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And while it has never been a better time to be racist, homophobic,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-10" data-t="10">transphobic, or any kind of phobic, complimenting others for their bigotry can get you into a world of hurt. And if you compliment your favorite fallen podcaster or political martyr, the woke right wing mob might try to cancel you and get you fired from your day job. And if your podcast isn't making 100,000,000</span> <span class="cue" id="t-26" data-t="26">sats per year from fountain boost, your wife is going to lose her shit when she finds out your job fired you for what you said on your podcast. She's not gonna care that you were celebrating the message, not the murderer. That's why you need free speech insurance from First Amendment Mutual. First Amendment Mutual's top rated discourse indemnity protects Bitcoin podcasters from the mayhem they cause for themselves.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-54">0:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-54" data-t="54">Last Wednesday, a tragedy struck our nation.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-58" data-t="58">The lord's good and faithful podcaster,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-60" data-t="60">Charlie Kirk, was assassinated.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-63" data-t="63">Charlie was a faithful servant to the lord. He helped to convince the broccoli haircut zoomers that Donald Trump was cool.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-72" data-t="72">In doing so, he helped set the groundwork for the future where the God candle was possible.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-78" data-t="78">As we enjoy this crypto bull market, let's remember the Lord's faithful servant, Charlie Kirk, and all the groundwork he did to allow this to happen.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-88">1:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-88" data-t="88">While we are all feeling sadness that he is not here with us today to podcast,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-93" data-t="93">let us all feel a sense of hope as we know he is podcasting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-98" data-t="98">with Jesus in heaven.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-100" data-t="100">Now let's worship.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-102">1:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-102" data-t="102">Imagine</span> <span class="cue" id="t-103" data-t="103">the recording</span> <span class="cue" id="t-107" data-t="107">up in the sky</span> <span class="cue" id="t-110" data-t="110">talking to Jesus</span> <span class="cue" id="t-113" data-t="113">knowing hope never dies.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-117" data-t="117">Imagine the signal,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-120">1:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-120" data-t="120">podcasting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-121" data-t="121">with the Lord,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-139">2:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-139" data-t="139">heaven, preparing where we belong.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-143" data-t="143">Imagine all the voices</span> <span class="cue" id="t-146" data-t="146">join an endless</span> <span class="cue" id="t-148" data-t="148">song.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-149" data-t="149">Charlie is podcasting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-151" data-t="151">in heaven,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-153">2:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-153" data-t="153">preparing where we</span> <span class="cue" id="t-157" data-t="157">belong.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-186">3:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-186" data-t="186">Imagine all the voices</span> <span class="cue" id="t-189" data-t="189">joined in endless song.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-192" data-t="192">Charlie is podcasting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-195" data-t="195">in heaven,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-224">3:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-224" data-t="224">where</span> <span class="cue" id="t-226" data-t="226">we</span> <span class="cue" id="t-228" data-t="228">belong.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-241">4:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-241" data-t="241">Volteriards,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-242" data-t="242">the fourth turning.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-245" data-t="245">For you know, after the election, a lot of us thought this is maybe the end of the fourth turning or, like, the very beginning of the end, and this was it was about to go fast. The meme at the end at the beginning of the year</span> <span class="cue" id="t-256" data-t="256">was accelerate,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-258" data-t="258">and we thought things were about to accelerate. Donald Trump was about to press the orange button,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-264" data-t="264">the strategic Bitcoin reserve, the, you know, Cindy Obama's 1,000,000 Bitcoins for the strategic reserve. We thought it was coming fast.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-274">4:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-274" data-t="274">He he,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-275" data-t="275">Donald Trump</span> <span class="cue" id="t-276" data-t="276">pardoned,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-279" data-t="279">Ross on the the second day. We thought the SBR was better within a week,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-284" data-t="284">but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-285" data-t="285">it's time</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-286">4:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-286" data-t="286">to face reality.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-288" data-t="288">In fact,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-291" data-t="291">it's we can't avoid it anymore.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-296" data-t="296">It's not gonna be the easy way, the Bitcoin way, the strategic reserve way. We didn't fix the money because they couldn't figure out how to get it done.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-306" data-t="306">We couldn't audit the,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-308" data-t="308">the Fort Knox and</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-310">5:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-310" data-t="310">sell all the gold in a budget neutral way to fund the the strategic reserve. It paid their Bitcoin summer turned out to be longer than we expected. It wasn't going to give us the God candle.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-322" data-t="322">So we we just have to face the fact we're taking the hard way the long way. The foreturning's gonna last a lot longer than we expected. Trump didn't fix the country. He didn't end the war in Russia and Ukraine.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-334" data-t="334">He did not end the war in Gaza. He did not arrest</span> <span class="cue" id="t-338" data-t="338">all the people on the Epstein client list. He's not going to do that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-343" data-t="343">And now we have,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-347" data-t="347">we have, you know, trannies shooting up schools</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-350">5:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-350" data-t="350">and killing podcasters.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-353" data-t="353">We've already talked about the Charlie Kirk situation and we don't have to, you know, go over the details of that again.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-360" data-t="360">But we have to accept that this is going to be a much longer process and we're in the now in the stage</span> <span class="cue" id="t-367" data-t="367">of we have to explain ourselves to each other. Everybody has to explain</span> <span class="cue" id="t-372" data-t="372">why they're laughing about who's dying,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-375" data-t="375">why they're laughing about which war is not ending,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-378">6:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-378" data-t="378">or why they're not, and it's the stakes have never been higher. Like we said before turning, this is how who how long is this going to be? We don't know, but Richard Grieser,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-388" data-t="388">how is your fourth turning</span> <span class="cue" id="t-391" data-t="391">September Sunday</span> <span class="cue" id="t-392" data-t="392">with all the that's going on in the world right now?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-396">6:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-396" data-t="396">I'm doing great. I'm having a good time. I'm enjoying life.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-400" data-t="400">Sometimes I wonder</span> <span class="cue" id="t-402" data-t="402">if I'm doing things wrong because I'm watching</span> <span class="cue" id="t-405" data-t="405">so many people be grumpy. They're losing their minds. Their brains are breaking but it seems like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-412" data-t="412">I just continue to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-415" data-t="415">enjoy life more. Bitcoin's getting easier to use</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-419">6:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-419" data-t="419">despite all the calls of it being</span> <span class="cue" id="t-423" data-t="423">broken or completely co opted or whatever people are complaining about.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-430" data-t="430">Yeah. I don't know. Am I doing something wrong? Should I should I be losing my mind and not enjoying life? Is there something wrong with me that I'm,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-441">7:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-441" data-t="441">this is this is exactly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-444" data-t="444">Prisma Toya. We're in this moment where it's time to explain ourselves</span> <span class="cue" id="t-448" data-t="448">because some people are grumpy. They</span> <span class="cue" id="t-451" data-t="451">they listen to a podcast and somebody told them to buy Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-455" data-t="455">and it was good to go to the moon. They're gonna be able to retire, they're gonna be able to buy their wife fake boobs, they were gonna be able to buy a PlayStation six,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-464" data-t="464">they were gonna be able to do all kinds of things and they're, they're, they're not in any of those things which they</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-471">7:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-471" data-t="471">were told,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-472" data-t="472">and they're still grumpy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-474" data-t="474">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-475" data-t="475">people are trying to fix Bitcoin, they're trying to save Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-479" data-t="479">and some people are trying to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-482" data-t="482">run new node clients, trying to run knots, and they're trying to stop spam,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-487">8:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-487" data-t="487">and there's no spam really,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-491" data-t="491">and they're still grumpy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-493" data-t="493">It didn't fix Bitcoin. Somebody told them that running knots was gonna fix Bitcoin. It didn't work. They're still grumpy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-497" data-t="497">People thought that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-500" data-t="500">this one was gonna go out of business, that paper Bitcoin, everybody's gonna go bankrupt. Then the stock is down, but paper Bitcoin fizzled out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-507" data-t="507">and the people who hated paper Bitcoin summer</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-511">8:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-511" data-t="511">thought they would be happy, but they're still grumpy. So they're trying they have they're making people explain themselves. Like, what? You told me that this was going to happen. You told me that this was inevitable,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-522" data-t="522">but I'm still not happy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-524" data-t="524">Explain here. Why are you happy? Explain yourself. Why are you not doomscrolling all day? Why are you going to church? Why are you mad? Why are you laughing that this podcaster</span> <span class="cue" id="t-534" data-t="534">got assassinated? Why are you laughing that there's a genocide?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-537" data-t="537">Why are you not freaking out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-541" data-t="541">about the possibility</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-542">9:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-542" data-t="542">of child pornography</span> <span class="cue" id="t-544" data-t="544">on the blockchain.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-545" data-t="545">You need to explain yourself.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-548" data-t="548">And people like Shinobi are just calling them retards and telling them that they don't have time to explain it to them or they don't, tell them, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-557" data-t="557">they don't have the time to explain themselves to everybody.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-560" data-t="560">And if you can't figure it out, you're a retard. Dear Bob calls people a little laggard, you know, other people just say, you know, you wouldn't get it. Some people giggle,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-570">9:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-570" data-t="570">and they don't explain themselves. It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-573" data-t="573">people it's just like I said, it's time to explain yourself. Am I doing something wrong? Please explain yourself.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-581">9:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-581" data-t="581">Totally.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-583" data-t="583">Misery likes company.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-585" data-t="585">I think that's the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-589" data-t="589">the trend or the phenomenon that we're seeing is miserable people are trying to drag people into their misery with them.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-597" data-t="597">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-599" data-t="599">you know, one of the things that I think is incredibly important</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-603">10:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-603" data-t="603">for people to go after</span> <span class="cue" id="t-606" data-t="606">is this assumption that life was easy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-609" data-t="609">Was supposed to be easy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-612" data-t="612">And life has never really been easy throughout human history. Life has always been a struggle.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-617" data-t="617">And the struggle is what</span> <span class="cue" id="t-620" data-t="620">brings purpose</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-621">10:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-621" data-t="621">to life.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-625" data-t="625">It challenges you. It challenges you to grow.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-628" data-t="628">It's it's like the free market versus a a completely centrally</span> <span class="cue" id="t-633" data-t="633">controlled</span> <span class="cue" id="t-634" data-t="634">economy where winners and and losers are chosen. The the struggle is the free market.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-641" data-t="641">And</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-643">10:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-643" data-t="643">there's a huge opportunity for people to really grow and benefit</span> <span class="cue" id="t-648" data-t="648">from the chaos, from the adversity</span> <span class="cue" id="t-652" data-t="652">that we're experiencing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-653" data-t="653">right now.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-655" data-t="655">You know, what are all the psy ops that we're seeing in the media?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-660" data-t="660">They're an opportunity to refine your thinking capabilities</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-665">11:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-665" data-t="665">and use your mind.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-667" data-t="667">PsyOps have always been a part</span> <span class="cue" id="t-670" data-t="670">of human history. Everybody's out there with an agenda trying to promote</span> <span class="cue" id="t-673" data-t="673">whatever their agenda is.