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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-0">0:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-0" data-t="0">Why why? I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2" data-t="2">why do we have to listen to forty hours of Bitcoin? I mean, I have a I mean, I only have so much time in a week. I do a lot of things. I do a lot of reading. I do a lot of writing.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-11" data-t="11">I mean, that means I mean, how how could, like, one possibly commit themselves that much to one single</span> <span class="cue" id="t-18" data-t="18">topic and have a fulfilled life?</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-21">0:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-21" data-t="21">I understand as a philosopher, actually. I mean, Lynn Lyn Alden is everything, if you will. She's a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-27" data-t="27">stellar human being, hot,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-30" data-t="30">the the whole the whole nine. I mean, the the greatest macro analyst, an amazing venture capitalist.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-36" data-t="36">We're we're just, you know, we're we're lucky to have her in the space. I think I think</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-40">0:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-40" data-t="40">before Bitcoin, men were more visual, but after Bitcoin,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-44">0:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-44" data-t="44">men get off by hearing the voice of other men say sweet nothings into their ears about this beautiful</span> <span class="cue" id="t-51" data-t="51">orange currency. Right.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-53">0:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-53" data-t="53">This is one of the powerful things that Dennis Porter is offering the world is is men no longer need Viagra. That's</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-61">1:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-61" data-t="61">what Dennis Porter is offering.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-63" data-t="63">So that was another question that fits right in is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-66" data-t="66">how did these guys at orgies get these just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-70" data-t="70">unrelenting boners before Dennis Porter? I'm trying to Viagra.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-73">1:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-73" data-t="73">Like, medicine solves</span> <span class="cue" id="t-75" data-t="75">not having Yeah. Porter around.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-77">1:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-77" data-t="77">Well, I mean, I would say so Saturn requires hard work. I mean, you guys know very well how hard it is to be Bitcoin podcasters. I think a lot of people underestimate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-86" data-t="86">the work that it takes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-87" data-t="87">So I think you're absolutely right. There's this,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-91" data-t="91">this structural</span> <span class="cue" id="t-92" data-t="92">push towards sovereignty and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-95" data-t="95">and maybe individual expression would be another form that that could take. And so to me it makes sense that people would start getting you know, if they're really passionate about Bitcoin, they'd be like, how can I help the revolution? Like, let me get on and and have a podcast with my friend.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-108">1:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-108" data-t="108">But the the warning there is, like, it's gonna take a lot of work. You know? You have to, like, every week or every other week or whatever, you gotta sit down, you gotta record, you gotta edit the episode, you gotta promote the episode. Like, it's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-119" data-t="119">try being an influencer per day. You know what I mean? Well, what you do is you start with an emotional</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-125">2:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-125" data-t="125">trigger, something upsetting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-127" data-t="127">You tell them that people doing things that you may</span> <span class="cue" id="t-129" data-t="129">not like on Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-131" data-t="131">is what's causing the price to go down, and then you offer them, you know, light at the end of the tunnel. So here's a solution that could make it. Yeah. And then you offer them, you know, light at the end of the tunnel. Here's a solution to make the price go back up.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-142">2:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-142" data-t="142">When you're new</span> <span class="cue" id="t-144" data-t="144">and you're new to Bitcoin and you've just started listening to Bitcoin podcasts,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-148" data-t="148">the only way that you can even begin to discern</span> <span class="cue" id="t-153" data-t="153">which idea or which, you know, way of using Bitcoin is the best is by whose memes are dunking on whose.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-160" data-t="160">That's all you know, it's like, well, this meme is constantly ratioing this person and their stupid names, their PodConf memes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-168" data-t="168">So they must be wrong.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-170">2:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-170" data-t="170">I'm gonna go be non compliant for a little while until I can figure it out.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-174">2:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-174" data-t="174">Welcome to the b weekly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-177" data-t="177">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-178" data-t="178">wow</span> <span class="cue" id="t-179" data-t="179">has it been</span> <span class="cue" id="t-181" data-t="181">a crazy year, folks.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-185" data-t="185">I think I don't know, Rod. What do you think? Has it was it</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-188">3:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-188" data-t="188">a crazy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-189" data-t="189">year?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-191" data-t="191">Were your expectations</span> <span class="cue" id="t-193" data-t="193">on par with how crazy it's been, or did it exceed your expectations?</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-199">3:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-199" data-t="199">If you go back and listen</span> <span class="cue" id="t-201" data-t="201">to to our predictions</span> <span class="cue" id="t-203" data-t="203">about a year ago,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-206" data-t="206">Most of the December episodes, early January</span> <span class="cue" id="t-209" data-t="209">episodes of this podcast,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-211" data-t="211">2024,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-212">3:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-212" data-t="212">2025,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-213" data-t="213">we were predicting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-215" data-t="215">a massive</span> <span class="cue" id="t-216" data-t="216">year, a big year, a bullish year, a bull market</span> <span class="cue" id="t-220" data-t="220">Bitcoin podcast is where we're transforming</span> <span class="cue" id="t-222" data-t="222">into.