Revision history · Transcript
Transcript: Selection Special Part 1 | Bugle Weekly Episode 32
1 revision · first seen 2026-08-12 · last edited 2026-08-12 · 0 by Henry 1 by a human
- bugle-ingest[bot] 2026-08-12 Ingest: 0 new episode(s) — raw sources + transcripts 32a9a2b
Show changes
diff --git a/wiki/transcripts/selection-special-part-1-bugle-weekly-episode-32.md b/wiki/transcripts/selection-special-part-1-bugle-weekly-episode-32.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8463df15 @@ -0,0 +1,529 @@ +--- +title: "Transcript: Selection Special Part 1 | Bugle Weekly Episode 32" +type: transcript +episode: selection-special-part-1-bugle-weekly-episode-32 +generated: true +date: 2024-10-28 +audio: "https://feeds.fountain.fm/R8scBF2Wiykm0YVldsHQ/items/iSk4EXV3wEEnsjt0QSHS/files/AUDIO---DEFAULT---5de1b927-e1fa-4ffe-91e9-4a09507f4511.mp3" +duration: "1:11:41" +sources: + - raw/episodes/selection-special-part-1-bugle-weekly-episode-32/bundle.json +--- + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-48">0:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-48" data-t="48">What you have just heard listeners all over the world is a warning, and you will hear this warning again.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-54" data-t="54">You have been listening to your leaders tell you that there is a great move towards democracy in the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-61" data-t="61">Democracy is a code word for socialism and that is why our forefathers established a republic.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-67" data-t="67">But don't get down, folks. All is not lost.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-70" data-t="70">The problem lies in each and every one of you, and there also lies the answer.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-75" data-t="75">This is William Hooper, and you are listening to the Bugle Weekly.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-97">1:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-97" data-t="97">For yourself</span> <span class="cue" id="t-124" data-t="124">Welcome</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-140">2:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-140" data-t="140">Welcome to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-142" data-t="142">this week's edition of the People Weekly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-144" data-t="144">This episode is going to be a very special episode.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-148" data-t="148">It is actually</span> <span class="cue" id="t-151" data-t="151">part one of our selection</span> <span class="cue" id="t-153" data-t="153">special,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-154">2:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-154" data-t="154">because we have a big selection coming up. It is just indicative that Bitcoin has already won. And today, we're gonna talk about it a little bit.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-164" data-t="164">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-165" data-t="165">yeah, we just wanna encourage you guys to use your brains and really question which credential experts you're, listening to. But how are you doing tonight, Rob?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-174">2:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-174" data-t="174">I'm doing really well.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-176" data-t="176">Like you said,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-178" data-t="178">this is a big occasion.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-180" data-t="180">Everything the past four years has been building up</span> <span class="cue" id="t-184" data-t="184">to this big selection that is happening,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-188" data-t="188">you know, next Tuesday.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-190">3:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-190" data-t="190">This is like the Olympics</span> <span class="cue" id="t-191" data-t="191">for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-192" data-t="192">for politics.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-195" data-t="195">Every four years, if you're not an American, you don't know about what's happening in The United States.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-200" data-t="200">Every four years,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-202" data-t="202">when the Americans pick the two smartest people</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-204">3:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-204" data-t="204">in the world or, you know, in America who are American citizens, and they we'd vote for who we want to be our president for the next four years. And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-213" data-t="213">it's so we decided to cover it. This is our one</span> <span class="cue" id="t-216" data-t="216">of two episodes. This episode in next week's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-220" data-t="220">to cover this hugely,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-222" data-t="222">massively important</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-224">3:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-224" data-t="224">event? I think most Europeans</span> <span class="cue" id="t-226" data-t="226">actually know what's going on probably just as well as we do because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-231" data-t="231">The United States</span> <span class="cue" id="t-232" data-t="232">has the global reserve currency. It issues the most stable coins</span> <span class="cue" id="t-238" data-t="238">denominated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-239" data-t="239">in that currency.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-241">4:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-241" data-t="241">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-243" data-t="243">yeah, our listeners from the global South are definitely very familiar with our politics,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-248" data-t="248">as well as</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-249">4:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-249" data-t="249">those from the global North. Yeah. That's true. That's true.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-253" data-t="253">So they're definitely invested in this as well because they are also</span> <span class="cue" id="t-258" data-t="258">having hard time paying the taxes in their local countries</span> <span class="cue" id="t-262" data-t="262">because of the reserve currency because they are using Tether on Tron.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-267" data-t="267">They're using our stablecoins, so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-270" data-t="270">it's tough.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-273">4:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-273" data-t="273">In a stunning turn of events that even South Park couldn't have predicted, our choices for president of The United States are down to the two worst possible candidates.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-282" data-t="282">In one week, Americans must decide between a fascist and a retard.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-286" data-t="286">People have been frantically trying to determine which is worse.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-289" data-t="289">Is Hitler worse than a drooling retard? People on podcasts insist Hitler had at least some good ideas, but can a retard protect the country from all the Hitlers we didn't vote for?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-299" data-t="299">Is this really the best America has to offer?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-302" data-t="302">Is this all our great institutions and traditions are able to produce? Unfortunately, yes, this is it. It all boils down to fascism versus communism,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-309">5:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-309" data-t="309">the assholes versus the retards.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-311" data-t="311">But what if there was a third option? Well, there isn't. You have to pick between the assholes and retards.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-318" data-t="318">So make up your mind and decide if you want to be able to afford to pay taxes or if you want to take a shit in the women's bathroom.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-324" data-t="324">Bitcoin fixes everything but not overnight. In the meantime,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-327" data-t="327">you have to vote.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-328" data-t="328">Not every decision is easy, but you have to decide or you will be subject to whichever asshole a retard wins.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-339">5:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-339" data-t="339">Well, I think,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-342" data-t="342">you know, it it is tough out there.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-346" data-t="346">Experts</span> <span class="cue" id="t-347" data-t="347">like Alex Gladstein are pointing out that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-350" data-t="350">Tether on top of Tron actually,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-353" data-t="353">in some circumstances, can make it easier to pay your taxes in these different jurisdictions.</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-359" data-t="359">Right. Right.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-361">6:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-361" data-t="361">Essentially, you know, suggesting that they should just accept,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-367" data-t="367">the US government's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-369" data-t="369">rule and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-371" data-t="371">influence in the country by eliminating their use of their own, central bank.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-376">6:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-376" data-t="376">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-377" data-t="377">That brings up an interesting thing I saw tonight. If</span> <span class="cue" id="t-382" data-t="382">we're recording on Sunday evening</span> <span class="cue" id="t-384" data-t="384">today, Trump had a huge rally</span> <span class="cue" id="t-386" data-t="386">at, Madison Square Garden, Downtown New York, sold out crowd. And Elon Musk was there, and he was bragging</span> <span class="cue" id="t-394" data-t="394">about how she</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-396">6:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-396" data-t="396">has the world record, their identity. He said they're putting in to get his book of world records,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-401" data-t="401">for about most taxes paid in one year.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-404" data-t="404">And he paid, you know, Neil, you know, tens of millions of dollars in taxes and he he was behind him about it on stage, and he was he was saying that the FBI or the IRS was, he thought he was gonna get a trophy from them.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-419" data-t="419">But my question to you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-422" data-t="422">is do you think that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-423" data-t="423">is</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-424">7:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-424" data-t="424">like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-426" data-t="426">it's almost like braggadocious, like he's he's it's almost like he's mocking or putting down or making people from the global South feel bad about themselves. Why are do you think this is like part of a really cool new trend</span> <span class="cue" id="t-438" data-t="438">that's gonna like like people are gonna start bragging about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-441" data-t="441">and trying to outdo Elon Musk and how much taxes they can pay. And it'll, it'll kind of be like a Bitcoin stacking,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-449" data-t="449">like competition instead of like a weight loss competition at work. It's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-453" data-t="453">who can pay the highest amount of taxes at work. Everybody like posts their, their</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-458">7:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-458" data-t="458">Bitcoin DCA stacking goals and like how they're reaching them and like how much taxes that they're going to be able to pay that they're on,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-466" data-t="466">in progress of paying next year. Yeah. I mean,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-469">7:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-469" data-t="469">I think there's a way to be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-472" data-t="472">classy about the way that you brag about how much taxes you're paying.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-477" data-t="477">Because it doesn't make</span> <span class="cue" id="t-479" data-t="479">a whole lot of sense</span> <span class="cue" id="t-480" data-t="480">to make a lot of other people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-483" data-t="483">feel bad about how little they're contributing.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-487">8:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-487" data-t="487">I know there's a lot of people out there that really want</span> <span class="cue" id="t-490" data-t="490">to pay as much taxes as Elon Musk, but they just can't afford to.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-495" data-t="495">And they probably never will be able to.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-499" data-t="499">But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-501" data-t="501">yeah, I mean, I think the IRS</span> <span class="cue" id="t-503" data-t="503">should reward</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-505">8:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-505" data-t="505">the biggest taxpayers,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-506" data-t="506">because they're essentially,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-509" data-t="509">you're looking at your biggest customers, essentially, who have the ability to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-515" data-t="515">either</span> <span class="cue" id="t-516" data-t="516">leave the country and take their business elsewhere</span> <span class="cue" id="t-519" data-t="519">or just launder all the money through Monero</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-524">8:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-524" data-t="524">or Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-526" data-t="526">And so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-527" data-t="527">not only that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-529" data-t="529">I think what Elon's trying to do is he's trying to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-533" data-t="533">essentially curry favor</span> <span class="cue" id="t-536" data-t="536">with</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-537">8:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-537" data-t="537">Israel</span> <span class="cue" id="t-538" data-t="538">and with Ukraine,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-540" data-t="540">two very influential countries</span> <span class="cue" id="t-542" data-t="542">that have the opinion to sway the European Union's opinion of him who are currently kinda being hostile.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-550" data-t="550">So essentially what he's proving to those countries by paying the most taxes is he's contributing the most</span> <span class="cue" id="t-556" data-t="556">to send</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-557">9:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-557" data-t="557">missiles to them.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-558">9:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-558" data-t="558">Right. Well, the way I see it is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-562" data-t="562">with Elon,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-563" data-t="563">he bought Twitter,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-565" data-t="565">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-566" data-t="566">he wants people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-568" data-t="568">to KYC themselves. That's why, Odell went to Noster.