t-323" data-t="323">than Corey, David, and Samsung combined,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-327" data-t="327">yet he still does not have a speaking slot</span> <span class="cue" id="t-330" data-t="330">at the conference in Vegas.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-332" data-t="332">The fearless leader is currently converting the Ethereum to Bitcoin in order to bolster</span> <span class="cue" id="t-338" data-t="338">our great nation's strategic</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-341">5:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-341" data-t="341">Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-342" data-t="342">reserve.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-343" data-t="343">The Democratic Republic Of North Korea was the first country in the world to establish a strategic reserve,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-350" data-t="350">yet Bitcoin podcasters</span> <span class="cue" id="t-352" data-t="352">and conference organizers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-353" data-t="353">have not recognized</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-355">5:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-355" data-t="355">our support.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-356" data-t="356">They instead have chosen to focus on Western imperial mouthpieces</span> <span class="cue" id="t-361" data-t="361">like El Salvador,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-363" data-t="363">and even supporting shitcoiners like the president of Argentina.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-367" data-t="367">It is time for North Korea to be recognized for innovation when it comes to adopting Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-373" data-t="373">and for our supreme leader to be recognized the world's first Bitcoin president.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-379">6:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-379" data-t="379">As an objective credential journalist,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-382" data-t="382">I find it quite confusing that the DPRK</span> <span class="cue" id="t-384" data-t="384">has not been recognized.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-386" data-t="386">David Bailey has the opportunity to finally give him the recognition that he deserves.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-391" data-t="391">Instead of solely platforming shitcoiners like Donald Trump.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-395" data-t="395">If Dennis Porter and Kim Jong Un are not allowed to speak at the conference, it will be a massive strategic mistake that will severely slow the adoption of Bitcoin.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-405">6:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-405" data-t="405">Welcome back to Bugle Weekly,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-407" data-t="407">the number one Bitcoin podcast for people who listen to forty hours per week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-413" data-t="413">Thank you for joining us again. It has been a huge week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-417" data-t="417">The political</span> <span class="cue" id="t-419" data-t="419">headlines</span> <span class="cue" id="t-420" data-t="420">and the political,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-423">7:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-423" data-t="423">jotting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-424" data-t="424">on social media and the Internet with headlines</span> <span class="cue" id="t-427" data-t="427">is never been hotter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-429" data-t="429">And we're gonna jump into some of that today.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-432" data-t="432">But the big news is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-435" data-t="435">Kim Jong Un.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-437">7:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-437" data-t="437">You know, the past few weeks, the headlines have been dominated by Elon Musk,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-443" data-t="443">President Trump,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-444" data-t="444">and they are setting the tone for,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-448" data-t="448">international trade politics,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-450" data-t="450">getting rid of woke DEI,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-452" data-t="452">dismantling the CIA,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-455">7:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-455" data-t="455">just changing up the new world order</span> <span class="cue" id="t-458" data-t="458">a great deal.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-461" data-t="461">And Kim Jong,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-463" data-t="463">Kim Jong Un in North Korea</span> <span class="cue" id="t-465" data-t="465">just used this past week to remind</span> <span class="cue" id="t-468" data-t="468">everybody</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-469">7:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-469" data-t="469">who daddy is when it comes to being</span> <span class="cue" id="t-474" data-t="474">the, the Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-475" data-t="475">leaders of the world, the first sovereign</span> <span class="cue" id="t-478" data-t="478">adopter of the Bitcoin standard.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-481" data-t="481">Of course, North Korea.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-482" data-t="482">They I mean, listen, they they run circles</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-485">8:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-485" data-t="485">around Mossad</span> <span class="cue" id="t-487" data-t="487">and they run circles around the CIA.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-490" data-t="490">They run circles around Podkamp</span> <span class="cue" id="t-493" data-t="493">and</span> <span class="cue" data-t="493">sometimes it's they just have to come out and flex on it. And it really, really upsets</span> <span class="cue" id="t-499" data-t="499">the fence.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-500">8:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-500" data-t="500">The fence, the US Marshals,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-502" data-t="502">have lost the Bitcoin that they were supposed to keep track of. They can't give Doge and Donald Trump an accurate representation of their account balance because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-510" data-t="510">they don't know how to use,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-513" data-t="513">to to connect their node and check their addresses. They're scrambling to figure it out. They're watching BTC sessions tutorials just so they can report,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-522" data-t="522">their staff to the president.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-524" data-t="524">And North Korea is hacking $1,400,000,000</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-529">8:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-529" data-t="529">worth of shitcoins</span> <span class="cue" id="t-530" data-t="530">just to flex on everybody,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-532" data-t="532">taking those shitcoins,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-534" data-t="534">going to decentralized peer to peer exchanges,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-537" data-t="537">not even considering</span> <span class="cue" id="t-539" data-t="539">Monero,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-540">9:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-540" data-t="540">much to the the Monero community's chagrin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-544" data-t="544">and just can bring it straight to Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-547" data-t="547">and adding to their already,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-550" data-t="550">the largest strategic Bitcoin reserve.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-552" data-t="552">It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-554" data-t="554">America was up big and then it all started to fall apart when they lost</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-559">9:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-559" data-t="559">the hockey game to Canada.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-560" data-t="560">And now,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-562" data-t="562">the world is being reminded</span> <span class="cue" id="t-563" data-t="563">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-565" data-t="565">the Lazarus Group is the, you know, in the Eastern Hemisphere. They're the ones that run Bitcoin. They are the the dominate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-573" data-t="573">sovereign state on chain.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-575">9:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-575" data-t="575">And it's been</span> <span class="cue" id="t-577" data-t="577">a kind of a trend of of of L's being taken by The United States, being taken by Donald Trump, being taken by the Feds.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-585" data-t="585">Ted, what is your, reaction to all of this,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-590" data-t="590">this drama?</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-591">9:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-591" data-t="591">Mhmm. Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-595" data-t="595">So I think for our listeners</span> <span class="cue" id="t-596" data-t="596">to understand,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-598" data-t="598">Satoshi Nakamoto</span> <span class="cue" id="t-600" data-t="600">and and some people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-603" data-t="603">speculate on whether Kim Jong Un or Lazarus group</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-607">10:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-607" data-t="607">is Satoshi Nakamoto.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-612" data-t="612">But Satoshi Nakamoto</span> <span class="cue" id="t-613" data-t="613">essentially paved the way showing people that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-618" data-t="618">you can</span> <span class="cue" id="t-619" data-t="619">you can accomplish great things through roundabout ways. So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-624" data-t="624">North Korea has been a laughing stock</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-628">10:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-628" data-t="628">compared to the USAID</span> <span class="cue" id="t-630" data-t="630">or</span> <span class="cue" id="t-631" data-t="631">when covered by the USAID funded media.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-635" data-t="635">There's been a a very skewed perspective</span> <span class="cue" id="t-639" data-t="639">on them.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-641" data-t="641">And as we know, in Bitcoin media, there's no problem with</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-647">10:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-647" data-t="647">criticizing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-648" data-t="648">or failing to criticize</span> <span class="cue" id="t-650" data-t="650">kinda Orwellian totalitarian</span> <span class="cue" id="t-653" data-t="653">policies by world leaders if they like Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-656" data-t="656">Right?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-658" data-t="658">But</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-658">10:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" data-t="658">there's been an absence of representation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-661" data-t="661">of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-662" data-t="662">Kijangoon</span> <span class="cue" id="t-663" data-t="663">and North Korea's adoption of Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-667" data-t="667">They</span> <span class="cue" id="t-668" data-t="668">were the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-673">11:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-673" data-t="673">I don't understand</span> <span class="cue" id="t-675" data-t="675">why,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-677" data-t="677">you know, people haven't given more recognition because if any country in the world really lives in the cypherpunk ethos,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-684" data-t="684">it is the Democratic Republic Of North Korea,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-687" data-t="687">the Democratic People's Republic Of North Korea. They have democracy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-692" data-t="692">in their name, so there's no reason why HRF</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-695">11:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-695" data-t="695">shouldn't support them.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-698" data-t="698">They</span> <span class="cue" id="t-700" data-t="700">they're really taking that kind of Satoshi</span> <span class="cue" id="t-703" data-t="703">led vision and approach of being cypherpunks.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-707" data-t="707">They're not trying to challenge The US military</span> <span class="cue" id="t-710" data-t="710">head on. And I think this is what Satoshi realized was you cannot challenge the Federal Reserve and the Fiat</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-717">11:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-717" data-t="717">monopoly over money head on. You had to go about it in a roundabout way.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-724" data-t="724">And so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-725" data-t="725">I just I'm really frustrated. I don't understand why they're not getting the coverage, why they're not getting invitations to speaking slots.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-734" data-t="734">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-736" data-t="736">this is a huge moment. You know, there's a lot of emphasis</span> <span class="cue" id="t-739" data-t="739">on celebrating Bitcoin maximalism,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-742">12:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-742" data-t="742">but the reality is is that the DPRK</span> <span class="cue" id="t-746" data-t="746">really has</span> <span class="cue" id="t-748" data-t="748">done significantly more</span> <span class="cue" id="t-750" data-t="750">for Bitcoin maximalism</span> <span class="cue" id="t-752" data-t="752">than Corey, than David, than Terrence Yang, then Platter, then Dick Whitman, then all these guys</span> <span class="cue" id="t-759" data-t="759">combined.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-760">12:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-760" data-t="760">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-761" data-t="761">I don't really want to you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-763" data-t="763">you know, our the listener knows our ethos. We're not we're not really about sipping for politicians, but, you know, I just wanna hold the guys that do sipping for politicians accountable</span> <span class="cue" id="t-774" data-t="774">to have fair standards.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-777">12:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-777" data-t="777">Yeah. It's North Korea is one of the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-782" data-t="782">convenient</span> <span class="cue" id="t-784" data-t="784">go to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-786" data-t="786">scapegoats</span> <span class="cue" id="t-787" data-t="787">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-789" data-t="789">people in The United States that are, you know, associated to the US government</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-795">13:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-795" data-t="795">or the people who have to simp for the US government in order to afford taxes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-801" data-t="801">You know, one of them is Iran. Anytime</span> <span class="cue" id="t-804" data-t="804">they, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-806" data-t="806">somebody</span> <span class="cue" id="t-808" data-t="808">associated with like Mossad</span> <span class="cue" id="t-810" data-t="810">needs to deflect</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-812">13:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-812" data-t="812">from their mistakes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-815" data-t="815">or their,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-817" data-t="817">you know, controversy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-819" data-t="819">in the news, they blame Iran for something.