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-224">3:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-224" data-t="224">And we knew it was gonna be huge. We knew</span> <span class="cue" id="t-227" data-t="227">that the fore returning was right around the corner, and that Bitcoin was gonna be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-233" data-t="233">critical</span> <span class="cue" id="t-234" data-t="234">in re in underwriting the institutions of the future.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-239" data-t="239">Little did we know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-241" data-t="241">you know, it's like the meme or it's like it an entrepreneur's journey, you think it's it starts as this linear line to the top. In reality, it's full of peaks and valleys and and cliffs and and obstacles to overcome.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-255">4:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-255" data-t="255">So we're not going as as clearly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-257" data-t="257">as straight as linearly to the top as we expected,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-261" data-t="261">but it was still a big year. It was the sloppiest year</span> <span class="cue" id="t-264" data-t="264">in recorded history.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-267" data-t="267">I don't I just don't think anybody was prepared for how sloppy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-271" data-t="271">2025</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-273">4:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-273" data-t="273">would be.</span></span></p>
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   +<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">It was definitely the year of Club Slop,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-279" data-t="279">and I think people are frustrated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-281" data-t="281">by that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-284" data-t="284">which is understandable. But I I don't know why they're frustrated by us just reporting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-290" data-t="290">that it was the Europe plus lot bit because it was very, very clear. I think it where our predictions were wrong,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-298" data-t="298">or at least my predictions were wrong, is I I had hoped for a lot more</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-303">5:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-303" data-t="303">substance.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-307">5:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-307" data-t="307">But Oh, yeah.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-308">5:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-308" data-t="308">I I I mean, I shouldn't have been surprised. Donald Trump is the pepslop</span> <span class="cue" id="t-312" data-t="312">president.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-313" data-t="313">He is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-314" data-t="314">the king of American pepslop.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-318">5:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-318" data-t="318">I want and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-320" data-t="320">part of it is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-322" data-t="322">people have been used to listen, like, whether you were a Fox News dad</span> <span class="cue" id="t-328" data-t="328">or a Fox News uncle,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-329" data-t="329">or you were an MSNBC</span> <span class="cue" id="t-333" data-t="333">mom,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-334">5:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-334" data-t="334">MSNBC aunt and this MSNBC uncle,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-337" data-t="337">or, you know, a CNN grandma,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-340" data-t="340">or a day used to watch The Daily Show, whoever that is, Gen x losers,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-346" data-t="346">or or the New York Times, it didn't matter. You knew you had an outlet to go to find journalists who would glaze you. And people love being glazed by the news, love being glazed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-356" data-t="356">by their favorite podcasters, their favorite journalists,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-360" data-t="360">and</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-362">6:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-362" data-t="362">that's it it stopped.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-364" data-t="364">People are no longer being placed by the journalists, and we stopped. And people were we were just reflecting reality as</span> <span class="cue" id="t-372" data-t="372">news reporters.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-375" data-t="375">Duty is to do</span> <span class="cue" id="t-376" data-t="376">without that glaze</span> <span class="cue" id="t-378" data-t="378">and people,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-380">6:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-380" data-t="380">they can't handle it. They they they they hate being told the truth.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-384">6:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-384" data-t="384">Absolutely.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-387" data-t="387">Yeah. It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-388" data-t="388">it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-390" data-t="390">difficult to look into</span> <span class="cue" id="t-392" data-t="392">the next year.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-394" data-t="394">I feel very optimistic. I think it it's just something that's interesting when you have the end of the year,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-401">6:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-401" data-t="401">and the start of the new year be right at the beginning</span> <span class="cue" id="t-405" data-t="405">of the coldest</span> <span class="cue" id="t-406" data-t="406">stretch of winter?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-409" data-t="409">Is it it's just interesting from a psychological</span> <span class="cue" id="t-411" data-t="411">standpoint</span> <span class="cue" id="t-412" data-t="412">of it being cold. Like, you're we're we're in the middle of paper Bitcoin winter</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-416">6:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-416" data-t="416">right now. You're looking into 2026.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-419" data-t="419">It looks like there's gonna be no chance of paper Bitcoin summer.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-424" data-t="424">The bull market, you you had the bullish news. You had the Simply Bitcoin guys losing their minds. Nico's freaking out. The institutions are here.