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-676" data-t="676">That's not like a new phenomenon and I think people are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-681" data-t="681">the people that are tired and they're really worn down and they're frustrated, I think a huge part of it is because they had this assumption</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-689">11:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-689" data-t="689">that life was supposed to be easy. That they would just be able to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-692" data-t="692">experience the Cantillon effect,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-695" data-t="695">get the timeshare,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-697" data-t="697">have the nice things without really having to work for it,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-701" data-t="701">work their asses off for it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-704" data-t="704">But</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-705">11:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-705" data-t="705">the pioneer</span> <span class="cue" id="t-707" data-t="707">understands this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-708" data-t="708">This is why the pioneer is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-711" data-t="711">The pleb is upset right now that life's difficult.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-714" data-t="714">The pioneer</span> <span class="cue" id="t-715" data-t="715">is content. They're continuing to move forward. They're</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-718">11:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-718" data-t="718">accepting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-720" data-t="720">the world on the world's terms</span> <span class="cue" id="t-723" data-t="723">instead of decrying it. Decrying</span> <span class="cue" id="t-725" data-t="725">that things are unfair.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-729" data-t="729">It's unfair that people don't listen to my podcast. It's unfair that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-733" data-t="733">people don't think the way that I think. It's unfair that</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-739">12:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-739" data-t="739">people aren't doing what I want them to.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-742" data-t="742">The pioneer isn't thinking that way. They are out there. They are building</span> <span class="cue" id="t-746" data-t="746">their own reality that they want to live in and they're surrounding themselves with people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-753" data-t="753">that build them up and help them. Because when you're working towards a goal and you're actually doing something productive in your life, having a bunch</span> <span class="cue" id="t-760" data-t="760">of miserable plaids around you complaining</span> <span class="cue" id="t-764" data-t="764">just detracts. I mean, think about,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-768">12:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-768" data-t="768">Hank Reardon and Atlas Shrugged</span> <span class="cue" id="t-771" data-t="771">and his family. His family was always detracting. They were always complaining about him</span> <span class="cue" id="t-776" data-t="776">being</span> <span class="cue" id="t-777" data-t="777">an incredibly productive member of society.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-780" data-t="780">They were the plebs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-782" data-t="782">And</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-783">13:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-783" data-t="783">when he rug pulled them,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-786" data-t="786">they realized that they were the plebs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-789" data-t="789">Just benefiting off of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-792" data-t="792">his success</span> <span class="cue" id="t-794" data-t="794">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-796" data-t="796">acting as parasites and leeches.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-799">13:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-799" data-t="799">And that's what a lot of these people are doing right now. They're they're acting as parasites and leeches</span> <span class="cue" id="t-803" data-t="803">sitting on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-805" data-t="805">the peanut gallery. It's it's time to contribute. It's time to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-811" data-t="811">build. It's time</span> <span class="cue" id="t-813" data-t="813">to embrace the reality that life is difficult. This and this is</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-818">13:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-818" data-t="818">it feels like, you know, the the saying is those who don't study history,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-822" data-t="822">you know, are doomed to repeat it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-825" data-t="825">This happened just a few years ago.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-827" data-t="827">The cancel culture</span> <span class="cue" id="t-829" data-t="829">is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-831" data-t="831">is back, and it's this time it has</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-835">13:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-835" data-t="835">infected the plebs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-836" data-t="836">I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-840" data-t="840">we laugh</span> <span class="cue" id="t-841" data-t="841">about tragedy and we laugh</span> <span class="cue" id="t-844" data-t="844">in the face of,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-847" data-t="847">untold,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-848">14:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-848" data-t="848">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-849" data-t="849">cruelty every day</span> <span class="cue" id="t-852" data-t="852">at all kinds of different things,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-855" data-t="855">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-858" data-t="858">we're getting to a point where if you, if you know, if you laugh or you respond to something the wrong way,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-864" data-t="864">and you know,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-866">14:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-866" data-t="866">we're living in an opera, like a a situation of scarcity.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-869" data-t="869">People who are not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-872" data-t="872">economic nodes, so to speak,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-875" data-t="875">They their value or their</span> <span class="cue" id="t-878" data-t="878">opportunities</span> <span class="cue" id="t-879" data-t="879">are dependent on, you know,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-881">14:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-881" data-t="881">canceling</span> <span class="cue" id="t-883" data-t="883">other peers,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-885" data-t="885">canceling pioneers,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-887" data-t="887">canceling people who are, you know, have what they want.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-893" data-t="893">So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-896" data-t="896">it when the plebs are doing that, like, it it</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-901">15:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-901" data-t="901">it's a very</span> <span class="cue" id="t-902" data-t="902">it's a negative feed loop. It's, it doesn't</span> <span class="cue" id="t-905" data-t="905">it's thermodynamically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-908" data-t="908">unsecure. It destroys your community. It destroys</span> <span class="cue" id="t-911" data-t="911">yourself. Like, and it's it's it's not it doesn't solve any of your problems.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-917" data-t="917">So laugh canceling people for laughing,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-920">15:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-920" data-t="920">canceling people for not wanting to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-923" data-t="923">peer with your node,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-926" data-t="926">because, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-928" data-t="928">you know some people they don't think that Blast Zone should own</span> <span class="cue" id="t-931" data-t="931">all the houses in the neighborhood, or they don't think landlords should own the houses they don't live in. It was like some people don't think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-937" data-t="937">that, you should be able</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-939">15:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-939" data-t="939">to own a 100 nodes, and they they will they only think you should be able they only count you they'll only count your your one, you know?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-948" data-t="948">They're trying to cancel nodes, they're trying to cancel</span> <span class="cue" id="t-952" data-t="952">transactions, we're trying to everybody's trying to cancel something because they aren't building something valuable themselves. And you look at the the blockchain, it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-961" data-t="961">the sats per vByte</span> <span class="cue" id="t-964" data-t="964">or, you know, this summer went below one. That's for you. You can get transactions virtually</span> <span class="cue" id="t-969" data-t="969">for free, and they're arguing about spam. It doesn't make any like, that's it's it's a nonsense conversation, but it's the yeah. The plugs are canceling, and we've got people with conditions of stolen valor. Node runners are stealing valor.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-984">16:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-984" data-t="984">It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-986" data-t="986">it feels like 2018</span> <span class="cue" id="t-988" data-t="988">again.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-989" data-t="989">And I don't understand why people don't recognize that. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-994">16:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-994" data-t="994">A lot of people just wanna tear things down.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-996" data-t="996">And the problem is if the only thing you do is tear things down,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1001" data-t="1001">there's nothing left to replace it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1004" data-t="1004">It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1006" data-t="1006">I think this is the importance of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1009" data-t="1009">criticism</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1010">16:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1010" data-t="1010">with</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1010">having an alternative. The criticism acts as a frame of context.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1016" data-t="1016">Oftentimes for what you believe is right or wrong.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1019" data-t="1019">So you know, we criticize PodConf a lot. We criticize a lot of people in the PodConf</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1025" data-t="1025">ecosystem.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1027" data-t="1027">But part of the reason why we do it is because we have an alternative in the intellectual silk road. There's some people building out some really cool stuff. There's some people building out really high signal.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1038">17:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1038" data-t="1038">And you see this. You see this all the time with these people that criticize Bitcoin podcasters.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1044" data-t="1044">It's like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1045" data-t="1045">it's a very silly thing to criticize Bitcoin podcasters in my opinion because the Bitcoin podcasters have been the tip of the spear.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1054" data-t="1054">Bitcoin is where it's at because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1056" data-t="1056">And I think if you're listening to the show, you understand or believe that Bitcoin is very important. It's very,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1064" data-t="1064">powerful and in many ways, it's very productive for the people that use it to use it.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1070">17:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1070" data-t="1070">The Bitcoin podcasters</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1071" data-t="1071">have been a huge part of getting us to that point. So the criticism of Bitcoin podcast,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1078" data-t="1078">broadly speaking,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1081" data-t="1081">is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1082" data-t="1082">on the same level of these cancel culture people, these individuals</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1086" data-t="1086">oftentimes criticizing Bitcoin podcasts aren't contributing</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1090">18:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1090" data-t="1090">anything.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1091">18:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1091" data-t="1091">They're not Right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1093" data-t="1093">It's it's that you kinda nail it there because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1098" data-t="1098">what happens in the fourth turning, right? We tear down the old institutions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1103" data-t="1103">that governed pretty</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1105" data-t="1105">much, you know, a lot of people take for granted whether it's good or bad.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1109" data-t="1109">The way that these institutions</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1111">18:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1111" data-t="1111">shape our society, shape our communities, shape our lives, they shape them</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1116" data-t="1116">in way</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1117" data-t="1117">deeper,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1118" data-t="1118">more structural ways than most people appreciate.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1122" data-t="1122">So when they wanna tear down these institutions,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1126" data-t="1126">they they underestimate</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1127" data-t="1127">or they overestimate the value and then all the trouble that will come with it. All of the uncertainty, all the problems that will need to be fit.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1136" data-t="1136">For Bitcoin to fix things, we have to break it down. We have to break it down into its component parts, liquidate the assets,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1144" data-t="1144">and fix things one asset at it, reprice things one asset at its time.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1149" data-t="1149">And that's gonna be a lot of work, and it's gonna take a lot</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1153" data-t="1153">of podcasts listening</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1154" data-t="1154">to, to, to put, to get to piece</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1157">19:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1157" data-t="1157">together society after we've taken it apart.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1160" data-t="1160">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1162" data-t="1162">for the same, like right now in, in the politics,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1165" data-t="1165">we know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1167" data-t="1167">that the government is full of pedophiles.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1170" data-t="1170">We work with Epstein. They're all implicated.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1173">19:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1173" data-t="1173">Israel's involved somehow, but they've got their own problems. And all the European countries have their own problems. And all and Russia's got its own. Every country's got its own problems. And there's a million more inside of it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1185" data-t="1185">And instead, you know, in in Nepal that did they overthrew it? In Indonesia, they're trying to overthrow it. In some countries, they're overthrowing things. They're tearing it all down.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1194" data-t="1194">But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1195" data-t="1195">let's narrow it down a little bit deeper to Bitcoin Core. People wanna tear down that institution. That institution has been undergirded and it saved the Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1205" data-t="1205">It has protected the coin. It has</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1207" data-t="1207">stewarded the code, the protocol</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1210">20:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1210" data-t="1210">for the first few decades</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1212" data-t="1212">of Bitcoin's existence.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1214" data-t="1214">Luke has been a part of that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1217" data-t="1217">But if we tear it down where we're replacing it with or we're replacing it with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1223" data-t="1223">with knots. It's it's like we're we're gonna tear down the whole government in The United States and replace it with Donald Trump.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1229" data-t="1229">We're gonna let him make all these decisions he's implicated.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1232">20:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1232" data-t="1232">We're gonna tear down core.