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diff --git a/wiki/transcripts/onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41.md b/wiki/transcripts/onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3b6ee044 @@ -0,0 +1,505 @@ +--- +title: "Transcript: Onwards and Upwards | Bugle Weekly Episode 41" +type: transcript +episode: onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41 +generated: true +date: 2025-01-06 +audio: "https://feeds.fountain.fm/R8scBF2Wiykm0YVldsHQ/items/sOfoLMajCs1moLITkhkP/files/AUDIO---DEFAULT---6266ee39-0073-4e9a-bf2f-ac149062b81d.mp3" +duration: "1:05:44" +sources: + - raw/episodes/onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41/bundle.json +--- + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-0">0:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-0" data-t="0">Well, I'm not part of PodConf. You're part of PodConf.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3" data-t="3">If you're if I'm part of PodConf, you're part of PodConf. Okay? You're clearly not reading their literature. You're an approved</span> <span class="cue" id="t-11" data-t="11">you're an approved podcaster.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-13" data-t="13">I'm not.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-16" data-t="16">I have Take it up with them. Literature. I'm not, with them. I'm not I'm not part of PodCon.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-23" data-t="23">Apparently, you are.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-25">0:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-25" data-t="25">Do you see me do you see me do you see me, like, with the mic on stage at conferences</span> <span class="cue" id="t-31" data-t="31">introducing Michael Sailor as he's about to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-34" data-t="34">tell you to put you back in the other blockchain?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-37" data-t="37">I don't do that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-39" data-t="39">I have that on the list, but all I'll say is, like</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-43">0:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-43" data-t="43">When people ask me why I am such a passionate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-47" data-t="47">advocate for compliance,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-49" data-t="49">the answer is simple.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-51" data-t="51">The</span> <span class="cue" id="t-53" data-t="53">the struggle</span> <span class="cue" id="t-54" data-t="54">for survival,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-55">0:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-55" data-t="55">the struggle</span> <span class="cue" id="t-57" data-t="57">to secure your life and your property and your family,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-62" data-t="62">that used to be, for most of human history,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-65" data-t="65">a twenty four seven, three hundred and sixty five day job.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-70" data-t="70">But thanks to compliance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-72" data-t="72">and thanks to the invention of taxes,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-75">1:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-75" data-t="75">now people only have to work</span> <span class="cue" id="t-78" data-t="78">four to six months out of the year</span> <span class="cue" id="t-81" data-t="81">in order to afford security and safety.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-85" data-t="85">This is a revolution</span> <span class="cue" id="t-88" data-t="88">of energy conservation.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-90" data-t="90">This is</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-92">1:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-92" data-t="92">a revolution of human flourishing and productivity,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-96" data-t="96">and this is all thanks to compliance. It looks it it did. Bugle. Bugle.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-101">1:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-101" data-t="101">It looks like Niko is not reading enough Bitcoin Bugle.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-105">1:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-105" data-t="105">Wait. Wait. Wait. No. Bro, last time I read a Bitcoin bugle</span> <span class="cue" id="t-110" data-t="110">article,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-111" data-t="111">he said that that Elon Musk was,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-117" data-t="117">Elon Musk got all the Bitcoiner wives.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-119" data-t="119">Oh, shit. So</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-122">2:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-122" data-t="122">Yeah. That was a good one. Alright.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-124">2:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-124" data-t="124">Anyways</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-126">2:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-126" data-t="126">However,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-127" data-t="127">silver linings always appear. Sometimes they appear in the form</span> <span class="cue" id="t-132" data-t="132">of humor.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-134" data-t="134">The Bitcoin bugle</span> <span class="cue" id="t-136" data-t="136">is a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-137" data-t="137">satire,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-138">2:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-138" data-t="138">or has come out as a pretty good satire website about Bitcoin stories.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-143">2:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-143" data-t="143">So so you're saying</span> <span class="cue" id="t-146" data-t="146">the proper way to address British people is to refer</span> <span class="cue" id="t-150" data-t="150">to refer to them as fags or faggots.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-154" data-t="154">Like</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-155">2:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-155" data-t="155">like, kinda like sugar say faggots.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-157" data-t="157">Yeah. I wouldn't necessarily say faggots, but I would say, like, fags,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-161" data-t="161">especially for, like, the more compliant,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-165" data-t="165">British Bitcoiners.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-167">2:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-167" data-t="167">Fellas, I don't know too much about this situation, CarCamp, but you're closer to it. Maybe you do, but our our boy is being</span> <span class="cue" id="t-174" data-t="174">hit with a lawsuit.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-176" data-t="176">Our boy, Bitcoin Audible, Guy Swan,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-179" data-t="179">he's being hit with a lawsuit for ADA compliance.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-182">3:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-182" data-t="182">Did you hear about this? Wait. No. For what? Oh, dude.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-187">3:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-187" data-t="187">ADA, like Americans with Disabilities Act? I'm I'm just gonna read the article from the Bitcoin Bugle. I'm just in the way that he would</span> <span class="cue" id="t-196" data-t="196">would do. In a surprising twist in the world of Bitcoin podcasts, Bitcoin Audible, helmed by the popular host, Guy Swan, was served with a lawsuit on Friday.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-205" data-t="205">The plaintiff,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-207" data-t="207">a deaf fan</span> <span class="cue" id="t-208" data-t="208">who's taking the podcasting world to task for lack of ADA compliance.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-213">3:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-213" data-t="213">I meant to say that Bitcoin Bugle is the most accurate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-217" data-t="217">on point journalism</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-218">3:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-218" data-t="218">in the Bitcoin world without doubt. It's probably not even outside of the Bitcoin world. It's the most accurate Yeah. Trusted news source. Mhmm.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-227">3:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-227" data-t="227">Today, I'm pleased to be joined by the host of the most thermodynamically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-230" data-t="230">sound podcast in existence,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-231" data-t="231">Richard Dick Greaser and Rod Palmer from the Bitcoin bugle, Bitcoin bugle.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-240">3:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-240" data-t="240">This is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-241" data-t="241">Richard Greaser,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-243" data-t="243">and today, Rod is not joining me. I'm just doing it by myself.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-248" data-t="248">Rod is enjoying a well deserved vacation.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-253" data-t="253">Very grateful for Rod.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-256" data-t="256">We've we've done</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-257">4:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-257" data-t="257">quite a bit over the last year. So this is the forty first episode of the Beagle Weekly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-264" data-t="264">And I would argue this has been one of the most prolific Bitcoin podcasts</span> <span class="cue" id="t-269" data-t="269">ever created.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-272" data-t="272">It's actually been</span> <span class="cue" id="t-274" data-t="274">really incredible.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-275" data-t="275">So over the last few days, I've gone through a lot of old episodes and, you know, listen to clips that people have created for us on Fountain.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-287">4:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-287" data-t="287">And, yeah, we we just been on the on the ball. We we have been leading</span> <span class="cue" id="t-293" data-t="293">the charge</span> <span class="cue" id="t-294" data-t="294">ahead of everybody</span> <span class="cue" id="t-296" data-t="296">else.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-299" data-t="299">And it really shows. So just the other day,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-304" data-t="304">Maggie Morris,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-306">5:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-306" data-t="306">one of our great reporters at the Bugle, one of our newer reporters at the Bugle,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-311" data-t="311">did an absolutely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-313" data-t="313">incredible</span> <span class="cue" id="t-314" data-t="314">article</span> <span class="cue" id="t-316" data-t="316">on</span> <span class="cue" data-t="316">Michael Saylor's</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-318">5:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-318" data-t="318">hundred k party,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-321" data-t="321">criticizing all the poor fashion choices that the Bitcoiners made</span> <span class="cue" id="t-327" data-t="327">at the party.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-330" data-t="330">I don't I don't</span> <span class="cue" id="t-331" data-t="331">really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-334" data-t="334">want to rail them too hard. I I just don't understand. Like, this this is one of the problems when you have communities of people that</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-342">5:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-342" data-t="342">aren't properly credentialed.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-346" data-t="346">But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-348" data-t="348">is that they just don't know how to dress.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-351" data-t="351">They don't know how to dress. They didn't they didn't go</span> <span class="cue" id="t-354" data-t="354">to the Ivy Leagues</span> <span class="cue" id="t-356" data-t="356">to,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-359">5:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-359" data-t="359">you know, and and as a result of not going to the Ivy Leagues and not having learned how to how to dress stylishly,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-368" data-t="368">they might be less likely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-370" data-t="370">to work for the CIA. Or that that might just be a cover.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-374" data-t="374">That might be a cover.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-376" data-t="376">We all know that the Ivy Leagues are just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-379" data-t="379">recruitment centers for the intelligence agencies.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-383">6:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-383" data-t="383">You</span> <span class="cue" id="t-384" data-t="384">you go to an Ivy League school,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-386" data-t="386">you get some of the best credentials in the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-390" data-t="390">And CIA and the NSA</span> <span class="cue" id="t-393" data-t="393">and, you know, Wall Street, which, you know, is kinda similar</span> <span class="cue" id="t-398" data-t="398">to the CIA and the NSA and all these intelligence</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-402">6:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-402" data-t="402">agencies.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-403" data-t="403">There's so much overlap. It's unbelievable.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-406" data-t="406">They they wanna give you a job right off the bat because they're like, wow. This person has credentials. They went to the Ivy League. They know how to dress</span> <span class="cue" id="t-414" data-t="414">well. But, you know, in the world of Bitcoin podcasting, it's a little bit differently.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-421" data-t="421">You can't get credentials</span> <span class="cue" id="t-422" data-t="422">to be a Bitcoin podcaster at an Ivy League school.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-426">7:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-426" data-t="426">And so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-427" data-t="427">that's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-428" data-t="428">that's created this, you know, kinda</span> <span class="cue" id="t-431" data-t="431">asymmetry when it comes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-433" data-t="433">to recruiting for intelligence agencies.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-437" data-t="437">So what they're attempting to do</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-440">7:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-440" data-t="440">right now</span> <span class="cue" id="t-441" data-t="441">is they're trying to take credentialed people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-446" data-t="446">and turn them into Bitcoin podcasters.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-450" data-t="450">And that was a big part of what the hundred k party was,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-454" data-t="454">is you had</span> <span class="cue" id="t-456" data-t="456">a lot</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-457">7:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-457" data-t="457">of people there that were long time Bitcoin podcasters, and then you had some new Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-463" data-t="463">podcasters.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-465" data-t="465">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-466" data-t="466">one of the most notable criticisms that we got over x of Maggie's excellent</span> <span class="cue" id="t-472" data-t="472">reporting on the subject</span> <span class="cue" id="t-474" data-t="474">was, that</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-476">7:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-476" data-t="476">Matt Pellegrino guy, the guy that's named after that Italian soda water,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-481" data-t="481">he</span> <span class="cue" id="t-482" data-t="482">called us</span> <span class="cue" id="t-484" data-t="484">Russian propaganda.