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-433" data-t="433">Super bullish.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-436" data-t="436">Price doesn't act bullishly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-439" data-t="439">You've got,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-443">7:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-443" data-t="443">ecosystem</span> <span class="cue" id="t-444" data-t="444">and and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-445" data-t="445">group of individuals that that used to just love to get super excited, posting memes about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-452" data-t="452">have fun staying poor and making fun of no coiners and how rich they're gonna get and their Lambos and their girlfriends that they're gonna get when the price hits a certain point.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-463" data-t="463">You had the hundred k party,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-466" data-t="466">and this all these guys, all what they wanna do is they just wanna argue about CSAN.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-474">7:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-474" data-t="474">They're grumpy about paper Bitcoin summer.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-477">7:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-477" data-t="477">Oh,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-479" data-t="479">what was what was the hundred k party? What was that? It was a bunch of influencers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-485" data-t="485">blazing themselves,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-486" data-t="486">blazing each other, getting glazed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-489" data-t="489">on the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-490" data-t="490">yacht. We had won. Bitcoin had already won. Time</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-494">8:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-494" data-t="494">time for a big</span> <span class="cue" id="t-496" data-t="496">city party, but instead of astroglide,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-498" data-t="498">it's glaze.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-499" data-t="499">We're glazing each other.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-501" data-t="501">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-504" data-t="504">we we create Donald Trump. He takes office.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-507">8:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-507" data-t="507">All the HR ladies are getting fired.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-510" data-t="510">All the DEI woke policies are getting ripped out. Don Elon Musk</span> <span class="cue" id="t-516" data-t="516">pierces</span> <span class="cue" id="t-517" data-t="517">pierces into the federal government with a with a Trojan horse full of broccoli haircuts, and they just descend</span> <span class="cue" id="t-524" data-t="524">inside the bureaucracy with their little with their AI tools,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-527" data-t="527">and the broccoli haircuts are just slash and boom their budgets left and right, finding money laundering. Bitcoin,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-533">8:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-533" data-t="533">we're getting a strategic reserve.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-535" data-t="535">They're gonna take all the savings that the broccoli haircuts have found in the Pentagon, and they're gonna put it in the strategic reserve. They're and they freed Ross.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-543" data-t="543">Everything</span> <span class="cue" id="t-544" data-t="544">was going</span> <span class="cue" id="t-546" data-t="546">Bitcoin's way, and then the price kinda started to fall apart and tariffs started to come into the conversation and people were like, dude,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-553" data-t="553">dude, you promised us it would be better to go glazing</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-557">9:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-557" data-t="557">glazing into glory with Bitcoin in 2025.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-561" data-t="561">And no, it it didn't go, like I said, the way we thought in the first the first</span> <span class="cue" id="t-566" data-t="566">sign</span> <span class="cue" id="t-567" data-t="567">of the slop</span> <span class="cue" id="t-569" data-t="569">and the just nonsense that was to come</span> <span class="cue" id="t-572" data-t="572">was Maxi Madness.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-574">9:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-574" data-t="574">Absolutely everybody.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-576" data-t="576">If you had a poly market, a predates market, or who was gonna win Maxi Madness</span> <span class="cue" id="t-581" data-t="581">in March, March</span> <span class="cue" id="t-584" data-t="584">2025,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-585" data-t="585">every plant would put his vote, his saps on yellow. Everybody expected yellow. They thought maybe Sailor was coming in, maybe Dennis Porter,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-594" data-t="594">my Shinobi, maybe it might be their year.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-597">9:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-597" data-t="597">But, no,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-599" data-t="599">everybody knew at the end of the day, this was Yellow's tournament</span> <span class="cue" id="t-603" data-t="603">to lose. He won last year. He beat Chiakiimo.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-606" data-t="606">Absolutely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-608" data-t="608">posted. And then what happened?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-610" data-t="610">Teddy Bitcoins</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-612">10:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-612" data-t="612">started slaying heroes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-613" data-t="613">all the way through the memeers bracket.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-616" data-t="616">Teddy Bitcoins defeated the hottest</span> <span class="cue" id="t-618" data-t="618">of all, Lyn Alden, in the final four.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-622" data-t="622">And the Teddy Bitcoins</span> <span class="cue" id="t-624" data-t="624">took out</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-625">10:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-625" data-t="625">yellow on his on his path to the finals.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-629" data-t="629">Everybody was shocked and at the end of the the the votes coming in for Maxi Manos for Teddy Bitcoins versus yellow were in the hundreds of thousands</span> <span class="cue" id="t-637" data-t="637">picking up by the thousands, by the second,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-640" data-t="640">in the final minute</span> <span class="cue" id="t-641" data-t="641">of that poll. And then tens of thousands of votes came in for Teddy Bitcoins.