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1234" data-t="1234">Well, what</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1235" data-t="1235">well, the Nazis wanna cancel everybody who can code,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1238" data-t="1238">but they can't code. They can't even recode. They all just up updated to to core to excuse me, to knots 29,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1246" data-t="1246">at thousands of at the rate of thousands of nodes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1250" data-t="1250">In one day, they didn't even verify. They don't know how. That's what we're gonna replace it with? We're gonna replace it with that. Okay. Well, we're just doing all the work of</span></span></p> + +<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">making sure that we're quantum resistant. If that ends up being a big we're gonna leave it to Luke to figure out quantum resistance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1267" data-t="1267">when he's freaking out about spam and and child porn.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1270" data-t="1270">Like, we're gonna trust Matthew Kratter</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1273" data-t="1273">to replace all the Bitcoin, but you hate Bitcoin podcast. You think Bitcoin podcasters are part of the problem. Let's tear it down. Well, none of you have podcasts.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1280" data-t="1280">We just created a billion problems and new problems that have to be solved that have dire consequences.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1286" data-t="1286">And now we have no Bitcoin podcasters because you cancel them all. We have no coders, no core devs because you cancel them all. Oh, they had said they failed all your purity tests. They can't be a part of this process. Okay. They're not there to solve the problems.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1300">21:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1300" data-t="1300">So who's gonna solve it? Matthew Kratter, Bitcoin University? He's gonna educate you and help you solve all your problems that you just created. But what happened in South Africa? Apartheid doesn't mean that apartheid was good. Doesn't mean Bitcoin Core is good. It doesn't mean that the Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1318" data-t="1318">US Senate doesn't mean that they're good, but tearing them down has consequences.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1323" data-t="1323">And just like in South Africa, they tore down, probably rightfully so, the apartheid government and then throw all the farmers out, all the people who knew how to sustain, and it totally collapsed into chaos. And Aroburg's gotta escape.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1336" data-t="1336">Don't turn</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1338" data-t="1338">Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1339" data-t="1339">into South Africa.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1341">22:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1341" data-t="1341">Like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1342" data-t="1342">unless you have listened to unless you're gonna listen to forty hours of podcast in overtime, everybody's unless you're sure everybody</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1349" data-t="1349">is gonna listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast per week,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1352" data-t="1352">Don't take don't tear down. It's it's,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1356">22:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1356" data-t="1356">you're being hysterical. Very well said.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1359" data-t="1359">Yeah. On the topic of tearing down core, which is a very strange</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1364" data-t="1364">idea because not essentially</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1366" data-t="1366">core</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1367" data-t="1367">with some parameters change.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1369" data-t="1369">So it's like they're almost attacking themselves and not realizing it to a large degree. Yeah. This is what like the cancel culture So the cancel culture we're seeing on the right right now. So we're</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1380">23:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1380" data-t="1380">talk a little bit about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1383" data-t="1383">There's people out there creating databases of people that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1388" data-t="1388">in their opinion, reacted improperly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1390" data-t="1390">to Charlie Kirk's murder</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1392" data-t="1392">assassination.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1396" data-t="1396">It's very</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1397">23:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1397" data-t="1397">reminiscent of what the left did.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1400" data-t="1400">The left went out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1402" data-t="1402">They tried to cancel people that were involved in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1405" data-t="1405">January 6. And it's a very similar playbook</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1408" data-t="1408">that happens over and over again. The playbook that we're seeing on the right is exactly what we've seen the left do in the past where they go and they single out people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1417" data-t="1417">for bad behavior. A lot of times, it really is bad behavior. I'd say</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1421">23:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1421" data-t="1421">celebrating a podcaster's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1423" data-t="1423">assassination is bad behavior</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1425" data-t="1425">and I find it disgusting. But they,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1428" data-t="1428">you know, the remedies that they present</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1431" data-t="1431">are more surveillance,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1434" data-t="1434">more control over speech, more,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1436">23:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1436" data-t="1436">you know, coercion</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1438" data-t="1438">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1439" data-t="1439">throwing people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1440" data-t="1440">in cages. And it doesn't really get to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1444" data-t="1444">the root of resolving the problem. And the the Nazi guys are doing something very similarly. You know, Krater's out there, like trying to tag the FBI and things. It seems like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1454" data-t="1454">the direction</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1455">24:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1455" data-t="1455">that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1458" data-t="1458">a lot of the people that are on the the Nazi's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1462" data-t="1462">the Nazis</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1465" data-t="1465">is to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1467" data-t="1467">get the government involved on that. How people run their Bitcoin nodes or or what mining types of transactions, mining pools are including</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1476" data-t="1476">in their</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1478">24:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1478" data-t="1478">block templates.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1485" data-t="1485">And I think if you slow down for a minute and you think for a second</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1489" data-t="1489">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1490" data-t="1490">you check your emotions a little bit, you think critically about it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1494" data-t="1494">Ask yourselves like, Is this really what we want? Is the FBI dictating</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1498" data-t="1498">which node implementation you could run or what's your relay policy looks like? Or</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1505" data-t="1505">over very</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1506" data-t="1506">silly and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1508" data-t="1508">superficial</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1509" data-t="1509">arguments about things of like, do you want</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1513" data-t="1513">to relay</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1514" data-t="1514">the exploitative material</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1516">25:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1516" data-t="1516">in the mempool or just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1519" data-t="1519">kind of archive it on the blockchain a few minutes later if that's like making</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1524" data-t="1524">a massive difference. But,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1526" data-t="1526">yeah, it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1530" data-t="1530">I don't know. What can you expect from a lot of people but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1534" data-t="1534">for them to lose their minds? I don't think any of the behavior</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1538">25:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1538" data-t="1538">that we're seeing right now is very surprising.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1541" data-t="1541">I wouldn't call myself a core supporter. I don't think I've ever been a core supporter. But I think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1547" data-t="1547">what a lot of people have kind of fallen into is feeling</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1553" data-t="1553">a responsibility</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1554" data-t="1554">or need</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1555" data-t="1555">to support these guys, to support these developers because</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1559">25:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1559" data-t="1559">the behavior that we're seeing for the Nazis is so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1563" data-t="1563">deranged and unhinged</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1565" data-t="1565">in a lot of ways.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1568" data-t="1568">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1569" data-t="1569">It did. It get trial.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1572" data-t="1572">It's it's hard because,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1575">26:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1575" data-t="1575">it's hard not to have a knee jerk reaction in a lot of these situations when somebody is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1582" data-t="1582">this is a problem with a lot of like responding</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1586" data-t="1586">quickly and emotionally</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1587" data-t="1587">to a lot of these really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1590" data-t="1590">unhinged</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1591" data-t="1591">individuals is they start the framing of the conversation.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1596">26:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1596" data-t="1596">And a lot of times, the people that are trying to or are successful at framing the conversation don't even belong in the conversation in the first place.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1605" data-t="1605">Like, if you go out there and you say something absolutely ridiculous</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1610" data-t="1610">like smoking is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1612" data-t="1612">bad for you. You know, you're If you're responding to it, like I think the proper response to that is like, Oh, okay. Well,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1620" data-t="1620">you're going to not enjoy life and you're probably not going to survive the fork turning if you're not smoking cigarettes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1626" data-t="1626">That's like a good healthy response in a lot of ways. But if I You instantly start presenting evidence like smoking,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1633">27:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1633" data-t="1633">cures Alzheimer's or Parkinson's.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1637" data-t="1637">It</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1638" data-t="1638">makes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1639" data-t="1639">you think clearer. You have a better time. You enjoy life when you're hanging out with people smoking cigarettes. It's more fun to listen to Bitcoin podcasts when you're smoking.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1649" data-t="1649">You start lifting off evidence. You're letting them control the conversation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1653" data-t="1653">in a lot of ways,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1656">27:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1656" data-t="1656">if that makes sense.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1659">27:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1659" data-t="1659">Well, yeah, it does because it's you used the perfect example somebody tells you that smoking is bad for you.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1667" data-t="1667">You know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1668" data-t="1668">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1669" data-t="1669">they know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1671" data-t="1671">or that they think that they know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1673" data-t="1673">that smoking is bad for you.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1676">27:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1676" data-t="1676">If somebody sees you smoking a cigarette and just they tell you that it's bad for you,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1681" data-t="1681">it's just the most unhelpful</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1685" data-t="1685">con,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1686" data-t="1686">antagonistic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1687" data-t="1687">type of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1689" data-t="1689">conversation</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1691">28:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1691" data-t="1691">that they're intentionally</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1692" data-t="1692">setting a very rigid</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1695" data-t="1695">or unhelpful framing because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1698" data-t="1698">of course, you know that people think smoking is bad for you, but you don't, you're doing it anyway. So you, whether you told them or not, you're communicating to them that you've already thought about this and you don't agree with their definition</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1712" data-t="1712">of,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1712">bad for you.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1715">28:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1715" data-t="1715">But this is what we're doing constantly in conversation.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1719" data-t="1719">When, when Shinobi calls you retarded,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1722" data-t="1722">it's not helpful. You know Shinobi thinks you're retarded.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1726" data-t="1726">Everybody knows Shinobi thinks you're retarded,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1729" data-t="1729">but you're trying to get him to explain himself because you don't understand his behavior or you don't understand about this other person's behavior.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1737" data-t="1737">And</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1738">28:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1738" data-t="1738">what people try and are trying to fix these problems,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1742" data-t="1742">like you mentioned, like, with child porn,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1745" data-t="1745">by using the govern.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1747" data-t="1747">And even on on Bitcoin, it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1751" data-t="1751">why do</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1752" data-t="1752">like, we try to fix pedophilia in the government. Right? It's like, why would we trust a government full of pedophiles</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1758">29:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1758" data-t="1758">to fix themselves, to fix the pedophilia problem in government if the only way to fix it is to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1764" data-t="1764">you know, give them all the death penalty? Why are they all the people in government going to give themselves the death penalty? They're not going to do that. And putting one podcaster in charge of the FBI,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1774" data-t="1774">no matter how popular he is, you've given him an assistant director who's also a podcaster, who's like a really based alpha conservative pod. They're not and and putting them in charge of solving</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1785" data-t="1785">all of the pedophilia in the government is not gonna work. Putting one podcaster in charge</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1790" data-t="1790">is not going to work.