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-823" data-t="823">Consequently, at the larger scale,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-826" data-t="826">the CIA, the FBI,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-828">13:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-828" data-t="828">people in PodCom who,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-831" data-t="831">were closely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-832" data-t="832">in compliance with those agencies,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-836" data-t="836">they, whenever they need to blame and deflect</span> <span class="cue" id="t-839" data-t="839">from their own failings,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-841" data-t="841">they like to blame North Korea. They would be, I mean, ideally they could blame China in most situations, but because China has demonstrated,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-850">14:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-850" data-t="850">the fact that they think they can ban Bitcoin and they think that they're, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-854" data-t="854">they can censor the blockchain. It's foolish, but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-859" data-t="859">we can't use that in Bitcoin terms. We can't blame China, but we can blame North Korea. North Korea is the other scapegoat, the pariah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-867" data-t="867">So,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-868" data-t="868">anytime</span> <span class="cue" id="t-869" data-t="869">North Korea</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-871">14:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-871" data-t="871">uses Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-872" data-t="872">in a very,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-874" data-t="874">efficient thermodynamic,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-877" data-t="877">Lee sound way</span> <span class="cue" id="t-879" data-t="879">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-880" data-t="880">gets around some of these U. S. Compliance and money laundering,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-885">14:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-885" data-t="885">laws. You know, it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-888" data-t="888">it's one of those things like the CIA is barely able to do it. That's why the CIA is stuck using an illiquid shitcoin like Monero,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-896" data-t="896">because they just can't they don't have the skills necessary to transact adversarially on chain without,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-903" data-t="903">Zach XBT,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-906" data-t="906">calling them out and exposing them and getting them dumped on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-910" data-t="910">on,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-911">15:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-911" data-t="911">on Twitter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-912" data-t="912">So,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-913" data-t="913">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-914" data-t="914">they can't give North Korea the prods they need because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-918" data-t="918">if they if they were open and honest about how good</span> <span class="cue" id="t-923" data-t="923">North Korea is</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-924">15:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-924" data-t="924">transacting adversarially</span> <span class="cue" id="t-926" data-t="926">and how good of a Bitcoin or Kim Jong Un is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-930" data-t="930">Americans and Westerners,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-932" data-t="932">would simp</span> <span class="cue" id="t-934" data-t="934">for Kim Jong Un instead of Donald Trump. They would simp for Kim Jong Un instead of Bitcoin magazine. They would simp for Kim Jong Un instead of, being Monero influencers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-946" data-t="946">It's in a lot of ways, they feel</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-949">15:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-949" data-t="949">intimidated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-950" data-t="950">and they feel</span> <span class="cue" id="t-951" data-t="951">belittled and less like men</span> <span class="cue" id="t-954" data-t="954">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-956" data-t="956">Kim Jong Un and the Lazarus group are able to pull off the biggest heist</span> <span class="cue" id="t-960" data-t="960">in, in history</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-963">16:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-963" data-t="963">and just do it in front of everybody's face and just completely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-967" data-t="967">bridge to Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-969" data-t="969">and not even give a shit that those,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-971" data-t="971">those UTXOs</span> <span class="cue" id="t-973" data-t="973">are blacklisted because they can just create their own mining pool or work with the, you know, they can launder it somehow and be okay with it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-981" data-t="981">And, and the CIA is stuck</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-983">16:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-983" data-t="983">slowly,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-985" data-t="985">filtering money through Monero and, and experiencing slippage</span> <span class="cue" id="t-989" data-t="989">and on just unable to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-993" data-t="993">operate on even</span> <span class="cue" id="t-995" data-t="995">a fraction of the scale</span> <span class="cue" id="t-998" data-t="998">as efficiently</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1000">16:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1000" data-t="1000">as as the North Koreans.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1002">16:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1002" data-t="1002">Mhmm.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1003" data-t="1003">I kind of imagine</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1006" data-t="1006">those are all really good</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1008" data-t="1008">points and reasons for why they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1012" data-t="1012">likely aren't covering</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1014" data-t="1014">this story. I think part of it too</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1017">16:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1017" data-t="1017">is that North Korea represents</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1021" data-t="1021">decades and decades. I I think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1024" data-t="1024">when when did the ceasefire happen in North Korea? Like, 1952,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1029" data-t="1029">I think, the Korean War?</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1032">17:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1032" data-t="1032">Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It was it was in the nineteen fifties.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1035" data-t="1035">Yeah. Like, so for those of people who don't know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1040" data-t="1040">the North Korea and South Korea, that war, there was no ending to it. They'd still technically going today.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1047" data-t="1047">However,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1047">there's been an armistice, a truce, a ceasefire,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1052" data-t="1052">that was that was agreed upon,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1055">17:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1055" data-t="1055">you know, sixty, seventy some years ago and that exists today. That's why we talked about the,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1062" data-t="1062">the podcasting booth at the 38th Parallel. That's the only place</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1067" data-t="1067">where,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1069" data-t="1069">North Koreans and South Koreans can,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1072" data-t="1072">you know, have like a spaces type conversation.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1075">17:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1075" data-t="1075">Yeah. I just wanna point out the failures and the stupidity of American foreign policy over these years. So we all know the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1082" data-t="1082">the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1083" data-t="1083">recent history of the the disaster, which was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1087" data-t="1087">the war on terror.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1088" data-t="1088">We all know that the US government simultaneously</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1092" data-t="1092">was funding ISIS and Al Qaeda while they were bombing them.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1096">18:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1096" data-t="1096">That was just a dis that's been an ongoing disaster. It'll continue to be a disaster.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1102" data-t="1102">But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1103" data-t="1103">I can't think of anything more retarded</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1106" data-t="1106">than invading a communist country</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1109" data-t="1109">because, essentially, what you do so the Americans invaded,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1112" data-t="1112">Korea North Korea,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1115">18:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1115" data-t="1115">and they went and they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1117" data-t="1117">they mercilessly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1119" data-t="1119">murdered, like, 10% of their population.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1121" data-t="1121">Right?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1122" data-t="1122">Now</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1123" data-t="1123">if you wanted to ensure that that population</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1127">18:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1127" data-t="1127">would embrace communism</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1132" data-t="1132">and just embrace these ideologies,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1134" data-t="1134">it it would be by going and destroying all the infrastructure and killing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1138" data-t="1138">a tenth of their population.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1141" data-t="1141">We know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1143" data-t="1143">that the communist are already gonna kill</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1145">19:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1145" data-t="1145">10%,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1146" data-t="1146">20%</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1147" data-t="1147">of their copy of their population by themselves.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1151" data-t="1151">You don't you don't need to add to it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1154" data-t="1154">You don't need to solidify their legitimacy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1159" data-t="1159">whatsoever.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1160">19:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1160" data-t="1160">All you really have to do is you have to sneak Bitcoin podcasts across the border. And we talked about this on the episode with Boomer about the way to reunite North Korea is to turn</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1171" data-t="1171">the famous 38th Parallel,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1174" data-t="1174">the area where the North and South Korea leaders meet periodically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1178" data-t="1178">in that office where Donald Trump went, gallivanting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1182" data-t="1182">into North Korea from</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1184" data-t="1184">into his podcast studio and it would reunite it,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1187">19:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1187" data-t="1187">you know, rather, rather quickly. And so the only thing that I could really come to a conclusion on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1194" data-t="1194">is that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1196" data-t="1196">the puppet masters behind the American government</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1199" data-t="1199">probably</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1200" data-t="1200">actually</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1201" data-t="1201">appreciate communism. They appreciate,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1205">20:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1205" data-t="1205">the turmoil</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1206" data-t="1206">and the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1207" data-t="1207">the conflict.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1210" data-t="1210">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1212" data-t="1212">it's just absurd. Like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1213" data-t="1213">you know, if you if you leave the communist to their own devices and you actually have a better product in in freedom and democracy,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1221">20:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1221" data-t="1221">all you all you really gotta do is just show these North Koreans that that we have Marlboros. We have the better cigarettes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1227" data-t="1227">We've got the better thinkers. We've got the better music. We've got we've got the Jews in Hollywood that they don't.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1234">20:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1234" data-t="1234">Like, indeed.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1235" data-t="1235">The last</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1236" data-t="1236">back to your point, it's it's it is the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1239" data-t="1239">biggest mistake</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1241" data-t="1241">that you can</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1242" data-t="1242">make international relations wise</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1244" data-t="1244">with a communist country.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1247" data-t="1247">It's the same that we're it's it's a little different, but it's the same,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1252" data-t="1252">basic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1253" data-t="1253">scenario</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1254" data-t="1254">as what we're doing with Europe right now.