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-573">9:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-573" data-t="573">But he, he made it so that you could earn money,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-576" data-t="576">by posting the best memes on, on, on this platform,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-580" data-t="580">you could get a blue check, which makes it easier to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-584" data-t="584">let people know that your Bitcoin podcast or your journalism</span> <span class="cue" id="t-588" data-t="588">is credentialed.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-590" data-t="590">That helps them, like, sift through, like, the misinformation.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-593">9:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-593" data-t="593">And he he's bragging me, you know, you see, he set the world record</span> <span class="cue" id="t-598" data-t="598">for most taxes paid in a year</span> <span class="cue" id="t-601" data-t="601">and he's making it fun. And what Elon Musk is doing, and especially if you do it with with with Trump most likely to win this election,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-609" data-t="609">they're gonna be deporting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-611" data-t="611">tens of maybe hundreds of millions of people, and they're gonna be rooting out people that shouldn't be in the country. So they're going to need much, much broader, stronger, more stringent</span> <span class="cue" id="t-622" data-t="622">KYC rules</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-624" data-t="624">for everything,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-625" data-t="625">especially the the the financial system.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-628" data-t="628">So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-629" data-t="629">he's making it fun. He's making it competition who can be the most compliant. He's they're making compliance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-636" data-t="636">fun again. They're making compliance.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-640" data-t="640">Hey. Again, it's the the more you comply, the more you contribute, and the more, like, Bitcoin exchanges that you're stacking found that you've KYC ed into</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-649">10:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-649" data-t="649">and withdrawing into cold storage and supporting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-652" data-t="652">cold, you know, cold cold storage wallets that were made in America</span> <span class="cue" id="t-657" data-t="657">or Bitcoin mining equipment that was made in America. The more you comply</span> <span class="cue" id="t-661" data-t="661">and just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-662" data-t="662">basically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-664" data-t="664">the the best the way that you can prove that you have the best incentives</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-668">11:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-668" data-t="668">of everybody else</span> <span class="cue" id="t-670" data-t="670">and you're, you know, KYC in the system, that's either gotta be fun or people are are gonna try to avoid it. And they don't want people to avoid it. They want people to opt in and realize that compliance does pay, and compliance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-681" data-t="681">makes you safer and compliance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-684" data-t="684">prevents you from getting deported,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-686" data-t="686">all these things.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-688">11:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-688" data-t="688">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-690" data-t="690">Yeah. I think they should gamify compliance</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-693">11:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-693" data-t="693">in general.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-694" data-t="694">In general. Exactly. Well, it should be it shouldn't be fun.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-698">11:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-698" data-t="698">Well, this is a reason why Fold performed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-701" data-t="701">so well in the compliance,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-704" data-t="704">competition</span> <span class="cue" id="t-705" data-t="705">or tournament was because they're they they are one of the first</span> <span class="cue" id="t-710" data-t="710">entities to really do a good job of gamifying compliance.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-714">11:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-714" data-t="714">Exactly, exactly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-718" data-t="718">These Bitcoin companies like Swan</span> <span class="cue" id="t-721" data-t="721">and Fold,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-724" data-t="724">they know that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-726" data-t="726">compliance is unpopular,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-728" data-t="728">but if they, you know, if they can make it popular, if they have the most spaces, if they have the best conferences,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-734">12:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-734" data-t="734">they have the best podcasts. If they have, like, the funnest apps,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-737" data-t="737">if they have the most, you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-740" data-t="740">know, just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-742" data-t="742">you feel like you're part of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-744" data-t="744">a really great community.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-746" data-t="746">And you're like, I wanna comply and I wanna pay my taxes in this community because I'm proud of this community.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-752">12:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-752" data-t="752">And that's what that's, you know, that's the standard angle they have to take. Yeah. You're gonna have to comply anyway, so you might as well do it with the coolest people and have the most fun.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-762">12:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-762" data-t="762">Totally.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-764" data-t="764">Yeah. I know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-765" data-t="765">I know there's a lot of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-767" data-t="767">controversy happening around the election, a lot of lawsuits, a lot of arguing about the rules.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-772" data-t="772">It's almost like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-775" data-t="775">an election is about as contentious as,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-778">12:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-778" data-t="778">you know, the route like, the the way that the election is overseen</span> <span class="cue" id="t-783" data-t="783">is as contentious</span> <span class="cue" id="t-784" data-t="784">over the debate of how to activate a fork</span> <span class="cue" id="t-787" data-t="787">in Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-789" data-t="789">So I wanna know your opinion.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-791" data-t="791">You know,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-793">13:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-793" data-t="793">is KYCing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-794" data-t="794">to vote,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-796" data-t="796">is that racist? Because that that's been a lot of what our credentialed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-800" data-t="800">peers are discussing right now.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-804" data-t="804">So let me be clear.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-806">13:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-806" data-t="806">What can be,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-807" data-t="807">unburdened by what has been.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-810">13:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-810" data-t="810">And Corn Pop was a bad dude,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-813" data-t="813">and he ran a bunch of bad boys.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-816">13:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-816" data-t="816">We are progressive Bitcoiners for Kamala Harris, and these are our stories.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-824" data-t="824">In your own words, why do you believe progressives need Bitcoin?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-828">13:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Jennifer from Texas</b> <span class="cue" id="t-828" data-t="828">When I think about why progressives need Bitcoin, I think of trans folks who face an inordinate amount of economic struggles, not least of which is the gender pay gap.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-837" data-t="837">After completing their transition,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-839" data-t="839">many trans women find themselves taking 20% pay cuts and unable to afford their taxes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-845" data-t="845">I'm Jennifer from Texas, and this is my story. That's why I believe progressives need Bitcoin.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-853">14:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-853" data-t="853">I've</span> <span class="cue" id="t-855" data-t="855">a lot of people wanna say yes,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-858" data-t="858">but I just I don't think it's that hard.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-861" data-t="861">I think it's really as simple as</span> <span class="cue" id="t-865" data-t="865">I mean, you could make it as simple as, you know, using your nostr</span> <span class="cue" id="t-869" data-t="869">input</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-871">14:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-871" data-t="871">or your lightning wallet address. Like, that's real. I think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-875" data-t="875">if if there's one thing we've heard on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-877" data-t="877">over and over on Bitcoin podcasts,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-880" data-t="880">it's that Bitcoin is an open permissionless system that anybody, no matter,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-885" data-t="885">you know, how rural or what country they're from, even people out in Tonga</span> <span class="cue" id="t-889" data-t="889">can use Bitcoin. That means you can</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-892">14:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-892" data-t="892">get</span> <span class="cue" id="t-893" data-t="893">a lightning address and use that to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-896" data-t="896">associate your identity and log in anywhere. And I don't think, I don't see, I think that having, being</span> <span class="cue" id="t-902" data-t="902">using a login with lightning, so to speak,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-905" data-t="905">is how Bitcoin can fix</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-907">15:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-907" data-t="907">voter fraud. Yeah. So so you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-910" data-t="910">it doesn't really like directly because like, I think the important question here is not how to verify</span> <span class="cue" id="t-916" data-t="916">anybody. The the important question here is, is actually showing your ID racist? That's the question that, you know, America wants to know. Yeah. And what if what if what if showing your I mean, what if you have a a warrant out for your arrest?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-930">15:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-930" data-t="930">Like, should you be getting arrested just because you try to vote? Like, it's racist</span> <span class="cue" id="t-934" data-t="934">to if some people have more warrants than others.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-938">15:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-938" data-t="938">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-939" data-t="939">I mean, I I don't think it I I wouldn't have described it as racist. But you know, I kinda like the framing of racist because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-947" data-t="947">if we just determine that KYC was racist, then, you know, more people would be against it. Like</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-954">15:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-954" data-t="954">Oh, yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-956">15:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-956" data-t="956">You know, I I I feel like it's, I don't know, whatever</span> <span class="cue" id="t-959" data-t="959">it takes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-961" data-t="961">to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-962" data-t="962">if KYCing to vote is racist, then KYCing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-965" data-t="965">to buy cigarettes is also racist.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-968">16:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-968" data-t="968">I hate to believe, but there's a lot of people that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-972" data-t="972">have been,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-973" data-t="973">they've done a lot of KYC</span> <span class="cue" id="t-975" data-t="975">and now it's gonna come back and be like, Oh, I'm racist.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-978" data-t="978">They're gonna be dense</span> <span class="cue" id="t-980" data-t="980">that narrative. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-982">16:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-982" data-t="982">I mean, it's just one of the dangerous things about living in our society today, you know, is you could be doing something that's totally</span> <span class="cue" id="t-989" data-t="989">in the cool one day and then it's deemed as, like, extremely racist the the next day. Like, you know, you look at,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-999" data-t="999">Bitcoin hater of Canada,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1002" data-t="1002">prime prime minister Justin Trudeau. You know, he used to do blackface.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1008">16:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1008" data-t="1008">Right. And he's the pro you know, he's the prime minister.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1010">16:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1010" data-t="1010">Yeah. You know, it's And like, you know, politicians,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1013" data-t="1013">you know, like young politicians that like grew up watching him as like an inspiration,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1018" data-t="1018">like Dennis Porter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1020" data-t="1020">You know, they grew up seeing that stuff and learning that that behavior was okay.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1024" data-t="1024">And so, like, you know, Dennis Porter saw Justin Trudeau do that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1028" data-t="1028">and then showed up to his high school Halloween party with blackface,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1034">17:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1034" data-t="1034">would that make him racist?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1036">17:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1036" data-t="1036">Right. But what about who you see is is homophobic?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1041" data-t="1041">Yeah. Right? Like, that's that's a sigh up because that would that sounds like something</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1046" data-t="1046">the spokes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1047" data-t="1047">would say is that KYC is homophobic because then they only can't</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1052" data-t="1052">get KYC'd</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1055" data-t="1055">because that's the problem. Right, Greg? We need to be able to KYC the spics. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1060">17:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1060" data-t="1060">Well, I mean, you could argue that, like, KYC for civilians</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1063" data-t="1063">is is,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1065">17:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1065" data-t="1065">Right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1066" data-t="1066">Maybe that's what we should know, KYC for for civilians.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1070" data-t="1070">Strong KYC</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1071" data-t="1071">requirements for spooks.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1073">17:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1073" data-t="1073">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1074" data-t="1074">I mean, you know, who do you wanna be verifying more? The, you know, the guy that has, like, 12 Netflix subscriptions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1081" data-t="1081">or the person that has access to nuclear weapons in some way? Right. Like wouldn't you rather not have chain analysis worried about</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1089">18:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1089" data-t="1089">trying to find</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1090" data-t="1090">somebody who bought marijuana</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1092" data-t="1092">and having to deal with all these identities? And it's like, just make sure the spoons are trying to sell</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1099" data-t="1099">nuclear weapons</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1101" data-t="1101">that can fit in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1103" data-t="1103">briefcases</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1104">18:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1104" data-t="1104">that they could carry in, you know, from Russia</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1107" data-t="1107">and making sure that those are being sold on the black market by, by CIA agents. Yeah. I mean, the CIA has been,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1114">18:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1114" data-t="1114">documented in the past</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1116" data-t="1116">of, you know, illegally importing cigarettes into The US, which, you know, should be illegal because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1123" data-t="1123">cigarettes should be, you know, one of the biggest parts of the American economy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1128" data-t="1128">because we grow some of the best tobacco in the world here.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1133">18:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1133" data-t="1133">We can do that. So you that's why Trump want he wants to put tariffs</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1137" data-t="1137">on non American</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1139" data-t="1139">tobacco.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1140">18:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1140" data-t="1140">Mhmm. Yeah. I mean, like, you know, one of the topics that we had on the list to discuss tonight is, you know, RFK Jr. Has been having a massive impact on Trump.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1151" data-t="1151">You know, while Trump was working at McDonald's this week,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1155" data-t="1155">you know, he was learning he went there to learn firsthand the dangers of seed oils. Like, he wanted to see it for himself.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1162" data-t="1162">And so there's a plan</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1164" data-t="1164">to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1166" data-t="1166">to essentially, you know, ban seed oils, you know, and to classify them as industrial lubricants.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1174">19:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1174" data-t="1174">But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1175" data-t="1175">I think one of the important things to to realize here,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1179" data-t="1179">you know, what Trump's trying to do with tariffs, and he talked about his logic of putting tariffs on tobacco imported in The US, is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1182" data-t="1182">that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1184" data-t="1184">on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1186" data-t="1186">tobacco imported in The US, is that,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1189">19:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1189" data-t="1189">tobacco</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1190" data-t="1190">was the original, it was epic. And like America has a serious weight problem. And so, you know, not only</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1195" data-t="1195">do you have to ban the seed oils to fix that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1199" data-t="1199">you also</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1201" data-t="1201">have to bring back the original Ozempic.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1203">20:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1203" data-t="1203">Right. Exactly. And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1206" data-t="1206">first of all, a little</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1208" data-t="1208">a little tidbit.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1210" data-t="1210">I know from a guy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1213" data-t="1213">who his cousin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1216" data-t="1216">goes to the Bitcoin meetup,</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1218" data-t="1218">in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1219" data-t="1219">the town that Trump worked at McDonald's at.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1222" data-t="1222">And one of the guys that goes to his meetup</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1225" data-t="1225">was actually there. He works at that McDonald's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1228" data-t="1228">and he apparently</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1230" data-t="1230">gave Trump a non KYC cigarette and told Trump about non KYC cigarettes and Trump really, really thought it was</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1237">20:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1237" data-t="1237">as a great story.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1240" data-t="1240">Apparently, he said it on Joe Rogan, but they edited that part out because, like, they just had to get it under three hours. They didn't wanna be too long.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1247" data-t="1247">But,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1248" data-t="1248">but, yeah, I think that's a great story, but it is he he, he also helped</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1253" data-t="1253">educate Trump on the dangers of seed oils. And so I think that it's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1259" data-t="1259">it's kind of this microcosm,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1260">21:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1260" data-t="1260">like, RFK got orange pilled.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1263" data-t="1263">He learned the health,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1266" data-t="1266">impact that seed oils have. And he</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1269" data-t="1269">worked his way up in just two years</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1272" data-t="1272">to be in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1274" data-t="1274">charge of the entire country's health.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1277">21:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1277" data-t="1277">And he's gonna ban seed oils. And I think that just shows you the power</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1281" data-t="1281">of Bitcoin podcast. Like, because of our voices and because of our health advice,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1287" data-t="1287">America is not gonna ban seed oils and and and the president and the guy in charge, they're</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1293" data-t="1293">they're legit</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1294" data-t="1294">seed oil disrespectors.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1297">21:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1297" data-t="1297">On November 5, a Bitcoiner will be selected into the White House. Both candidates, Kamala Harris and Adolf Hitler, have embraced Bitcoin and crypto,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1306" data-t="1306">making this the most important selection in our nation's history. While it's not public who you vote for, it sure is public if you voted or not. That way, boomers who deeply care about our democracy can harass and shame you for not voting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1319" data-t="1319">Remember, if you vote, you have no right to complain because you are helping to select non compliant criminals into office.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1325" data-t="1325">But voting is our sacred duty. Our generation's grandfathers stormed the beaches of Normandy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1331" data-t="1331">in order to save the Jews from the Holocaust,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1333" data-t="1333">so the nation of Israel two,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1340">22:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1340" data-t="1340">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1347" data-t="1347">two, to generate tax dollars for government to export democracy to places that don't want it. Savages living peacefully around the world need to be conquered in order to serve US corporations,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1357" data-t="1357">and to enlighten them to the wonders of gender and democracy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1361" data-t="1361">You can see why the selection is so high stakes and requires you to participate in it. Both candidates have made so many promises to do so many great things for you. Both have promised to print a lot of money in order to make Bitcoin go up. Both have promised to make things cheaper while at the same time make taxes affordable.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1378" data-t="1378">Fortunately, both candidates feel strongly about using million dollar missiles to shoot down thousand dollar missiles.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1384" data-t="1384">But you can only vote for one of them, and the choice is yours.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1387">23:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1387" data-t="1387">This is the most important selection in the history of the world. That is until Dennis Porter runs in 2028.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1394" data-t="1394">Make sure to get to the polls to vote in person. But if you can't, follow Ted Kaczynski's advice and vote by mail. I'm very bullish on America right now. Todd not to feel bullish, I'd say. Yeah. I'm I'm very bullish. Like, you know, I wouldn't</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1407">23:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1407" data-t="1407">I I don't think we're gonna give her endorsement</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1410" data-t="1410">this week. Maybe we'll consider it next week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1414" data-t="1414">Maybe we won't even have an endorsement, but,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1417" data-t="1417">you know, I know our colleagues at the Washington Post,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1422" data-t="1422">got very upset this week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1424" data-t="1424">Did you see this?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1426">23:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1426" data-t="1426">Yeah. Yeah. So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1428" data-t="1428">Jeff Bezos</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1430" data-t="1430">was a little bit</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1432" data-t="1432">peeved off that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1435" data-t="1435">Elon Musk,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1437" data-t="1437">is able to pay</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1439">23:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1439" data-t="1439">the highest amount of taxes, and Jeff Bezos</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1443" data-t="1443">used to be the guy that paid the highest amount of taxes and he's not anymore and he's a little jealous of that. So one of the reasons,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1451" data-t="1451">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1452" data-t="1452">the Washington Post, what what Richard was talking about,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1456" data-t="1456">they decided not to give any endorsement,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1460" data-t="1460">which is one of the things we're considering. But I just thought it was interesting that</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1464">24:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1464" data-t="1464">they they the painter chose not to do that. And there was a lot of uproar at the paper because the decision was made not by the lead editor. It was made by the paper's owner, who is Jeff</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1475" data-t="1475">Bezos. And Jeff Bezos</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1477" data-t="1477">is mad at Kamala Harris and Joe Biden for raising taxes,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1482" data-t="1482">and allowing Elon Musk to set record</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1485" data-t="1485">and and get the trophy for the highest amount of taxes paid.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1489" data-t="1489">So he he</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1490">24:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1490" data-t="1490">he's trying to trying</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1492" data-t="1492">to change in there</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1494" data-t="1494">to change the tax code in a way that benefits him</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1498">24:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1498" data-t="1498">so he can pay a must record in taxes. And he can brag about that. You know, this is one of the reasons why I don't like the loop to work in fiat journalism anymore. Because all all of this seems like incredibly childish to me. Right. It's like you your newspaper should not be reporting</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1513">25:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1513" data-t="1513">based on,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1514" data-t="1514">you know, how much</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1516" data-t="1516">taxes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1517" data-t="1517">the boss</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1518" data-t="1518">wants to wants to pay.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1521">25:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1521" data-t="1521">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1522" data-t="1522">I mean, I think it's important for, you know, the owners and the editors</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1526" data-t="1526">to have the ability to use the paper</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1530" data-t="1530">to further their opinions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1532" data-t="1532">because that is a part of free speech, you know, which is journalism is protected under.