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-647" data-t="647">His fans woke up and and they</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-651">10:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-651" data-t="651">it absolutely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-652" data-t="652">showed up, and Teddy Bitcoins went all the way to the final.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-657" data-t="657">Michael Saylor,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-658" data-t="658">the pioneer</span> <span class="cue" id="t-659" data-t="659">of AI slop and AI generated images,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-664" data-t="664">Count AI muscles.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-665">11:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-665" data-t="665">He was the first to do AI muscles, not BTC sessions.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-669" data-t="669">And Teddy Bitcoins beat Sailor,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-672" data-t="672">and people</span> <span class="cue" id="t-675" data-t="675">were absolutely grumpy. I've never seen Bitcoin Twitter as grumpy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-679" data-t="679">because I did,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-680" data-t="680">as I saw when Teddy Bitcoins,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-683">11:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-683" data-t="683">he Michael Saylor and Lynn Alden in yellow and Massey Madness, but it happened.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-688" data-t="688">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-689" data-t="689">I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-691" data-t="691">there was a the the sun came out and shone bright for paper Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-695" data-t="695">summer briefly.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-697" data-t="697">But other than that, there there was no every club is being broke because it's Teddy Bitcoins, one Maxi Madness. Every single one of them.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-706">11:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-706" data-t="706">Yeah. It was wild.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-708" data-t="708">It I that was that was really telling</span> <span class="cue" id="t-712" data-t="712">how the year was gonna go,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-714" data-t="714">that event. It was just gonna be a year of things not going the club's way.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-720" data-t="720">I don't think hardly anything went the club's way this year at all. It was it was the first Maxi Madness</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-727">12:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-727" data-t="727">of hyperbitcoinization.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-730" data-t="730">Right? Like, he was the biggest Maxi man that every everything everything was big in 2025.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-735" data-t="735">Everybody was prepared. Everybody had created</span> <span class="cue" id="t-738" data-t="738">incredible</span> <span class="cue" id="t-740" data-t="740">logos</span> <span class="cue" id="t-741" data-t="741">for their paper</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-742">12:22</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-742" data-t="742">Bitcoin, for their conferences,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-744" data-t="744">for their their</span> <span class="cue" id="t-746" data-t="746">their influencer tournaments.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-747" data-t="747">The stake that the stage was set</span> <span class="cue" id="t-750" data-t="750">for Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-752" data-t="752">Bitcoin podcasters,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-753">12:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-753" data-t="753">everybody.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-755" data-t="755">The influencers, the podcasters, the podcasters were ascending to the rise in the bureaucracy and government. All over the world, podcasters were taking over. And Maxi Madness</span> <span class="cue" id="t-766" data-t="766">was like our Olympics, like, it was who who's gonna take it home?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-770" data-t="770">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-773" data-t="773">the first big event that everybody was looking forward to,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-777" data-t="777">They were excited to vote for Yellow. They're excited to vote for doctor Adam Back. They're excited to vote for Lyn Alden. They're excited to vote for Johnson.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-784">13:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-784" data-t="784">They're excited to vote for Tomer.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-787" data-t="787">They're excited to vote for Green Candle,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-789" data-t="789">all these guys.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-791" data-t="791">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-793" data-t="793">it just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-794" data-t="794">it it turned out exactly how</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-798">13:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-798" data-t="798">it it needed to turn out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-800" data-t="800">But it it was not the outcome people wanted to see. People were starting to to see what it what had become</span> <span class="cue" id="t-807" data-t="807">of everything.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-809" data-t="809">It was the first it was the first opportunity to see how the year was gonna unfold, and they did not, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-815" data-t="815">be foreshadowing.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-819">13:39</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-819" data-t="819">No. I I think the plebs had this</span> <span class="cue" id="t-821" data-t="821">expectation in their head that the price was gonna you're gonna get the the God candle,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-827" data-t="827">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-828" data-t="828">that they were gonna return home to their hometowns as hometown heroes. And, you know, they'd be walking in the grocery store, and everybody would turn around and be like, wow. That guy listened to Bitcoin podcast. And then everybody would stop and start clapping for them</span> <span class="cue" id="t-842" data-t="842">as they got out of their Bentley with their shirts for driving it for them. And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-847" data-t="847">what happened instead is, you know, they get to the end of the year, and they can maybe or maybe not afford, Christmas presents for their family</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-856">14:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-856" data-t="856">after taxes.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-857" data-t="857">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-860" data-t="860">yeah, it what it really was foreshadowing for the year that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-866" data-t="866">it was just the yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-868" data-t="868">Teddy, Bitcoins was the dark horse</span> <span class="cue" id="t-871" data-t="871">that came in and that rained on everybody's parade.