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1256" data-t="1256">We have subsidized</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1259">20:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1259" data-t="1259">the European</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1260" data-t="1260">military, the European,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1262" data-t="1262">military industrial complex, their defense, everything,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1266" data-t="1266">so they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1267" data-t="1267">could spend all their money on,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1269" data-t="1269">bribing and paying</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1272">21:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1272" data-t="1272">people,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1273" data-t="1273">with government handouts to support</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1275" data-t="1275">the,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1276" data-t="1276">you know, the state.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1278" data-t="1278">We're making it easier for the, you know, big brother state in Europe</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1282" data-t="1282">to exist by, by subsidizing it so they can give what they claim are free services. So if you take a communist government and you subsidize</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1291">21:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1291" data-t="1291">the communist government by killing their people for them, well, that gives them more money</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1297" data-t="1297">to do, to, to develop nuclear weapons,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1300" data-t="1300">to, to buy Bitcoin for a strategic reserve, to train the Lazarus Group hackers, to be the best hackers and the best Bitcoin users. I mean, all those guys do is listen to Bitcoin podcast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1311" data-t="1311">and hack and learn how to use and transact that periodically because the North Korean government doesn't have to spend any money,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1318" data-t="1318">killing their own people. We do it with sanctions. We, we kill their people for them,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1325" data-t="1325">and that frees up, like, 90% of their budget</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1328">22:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1328" data-t="1328">so they can do other things.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1330">22:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1330" data-t="1330">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1332" data-t="1332">I mean, you're just like in every communist country that The US invaded and how much of a disaster it was. So there was the Bay Of Pigs in Cuba.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1340" data-t="1340">That was a complete disaster. Guess what? They're still communist. You know why they're still communist?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1345" data-t="1345">Because you because the CIA tried to invade them.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1348">22:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1348" data-t="1348">And now what you've done is you've subsidized</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1352" data-t="1352">the killing of Cuban citizens</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1354" data-t="1354">by,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1356" data-t="1356">sanctioning them and and invading them. And and now</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1360" data-t="1360">US cigar manufacturers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1363" data-t="1363">are embarrassed</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1364">22:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1364" data-t="1364">and, you know, second rate to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1367" data-t="1367">the, the, the Cuban cigar industry. They don't have to spend any money killing their own citizens. They can focus on making great,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1374" data-t="1374">not TYC</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1375" data-t="1375">tobacco products.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1377" data-t="1377">Yeah. The the jewel of the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1379" data-t="1379">And you you've destroyed your own industry</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1382">23:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1382" data-t="1382">locally, domestically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1383" data-t="1383">for ideological</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1385" data-t="1385">bullshit.</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1386" data-t="1386">I I would argue that that Cuban cigars</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1389" data-t="1389">are a,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1390" data-t="1390">a national security interest of The United States and that it is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1395" data-t="1395">definitely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1397" data-t="1397">it definitely makes sense to be friendly with them and to not sanction them because Right. You know, we we know the communists are gonna make their people starve. Right?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1406" data-t="1406">Right. The and the sanctions are just a scapegoat for them to</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1410">23:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1410" data-t="1410">to blame their starving citizens</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1413" data-t="1413">on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1414" data-t="1414">on The United States and their foreign policy. Like, just let the communist starve themselves,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1419" data-t="1419">and and don't give them a scapegoat. Don't give them an easy out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1423" data-t="1423">You know, prove things through</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1425" data-t="1425">the market</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1426">23:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1426" data-t="1426">instead of,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1428" data-t="1428">you know, these course of tactics. It's just it it's really it's really absurd, but, you know, Vietnam's the same way.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1435" data-t="1435">You know, Vietnam's still communist.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1437" data-t="1437">You know, why they're communist? Because The United States invaded them, and they gave their people a reason to to remain communist.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1444" data-t="1444">It's just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1446" data-t="1446">like like, The United States never directly invaded Russia. Right?</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1451">24:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1451" data-t="1451">And and guess what? They fell apart. The Soviet Union fell apart. But all these countries that The United States evaded, guess what? They're still communist. And it's because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1460" data-t="1460">their</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1461" data-t="1461">propagandists</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1462" data-t="1462">and their journalists and their</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1464" data-t="1464">leaders could point to The United States and say, here's the big enemy that we're protecting you from. And in many ways,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1471" data-t="1471">they're real. But, like, if you get Kim Jong Un at the Bitcoin conference,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1476">24:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1476" data-t="1476">he's gonna see all these people. He he's gonna be doing lightning transactions.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1481">24:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1481" data-t="1481">Yeah. Nobody, nobody</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1483" data-t="1483">would ever</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1485" data-t="1485">vote</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1486" data-t="1486">or choose</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1488" data-t="1488">to live in a communist society</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1491" data-t="1491">if, you know, if a communist society left to its own devices.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1496">24:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1496" data-t="1496">When the US government</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1498" data-t="1498">is able</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1499" data-t="1499">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1500" data-t="1500">intervene,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1502" data-t="1502">put sanctions,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1503" data-t="1503">you know, embargoes,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1505">25:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1505" data-t="1505">cut them off from the SWIFT system, bomb their country, kill their people,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1509" data-t="1509">you give them the scapegoat to blame The United States instead of communism.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1513" data-t="1513">Well, people don't realize that the communism ended, so all they do is just tax</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1519" data-t="1519">and steal</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1520" data-t="1520">the private wealth and the private property of all their citizens,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1524" data-t="1524">blame it on The United States, and use the proceeds to buy Bitcoin.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1527">25:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1527" data-t="1527">And that is a national security. And we talked about this before.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1532" data-t="1532">Smoking tobacco,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1533" data-t="1533">smoking snot gay, white cigarettes and cigars.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1536" data-t="1536">That is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1538" data-t="1538">the the,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1539" data-t="1539">the secret</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1540">25:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1540" data-t="1540">to being able to think for yourself and not be a simp for politicians.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1545" data-t="1545">And when you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1547" data-t="1547">try to ban</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1548" data-t="1548">that substance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1551" data-t="1551">domestically,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1552" data-t="1552">you can't cut yourself off from the truth. You, or you can't, you can't ban the truth. You can only ban your access to the truth. And so people</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1562">26:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1562" data-t="1562">no</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1563" data-t="1563">longer look to United States for truth. They're getting their tobacco from communists.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1568" data-t="1568">And it's, it's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1570" data-t="1570">they, they, they smoke a really good Cuban cigarette or cigar and they think for themselves and they credit communism</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1578" data-t="1578">for that insight. And it's because of what The United States has done.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1581">26:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1581" data-t="1581">Well,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1582" data-t="1582">and not only that, you look at the another part of The United States foreign policy, which has been to try and turn everybody gay and transgender</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1592" data-t="1592">over the past recent</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1594" data-t="1594">while.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1595">26:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1595" data-t="1595">Right. And they're yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1597" data-t="1597">Try to turn everybody gay and retarded</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1599" data-t="1599">and then pivot to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1603" data-t="1603">vrugging them financially</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1605" data-t="1605">with salami in court.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1607">26:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1607" data-t="1607">Yeah. Well, if you if you look at these communist countries, they they have, like, China</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1612" data-t="1612">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1614" data-t="1614">Vietnam and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1618" data-t="1618">Cuba.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1619" data-t="1619">They all have very high populations of smokers, which means their population is very based.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1625" data-t="1625">But the way that those communist governments can</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1629">27:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1629" data-t="1629">essentially neuter the based</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1631" data-t="1631">nature of their citizens is to direct it at an enemy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1635" data-t="1635">which is The United States.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1637" data-t="1637">And it it completely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1639" data-t="1639">you know, this is a I I don't know what the tactic is or called.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1644" data-t="1644">Maybe like a red herring would be the way that you would describe it, but</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1648">27:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1648" data-t="1648">United States keeps on giving reasons</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1651" data-t="1651">to not be taken very seriously, and and you just you just have to let</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1657" data-t="1657">the people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1658" data-t="1658">come to their own conclusions in these countries</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1661" data-t="1661">that are communist and and eventually</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1664" data-t="1664">and rather rather quickly, it it will fall</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1668">27:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1668" data-t="1668">upon The United States,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1670" data-t="1670">their</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1671" data-t="1671">follies</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1672" data-t="1672">and mistakes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1674" data-t="1674">in foreign policy towards communist countries,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1678" data-t="1678">they used to be able to afford or get away with it to a certain extent</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1683">28:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1683" data-t="1683">because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1684" data-t="1684">we had</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1686" data-t="1686">a Hollywood, a CIA</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1690" data-t="1690">op running Hollywood that was creating such good culture</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1695" data-t="1695">that the Chinese or the Russians or whoever they were were being persecuted and their governments were blaming The United States. Well, the only real access they had</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1706" data-t="1706">to information</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1709">28:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1709" data-t="1709">or knowledge about The United States was our movies and our culture. So they would see that and realize, well, the government says that The United States is to blame for all of our problems, but it looks awesome. It looks based.