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1792" data-t="1792">We all have to be podcasting</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1794">29:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1794" data-t="1794">and acting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1795" data-t="1795">to fix these problems.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1798" data-t="1798">So yeah, I mean, I'm not a core supporter either,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1801" data-t="1801">but they do need to explain themselves</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1804" data-t="1804">because they,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1805" data-t="1805">you know, we laugh, people laugh at the idea of not fixing Bitcoin or spam being this problem, which is, you know,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1813">30:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1813" data-t="1813">everybody knows that we think Nazis are retarded or that other people think Nazis are retarded. They already know that, but there's, you know, they're still being Nazis.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1821" data-t="1821">Core is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1822" data-t="1822">saying that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1824" data-t="1824">the reaction of the Nazis</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1827" data-t="1827">to use knots and all these filters will actually actually degrade Bitcoin more than the op return or any of that, but they're doing it anyway,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1835" data-t="1835">knowing the Nazis will continue to degrade the network. So they just have to explain themselves a little bit better, and the Nazis have to explain themselves a little bit better.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1844">30:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1844" data-t="1844">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1845" data-t="1845">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1847" data-t="1847">we have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1848" data-t="1848">to the process</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1849" data-t="1849">of contributing to the solution</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1853" data-t="1853">is not to let Luke do it. I mean, you can't hold the complaint about,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1857">30:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1857" data-t="1857">censorship</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1858" data-t="1858">on GitHub</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1860" data-t="1860">when people start</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1862" data-t="1862">arguing about whether core devs should be allowed to have sex.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1865" data-t="1865">But at least</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1867" data-t="1867">all of the actual technical discussion was allowed to take place whereas that's not allowed</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1872">31:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1872" data-t="1872">on the not side</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1873" data-t="1873">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1875" data-t="1875">it's just more free speech, I guess, on one side than the other. You have to figure out what the what the comp is there a compromise at all?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1883">31:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1883" data-t="1883">I get frustrated when people say that the core devs haven't explained themselves because I I think they do in a lot of ways. They they explain their the rationale</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1893" data-t="1893">behind what they're doing on GitHub.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1895" data-t="1895">Ava Chow does live streams,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1898" data-t="1898">talking about it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1901" data-t="1901">Gloria did a podcast with Shinobi.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1906" data-t="1906">There</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1907" data-t="1907">this is kind of like a common,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1909" data-t="1909">trope we see from the Nazis is that they they need they haven't explained themselves. And the reality is is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1916" data-t="1916">I mean, these guys, they go to bit devs</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1919" data-t="1919">all around the country</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1921" data-t="1921">And they talk with developers. They speak at conferences like BTC plus plus</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1926" data-t="1926">There's a lot of communication. It's just,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1929">32:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1929" data-t="1929">I think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1930" data-t="1930">people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1933" data-t="1933">kinda have this knee jerk response, which is they didn't explain themselves in the way that I wanted them to.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1940">32:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1940" data-t="1940">Yes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1941" data-t="1941">Yes. Exactly.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1943">32:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1943" data-t="1943">Like, there there's, like, an expectation that they go on what Bitcoin did and talk with Danny, and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1949" data-t="1949">they explain to me that.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1951">32:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1951" data-t="1951">That is my that was a word. I tweeted this today</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1954" data-t="1954">in response.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1955" data-t="1955">So, you know, Chris Guida, everybody if you if you know who Chris Guida is by that name mentioned,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1961" data-t="1961">you know what I'm about to say. But if you don't, I'll try to put it into context.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1966" data-t="1966">Imagine, like, a friend that you orange pill or you tried to orange pill at the beginning of the bull market, whether it was time or five years ago,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1974" data-t="1974">and you're like, Anytime you have any questions about Bitcoin, do not hesitate</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1978">32:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1978" data-t="1978">to reach out to me. I'm a I'll send you podcasts,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1981" data-t="1981">I'll send you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1983" data-t="1983">talk forms, I'll send you tweets, I'll send you memes, I'll send you articles,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1988" data-t="1988">anything. And sometimes you send them in there even asking, you're sending them all these resources and materials</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1994" data-t="1994">And you just wish they'd asked you questions and they don't. They're not interested. That's a disappointment.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1999" data-t="1999">We all think about like, oh, I hope I could orange build a friend. Then but nobody thinks about the Chris Guida</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2004">33:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2004" data-t="2004">who no matter how many podcasts you send them, no matter how many links, no matter how many tweets, no matter how many personal DMs, no matter how many, platforms on spaces</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2014" data-t="2014">that,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="2014">you you send or give to Chris Guida, he still wants you to explain it more in a more specific way, more, you know, constantly over and over till he clicks with him, till he understands it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2026" data-t="2026">And that is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2028" data-t="2028">way too far to the extreme. And that's what a lot of people like the plebs are, in the nots plebs,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2033" data-t="2033">are demanding is too much of an explanation. You're right. They have explained themselves</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2037">33:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2037" data-t="2037">very carefully, very deliberately, very structured, and very,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2041" data-t="2041">with a lot of feedback and and a whole due process.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2045" data-t="2045">You can sense that the due process has been done.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2048" data-t="2048">If you want more explanation,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2051" data-t="2051">you have to do what Peter McCormick did.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2054" data-t="2054">You have to start a podcast</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2056">34:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2056" data-t="2056">and get them on your podcast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2059" data-t="2059">to explain themselves to you personally.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2064" data-t="2064">Well, tell otherwise you're just not you're not just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2067" data-t="2067">owed entitled</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2068" data-t="2068">to the core debts time.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2070" data-t="2070">If you want them to explain Bitcoin to you for an hour, you have to start a podcast. And that is why we need more podcasts because people need to</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2078">34:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2078" data-t="2078">have Bitcoin explained to them just a little bit more. Just a little bit more than they had to explain it to Peter McCormack.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2085" data-t="2085">There's still a need there.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2088">34:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2088" data-t="2088">I think that's great advice.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2090" data-t="2090">That's really good advice. If you don't understand what's going on, start a podcast, start asking questions, get people on your podcast.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2098">34:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2098" data-t="2098">Otherwise, you just then pay them for it. Maybe maybe the core devs need to start an academy where they can tutor</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2104" data-t="2104">plants and teach them how to run a node.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2107" data-t="2107">Tutor and teach them how to learn C plus plus or Rust</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2110" data-t="2110">or Go</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2112" data-t="2112">or learn how to be Lightning</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2113" data-t="2113">developers.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2114">35:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2114" data-t="2114">But you gotta pay them. You can't just, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2117" data-t="2117">let's say who's who's paying core devs? Who's funding them? Well, instead of letting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2122" data-t="2122">Israel fund the core devs, you should fund the core devs. Get them on your podcast.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2128" data-t="2128">Ask them for an hour session. Pay them</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2131" data-t="2131">to do pit to do pull request reviews. Get it explained to you in your terms.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2137" data-t="2137">And and maybe that would maybe that would solve some problems. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2141">35:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2141" data-t="2141">I said on the stream that we did, one thing that I've enjoyed about this week, the silver lining</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2146" data-t="2146">of, the Charlie Kirk</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2148" data-t="2148">assassination</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2149" data-t="2149">is that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2150" data-t="2150">Knotts hasn't been dominating,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2154" data-t="2154">the timeline.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2156">35:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2156" data-t="2156">That's been kinda nice. There's a bunch of other stuff going on right now. There's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2161" data-t="2161">France got their credit rating,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2167" data-t="2167">derated or devalued I don't know what you'd call it, dropped.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2172" data-t="2172">So did Nantes. Nantes got their,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2175" data-t="2175">their rating dropped by Clark Moody.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2178" data-t="2178">Gave them a b minus. Downgraded them to a b minus.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2184">36:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2184" data-t="2184">And if you listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast, this is a great example</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2188" data-t="2188">of why you should. Because if you did, you would already know that France has hit you. You shouldn't lend money to France.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2195" data-t="2195">And if you listen forty hours of Bitcoin podcast, you would already know that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2200" data-t="2200">that not,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2201" data-t="2201">you know, numbers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2203" data-t="2203">or probably some sort of civil spoofing attack.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2207">36:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2207" data-t="2207">You get the incentives there anyway. You would at least know that it wouldn't surprise you. So, yeah, you know, big things in the news, France credit rating already knew that. We already knew that.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2220">36:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2220" data-t="2220">Yeah. It's a it's a huge opportunity for for Bitcoin podcasters right now in France and in The UK. So The UK is having some pretty crazy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2228" data-t="2228">protests.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2229" data-t="2229">I Like, they had 3,000,000 people show up and march in the streets,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2238" data-t="2238">following a podcaster. Podcaster</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2241" data-t="2241">start he wasn't a Bitcoin podcaster, but Tommy Robinson</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2244" data-t="2244">organized this protest,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2246">37:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2246" data-t="2246">got millions of people.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2247">37:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2247" data-t="2247">This is a lot of people to learn about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2250" data-t="2250">it. Yeah. I mean, speaking of Peter McCormick, a lot of people learned about this pro who Tommy Robinson was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2256" data-t="2256">from the Peter McCormick show.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2259" data-t="2259">You know, a Bitcoin, it is not a Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2261" data-t="2261">podcast, but it is, you know, it's like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2264" data-t="2264">the</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2265">37:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2265" data-t="2265">podcaster is a Bitcoiner. It's Bitcoin informed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2269" data-t="2269">political discussion.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2271" data-t="2271">And it really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2272" data-t="2272">created great turnout for, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2275" data-t="2275">it might be legal to make memes in England again. You could take Bitcoin out of the,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2281">38:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2281" data-t="2281">subject matter of the podcast, but you can't take Bitcoin out of the podcaster.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2288" data-t="2288">I think that's what we're seeing with Peter. Peter's actually put out some pretty interesting episodes recently. He had Michael Malice on. He had</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2296" data-t="2296">Whitney Webb on. Maggie said that it was like the best Whitney Webb interview she ever listened to.