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-486" data-t="486">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-487" data-t="487">that was a very big moment</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-489">8:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-489" data-t="489">for our</span> <span class="cue" id="t-491" data-t="491">news agency.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-492" data-t="492">It's almost like a rite of passage</span> <span class="cue" id="t-495" data-t="495">in the world of news</span> <span class="cue" id="t-498" data-t="498">is if you,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-501" data-t="501">you know, tell the truth,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-503">8:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-503" data-t="503">you call out the intelligence agencies,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-506" data-t="506">somebody at some point is gonna call you Russian propaganda.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-512" data-t="512">And I think it's done, one, to try and discredit people.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-518" data-t="518">Because as as we know, the Russian intelligence agencies</span> <span class="cue" id="t-522" data-t="522">are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-526" data-t="526">just as bad,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-527">8:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-527" data-t="527">if not worse,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-529" data-t="529">than The US intelligence</span> <span class="cue" id="t-531" data-t="531">agencies.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-532" data-t="532">They they have an edge</span> <span class="cue" id="t-534" data-t="534">in the area</span> <span class="cue" id="t-536" data-t="536">of</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-538">8:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-538" data-t="538">brutality and psychopathy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-541" data-t="541">in some places. And I know that makes CIA agents a little bit uncomfortable, but that's okay. Who we we have no problem with making</span> <span class="cue" id="t-550" data-t="550">CIA agents uncomfortable by telling them</span> <span class="cue" id="t-553" data-t="553">they're not the most psychopathic,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-556" data-t="556">group of individuals in the world. They they might be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-559" data-t="559">number two. But,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-562">9:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-562" data-t="562">anyways, these these individuals like to call people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-565" data-t="565">Russian intelligence,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-569" data-t="569">because they they just don't know what else to do. In the in the world of media, in the world of intelligence,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-576" data-t="576">it's it's kinda like calling somebody racist. You know? Tell telling them that they're Russian intelligent.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-582" data-t="582">Just like any anything you don't like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-585" data-t="585">you just say they're they're KGB.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-588">9:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-588" data-t="588">So, anyways, I wanna thank Matt</span> <span class="cue" id="t-591" data-t="591">Pellegrino,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-593" data-t="593">the Italian soul soda water guy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-597" data-t="597">for giving us that moment of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-602" data-t="602">experiencing that rite of passage, you know, right right on the cusp of the new year.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-607" data-t="607">And</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-609">10:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-609" data-t="609">as a result, I expect this upcoming year to be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-613" data-t="613">absolutely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-614" data-t="614">absolutely incredible.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-619" data-t="619">Looking forward to it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-621" data-t="621">Yeah. For this episode today,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-623" data-t="623">I just want</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-624">10:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-624" data-t="624">to kinda go back through some of the old episodes. So I compiled a bunch of clips</span> <span class="cue" id="t-630" data-t="630">and I talk about the music,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-633" data-t="633">that we've done. That that that was a big</span> <span class="cue" id="t-637" data-t="637">a big development for the Bugle,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-640" data-t="640">this year is our groundbreaking</span> <span class="cue" id="t-644" data-t="644">entrance into</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-645">10:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-645" data-t="645">music.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-647" data-t="647">And I expect</span> <span class="cue" id="t-648" data-t="648">over the next year, in 2025, we're gonna accomplish</span> <span class="cue" id="t-653" data-t="653">a lot of things. We're gonna we're gonna see these these crazy developments</span> <span class="cue" id="t-657" data-t="657">in our skill sets,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-660" data-t="660">in the talent that we attract to our news agency,</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-665" data-t="665">the memes are gonna get better.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-667" data-t="667">But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-668" data-t="668">first,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-669" data-t="669">before we look ahead,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-672" data-t="672">let's let's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-673" data-t="673">let's look at the past.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-675">11:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-675" data-t="675">Let's look</span> <span class="cue" id="t-677" data-t="677">at all the important things that we</span> <span class="cue" id="t-681" data-t="681">have accomplished over the past year.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-683" data-t="683">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-685" data-t="685">yeah. I'll start by just playing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-688" data-t="688">a handful of these clips from</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-690">11:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-690" data-t="690">old episodes.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-704">11:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-704" data-t="704">When you got the looks and the brains and the and you mix in the macro,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-710" data-t="710">that is a</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-713">11:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-713" data-t="713">it's kinda like a, I don't know, like a a scent magnet. I mean, I find it hard for my for me myself not to sin for her. She's kind of a babe. Like, I I didn't realize how much she was a babe of a babe she was until she,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-726" data-t="726">notified the world that, she does indeed have a left ear. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that was a good story.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-732">12:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-732" data-t="732">I didn't</span> <span class="cue" id="t-734" data-t="734">I didn't think we ever see that. It's kinda like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-737" data-t="737">the show home improvement</span> <span class="cue" id="t-739" data-t="739">back in the nineties with Tenno, and it was like Wilson you ever saw. Half of his face, he's always behind the gate. I just never thought we'd see that that ear. I was you know, I I didn't think it existed. I mean, there's I don't know. There there's many things,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-753">12:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-753" data-t="753">you know, that are kinda, like, out there in in the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-756" data-t="756">in the war,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-758" data-t="758">that I think we're kinda conditioned to believe in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-761" data-t="761">could be real, but, like, because they're so mythical. So, like, you know, some examples</span> <span class="cue" id="t-766" data-t="766">of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-767" data-t="767">this include,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-769">12:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-769" data-t="769">like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-770" data-t="770">Atlantis</span> <span class="cue" id="t-771" data-t="771">or,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-772" data-t="772">El Dorado.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-773" data-t="773">And I would say, Lin Alden's left ear, you know, kind of falls into the same category as, like, these</span> <span class="cue" id="t-780" data-t="780">these mythic mythical ancient</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-784">13:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-784" data-t="784">sites that are, Yeah. If you have, like, any if you have an ear fetish, man, that's like the Ark of the Covenant. Well, yeah. So I I the the Beagle I I consider myself the John Gault of journalism,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-795">13:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-795" data-t="795">and I I'm</span> <span class="cue" id="t-797" data-t="797">pretty confident that your audience knows who John Gault is. They're probably,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-802" data-t="802">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-804" data-t="804">living life in a way that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-806" data-t="806">is pretty based. They're they're probably</span> <span class="cue" id="t-809" data-t="809">listening to Bitcoin podcasts</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-812">13:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-812" data-t="812">on occasion or frequently</span> <span class="cue" id="t-814" data-t="814">and reading Atlas Shrugged once a year.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-818" data-t="818">So, you know, most,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-819" data-t="819">most journalists out there living on a Fiat standard.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-823" data-t="823">They're employed by the CIA.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-826" data-t="826">They haven't listened to Bitcoin podcast. They don't think Lynn Alden's hot. And if you don't know who Lynn Alden is, she is smoking hot. She's a</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">Bitcoin macro commentator.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-839">13:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-839" data-t="839">One of the things you talked about, like, the servile class, it relies so much on, you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-845" data-t="845">know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-846" data-t="846">or you all of society in general, but relies on on on journalists. Like, we we watch TV, we read the newspaper, and we they tell us how to think. They tell us what's going on in the news. They tell us what's going on in the economy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-858" data-t="858">They tell us what's going on in Israel and Ukraine.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-861" data-t="861">And and that is what they say is gospel. It is the truth. And, like, that is what we rely on to make our decisions.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-868" data-t="868">And it started to they started to lose our trust, and people have started to migrate to podcasts, especially Bitcoin podcasts.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-877">14:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-877" data-t="877">Yeah. I mean, I think, we definitely need more Bitcoin podcasts, but I think we also need a lot more libertarian podcasts.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-884" data-t="884">And it's pretty obvious that libertarian</span> <span class="cue" id="t-886" data-t="886">podcasts</span> <span class="cue" id="t-888" data-t="888">are pushing the envelope because the libertarian</span> <span class="cue" id="t-891" data-t="891">superhero, Ron Paul,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-893" data-t="893">is going to be a part of the Trump administration, and I would say that that's only the the result of podcast.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-902">15:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-902" data-t="902">Oh, yeah. A 100%.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-904">15:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-904" data-t="904">But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-905" data-t="905">Larkin Rose is still having to post booty pics</span> <span class="cue" id="t-909" data-t="909">of his wife on his YouTube thumbnails</span> <span class="cue" id="t-913" data-t="913">to get any sort of engagement,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-915" data-t="915">which kinda shows that there's still a lot of room to be done in the libertarian part podcasting world.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-923">15:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-923" data-t="923">What are the people's views on Lynn Alden? Does she actually have two ears?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-927" data-t="927">I guess yeah. I guess yeah. Tell us tell us about Lynn Alden, kinda the most important things about her.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-933">15:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-933" data-t="933">Well, I think the most important thing about her is she's hot.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-939" data-t="939">I don't know why this is a controversial subject</span> <span class="cue" id="t-942" data-t="942">in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-944" data-t="944">the little ecosystem that we're in, but, you know, lots of people like to dispute the fact</span> <span class="cue" id="t-950" data-t="950">that Lynn is hot hot.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-952" data-t="952">And I I think it just can be explained as they're homosexuals</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-957">15:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-957" data-t="957">who don't find attractive women attractive.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-960">16:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-960" data-t="960">Think think about it like this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-963" data-t="963">If you were hanging out with your buddy and his wife said that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-967" data-t="967">she wanted to set you up with her friend,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-971" data-t="971">Katie. And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-972" data-t="972">you asked, like, well, tell me about Katie. And she's like, well, she's really funny. She has a good job.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-979" data-t="979">You know, she she's really down to earth, has a good sense of humor.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-983">16:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-983" data-t="983">I'm gonna start to think, oh, shit. Katie is fat and ugly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-988" data-t="988">But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-989" data-t="989">then I might still deal through with it that I'm near her and, like, and she's hot. And, like, oh my god. Like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-995" data-t="995">next time I ask you that question, just tell me the important information. It's is your friend hot or not? Right? So it's like, if you want me to tell you about Lyn Alden,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1004" data-t="1004">I'm gonna tell you that she's hot, and you can find out the rest of her personality</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1009" data-t="1009">later if that's what interests you, but, like,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1012">16:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1012" data-t="1012">she's hot.