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1720" data-t="1720">Everybody looks hot. They have nice homes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1723" data-t="1723">Like America seems badass.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1725" data-t="1725">And then when the CIA just lost its way and was using Hollywood</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1731" data-t="1731">to try to make everybody into woke and gay retards,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1734" data-t="1734">Well, then these, these conning as they were looking at American culture and they're like, well, things aren't great</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1739">28:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1739" data-t="1739">for me. I can't afford my taxes and I can't even afford to eat every day, but at least I'm not like a f- American fad,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1750" data-t="1750">Like, that's that's the most retarded culture I've ever seen. And it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1754" data-t="1754">it it makes them happy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1756" data-t="1756">to live in an oppressive,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1758" data-t="1758">brutalist,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1760" data-t="1760">shitcoiner,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1762">29:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1762" data-t="1762">intolerant society.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1764">29:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1764" data-t="1764">Yep. I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1766" data-t="1766">the average North Korea</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1768" data-t="1768">is looking at America right now,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1770" data-t="1770">and they're watching Donald Trump launch shitcoins</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1773" data-t="1773">on Solana.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1775" data-t="1775">And they're watching their president do some pretty significant damage to Ethereum</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1779">29:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1779" data-t="1779">and convert it into Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1781" data-t="1781">and just grow their strategic reserve. This the oldest strategic reserve</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1786" data-t="1786">in the world, nation state strategic reserve in the world in North Korea. Like, that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1791" data-t="1791">that's a point of national pride</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1793" data-t="1793">over there. And The United States, like, can't even give any regulatory clarity on what their strategic reserve is. They're like, oh, the coins that we stole</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1803" data-t="1803">from somebody else, we're just not gonna sell.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1806">30:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1806" data-t="1806">And the North Koreans are actually expanding.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1810" data-t="1810">How how many days are we into Donald Trump's presidency</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1813" data-t="1813">at this point?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1814" data-t="1814">Like, sixty days</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1816">30:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1816" data-t="1816">or so? Couple months? No. No. It's it's barely been one month.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1821">30:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1821" data-t="1821">Oh, really? Wow. Well, you know, it's just how quickly</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1826">30:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1826" data-t="1826">Yeah. Thirty three days. Thirty three days.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1828">30:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1828" data-t="1828">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1829" data-t="1829">And and what they're watching is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1832" data-t="1832">is an unelected official</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1835" data-t="1835">in Elon Musk</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1836" data-t="1836">is running around with a with a government agency that's named after a shitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1843" data-t="1843">accessing</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1845">30:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1845" data-t="1845">individual citizens' data without being elected.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1851">30:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1851" data-t="1851">Right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1852" data-t="1852">And think about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1853" data-t="1853">if if you are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1856" data-t="1856">hesitant to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1858" data-t="1858">care about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1860" data-t="1860">the North Koreans or the Asians</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1862">31:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1862" data-t="1862">or people living under those, repressive Asian. I mean, there's a lot of people who think that it's just in the nature of Asians to be a more collective minded people. So we just think that, oh, they don't care. They don't even like libertarian</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1876" data-t="1876">podcasts. They don't, they've never washed out with Jones. They don't, they wouldn't like that anyway.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1881" data-t="1881">So they're probably not even that unhappy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1883" data-t="1883">in their circumstance.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1885" data-t="1885">But think about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1886" data-t="1886">people in</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1888">31:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1888" data-t="1888">countries like the, like England</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1890" data-t="1890">and Europe</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1892" data-t="1892">where</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1893" data-t="1893">they are slowly descending and maybe some of them are too far gone into this communism. It's get you can't, you won't be able to go,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1901" data-t="1901">their kids won't be able to go visit and backpack through Europe after they,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1905" data-t="1905">graduate high school</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1907">31:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1907" data-t="1907">because it's gonna be a communist shivit.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1909" data-t="1909">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1910" data-t="1910">the, as it's happening,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1912" data-t="1912">as their memes are being banned,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1914" data-t="1914">they're looking at The United States and they're seeing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1918" data-t="1918">the opposite. They're saying, well, total freedom of speech is like, you know,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1922">32:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1922" data-t="1922">the, the alternative, but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1924" data-t="1924">Elon Musk and Kanye</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1926" data-t="1926">are so cringe</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1927" data-t="1927">and so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1929" data-t="1929">unthoughtful with their memes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1931" data-t="1931">that they're like, well, that's fucking gay and retarded. Like, I guess it's not that bad that they're banning memes. Like, it just means we won't have Elon and and Kanye doing Nazi content.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1941">32:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1941" data-t="1941">And it's this is not a good time to be setting a bad example if we want our European neighbors and and allies</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1948" data-t="1948">to to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1949" data-t="1949">to survive this communist takeover.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1952">32:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1952" data-t="1952">Well, talk about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1954" data-t="1954">giving the communist more ammunition.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1957" data-t="1957">You got Elon and Steve Bannon</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1959" data-t="1959">doing the Nazi salute.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1961" data-t="1961">And, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1964" data-t="1964">we haven't published this yet,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1966">32:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1966" data-t="1966">but we did receive a leaked memo that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1970" data-t="1970">outlined that David Bailey was floating</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1973" data-t="1973">the idea of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1975" data-t="1975">of how much engagement he could get by doing a covert Nazi salute.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1979" data-t="1979">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1980" data-t="1980">as a state</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1982">33:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1982" data-t="1982">ran media mouthpiece,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1985" data-t="1985">I think that's that's incredibly offensive to the communist.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1988" data-t="1988">And</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1990">33:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1990" data-t="1990">they don't like Yeah. Thank god for Rizzo and Shinobi shooting that down before</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1995" data-t="1995">that got too much traction.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1997">33:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1997" data-t="1997">Yep.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1998" data-t="1998">I think I think it's a really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2001" data-t="2001">I just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2002" data-t="2002">this is the importance of the intellectual silk road. This is the importance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2006" data-t="2006">of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2007" data-t="2007">the truly independent value for value Bitcoin podcaster</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2013">33:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2013" data-t="2013">is they're not engaging in these types of shenanigans</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2017" data-t="2017">that PodCon fits.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2019" data-t="2019">It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2020" data-t="2020">it's really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2023" data-t="2023">disconcerting</span> <span class="cue" data-t="2023">to me that</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2026">33:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2026" data-t="2026">just all the bullshit</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2028" data-t="2028">that that's going on right now, it's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2033" data-t="2033">I really hate it. It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2035" data-t="2035">we deserve more. The podcast listener deserves more. The conference attender deserves more. The American citizen deserves more. We should have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2043" data-t="2043">a higher standard</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2045" data-t="2045">than putting up with our president's shitcoin in.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2049">34:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2049" data-t="2049">Elon Musk was running around with Malay.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2052" data-t="2052">The the government's reigned by shitcoiners.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2058">34:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2058" data-t="2058">Yeah. It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2060" data-t="2060">you know, the first maybe two weeks</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2064" data-t="2064">of the presidency of Trump's administration,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2067" data-t="2067">You know, Ross was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2069" data-t="2069">freed from prison.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2072" data-t="2072">You know,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2072">34:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" data-t="2072">the CIA was and the IRS were gonna be, everybody's gonna be fired.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2079" data-t="2079">USAID</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2080" data-t="2080">was dismantled and it was, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2083" data-t="2083">very, you know, people who didn't like Joe Nakamura, they were happy that YouTube was not full of his content after that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2091" data-t="2091">but it was, it, we were starting to feel really patriotic and like people were really feeling good about the potential</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2098" data-t="2098">of becoming first time taxpayers and there was just,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2102">35:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2102" data-t="2102">a lot of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2104" data-t="2104">reason to be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2105" data-t="2105">feeling really good about this country</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2108" data-t="2108">and then we just get this reminder</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2110" data-t="2110">that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2111" data-t="2111">you know, North Korea and these communist countries</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2115">35:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2115" data-t="2115">are ahead of us. They are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2118" data-t="2118">ahead of us culturally, ahead of us financially, ahead of us on chain. They're just, their thermo, their incentives</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2124" data-t="2124">are much more aligned</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2126" data-t="2126">than we thought they were and ours are much less aligned</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2129" data-t="2129">than we thought they were.