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-874">14:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-874" data-t="874">You said it. What were we talking about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-877" data-t="877">last December?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-879" data-t="879">2025,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-880" data-t="880">I like, everything you said, I've heard Bitcoinization, all this. It but at the end of the day, it was supposed to be the year where everybody could afford their taxes again. Everybody's gonna be able to afford their taxes,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-891" data-t="891">and people who could afford their taxes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-894" data-t="894">were about to it was about to be their time. They're about to get</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-898">14:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-898" data-t="898">the the benefits,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-900" data-t="900">the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-901" data-t="901">the profits,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-903" data-t="903">the earnings, they are the the taxpayers had earned a lot and they've been getting very little for it, and it was about to be their year, and that just turned out to be,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-912" data-t="912">you know, more like a to be continued. It's it's it's definitely not here yet.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-919">15:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-919" data-t="919">Absolutely.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-921" data-t="921">Well, q two is pretty interesting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-924" data-t="924">There's a lot that went on there. There's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-926" data-t="926">the Vegas conference, which last year was the Stablecoin conference.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-931" data-t="931">That was the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-932" data-t="932">the major topic of that event</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-935">15:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-935" data-t="935">of the Podkoff Super Bowl. You had the Israel Versus Iran War going on.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-941" data-t="941">You had the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-944" data-t="944">I I debated Mike Brock.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-946" data-t="946">That was a pretty big event.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-949" data-t="949">I'm trying to think, is there anything other else that was notable for q two?</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-955">15:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-955" data-t="955">Well, I think,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-956" data-t="956">I think for q two,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-959" data-t="959">the defining moment is what you mentioned. It was your,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-962" data-t="962">your debate with Mike Brock. Does that really</span> <span class="cue" id="t-965" data-t="965">it put the podcast</span> <span class="cue" id="t-967" data-t="967">in the spotlight</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-968">16:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-968" data-t="968">big time. I mean, the Bassi Madness was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-972" data-t="972">a spotlight for the bugle,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-974" data-t="974">not necessarily</span> <span class="cue" id="t-976" data-t="976">I I think it was a big win. I think a lot of smart people think it was a big win big year,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-982" data-t="982">but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-983" data-t="983">that spotlight, I don't know. People were not ready for what happened with Teddy Bitcoins.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-987">16:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-987" data-t="987">But we were in spotlight again</span> <span class="cue" id="t-990" data-t="990">with that debate because Mike Brock is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-993" data-t="993">an executive. He worked very closely with Jack Dorsey.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-997" data-t="997">He was a he would go on podcast, talk about being a libertarian and how Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1004" data-t="1004">was this tool, and it like, she was building it in the Cash App,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1007" data-t="1007">like, one of the first companies to really embrace Bitcoin.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1010">16:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1010" data-t="1010">Mike Dirac</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1012" data-t="1012">is a heavyweight of big and he is a sophisticated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1016" data-t="1016">philosopher.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1018" data-t="1018">You dismantled</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1020" data-t="1020">him. You you sent him</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1022" data-t="1022">with his tails between his blades back to substack, back to his echo chamber.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1029">17:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1029" data-t="1029">So reflect reflecting on that, how how would you how do you see that in hindsight? Because that was very much a a an a tipping point</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1038" data-t="1038">for</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1039" data-t="1039">for you and for the podcast,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1042" data-t="1042">with that debate.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1044">17:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1044" data-t="1044">Yeah. I think it was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1047" data-t="1047">a it was an interesting moment. I mean, it it's just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1050" data-t="1050">there's these times where, like, you know</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1053" data-t="1053">that as a Bitcoin podcaster, as a Bitcoin podcast listener,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1057" data-t="1057">as a Atlas Shrugged reader reader, as a cigarette smoker, that you're so far ahead of other people.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1064" data-t="1064">But up until the point where you actually</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1068">17:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1068" data-t="1068">have some sort of toe to toe competition</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1071" data-t="1071">like I did with with Mike Brock with the sophisticated philosopher.