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1017">16:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1017" data-t="1017">So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1018" data-t="1018">hey. I would how how many how many cents would you pay for a picture of Dennis Coroner in the act of of orange peeling</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1027" data-t="1027">AOC?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1030">17:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1030" data-t="1030">I would love to see that. I I would love I think that I would probably pay a million sats</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1036" data-t="1036">for a picture or a video even of Dennis Porter,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1040" data-t="1040">orange peeling AOC, and AOC's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1043" data-t="1043">husband is in the room watching</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1046" data-t="1046">her and watching his wife the orange pill by another man. You say million? I I probably paid 10000000¢</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1052">17:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1052" data-t="1052">for that. That would be a pretty epic video.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1056">17:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1056" data-t="1056">If that if that if that's a video, it it was out there, I would I would empty my my cold storage. Yeah. I mean, because that that's a pretty pivotal pivotal moment</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1066">17:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1066" data-t="1066">in American politics right there is, Dennis Porter</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1070" data-t="1070">convinced me Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1072" data-t="1072">The leading leaders behind the Green New Deal</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1075" data-t="1075">and all the merits of Bitcoin.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1077">17:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1077" data-t="1077">If you want to orange pill somebody,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1080" data-t="1080">especially,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1082" data-t="1082">you know, a married woman, gotta be a pill. That's what they need. They need bulls.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1086" data-t="1086">Woo bulls for MGU. Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1089" data-t="1089">That's why Bitcoin fixes journalism. Well, yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1093">18:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1093" data-t="1093">It it's kinda funny because, like, you know, my my alcoholism is what led me to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1099" data-t="1099">starting The Bugle.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1102" data-t="1102">And The Bugle,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1105" data-t="1105">you know, thanks to everybody that's been involved with it, you know, has had a massive shift in the journalistic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1111" data-t="1111">industry as a whole,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1113" data-t="1113">making it significantly more cypherpunk.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1116">18:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1116" data-t="1116">And so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1117" data-t="1117">I think it's probably safe to say that alcoholism</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1120" data-t="1120">has made the institution of journalism,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1123" data-t="1123">the fourth estate,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1125" data-t="1125">more cypherpunk. That's</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">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1127" data-t="1127">that's huge news because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1130" data-t="1130">now,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1131" data-t="1131">fourth estate, that's like the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1134" data-t="1134">that that means the cypherpunk is mainstream</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1137">18:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1137" data-t="1137">officially. Yeah. Well, it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1140" data-t="1140">it it's getting there. You know, there's still you know, the intellectual Silk Road is not,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1145" data-t="1145">unfortunately,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1147" data-t="1147">the mainstream,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1150" data-t="1150">zeitgeist.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1151" data-t="1151">It's just</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1153">19:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1153" data-t="1153">it's part of this fringe group that is, you know, quickly growing and setting an example. And, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1159" data-t="1159">if you've listened to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1162" data-t="1162">Alex Fetzky, you've probably heard of this meme called The Remnant.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1166" data-t="1166">Essentially, we're we're The Remnant. We're taking over,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1169" data-t="1169">this bitch and, you know, completely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1173" data-t="1173">just gutting the industry</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1175">19:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1175" data-t="1175">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1177" data-t="1177">redesigning it as, with cypherpunk principles.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1181">19:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1181" data-t="1181">Exactly it's the it's the really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1184" data-t="1184">the secret lurking elite</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1186" data-t="1186">in every society that really controls them</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1190" data-t="1190">so having that small</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1194" data-t="1194">secret that this very elite route</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1197" data-t="1197">The elitist of the it's like the the</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1200">19:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1200" data-t="1200">the Delta Force</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1203" data-t="1203">of influencers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1204" data-t="1204">The secret, you know, covert ops of influencers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1208" data-t="1208">They're really the ones that set the event.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1210" data-t="1210">So it's it just takes time for that influence to, like, percolate through the rest of the community. Yeah. I don't like</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1218">20:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1218" data-t="1218">yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1219" data-t="1219">We we need a better, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1221" data-t="1221">better spark special forces to pull from than, like, the seal team six because of their legacy being,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1229" data-t="1229">you know, just doing a lot</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1231" data-t="1231">of stuff that's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1233" data-t="1233">you know, for the non compliant US government. They have a lot of involvement with the CIA, you know, working directly with them as as well as special forces do.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1243">20:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1243" data-t="1243">I can see that, like, falling under I I'm nitpicking. I'm I'm really nitpicking, so I don't wanna I hope you don't feel like I'm discounting anything that you're saying. I'm just nitpicking on the the semantics with our</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1255">20:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1255" data-t="1255">argument. But, Oh, yeah. Sorry. It's it's I understand what you're saying. So,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1261" data-t="1261">you know, I I hate to use any sort of status reference, but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1265" data-t="1265">it's all if there was a private version,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1268" data-t="1268">a more</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1270" data-t="1270">software version, I guess I'd pick them.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1273">21:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1273" data-t="1273">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1274" data-t="1274">Well, I I think we should research Blackwater</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1278" data-t="1278">a little bit more.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1281" data-t="1281">They probably had some sort of special forces team within</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1286">21:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1286" data-t="1286">Yeah. Blackwater was like, an open source special team team. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1292">21:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1292" data-t="1292">And there's also that that one in Russia.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1295" data-t="1295">I forgot what they were told. That private military force. Wagner. Wagner Group. I never really understand why they they chose the name Wagner because that's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1304" data-t="1304">based off of the the German musician,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1307" data-t="1307">that was really popular back in the day.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1313">21:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1313" data-t="1313">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1316" data-t="1316">That's a good I never thought of that before, but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1319" data-t="1319">that is a really weird name</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1321" data-t="1321">for Russian</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1322" data-t="1322">free market</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1324" data-t="1324">military.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1326">22:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1326" data-t="1326">You gotta give it that fuck.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1330">22:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1330" data-t="1330">Have a good time with your Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1332" data-t="1332">Fix the money. Fix the worth the</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1335">22:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1335" data-t="1335">This is the Bugle Weekly podcast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1338" data-t="1338">on Fountain FM.</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">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1341" data-t="1341">The number one bull market Bitcoin podcast.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1345">22:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1345" data-t="1345">The hottest news stories of the week. All the best bangers from Bugle music.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1349">22:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1349" data-t="1349">And so much more.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1351" data-t="1351">The Bugle does the thinking</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1353" data-t="1353">so you don't have to.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1355" data-t="1355">So sit back,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1357" data-t="1357">smoke a cigarette,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1358" data-t="1358">and enjoy</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1360">22:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1360" data-t="1360">this week's episode.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1370">22:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1370" data-t="1370">So one of the biggest transitions that happened</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1373" data-t="1373">in 2024</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1375" data-t="1375">is that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1377" data-t="1377">we went from a Bitcoin bear market</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1379" data-t="1379">to a Bitcoin bull market.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1382" data-t="1382">And</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1383">23:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1383" data-t="1383">the transition</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1384" data-t="1384">has been</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1386" data-t="1386">pretty dramatic.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1389" data-t="1389">Just this morning I'm recording Monday morning, a little bit behind schedule here.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1395" data-t="1395">Just this morning, Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1397" data-t="1397">went above a 100 k again.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1400">23:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1400" data-t="1400">Yellow was able</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1402" data-t="1402">to retire</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1403" data-t="1403">from</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1404" data-t="1404">the don't stop believing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1406" data-t="1406">Twitter spaces.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1408" data-t="1408">Absolutely</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1409">23:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1409" data-t="1409">monumental. And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1411" data-t="1411">as a news agency,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1413" data-t="1413">we felt</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1414" data-t="1414">it was really important</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1416" data-t="1416">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1417" data-t="1417">do some Polish music.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1422">23:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1422" data-t="1422">It's one thing that you need. When you're when you're engaging</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1427" data-t="1427">in psychological</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1428" data-t="1428">warfare</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1429" data-t="1429">against the snooze,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1431" data-t="1431">you need to dominate the culture.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1434" data-t="1434">Right?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1435">23:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1435" data-t="1435">And music's such a big part of that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1438" data-t="1438">Music's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1439" data-t="1439">the way</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1441" data-t="1441">that you really speak to people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1444" data-t="1444">in creative ways,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1446" data-t="1446">and</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1447">24:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1447" data-t="1447">we want people to feel bullish. We want people to smoke cigarettes. We want people to drive drunk.