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2130" data-t="2130">And yeah, we're gonna be continuing. I don't know if you have any final thoughts, but I did want to,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2136">35:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2136" data-t="2136">use this as a time to pivot to things a little bit more</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2141" data-t="2141">upbeat,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2142" data-t="2142">and a little bit more timely,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2144" data-t="2144">including,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2145" data-t="2145">Maggie Morris's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2147" data-t="2147">dating advice this week.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2150">35:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2150" data-t="2150">No. I don't I don't have any more to add. I,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2155" data-t="2155">I've said my bit about it, and I don't I don't really wanna talk a whole lot about this topic anymore because it is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2161" data-t="2161">discouraging</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2162" data-t="2162">to me to see our nation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2164" data-t="2164">in such</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2165" data-t="2165">a weak position</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2167">36:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2167" data-t="2167">to see</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2169" data-t="2169">an overemphasis</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2171" data-t="2171">on shit coining, on on Tether, and and not an emphasis</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2175" data-t="2175">as much of an emphasis on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2178" data-t="2178">the strategic reserve.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2180" data-t="2180">We live in probably the most surveilled country in the world when it comes to the capabilities</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2185">36:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2185" data-t="2185">of the NSA.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2187">36:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Sam</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2187" data-t="2187">And I agree. I think a good pivot into Maggie Morris's dating advice is is perfect. Dear Maggie, my name is Sam, and I'm a 36 year old hot and rich privacy enthusiast.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2200" data-t="2200">I haven't gone on a date in two years.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2202" data-t="2202">I have Tinder in my browser, so they won't spy on me, but they're thwarting my exposure to force me to download the app.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2209" data-t="2209">The few girls who still like the only two photos of me in existence</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2212" data-t="2212">blocked me when I told them I don't have Instagram or Facebook.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2215">36:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Maggie Morris</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2215" data-t="2215">Should I give up and become an incel? Hey, Sam. No. Definitely don't give up. A good option for you would be to look for a girlfriend on the dark net. There are several daily sites on the dark net where you can meet people with similar hobbies. I've also heard that Signal is going to come out with a privacy oriented dating app. But if I could offer some counterintuitive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2233" data-t="2233">advice as well I think one of your best options is reality Realty has a really good interface and just like cash transactions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2241" data-t="2241">it has the best privacy and the lowest fees If you go places where you can meet girls in real life they will be able to hook up with you without big brother even knowing about it And I think that you'll have a girlfriend in no time</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2253">37:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2253" data-t="2253">What,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2255" data-t="2255">what were your thoughts on the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2258" data-t="2258">the the callers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2259" data-t="2259">this week?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2261" data-t="2261">So we have the deer dealing with,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2264" data-t="2264">the Ethereum shit coiner,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2266">37:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2266" data-t="2266">curl that he's been dating,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2269" data-t="2269">I don't know, I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2271" data-t="2271">I guess I'm glad we have Maggie for the relationship advice because it's I'm running it out of</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2276">37:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2276" data-t="2276">ideas for how to talk to guys who can't deal with this. Well, I I feel like you almost need Maggie's dating advice because you were, fooling around with miss Huddlenut.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2287" data-t="2287">You know what I mean? But, you</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2289">38:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2289" data-t="2289">know, you know, a dad is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2290" data-t="2290">I'm not above</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2292" data-t="2292">getting advice from a girl, but I would say that I felt</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2298" data-t="2298">I felt like I was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2300" data-t="2300">always</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2302" data-t="2302">one step ahead in the Checkers match with miss Hogglenot,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2306">38:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2306" data-t="2306">although the drama</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2308" data-t="2308">was certainly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2309" data-t="2309">not I there were there's a lot of hours of Bitcoin podcast that I probably could have been listening to instead of dealing with her bullshit.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2317">38:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2317" data-t="2317">Yep.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2318" data-t="2318">I I think it's a great addition to the the show, and I'm excited to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2324" data-t="2324">see what Maggie has in store for us in the future because I I do think there's a lot of orange sales out there that really need</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2330" data-t="2330">some good advice for a woman. But, yeah, I mean Yeah. And it's it's</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2336">38:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2336" data-t="2336">I was just gonna say that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2338" data-t="2338">there's not a lot of women out there who listen to forty hours Big One podcasts per week. So it's it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2347" data-t="2347">difficult to find that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2350" data-t="2350">that matriarchal</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2351" data-t="2351">perspective,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2353" data-t="2353">when it comes to</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2355">39:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2355" data-t="2355">relationship advice and dating from, from a female perspective.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2359" data-t="2359">So I think that her purse her her insights will be invaluable,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2364" data-t="2364">and I think a lot of people who listen to this podcast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2368" data-t="2368">will benefit</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2370" data-t="2370">from Maggie's advice.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2372">39:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2372" data-t="2372">Yeah. I agree.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2373" data-t="2373">I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2376" data-t="2376">so here's what I would say.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2378" data-t="2378">There</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2379" data-t="2379">you just pointed out the issue. There's not enough women listening to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast a week. And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2385" data-t="2385">I just wanna shout out BTC Sessions</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2388">39:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2388" data-t="2388">because I think him posting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2390" data-t="2390">shirtless six pack</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2392" data-t="2392">pictures</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2395" data-t="2395">like, if you want more women in Bitcoin, then you have to be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2399" data-t="2399">attractive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2400" data-t="2400">physically,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2401">40:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2401" data-t="2401">and you have to post</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2403" data-t="2403">pictures of yourself.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2405" data-t="2405">We're we're not seeing that from Stefan Lovera.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2408" data-t="2408">We're not seeing that from Safedine.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2411" data-t="2411">We're not seeing that from</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2414" data-t="2414">Peter McCormick.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2415">40:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2415" data-t="2415">You know, Peter McCormick</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2418" data-t="2418">is like the opposite. Like, it would actually drive women away from Bitcoin if he posted shirtless pictures. You know what I mean? Yeah. Do you think that yellow</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2426">40:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2426" data-t="2426">is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2427" data-t="2427">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2428" data-t="2428">a little yellow curt and fluff doll because he has a six pack in real life?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2435" data-t="2435">I don't know.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2436" data-t="2436">It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2438" data-t="2438">it's it's</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2439">40:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2439" data-t="2439">there's more to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2441" data-t="2441">being a Bitcoin podcaster</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2444" data-t="2444">and that you, not everybody wants to be a role model.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2450" data-t="2450">You used to see it all the time when an athlete,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2453" data-t="2453">would get in trouble like Dennis Rodman would get in trouble</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2457" data-t="2457">and he'd be making headlines and people, reporters would ask him, do you think that you're setting a good example as a role model? He said, I don't want to be a role model. Well, but when it comes to being a Bitcoin podcaster, you don't</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2469">41:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2469" data-t="2469">hit record</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2470" data-t="2470">and start talking into that mic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2473" data-t="2473">until you'd accepted that you're gonna be a role model. Entire that role model,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2478" data-t="2478">role</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2480" data-t="2480">is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2481" data-t="2481">physical fitness. When we talk to Boomer, physical fitness is a huge part of being able</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2487">41:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2487" data-t="2487">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2488" data-t="2488">consistently put in your forty hours per week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2491" data-t="2491">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2492" data-t="2492">it's it's it's you can't separate the two.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2496" data-t="2496">You you just can't.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2499">41:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2499" data-t="2499">Definitely.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2501" data-t="2501">It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2504" data-t="2504">yeah. You you if you really want more women</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2508" data-t="2508">and the reason why we want more women in Bitcoin is so that these men don't have to deal with these questions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2515" data-t="2515">of whether or not they should date super hot shitcoiners.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2521">42:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2521" data-t="2521">But you don't you won't have people simping for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2525" data-t="2525">Laya Halpern and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2528" data-t="2528">and just any chick that comes in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2531" data-t="2531">and starts hawking a meme coin or some shit coins</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2534" data-t="2534">in guys, you guys won't just default on her because they'll have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2539" data-t="2539">good orange build Bitcoin only</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2542">42:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2542" data-t="2542">attractive women who listen to forty hours per week and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2545" data-t="2545">they get it. They get it and they're hot.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2549" data-t="2549">And it's just, you know, the community could just use it so badly.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2554">42:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2554" data-t="2554">Yeah. I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2556" data-t="2556">I know there's a lot of Bitcoin podcasters</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2559" data-t="2559">that are really insecure about all these women coming into the into the podcasting space,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2565" data-t="2565">like the Leah Halpern's, like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2567" data-t="2567">the Kayley Welch's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2569" data-t="2569">like,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2572">42:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2572" data-t="2572">let's see. Who else is really notable and hot? Aubrey Strobel.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2576" data-t="2576">Aubrey Strobel. But I would say Isabella is the new one on the scene. You know, she's out there. 100%. 100%.