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On the Pew Weekly, they dig so deep uncovering facts, breaking the scoop. Only better sources and better opinions verified through see through train</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-55">0:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-55" data-t="55">Let it matter if bridges have been burned. We must have standards or journalism</span> <span class="cue" id="t-60" data-t="60">will die. Behold the future.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-63" data-t="63">Bitcoin has one.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-66" data-t="66">Credentials matter</span> <span class="cue" id="t-67" data-t="67">in every single line.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-70" data-t="70">Doing your thinking,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-72">1:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-72" data-t="72">standing the test of time.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-74" data-t="74">In journalism,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-76" data-t="76">we need the best with credentials.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-78" data-t="78">We rise above the rest.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-81" data-t="81">Truth and integrity, that's our call. With credentials,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-85" data-t="85">we stand tall. Every story told, every headline,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-89">1:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-89" data-t="89">credentials</span> <span class="cue" id="t-90" data-t="90">ensure it's genuine.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-102">1:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-102" data-t="102">Warning.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-103" data-t="103">You are about to listen to the highest quality journalism on the Internet.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-107" data-t="107">If you are not a mature adult, this may cause emotional distress.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-112" data-t="112">Side effects of listening to the Bugle Weekly include being better informed,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-116" data-t="116">increased self respect, thinking for yourself, and supporting the value for value ecosystem.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-122" data-t="122">If you're not mature enough to handle it, there may be signs of cognitive dissidents.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-127">2:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-127" data-t="127">If this is the case, stop listening immediately and turn on CNN to find comfort</span> <span class="cue" id="t-132" data-t="132">and plug back into the matrix.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-134" data-t="134">Listener discretion is advised.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-137">2:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-137" data-t="137">I'm an opportunist, so I see the value of David Bailey and Podkhanf. This election cycle, we need a single unified narrative to rule them all. Bitcoin has already won. NGU is good. Vote for Trump and I will vaccinate the no coiners.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-148">2:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Kailey Welch</b> <span class="cue" id="t-148" data-t="148">On this week's episode of the Bugle Weekly, expert and visionary journalists Rod Palmer and Dick Greaser sit down to discuss vaccinating fiat maximalists.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-156" data-t="156">Richard's new investigative podcast called What Happened to the Dollar Menu? As well as all the important news of the last week.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-163" data-t="163">This is the tenth episode of the Bugle Weekly. And since launch, the podcast has taken the world by storm.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-170" data-t="170">People understand the value of credentialed journalists and the market is responding.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-175" data-t="175">This show is made possible by its listeners who understand the superior quality of what Rod and Dick are doing.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-182" data-t="182">We want to thank you for recognizing the bugle's greatness as the most important institution in journalism.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-188">3:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Kailey Welch</b> <span class="cue" id="t-188" data-t="188">Buckle up as you are about to inject unadulterated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-190" data-t="190">news directly into your veins.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-193">3:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-193" data-t="193">Help fight misinformation</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-195">3:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-195" data-t="195">by allowing the bugle to do the thinking for you. Doing the thinking yourself is just too much damn work. I had Jamie fact check the bugle and he found all their facts were true. Free your mind and let the Bugle do the thinking for you. Life is too damn hard to do the thinking yourself.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-213">3:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-213" data-t="213">There's no shortage of health products and supplements for athletes. But what if you're not an athlete?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-218" data-t="218">What if your stadium is the free market and your Super Bowl is separating money from state?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-224" data-t="224">That's why we've partnered with Luke Dasher to create Alpha Protocol.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-228" data-t="228">Alpha Protocol is scientifically designed with core devs and shadowy super coders in mind.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-234" data-t="234">Alpha Protocol's patented blend of free and open source vitamins and minerals is so powerful, you'll be able to go weeks without brushing your teeth, using shampoo, and clipping your toenails.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-245" data-t="245">It's perfect for coders with a mission too important to make trade offs like bathing or standing up.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-252">4:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-252" data-t="252">You're an alpha dev.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-253" data-t="253">Give your body what it deserves.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-255" data-t="255">Give it alpha protocol.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-259">4:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-259" data-t="259">Alright. We're recording. How's it going, Ron?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-263">4:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-263" data-t="263">It's going great. What a great we're recording this on Memorial Day weekend. It's great to be an American. It's great to be in place. Mentally, we already know Bitcoin has already won. It's just great. Yeah. I mean, how what</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-276">4:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-276" data-t="276">how much of a better president</span> <span class="cue" id="t-278" data-t="278">to prevent present the American people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-281" data-t="281">on Memorial's Day, the the reality that Bitcoin is won,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-285" data-t="285">which means there's gonna be less war in the future and less people to memorialize.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-290">4:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-290" data-t="290">Right. There's there's a lot of war going on right now,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-293" data-t="293">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-294" data-t="294">having to put all the victims on, like, a wall or a memorial,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-298" data-t="298">that's adding spam to the government blockchain, if you know what I mean. Yeah. I mean, there there's gonna be a period of war as</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-305">5:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-305" data-t="305">these these people, they have to bankrupt themselves,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-309" data-t="309">first, you know, in the same way that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-311" data-t="311">the fiat maximalists need to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-314" data-t="314">just see things play out a little bit longer to realize that the dollar is dead. You know, same same thing with all these governments that are declaring war on each other constantly.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-325">5:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-325" data-t="325">It's gonna take a little bit. You can't you can't see something you don't want to see. And I think it takes until bankruptcy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-332" data-t="332">to kinda get through the details</span> <span class="cue" id="t-335" data-t="335">and and have a judge,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-337" data-t="337">a credentialed person of the law, sign</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-340">5:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-340" data-t="340">failure and assign liquidation. You they just they need to see it through their own eyes. But maybe they won't see it because I think Bitcoin derangement syndrome, you know, like one of the things that we're gonna have to push for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-351" data-t="351">is that in the DSM six, so the next edition of the diagnostic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-357" data-t="357">statistical manual,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-359" data-t="359">psychiatrists use to diagnose people, we need to make sure that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-363" data-t="363">the Bitcoin derangement syndrome is in there. Because, like, if you don't if you don't like Bitcoin after it's already won,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-370" data-t="370">there's gotta be something severely wrong with you.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-373">6:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-373" data-t="373">Right. And we need to make sure</span> <span class="cue" id="t-375" data-t="375">that we give people the proper treatment</span> <span class="cue" id="t-378" data-t="378">and give people the care that they need and the compassion that they need.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-382" data-t="382">And we need to make sure we ban</span> <span class="cue" id="t-385" data-t="385">sellers like salty no coiner. Like, that's not that's not productive. We need to give these people help so they can see that Bitcoin has already won, like, that they can see the truth. So what do you think the treatment for Bitcoin derangement syndrome is? Well, to put it, globally, an orange pill.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-400" data-t="400">I don't need but it needs to be some sort of credentialed pharmaceutical, but it has to be orange. Have an orange pill a day, and you will be cured.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-409">6:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-409" data-t="409">Do do you think it would be like a benzodiazepine</span> <span class="cue" id="t-412" data-t="412">or, like, an SSRI?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-414" data-t="414">Or like what type of pharmaceutical would we be dealing with? Or would it be something</span> <span class="cue" id="t-419" data-t="419">proprietary</span> <span class="cue" id="t-421" data-t="421">and new that the pharma</span> <span class="cue" id="t-424" data-t="424">companies have brought to market in kind of like a breakneck speed to address, like, the growing issue?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-431">7:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-431" data-t="431">Well, there's alpha protocol.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-433" data-t="433">That's one, but it could be it could you could you could have the vaccination, and maybe we need more than one of those. But if we we maybe can't cure the people who are already afflicted,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-445" data-t="445">but we can vaccinate people against</span> <span class="cue" id="t-447" data-t="447">future BDS.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-449">7:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-449" data-t="449">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-450" data-t="450">Well, I mean, this is really exciting. The the thought of a vaccination</span> <span class="cue" id="t-455" data-t="455">against Bitcoin's arrangement syndromes,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-458" data-t="458">we're really on the eve of Donald Trump winning the presidency. And we all know his</span> <span class="cue" id="t-463" data-t="463">alignment with supporting vaccines</span> <span class="cue" id="t-466" data-t="466">historically.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-468">7:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-468" data-t="468">Right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-469" data-t="469">He's supporting Bitcoin now. So I would imagine he would be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-473" data-t="473">rushing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-474" data-t="474">a product like this to market. I mean, we might see an operation warp speed two point o in this next presidency when he most likely wins.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-483">8:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-483" data-t="483">And I think we have a good example of how to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-487" data-t="487">incentivize. Incentives matter. Incentivize people to get this vaccine because I know, you know, I don't wanna work with anybody here at the Bugle who who doesn't get one, who needs one.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-497" data-t="497">Think about, do you wanna work with somebody with BDS? Do you want that infecting your workplace,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-502" data-t="502">or do you want people to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-505" data-t="505">to make sure they take care of that not only for themselves but for others' protection?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-510">8:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-510" data-t="510">Yep.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-511" data-t="511">If if I were Donald Trump, I'd be looking at what Bukele has done in El Salvador to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-518" data-t="518">increase Bitcoin adoption as well as eradicate noncompliance,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-523" data-t="523">both in the government and, you know, among the citizenry.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-527" data-t="527">And I think the the first step would be for Trump. You know, he's a big fan of stimulus. So imagine if</span> <span class="cue" id="t-535" data-t="535">he pushed through stimulus where everybody got thousand dollar,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-540">9:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-540" data-t="540">custodial lightning vouchers that they could redeem through KYC ing.