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1453" data-t="1453">We want people to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1455" data-t="1455">ultimately</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1456" data-t="1456">use their brains</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1457" data-t="1457">and let credentialed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1460" data-t="1460">journalists</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1461">24:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1461" data-t="1461">like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1462" data-t="1462">us do the thinking for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1464" data-t="1464">you instead of,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1466" data-t="1466">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1467" data-t="1467">the other,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1469" data-t="1469">you know, CI employed</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1471">24:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1471" data-t="1471">credential journalists. Like, that's that's what using your brain</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1476" data-t="1476">allows you to do,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1478" data-t="1478">is it allows you to curate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1482" data-t="1482">a good</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1485" data-t="1485">group</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1486" data-t="1486">of individuals</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1488">24:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1488" data-t="1488">to do the thank you for you.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1494" data-t="1494">And and music's been a big part of that. It's it's been a big part</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1498" data-t="1498">of reaching,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1501" data-t="1501">new audiences,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1503" data-t="1503">shifting culture,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1505" data-t="1505">and getting people super bullish</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1508">25:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1508" data-t="1508">about Bitcoin and about using Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1511" data-t="1511">So I'm just gonna do some highlights,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1514" data-t="1514">some of our more bullish songs,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1516" data-t="1516">getting ready</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1518" data-t="1518">for this upcoming Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1520" data-t="1520">bull market. We're we're setting the groundwork</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1523">25:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1523" data-t="1523">to dominate it, and the music stuff we're doing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1527" data-t="1527">is just getting started. This is just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1530" data-t="1530">the very, very beginnings</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1532" data-t="1532">of where we're gonna go with this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1535" data-t="1535">But, yeah, here's some clips.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1555">25:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1555" data-t="1555">Try to tune out all the bullshit.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1558" data-t="1558">This will all be over soon.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1561" data-t="1561">Once you hear the horn, next stop is the moon.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1566" data-t="1566">We're digital</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1568" data-t="1568">cowboys.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1569">26:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1569" data-t="1569">We've</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1581">26:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1581" data-t="1581">you.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1582" data-t="1582">So never lose your grip,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1585" data-t="1585">and never miss your chance to buy the dip.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1591" data-t="1591">Pin on KYC</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1592" data-t="1592">cigarettes on our front porch. All across</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1639">27:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1639" data-t="1639">Dennis Porter is our only hope for hyper big conversation.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1644" data-t="1644">Orange telling the world is a marathon of spring Since we started making music,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1650">27:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1650" data-t="1650">Rod and I have been</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1651" data-t="1651">dominating</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1653" data-t="1653">Wave</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1654" data-t="1654">Lake. And I gotta say, Wave Lake</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1656" data-t="1656">is a really cool platform.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1659" data-t="1659">It is</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1660">27:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1660" data-t="1660">very cool.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1663" data-t="1663">Cool. Excuse me.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1665" data-t="1665">It is very cool</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1668" data-t="1668">for musicians to be able to earn cigarette money</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1671" data-t="1671">in Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1673" data-t="1673">and</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1675">27:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1675" data-t="1675">it gives them the opportunity</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1677" data-t="1677">to be non compliant,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1680" data-t="1680">which is huge,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1682" data-t="1682">you know. People people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1684" data-t="1684">need the choice.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1686" data-t="1686">This is one of the wonderful things about Bitcoin,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1689">28:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1689" data-t="1689">is it gives people the choice</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1691" data-t="1691">whether they're gonna be compliant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1694" data-t="1694">or not. Whereas,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1696" data-t="1696">if you're operating in the fiat system,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1699" data-t="1699">your only choice,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1700" data-t="1700">ultimately,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1701">28:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1701" data-t="1701">for the most part,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1703" data-t="1703">unless you have the money laundering capabilities</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1706" data-t="1706">of the intelligence agencies,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1710" data-t="1710">it's compliant.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1712" data-t="1712">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1714" data-t="1714">one thing that we've seen</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1716">28:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1716" data-t="1716">over the last few years</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1718" data-t="1718">is that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1719" data-t="1719">individuals need the choice</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1721" data-t="1721">to be noncompliant.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1724" data-t="1724">Because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1725" data-t="1725">when governments</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1727">28:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1727" data-t="1727">around the world</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1729" data-t="1729">have a monopoly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1731" data-t="1731">on noncompliance.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1733" data-t="1733">It it really creates an issue</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1736" data-t="1736">of a balance of power.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1739" data-t="1739">And anyways,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1741">29:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1741" data-t="1741">our music</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1743" data-t="1743">is noncompliant.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1745" data-t="1745">Our journalism</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1747" data-t="1747">is non compliant.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1749" data-t="1749">What what are the, you know, cardinal rules</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1753" data-t="1753">of being a credential journalist</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1756">29:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1756" data-t="1756">is you don't you don't critique</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1758" data-t="1758">the intelligence agencies</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1760" data-t="1760">because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1761" data-t="1761">the intelligence agencies</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1763" data-t="1763">have dirt</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1764" data-t="1764">on all the journalists.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1766">29:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1766" data-t="1766">They</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1767" data-t="1767">they got the journalists</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1769" data-t="1769">to go to the ditty parties.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1771" data-t="1771">They got them</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1772" data-t="1772">to do compromising</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1774" data-t="1774">things</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1775">29:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1775" data-t="1775">at sailors' hundred k party.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1781" data-t="1781">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1782" data-t="1782">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1783" data-t="1783">even if you are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1785" data-t="1785">a moral person, a moral journalist,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1789" data-t="1789">there the sophistication</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1791">29:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1791" data-t="1791">of the CIA</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1794" data-t="1794">to</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1794">undermine your credibility</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1797" data-t="1797">and to get you to comply with their noncompliance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1801" data-t="1801">is just absolutely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1804" data-t="1804">incredible.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1806">30:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1806" data-t="1806">And the way</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1808" data-t="1808">that we counteract</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1810" data-t="1810">that is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1814" data-t="1814">we give normal individuals</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1817" data-t="1817">the tools</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1818" data-t="1818">to circumvent</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1819">30:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1819" data-t="1819">the compliance ecosystem</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1822" data-t="1822">altogether,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1823" data-t="1823">which is why Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1825" data-t="1825">is incredibly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1826" data-t="1826">interesting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1829" data-t="1829">Bitcoin</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1831">30:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1831" data-t="1831">has</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1832" data-t="1832">enabled</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1833" data-t="1833">journalistic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1834" data-t="1834">noncompliance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1835" data-t="1835">pretty much from the very beginning. Like, one of the most noteworthy uses</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1841" data-t="1841">of Bitcoin</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1843">30:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1843" data-t="1843">in the beginning</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1845" data-t="1845">was funding noncompliant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1847" data-t="1847">journalists</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1850" data-t="1850">at WikiLeaks.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1852" data-t="1852">Julian Assange</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1853" data-t="1853">was a cypherpunk.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1855">30:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1855" data-t="1855">He was a very noncompliant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1857" data-t="1857">cypherpunk.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1858" data-t="1858">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1859" data-t="1859">Matt Pellegrino</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1862" data-t="1862">probably</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1863" data-t="1863">has the opinion that</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1865">31:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1865" data-t="1865">Assange was also</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1867" data-t="1867">a Russian asset.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1871" data-t="1871">So being called that, you know, feels good. It it feels like we're being compared</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1878" data-t="1878">to</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1878">Julian Assange</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1880" data-t="1880">in Wicked League,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1884">31:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1884" data-t="1884">that people are recognizing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1886" data-t="1886">our commitment to non compliant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1888" data-t="1888">journalism.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1891" data-t="1891">Very exciting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1892" data-t="1892">But, yeah, I look forward to what we do with the music</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1897" data-t="1897">over the next year.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1898">31:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1898" data-t="1898">Like, one of my favorite</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1901" data-t="1901">one of my very favorite things</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1903" data-t="1903">that happened this year was an Oster user</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1907" data-t="1907">actually learned one of my songs</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1909" data-t="1909">on guitar.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1911" data-t="1911">I'll play that. It's just a clip of it real quick,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1916">31:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1916" data-t="1916">and then we'll get talking</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1918" data-t="1918">about a different topic.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1921" data-t="1921">But, yeah, listen listen to this shit. If you're a musician,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1925" data-t="1925">one of the things that you could really do</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1928" data-t="1928">to help support</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1930" data-t="1930">our non compliant</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1931">32:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1931" data-t="1931">music and our non compliant journalism</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1935" data-t="1935">just go play our music.