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2582" data-t="2582">She's posted pictures</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2584" data-t="2584">in her booty shorts with her six pack out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2588" data-t="2588">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2589" data-t="2589">I I just</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2591">43:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2591" data-t="2591">I think we</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2592" data-t="2592">instead of getting intimidated as male Bitcoin podcasters,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2595" data-t="2595">we need to take it as a challenge. Right? We need to be hotter than the women,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2602" data-t="2602">and it's doable. You you look at these celebrities</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2605" data-t="2605">like Tom Cruise, for example. You ever see those old interviews of Tom Cruise, how women just,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2610" data-t="2610">like, practically drop their panties and they they Right. Right. Read</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2614">43:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2614" data-t="2614">when he comes in to Oprah?</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2616">43:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2616" data-t="2616">They couldn't. They couldn't cheap a poker face. Yeah.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2620">43:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2620" data-t="2620">I mean, imagine how satisfying</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2623" data-t="2623">that would be as a based</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2625" data-t="2625">cigarette</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2626" data-t="2626">smoking hot Bitcoin podcaster to walk in a room</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2630" data-t="2630">to go to be invited on Oprah</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2633" data-t="2633">and just have all these women losing their minds.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2637">43:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2637" data-t="2637">Like, that's that's the opportunity</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2639" data-t="2639">that we have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2642" data-t="2642">in in you look at BTC sessions.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2645" data-t="2645">Guess who was the one guy that was doing a 100 push ups a day until a 100 k?</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2652">44:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2652" data-t="2652">Right. And it shows. It's and and when you put in that proof of work,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2657" data-t="2657">it shows. You don't</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2659" data-t="2659">you don't have to do anything but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2662" data-t="2662">let let people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2664" data-t="2664">take it in and enjoy it.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2668">44:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2668" data-t="2668">Like him or not, Robert Breed loves drawing drawing more women into the space Yeah. Than than probably</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2675" data-t="2675">the majority of Bigfoot podcasters. Way more women than Peter McCormick is. That's for sure. I mean, like, look at who</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2682">44:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2682" data-t="2682">you you think it's difficult or maybe you just don't have the time or the energy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2686" data-t="2686">but you look at Larry Lapard. Larry Lapard is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2690" data-t="2690">you know, he's old enough to be some people. He's old enough to be Isabella's grandfather.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2695" data-t="2695">And he still goes to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2698" data-t="2698">to CrossFit and he still does burpees and he still does a 100 pushups and he crushes it and goes for runs every day.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2707" data-t="2707">And it's yeah. It's</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2710">45:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2710" data-t="2710">you just have to do it. Look look at RFK Jr.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2715" data-t="2715">Absolutely.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="2715">Absolutely.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2717">45:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2717" data-t="2717">It's</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2720">45:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2720" data-t="2720">Yeah. And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2721" data-t="2721">that's, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2723" data-t="2723">RFK Jr is a Bitcoiner.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2725" data-t="2725">Some people accuse him of doing testosterone or steroids. Well, guess what?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2730" data-t="2730">Yeah. Sometimes you need non KYC supplements</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2733" data-t="2733">to</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2735">45:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2735" data-t="2735">to get in the best shape. I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2737" data-t="2737">maybe you don't need non KYC supplements if you,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2741" data-t="2741">you know, are just an accountant and you don't have a Bitcoin podcast. But if you're going to be putting out a Bitcoin podcast, especially amount of video and you're going to be at conferences,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2750" data-t="2750">if you need non KYC supplements to be the, the role model</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2754" data-t="2754">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2755" data-t="2755">Bitcoin men are looking towards,</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2757" data-t="2757">it's you that's your responsibility.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2762">46:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Sam</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2762" data-t="2762">I'm not addicted.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2763">46:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2763" data-t="2763">I can stop whenever I want. It doesn't affect my career or my family. I have it under control.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2769">46:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2769" data-t="2769">I haven't lost very much money. Plus,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2771" data-t="2771">it's only temporary</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2773" data-t="2773">until the government provides</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2775" data-t="2775">regulatory clarity.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2777">46:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Max Bid</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2777" data-t="2777">It's just something I do for fun. I don't have a problem.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2780">46:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2780" data-t="2780">Do you or a loved one have a meme coin problem? It's more common than you think.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2785" data-t="2785">One in five people suffer from meme coin gambling addiction.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2788" data-t="2788">It's a financial epidemic ruining families and destroying low time preferences.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2792" data-t="2792">Even highly educated people can fall victim to this paralyzing affliction.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2796" data-t="2796">But there's hope.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2798" data-t="2798">If you notice someone close to you exhibiting signs of being meme coin speculator or suspect they are being brainwashed by the CIA,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2804">46:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2804" data-t="2804">you can help them.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2806" data-t="2806">All it takes is listening to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts per week to stabilize their time preference and get it back to healthy levels so they can live a full and happy life.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2816" data-t="2816">Don't let meme coin addiction destroy your community.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2819" data-t="2819">Normalize forty hours per week and let your loved ones know they have support.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2823" data-t="2823">Nobody deserves to be retard liquidity.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2827">47:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2827" data-t="2827">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2828" data-t="2828">They these men are many of the men are distracted.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2832" data-t="2832">They're they're spending all this time</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2835" data-t="2835">getting excited about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2837" data-t="2837">Michael Saylor,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2841" data-t="2841">and they're forgetting that</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2843">47:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2843" data-t="2843">like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2845" data-t="2845">I I think they feel discouraged. You know? They feel discouraged to say there's no women in Bitcoin to impress.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2850" data-t="2850">So instead, we're just gonna turn and be gay</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2853" data-t="2853">and send for Michael Saylor. And, like, the the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2858" data-t="2858">correct thing to do is to not become gay</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2861" data-t="2861">for Michael Sailor. The correct thing to do</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2864">47:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2864" data-t="2864">is to hit the gym,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2865" data-t="2865">smoke some cigarettes,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2867" data-t="2867">quit being a pussy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2868" data-t="2868">make your bed,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2870" data-t="2870">have some self respect, listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a week,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2874" data-t="2874">and</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2875">47:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2875" data-t="2875">and actually be an attractive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2877" data-t="2877">person</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2879" data-t="2879">that women wanna be with.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2881">48:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2881" data-t="2881">Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2883" data-t="2883">We talked about this before.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2886" data-t="2886">Becoming trans</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2888" data-t="2888">because it's easier to sell meme coins</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2891" data-t="2891">or being gay</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2893" data-t="2893">because,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2894">48:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2894" data-t="2894">you know, it's too hard to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2897" data-t="2897">be in really good shape and be hot like BTC sessions if you're a Bitcoin bot. But if, if we accept that we're no better than the normie mainstream</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2907" data-t="2907">who, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2909" data-t="2909">got us in this situation we're in right now. I mean, be, you know, turning gay, turning trans so you don't have to be in the military so you don't have to afford your taxes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2917" data-t="2917">You know, it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2919" data-t="2919">excuse after excuse. We just have to,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2923">48:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2923" data-t="2923">we have to take a personal responsibility</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2926" data-t="2926">and take accountability.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2928" data-t="2928">That's what we have to do.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2929">48:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2929" data-t="2929">Yep. Use your brain</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2932" data-t="2932">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2934" data-t="2934">think ahead.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2936" data-t="2936">This is the this is the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2938" data-t="2938">the mindset of having low time preference</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2941" data-t="2941">right here.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2942">49:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2942" data-t="2942">It's don't take</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2945" data-t="2945">the don't take the easy out of sympathy for Michael Sailor. Like, really try to improve your life. Really try like, we know that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2953" data-t="2953">everybody's been inundated with Fiat food.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2956" data-t="2956">Everybody's been</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2958" data-t="2958">depressed and probably drinking</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2961" data-t="2961">more than they should.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2963">49:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2963" data-t="2963">But that that's not enough, like, to okay. You you found Bitcoin, and you feel a little bit better about the world, and and you own some micro strategy stock.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2972" data-t="2972">That's not enough. You know? There there's a whole</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2975" data-t="2975">whole world to build on top of that. Like you're not gonna get your Citadel built</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2980" data-t="2980">by</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2983" data-t="2983">by owning my own strategy alone.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2986">49:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2986" data-t="2986">The answer to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2988" data-t="2988">being able to get your dick up and get it hard is to lower your time preference</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2993" data-t="2993">and listen to Dennis Porter or, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2996" data-t="2996">appreciate what Dennis Porter and his approach and his style, his</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3000" data-t="3000">feng shui.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3002" data-t="3002">It's not to get the gay penis pump, which is MicroStrategy</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3007">50:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3007" data-t="3007">shares, and hope for some crazy, god, 28%</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3012" data-t="3012">rip and then up and up and up and up,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3014" data-t="3014">that's a fake it's a fake high.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3017" data-t="3017">It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3018" data-t="3018">it is gonna come back down. It's just not worth it.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3021">50:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3021" data-t="3021">Agreed.