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-546" data-t="546">And in many ways that paired with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-549" data-t="549">the vaccination</span> <span class="cue" id="t-550" data-t="550">like you you you go and you get the pharmaceutical product</span> <span class="cue" id="t-554" data-t="554">and then you get to redeem a thousand dollars in Bitcoin in a custodial lightning wallet.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-559">9:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-559" data-t="559">How crazy would that be? I love that idea. I hope Dennis Porter is listening to that idea. My only</span> <span class="cue" id="t-566" data-t="566">thing that I would add to your,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-570" data-t="570">observation about Trump should look at Bukele's blueprint</span> <span class="cue" id="t-573" data-t="573">is that you can only if we're gonna do what Bukele did, we're gonna need we're gonna need prisons,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-578" data-t="578">for people who refuse to comply. And I think we could build them rehabilitating</span> <span class="cue" id="t-584" data-t="584">citadels,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-585">9:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-585" data-t="585">and we could put the people who have BDS, we could put them in the citadels and they would see</span> <span class="cue" id="t-591" data-t="591">what they're missing and the value</span> <span class="cue" id="t-593" data-t="593">that they could provide in this new value for value paradigm when they get out of the citadel. Yeah. I mean, so, like, you know, if you're gonna integrate somebody into the Citadel,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-604">10:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-604" data-t="604">it's really important. So I I know the Bitcoin women are gonna be homeschooling their kids in these citadels. Right?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-611" data-t="611">And so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-612" data-t="612">so part of the curriculum will be listening to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-616" data-t="616">you know, podcasts</span> <span class="cue" id="t-617" data-t="617">on a regular basis and and giving people all the context that they need to know about Bitcoin that they've missed out on, you know, for the past</span> <span class="cue" id="t-626" data-t="626">fifteen years. And</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-628">10:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-628" data-t="628">so, you know, I'm sure a lot of it will be,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-631" data-t="631">like, assigned Nakamoto Institute reading.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-634" data-t="634">There'll be,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-636" data-t="636">you know, the Sailor Series,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-638" data-t="638">things like that. What Bitcoin did will probably be a big part of the curriculum.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-642" data-t="642">And and we can just plot, like, as these kids are being homeschooled in the Citadel, we can take</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-649" data-t="649">the recovering,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-651" data-t="651">mental health patients</span> <span class="cue" id="t-653" data-t="653">and put them into the homeschooling curriculum and give them all the context they needed. Like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-660" data-t="660">there's a need to re educate people because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-664" data-t="664">the public education system has just, like, failed them so thoroughly.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-669">11:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-669" data-t="669">I mean, you've got common core mathematics. You'd have people reading books like To Kill a Mockingbird or Grapes of Wrath</span> <span class="cue" id="t-676" data-t="676">when they should be listening to the Sailor series, they should be listening to Bitcoin Audible. And these are the things that could replace the outdated education.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-685" data-t="685">I mean, Guy Swan even has an AI podcast. I mean, they need to learn AI.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-691" data-t="691">Podcasts kind of solve all these problems. 100%.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-694">11:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-694" data-t="694">I mean, I I think Bitcoin Audible should definitely be a part</span> <span class="cue" id="t-699" data-t="699">I mean, it is a part of my curriculum for learning about Bitcoin, so it should be a part of these these kids and these,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-705" data-t="705">these no coiners,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-707">11:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-707" data-t="707">curriculum. It would really reduce recidivism.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-710">11:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-710" data-t="710">I I I think there might be a need to to completely throw out a lot of the old credentials</span> <span class="cue" id="t-716" data-t="716">and create a whole new set of credentials.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-719" data-t="719">Instead of getting a high school diploma, you should be able to get a diploma after,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-724" data-t="724">you know, completing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-725" data-t="725">this curriculum,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-728" data-t="728">allows you to have the title of being a Bitcoin expert. So every high school graduate, every 18 year old kid moving on to higher education</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-736">12:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-736" data-t="736">should receive a diploma</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-738">12:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-738" data-t="738">of being a Bitcoin expert. Yeah. We should put that on, use the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-743" data-t="743">the the orange credential system. What's that called again? The DID or if it you don't need Cardano for for diplomas on chain anymore.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-751">12:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-751" data-t="751">I I mean, that was my first thought. I know I know Charles Hoskinson.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-755" data-t="755">He I don't know what he was doing in Ethiopia, you know, with these digital</span> <span class="cue" id="t-759" data-t="759">ID systems or decentralized ID systems.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-762" data-t="762">You know? It it wasn't done on Bitcoin, so it obviously wasn't successful.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-766" data-t="766">Yeah. I mean, they like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-768" data-t="768">LinkedIn.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-769">12:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-769" data-t="769">Like, somebody needs to come up with a Bitcoin version of LinkedIn where your credentials are tied to the Bitcoin blockchain,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-776" data-t="776">and that's what's used to verify</span> <span class="cue" id="t-778" data-t="778">your resume portfolio</span> <span class="cue" id="t-780" data-t="780">instead of just whatever you write about it because I mean, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-785" data-t="785">you could very easily, you know, pseudo spoof</span> <span class="cue" id="t-788" data-t="788">a bunch of endorsements on skills that you don't have</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-792">13:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-792" data-t="792">on LinkedIn.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-794" data-t="794">But when it's plugged into an immutable</span> <span class="cue" id="t-796" data-t="796">ledger,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-798" data-t="798">like, how would you be able to spoof that?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-801">13:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-801" data-t="801">Right. There's no span there. It's the perfect solution.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-805" data-t="805">There's entrepreneurs out there that were building that for sure. So, yeah, I</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-810" data-t="810">I'm I'm waiting for Michael Sailor to send me an invite to get set up with this platform because I I wanna be the first individual, if not one of the first individuals,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-820" data-t="820">using it.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-874">14:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Kailey Welch</b> <span class="cue" id="t-874" data-t="874">This week, Richard Grieser launched a new investigative podcast to try and find out what happened to the McDonald's dollar menu.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-882" data-t="882">Americans are being ravaged by rising fast food prices and demand answers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-886" data-t="886">The media is not covering this important issue, so Richard has taken the call to get to the bottom of this mystery. Check out the show on Fountain, as well as his debut musical album on Wave Link. The links to both will be in the show notes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-899" data-t="899">Americans wanna know why such an important part of American culture disappeared silently sometime during 2020.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-906" data-t="906">You can contribute to the show by sending your tips on what you think happened to the dollar menu to us on our website, bugle.news.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-912" data-t="912">Once again, links will be in the show</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-923">15:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-923" data-t="923">notes.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-932">15:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-932" data-t="932">Well, speaking</span> <span class="cue" id="t-933" data-t="933">of speaking of these podcasts and these education platforms, you've got a new</span> <span class="cue" id="t-938" data-t="938">series that just came out, today about the disappearance of the McDonald's dollar menu. Would you wanna talk about that?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-946">15:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-946" data-t="946">Yeah. I mean, it it's definitely one of my most important,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-950" data-t="950">pieces of work that I've done. And why it's important is because the dollar McDonald's dollar menu</span> <span class="cue" id="t-957" data-t="957">is a huge</span> <span class="cue" id="t-959" data-t="959">part of American culture because of how many advertising dollars,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-963" data-t="963">McDonald's has put into it. McDonald's has, you know, done advertising campaigns with people like Donald Trump, for example, you know, and politic other politicians,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-973" data-t="973">other,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-975">16:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-975" data-t="975">celebrities</span> <span class="cue" id="t-976" data-t="976">and and athletes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-978" data-t="978">has promoted the dollar menu for, you know, almost thirty years until it disappeared</span> <span class="cue" id="t-984" data-t="984">sometime in 2020.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-986" data-t="986">And so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-987" data-t="987">it's a really big issue that people cannot afford food because up until</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-993">16:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-993" data-t="993">recently when the dollar menu disappeared,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-996" data-t="996">the dollar menu was essentially like the equivalent of low income housing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1001" data-t="1001">for individuals who use low income fast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1004" data-t="1004">food. Right. Wow. And and now that's gone. So that that's like as if a massive subsidy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1010" data-t="1010">was just lifted from the or eliminated from the American public.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1017" data-t="1017">It's like if every state just eliminated food stamps overnight is the significance of the dollar menu disappearing.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1024">17:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1024" data-t="1024">And the obesity problem keeps getting worse now that the dollar menu is gone. That's a weird that's something to look into, right? I mean, what's going on there?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1033" data-t="1033">This</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1034" data-t="1034">when subsidized food goes down, obesity goes up. Is that the correlation that I'm seeing?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1040">17:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1040" data-t="1040">I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1041" data-t="1041">I think that could be a potential. I don't know why</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1045" data-t="1045">obesity</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1046" data-t="1046">would have gone up. I mean, it might have been</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1048" data-t="1048">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1050" data-t="1050">as a result of the dollar menu disappearing, a lot of people are defecting to other fast food restaurants for their value meals.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1057">17:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1057" data-t="1057">Interesting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1058" data-t="1058">So instead of eating McDonald's, they're eating Taco Bell or some other, you know, garbage like that. Foreign influence in our foods, housing, increased obesity, that's something to look into as well.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1070">17:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1070" data-t="1070">Are you, you know, as a journalist, especially a credential of one with a with a degree, college degree, you rely on access to power, access to sources for information. Is McDonald's, has they made an edited ad for you? Are they threatening you? How are you getting are you crowdsourcing or do you have sources coming to you? How do you get this information? How is your research</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1089" data-t="1089">taking place?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1091">18:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1091" data-t="1091">So the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1093" data-t="1093">first episode I did, I did crowdsourced</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1096" data-t="1096">the three stories that I talked about. The three different individuals</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1100" data-t="1100">sent me in, you know, pretty well thought out theories that I, you know, talked about and dived deeper into, did some research around. So I put a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1109" data-t="1109">a form on our website for people to be able to send in their theories to me.