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1938" data-t="1938">If you're performing at concerts or at bars or whatever,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1943" data-t="1943">go ahead. Play our music.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1945" data-t="1945">If you have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1947" data-t="1947">a</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1950">32:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1950" data-t="1950">channel</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1951" data-t="1951">on YouTube or whatever,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1954" data-t="1954">play our music. If you got a Twitter or Noster profile,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1958" data-t="1958">take a video</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1960" data-t="1960">of yourself playing our music.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1962" data-t="1962">It it really helps</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1964">32:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1964" data-t="1964">get it circulating,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1966" data-t="1966">and it's just super cool.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1969">32:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1969" data-t="1969">But, yeah, check this out. By ushering in a new freedom that will last.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1973" data-t="1973">Adopting a mindset that the rules are tools embracing reality instead of science by CIA fools.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2001">33:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2001" data-t="2001">If you get the chance,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2003" data-t="2003">head over to Noster</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2004" data-t="2004">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2005" data-t="2005">go</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2006" data-t="2006">search for that video.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2008" data-t="2008">We repost</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2010">33:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2010" data-t="2010">it with the Bugle account.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2012" data-t="2012">But the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2014" data-t="2014">account that did that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2017" data-t="2017">that rendition of my song non compliant 1776</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2022" data-t="2022">goes by the name Horst,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2024" data-t="2024">h o r</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2026">33:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2026" data-t="2026">s z t,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2028" data-t="2028">on Nostr.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2031" data-t="2031">And, yeah, go go like the post, go repost it, maybe even zap it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2038" data-t="2038">Let's let's show the world that the compliant music</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2042" data-t="2042">is demanded</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2044" data-t="2044">and needed,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2045">34:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2045" data-t="2045">and we could change the incentives. We can we can make music</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2050" data-t="2050">thermodynamically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2051" data-t="2051">sound.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2055" data-t="2055">But, yeah,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2057" data-t="2057">the people is much more</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2059" data-t="2059">than memes and music.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2061">34:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2061" data-t="2061">We are</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2063" data-t="2063">attracting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2064" data-t="2064">very talented news.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2066" data-t="2066">One</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2067" data-t="2067">of the individuals that I wanted to highlight that has been putting in a lot of work,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2073" data-t="2073">there there's Maggie Morris,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2075">34:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2075" data-t="2075">of course, who did that incredible article</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2078" data-t="2078">about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2080" data-t="2080">the fashion</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2082" data-t="2082">review at Sailor's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2084" data-t="2084">hundred k party.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2086" data-t="2086">But there's also another journalist who goes by the name Wayne Kerr</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2091">34:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2091" data-t="2091">who has been diligently</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2093" data-t="2093">writing articles</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2096" data-t="2096">I'm very, very excited about.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2098" data-t="2098">Now the bugle</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2099" data-t="2099">like, I I like to compare the bugle</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2103" data-t="2103">to Gold's Gulch as I I truly am</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2107">35:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2107" data-t="2107">the John Gulch of journalism.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2110" data-t="2110">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2111" data-t="2111">the the Beagle is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2114" data-t="2114">Galt's Gulch, essentially, is Greasers Gulch. It is a place for people that have been worn down by the looters, by the demoralizers,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2123" data-t="2123">by the intelligence agencies</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2125" data-t="2125">to essentially</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2127">35:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2127" data-t="2127">find an escape and be able to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2130" data-t="2130">use a creative outlet</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2131" data-t="2131">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2133" data-t="2133">report</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2135" data-t="2135">news stories</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2136" data-t="2136">in a way that other people aren't willing to publish them</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2141">35:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2141" data-t="2141">and to tell the truth,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2143" data-t="2143">to really, really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2145" data-t="2145">tell the truth in a world where telling the truth is a noncompliant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2149" data-t="2149">activity.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2152" data-t="2152">That's one of the things I really look forward to the year of 2025</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2156" data-t="2156">is we're gonna continue to grow. We're gonna continue to build out. We're going to attract</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2163">36:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2163" data-t="2163">very talented,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2165" data-t="2165">smart individuals.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2167" data-t="2167">The more that we're supported, the more that we can grow,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2170" data-t="2170">the more that we could grow our reach, the more that we could dominate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2175" data-t="2175">this ecosystem, and I fully planned on it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2179" data-t="2179">The bar</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2181">36:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2181" data-t="2181">is incredibly low. The people we're competing with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2184" data-t="2184">are alcoholics.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2185" data-t="2185">Their livers are dying.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2188" data-t="2188">They have sold their souls</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2190" data-t="2190">long ago.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2193" data-t="2193">They have no morals. They have no standards. They have no creativity.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2199">36:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2199" data-t="2199">They they would consider working at Disney.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2202" data-t="2202">Like, that that's how uncreative</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2204" data-t="2204">they are, and they probably fit in well. You know, these these are the people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2209" data-t="2209">that support smoking bans</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2212" data-t="2212">and have horrible hormone disorders. Like, they they have no testosterone,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2218" data-t="2218">no,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2221">37:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2221" data-t="2221">no courage. No courage to stand up. No courage to tell truth.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2226" data-t="2226">That's our competition.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2228" data-t="2228">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2229" data-t="2229">we are gonna run laps around them and dominate them</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2233" data-t="2233">this cycle.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2234" data-t="2234">The only thing that they know how to do</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2237">37:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2237" data-t="2237">is to advocate for violence.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2239" data-t="2239">They will</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2240" data-t="2240">never be able to debate things</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2243" data-t="2243">on their merits because if they if they even enter the debate,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2247" data-t="2247">people are gonna realize they're a bunch of psychopaths</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2249" data-t="2249">that suck.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2253">37:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2253" data-t="2253">But one thing I know is people are hungry.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2256" data-t="2256">People are hungry for something better. People</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2259" data-t="2259">people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2260" data-t="2260">want</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2262" data-t="2262">individuals</span> <span class="cue" data-t="2262">that</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2264">37:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2264" data-t="2264">smoke a lot of cigarettes,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2266" data-t="2266">have brains,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2268" data-t="2268">and self respect</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2270" data-t="2270">out there</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2271" data-t="2271">beating the drum</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2273" data-t="2273">of freedom.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2275">37:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2275" data-t="2275">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2278" data-t="2278">just, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2279" data-t="2279">the valuing human dignity.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2282" data-t="2282">And we're prepared to do that. We have no idea</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2285" data-t="2285">what's gonna happen in 2025.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2288" data-t="2288">I think I think there's some predictions that we can make.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2292">38:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2292" data-t="2292">Bitcoin's gonna go up, obviously.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2295" data-t="2295">Tether's gonna be popular.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2298" data-t="2298">Influencers are gonna shill.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2301" data-t="2301">There's gonna be rug pulls.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2303" data-t="2303">There's gonna be shit coining.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2304" data-t="2304">There's gonna be a lot of</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2307">38:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2307" data-t="2307">nonsense.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2309" data-t="2309">That's that's one thing that's guaranteed.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2311" data-t="2311">There's individuals that wanna start wars.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2316" data-t="2316">They wanna rip you out of your your comfortable life and throw you onto the front lines</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2322" data-t="2322">of a war that you have no business fighting,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2325" data-t="2325">for whatever their machinations</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2328" data-t="2328">are. You know, the the bankers need to to fund wars on both sides.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2333" data-t="2333">And or or in order to fund wars on both sides,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2337" data-t="2337">they they first need to start the war.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2340" data-t="2340">Right?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2341" data-t="2341">And they need to support the war.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2344" data-t="2344">Because if you don't support the war,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2346">39:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2346" data-t="2346">they're not gonna be able to get away with,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2349" data-t="2349">you know, continuing to sustain the war and print money to fight it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2356" data-t="2356">And the only way for, you know, individuals like you to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2360" data-t="2360">to know enough to not support the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2363" data-t="2363">war</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2365" data-t="2365">is to not be pussies</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2367">39:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2367" data-t="2367">and to not smoke cigarettes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2369" data-t="2369">or sorry, to smoke cigarettes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2372" data-t="2372">To to drop your vape,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2374" data-t="2374">to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2375" data-t="2375">quit drinking the fluoride in the water,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2377" data-t="2377">and,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2379">39:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2379" data-t="2379">you know, listen to some noncompliant journalists tell you the way the world</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2384" data-t="2384">really works.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2385" data-t="2385">And I know it's gonna be difficult.