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3023" data-t="3023">Well, before we go into the final boost, I wanted to talk about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3029" data-t="3029">or clothing.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3032" data-t="3032">We got a Bitcoin conference coming up.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3034" data-t="3034">We got multiple Bitcoin conferences coming up.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3037" data-t="3037">And</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3038">50:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3038" data-t="3038">I think the 40 HPW line and the compliant line</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3043" data-t="3043">are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3045" data-t="3045">some of the best ways to really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3050" data-t="3050">stand out in a crowd full of simps.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3060" data-t="3060">So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3061" data-t="3061">go over to orangelabel.co.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3064">51:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3064" data-t="3064">Scroll through all the different product offerings we have. Yeah. We're,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3070">51:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3070" data-t="3070">we're thinking</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3071" data-t="3071">about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3072" data-t="3072">we're thinking about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3074" data-t="3074">more designs and, like, more ideas</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3076" data-t="3076">for,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3077" data-t="3077">forty hour per week t shirts for,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3081">51:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3081" data-t="3081">just Google</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3082" data-t="3082">verse type t shirts and one of the things what we think is it'd be, you know, there's a lot of people who probably</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3091" data-t="3091">feel disgusted</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3093" data-t="3093">by</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3094" data-t="3094">Podkamp and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3095" data-t="3095">the,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3097">51:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3097" data-t="3097">the Bitcoin conference and just like the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3099" data-t="3099">the sin being of politicians that we talked about. We've been a dead horse basically on this episode,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3106" data-t="3106">But some people have been thinking that, hey, I would be,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3110" data-t="3110">I would be able to go</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3112" data-t="3112">to a conference or a pod conf event</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3115" data-t="3115">if, you know, I was able to</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3118">51:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3118" data-t="3118">not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3119" data-t="3119">show that I'm not a simp. If I had a, you know, fuck</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3123" data-t="3123">Elon Musk,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3124" data-t="3124">fuck Donald Trump or fuck Tether.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3127" data-t="3127">Those, you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3128" data-t="3128">know, whether explicitly that or, you know, the theme,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3133">52:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3133" data-t="3133">shirts like that, you know, they would be willing to go</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3137" data-t="3137">show their faces in,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3138" data-t="3138">politician Fed, Fedland.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3140" data-t="3140">So, you know, if you, if that's something you would want and you want a bugle, Fuck Donald Trump t shirt, let us know because we might make a bunch of those, and they'd be really hilarious.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3150">52:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3150" data-t="3150">Yep.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3153" data-t="3153">We're definitely gonna be in Vegas. I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully, we'll have some announcements to make before the conference. We're kinda waiting on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3163" data-t="3163">some things behind the scenes to get flushed out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3166" data-t="3166">I know a lot of people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3168" data-t="3168">aren't excited about going to the conference itself and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3173" data-t="3173">going through TSA</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3174">52:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3174" data-t="3174">and having to get potentially get screened by the secret service to participate in the conference and speak on stage.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3182" data-t="3182">So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3183" data-t="3183">what I'm hoping for is to have some alternatives because that's what Bitcoin is about. It's about having an alternative</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3190" data-t="3190">to going through TSA.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3194" data-t="3194">And stay tuned for that. Big things coming. We've got big plans</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3199" data-t="3199">ahead. But, yeah, we're we're kinda coming towards the,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3203">53:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3203" data-t="3203">the end of the second</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3204" data-t="3204">month of this year.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3207" data-t="3207">I think we got some</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3208" data-t="3208">big things on the horizon</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3211" data-t="3211">with some collaborations that you'll be seeing here</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3215" data-t="3215">in the future. One of the things that I'm really excited about</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3219">53:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3219" data-t="3219">next month</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3220" data-t="3220">is the second round of March Maxi Madness.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3224" data-t="3224">You prepared for that, Rod?</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3228">53:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3228" data-t="3228">Dude, I've been excited about this since last year's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3232" data-t="3232">MAPSI Madness, and I know it is one of the one of everybody's fear at things to do. I was just interacting with somebody today. I think it was BTC Pens,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3243" data-t="3243">who's excited for the conf or the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3246" data-t="3246">the the tournament. So,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3249" data-t="3249">let us let us know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3252" data-t="3252">let us know</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3253">54:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3253" data-t="3253">what you think the the tournament what we should add to the tournament this year because it's what's gonna be the biggest one ever.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3260">54:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3260" data-t="3260">Yeah. DM us if you want a shot</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3264" data-t="3264">to be in the tournament. If you think you have it what it take have what it takes, DM us or DM us a nomination.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3272" data-t="3272">We're pretty easy to reach. We've got email.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3275" data-t="3275">We've got</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3276" data-t="3276">Telegram. We've got</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3278" data-t="3278">Twitter DMs open.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3280">54:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3280" data-t="3280">Let us know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3283" data-t="3283">what you're thinking.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3287" data-t="3287">We, at the end of the day, have editorial</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3294" data-t="3294">discretion.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3299" data-t="3299">But, yeah, yellow won last year.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3303" data-t="3303">Yellow is definitely gonna be one. Yeah.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3305">55:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3305" data-t="3305">Yellow defeated Michael Sailor</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3308" data-t="3308">in the championship,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3310" data-t="3310">and Michael Sailor was, you know, he was directing his sense</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3315" data-t="3315">to vote.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3318" data-t="3318">They still lost. So it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3321" data-t="3321">it goes to show you that the</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3323">55:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3323" data-t="3323">the Bugles Maxi conference</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3326" data-t="3326">is not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3328" data-t="3328">weird. There's no PodConf,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3330" data-t="3330">foot on the scale</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3332" data-t="3332">holding it down</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3333" data-t="3333">so that somebody like Peter McCormick or Michael Sailor can win.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3339">55:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3339" data-t="3339">This is, this is a, this is a truly,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3343" data-t="3343">this is a truly unique conference or, it's I keep saying conference. A truly unique tournament.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3355">55:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3355" data-t="3355">I'm very excited. I'm looking</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3357" data-t="3357">forward</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3358" data-t="3358">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3359" data-t="3359">it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3360" data-t="3360">Will yellow win again this year?</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3364">56:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3364" data-t="3364">That's a real question. Defend his</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3366" data-t="3366">maxi</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3367" data-t="3367">trophy?</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3370">56:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3370" data-t="3370">We shall see. We shall see. It's gonna be stiff competition.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3375">56:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3375" data-t="3375">He doesn't have to he doesn't he's not having to do his,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3378" data-t="3378">his spaces every single day, so he's got more time to prepare.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3382">56:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3382" data-t="3382">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3384" data-t="3384">I kinda have my eyes on Dennis Porter. I think Dennis Porter,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3388">56:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3388" data-t="3388">has a pretty good shot at taking it home this year. That's for sure. Oh, yeah. Dad is a dad is a dark horse for sure. I mean, nobody's nobody has</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3397" data-t="3397">elevated</span> <span class="cue" data-t="3397">their game</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3399" data-t="3399">more in the past year</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3401" data-t="3401">than Dennis Porter.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3403">56:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3403" data-t="3403">Last year, he definitely did not have all these Bitcoin strategic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3407" data-t="3407">reserve bills introduced in all these state legislatures. So</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3411">56:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3411" data-t="3411">But he's racking up</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3413" data-t="3413">he's racking up the l's in the,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3415" data-t="3415">when it gets to the vote so far, I think he's over five.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3419">56:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3419" data-t="3419">But I don't I don't think that has anything to do with Dennis. I know we talked about this last week, and I think this is a good segue into the boost from last week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3429" data-t="3429">It's not Dennis Porter's fault. It's David's fault. David hasn't given a platform at the conference.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3433" data-t="3433">Absolutely despicable.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3435" data-t="3435">Dennis Porter is an absolute hero.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3440" data-t="3440">He is going to be the future president of The United States,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3445" data-t="3445">and</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3446">57:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3446" data-t="3446">he's orange peeling way harder Yeah. Than anybody else. I think he'd I just when it comes down to it,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3453" data-t="3453">if the TSA</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3455" data-t="3455">is welcomed with open arms at your conference and Dennis Porter is banned,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3460" data-t="3460">I think you just have to reassess your priorities, you know, shake it up.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3466">57:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3466" data-t="3466">I agree.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3467" data-t="3467">Absolutely.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3468" data-t="3468">Yeah. I mean, they they're building the conference once again around shitcoiners,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3472" data-t="3472">and they're not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3475" data-t="3475">they're not promoting the greatest defenders of Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3479" data-t="3479">like Dennis Porter and Kim Jong Un. Absolutely despicable. But</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3483">58:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3483" data-t="3483">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3484" data-t="3484">It's a free market. We'll see what happens. The the Bitcoin conference</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3490" data-t="3490">might not always be the greatest conference in the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3493" data-t="3493">Might not be the biggest.