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1115" data-t="1115">And so that's where I hope to get a good amount of my information</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1119">18:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1119" data-t="1119">on the investigation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1120" data-t="1120">or at least to give me the direction to go, you know, looking for the information.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1126" data-t="1126">Because I I really believe that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1129" data-t="1129">you know, we can we can solve this as a community that a lot of different minds, even if a lot of the minds are not credentialed,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1136" data-t="1136">non credentialed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1138" data-t="1138">investigative skills combined</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1140">19:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1140" data-t="1140">with my investigative skills,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1143" data-t="1143">my credentialed investigative skills will be able to get to the bottom of this and figure out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1148" data-t="1148">this, you know, to to say it matter of factly,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1151" data-t="1151">this is a national security issue, the disappearance of the dollar menu.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1156">19:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1156" data-t="1156">Totally agree. Yeah. And and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1159" data-t="1159">this is this is really important point that you make because that's why they call it a lead.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1164" data-t="1164">You don't have the skills if you don't have the credentials</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1168" data-t="1168">to report news like this. But you can help somebody who's qualified like Richard by giving them a lead, and that leads them to the truth, which they can turn around and present to you in the reporting. So now you don't have to think for yourself because you used your instincts to provide</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1184">19:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1184" data-t="1184">somebody smarter than you with a lead. Yeah. I mean, I so on on the topic of,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1190" data-t="1190">you know, what has been McDonald's response, I mean, the the episode is at at the time that that we're recording has only been out for, like, four hours.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1198" data-t="1198">And so there there hasn't been enough</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1201" data-t="1201">time for there to be a response. You know, we're recording on a weekend on on a holiday. So I'm sure, you know, their employees and and PR firms that manage a lot of these things</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1212" data-t="1212">have not had time to, see it. I I did</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1216" data-t="1216">DM the McDonald's,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1218">20:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1218" data-t="1218">Twitter account, you know, a few weeks ago asking where the dollar menu went, and they never responded.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1225" data-t="1225">So they they might be trying to ignore all the questions that I'm asking. I know I've been active enough online</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1233" data-t="1233">and have asked, you know, some pretty serious questions to the point where I know that they're watching what I'm doing.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1239" data-t="1239">But I think that they think that, you know, this is just gonna blow over, and it's it's not gonna be for what it is, which is the most important</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1249" data-t="1249">investigative</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1250">20:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1250" data-t="1250">journalism happening on the Internet today. You think that do you think that this might lead to a Pulitzer</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1256" data-t="1256">award for you?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1258">20:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1258" data-t="1258">You know, maybe, but probably not. I mean, I I think the solution to things like that is we we need to create a whole new standard of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1266" data-t="1266">of awards. Like, you know, the Nobel Prize is a scam, they give it to war criminals all the time, the guy that started</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1273" data-t="1273">it was a war criminal,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1275" data-t="1275">and other awards like the Pulitzer Prize</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1277" data-t="1277">are tarnished by</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1279" data-t="1279">kind of,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1282">21:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1282" data-t="1282">sometimes they give it to non credentialed individuals, but most of it, pollsters just give in to corporate media, the ones that are bought off by McDonald's that are not asking the questions of where the dollar menu went.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1293">21:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1293" data-t="1293">Maybe it's time to create a greaser, and you can set a good example by giving yourself the first greaser, and then others</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1301" data-t="1301">can</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1302" data-t="1302">try to emulate your your standard of journalism</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1305" data-t="1305">to be worthy of a greaser with under this new Bitcoin standard of journalism?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1311">21:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1311" data-t="1311">That's not a bad idea. I mean, maybe it would be the Greaser Awards or maybe it'd be the Bugle Awards,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1317" data-t="1317">because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1318" data-t="1318">there are many fine journalists at this institution</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1321" data-t="1321">that are doing work that's just as important as I am,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1325" data-t="1325">but maybe a little bit less,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1328" data-t="1328">experienced in the way that they're, you know,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1330">22:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1330" data-t="1330">approaching it and delivering it. But they'll they'll get there under my tutelage,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1335" data-t="1335">as well as yours. I mean, you're a very credentialed journalist as well. Right. I</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1340" data-t="1340">think between us,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1342" data-t="1342">the other big competition in the space that's already there is Predator. I think that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1348" data-t="1348">he's definitely in the running, gonna be in the running in future years. So,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1352">22:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1352" data-t="1352">I mean, would you consider, so you're building a little bit of rivalry</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1356" data-t="1356">with him?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1358">22:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1358" data-t="1358">Yeah, as you know, couple of mock rakers just going back in full art online,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1364" data-t="1364">I think it's all it's all very professional</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1366" data-t="1366">professional competition. It's good for journalism.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1368">22:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1368" data-t="1368">Yeah. And it it's good for Bitcoin too, which I think is important to to remember. Absolutely. That's what's most important. Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1376" data-t="1376">Well, it it's been a very busy news week, hasn't it?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1380">23:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1380" data-t="1380">That's true. We've got a lot to dive into. I mean, we could probably start with,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1385" data-t="1385">one that's been trending the past few days is the Breedlove scandal. Robert Breedlove posted,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1391" data-t="1391">a picture with his porn star girlfriend. A lot of people got jealous, a lot of people got upset about that, and there's even been reports that I've seen that the the OnlyFans community has been shaming wherein Bundy who is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1405" data-t="1405">Robert Breedlove's new girlfriend</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1407" data-t="1407">for for dating a Bitcoin podcaster which is very narrow minded of them is very edges but it just goes to show you that there's a lot of controversy and conflict going on and it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1418" data-t="1418">d plus plus and shinobi are not the only love interest in this space, causing some people to turn their heads.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1425">23:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1425" data-t="1425">Yeah. I mean, that was a really good story that you did. I think I'm probably gonna publish that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1432" data-t="1432">the morning that this podcast is, is released so that people understand the context of what you're talking about.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1438">23:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1438" data-t="1438">Good idea. But, yeah. I mean, the the OnlyFans community, it appears to be even more toxic than Bitcoin Twitter. That's hard to believe, but it turned out to be the case. They are they think, first of all, they they're they're critical</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1453" data-t="1453">of, of Robert for claiming to be Austrian, but some of them are are native to Austria and they said they they'd never seen him before. They'd never seen anybody in his family, so he might be lobbying about being Austrian.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1465" data-t="1465">But, obviously, that we we know what they're talk we know we know that they're incorrect. We know he's talking about economics, but sometimes things get lost in translation. Did I tell you my theory on this relationship yet?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1477" data-t="1477">No. I don't think so.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1479">24:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1479" data-t="1479">So I have a I have a source that told me that they found and I haven't I've yet to verify it. I've been too deep in this McDonald's article.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1488" data-t="1488">But they told me that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1491" data-t="1491">Robert has has a listing on Fiverr</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1494" data-t="1494">offering OnlyFans</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1496" data-t="1496">girls</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1498" data-t="1498">the ability to increase their</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1501">25:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1501" data-t="1501">subscription substantially because there's a large portion</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1504" data-t="1504">of the Bitcoin community</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1507" data-t="1507">that</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1507">for whatever reason sexually satisfies themselves</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1510" data-t="1510">to Bitcoin influencers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1512" data-t="1512">significant others.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1514">25:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1514" data-t="1514">Wow, that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1515" data-t="1515">That would be quite the scandal, but it would I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1519" data-t="1519">there is no better place</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1521" data-t="1521">to get</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1523" data-t="1523">to watch your career</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1525" data-t="1525">to become a next level influencer than the Bitcoin Twitter space and the Bitcoin Twitter community.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1530">25:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1530" data-t="1530">That</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1532">25:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1532" data-t="1532">I don't I don't know if Bitcoiners want their podcast donations going to porn stores, though. Well, you know, individuals like Robert Robert Breedlove, they they predominantly don't operate on the value for value</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1545" data-t="1545">True. True. Platform. So I don't think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1549" data-t="1549">it the the question is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1551" data-t="1551">do sponsors want their sponsorship money going to porn stores?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1557">25:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1557" data-t="1557">That's the right question. I think that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1559" data-t="1559">there is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1561" data-t="1561">an element of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1563" data-t="1563">sexual energy that goes into some of this</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1566" data-t="1566">hot comp entertainment and content.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1569" data-t="1569">Like you said, people sexually pleasuring themselves to other people's significant others.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1573">26:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1573" data-t="1573">But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1574" data-t="1574">it it can't be, it has to be real value for value relationship. It can't be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1580" data-t="1580">one-sided.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1581" data-t="1581">Where somebody else is using their position of influencer strength</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1586" data-t="1586">to give the other person a favor. That's that sounds like exploitation.