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2387" data-t="2387">I know it's gonna be very difficult to discern the truth</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2391" data-t="2391">going forward. There the the levels</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2394" data-t="2394">of pseudo spoofing</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2396">39:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2396" data-t="2396">that we're seeing today</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2399" data-t="2399">are only getting exasperated.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2402" data-t="2402">And the only way to combat it is to pseudo spoof</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2406" data-t="2406">ourselves.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2407" data-t="2407">We we have to be better pseudo spoofers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2411" data-t="2411">than the people sitting in Langley, Virginia</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2413">40:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2413" data-t="2413">that have no souls,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2415" data-t="2415">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2416" data-t="2416">hate humanity,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2418" data-t="2418">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2419" data-t="2419">want to ban smoking,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2421" data-t="2421">and to ensure</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2423">40:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2423" data-t="2423">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2424" data-t="2424">no human born in the future</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2427" data-t="2427">has a sentient thought</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2429" data-t="2429">and only</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2430" data-t="2430">only thinks what has been preprogrammed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2434" data-t="2434">for them to think.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2437">40:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2437" data-t="2437">We we have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2438" data-t="2438">to beat these people,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2440" data-t="2440">you know. And the way we are gonna beat them</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2442" data-t="2442">is we're gonna beat them with creativity.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2444" data-t="2444">We're gonna beat</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2446" data-t="2446">them by smoking more cigarettes,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2448">40:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2448" data-t="2448">by working harder, by sleeping less, by grinding,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2453" data-t="2453">grinding,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2454" data-t="2454">and grinding.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2457" data-t="2457">I'm gonna chain myself</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2458" data-t="2458">to a typewriter</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2460" data-t="2460">in 2025,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2462">41:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2462" data-t="2462">and we're going to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2464" data-t="2464">absolutely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2465" data-t="2465">absolutely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2467" data-t="2467">kill it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2469" data-t="2469">One of the things</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2470" data-t="2470">I'm incredibly excited about</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2473">41:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2473" data-t="2473">coming up here in the near future</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2475" data-t="2475">is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2477" data-t="2477">we're gonna be doing the bugles,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2479" data-t="2479">which is essentially,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2481" data-t="2481">you know, the Oscars</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2483" data-t="2483">for Bitcoin podcasting.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2485">41:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2485" data-t="2485">This is one of the ways</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2487" data-t="2487">that we build culture</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2489" data-t="2489">and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2490" data-t="2490">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2492" data-t="2492">rip</span> <span class="cue" data-t="2492">control</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2493">41:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2493" data-t="2493">out of the hands</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2495" data-t="2495">of the intelligence agencies</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2498" data-t="2498">is by doing a word show.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2501" data-t="2501">Everybody</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2502" data-t="2502">knows that the Oscars</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2504" data-t="2504">is essentially a CIA circle jerk</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2507">41:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2507" data-t="2507">where individuals</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2508" data-t="2508">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2509" data-t="2509">are making content</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2511" data-t="2511">for the CIA</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2513" data-t="2513">give themselves awards.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2519" data-t="2519">The the only people</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2521">42:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2521" data-t="2521">that get into those awards</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2523" data-t="2523">are people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2525" data-t="2525">that have CIA approval.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2527" data-t="2527">You're not gonna get non compliant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2529" data-t="2529">content creators</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2531" data-t="2531">winning an Oscar.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2532">42:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2532" data-t="2532">Right?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2533" data-t="2533">So we just need to do our own award show. And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2538" data-t="2538">what's much more relevant today than Hollywood, everybody's forgetting about Hollywood. Their movies are bad. You can go back</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2546" data-t="2546">and watch movies from twenty years ago that were great.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2550" data-t="2550">And the CIA</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2552" data-t="2552">may have been involved with it,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2554">42:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2554" data-t="2554">but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2555" data-t="2555">it was better back then. It's probably because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2558" data-t="2558">there were more people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2559" data-t="2559">in Hollywood</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2560" data-t="2560">smoking cigarettes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2562" data-t="2562">But ever since the smoking bans in Hollywood came,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2565">42:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2565" data-t="2565">the CIA created content sucked,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2568" data-t="2568">absolutely sucked.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2569" data-t="2569">So instead of watching Netflix and and going to the movie theater and watching, you know, the latest rerun</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2576" data-t="2576">of whatever Disney crap</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2579" data-t="2579">there was.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2580" data-t="2580">People are listening to Bitcoin podcast,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2583">43:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2583" data-t="2583">and that's one of the big shifts</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2585" data-t="2585">that we saw in 2024.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2587" data-t="2587">We saw this movement,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2589" data-t="2589">this this</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2591" data-t="2591">absolute</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2592" data-t="2592">tsunami</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2593">43:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2593" data-t="2593">of individuals declaring</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2595" data-t="2595">that they were going to listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast a week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2601" data-t="2601">And that's that's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2603" data-t="2603">who we're doing the Beatles for. We're do we're doing it for the individuals that have enough conviction</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2609" data-t="2609">to make podcast listening</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2612" data-t="2612">their full time jobs,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2614">43:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2614" data-t="2614">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2615" data-t="2615">provide for their families, to to have the macro knowledge, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2620" data-t="2620">coming straight out of Lin Alden's mouth</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2624" data-t="2624">and be able to translate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2627" data-t="2627">that into their lives,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2629" data-t="2629">into,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2630">43:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2630" data-t="2630">you know, holding their Bitcoin, into</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2633" data-t="2633">spending their Bitcoin wisely,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2635" data-t="2635">into building out,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2637" data-t="2637">you know, this this circular economy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2640" data-t="2640">of people actually using Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2643" data-t="2643">so that</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2644">44:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2644" data-t="2644">we really can eliminate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2646" data-t="2646">the intelligence agencies</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2649" data-t="2649">influence</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2650" data-t="2650">over our lives.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2655" data-t="2655">Makes a good money.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2658">44:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2658" data-t="2658">Some listen for macro analysis. Yeah. We're so grateful for your analysis, Lynn. And I have to be honest with you. Three millionaire wanted to have just one Bitcoin. They couldn't do it. Some listen for price predictions.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2670">44:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2670" data-t="2670">Am I right in this that you forecasted</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2673" data-t="2673">500 to 700 k</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2675" data-t="2675">for Bitcoin?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2677" data-t="2677">Some listen for epic rants.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2680">44:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2680" data-t="2680">We literally have put our life savings into magic Internet money from a man who we we don't even fucking know because our governments have failed us so miserably. And some listen to at least forty hours per week</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2692">44:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2692" data-t="2692">regardless of the topic.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2700" data-t="2700">But there is one night we all listen</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2704" data-t="2704">to find out which Bitcoin podcasts</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2707" data-t="2707">are the most thermodynamically</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2709">45:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2709" data-t="2709">sound. Ten hours of your life, maybe sixty thousand hours of your life trying to The Bugles,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2715">45:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2715" data-t="2715">hosted by Richard Grieser and Rod Palmer.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2719" data-t="2719">Live this January.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2722" data-t="2722">Subscribe to The Bugle</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2724" data-t="2724">to find out the date and time.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2730">45:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2730" data-t="2730">We made a lot of friends</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2732" data-t="2732">over the past year</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2734" data-t="2734">that I'm really grateful for,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2736" data-t="2736">or even the past couple of years.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2741" data-t="2741">But, yeah, I mean, one of the one of the most noteworthy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2744" data-t="2744">friendships that we made</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2746">45:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2746" data-t="2746">over the years</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2748" data-t="2748">over the past year</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2750" data-t="2750">is with fundamentals</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2752" data-t="2752">from the rock paper Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2755" data-t="2755">podcast.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2757" data-t="2757">He's been on the show a couple times.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2760">45:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2760" data-t="2760">He</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2761" data-t="2761">has contributed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2763" data-t="2763">a lot.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2764" data-t="2764">He's given us a lot of, you know, really helpful feedback,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2768" data-t="2768">and he's been a big promoter</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2771" data-t="2771">of the Bugle.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2773">46:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2773" data-t="2773">So I just wanna shout out him</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2775" data-t="2775">and say thank you.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2778" data-t="2778">Our good friends</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2780" data-t="2780">at Ungovernable Misfits have supported us quite a bit as well.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2786" data-t="2786">Very excited about what they're doing,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2788" data-t="2788">carrying the banner of noncompliance.</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">They just continue to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2796" data-t="2796">produce really high quality</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2797" data-t="2797">stuff. It is great. It's very exciting to see what they're up to. Very impressed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2802" data-t="2802">constantly. Even even though Max is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2805" data-t="2805">British,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2806" data-t="2806">he's a funny talker.