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1539" data-t="1539">That's the point of journalism, actually,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1541">25:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1541" data-t="1541">which is why all the billionaires</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1544" data-t="1544">each own</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1546" data-t="1546">their own newspaper.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1548" data-t="1548">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1550" data-t="1550">you know, why part of the reason why I was interested in in starting this is because that's, like, the whole point of journal journalism is to fur further</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1558" data-t="1558">whatever your goal and opinion is. And super That's true.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1562">26:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1562" data-t="1562">That's true.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1564" data-t="1564">Super important during selection season. But, yeah, I mean, this this election season has been pretty crazy. So, like, you mentioned that Donald Trump,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1572" data-t="1572">you know, is forming his opinions on cigarettes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1575" data-t="1575">based on talking to McDonald's employees that go to Bitcoin meetups.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1579">26:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1579" data-t="1579">Right. Right. Like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1580" data-t="1580">it's smiling stuff.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1582">26:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1582" data-t="1582">Well, his his competitor,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1584" data-t="1584">Kamala,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1587" data-t="1587">I don't think she has the ability to do that in the same way. I don't think she would respect</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1592" data-t="1592">a McDonald's employee. You know what I mean? Right. Right.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1597">26:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1597" data-t="1597">What do you mean like these?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1599" data-t="1599">Say a McDonald's employee said to her, Hey,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1604" data-t="1604">I know you're Don. You know, I know you went to a really respectable</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1608" data-t="1608">college</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1610" data-t="1610">and you have probably the best doctors in the world, but I'm telling you, they're not giving you the right information on seed oils.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1617" data-t="1617">You don't think she would listen to that, but you think Trump would you think Trump would hear that and be like, oh, maybe you're right.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1624">27:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1624" data-t="1624">She she's never listened to a flood Bitcoiners podcast. She's completely captured by PodCon</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1631" data-t="1631">right off the bat. And so she doesn't understand, you know, she's never listened</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1636" data-t="1636">to the Canadian Bitcoin or podcast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1638" data-t="1638">or, you know, high hash rate or, you know, there's a litany of ones out there.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1643">27:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1643" data-t="1643">And so, of course, she doesn't ex you know? Right. She's not on she's not on Good Morning Bitcoin, the daily spaces</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1650" data-t="1650">with Coin Acris and and until recently,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1653" data-t="1653">her friend, Mars. But he's been</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1655" data-t="1655">he's been kicked out of spaces there. But she you're saying, like, come on, Harris doesn't wake up in the morning and listen to that spaces.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1662">27:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1662" data-t="1662">No. No. She doesn't. She, you know, she wakes up in the morning and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1667" data-t="1667">she I mean, she probably listens to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1671" data-t="1671">NPR.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1672" data-t="1672">I I you know, I bet she just, like, has phone calls with people like Brad Garlinghouse and Cameron Winklevoss.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1678" data-t="1678">Right. Right. Okay. Yeah. I doubt I doubt Cameron's really talking to her because,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1683" data-t="1683">yeah, I don't even know who she's talking to.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1688">28:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1688" data-t="1688">I mean, it sounds like she talks to Dennis Porter, but that's kind of a given because who what politician isn't talking to Dennis Porter? I wish I'd listened to Dennis Porter more, to be honest with you.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1700">28:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1700" data-t="1700">But it's like, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1701" data-t="1701">Donald Trump has David Bailey.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1704" data-t="1704">Donald Trump has Bailey you know, Barron Trump who</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1708" data-t="1708">is telling him the right podcast to listen to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1711" data-t="1711">and Trump even said that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1714" data-t="1714">But Klaus hires does Klaus hires has a stepdaughter, but she does not look like somebody who listens to Bitcoin podcast.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1722">28:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1722" data-t="1722">No.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1724" data-t="1724">I wonder</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1726" data-t="1726">so we have a Dennis Porter's fact page. I think we talked about this last week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1730" data-t="1730">We have a Dennis Porter's fact page that we put up on the website, and we keep on updating it as people share their Dennis Porter facts with us.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1739" data-t="1739">It's a pretty exciting,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1741" data-t="1741">update.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1743">29:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1743" data-t="1743">I almost feel like we should do a Dennis Porter was right</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1748" data-t="1748">page as well.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1750" data-t="1750">I know that conspiracy theorists have done that with Alex Jones, but I feel like Dennis Porter in the way that he's correct.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1758" data-t="1758">I don't know. He's had a pretty good week. I've been very impressed with,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1763" data-t="1763">you know, his engagement. His tweets have gotten a lot of engagement this week. He shared a lot of really interesting stuff. He had a lot of really helpful political commentary.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1775" data-t="1775">You wrote a song about him and published that.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1779">29:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1779" data-t="1779">So that was pretty big for him.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1783" data-t="1783">But I think the biggest thing</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1786">29:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1786" data-t="1786">that Yeah. Go ahead.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1788">29:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1788" data-t="1788">Yeah. The biggest thing that happened this week was, he he did some studies on his approval rating</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1795" data-t="1795">in the space.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1796">29:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1796" data-t="1796">That's right. That's right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1798" data-t="1798">He is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1800" data-t="1800">according to his experience,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1802" data-t="1802">just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1803" data-t="1803">being a tennis porter,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1806" data-t="1806">he he estimates that his approval ratings are about</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1810">30:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1810" data-t="1810">75%,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1813" data-t="1813">which, I mean, I don't know. That's that's better than Trump. It's better than Kamala Harris. It's better than Joe Biden.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1818" data-t="1818">It's better than RFK Jr.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1820" data-t="1820">Those are pretty good numbers.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1823">30:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1823" data-t="1823">Well, he actually so the polls kept on rising. So the more that he so when he initially started, he thought he was around 70%.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1832" data-t="1832">And then we did a study finding him at 77%.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1836" data-t="1836">And then based off of a Twitter poll that he did, he had a 90% approval rating.</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1843" data-t="1843">That's right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1844" data-t="1844">What do you think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1846" data-t="1846">is the purluring? You think it would go up or down if we could get him to answer the question,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1852" data-t="1852">does Dennis Porter does he think that Lyn Alden is hot? That's a good question.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1858" data-t="1858">I'd like to get I'd like to I'd love to see them on a panel together talking about Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1865" data-t="1865">Yeah. On a at a conference. I think that would be a really huge panel.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1869">31:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1869" data-t="1869">Great discussion. Yeah. I think if if he did say that when Alden's hot, that'd probably get him to a 100 approval rating. Right. Even his</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1877" data-t="1877">like, if if Mike Germano</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1879" data-t="1879">and David Bailey heard that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1882" data-t="1882">like, his his Dennis's biggest haters,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1886" data-t="1886">who who very unfairly hate on Dennis. It's very unfair what they do.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1891" data-t="1891">If they heard that Dennis thought, you know, from his mouth that he thinks that Lynn's hot, they'd probably win them over, I would assume. He would have to.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1902">31:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1902" data-t="1902">This November is the most important election of our lifetimes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1907" data-t="1907">In eight days, we can finally vote to solve all our problems</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1910" data-t="1910">and make the economy fine for another generation.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1915">31:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1915" data-t="1915">This is our one shot to pump up Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1917" data-t="1917">bring peace to The Middle East, ban seed oils, and get your pedophile neighbor to take down their stupid Ukraine flag. If we don't win in November, we're stuck in the matrix for four more years.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1929">32:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1929" data-t="1929">If you have no agency or authority over your own life and you are beholden to the efforts of politicians,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1935" data-t="1935">you understand the urgency of this election.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1938" data-t="1938">The only power you have over your future is your one single vote.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1942" data-t="1942">Don't waste</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1943" data-t="1943">it. Vote as hard as you can.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1945" data-t="1945">Your future depends on it.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1949">32:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1949" data-t="1949">Dennis Porter will help fix our broken system as he orange pills his way to the White House in 2028.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1955" data-t="1955">But in the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1957" data-t="1957">meantime, exercise your right in a healthy democracy to vote.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1961" data-t="1961">It's time to show the world what Bitcoin podcast listeners are made of.</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">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1969">I think that they would finally</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1971" data-t="1971">respect him</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1973" data-t="1973">and they would stop bullying him and treating him so unfairly. And I think it would be I think it would heal their souls a little bit. Because I I do you think that they feel guilty or bad for how they treat Dennis Porter? No. But I think they will.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1985">33:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1985" data-t="1985">Yeah. I think they'll feel very bad in the future when they see all that Dennis is doing, when</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1991" data-t="1991">they realize</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1993" data-t="1993">that no</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1995" data-t="1995">jackboot showed up at their house because Dennis protected their rights to self custody.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2002" data-t="2002">When they realize that and they have that day, when they're standing in their front year yard, you know, ten years from now and the jackboots aren't there,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2010" data-t="2010">you know, and they're, like, looking at their kids running around all happy,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2015">33:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2015" data-t="2015">they're gonna thank Dennis, and they're gonna feel really bad about all the nonsense that they spread on Twitter.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2020">33:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2020" data-t="2020">Right. When they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2022" data-t="2022">yeah. Exactly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2024" data-t="2024">But when Bitcoin, when Dennis Porter Orange trolls the government</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2029" data-t="2029">so that the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2031" data-t="2031">Bitcoin fixes the, you know, the government system</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2034" data-t="2034">and it naturally fixes the problems that they begin to start defunding the police</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2039">33:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2039" data-t="2039">because we don't need them anymore.