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1590" data-t="1590">Mhmm. You have to get married to the other influencer</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1593">26:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1593" data-t="1593">to to market them, to boost them, to have a bigger</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1597" data-t="1597">platform.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1598" data-t="1598">Otherwise,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1599" data-t="1599">it's just prostitution.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1601" data-t="1601">It's not it's not a real value for value relationship.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1605">26:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1605" data-t="1605">Yeah. But, I mean, how many of these influencers are are completely okay with prostitution? Like, it it seems like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1612" data-t="1612">that's kind of the status quo for that industry.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1617">26:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1617" data-t="1617">Well, I didn't realize it until</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1619" data-t="1619">this scandal came out. It's kind of exposing the city underbelly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1624" data-t="1624">of this influencer community, this influencer,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1628" data-t="1628">ecosystem. It's a it's much more</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1632" data-t="1632">cutthroat and much more fiat than I expected.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1636">27:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1636" data-t="1636">Yeah. I mean, I'm sure for many</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1639" data-t="1639">that are that are fan of,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1641" data-t="1641">the,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1642" data-t="1642">the type of sports ball where they kick the ball around,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1645" data-t="1645">that's really popular globally,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1647" data-t="1647">You know, whenever the World Cup comes around, there's a lot of revelations</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1651">27:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1651" data-t="1651">around,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1653" data-t="1653">the people organizing it, doing things like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1655" data-t="1655">using slave labor.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1658" data-t="1658">And that's kind of what this feels like. You you learn that your your favorite Bitcoin influencer is a prostitute or is engaging in prostitution.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1666">27:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1666" data-t="1666">I thought I thought this could be I thought Bitcoin fixed this,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1669" data-t="1669">but,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1670" data-t="1670">apparently it doesn't fix everybody's hearts and souls. There's still a lot of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1676" data-t="1676">trusting and not verifying going on when it comes to the character of our favorite influencers.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1682">28:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1682" data-t="1682">Well,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1683" data-t="1683">I mean, I think this goes into,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1685" data-t="1685">you know, this idea of, you know, we need we need to be updating,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1690" data-t="1690">you know, the diagnosis he's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1693" data-t="1693">mental health diagnosis he's from</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1696" data-t="1696">from a Bitcoin standard because all that whole</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1699">28:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1699" data-t="1699">that whole system was written on a Fiat standard. You know, stuff like this, you know, it it might be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1705" data-t="1705">a result of, you know, back, you know, fiat, like, you know, maybe somebody, maybe Robert,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1712" data-t="1712">his family lost their house during the two thousand and eight financial crisis.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1717">28:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1717" data-t="1717">What about this hedge fund during the twenty twenty one Bitcoin crash? I mean, he went through financial problems himself.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1724" data-t="1724">It sounded like he was moving his assets overseas because he had so many creditors coming for him because they, you know, they did not have dining hands, and they wanted to pull out quick and he couldn't he couldn't pay the creditors.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1737">28:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1737" data-t="1737">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1738" data-t="1738">I mean, that that you might be able to diagnose him with PTSD from a situation like that.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1744">29:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1744" data-t="1744">I mean, what is more traumatizing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1746" data-t="1746">than a than a than a huge dip in Bitcoin at the end of a a bull run? Right? Like, you think that you are rich now,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1753" data-t="1753">and you go back to being poor. And that's that could be and people throw themselves off of of of buildings in market crashes. Why wouldn't that be a a most traumatic stress disorder qualifying event?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1765">29:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1765" data-t="1765">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1767" data-t="1767">Yeah. I mean, you know, people got caught launching speculative</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1771" data-t="1771">attacks. They were they were going off of what they knew to be true,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1775" data-t="1775">which is that Bitcoin had already won,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1778" data-t="1778">and they just got red pulled by people that didn't realize that Bitcoin had already won.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1784">29:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1784" data-t="1784">Yeah. So It's not it's not just about being right. If you're early, you're wrong. Well, he wasn't you know, we are haven't been wrong</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1792" data-t="1792">about Bitcoin already winning. That's already true. But until everybody else figures it out,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1797" data-t="1797">you know, you are subject to volatility in markets.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1804">30:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1804" data-t="1804">Damn, son. Where'd you find this? Listen up, plebs.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1808">30:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1808" data-t="1808">Are you non compliant?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1811" data-t="1811">Are you sick of being spied on? We make it look easy. Cringe listening to Pod Comp approved podcast?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1818" data-t="1818">Oh, yes. If so,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1819" data-t="1819">Ungovernable Misfits has a podcast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1822" data-t="1822">just for you.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1823" data-t="1823">Listen to chief misfit, Max, explore ways to regain your freedom,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1828">30:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1828" data-t="1828">sovereignty,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1829" data-t="1829">and privacy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1830" data-t="1830">using Bitcoin and open source software with self custody influencer q and a,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1835" data-t="1835">club miner John, and the rest of the ungovernable crew on Fountain FM, the podcasting two point o platform where value for value trumps everything.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1846" data-t="1846">Become a rebel with a cause.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1848" data-t="1848">Become</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1850">30:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1850" data-t="1850">ungovernable.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1852">30:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1852" data-t="1852">Yeah. I mean, this is like the second order of facts of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1857" data-t="1857">mass formation psychosis.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1859" data-t="1859">Totally.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1861">31:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1861" data-t="1861">And it isn't</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1863" data-t="1863">something that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1864" data-t="1864">magnifies the problem is that the day after</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1868" data-t="1868">these revelations</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1870" data-t="1870">of prostitution and the value for value perversion of our space. You know, Roberts estranged wife joined, went on spaces and aired the dirty laundry, and this is leading some to speculate.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1882" data-t="1882">If the whole</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1883">31:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1883" data-t="1883">situation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1884" data-t="1884">was a publicity stunt by triple elite memes,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1888" data-t="1888">who had now had a daily spaces with good attendance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1891" data-t="1891">every day since. And they launched this</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1894" data-t="1894">space with Janet Roberts. It's a strange one. There's just there was a whole lot of drama, a lot of accusations</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1900" data-t="1900">leveled</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1901">31:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1901" data-t="1901">my Janet in that 10 spaces. It was very,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1904" data-t="1904">well attended</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1905" data-t="1905">and it's very controversial.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1906">31:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1906" data-t="1906">Interesting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1908" data-t="1908">Well, I mean, you know, it's unfortunate that a lot of that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1913" data-t="1913">activity is happening on Twitter spaces and being done by non credentialed individuals.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1919">31:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1919" data-t="1919">Is that all that too? Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1920">32:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1920" data-t="1920">I wanna say that you know that's the issue. A lot of misinformation is is told there.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1927" data-t="1927">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1928" data-t="1928">A lot of dangerous misinformation.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1931" data-t="1931">And so,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1932" data-t="1932">I don't know. I mean, maybe maybe there's a need for credentialed individuals like us to take over the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1939" data-t="1939">the morning Twitter spaces scene.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1941">32:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1941" data-t="1941">And There's a there's a huge opportunity.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1944" data-t="1944">Huge opportunity there. If we if somebody else doesn't wanna do it,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1949" data-t="1949">it it seems like the burden</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1951">32:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1951" data-t="1951">is on us. Yeah. I mean, I think this could be a moment, you know, one of my favorite parts in the Bible is when,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1958" data-t="1958">you know, Jesus is at the synagogue</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1961" data-t="1961">and he goes and kicks all the vendors out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1963" data-t="1963">And I think if the bugle,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1966" data-t="1966">the bugle could essentially go through that same process,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1970" data-t="1970">restoring the sanctity of Twitter spaces in the same way that Jesus restored the sanctity</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1976">32:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1976" data-t="1976">of</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1976">the temple, of the synagogue.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1979">32:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1979" data-t="1979">Yeah. Kicked out the marketing merchants that people were trying to sell things</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1983" data-t="1983">and, the false prophets. Yeah. Right.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1987">33:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1987" data-t="1987">That that might be the direction that we're we'd have to go.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1993" data-t="1993">To be continued there. I have to think about that. I mean, there's there's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1997" data-t="1997">yeah. It's the when when I think of Twitter spaces, it's not something I want to do.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2004" data-t="2004">I'd much rather, you know, devote my time to, you know, finding the McDonald's dollar menu, but, you know, the best people in Twitter spaces are not the people that wanna be there, but the ones that feel called to be there. And so that's something</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2017">33:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2017" data-t="2017">Yeah. Fulfilling your duty. Some people feel called to the fulfilling their duty. Well, there was,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2025">33:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2025" data-t="2025">very, weird curveball that was, thrown this week, which was that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2030" data-t="2030">that Donald Trump wants to, free Ross Ulberg.