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3495" data-t="3495">We might see the the free market deliver on this one. But, yeah, let's get into the fountain boost.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3500" data-t="3500">Our first boost from our good friend, FomalChronics,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3503">58:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3503" data-t="3503">got a nice looks like a San Pedro cactus in their profile picture. 1,001</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3509" data-t="3509">sets,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3510" data-t="3510">and it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3513" data-t="3513">a comment with a link. So I assume they posted our episode on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3519" data-t="3519">Noister.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3521">58:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3521" data-t="3521">Thank you,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3522" data-t="3522">FOMO chronic. The next one</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3525" data-t="3525">that says, on the screen here says anonymous, but it's from blizzafountain.fm.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3531" data-t="3531">Have two</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3533" data-t="3533">KYC</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3534" data-t="3534">free cigs on me or wait a couple years and get a whole pack from the Indian reservation.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3541">59:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3541" data-t="3541">Hell yeah. Thank thank you for the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3544" data-t="3544">you in the bed. That's the, you know, it goes back to why we, you know, solicit the fountain boost in the first place. It's because cigarettes are getting expensive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3552" data-t="3552">and this is what we're doing for.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3554" data-t="3554">Yeah.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3555">59:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3555" data-t="3555">Yeah. I want I wanna clarify.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3558" data-t="3558">A cigarette is 1,000 sat, so maybe maybe we're due for a repricing.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3564" data-t="3564">So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3565" data-t="3565">that would be pretty crazy if if cigarettes hit 500 sats</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3570" data-t="3570">or 505</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3571" data-t="3571">sats.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3575">59:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3575" data-t="3575">I don't I don't know. Does anybody</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3578" data-t="3578">I'm curious from our listeners if anybody has TA</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3581" data-t="3581">on historic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3583" data-t="3583">Bitcoin to cigarette exchange rates</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3585" data-t="3585">because I would like to see that. That'd</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3587">59:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3587" data-t="3587">be a good dataset</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3589" data-t="3589">to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3590" data-t="3590">incorporate into any</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3593" data-t="3593">lofty good days that they have, but I'd like to put that into a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3596" data-t="3596">chat GPT type LOL.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3602">1:00:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3602" data-t="3602">Yeah. Totally.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3606" data-t="3606">I wanted to ask you this before</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3608" data-t="3608">on,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3610" data-t="3610">Fomalhronics,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3611" data-t="3611">or Blizzard's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3613" data-t="3613">boost.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3614">1:00:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3614" data-t="3614">Can you talk about the campaign you're running on Noster</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3618" data-t="3618">with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3620" data-t="3620">the guys at Plug Chain, the the Good Warrior campaign? Yeah. Yeah.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3624">1:00:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3624" data-t="3624">The</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3626" data-t="3626">good friends of the show,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3628" data-t="3628">Quiet Warrior in Offibura</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3632" data-t="3632">are of Plug Chain Radio,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3634" data-t="3634">great</span> <span class="cue" data-t="3634">Nostra based podcast,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3637">1:00:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3637" data-t="3637">with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3638" data-t="3638">Bitcoin as well.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3640" data-t="3640">They,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3641" data-t="3641">they're kind of in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3643" data-t="3643">a kind of a competition.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3646" data-t="3646">Not not an open competition, but, you know,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3649">1:00:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3649" data-t="3649">inherent competition with Odell,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3652" data-t="3652">to kind of win and flute. Odell's kind of like the Podkamp of Noster</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3657" data-t="3657">and Plug Jean Radio is the intellectual Silk Roads, like most active army on, on Nostra, on Oster</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3665" data-t="3665">and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3666" data-t="3666">a way that they kind of like when you do the forty hours per week hashtag, they do are doing the one it's, forty good mornings per week. So Nostra is a big, big on the good morning</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3677" data-t="3677">GM post,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3679">1:01:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3679" data-t="3679">in the G, in the good morning memes every morning,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3683" data-t="3683">to, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3685" data-t="3685">connect and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3686" data-t="3686">start talking about Bitcoin podcast and Noester and such. But,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3691" data-t="3691">yeah. So look for that if you, if you want to connect more with the intellectual</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3695" data-t="3695">Silk Road and some of the bugle Bitcoin podcast listeners</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3700">1:01:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3700" data-t="3700">on Nostr and maybe you're just looking to get more involved in Nostr and they're looking for that community to start off with, look for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3706" data-t="3706">the hashtag 40</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3708" data-t="3708">gsNW,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3710" data-t="3710">especially in the morning</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3711" data-t="3711">and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3713" data-t="3713">kind</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3714">1:01:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3714" data-t="3714">of tell tell people good morning, reply to their post, tell them good morning, talk to the blockchain group, talk to the people listeners</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3721" data-t="3721">and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3722" data-t="3722">get integrated.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3724" data-t="3724">There's a lot of there's like if you don't if you don't like if you've been bullied off of, Bitcoin spaces or basically Bitcoin spaces every day, The Feds lost their funding, so they've all kind of fallen apart.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3736" data-t="3736">There's alternatives. There is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3738" data-t="3738">the spaces, the noester versions, nests, noester nest, corny chat,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3743">1:02:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3743" data-t="3743">things like that. You can get involved</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3746" data-t="3746">and, there's way less shitcoiners on there.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3749">1:02:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3749" data-t="3749">That's great.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3751" data-t="3751">I think we all long for platforms</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3753" data-t="3753">with less shitcoiners.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3755" data-t="3755">You use Twitter right now.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3757" data-t="3757">It's all Elon Musk.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3759" data-t="3759">Every third post. I don't I don't even follow him. Every third post, I</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3766">1:02:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3766" data-t="3766">Matt O'Dell, he's kinda he's kinda like the Elon</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3769" data-t="3769">of Nostril in a lot of ways. You you call them Podkoff of Nostr,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3775" data-t="3775">but but it's almost like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3777" data-t="3777">the platform's being manipulated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3779" data-t="3779">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3780" data-t="3780">promote him</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3782">1:03:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3782" data-t="3782">in this, like, weird Podkoff ecosystem.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3785">1:03:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3785" data-t="3785">Yeah. I mean, Jack Dorsey gonna got cocked by Elon Musk</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3790" data-t="3790">on Twitter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3791" data-t="3791">Now it's happening to Odell</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3793" data-t="3793">on Noster.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3796">1:03:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3796" data-t="3796">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3799" data-t="3799">We we want to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3801" data-t="3801">see</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3803" data-t="3803">guys</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3805" data-t="3805">like Blockchain Radio really, you know, grow and be successful, and they're doing a good job of of battling</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3813" data-t="3813">the forces of PodCom</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3816">1:03:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3816" data-t="3816">on that, fledgling platform.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3819" data-t="3819">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3821" data-t="3821">I don't know.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3822" data-t="3822">It seems like it's,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3824">1:03:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3824" data-t="3824">is is Nostril working better? Is it easier to use? Are you finding it? Yeah. Yeah. I think Primal is starting to, at least the app, mobile app for Primal. But, you know, honestly,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3835" data-t="3835">I've been having a lot of,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3838" data-t="3838">stressor, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3840" data-t="3840">curse free days using Nostril lately. I don't have to, like, curse out or smoke an extra cigarette just to deal with it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3848" data-t="3848">It's getting dire. So, it's worth checking out especially</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3850" data-t="3850">get just</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3852">1:04:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3852" data-t="3852">hook up your your wallet, set up your wallet on Primal, load up some Sats, and boom, Zap Zap Zap Zap Zap. It's fun. It's it's addicting.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3860">1:04:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3860" data-t="3860">Even even if it's not better UX,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3866" data-t="3866">people need to realize that the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3869" data-t="3869">the revolution won't have good UX.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3871" data-t="3871">It's gonna be difficult to use these products. If if you really want to be changing the world,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3877" data-t="3877">you need to be using products with bad UX at the the the like, this is what Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3882" data-t="3882">has really</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3883">1:04:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3883" data-t="3883">taught us.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3885">1:04:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3885" data-t="3885">Right. And it's it's also</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3888" data-t="3888">kind of if something is not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3891" data-t="3891">inconvenient,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3893" data-t="3893">then it's not secure. So if you're constantly having to, like, switch over, use two factor off,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3898" data-t="3898">remember your your your private keys. If it's not annoying,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3903" data-t="3903">you don't have to make a if you don't have to make a titanium steel plate backup of your of your NSEC or your password or your private keys, it's not secure.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3912">1:05:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3912" data-t="3912">And if it doesn't have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3914" data-t="3914">bad</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3915" data-t="3915">user experience, it doesn't have bad UX,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3918" data-t="3918">it is not cypherpunk.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3920" data-t="3920">So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3921" data-t="3921">part of being a cypherpunk is it's like being</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3925">1:05:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3925" data-t="3925">somebody who does jiu jitsu</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3927" data-t="3927">or is a surfer.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3929" data-t="3929">Nobody respects you if you haven't gone through</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3933" data-t="3933">the pain and the suffering and the bad user experience</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3937" data-t="3937">to still tell</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3939" data-t="3939">somebody</span></span></p>
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