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2041" data-t="2041">And that just further</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2043" data-t="2043">protect, you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2045" data-t="2045">know, guys like Mike and David, and they'll just have to, like, look at Dennis and be like, this was a multi front,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2052" data-t="2052">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2053" data-t="2053">attack to to separate money from state.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2056">34:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2056" data-t="2056">And and Dennis played his part. Yeah. I mean, think about how bad,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2062" data-t="2062">Mike and David are gonna feel</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2064" data-t="2064">when Dennis is selected president of The United States in 2028.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2069">34:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2069" data-t="2069">And And they have to invite him to speak at the Bitcoin conference.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2073">34:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2073" data-t="2073">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2074" data-t="2074">They have to invite him to speak at the Bitcoin conference. They have to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2078" data-t="2078">Have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2079" data-t="2079">Have to fire TSA to protect him? Yeah. I mean, like, this is the problem with what Bitcoin magazine is doing. So Bitcoin magazine wants to be the you know, have a relationship with the federal government. They wanna be state sanctioned media.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2093" data-t="2093">You know, that's what they've been brokering with Trump.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2096" data-t="2096">And one of the consequences</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2097">34:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2097" data-t="2097">is that when Dennis is selected president, you know, he will really have the power</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2103" data-t="2103">to, you know, to put some, strain on them, you know, with their status.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2108">35:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2108" data-t="2108">Right. Like, they they are gonna have to get background checks</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2112" data-t="2112">and get patted down</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2114" data-t="2114">and be, you know, screened by federal agents just just to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2120" data-t="2120">be backstage</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2121" data-t="2121">with Dennis Porter and all the other whales.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2124">35:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2124" data-t="2124">Well, I I think Dennis would remove the subsidies,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2128" data-t="2128">allowing them to do what they do. You know what I mean?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2132" data-t="2132">So they wouldn't have what it takes to really weather a bear market very well. It'd be pretty rough over there. Yeah. So they should</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2139">35:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2139" data-t="2139">I would pivot</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2140" data-t="2140">in how I treat Dennis Porter as early as possible. Because I think Dennis Porter, if he, you know, he is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2147" data-t="2147">at the end of the day, a reasonable guy, he's a guy who's a deal maker.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2151" data-t="2151">I think that they'd be willing to to just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2155" data-t="2155">to break bread again and just hang out as Bitcoiners, as peers,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2159" data-t="2159">if you guys</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2161">36:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2161" data-t="2161">turn it around sooner. Yep. That's right.</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">Well, I don't know. I mean, it it could turn out, you know, for the better because, you know, maybe somebody like David Bailey,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2170" data-t="2170">you know, could be his VP. Like, we know that in the world of politics, like, people like JD Vance, you know, were super critical of Trump at one point. Right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2178" data-t="2178">Kamala was very critical of Biden at one point.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2183" data-t="2183">And then they become betas.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2185" data-t="2185">Right. And just a bit. Like, I think that's that that's really what's going on here. So, you know, when when somebody like JD Vance or somebody like Mike Pence or, you know, pretty much any VP</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2195" data-t="2195">position except for Dick Cheney.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2198">36:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2198" data-t="2198">It's kind of a dominance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2201" data-t="2201">move. You know? It's like the same exact action as, like, when a,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2206" data-t="2206">you know, a dog starts humping another dog or a cow starts humping another cow. Like, a lot of times they do that not for sexual reasons. It's just like a dominance thing.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2216" data-t="2216">Right. It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2217" data-t="2217">they're they're trying to show that they're the alpha, and they just, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2221" data-t="2221">humiliate</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2223">37:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2223" data-t="2223">this other individual</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2224" data-t="2224">by making them the beta in front of the whole country. Yeah. For sure.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2229" data-t="2229">But I mean, that's the thing that's so that's the thing that's so impressive about Dick Cheney, you know, is that, like, he could go into the the submissive beta position</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2239" data-t="2239">and still be the alpha</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2240" data-t="2240">and, like, have a good portion of the population fooled for a while. Right.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2245">37:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2245" data-t="2245">But before so yeah. But before</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2248" data-t="2248">we get to that point where Dennis Porter is the ultimate alpha,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2252" data-t="2252">that's four years from now because Trump</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2254" data-t="2254">looks like he's gonna win, but he's already been president. So it only gets four more years. So I'm gonna wait four more years for Dennis Porter to be president.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2262" data-t="2262">Yeah. I think Trump's gotta kinda usher</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2264" data-t="2264">that in and probably choose Dennis or JD</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2267">37:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2267" data-t="2267">to, like, kind of take the the throne.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2270" data-t="2270">If if Dennis Porter runs as a Republican, he might run as a Democrat.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2274">37:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2274" data-t="2274">I would expect him to run either as a bipartisan,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2279">37:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2279" data-t="2279">candidate. Sure. Or Yeah. He'd be the first bi president. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2284">38:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2284" data-t="2284">He he could be Bipartisan president.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2287" data-t="2287">He could run as a, democrat. I think there's a very high likelihood.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2291" data-t="2291">He might reveal his personal politics. I know he keeps it very close to his chest.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2295">38:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2295" data-t="2295">Sure. Yeah. That's right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2298" data-t="2298">But before we you know, we still have president Trump coming up, and he's talking about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2304" data-t="2304">one of the things he's he's gonna make Elon Musk in charge of the, Department of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2310" data-t="2310">Governmental</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2311" data-t="2311">Efficiency,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2312" data-t="2312">Doge. So he's making the Doge department.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2316">38:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2316" data-t="2316">He's putting RFK in, he's creating a new department to ban seed oils.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2320" data-t="2320">He's also creating</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2322" data-t="2322">a new government,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2324" data-t="2324">department to promote Bitcoin podcasts.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2327" data-t="2327">Mhmm. I think that's pretty huge. What do you think that's gonna look like? Yeah. I mean, I think,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2333">38:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2333" data-t="2333">it's it's really great to see, you know, kind of libertarian minded Bitcoin or presidents</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2338" data-t="2338">come in and wanna expand government</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2341" data-t="2341">Because that's like, you know, one of the things that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2345" data-t="2345">is incredibly helpful.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2346" data-t="2346">It's just like constantly, like, growing it and expanding that and giving you know, because, like, the more people that work in the democracy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2354" data-t="2354">you know, for the government,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2356">39:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2356" data-t="2356">the more the better the democracy is. You know what I mean? Right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2361" data-t="2361">So, like, the US the US government is the biggest employer in the world right now,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2367" data-t="2367">which is very impressive, which means that it is, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2370" data-t="2370">inclusive.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2371" data-t="2371">But one of the problems that's happened</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2374" data-t="2374">is that a lot of the billionaires, they haven't gotten direct representation</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2378">39:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2378" data-t="2378">in the government. Instead, what they've gotten is they have to bribe somebody to be the representative</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2383" data-t="2383">for them. And now Trump is essentially allowing</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2387">39:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2387" data-t="2387">the billionaires direct access. I mean, it's a big club. That's a good point. Yeah. It is a big club.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2393" data-t="2393">I was thinking like I was thinking how</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2397" data-t="2397">much better the country will be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2399" data-t="2399">when they turn NPR</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2401" data-t="2401">into just a Bitcoin podcast</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2403">40:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2403" data-t="2403">radio station. I don't I don't even think they'll have to do that because,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2408" data-t="2408">you know, Trump went on Joe Rogan and turned that into a Bitcoin podcast.</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2413" data-t="2413">Right. Right.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2414">40:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2414" data-t="2414">You know, the the federal government is working on a relationship with entities like Bitcoin magazine. And now that they're going to have a department</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2423" data-t="2423">over, you know, podcasts and Bitcoin podcasts,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2427" data-t="2427">I think,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2429" data-t="2429">they're really gonna try and replace NPR. They're definitely shifting away from NPR,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2434" data-t="2434">in my opinion.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2436">40:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2436" data-t="2436">What about people who, they don't listen to podcasts, they don't even know how to listen to podcasts? Like how are they gonna, they're gonna turn on the radio</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2444" data-t="2444">and is this gonna</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2445" data-t="2445">be silence? And they're gonna think like, well,</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">what do I do now? Well, I mean, there'll still be noise on there. I mean, people have been doing AM radio,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2455" data-t="2455">still</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2456">40:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2456" data-t="2456">And nobody like, there's still gonna be you know, if worst comes to like Monster. Monster's kinda like AM radio. It's just like you're really yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2464">41:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2464" data-t="2464">Yeah. Well, not yeah. Nostra's like AM radio at the beginning stages of AM radio.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2469" data-t="2469">Okay. It's not like at the tail end of AM radio, but like worst comes to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2474" data-t="2474">worst, you know, they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2476" data-t="2476">like we know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2478" data-t="2478">that these network</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2480" data-t="2480">television channels like CNN,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2483">41:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2483" data-t="2483">that the teleprompters, everything written on those teleprompters</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2487" data-t="2487">is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2488" data-t="2488">ChatGPT</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2489" data-t="2489">generated.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2490" data-t="2490">Like, they replaced all the writers. It's all done by AI. And they just can automate it even more where they can just get replaced the people so that the people can go focus on doing important things like podcasting.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2503">41:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2503" data-t="2503">And the AI just auto generates things for boomers that don't know the difference. So that's kind of a good point. Right? So like as AI continues to take over everybody's job,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2514" data-t="2514">people always worry like, oh, does the technology's gotta replace jobs? And it's like, well, yeah, but it creates more jobs that we haven't even thought of. So like, AI's gotta replace all these jobs and everybody's gotta become Bitcoin podcasters.