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2035">33:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2035" data-t="2035">Now that came out of nowhere. What do you what do you think was behind that? Do you think David Bailey's involved?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2041">34:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2041" data-t="2041">Yeah. I think David Bailey's responsible</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2043" data-t="2043">for it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2044" data-t="2044">We we had that article</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2046" data-t="2046">this week,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2048" data-t="2048">about Donald Trump</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2050" data-t="2050">naming Michael Sailor to be his VP.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2053">34:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2053" data-t="2053">I I just think he's he's just so thoroughly orange like, did you did you hear him talk about self custody?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2059">34:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2059" data-t="2059">It was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2060" data-t="2060">it was like a totally different person. And I I've also got also seen reports that the Sailor nomination,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2067" data-t="2067">although it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2069" data-t="2069">may not be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2070" data-t="2070">official</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2071" data-t="2071">in terms of who gets sworn in Sailor will continue to be kind of like the shadow vice president it's more of</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2078">34:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2078" data-t="2078">a it's more of a nod to the community to let people know that somebody's working behind the scenes. Yeah. I mean, it it's very interesting timing that,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2088">34:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2088" data-t="2088">like, Donald Trump has communicated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2090" data-t="2090">with his his support base via online messaging boards</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2094" data-t="2094">using cryptic language,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2097" data-t="2097">you know, for a long time.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2099" data-t="2099">And shortly before this announcement,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2101" data-t="2101">Michael Saylor began doing the same thing using Stacker News.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2105">35:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2105" data-t="2105">And so I think that was kind of a signal to</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2110">35:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2110" data-t="2110">a shift.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2111" data-t="2111">Yeah. It'll be interesting to keep following that because I think that it's gonna be a very tumultuous</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2116" data-t="2116">couple of months. But this</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2118" data-t="2118">this free Ross announcement is a game changer. Yeah. I mean,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2123">35:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2123" data-t="2123">I I'm excited at the the prospect of having Ross on the podcast once he gets out and goes on the the PodConv tour and has kinda recovered.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2132">35:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2132" data-t="2132">That'll be really exciting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2134" data-t="2134">I I wonder who would</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2136" data-t="2136">which, you know, which show</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2139" data-t="2139">will will be the first one he goes on. And I wonder</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2142" data-t="2142">how much</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2144" data-t="2144">how many advertisers will be flooding to get their advertising</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2148">35:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2148" data-t="2148">on that show. I I mean, probably not a whole lot of them because I think a lot of the the advertisers are pretty scared of Ross's noncompliance.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2159" data-t="2159">But my my bet would,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2161" data-t="2161">would be that he'd go on what Bitcoin did first, that that would be the first show that Ross would appear on. Yeah. That would be my guess too. I think that'll that'll be a really good one to suss out</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2171">36:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2171" data-t="2171">everything that everything that he's gone through. But I I I'm hopeful that the advertisers will be,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2177" data-t="2177">you know, now that his sentence has commuted, you know, it kinda wipes out</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2182" data-t="2182">it wipes out all the history. It makes it makes it like he never had to go to jail in the first place and everybody kinda just is happy. Yeah. I I mean, I hope it's that way. Be died ons. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2192">36:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2192" data-t="2192">I hope it's that way. I mean, I I would say Ross is a very important individual</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2197" data-t="2197">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2198" data-t="2198">in Bitcoin's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2199" data-t="2199">history,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2201" data-t="2201">because he he gay he created, like, a good use of bit bit like, I wouldn't be able to buy cigarettes for Bitcoin today if it wasn't for Ross creating the Silk Road.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2212" data-t="2212">Like, that was one of the first ways for people to buy non KYC cigarettes.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2217">36:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2217" data-t="2217">And for that reason, I will always be a big fan of his.</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2223" data-t="2223">When are you gonna find non KYC Marlboro Reds now?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2228">37:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2228" data-t="2228">I I've got a I've got a local guy in New York,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2232" data-t="2232">that I I have a deal with. I don't I don't wanna say say too much about it, but, I orange pilled him</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2238" data-t="2238">over the years. It it's right down the street from me. It just takes a short walk.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2243" data-t="2243">You know, we I I consume volume of cigarettes, so I I help him move a significant amount of quality or quantity of,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2251" data-t="2251">non KYC cigarettes.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2253">37:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2253" data-t="2253">Say that's gonna be a really good,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2256" data-t="2256">you know, layer two</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2258" data-t="2258">for liquidity</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2260" data-t="2260">in a, you know, in eCash or a Lightning Network hub.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2264" data-t="2264">People should look into that.</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2267" data-t="2267">Yeah, I mean, just between my wife, my kid and I,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2271" data-t="2271">we consume like a carton every other day. And so,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2275" data-t="2275">yeah, between the three of us,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2278" data-t="2278">I mean, that's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2279" data-t="2279">anywhere from six to seven cartons a week.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2282">38:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2282" data-t="2282">Please pardon the ad break.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2284" data-t="2284">Podkonoff is working to completely disrupt traditional financial markets.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2290" data-t="2290">This week, they announced they are applying for a compliance token ETF.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2295" data-t="2295">Compliance token is an exclusive BRC 20 token,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2298" data-t="2298">only given to the most compliant Bitcoiners who support the unified PodConf narrative</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2304" data-t="2304">NGU.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2306">38:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2306" data-t="2306">PodConf is ushering in the future through innovative financial products that bring Bitcoin to the fiat world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2313" data-t="2313">This is what it looks like to be winning.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2315" data-t="2315">Help support Pod Conf today by telling Gary Gensler and the SEC to approve our</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2322" data-t="2322">ETF.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2327">38:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2327" data-t="2327">Due to inflation,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2328" data-t="2328">buying cigarettes for your family is really difficult. That is one of the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2333" data-t="2333">they don't include cigarettes in the CPI, unfortunately. That's I think that's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2338" data-t="2338">deliberate.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2340">38:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2340" data-t="2340">Well,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2341" data-t="2341">yeah. I mean, this is this is, you know, where we could use different</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2347" data-t="2347">alternatives to the CPI. Because the CPI is focusing on the dollar. And since Bitcoin has already won, we need things like the Bitcoin price index. Because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2355" data-t="2355">if you look at the price of cigarettes and Satoshis over the past,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2360" data-t="2360">you know, little bit, they they continue to go down</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2365" data-t="2365">over a long enough time horizon. Like, it it got real rough in the bear market.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2370">39:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2370" data-t="2370">But, you know, today, you know, as Bitcoin is well above the the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2375" data-t="2375">what was previously thought to be an impossible resistance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2379" data-t="2379">to breakthrough the the 58 ks level,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2382">39:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2382" data-t="2382">yeah, cigarettes are looking good. What is your prediction for when we will finally hit cigarette</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2387" data-t="2387">parity?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2390">39:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2390" data-t="2390">Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2393" data-t="2393">I I try to avoid any sort of price predictions because I am a journalist and I'm not Right. A trader. I I'm not a quant guy. I'm not a macro guy. I don't you know, I cover those topics, but I tend</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2406" data-t="2406">to to refer to the experts. So, you know, I would I would look to to people like Will Clemente,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2411" data-t="2411">Willie Woo, and and Dylan O'Claire. I I think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2414" data-t="2414">that's a really good question is is to see what an aggregate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2419" data-t="2419">just to get an aggregate of all these different people's,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2421">40:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2421" data-t="2421">predictions.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2423">40:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2423" data-t="2423">Yeah. They they should come up with, like, a a tobacco council. We need, like, a cigarette index.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2428" data-t="2428">I think that would be very helpful</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2431" data-t="2431">to average the average person, the pleb, to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2434" data-t="2434">really see the value</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2437" data-t="2437">of of their purchasing power grow over time in terms</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2441" data-t="2441">of Sats per cigarettes.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2444">40:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2444" data-t="2444">Did did you ever see the Chapwood index</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2448" data-t="2448">when that was big? I don't think so. I don't think so.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2451">40:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2451" data-t="2451">I'm gonna the Chapwood index isn't oh, wow. Okay. It looks like he's doing it again. So he took a couple years off.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2459" data-t="2459">Looks like he's got twenty twenty two and 2023</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2462" data-t="2462">information.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2464" data-t="2464">But the Champloo index is an index that Oh, okay. That's your cost of living.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2469" data-t="2469">Yeah. And Interesting. I think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2471" data-t="2471">he would be</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2474">41:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2474" data-t="2474">a good individual. The guy behind this would be a good individual to to gather that information on cigarettes because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2480" data-t="2480">the problem with cigarettes is the pricing is so different depending on where you go because of, taxes and and all the the KYC issues. Very interesting. We should we gotta reach out to Chapley.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2492" data-t="2492">That might be a good one.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2494" data-t="2494">It's good it's good to see that he's, he's got it up and running.