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2303">38:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2303" data-t="2303">Hell yeah. It's good to see.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2305">38:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2305" data-t="2305">I was a little bit worried for Peter for a little bit but it's good to see.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2310" data-t="2310">It's making a comeback.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2314" data-t="2314">Yeah. I think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2315" data-t="2315">it's never been a more important time to support Bitcoin Podcasters.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2320" data-t="2320">I think that's the lesson.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2322" data-t="2322">As far as the topic, there's a lot of people out there trying to tear things down. There's all these populist movements.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2328">38:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2328" data-t="2328">I think what we're seeing in America where populist movements</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2332" data-t="2332">end up ultimately</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2335" data-t="2335">is central planning and surveillance.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2339" data-t="2339">That's</span> <span class="cue" data-t="2339">the conclusion of a populist movement.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2343">39:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2343" data-t="2343">Just where we thought that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2345" data-t="2345">surveillance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2346" data-t="2346">state had basically rooted in everything and we were being monitored by Peter Thiel and Palantir at all times.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2354" data-t="2354">You know, this event happens with Charlie Kirk, and we realized that, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2359" data-t="2359">the FBI didn't even know, did they? They had to rely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2363" data-t="2363">on him turning himself in. And if it wasn't for just, like, Fourchan</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2368">39:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2368" data-t="2368">figuring all of out who was involved in getting the pictures of them and the surveillance footage out on the timeline.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2375" data-t="2375">The government, I would have no idea if they had no idea what was going on. They were the Jocko Willink is the security, I think, for Charlie Kirk because according to CMI,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2384" data-t="2384">Jocko Willink, you know, like the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2387" data-t="2387">super hardcore</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2388" data-t="2388">Navy SEAL security</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2390" data-t="2390">alpha,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2391">39:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2391" data-t="2391">podcaster,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2392" data-t="2392">that they didn't even notice that Thor Chan had to help them figure out where the killer was or the shooter was.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2399" data-t="2399">Just as we find out that we didn't have it like we thought we did. Now everybody's begging for it. Now they're saying, oh, well, we gotta we gotta subpoena this court. We gotta cancel these people. We gotta publish a list of everybody who laughed at this joke. We gotta make tweets unprivate again. We have to do this. We have and it's like they're begging for Peter Thiel to come in and give what we everybody was saying, you know, we are so over</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2423" data-t="2423">because of this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2425" data-t="2425">And then Tether swings in and and gets their their CBDC</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2429" data-t="2429">coin. It's</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2432">40:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2432" data-t="2432">just crazy to see clubs doing this.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2436">40:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2436" data-t="2436">It's not that crazy. I mean, it it's expected. I I think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2441" data-t="2441">we're gonna see more of it. I would say expect more of it. Brace yourselves for more of it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2448" data-t="2448">Learn how to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2449" data-t="2449">fortify your mind against it and and just, you know, prepare for it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2456" data-t="2456">The the the plums are always gonna be retarded.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2458" data-t="2458">That's a given. That's like a</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2460">41:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2460" data-t="2460">a constant.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2462" data-t="2462">It's just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2464" data-t="2464">a It's one of those variables that's very</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2467" data-t="2467">expected and predictable.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2469" data-t="2469">The plugs will be retarded.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2470" data-t="2470">Just prepare for the plugs to be retarded however it is and yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2476">41:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2476" data-t="2476">But, yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2478" data-t="2478">So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2479" data-t="2479">it's been a really interesting week. Really interesting news week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2486" data-t="2486">I think that this upcoming week is also gonna be very interesting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2491" data-t="2491">We're getting into the holidays. It it it looks like some global conflict is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2496" data-t="2496">ratcheting up</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2498">41:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2498" data-t="2498">again.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2501" data-t="2501">I think right now is a really good time to get in shape to be in the gym.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2506" data-t="2506">And one of the reasons, like, especially if you're a younger person, if you're like a Zoomer, if you're in the draft age,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2512" data-t="2512">you don't want</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2515" data-t="2515">the World War three that we're currently watching and escalating and you being out of shape</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2521" data-t="2521">and you getting drafted</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2522">42:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2522" data-t="2522">and having to be a boot camp doing push ups.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2526">42:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2526" data-t="2526">You can't count on you can't count on trainees to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2530" data-t="2530">get drafted anymore. They're getting rid of that. They're getting rid of trans people in the draft. You might have to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2537" data-t="2537">go fight</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2539" data-t="2539">in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2540" data-t="2540">well, look, Russia's dealing doing stuff in Poland,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2543" data-t="2543">in Romania,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2545">42:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2545" data-t="2545">stuff's popping off. In</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2548" data-t="2548">Ukraine, still, lots of drones.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2551" data-t="2551">Gaza, it seems like they're going harder on Gaza right now than they ever have before.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2556" data-t="2556">They're talking about Iran again.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2558" data-t="2558">They're bombing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2559" data-t="2559">killing the the Houthi leaders in,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2562">42:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2562" data-t="2562">Yemen.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2563" data-t="2563">They're bombing Doha, Qatar. They're bombing Venezuela.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2568" data-t="2568">They're bombing,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2569" data-t="2569">dude. I don't know.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2572" data-t="2572">You don't.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2573" data-t="2573">Yeah. You need to get in shape. They're gonna need</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2577">42:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2577" data-t="2577">cannon fodder the way things are going. Yeah. You need to be preparing for how to be, the best cannon fodder you could be. The elite cannon fodder.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2588">43:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2588" data-t="2588">Did your very bad craft at least be at least be like, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2593" data-t="2593">who was the the NFL football player who's just got, like, bombed by the Canadian,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2599" data-t="2599">Air Force or whatever or was with the Canadian military and got bombed by friendly fire</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2603" data-t="2603">in, Pat Tillman in Afghanistan?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2606" data-t="2606">Cannon fire.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2607" data-t="2607">Dude</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2608">43:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2608" data-t="2608">signed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2609" data-t="2609">up to defend his country,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2612" data-t="2612">to fight Al Qaeda, ended up just cannon fodder.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2617" data-t="2617">If you're gonna be cannon fodder,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2619" data-t="2619">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2621" data-t="2621">do it for something.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2623">43:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2623" data-t="2623">At least be a meme. Be,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2625" data-t="2625">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2626" data-t="2626">go viral.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2627" data-t="2627">Do something.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2628" data-t="2628">Be in shape. A t in a viral that's forgotten.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2631">43:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2631" data-t="2631">Yeah. Be in shape. Maybe a good strategy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2634" data-t="2634">to make your death more memorable is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2638" data-t="2638">you know, post TikTok videos of you working</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2641" data-t="2641">out. Post your six pack.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2643" data-t="2643">Post your, deadlift PRs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2645" data-t="2645">Build up your, social media following. Be a thirst trap. Use,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2650">44:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2650" data-t="2650">be like BTC sessions.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2652" data-t="2652">Have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2654" data-t="2654">thirst trap pictures with AI muscles.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2658" data-t="2658">Take creatine.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2661">44:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2661" data-t="2661">Whether whether you're gonna be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2664" data-t="2664">cannon fodder</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2666" data-t="2666">or a martyr,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2669" data-t="2669">do you want</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2671" data-t="2671">that? Do you want people to get canceled for laughing about it?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2675" data-t="2675">Do you want people to get fired from their work for laughing if,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2679">44:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2679" data-t="2679">did you die while you're podcasting? What's your answer?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2682">44:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2682" data-t="2682">What's my answer?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2684">44:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2684" data-t="2684">Yeah. Do you do you want people to get canceled if you're a martyr for making for laughing about it?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2690">44:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2690" data-t="2690">No.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2692" data-t="2692">Not personally.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2694" data-t="2694">That's fine. I don't get I I just I don't really give a shit about what people think.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2699" data-t="2699">I think that's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2703" data-t="2703">a different attitude. I think if you're out there and you're trying to cancel people you know, for laughing about you getting assassinated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2709" data-t="2709">while you're podcasting,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2713">45:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2713" data-t="2713">it's a it's a place of insecurity. Like one of the reasons why I've got an ounce of respect for Charlie Kirk is like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2721" data-t="2721">he</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2722" data-t="2722">appreciated that South Park made fun of him.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2726" data-t="2726">And he wasn't a he wasn't a sore loser. He wasn't like a a predator or Matthew Crater about it. What would he do</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2733">45:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2733" data-t="2733">if</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2735" data-t="2735">you're</span> <span class="cue" data-t="2735">you became a martyr</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2738" data-t="2738">because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2740" data-t="2740">somebody like the Epstein because of the app that you're trying to, uncover the Epstein case or you,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2745" data-t="2745">because you wanna which you want people you wouldn't want people to cancel</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2749">45:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2749" data-t="2749">people for laughing at your jokes. You want people to, get to the bottom</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2754" data-t="2754">of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2755" data-t="2755">what it was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2757" data-t="2757">that actually,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2759" data-t="2759">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2760" data-t="2760">led to</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2762">46:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2762" data-t="2762">them going after you. So yeah, I think you wanna instead of going after the killer, I think what we're learning</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2770" data-t="2770">is that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2772" data-t="2772">shit, your Republican looking look in normal ass neighbor.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2776" data-t="2776">Your, it could be a crazy person, it could be a homeless person, it could be a black person, it could be an Asian person, it could be somebody in your family,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2784" data-t="2784">could be the one that slimes you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2788" data-t="2788">for saying the right thing</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2792">46:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2792" data-t="2792">and if they go down, then that's one up. It'll get you the next delay. It's a network. It's a, it's a technology.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2799" data-t="2799">So instead of taking out all of your anger</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2803" data-t="2803">on, you know, the shooter or the person who does the act, I think go deeper</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2808" data-t="2808">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2809" data-t="2809">try to figure out,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2811" data-t="2811">try to cancel</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2812">46:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2812" data-t="2812">the evil</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2813" data-t="2813">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2814" data-t="2814">controls it all, you know, it's in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2817" data-t="2817">trying to figure out how</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2819" data-t="2819">to kill people's brains.