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2524" data-t="2524">Yeah. Because we're gonna need so many Bitcoin podcasters</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2528" data-t="2528">that people, they're gonna, if AI doesn't take their job, they're gonna have to quit their job.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2533">42:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2533" data-t="2533">Well, and when Trump puts,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2535" data-t="2535">tariffs on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2537" data-t="2537">foreign tobacco and potentially</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2540" data-t="2540">streamlines or eliminates the KYC process</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2543" data-t="2543">for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2544" data-t="2544">it, I mean, think about how many podcasters there will be.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2548">42:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2548" data-t="2548">Right. That's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2550" data-t="2550">just smoking cigarettes and podcasting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2553" data-t="2553">Yeah. I mean, he's he's That's why we we don't need jobs. That's all we have to do. That's how we generate value.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2563">42:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Gilbert Norris</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2563" data-t="2563">My name is Gilbert Norris, and I'm a member of the intellectual Silk Road. I'm a father, a husband, a pleb miner, a raw milk enjoyer, and a cypherpunk.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2571" data-t="2571">I wear pleated khakis and tuck my shirt in, but don't let that fool you. I'm still an anarchist.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2577" data-t="2577">As a Bitcoiner, I don't have any problems paying my taxes. I never simped for Michael</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2581" data-t="2581">Saylor. I've never bought KYC Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2584" data-t="2584">And I was one of the first 100 people on Nostra.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2587" data-t="2587">Why am I telling you all of this? Because I want you to know how I think about the choices in this election.</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">Gilbert Norris</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2593" data-t="2593">It comes down to this one simple question.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2596" data-t="2596">Would you rather be scammed or censored?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2598" data-t="2598">Would you rather transact adversarially in the free market full of shitcoins and scammers or be silenced by humorless zealots?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2605" data-t="2605">I think the choice is clear. Think about these two choices when you cast your vote in this election.</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">I do like, the question that I'm having right now is how do we not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2619" data-t="2619">how do we not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2621" data-t="2621">endorse Donald Trump? I think</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2623">43:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2623" data-t="2623">if you think about it from the fact that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2627" data-t="2627">the only</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2629" data-t="2629">if Donald Trump wins,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2632" data-t="2632">very feasibly or very possibly,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2635" data-t="2635">we could have a Bitcoin podcaster</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2637" data-t="2637">that is the person who pays the the most in taxes</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2641">44:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2641" data-t="2641">and supplants Elon Musk as the as the record holder in the Guinness Book of World Records</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2647" data-t="2647">for highest tax bill.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2649" data-t="2649">If we vote for Donald Trump,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2651" data-t="2651">it could be a Bitcoin podcaster.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2654" data-t="2654">It's a it's in the realm of possibility.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2657">44:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2657" data-t="2657">I think it's entirely in the realm of possibility, especially if found it's able to stay online all the time</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2663" data-t="2663">so that podcasters can earn income.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2666" data-t="2666">They're gonna get pretty rich.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2667">44:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2667" data-t="2667">Yeah. So I would say,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2669" data-t="2669">if you wanna live in a world where the person who pays the most in taxes is a Bitcoin podcaster,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2675" data-t="2675">then I think Donald Trump is the only person that that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2678" data-t="2678">you have a</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2680" data-t="2680">that makes any sense. Yeah. I mean, like, he spoke at the Bitcoin conference.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2684" data-t="2684">He said he's gonna free Ross.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2689" data-t="2689">He,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2691" data-t="2691">is essentially following most of the pod comp script.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2695" data-t="2695">He seems pretty pro n g u.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2698">44:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2698" data-t="2698">He's gonna make, he's gonna make the they say he's gonna make the military go on a carnivore diet?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2704" data-t="2704">Yeah. So, like Instead of Asgerton diet.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2707">45:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2707" data-t="2707">It's not just like he's, like, just following the PodConference script, like the four horsemen are in his ear all day.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2714" data-t="2714">It it also seems like he's kinda based at the same time.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2718" data-t="2718">Like, he he has a mix of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2721" data-t="2721">PodConference</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2722" data-t="2722">approval,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2723" data-t="2723">and</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2726">45:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2726" data-t="2726">he listens to some, like, based</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2729" data-t="2729">Bitcoin podcast. But I don't think he listens to the intellectual Silk Road.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2733" data-t="2733">I don't think he can do that.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2735">45:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2735" data-t="2735">Not yet.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2738" data-t="2738">So we haven't that's not an endorsement, but that is a good,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2742" data-t="2742">that is a good argument for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2745" data-t="2745">for why maybe we should endorse Trump, and maybe we can think about why we shouldn't or why we shouldn't endorse somebody else next week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2753" data-t="2753">So honestly, she</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2755" data-t="2755">Huge announcement coming next week.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2758">45:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2758" data-t="2758">Be prepared for that. Kamala</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2760">46:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2760" data-t="2760">has one week to get her endorsement. She has one week to go on Bitcoin podcast to prove that she listens to Bitcoin podcast.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2767" data-t="2767">I know she, you know, her recently, she's been trying to campaign as a Republican,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2772" data-t="2772">talking about border security, talking about,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2775" data-t="2775">you know, freedom and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2777" data-t="2777">cutting taxes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2778" data-t="2778">and, you know, all this stuff. She she's attempting,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2781">46:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2781" data-t="2781">but she is really kind of falling flat. She's, like, she's just getting completely outdone right now.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2787" data-t="2787">Yes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2789" data-t="2789">Like, you know, one week. I heard a report I heard a report that she only listens to, like, three hours of Bitcoin podcast.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2795" data-t="2795">And then, like, this week after the third hour, she, like, started crying and, like, took, like, time off.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2802">46:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2802" data-t="2802">Is that because she listened to is that because she listened to Joe Rogan and Donald Trump, that Bitcoin podcast?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2808" data-t="2808">Three hours.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2810">46:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2810" data-t="2810">It might have been why,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2812" data-t="2812">yeah. I mean, that would make a lot of sense.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2816">46:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2816" data-t="2816">Yeah. Trump versus Rugen. That was one of the best Bitcoin podcasts I've ever heard. It was,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2821">47:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2821" data-t="2821">it was pretty iconic.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2822" data-t="2822">Tim Pool called it the best Bitcoin podcast of all time. I</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2827">47:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2827" data-t="2827">don't know if you heard it. And I think some of the best Bitcoin podcasts,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2831" data-t="2831">and this is a good example,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2832" data-t="2832">they never once mentioned Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2838" data-t="2838">Mhmm. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2839">47:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2839" data-t="2839">I mean, he he talked a lot about the JFK assassination.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2843" data-t="2843">He talked a lot about,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2845" data-t="2845">MMA</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2846" data-t="2846">and fighting. Yeah. He talked about boxing. You know, all of those things. Talked about game theory,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2852">47:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2852" data-t="2852">foreign</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2853" data-t="2853">policy. He called the military general stupid, which must be choirs.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2857" data-t="2857">You listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast, you can pretty much see that America's military generals are stupid. So,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2864">47:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2864" data-t="2864">yeah. I mean, there's a pretty fascinating podcast.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2867" data-t="2867">I don't I don't I think Kamala, you know, is just really nervous because she knows she can't one up it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2872" data-t="2872">Right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2875" data-t="2875">And and that's kinda like a hard position to be in, you know, when you realize that you're just getting outplayed.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2882">48:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2882" data-t="2882">It is too late to listen to enough Bitcoin podcasts</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2885" data-t="2885">to to make a difference before</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2888" data-t="2888">she's only listened to three a week.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2890">48:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2890" data-t="2890">She she cannot memorize three hours of chat GPT scripts. That's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2895" data-t="2895">You know, and I think that's why she answers questions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2898" data-t="2898">so strangely from time to time that doesn't make any sense because, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2903" data-t="2903">it it you know, when when,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2906">48:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2906" data-t="2906">Down. Down. It's like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2908" data-t="2908">she can't answer.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2910" data-t="2910">She sounds like the Chad GPT answers,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2913" data-t="2913">but Donald Trump is he sounds like somebody trying to get answers from Chad GPT.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2919" data-t="2919">He talks like he is asking Chad GPT questions.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2922">48:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2922" data-t="2922">Yeah. Yeah. I agree. I mean, but there there's, like, these rare occasions where she kinda, like, glitches out. Right.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2928">48:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2928" data-t="2928">Sometimes it's really upsetting.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2930">48:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2930" data-t="2930">Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I don't think she has, like, a single thought of her own, but it could be incorrect. That's just my impression of her. Well,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2940">48:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2940" data-t="2940">she has one week to prove us wrong to try to listen to Bitcoin podcasts.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2945" data-t="2945">Maybe put it on two x speed, but I think she needs to be at the beginner level. She needs to listen to maybe at less than, you know, one time speed.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2953" data-t="2953">She's got one week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2956" data-t="2956">And before we get into our business,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2958" data-t="2958">one way</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2960" data-t="2960">to get our endorsement would be</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2962">49:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2962" data-t="2962">you'd have to listen to a lot of Bitcoin hours of Bitcoin podcasts to do this, but figure out how to get on on Fountain</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2969" data-t="2969">and leave us a really big boost. It helps a lot.