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2498" data-t="2498">Wow. So</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2499" data-t="2499">in New York where I live, it says,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2502">41:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2502" data-t="2502">the the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2503" data-t="2503">last half of twenty twenty one and the first half of twenty twenty two, the inflation rate was almost 20%.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2510" data-t="2510">Wow. Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2512" data-t="2512">In first half of twenty nineteen, it was only 12%.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2516">41:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2516" data-t="2516">In Austin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2517" data-t="2517">last year was 10%.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2519" data-t="2519">So '22 was almost 15%.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2521">42:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2521" data-t="2521">But I feel it. But but, I mean, if we look at this,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2524" data-t="2524">like, we need to see the inverse of this. So, like, the Bitcoin price index would be would be way better. So if you took his basket of goods and priced it in Bitcoin.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2535">42:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2535" data-t="2535">Yeah, huge shout out to the On Zero guys.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2539">42:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2539" data-t="2539">Yeah, they're they're way ahead of the curve.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2541" data-t="2541">They realized they'd already won before even the journalists. And they did it without any sponsorship money, which is pretty impressive.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2549">42:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2549" data-t="2549">Something to study there for sure. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2553">42:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2553" data-t="2553">But yeah. So so Trump Trump likes Bitcoin, apparently.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2558">42:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2558" data-t="2558">Apparently, his son does too. Aaron. Do you have any,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2561">42:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2561" data-t="2561">theories as to which NIM is Barron</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2565">42:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2565" data-t="2565">Trump? Yeah. For those who don't know, David Bailey, I think it was, said that, Trump had a sign his sign Barron had a crypto NIM, a Bitcoin Twitter NIM.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2574">42:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2574" data-t="2574">And I I have long suspected that it was Ghost of Dick Whitman. What's your theory on that? Why why would you think it would be him?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2582">43:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2582" data-t="2582">Just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2584" data-t="2584">the aristocratic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2587" data-t="2587">autistic arrogance.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2589" data-t="2589">He knows. He knows it already won.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2592" data-t="2592">And he's been trying to say that, and he's been trying to spread that message.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2597" data-t="2597">And I think,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2598">43:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2598" data-t="2598">you know, like the on zero guys, he already knew,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2602" data-t="2602">and I think it's because he had inside information.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2605" data-t="2605">The only way he could know is having inside information like Baron Interesting.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2610">43:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2610" data-t="2610">I mean, that's a that's a I think it I mean, I think we should turn this into a witch hunt figuring out which account it is.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2616" data-t="2616">One one of my fears is that Baron Trump is gonna kinda turn into a a character like Spencer Schiff. It's kinda like a bait and switch.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2625">43:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2625" data-t="2625">That would be really disappointing. Spencer Schiff, yeah, he went off the deep end.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2630" data-t="2630">And he turned on hyperbitcoinization.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2633" data-t="2633">Maybe his dad finally</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2634" data-t="2634">got to his brain and rewired it. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2638">43:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2638" data-t="2638">Yeah. I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2639" data-t="2639">if if</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2641" data-t="2641">Barron Trump is ghost of Whitman, he'd that means he's one of the most base plaids on Bitcoin Twitter. And we're gonna have one of the most base plaids in the White House</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2650" data-t="2650">next year. Imagine Barron Trump doing warning Twitter spaces</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2655" data-t="2655">from the White House</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2657" data-t="2657">Bitcoin Twitter spaces? That's what we've been</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2660" data-t="2660">working towards.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2662" data-t="2662">That's like the ultimate morning show.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2665" data-t="2665">I mean, you could do it at, like, 9AM central.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2668" data-t="2668">I think there's gonna be a few existing spaces that are a little upset about that, but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2673" data-t="2673">I think the free market will decide where those levers go. What okay. So so if if,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2679">44:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2679" data-t="2679">like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2680" data-t="2680">if this is the case, Barron Trump might be the most valuable</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2685" data-t="2685">prospective Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2687" data-t="2687">influencer</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2688" data-t="2688">in the world</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2689" data-t="2689">instantly.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2690">44:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2690" data-t="2690">Yeah. That would be an overnight</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2692" data-t="2692">success. I mean, that would be the number one interview on every podcast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2697" data-t="2697">for at least a year. I mean, it would extend beyond a year. Yeah, I mean, he he told me. This would take it mainstream. This would get covered by the mainstream media.</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">He he might be kinda close to like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2710" data-t="2710">like Michael Sailor in relevance or Jack Mallers. So, like, CNBC could be bringing on,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2716" data-t="2716">Barron Trump to talk about Bitcoin and orange peel them.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2720">45:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2720" data-t="2720">In the White House with the background. Instead of an empty closet.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2724">45:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2724" data-t="2724">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2725" data-t="2725">I mean, every almost every journalist in the world wants to do an interview in the White House. Like, that's something that they they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2732" data-t="2732">stay up at night fantasizing about before they fall asleep. And then when they fall asleep, they start dreaming about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2738" data-t="2738">interviewing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2740" data-t="2740">somebody in the White House. And so to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2742" data-t="2742">get the potential to interview Barron Trump</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2745">45:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2745" data-t="2745">in the White House</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2747" data-t="2747">with about Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2749" data-t="2749">especially knowing that he's a based</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2751" data-t="2751">NIM like Ghost of Whitman,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2754" data-t="2754">or or potential alleged potential Ghost of Whitman.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2757" data-t="2757">I mean, that would that would be bigger than,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2760">45:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2760" data-t="2760">Tucker's interview with Putin.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2763">46:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2763" data-t="2763">I I I wonder if it would be enough for Peter</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2767" data-t="2767">McCormack</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2768" data-t="2768">to finally</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2769" data-t="2769">dress nicely, or would he wear a Metallica shirt to the White House?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2774">46:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2774" data-t="2774">I I hope that he would wear a Metallica shirt to the White House. I mean, that would be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2780" data-t="2780">I mean, you know, what's funny about him doing that is, you know, he's he's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2785" data-t="2785">a a funny talker. I I don't know if you listen to the the podcast I did with Max and John, but they they told me to refer to him as a fag. So he's a he's a funny talking fag that reps American metal bands instead of,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2801">46:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2801" data-t="2801">you know, his own his own country. In America, it's the opposite. The the Fags are wearing, like, Rolling Stones t shirts or the Beatles,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2809" data-t="2809">and he comes in, he reverses it, and he he wears the American,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2813" data-t="2813">iconic music.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2815">46:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2815" data-t="2815">Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, there there's this point in in American history where the British bands were dominating the American music scene, and they called it the British invasion. And it seems like, you know, there's almost an attempt by</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2829" data-t="2829">this segment of PodConv</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2831" data-t="2831">to try and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2833" data-t="2833">and and maybe this is something, you know, I I could talk to Max and and John about because maybe they're part of the problem where they're trying to morph</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2841" data-t="2841">British and American culture and turn it into a monoculture</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2844" data-t="2844">just because we speak the same language</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2847">47:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2847" data-t="2847">with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2848" data-t="2848">vastly different dialects. Like, I can't barely understand</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2851" data-t="2851">British people when they talk. It's so obnoxious.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2854">47:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2854" data-t="2854">My only hope is that if Peter dies to an interview in the White House, that he has enough respect</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2860" data-t="2860">to drop the accent</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2862" data-t="2862">and to speak and to speak American</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2865" data-t="2865">English when he's when he's in our most sacred offices.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2869">47:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2869" data-t="2869">Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2873" data-t="2873">it's just so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2874" data-t="2874">obnoxious when people,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2876" data-t="2876">like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2877" data-t="2877">the audacity for British people to come to The US after, you know, we fought a war against them</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2884" data-t="2884">for independence.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2885">48:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2885" data-t="2885">And all all the nonsense that they did to Americans</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2889" data-t="2889">to to try and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2891" data-t="2891">you know, just bring that type of attitude where they they speak in their own dialect and they don't, It's just unbelievable to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2899" data-t="2899">me.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2900">48:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2900" data-t="2900">It's pretty alright.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2902" data-t="2902">Onto our last topic for today. I think we would be remiss if we didn't discuss Sailor's conversation with Peter. Speaking of Peter</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2911" data-t="2911">what Bitcoin did this weekend. He had a lot to say. He basically confirmed Matt Odell's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2917" data-t="2917">accusations about being against</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2919" data-t="2919">donating to core devs. He can he can</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2922" data-t="2922">he compared</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2925">48:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2925" data-t="2925">research and development</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2926" data-t="2926">in things like OPTAP</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2928" data-t="2928">and covenants</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2929" data-t="2929">to, gain of re gain of function research in COVID.