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2809">46:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2809" data-t="2809">He he kinda transcends a lot of stereotypes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2812" data-t="2812">about British people, about being</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2815" data-t="2815">very compliant,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2816" data-t="2816">about getting offended</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2818" data-t="2818">about a lot of things that aren't that offensive,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2822" data-t="2822">about supporting</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2823">47:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2823" data-t="2823">the regulations.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2826" data-t="2826">He's not that way</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2827" data-t="2827">at all. And and John</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2831" data-t="2831">is just awesome.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2832" data-t="2832">Absolutely.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2836" data-t="2836">But, yeah, we we made friends</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2838">47:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2838" data-t="2838">with a lot of people. And 2024</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2840" data-t="2840">was the year</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2842" data-t="2842">of the birth of the intellectual Silk Road.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2847" data-t="2847">The noncompliant network</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2850" data-t="2850">of individuals</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2852" data-t="2852">essentially transacting</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2854">47:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2854" data-t="2854">in a free market of ideas.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2857" data-t="2857">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2858" data-t="2858">it's been great.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2862" data-t="2862">Friendship that I made that, you know, I value and I'm excited about this year the past year</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2868" data-t="2868">was with Shadrach.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2871" data-t="2871">Shadrach completely surprised me in Nashville.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2874">47:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2874" data-t="2874">She walked up to me, somehow knew who I was, never seen me.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2879" data-t="2879">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2880" data-t="2880">flashed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2881" data-t="2881">the credential journalist hat and showed me his non KYC cigarettes. He he came</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2886" data-t="2886">already prepared.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2888" data-t="2888">He</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2889">48:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2889" data-t="2889">didn't need to buy them for me.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2892" data-t="2892">But that that was something that was a lot of fun. We we did</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2896" data-t="2896">a lot of noncompliant,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2898" data-t="2898">cigarette transactions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2900" data-t="2900">in Nashville</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2902" data-t="2902">at Bitcoin Magazine's</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2904">48:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2904" data-t="2904">political conference.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2908" data-t="2908">There needs to be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2909" data-t="2909">lots of noncompliant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2912" data-t="2912">behavior</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2913" data-t="2913">at those conferences because they're they're show compliant.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2917" data-t="2917">You have to offset the compliance.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2919">48:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2919" data-t="2919">Like, we're we're just trying to get back to zero,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2923" data-t="2923">instead of being deep into the negative,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2927" data-t="2927">of being overly compliant.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2929" data-t="2929">Like, having having TSA</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2932" data-t="2932">at your conference kind of, you know, fondling you before you are able to listen to your favorite podcaster,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2939" data-t="2939">that's a pretty high</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2941">49:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2941" data-t="2941">bar of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2943" data-t="2943">just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2944" data-t="2944">beta compliant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2945" data-t="2945">energy that you really need to work hard to offset. Like, it it's not an easy task</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2951" data-t="2951">to show up and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2953" data-t="2953">be so noncompliant.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2955">49:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2955" data-t="2955">So we have to come up with creative ways to do that that kinda fit into the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2959" data-t="2959">nonaggression principle.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2962" data-t="2962">Right?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2963" data-t="2963">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2965" data-t="2965">selling cigarettes peer to peer, non KYC,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2968" data-t="2968">using non compliant money</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2971">49:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2971" data-t="2971">is the way to do it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2973" data-t="2973">It's one of the ways to do it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2976" data-t="2976">Sending non compliant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2978" data-t="2978">memes</span> <span class="cue" data-t="2978">in the group chat, you know, doing all these things.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2982" data-t="2982">And</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2983">49:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2983" data-t="2983">hanging out with other noncompliant people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2986" data-t="2986">is the best.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2988" data-t="2988">And that's something I really enjoyed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2990" data-t="2990">over the last year.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2991" data-t="2991">And I I really hope to do more so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2994" data-t="2994">going forward. But, yeah, hanging out with,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2997">49:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2997" data-t="2997">Rod Palmer and Shadrach and Fundamentals</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3001" data-t="3001">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3002" data-t="3002">and Mars and, you know, all these all these really cool people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3007" data-t="3007">in Nashville</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3008" data-t="3008">was a blast.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3011" data-t="3011">I I I don't necessarily suggest everybody goes to a conference because</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3015">50:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3015" data-t="3015">when you go to a conference, like, you know, one out of every three people there is on the payroll for the CIA.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3022" data-t="3022">Right?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3023" data-t="3023">And so there's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3025" data-t="3025">a very high probability</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3026" data-t="3026">of getting talked.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3029" data-t="3029">And so you just have to, you know, take OPSEC into consideration and and ask yourself the question, is it worth</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3037">50:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3037" data-t="3037">going there? But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3039" data-t="3039">as journalists,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3040" data-t="3040">you know, we we</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3042" data-t="3042">are on the front line. We're at the tip of the spear,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3045" data-t="3045">so we need to be there.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3047" data-t="3047">And if you so happen to go</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3050">50:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3050" data-t="3050">to these various events,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3052" data-t="3052">it'd be great to hang out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3054" data-t="3054">We'll be around.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3058" data-t="3058">Yeah, going forward into 2025,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3062" data-t="3062">like I said earlier, we plan to dominate.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3066" data-t="3066">Our our plans for domination</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3070">51:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3070" data-t="3070">only will play out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3072" data-t="3072">with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3073" data-t="3073">the listeners'</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3074" data-t="3074">cooperation.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3075" data-t="3075">The more you boost us on Fountain,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3077" data-t="3077">the better we rank in the</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3081">51:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3081" data-t="3081">in the trending.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3085" data-t="3085">If we're we we were the eleventh biggest show</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3088" data-t="3088">on Fountain,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3090" data-t="3090">so we haven't even been going for a full year. We've only done,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3095" data-t="3095">forty one weeks</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3097" data-t="3097">of episodes</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3098">51:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3098" data-t="3098">in a row.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3099" data-t="3099">We'll get to 52 soon at some point.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3103" data-t="3103">But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3105" data-t="3105">over</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3106" data-t="3106">the past year, we were the eleventh biggest show on founding</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3110" data-t="3110">in in in terms of boost.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3113">51:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3113" data-t="3113">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3114" data-t="3114">what that tells me</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3116" data-t="3116">is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3117" data-t="3117">we have an audience that's really engaged,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3121" data-t="3121">and we wanna keep you engaged. We want</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3123" data-t="3123">you</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3124">52:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3124" data-t="3124">to be DM ing us. We want you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3127" data-t="3127">to be hanging out with us when we go to these events.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3131" data-t="3131">We wanna</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3133" data-t="3133">pay you back</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3134" data-t="3134">essentially for supporting us.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3136" data-t="3136">And and this is the model</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3139">52:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3139" data-t="3139">that I think is really revolutionary</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3141" data-t="3141">and game changing in the world of journalism</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3144" data-t="3144">is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3145" data-t="3145">you know, we're essentially working for tips.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3148" data-t="3148">You know, it it's almost like it's a entirely commission based,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3153" data-t="3153">fee model whereas,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3155">52:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3155" data-t="3155">you know, the majority of the world, the way that they do journalism and podcasting,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3160" data-t="3160">and and content creation,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3163" data-t="3163">is they get their money from the CIA,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3166" data-t="3166">they get their money from advertisers,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3168" data-t="3168">and they don't really have to hustle to take care of their audience.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3174" data-t="3174">And</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3174">52:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" data-t="3174">I think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3177" data-t="3177">it's time for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3178" data-t="3178">better standards.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3179" data-t="3179">It's time for people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3181" data-t="3181">demand</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3183" data-t="3183">a better product,</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 it's time for us to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3188" data-t="3188">essentially</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3189" data-t="3189">help create that market,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3191" data-t="3191">grow it,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3192" data-t="3192">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3193" data-t="3193">that's really one of the revolutionary ways that we can change the world,</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">you know, because if if we set the bar higher</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3202" data-t="3202">and we give individuals</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3205" data-t="3205">a taste of something</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3207" data-t="3207">better,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3208" data-t="3208">they're not gonna wanna go back and and consume the toilet water that that comes out of CIA controlled media.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3217" data-t="3217">They're gonna get tired of the same old</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3219">53:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3219" data-t="3219">podcast,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3222" data-t="3222">and just like the lack of creativity</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3224" data-t="3224">from individuals that probably should be working at Disney.