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2973">49:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2973" data-t="2973">It definitely propels us into</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2977" data-t="2977">getting more,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2978" data-t="2978">circulation and recognition. And it's definitely an uphill battle for us</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2983" data-t="2983">because we're not taking PodCon's money, and we're not taking their endorsements, and we're not,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2988" data-t="2988">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2989" data-t="2989">doing a lot of the stuff that, you know, other people are doing for engagement. For sure. Proof of work over here.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2998">49:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2998" data-t="2998">Well, I'm really excited,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3000" data-t="3000">you know, to watch this play out. We're gonna have two episodes about the selection before</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3005" data-t="3005">it happens, and then we'll be able to give our, you know, result or, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3010" data-t="3010">our opinions on what's going on following it, you know, for the next year until it gets settled.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3015" data-t="3015">If it takes that long, it'll probably take a little while. I I predict it's gonna be, it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3020" data-t="3020">gonna be debated, you know, what the results are, you know, for some time. I don't think it's gonna be as bad as a lot of people think it is, but it will definitely</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3029">50:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3029" data-t="3029">be accurate. I think I think I think that they will do the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3033" data-t="3033">transition of power,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3036" data-t="3036">normally. But I think that that they'll just be arguing about whether they should have done that or not because was the election rigged</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3044" data-t="3044">either way?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3045">50:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3045" data-t="3045">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3046" data-t="3046">So, I mean, it's just like, you know, when they</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3049">50:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3049" data-t="3049">activated Taproot, you know, people are gonna be debating whether they should have or not or how they should have. Yeah. Yeah. We're gonna activate the soft fork and then debate whether or not it was a good idea after we do it.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3061">51:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3061" data-t="3061">Well, I mean, imagine imagine that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3064" data-t="3064">this selection, you know, say, hypothetically,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3068" data-t="3068">Donald Donald Trump</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3070" data-t="3070">gets selected.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3072" data-t="3072">It's kinda like tamper, you know, where where people have all these expectations of what he's going to do,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3078" data-t="3078">and then what they get instead is ordinal. So like, they're like, okay, it's gonna make opening lightning channels</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3083">51:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3083" data-t="3083">more private or efficient. You know, everything that I think yeah. I think that is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3089" data-t="3089">the best</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3091" data-t="3091">way</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3092" data-t="3092">to describe what's gonna happen. We're gonna vote for Trump.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3095" data-t="3095">America</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3096" data-t="3096">is gonna probably vote for Trump</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3098" data-t="3098">and</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3099">51:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3099" data-t="3099">we're gonna be really excited about it. And then we're probably gonna get award moles. So, I mean, what do you do? So like what you know, I guess in in the world of statism,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3108" data-t="3108">the solution would be to essentially vote a democratic senate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3113" data-t="3113">in 2026</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3115" data-t="3115">as like a way to try and</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3118">51:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3118" data-t="3118">kind of half assed yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Filter the fascism. Yeah. That's it. We just got a deal where it's gonna get a flood of fascism.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3125" data-t="3125">It's gonna make,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3127" data-t="3127">and then we're gonna filter it. Then it's gonna be fine. It's gonna be very exciting times ahead.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3132">52:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3132" data-t="3132">But yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3133" data-t="3133">Anyways, let's get into the fountain boost.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3136" data-t="3136">See how many we have. We have a pretty good amount. Probably just a pleb.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3140" data-t="3140">But yeah. I'm still I'm still sending I think I have a little bit backlog because we haven't been getting our episodes boosted that much. But I'm still sending,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3149" data-t="3149">what did I say, a tenth</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3152" data-t="3152">of the boost that we get to samurai. Samurai.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3156">52:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3156" data-t="3156">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3158" data-t="3158">And I kinda hope to continue to do that in various ways</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3162" data-t="3162">until</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3163" data-t="3163">that gets resolved.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3166" data-t="3166">I I feel like, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3168" data-t="3168">this is kinda like the tithe of the journalist, you know, where you donate</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3173">52:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3173" data-t="3173">to important funds.</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3174" data-t="3174">Right. Don't donate to Cherry.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3177" data-t="3177">Donate to Bitcoin podcasters</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3180" data-t="3180">Mhmm. Who will donate to Cherry, like, to to the funds, to the open source devs, to the,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3186" data-t="3186">just to put in better content</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3188" data-t="3188">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3190" data-t="3190">leads to more Bitcoin podcasts.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3192">53:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3192" data-t="3192">It helps people.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3194">53:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3194" data-t="3194">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3195" data-t="3195">Well, the the first boost</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3197" data-t="3197">of the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3199" data-t="3199">episode was from miss hodl not four twenty for 20000¢</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3204" data-t="3204">who says,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3205" data-t="3205">the Lynn Alden question doesn't work for women. I still think she's hot, but I'm not gay. Well, I mean, I think the the easy question for</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3213">53:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3213" data-t="3213">women is, do you think Dennis Porter's hot?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3217">53:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3217" data-t="3217">Yeah. I wanted to know.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3219" data-t="3219">If you think when all in time, that might make you gay as a woman. I mean, that's definitely the potential. So, like, you know, maybe she should explain.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3226" data-t="3226">I don't know. I I don't know what you mean, miss HollowLab,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3229" data-t="3229">but thank you for this.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3231" data-t="3231">Miss miss Huddlenut, you need to explain why you're not gay. And there's nothing wrong with you not gay. Yeah. If you just if you don't think if you think Huddlenut is hot, just explain to us how that doesn't make you gay.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3242" data-t="3242">And we will listen.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3244">54:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3244" data-t="3244">If you make it compelling argument,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3246" data-t="3246">we'll accept it.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3248">54:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3248" data-t="3248">So so if we if we think that Dennis Porter's hot, does that make us gay? This is a very strange question. Yeah. Yeah. I would say so.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3255" data-t="3255">So, like, if if the only way that you can get hard during sex with your wife is for her to whisper Dennis Porter in your ear. So, I mean, it there's a very serious question at stake here. Is the majority of people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3268" data-t="3268">out there gay? Because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3271" data-t="3271">people, you know, wives whispering Dennis Porter in their ears during sex</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3276" data-t="3276">is like eliminating the use of Viagra. Like, this is like a very big thing. Or have you, like, ever been rolling it, doing jujitsu</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3284">54:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3284" data-t="3284">and you are in need, like, you've got another man sweating in your mouth and, like, squeezing you around the neck</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3290" data-t="3290">and, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3291" data-t="3291">wrapping his legs around you and as tight as he can, if you've ever been in a situation, but you're such low time preference that like you're being tried to be, I don't know, the man's trying to murder you. And in your mind, you're thinking about Dennis Porter and how, how glad you are that he's out there orange pilling the government as you're also trying to, like, work your way out of a a triangle lock</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3311" data-t="3311">and you did a little bit of a boner while you're thinking about Dennis Porter,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3315" data-t="3315">does that make you gay? I don't think so. Well,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3318">55:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3318" data-t="3318">I think one of the meanest and cruelest things anybody could do is to go to, like, a high school swim meet where all those guys are in Speedos or in wrestling matches when they're all in their tight pants. And just imagine if you just walk into one of those and you just scream</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3334" data-t="3334">Dennis Porter at the top of your lungs and then they all have erections, like how awkward that would be? Maybe that should be illegal. If you can't</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3344">55:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3344" data-t="3344">do,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3346" data-t="3346">you know, boy stuff and boys going into girls' bathrooms, you shouldn't be able to just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3351" data-t="3351">invoke Dennis Porter</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3352">55:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3352" data-t="3352">and give everybody a boner. Well, yeah. You know, if Dennis Porter is powerful enough to get, like, old married men hard,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3361" data-t="3361">Then think about what it would do to like horny high school kids. It would be, it would be so cool. Think about it would do to the porn industry.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3367">56:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3367" data-t="3367">If you just, if you could just get any man in there,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3371" data-t="3371">show him a video of Dennis Porter giving an interview or upon a podcast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3376" data-t="3376">and they're they don't need fluffers anymore, like that would that would eliminate jobs in the porn industry, make it much more efficient. I mean, I think there's gonna be this really strange transition in the porn industry where all the women,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3388">56:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3388" data-t="3388">as they're moaning, are just moaning his name</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3391" data-t="3391">the whole</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3392" data-t="3392">time.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3392">56:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" data-t="3392">Because, like, it has the It'll be it'll be, like, louder than, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3397" data-t="3397">Bitcoin miners,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3398" data-t="3398">like, in a in a phone, like, you know, your wife will be screaming so loud that it's Porter's name, like, you won't even be able to hear your s nine. Well, I mean, this is the reason why he's gonna win, become the president in 2028.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3410" data-t="3410">I know. That's what we're that's why we call it.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3412">56:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3412" data-t="3412">It's just it's it's too like, you know, if he announced his candidacy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3417" data-t="3417">tomorrow, there's probably a good chance that he would win.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3421" data-t="3421">But I don't think it's it's compliant for him to do that, so I don't think he's going to. Yeah. Yeah. He's not gonna do something noncompliant just because he can.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3429">57:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3429" data-t="3429">Yeah. The next one,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3431" data-t="3431">we got did we do the front of the middle of the room? No. We're talking about this quarter again. Here we go. The longest chain, this is from fundamentals,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3438" data-t="3438">10,000 sass,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3440" data-t="3440">rock paper Bitcoin, our favorite ghost.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3443" data-t="3443">The longest chain of Dennis Porter facts wins the peripheral pork battle.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3447" data-t="3447">Also, Dennis doesn't make lists.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3449">57:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3449" data-t="3449">Let's make Dennis Porter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3452" data-t="3452">So, yeah, I mean, that's a weird</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3454" data-t="3454">this next this next bound bush was our was another man talking about Dennis Porter with his favorite Bitcoin podcast.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3463" data-t="3463">He's on everybody's mind. He's the next president.