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2933" data-t="2933">He came out against the vaccines, said SegWit was like smallpox,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2937" data-t="2937">mentioned the core dev industrial complex.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2940">49:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2940" data-t="2940">He he basically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2941" data-t="2941">said</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2942" data-t="2942">that donating to core devs was how you ended up with with</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2946">49:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2946" data-t="2946">men and women's locker rooms. It was it was a wild interview. I mean, there there's a lot to uncover there. So he compared Segway to smallpox?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2954">49:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2954" data-t="2954">Right. Yeah. And he talked about how everybody agrees</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2958" data-t="2958">that we need a smallpox vaccine or if they agreed we need SegWit,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2962" data-t="2962">that these newer technologies</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2964" data-t="2964">are vaccines for things that are not obviously</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2967" data-t="2967">problems, that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2970" data-t="2970">they're solutions to problems that may not even exist. That's a really interesting theory.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2975">49:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2975" data-t="2975">I think you can have a listen to that and to make their own</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2979" data-t="2979">determination here. Well, yeah, can I expand on what?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2982">49:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2982" data-t="2982">Well, I I before we were talking about the show, it sounded like he made a bunch of anti vax comments.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2988">49:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2988" data-t="2988">He did. He really did. He and he talks about the smallpox vaccine and compares it to these newer</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2994" data-t="2994">vaccines</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2995" data-t="2995">and people's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2996" data-t="2996">you know, their hesitancy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2999" data-t="2999">to try them,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3001" data-t="3001">and to get them. Maybe they they should be rejected</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3005">50:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3005" data-t="3005">if you,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3006" data-t="3006">if you compare them to changes on Bitcoin that went on went to not ossify,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3012" data-t="3012">that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3014" data-t="3014">these are being spread by data monitors who are spreading FUD and they try to they think that they have</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3020">50:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3020" data-t="3020">vaccine for the for the FUD Wow, that's pretty that's pretty crazy</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3026">50:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3026" data-t="3026">It's like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3027" data-t="3027">he doesn't say it explicitly,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3029" data-t="3029">and he essentially calls shinobi doctor Fauci. Wow.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3034">50:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3034" data-t="3034">I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3035" data-t="3035">that would be if Michael Sailor compared me to doctor Fauci, I would be pretty happy because he is a very credentialed individual.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3044" data-t="3044">And I I feel like that's a that's that's a lot of respect.</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">And I in my opinion,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3051" data-t="3051">Shinobi deserves that respect.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3053">50:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3053" data-t="3053">So I but I I don't know how people will think about that. Yeah. I know I know there's a lot of lot of people in the community that that believe a lot of misinformation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3061" data-t="3061">that might upset them. So I imagine Matt Odell is probably gonna be pretty upset about that. Yeah. He doesn't mean I don't think he,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3068">51:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3068" data-t="3068">like, addresses</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3070" data-t="3070">Odell</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3071" data-t="3071">directly</span> <span class="cue" data-t="3071">or by name, but you can tell that he is hoping that is listening. Wow.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3078">51:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3078" data-t="3078">Well, I haven't gotten a chance to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3080" data-t="3080">to listen to that podcast. I mean, do you do you have any, like, important</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3084" data-t="3084">recaps that you wanna, you know, kind of expand on?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3088">51:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3088" data-t="3088">Yeah. I would I would definitely listen to it myself to make my own determination,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3092" data-t="3092">to come to my own conclusions, but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3094" data-t="3094">a lot of it is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3097" data-t="3097">just pod comp discussion,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3098" data-t="3098">fluff. I would start at about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3101" data-t="3101">one hour and thirty minutes</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3103">51:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3103" data-t="3103">into the podcast. How how long is it?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3106">51:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3106" data-t="3106">It's over two hours.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3109" data-t="3109">There's a lot of advertisers that you'd,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3112" data-t="3112">to be included. Oh,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3114">51:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3114" data-t="3114">they had to extend it. So is there, like, an hour of content and then, like, an hour of advertisers?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3120">51:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3120" data-t="3120">Basically. Yeah. That's exactly Wow. That's pretty much the breakdown.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3124" data-t="3124">Yeah. I mean, it's kind of incredible. It's actually it's actually it's actually more like sixtyforty.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3129" data-t="3129">I think, practically, that's the new portfolio, the sixtyforty,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3133" data-t="3133">60%</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3134" data-t="3134">ads, 40%</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3136" data-t="3136">content.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3137">52:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3137" data-t="3137">I I think that if we were gonna judge</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3140" data-t="3140">the the health of the Bitcoin industry, it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3143" data-t="3143">it should be based on how many advertising</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3147" data-t="3147">minutes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3148" data-t="3148">are on each What Bitcoin Did podcast. And and the more advertising minutes there are, it means that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3154" data-t="3154">there's more marketing dollars to be spent.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3158">52:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3158" data-t="3158">That index right there. Yeah. Track that. I mean, we we'll we'll know when when these companies,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3165" data-t="3165">just completed recent</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3167" data-t="3167">fundraising</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3168" data-t="3168">rounds.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3169">52:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3169" data-t="3169">Right, and that money will come right into</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">the space via advertising. Absolutely incredible. Well, I'm gonna go listen to that right after this. Should we wrap it up with the boosts, right?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3181" data-t="3181">That's what I was just gonna say.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3183" data-t="3183">I'll start off with the first one. So John</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3186" data-t="3186">boosted us for 69,420</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3189" data-t="3189">sats</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3190" data-t="3190">and asked when decentralized</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3192" data-t="3192">compliant bugle coin airdrop.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3196" data-t="3196">Wow. Okay. So that made me think of a whole bit of news that we didn't cover today, which was the Ethereum ETF and the implications of that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3204" data-t="3204">PodSoft So maybe</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3206">53:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3206" data-t="3206">the answer to that will come in the next episode. We got to cover that. That's a big one. We don't want to gloss over it.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3212">53:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3212" data-t="3212">Yeah. Yeah. I won't go into it too much, but I know that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3216" data-t="3216">now that the precedence is that anybody can launch</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3219" data-t="3219">a digital commodity ETF,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3221" data-t="3221">Otkoff</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3222" data-t="3222">is in the application process to get,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3226" data-t="3226">compliance coin as an ETF.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3229">53:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3229" data-t="3229">The perfect match. No face advertising there. That's it. It's all pure honest advertising.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3234">53:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3234" data-t="3234">Yeah, well, the other thing,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3238" data-t="3238">man, there's so many topics I wanted to cover, but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3241" data-t="3241">yeah, I'll</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3242" data-t="3242">just stick with the boost. Thank you, John, for your boost. We're not planning on launching any coins, doing any airdrops,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3250" data-t="3250">launching any ETFs. We're we're a news agency. We're not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3254" data-t="3254">a financial services agency.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3256">54:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3256" data-t="3256">We for now, we're only using Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3259" data-t="3259">We're we're</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3260" data-t="3260">I I'm a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3262" data-t="3262">a Bitcoin maximalist, and I don't want, you know, all these different altcoins.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3267" data-t="3267">I'm not like religious about it, you know, and I'm not like gonna like shout somebody down for using an altcoin, you know, for me personally, I don't think we're gonna do any sort of, you know, Eagle issued tokens anytime soon.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3279">54:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3279" data-t="3279">Well said. Well said. Yeah. The next the next news comes from Stack Satoshi.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3284" data-t="3284">Now that we have synthetic dollars, decentralized central banking,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3288" data-t="3288">spending Bitcoin should be made illegal.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3292" data-t="3292">Satoshi's vision was for Bitcoin, the network, to be used as the scaffolding for the new financial system. When transactions are dangerous, small minded use that case. Excuse me. A small minded use case that threatens NGU.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3305" data-t="3305">Well, that's a hard take. I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3307" data-t="3307">I am against anything that threatens NGU,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3310">55:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3310" data-t="3310">so I have to think about this one a little more.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3313">55:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3313" data-t="3313">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3314" data-t="3314">Well, I I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3316" data-t="3316">I don't think that transact well, you know, people need the ability to be noncompliant</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3322" data-t="3322">in our our current political atmosphere. But when Donald Trump gets elected</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3327" data-t="3327">and he</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3329" data-t="3329">gets the government to be compliant,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3332">55:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3332" data-t="3332">I mean, he could really usher in a future where this is true,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3335" data-t="3335">but more in the sense of, you know, we</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3338" data-t="3338">would be transacting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3340" data-t="3340">using Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3343" data-t="3343">within platforms like PayPal,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3345" data-t="3345">Cash App, and</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3347">55:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3347" data-t="3347">Coinbase.