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2823" data-t="2823">Does that make</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2824">47:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2824" data-t="2824">sense?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2825">47:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2825" data-t="2825">Yeah. I I do think it's interesting, you know, in the hypothetical,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2833" data-t="2833">scenario if I was murdered.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2836" data-t="2836">First of all, the nice thing about dying is is like the battle's over as far as I know. You know what I mean?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2843" data-t="2843">You get you get a rest,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2845" data-t="2845">hypothetically. I don't I don't have any like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2851" data-t="2851">conclusive beliefs on what happens after you die. I don't know. But</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2856">47:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2856" data-t="2856">theoretically,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2858" data-t="2858">the battle's over. And what I would hope for people in that scenario</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2861" data-t="2861">is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2863" data-t="2863">that they make good decisions for themselves.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2867" data-t="2867">And maybe</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2868" data-t="2868">the justice of this situation</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2869">47:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2869" data-t="2869">is they're like, I don't care about justice for me, you know, at that point.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2875" data-t="2875">But if there's a scenario and a reason that they should look into things and investigate things for their own,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2883" data-t="2883">well-being</span> <span class="cue" data-t="2883">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2886" data-t="2886">because the truth does matter</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2889" data-t="2889">and I think it all kind of depends</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2891">48:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2891" data-t="2891">you know, the scenario. But,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2892" data-t="2892">like, if it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2894" data-t="2894">if not chasing the truth in that scenario means that their lives are gonna be worse and the ramifications of whatever the lie is is gonna be worse,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2903" data-t="2903">then I think it's important for them to do it. But not just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2907" data-t="2907">because of, you know, me or my legacy or anything.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2912" data-t="2912">Do it for yourselves.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2914">48:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2914" data-t="2914">Do it for yourselves.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2916" data-t="2916">And it's like, you know, I've I've been, you know, kind of emotional</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2919" data-t="2919">about,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2921" data-t="2921">Virginia Roberts' death.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2923" data-t="2923">You know, part of the reason why is because I think the ramifications of it are are really sinister and dark.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2931" data-t="2931">They're really sinister and dark and they they impact all of us.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2935">48:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2935" data-t="2935">It's more it's less about her and it's more about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2940" data-t="2940">the ramifications</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2941" data-t="2941">allowing these pedos</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2943" data-t="2943">to control everything</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2945" data-t="2945">and to get away with it and to continue to perpetuate the lies.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2950" data-t="2950">But yeah,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2951">49:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2951" data-t="2951">I'll be hanging out in Valhalla</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2953" data-t="2953">with Charlie Kirk.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2956">49:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2956" data-t="2956">What do you think about it? Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2958" data-t="2958">I think if you if you do it for yourself, if you're doing something for yourself,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2965" data-t="2965">I don't think you will be grumpy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2968" data-t="2968">If you're not doing things for yourself,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2971" data-t="2971">and you're not really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2974" data-t="2974">having any impact</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2975">49:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2975" data-t="2975">on the outcomes that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2979" data-t="2979">are determining your</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2981" data-t="2981">future, your emotional</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2983" data-t="2983">state, your, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2987" data-t="2987">optimism about the economy, whatever it is. If you're undoing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2990" data-t="2990">those things for yourself, you're not having any sort of,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2995">49:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2995" data-t="2995">impact on your future or your life, you're gonna be grumpy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2998" data-t="2998">And even if you are doing things for yourself, you might be grumpy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3003" data-t="3003">but it's a different type of ground. If you wake up every day</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3007" data-t="3007">grumpy but you you go to work and you start building and you do it with because you're doing it for yourself.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3014" data-t="3014">I think that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3016" data-t="3016">that's different but I think ultimately</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3018">50:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3018" data-t="3018">you tweak it and you get to the point where you realize you don't have to be crumpy and you can build your way out of it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3025" data-t="3025">But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3026" data-t="3026">it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3027" data-t="3027">I think that's maybe where some of a lot of these problems are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3031" data-t="3031">coming from. It's like, if you don't start a podcast,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3035" data-t="3035">you're not fit you're not doing it.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3039">50:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3039" data-t="3039">You don't have to start a podcast, but if you do start it for yourself,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3043" data-t="3043">you probably won't fix the world. Like, Scratch Patel is not gonna fix the FBI.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3048" data-t="3048">You're not gonna fix the world, Bitcoin is. You're not but you're not gonna fix the world by yourself, especially.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3054" data-t="3054">But you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3055" data-t="3055">could start to see a positive impact,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3059" data-t="3059">and I think that really goes a long way</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3062">51:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3062" data-t="3062">in making it easier to not be grumpy. Yeah. Yeah. If you start a podcast, you have to do it for yourself. If you're trying to do it for other people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3070" data-t="3070">to fix them, it's a wasted</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3074" data-t="3074">effort</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3075" data-t="3075">because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3077" data-t="3077">you can't control other people. You can't control their brains.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3081" data-t="3081">It's a responsibility I don't think anybody should aspire to have is to control somebody else's brains.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3089">51:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3089" data-t="3089">It's having a very, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3091" data-t="3091">low opinion of people. And, you know, part of the reason why I point out that the Plebs are retarded all the time is not just because I'm trying to put them down. I'm trying to highlight that the pioneers are are are really important for a lot of reasons because their opinions actually matter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3107" data-t="3107">It's not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3109" data-t="3109">an expectation or an encouragement of people to be retarded. But I think you just have to call the people out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3115" data-t="3115">that are because it's not cool to be retarded.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3118" data-t="3118">And</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3120">51:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3120" data-t="3120">it's cool to think for yourself. It's cool</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3123" data-t="3123">to be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3124" data-t="3124">a productive member of society,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3128" data-t="3128">to actually be a contributor</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3131" data-t="3131">and not just a commentator,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3133" data-t="3133">from the peanut gallery.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3136">52:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3136" data-t="3136">But</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3139">52:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3139" data-t="3139">Yeah, it's I'd</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3140" data-t="3140">rather be called</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3142" data-t="3142">retarded</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3143" data-t="3143">than be called a pleb</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3145" data-t="3145">Because they they essentially mean the same thing,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3149" data-t="3149">but retarded</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3150">52:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3150" data-t="3150">implies,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3152" data-t="3152">you know, I everybody starts out retarded. I was once retarded,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3155" data-t="3155">and I am now a pioneer.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3158" data-t="3158">But, Plaid kind of like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3160" data-t="3160">whitewashes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3161" data-t="3161">the problem, and it makes it</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3164">52:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3164" data-t="3164">seem like a state of,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3167" data-t="3167">you know, where you want it's not a Plaid Tile. It's not, you know, it's not supposed to be a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3172" data-t="3172">purgatory. It's a final dust. No.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3174" data-t="3174">At least the retards kind of accept</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3177" data-t="3177">their situation and are wanting to improve it. Whereas a plaid</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3182" data-t="3182">doesn't accept the situation. They try to ignore the fact they're retarded</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3185">53:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3185" data-t="3185">and they can't get better.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3188">53:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3188" data-t="3188">Yeah. The, the term pleb is just cope for being retarded</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3192" data-t="3192">of of of trying to reframe the conversation where it's cool to be retarded.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3197">53:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3197" data-t="3197">That's Yes. You have to understand, Pleb came around 2020,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3201" data-t="3201">2021.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3203" data-t="3203">People were demoralized</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3204" data-t="3204">back then and they were coping</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3207" data-t="3207">hardcore.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3208" data-t="3208">People were coping big time</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3210">53:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3210" data-t="3210">and Pleb was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3212" data-t="3212">derived</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3213" data-t="3213">as a cope for being retarded. Absolutely.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3217">53:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3217" data-t="3217">Yeah. Just,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3218" data-t="3218">coping it it's kinda like, PlAB is kinda like the body positive movement in a lot of ways.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3225">53:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3225" data-t="3225">Yes. Great example.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3228">53:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3228" data-t="3228">You know, there there's people that are that are fat</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3231" data-t="3231">that want to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3233" data-t="3233">make it like, I think most people that are overweight, they understand that it's problematic.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3237" data-t="3237">And I think it's important to understand that people who are overweight are often overweight for a reason. Like, I think everybody has vices and they have issues.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3244" data-t="3244">And the unfortunate thing about being overweight</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3247" data-t="3247">is that it's just like a vice that you wear everywhere you go with you. Everybody sees it.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3255">54:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3255" data-t="3255">And I think there's one thing I don't think you should feel super bad about it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3260" data-t="3260">People know the consequences of being overweight. It's not the best for you. It's just part of the reason why I think cigarettes are great because it makes it easier not to be overweight. But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3270" data-t="3270">cigarettes for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3272" data-t="3272">the original is epic. But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3275" data-t="3275">the Bosi positive movement is just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3279" data-t="3279">an attempt</span></span></p> + +<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">to support</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3282" data-t="3282">or normalize</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3283" data-t="3283">the bad behavior which I I think we can all agree is, being problematic and and and Plab is the body positive movement of Bitcoin of being,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3292" data-t="3292">retarded.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3294">54:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3294" data-t="3294">No. I think that that I think that's a great summary. It</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3297" data-t="3297">You're right. You should not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3301" data-t="3301">feel like just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3302" data-t="3302">you should not give up</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3304" data-t="3304">just because you're overweight. Just like you should not give up just because you're a pleb.