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3230" data-t="3230">So there's kind of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3232" data-t="3232">a symbiotic relationship</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3234" data-t="3234">between us</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3236">53:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3236" data-t="3236">and our audience.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3237" data-t="3237">We only grow</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3239" data-t="3239">as much as we can convince our audience to support us.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3244" data-t="3244">And if we ever go off the rails, there's kind of an accountability</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3248" data-t="3248">function there</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3249" data-t="3249">where we'll get hammered.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3251">54:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3251" data-t="3251">You know?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3252" data-t="3252">We won't be able to support</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3254" data-t="3254">or afford cigarette money</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3257" data-t="3257">if we go off the weeds and we start preaching compliance and and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3262" data-t="3262">NGU</span> <span class="cue" data-t="3262">and</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3263">54:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3263" data-t="3263">asking everybody</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3266" data-t="3266">what their price target</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3268" data-t="3268">is for Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3270" data-t="3270">this cycle.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3271" data-t="3271">If if we</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3272" data-t="3272">just</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3273">54:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3273" data-t="3273">stoop to the levels</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3276" data-t="3276">of forgetting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3277" data-t="3277">what this whole</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3279" data-t="3279">movement is about,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3283" data-t="3283">We'll just cease to exist,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3286" data-t="3286">or</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3287">54:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3287" data-t="3287">we'll become super gay</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3289" data-t="3289">and take sponsorship money and start working for the CIA,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3292" data-t="3292">and it just, like, completely kills our credibility.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3296" data-t="3296">So this is why I set up the Beagle this</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3298" data-t="3298">way, is because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3300" data-t="3300">it's a check on ourselves.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3303">55:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3303" data-t="3303">We we built account</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3305" data-t="3305">accountability functions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3309" data-t="3309">in our newsroom</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3312" data-t="3312">to prevent us from being co opted.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3315" data-t="3315">And you guys</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3317" data-t="3317">are a big part of that.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3319">55:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3319" data-t="3319">You're a huge part of that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3321" data-t="3321">And so if you believe in it,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3326" data-t="3326">I thank you.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3327" data-t="3327">Thank you for supporting us.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3330" data-t="3330">This is gonna be a big year.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3332" data-t="3332">I'm excited for about 2025.</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3334" data-t="3334">I'll admit, I got really tired at the end of the year.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3340" data-t="3340">My joints were just really aching, you know. There's only so many</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3344" data-t="3344">characters you can type on a typewriter before your fingers fall off.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3348" data-t="3348">Fortunately, I still have all my fingers. They didn't fall off, but they got pretty close to it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3355" data-t="3355">Well, I took some rest and relaxation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3358" data-t="3358">over the holidays,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3359">55:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3359" data-t="3359">got recharged,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3363" data-t="3363">ready ready to grind.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3365" data-t="3365">Because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3366" data-t="3366">you don't change the world by being lazy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3370" data-t="3370">You don't</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3372" data-t="3372">you don't shift</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3375">56:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3375" data-t="3375">the entire media apparatus</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3380" data-t="3380">by being mediocre.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3386" data-t="3386">The Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3388" data-t="3388">the the bugle</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3390" data-t="3390">the bugle is the Bitcoin standard of news.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3393" data-t="3393">We're gonna we're gonna carry that,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3399">56:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3399" data-t="3399">that banner proudly,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3402" data-t="3402">and we're gonna be doing some really, really cool things. I'm not I'm not gonna give you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3408" data-t="3408">too many,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3412" data-t="3412">what's the word?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3414" data-t="3414">Sneak peeks into</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3415" data-t="3415">what we're gonna be doing</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3417">56:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3417" data-t="3417">yet.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3418" data-t="3418">Probably do more of that when Rod</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3421" data-t="3421">comes back</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3423" data-t="3423">next week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3424" data-t="3424">But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3426" data-t="3426">what I will tell you</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3427">57:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3427" data-t="3427">is this</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3428" data-t="3428">is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3429" data-t="3429">an announcement</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3431" data-t="3431">of many</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3432" data-t="3432">announcements</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3433" data-t="3433">to come in the future.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3435">57:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3435" data-t="3435">We will have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3437" data-t="3437">many</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3438" data-t="3438">groundbreaking</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3440" data-t="3440">and important announcements</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3442" data-t="3442">going forward.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3445" data-t="3445">Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3446">57:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3446" data-t="3446">The show</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3448" data-t="3448">is getting a little bit long.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3452" data-t="3452">Put a lot of time into it,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3455" data-t="3455">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3456" data-t="3456">it might be time to ramp up. I think it's time to ramp up.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3459" data-t="3459">So I will just end the episode</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3462">57:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3462" data-t="3462">with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3464" data-t="3464">a few words of wisdom.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3468" data-t="3468">Noncompliance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3471" data-t="3471">is a human right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3474" data-t="3474">I'm not talking about just breaking rules for the sake of breaking rules or especially when it comes to hurting people.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3481" data-t="3481">But</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3484">58:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3484" data-t="3484">never</span> <span class="cue" data-t="3484">never can we allow</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3486" data-t="3486">one entity</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3488" data-t="3488">to have a monopoly on noncompliance.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3491" data-t="3491">And the way that we break that monopoly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3495" data-t="3495">is individuals use their brains.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3499">58:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3499" data-t="3499">It's a it's a dying skill set. A lot of people have forgotten</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3503" data-t="3503">or have never even learned how to do it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3507" data-t="3507">And so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3508" data-t="3508">if you never learned how to think,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3511" data-t="3511">hopefully, we can teach you,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3513" data-t="3513">and hopefully, our listeners can teach you.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3516">58:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3516" data-t="3516">And hopefully,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3518" data-t="3518">you'll start listening to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast a week, and your entire life will be transformed.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3524" data-t="3524">And you'll lose</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3526" data-t="3526">any appetite</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3527" data-t="3527">that you ever had to work for the CIA,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3530" data-t="3530">to work for the intelligence agency,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3533">58:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3533" data-t="3533">to support,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3535" data-t="3535">global domination</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3538" data-t="3538">of the world</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3539" data-t="3539">through the use of Tether,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3543" data-t="3543">That you'll create a market</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3546" data-t="3546">of people buying and selling products</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3550">59:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3550" data-t="3550">in Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3553" data-t="3553">That people will aspire</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3555" data-t="3555">for more.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3557" data-t="3557">They're just living lives as a servitude</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3561" data-t="3561">to to psychopaths and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3563" data-t="3563">people that hang out at</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3565">59:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3565" data-t="3565">Epstein Island, and ditty parties, and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3568" data-t="3568">launch</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3569" data-t="3569">wars.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3572" data-t="3572">That's my hope.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3575" data-t="3575">And that that's what I'm committed to doing.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3578" data-t="3578">We're gonna change the world. We are changing.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3581">59:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3581" data-t="3581">We are the victors.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3583" data-t="3583">We're writing history right now. We're</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3586" data-t="3586">determining</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3588" data-t="3588">the future, and we have the ability to do that because we're using this technology</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3595" data-t="3595">that protects noncompliance.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3598" data-t="3598">So we have to protect the right to be noncompliant</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3602">1:00:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3602" data-t="3602">at all cost,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3604" data-t="3604">and there were some casualties.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3606" data-t="3606">Some noncompliant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3608" data-t="3608">individuals or or I wouldn't even argue that they were noncompliant, but they were working to protect noncompliance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3614" data-t="3614">that we have to remember,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3616" data-t="3616">you know, and and support</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3618">1:00:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3618" data-t="3618">at all costs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3620" data-t="3620">So I wanna thank</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3623" data-t="3623">the samurai</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3624" data-t="3624">wallet guys</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3626" data-t="3626">for all they're doing. I wanna I wanna thank,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3630" data-t="3630">Bitcoin Policy Institute.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3633">1:00:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3633" data-t="3633">Even though</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3634" data-t="3634">I disagree with a lot of their tactics,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3637" data-t="3637">they've been running p2prights.org,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3640" data-t="3640">which we've been</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3641" data-t="3641">a donator to assistant donator to.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3647" data-t="3647">Essentially, funding</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3648">1:00:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3648" data-t="3648">the defense</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3650" data-t="3650">of individual's rights</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3652" data-t="3652">to be non compliant,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3654" data-t="3654">and it's huge.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3655" data-t="3655">And with without that type of energy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3660" data-t="3660">you probably wouldn't even be able to custody Bitcoin.</span></span></p> +