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3349" data-t="3349">And so it's kind of like a middle ground where, you know, they're not actually transacting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3354" data-t="3354">Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3355" data-t="3355">around, but they're just changing numbers in the database.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3359" data-t="3359">So it's kind of like a middle ground here.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3362" data-t="3362">So Yeah. I mean, I I could see, you know, for the sake of</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3367" data-t="3367">national security, for the sake of NGU,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3370" data-t="3370">Donald Trump making</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3371" data-t="3371">he he he said that he was not gonna threaten</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3375" data-t="3375">self custody and that he was gonna promote self custody,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3379" data-t="3379">but that doesn't mean he's gonna support,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3382" data-t="3382">spending spending the Bitcoin.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3384">56:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3384" data-t="3384">And so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3387" data-t="3387">maybe with this pick of Saylor, they see it more as like a savings mechanism than a spending mechanism.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3393" data-t="3393">And they're going to promote the idea of you being your own</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3397" data-t="3397">decentralized central bank</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3399" data-t="3399">by issuing stablecoins</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3400" data-t="3400">on your Lightning node and transacting that way.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3404">56:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3404" data-t="3404">It's a dollar going.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3405">56:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3405" data-t="3405">Yeah. So I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3407" data-t="3407">you could back your stablecoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3411" data-t="3411">in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3413" data-t="3413">a bank and</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3415">56:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3415" data-t="3415">You become you become you become the welfare to the banks. You're the one we are the ones propping them up the way it should be.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3422">57:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3422" data-t="3422">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3424" data-t="3424">100% I mean, you know, this gives like a new use case for individuals to buy US treasuries,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3429" data-t="3429">to back their own stablecoins.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3432">57:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3432" data-t="3432">That protects our that protects its national security issue.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3437">57:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3437" data-t="3437">Wait. Yeah. I I'd be really interested to hear Greg Foss's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3441" data-t="3441">thoughts on this because I know he has a lot of knowledge and,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3444">57:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3444" data-t="3444">he's a credentialed mathematician. Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3447">57:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3447" data-t="3447">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3448" data-t="3448">Well, thanks, Nektoshi, for your</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3451" data-t="3451">for your support. Next boost is from Fundamentals who says, you know, Fundamentals has gotten a little bit feisty with me on Twitter over the last week. I don't know if you saw that. I've seen that. Me too. Me too. Yeah. He says, pretty banger episode. I didn't realize how much of a difference it makes to have real journalists on the show. Maybe if maybe if you</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3470">57:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3470" data-t="3470">ousted and spoke a little less</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3472" data-t="3472">and listened a little more to the correct</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3476" data-t="3476">voices, the the the authority on news, maybe you would have more</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3481" data-t="3481">revelation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3482" data-t="3482">like this. Is it I hope it was a serendipitous</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3484">58:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3484" data-t="3484">episode. It helped you kind of humble yourself a bit. Yeah. I mean, I I think the problem is a lot of people don't have the proper context to understand</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3493" data-t="3493">why credentials matter, because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3496" data-t="3496">the Bitcoin community has been so influencer driven and so</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3501" data-t="3501">uncredentialed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3502" data-t="3502">for so long. But now that it's, you know, Bitcoin has won, it's becoming more legitimate in the eyes of the fiat maximalist,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3509" data-t="3509">it's time for things to settle down and become more credentialed and and for the, you know, the real journalists to be able to crowd out the the podcasters.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3518">58:38</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3518" data-t="3518">So I mean, it's a big deal. That momentum is shifting for sure. The, the next one comes from Orange Mart. Thank you for serenading us with this compliant conversation.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3528" data-t="3528">Thank you so much for the 5,000 sats, Orange Mart. Thank you even more for, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3534" data-t="3534">providing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3535" data-t="3535">that video showing somebody defacing the PodCon funeral I had rumors eye that it was Richard,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3541" data-t="3541">Richard Grieser, but,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3543" data-t="3543">in my opinion,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3545">59:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3545" data-t="3545">some people might call it defacing, they might call it graffiti</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3548">59:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3548" data-t="3548">it looked better after he left it, if you ask me, so I think that, that's an improvement, that that's kind of a bit Bitcoin improvement paint. Yeah. I mean, I I think it added a lot of value to the the picture and, you know, I think the audience knows it wasn't me defacing the mural. I wanted</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3567" data-t="3567">that to happen. I encouraged it to happen. I wanted to do it myself, but I just have not figured out how to get past the tutorial yet. I haven't had a chance.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3575" data-t="3575">I've been too busy chasing down leads on the dollar menu.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3579">59:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3579" data-t="3579">He's a little rusty on his video game typewriter, so to speak.</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">Yeah. I'm very rusty. Next one is from you, Rod. You said mission accomplished.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3590" data-t="3590">What what did you mean by that boost?</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3592">59:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3592" data-t="3592">Bitcoin has already won.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3594" data-t="3594">Plain and simple.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3596">59:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3596" data-t="3596">Beautiful.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3598">59:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3598" data-t="3598">Thank you for your patience. Next one, we got John again. 2,100</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3602" data-t="3602">sats.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3603" data-t="3603">The rising cost of Adderall is a direct attack on journalists, and that I mentioned</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3608" data-t="3608">that we should get cheaper Adderall, and we should have priority</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3612" data-t="3612">for Adderall as journalists. And I stand by that, and I agree it is an attack on journalists. I agree too. I mean, there's other attacks on journalists like, you know, alcohol attacks. Cigarette taxes.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3622">1:00:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3622" data-t="3622">Yeah, smoking bans, cigarette taxes,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3626" data-t="3626">all sorts of stuff</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3627" data-t="3627">to really like prevent</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3629" data-t="3629">the people with the credentials for doing their best work. And it it seems like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3634" data-t="3634">I mean, why why would they deprioritize</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3637" data-t="3637">credentialed journalists and receiving Adderall</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3640">1:00:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3640" data-t="3640">over, like, you know, goofball kids that aren't doing anything at school? That like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3645" data-t="3645">12 year old kid that is struggling with his math homework should not take precedence over</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3651" data-t="3651">the bugle newsroom writers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3653" data-t="3653">Absolutely insane.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3654">1:00:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3654" data-t="3654">Absolutely not, absolutely not and I think that it's up to us to make people understand the value of what we produce,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3661" data-t="3661">so that will change. And I guess I'll just do John's next list as well for 2,100 Sats. He's excited to see what Langley engineers have to offer to Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3671" data-t="3671">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3672" data-t="3672">I agree.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3673" data-t="3673">And I just wanted to add that part of the reason Bitcoin has already won is due to those engineers at Langley. Yeah. I mean,</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3681" data-t="3681">we can go we like, we're not big fans of the of the CIA</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3684" data-t="3684">on the show,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3686" data-t="3686">because of their noncompliance,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3687" data-t="3687">but, you know, we have to give credit where credit is due. I mean, they've really been promoting a lot of freedom technologies for them to be able to launder</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3696" data-t="3696">their illicit funds and be noncompliance.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3698" data-t="3698">So it it just fits into the Bitcoin game theory here.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3701">1:01:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3701" data-t="3701">Yeah. Like it or hate it. There's a lot of cipher punks in the CIA.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3706">1:01:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3706" data-t="3706">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3708" data-t="3708">Our last boost is from Enoch who said</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3711" data-t="3711">Marxist babbling, which I don't I don't really know what that means. I mean, it sounds like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3716" data-t="3716">some sort of stupid conspiracy theory.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3719">1:01:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3719" data-t="3719">Maybe he was just commenting on the wrong</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3722" data-t="3722">podcast. Maybe that was a mistake. Maybe he was commenting on what Bitcoin did.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3728">1:02:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3728" data-t="3728">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="3728">Yeah. I mean, maybe yeah. We'll have to reach out to Oscar Mary and the guys that found it and make sure that, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3736" data-t="3736">boost aren't bleeding over from other episodes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3739" data-t="3739">because that could be that could that could just be a bug within the app. That that looks like a mistake to me that somebody would</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3745" data-t="3745">even claim to say or just dare to say anything as absurd as that. Yeah. It wouldn't be the only bug.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3752" data-t="3752">Yeah.</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3753">1:02:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3753" data-t="3753">Well, I think that concludes it. Yeah. I would I guess my my advice going out here is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3759" data-t="3759">check out the McDonald's dollar menu,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3763" data-t="3763">episode one, Peppersher</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3765" data-t="3765">produced.</span> <span class="cue" data-t="3765">The link</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3767" data-t="3767">to that,</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3768">1:02:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3768" data-t="3768">will be in the show notes so you can find it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3771" data-t="3771">And if you have any tips, if you are close to the matter on the ground, maybe you work for McDonald's, maybe you work for Quimper, maybe you work for a franchise,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3779" data-t="3779">send your tips in. Let us know what, what you think happened. Yep. Well, we'll see you guys next week. Thanks for</span></span></p> + +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3787">1:03:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3787" data-t="3787">tuning</span></span></p> +