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3309" data-t="3309">But</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3311">55:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3311" data-t="3311">just know that you shouldn't be proud of it. And as long as you're not proud of it,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3316" data-t="3316">there is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3318" data-t="3318">still, you know, still hope. Like, you know, you're figuring out what the issue is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3324" data-t="3324">with any of your vices. Again, like, this is just, it just don't be proud of your don't be proud of these vices that you know are bad for you. Don't pretend</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3334">55:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3334" data-t="3334">that there's a reason to celebrate. Yep. I mean, it's it's not like you should even feel like super bad. Like the the choice is yours.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3341" data-t="3341">And you're gonna reap the consequences.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3344" data-t="3344">If you choose if you choose to not change the behavior and continue to be overweight, like you're gonna reap the consequences. You can't you can't hide from it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3351" data-t="3351">It's part of the reason why I don't pick on people for it. It's just like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3356" data-t="3356">you know, the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3360" data-t="3360">If you choose to be a plaive and you choose to be retarded,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3364">56:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3364" data-t="3364">you're gonna reap the consequences for it. And you're seeing it right now all over the Twitter timeline as people are incredibly unhappy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3370" data-t="3370">You know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3371" data-t="3371">their unhappiness</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3373" data-t="3373">is bleeding into their lives. It's hurting their relationships.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3375" data-t="3375">It's hurting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3378" data-t="3378">their chances of success. They're wasting so much energy on being grumpy instead of</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3383">56:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3383" data-t="3383">doing productive things and building things.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3386" data-t="3386">They get to the end of the day after complaining about what everybody else is doing,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3390" data-t="3390">you know, having Dave Bailey derangement syndrome or, you know, whatever it is.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3394" data-t="3394">And they're gonna tune out and watch sports ball on Netflix.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3398">56:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3398" data-t="3398">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3399" data-t="3399">Yeah. Yeah. And it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3401" data-t="3401">the I think the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3403" data-t="3403">we could lose back to the beginning of our conversation today. We talked about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3407" data-t="3407">somebody telling you that smoking a cigarette,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3410" data-t="3410">is bad for you.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3412">56:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3412" data-t="3412">Well, there's certain things like being overweight, you know, everybody thinks that it's bad for you, and so somebody comes up to you and says you're fat,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3420" data-t="3420">that's bad for you. Well,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3423" data-t="3423">there would</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3425" data-t="3425">I guess my point is if you're gonna be anything, if you're gonna do anything,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3430" data-t="3430">you should be proud of it. Especially if</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3433" data-t="3433">it's something that,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3434">57:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3434" data-t="3434">is controversial</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3436" data-t="3436">or even that, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3439" data-t="3439">whether it's bad for you or not, everybody thinks it is.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3443" data-t="3443">And so they're gonna tell you every time they see you doing it or being who you are, they're gonna tell you that that's bad for you.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3451" data-t="3451">So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3452" data-t="3452">if you're proud of it and you can be proud of it without</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3456">57:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3456" data-t="3456">people, you know, laughing at you and getting fired from their job, if you can just be proud of it and explain it, why you are doing what you're doing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3465" data-t="3465">proudly,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3466" data-t="3466">when people tell you that it's bad for you,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3469" data-t="3469">then that's probably</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3471" data-t="3471">the best place to be in and and to not be grumpy. But if you're doing something</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3477" data-t="3477">that you're not proud of,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3478">57:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3478" data-t="3478">and people tell you that is bad for you, you're gonna be, oh, I I don't I'm sorry or this is my excuse for this, or</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3486" data-t="3486">it's my uncle, he freaking told me stories and when I sat on his lap and did this to me, and this is why I do this. Well,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3494" data-t="3494">guess what? You've framed the conversation now as you're,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3498" data-t="3498">there's something wrong with you and that you're ashamed of yourself. And if people, if you have people frame that comment or you frame it for yourself,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3506" data-t="3506">because you're not proud of what you're doing,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3508" data-t="3508">it's always going to be</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3510">58:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3510" data-t="3510">an uphill battle and you're always gonna, you know, be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3513" data-t="3513">feeling bad for yourself. So just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3515" data-t="3515">do what you're proud of.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3518">58:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3518" data-t="3518">Yeah. My my hope for you guys that are listening to this is that when you look in the mirror, you're proud of yourself.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3524" data-t="3524">And if you make that decision, I I no longer wanna be a plab.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3528" data-t="3528">You look in the mirror, you look into your eyes and you say, I no longer wanna be a plab.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3534" data-t="3534">It's out of self respect.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3538" data-t="3538">And I think this is like the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3540" data-t="3540">mistake a lot of people make when they try to create change is they try to like shame themselves. They're like,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3547">59:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3547" data-t="3547">Oh, I'm a piece of shit. I need to stop being a piece of shit. Like you know, the behaviors aren't a reflection of who you are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3554" data-t="3554">at your core. They're distortion of who you are. You're not acting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3559" data-t="3559">as yourself, as your best self.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3563" data-t="3563">You're acting out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3564" data-t="3564">of distorted beliefs about yourself. Look in the mirror,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3569" data-t="3569">have some respect for who you are, make the change. I wanna be a pioneer.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3573">59:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3573" data-t="3573">I wanna build things that are cool. I wanna be an active participant. I wanna use my brain</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3579" data-t="3579">because it's worth it. Because I'm worth it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3582" data-t="3582">I only</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3584" data-t="3584">have what's in front of me with this life. I can't go back and change the past</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3589" data-t="3589">but I can I can change the future? I can I can create</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3593" data-t="3593">in many ways my own destiny for myself?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3596">59:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3596" data-t="3596">That's my that's my hope for you guys.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3598" data-t="3598">I, I believe in you. I have faith in you.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3605" data-t="3605">This is why we podcast is because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3608" data-t="3608">I do have faith in our listeners. I've got a tremendous amount of respect for our listeners.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3614" data-t="3614">That being said, I think we should go to the fountain boost unless you got anything else on, this topic that you wanna talk. No. No. I just Raviel. Let's go with the fountain boost. I would just wrap it up by saying,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3626">1:00:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3626" data-t="3626">not to get it confused</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3628" data-t="3628">that, doing what</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3630" data-t="3630">you're proud of and what you think is the right thing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3633" data-t="3633">will always lead to people,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3637" data-t="3637">not telling you that it's bad for you and getting a negative reaction, like, you can never escape that. But,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3645" data-t="3645">so just understand,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3646">1:00:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3646" data-t="3646">doing what you're proud of and doing thinking you're doing everything right, you will still fail</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3650" data-t="3650">a purity test and it it it will still be a you might still be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3656" data-t="3656">doing something risky</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3658" data-t="3658">to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3659" data-t="3659">to be out there and proud of yourself.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3661" data-t="3661">It doesn't mean you should do it. First boost, Otis Bittmeyer, 5420</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3666">1:01:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3666" data-t="3666">SAT says, got my bachelor's from the University of Bitcoin thinking about going back for a master's. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3672">1:01:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3672" data-t="3672">Otis Bittmeyer,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3673" data-t="3673">if you listen to the intellectual Silk Road episode with our conversation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3678" data-t="3678">with Otis,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3681" data-t="3681">I think that, it's a great example of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3686" data-t="3686">the journey of somebody who has</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3689" data-t="3689">a</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3690">1:01:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3690" data-t="3690">mindset</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3691" data-t="3691">of a university of Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3694" data-t="3694">alumni.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3695" data-t="3695">And I'll tell you that it's a good example of that. You might be able to follow if you identify with that journey.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3703">1:01:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3703" data-t="3703">Absolutely.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3704" data-t="3704">I've been getting a lot of messages from Otis the last couple weeks. I really appreciate it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3711" data-t="3711">I really appreciate it. Big fan of Otis.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3714" data-t="3714">I'm glad,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3715" data-t="3715">I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3716" data-t="3716">man,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3718">1:01:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3718" data-t="3718">with with his bachelor's degree, he's already a force to be reckoned with. Great Bitcoin podcaster.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3725" data-t="3725">I can't even begin to imagine</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3727" data-t="3727">how much of a formidable</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3729" data-t="3729">force he would be with a master's degree. That's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3733" data-t="3733">it's kinda hard to imagine how you can level up from where he's already at.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3740">1:02:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3740" data-t="3740">Go away. Next one</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3742" data-t="3742">From S And B</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3744" data-t="3744">500</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3745" data-t="3745">South Side Dave.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3746" data-t="3746">How does that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3748" data-t="3748">sound? Iago wants you to be grumpy low coiner. Nuh-uh.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3751">1:02:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3751" data-t="3751">We will be the Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3753" data-t="3753">pioneers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3756" data-t="3756">Hell yeah. That's it. That's the attitude right there. It's what we're talking about.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3759" data-t="3759">Dave's got</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3762">1:02:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3762" data-t="3762">it. Absolutely.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3766" data-t="3766">Be,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3767" data-t="3767">grumpy when people are gleeful. Be gleeful when people are grumpy. Next boost from Pies. A 121 sats.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3774" data-t="3774">Salute mushroom</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3775" data-t="3775">strong-arm.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3777" data-t="3777">Thank you, Pies.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3779">1:02:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3779" data-t="3779">Pies is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3780" data-t="3780">all over the timeline, all over Noster.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3784" data-t="3784">Continuing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3785" data-t="3785">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3786" data-t="3786">be a shining example of what a podcast listening pioneer looks like.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3791" data-t="3791">It's awesome to see.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3793">1:03:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3793" data-t="3793">100%.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3795" data-t="3795">Next one's from We All Eat 5,021.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3798" data-t="3798">Haven't heard from We All Eat in a while. It's good to see you in the boost again.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3804" data-t="3804">Yo, love you fuckers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3806" data-t="3806">I'll always be fucking plaid.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3809" data-t="3809">Brooke, you put out good, you will get good back.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3813">1:03:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3813" data-t="3813">You go looking for trouble, I assure you, you will find trouble.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3817" data-t="3817">Fuck them all, Rada still, gay as fuck.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3822" data-t="3822">Well,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3825" data-t="3825">We all eat is proud to be a pleb.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3828" data-t="3828">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3830" data-t="3830">honestly,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3831">1:03:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3831" data-t="3831">I think he's doing good for himself.