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3466" data-t="3466">He's definitely on fundamentals mind a lot. I don't know if he's on his fundamentals</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3471" data-t="3471">mind more than his wife is,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3473">57:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3473" data-t="3473">but if Dennis Porter is on your mind more than your wife,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3477" data-t="3477">that might be a sign. Yeah. Well,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3480">57:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3480" data-t="3480">I don't know. Like, I think the point we're getting to is when people think of their wives, they're associating with them with Dennis Porter. Right. Like, I think that's the point we've, I don't think you're not. It's happening.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3492" data-t="3492">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3493" data-t="3493">I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3495" data-t="3495">like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3496" data-t="3496">you know, prior, a lot of these men were associating,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3500" data-t="3500">Viagra with their wives. You know what I mean?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3503">58:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3503" data-t="3503">So,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3504" data-t="3504">I mean, there's already Better than just a flu pill. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there do you know, there's there's already these associations</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3511" data-t="3511">being made. They're just getting replaced</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3514" data-t="3514">and and shifting slightly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3515" data-t="3515">Right. And there's definitely gonna be consequences of it, but I I feel like people not having to take pharmaceutical medication, it's it's kind of an overall part positive. It's just not I guess one of the negative sides of it is it's not as good for economy, you know, because dentists isn't necessarily a product</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3532" data-t="3532">that you can sell at a pharmacy.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3534">58:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3534" data-t="3534">Right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3536" data-t="3536">Not yet.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3537">58:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3537" data-t="3537">But but if people then go donate to Satoshi Action Fund,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3541" data-t="3541">then it helps the economy because he's just doing so many wonderful, brilliant things for the world. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3547" data-t="3547">He's the he's the Elon Musk of politics.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3550" data-t="3550">Yeah. Dennis is the Elon Musk of politics.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3553">59:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3553" data-t="3553">Exactly. That's a good way to put it.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3555">59:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3555" data-t="3555">Elon Musk.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3557">59:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3557" data-t="3557">Or Tony Stark. Elon Musk, they are the Dennis Porter of rocket scientists. For sure.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3564">59:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3564" data-t="3564">Yeah. Fundamentals was definitely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3566" data-t="3566">a big part of contributing to the, Dennis Porter facts list.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3570" data-t="3570">It's very appreciative of that. I'm gonna do the next based. Orange Mart, 5,000 sats,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3576" data-t="3576">ghost emoji,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3578" data-t="3578">spoopy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3579" data-t="3579">but I think they meant spooky,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3584">59:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3584" data-t="3584">jack o'-lantern, happy Halloween, sweet 16 Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3588" data-t="3588">Okay. So I I have a big complaint about the selection,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3593" data-t="3593">And I guess it's like us most of the time, but, you know, this one,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3596" data-t="3596">I think it's kind of unusual for it to happen on November 5.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3602" data-t="3602">I could be incorrect. I don't I don't typically vote. But,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3606" data-t="3606">so the the selection's</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3608">1:00:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3608" data-t="3608">interfering with two holidays. One of which is Halloween,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3611" data-t="3611">and two is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3614" data-t="3614">v for Vendetta Day. Like, there's a serious issue here that people are gonna be tuning into their TVs</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3622" data-t="3622">on November 5 instead of,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3624" data-t="3624">instead of watching v for Vendetta.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3626">1:00:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3626" data-t="3626">Right? I consider that a serious issue. Maybe they'll do it anyway. Maybe they'll they'll watch it anyway.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3632" data-t="3632">That's a really weird Maybe encourage people to do.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3635" data-t="3635">I mean, imagine if v for Vendetta played out real life on November 5 in Washington. We need to watch it. It would play out. We'd all be watching it on November 5.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3645" data-t="3645">That'd be the new January 6.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3647">1:00:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3647" data-t="3647">Imagine if the people of America showed up in Washington, DC, and they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3652" data-t="3652">said, we're not gonna activate the software.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3655">1:00:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3655" data-t="3655">Yeah. It would be better than January 6.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3658">1:00:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3658" data-t="3658">What is the sweet 16 Bitcoin?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3662">1:01:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3662" data-t="3662">Bitcoin's turn. That means Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3664" data-t="3664">Turns 16 years old on Halloween.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3668" data-t="3668">That's on the white paper came out</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3670">1:01:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3670" data-t="3670">sixteen years ago. Oh, I I never judged based on the white paper.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3675" data-t="3675">Interesting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3676" data-t="3676">Right. I mean, that's, well, I guess the white paper is 16 years old.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3681">1:01:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3681" data-t="3681">Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3682">1:01:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3682" data-t="3682">That's pretty crazy. I mean, Bitcoin or Bitcoin's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3685" data-t="3685">you know, getting into</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3687" data-t="3687">mid teenage years.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3689">1:01:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3689" data-t="3689">Old enough to drive.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3691">1:01:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3691" data-t="3691">So, like, what where does that make you, like, a sophomore or junior in high school?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3696" data-t="3696">Yeah. Around there. So I mean, imagine what Bitcoin's gonna look like in 2028.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3701" data-t="3701">That's when I was told. Graduated from college.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3704">1:01:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3704" data-t="3704">Honestly, the people used to make fun</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3707" data-t="3707">of Calvin Iyer,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3709" data-t="3709">but he has stopped,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3711" data-t="3711">you know, trying to claim that BSV</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3714" data-t="3714">is Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3715" data-t="3715">He's lost interest in Bitcoin altogether</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3718">1:01:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3718" data-t="3718">just as it turns 16 years old, just as the,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3721" data-t="3721">just as all the jokes used to play out. Wow. What a creep.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3727">1:02:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3727" data-t="3727">I mean, I feel like the older</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3729" data-t="3729">I don't know. It's not appropriate for men to say that they're attracted</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3734" data-t="3734">to 16 year old Bitcoin. You know what I mean? Right. Right. It's kinda creepy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3738" data-t="3738">But there there's kinda like this double standard, which is that, you know, women could be attracted to teenagers. Right? Right. Like, if a if, like, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3749" data-t="3749">a a 35, 40 year old woman, you know, was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3754" data-t="3754">making sexual advances on a 16 year old, you know, I think most dudes would be like, oh, that's cool. You know what I mean? Unless they're fat.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3762">1:02:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3762" data-t="3762">Like, imagine if Lynn Alden was hitting on a 16 year old. Yeah. I can see that. Well,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3767" data-t="3767">I'll bust through these real quick.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3770">1:02:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3770" data-t="3770">Next one is, yeah, is from Pies.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3773" data-t="3773">Pies to play it, 2100¢,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3776" data-t="3776">all reliable Pies.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3777" data-t="3777">Thank you, gentlemen,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3779" data-t="3779">for cigarette and mojits.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3781" data-t="3781">Thank you, Pies.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3782">1:03:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3782" data-t="3782">I think Paz,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3785" data-t="3785">very clear example of somebody that listens to forty Hours of Bitcoin podcast. No doubt. 100%. 100%.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3792" data-t="3792">Next boost is for 1,000 SaaS from Rayo who says, I can already see it. Monk like Bitcoin podcasteries.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3800" data-t="3800">Monastery is playing Bitcoin podcast 20 fourseven. And then, of course, praise Satoshi for this blessing of victory.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3807" data-t="3807">We've already won. And yes, Sailor is definitely gay.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3813">1:03:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3813" data-t="3813">Thanks, Ray. Thanks, Rayo. Didn't, Rio just,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3817" data-t="3817">did you did</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3818" data-t="3818">you did some work with him on an album?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3821">1:03:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3821" data-t="3821">Yeah. Rio Rio's publishing,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3824" data-t="3824">my third album titled,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3826" data-t="3826">Stay Misinformed.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3828" data-t="3828">I'm pretty excited about that.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3831">1:03:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3831" data-t="3831">How can you,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3833" data-t="3833">what's the information on that? You have, like, links or where can people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3837" data-t="3837">find the album if they wanna</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3840" data-t="3840">get the actual,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3841" data-t="3841">the LP?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3842">1:04:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3842" data-t="3842">Well, it's already on,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3845" data-t="3845">it's already on,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3847" data-t="3847">Wave Lake. But if you go over to libertyunderattack.com,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3852" data-t="3852">you can buy the digital copy, which just means you're you're supporting both of us. That's all it means. You can just download the files, but you don't have to necessarily do that. You can get the files wherever.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3862" data-t="3862">But it'll be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3863" data-t="3863">launching on Spotify</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3866">1:04:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3866" data-t="3866">and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3867" data-t="3867">you know, all the other music plus streaming platforms probably this upcoming week at some point. I think we're just waiting for the distributor to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3875" data-t="3875">to kick it out there, and then you'll be able to listen to it on those platforms.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3879" data-t="3879">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3882" data-t="3882">yeah, I'm pretty excited. And one of the things I've been</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3886" data-t="3886">I'll I'll give you a little sneak peek, and I can't talk about it for too long because we got to wrap up the show. We got a few more booths to get through. But</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3896">1:04:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3896" data-t="3896">one of the things that I would like to do, I was inspired by</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3900" data-t="3900">Bitpunk</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3901" data-t="3901">FM on Oster.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3903" data-t="3903">I'd like to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3905" data-t="3905">put all of our podcasts</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3907" data-t="3907">and music on cassettes</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3910">1:05:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3910" data-t="3910">and sell them or distribute them to people.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3913" data-t="3913">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3914" data-t="3914">yeah, let us know in the booths if you're interested in that or DM us on Telegram or NOS or wherever.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3921" data-t="3921">But that's something I think would be pretty cool. Listening to Bitcoin podcasts</span></span></p> +