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3833" data-t="3833">I think without being a pleb,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3836" data-t="3836">We all eat</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3837" data-t="3837">might be,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3839" data-t="3839">you know, you might be married to miss Hoddle not. He would not wanna do that. I think, You know what? Proud to be a pleb. I'll give it to you, man.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3848">1:04:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3848" data-t="3848">I think we all eat is just confused on the definitions here. I think what we we all eat, you know, is trying to say is that he's not like a pod comp shill.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3859" data-t="3859">He's just a working guy working his ass off, listening to podcasts,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3863" data-t="3863">doing productive things with his life.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3867" data-t="3867">But I don't know how many times I have to say it. I I don't think we all eat as a plot. But, you know, if you're really gonna die on the hill, I would I'm not gonna give you too hard of a time. But yeah. I'm interested what you think of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3880" data-t="3880">you know, are you by continuing to refuse to let go</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3885" data-t="3885">of the label pleb? Are you,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3888">1:04:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3888" data-t="3888">engaging in this</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3890" data-t="3890">body positive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3891" data-t="3891">Bitcoin movement?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3895">1:04:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3895" data-t="3895">Or is it, you know, is it more like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3897" data-t="3897">is we all kinda wear in,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3900" data-t="3900">you know, for some people,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3903" data-t="3903">their pleb era,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3904" data-t="3904">you know, the pleb stage in their journey was a really good time. I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3909" data-t="3909">the spaces were great for a while. The Pleb at happy hour parties at conferences were fun. The Taco Plebs.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3916">1:05:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3916" data-t="3916">There's a lot of you know, some for some people, it's like, if you think about Pleb as a high school journey,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3923" data-t="3923">some people peaked at high school,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3925" data-t="3925">and they wear their, varsity football jackets</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3928" data-t="3928">when they're middle aged,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3930" data-t="3930">and they, you know, they've moved on really,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3933" data-t="3933">but, you know, they miss the days of of being on the high school football team, and some people miss the days of being a pleb, you know, and they they had a really good time. They don't wanna forget the memories.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3944">1:05:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3944" data-t="3944">They have their, you know, class of 2021</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3947" data-t="3947">ring that they wear because, that's when they were orange pill, and that's when they started listening to podcasts. And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3953" data-t="3953">they wear it they wear it, like, they wear it on their sleeve literally. So, you know, I don't think there's anything wrong with that, I guess. I'm I at least I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make fun of somebody for it.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3965">1:06:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3965" data-t="3965">I might make fun of somebody for it, but I I don't think it's, like, the worst thing in the world. I'm just gonna tease him a little bit.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3972" data-t="3972">That's a that's a great,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3974" data-t="3974">great comparison.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3976" data-t="3976">I like that a lot.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3979" data-t="3979">Well, thanks, Weolid. I really appreciate you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3982" data-t="3982">as always.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3985">1:06:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3985" data-t="3985">Great guy. Huge fan of Lake Satoshi.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3988" data-t="3988">We All Eat's pretty much the reason why I went to Lake Satoshi.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3991" data-t="3991">The reason why</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3993" data-t="3993">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3994" data-t="3994">is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3996" data-t="3996">such a cool</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3997">1:06:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3997" data-t="3997">spot that the intellectual Silk Road has really,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4001" data-t="4001">gotten behind and enjoys meeting at,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4004" data-t="4004">I would say We All Eat is a pioneer in that front.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4010" data-t="4010">Next boost, late stage huddle 5,000 sat says,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4013" data-t="4013">holy shit. I laughed out loud in my office, Fiat job at the Navy SEALs agreeing with the fungibility of Asians.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4021" data-t="4021">Yeah. I think that was a really good bid. You don't hear a lot of people, you when they're doing commentary about war discussing the difficulties of</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4031">1:07:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4031" data-t="4031">invading or</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4032" data-t="4032">engaging in combat with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4035" data-t="4035">Asians</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4037" data-t="4037">and the fact that they all look the same.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4039" data-t="4039">It's a very real thing. I think a lot of people are afraid to say it. There was that, stop Asian hate.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4045" data-t="4045">People are</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4047">1:07:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4047" data-t="4047">a little</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4049" data-t="4049">touchy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4050" data-t="4050">around</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4053" data-t="4053">talking about Asian people sometimes and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4056" data-t="4056">I don't think you have to be. I mean, it's just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4059" data-t="4059">a reality. They all look the same. There's nothing wrong with it.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4063">1:07:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4063" data-t="4063">I know there's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4066" data-t="4066">there's a lot of really attractive Asian women</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4069" data-t="4069">out there.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4071" data-t="4071">It and, you know, they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4074" data-t="4074">it's it's because they they do look the same.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4077" data-t="4077">It it's as it's it's a feature not a bug, I would say.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4082">1:08:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4082" data-t="4082">It's really good from like a defense standpoint</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4086" data-t="4086">of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4088" data-t="4088">being able to keep your country from</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4091" data-t="4091">being taken over, invaded. Look at how successful the North Koreans have been with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4097" data-t="4097">a very antagonistic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4099" data-t="4099">American,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4100">1:08:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4100" data-t="4100">empire against them for a long time. They've been they've been fending them off.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4106" data-t="4106">They just know they they know the art of war.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4109" data-t="4109">They read something.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4111">1:08:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4111" data-t="4111">It's easy to have body doubles,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4113" data-t="4113">so it's hard for the CIA to assassinate you.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4117" data-t="4117">Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4120" data-t="4120">there is a lot of value. I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4122" data-t="4122">Vietnam,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4124" data-t="4124">the the Vietnamese</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4125">1:08:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4125" data-t="4125">won that war because of their ability to blend in. The next one is for a 100 stats for BTC onboard.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4131" data-t="4131">Three thumbs up emojis. Good to have you listening. BTC onboard.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4135" data-t="4135">The, all reliable.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4137" data-t="4137">All reliable.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4141">1:09:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4141" data-t="4141">Appreciate the boost.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4144" data-t="4144">Next one and last one from Avi Burra 8,000 sets says, I no longer identify as a plow.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4152" data-t="4152">Yeah. It's it's hard to. It's hard to identify with the plebs these days, especially when you're not one.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4159">1:09:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4159" data-t="4159">I'm sorry. You know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4161" data-t="4161">say, Gladin Avi does not identify, self identify as a pleb. I never</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4167" data-t="4167">viewed him as a pleb. So did they he doesn't view that way anymore either.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4172">1:09:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4172" data-t="4172">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4173" data-t="4173">I'm excited about that one. They I I really appreciate the guys at at PlugChain a lot. I appreciate Avi. I would I would say Avi and and QW are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4184" data-t="4184">the reason why I care about Noster.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4189" data-t="4189">And, I've enjoyed caring about Noster. I've enjoyed being on, that app quite a bit.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4195" data-t="4195">It's been fun.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4197" data-t="4197">There's some good, there's some good vibes. I think a lot of people haven't,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4203">1:10:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4203" data-t="4203">figured out the the important role of, credential journalism yet. They get a little bit confused about things. They like to argue about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4210" data-t="4210">stuff that is very self evident. It sounds like they haven't listened to our the Butte Weekly yet, but they're they're,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4216" data-t="4216">they're gonna learn pretty quick, I think. They're they're faster learners than a lot of the people on Twitter, I would say. So Yeah. They have you know, those guys are</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4225">1:10:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4225" data-t="4225">also the reason, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4228" data-t="4228">that we care about floods. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4230">1:10:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4230" data-t="4230">Well, guys, I hope you have a good week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4234" data-t="4234">As everything's getting crazy, just remember,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4237" data-t="4237">spend time with your families.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4238" data-t="4238">Do things that you enjoy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4240" data-t="4240">Just because everybody else is grumpy doesn't mean that you have to be grumpy and you don't have to have a bad time.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4246" data-t="4246">There there's a lot of opportunity to do some cool stuff.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4250">1:10:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4250" data-t="4250">I do wanna shout out before we end the episode. I do wanna shout out our subscribers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4255" data-t="4255">We got</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4257" data-t="4257">Sean, Late Stage Huddle, Turkey Shadrach,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4259" data-t="4259">Southside Dave, Open Mic, and Avi. And I really appreciate you guys</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4266" data-t="4266">a lot.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4268" data-t="4268">Let me know what you think about the premium content that we put put in it out. I'd I put out some, stuff this week. I'd I</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4275">1:11:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4275" data-t="4275">do you guys enjoy when I put out early access music?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4279" data-t="4279">Let me know. Let me know what you thought of the Fed article conversation.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4284" data-t="4284">We'll be having some more stuff. I'm</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4287" data-t="4287">still working on, sorting out, Rod's job interview. That's on the docket</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4291" data-t="4291">and will be out here shortly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4294" data-t="4294">But we got a lot more planned. But, yeah, give me your feedback. Let me know what you think. Shoot me a message on Telegram, Twitter, Signal, or, Noster.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4303">1:11:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4303" data-t="4303">Love to hear from you on it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4306" data-t="4306">But, yeah. You you got any closing remarks before we end this one? No. Just,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4312">1:11:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4312" data-t="4312">if you want like we said, just reiterate, if you want if you still need people to explain themselves to you,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4319" data-t="4319">no matter what it is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4323" data-t="4323">what topic it is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4325" data-t="4325">I think at this point everybody has said what</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4329" data-t="4329">there is to be said already, you know what I mean? And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4333" data-t="4333">they published</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4335">1:12:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4335" data-t="4335">all their thoughts</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4336" data-t="4336">from the most retarded to the most insightful. It's all been said. So if you still need somebody to explain it to you, you have to start a podcast and invite them on because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4350" data-t="4350">the world is full of information at this point.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4353" data-t="4353">You</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4354" data-t="4354">should be able to think for yourself. You shouldn't have to housework your thinking anymore, but if you still do, you have to start a podcast.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4360">1:12:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4360" data-t="4360">Absolutely.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4362" data-t="4362">Well, guys, thank you for listening to this edition of the vehicle weekly, and we'll catch you on the next one.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4418">1:13:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4418" data-t="4418">Noise, angry people pointing fingers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4422" data-t="4422">at everything but themselves.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4425" data-t="4425">Why can't they stop and think?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4532">1:15:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4532" data-t="4532">Faint?</span></span></p>