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1077" data-t="1077">It's just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1078" data-t="1078">it it makes it so much clearer when you have that type of competition to just see how much further ahead you are than these guys</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1085" data-t="1085">that are suffering from Trump derangement syndrome, that are,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1090" data-t="1090">just lost in outer split space,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1093">18:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1093" data-t="1093">that identify</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1095" data-t="1095">with the villains of an Ayn Rand novel.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1100" data-t="1100">Yeah. I did. I don't know. It was it was a fun moment. Yeah. It is. This is a lot of plebs.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1107">18:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1107" data-t="1107">And they we're we're we'll definitely get into Matthew Kratter and Bitcoin University</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1111" data-t="1111">here in later in the show. But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1113" data-t="1113">a lot of them, they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1116" data-t="1116">their ideas,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1119" data-t="1119">their predictions,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1120" data-t="1120">their philosophy, their game theory,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1123">18:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1123" data-t="1123">their ability to think for first principles. It is it is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1127" data-t="1127">put on display, it's sheltered, it's, it's it's protected</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1131" data-t="1131">from outside criticism, outside attack, outside questioning, anything like that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1138" data-t="1138">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1139" data-t="1139">it's like it's like a people who do, kung fu or they train martial arts</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1144" data-t="1144">with Steven Seagal. And Steven Seagal when Steven Seagal is on the mat</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1149">19:09</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1149" data-t="1149">with with his,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1150" data-t="1150">with his students,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1152" data-t="1152">he barely has to exert air. He's flipping these guys up and down their head, dismantling</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1156" data-t="1156">them with full with without breaking a sweat.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1160" data-t="1160">But you you go against you put one of those students against a jiu jitsu black belt, and it's over within a matter of seconds because jiu jitsu</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1169" data-t="1169">practitioners</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1170">19:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1170" data-t="1170">work every day, like, it doesn't matter how sore they are, no matter how sick they feel,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1175" data-t="1175">they are testing their ideas against people stronger than them from all different backgrounds</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1182" data-t="1182">in the in in their learning and it's like Matthew Crowder is the type of guy who's not going to the mat to roll</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1190" data-t="1190">with,</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1190">black belts</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1192" data-t="1192">in you know, Mean Gangers, black belt plaids, black belt cypherpunks,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1198">19:58</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1198" data-t="1198">it it's he's sticking to his classroom, his his border off classroom,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1203" data-t="1203">and he's he's basically</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1204" data-t="1204">just beaten up plaids</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1206" data-t="1206">without anybody coming in to to challenge him as</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1210" data-t="1210">his own weight class.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1213">20:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1213" data-t="1213">Yep.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1214" data-t="1214">Yeah. Mike Brock's kinda</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1217" data-t="1217">it's been interesting following Mike Brock because I didn't I didn't follow much of his Substack stuff before, but I watched a few conversations</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1226" data-t="1226">he's had since. And, he</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1229" data-t="1229">seems to exclusively</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1231" data-t="1231">curate people in his life that will glaze him.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1236">20:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1236" data-t="1236">He</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1238" data-t="1238">seems to live in this</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1240" data-t="1240">echo chamber</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1244" data-t="1244">of only selectively allowing people in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1248" data-t="1248">that will glaze him, which which gives him this unrealistic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1253" data-t="1253">expectation or or understanding of of where he's at, where he in his mind, he is the world's premier, most sophisticated</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1260">21:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1260" data-t="1260">philosopher,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1262" data-t="1262">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1263" data-t="1263">the people speaking with him</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1266" data-t="1266">agree with that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1267" data-t="1267">Now I think,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1269" data-t="1269">as journalists, we live in a very different</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1272">21:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1272" data-t="1272">environment</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1273" data-t="1273">than that. We</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1275" data-t="1275">are out there on the battlegrounds</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1277" data-t="1277">constantly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1279" data-t="1279">getting shit hurled at us</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1282" data-t="1282">and, dishing it back. It's a it's a very adversarial</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1285">21:25</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1285" data-t="1285">environment that we're operating in constantly. So you constantly get</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1291" data-t="1291">feedback</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1292" data-t="1292">as to what</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1295" data-t="1295">I I don't know. You just get feedback in general besides people just telling you that you're the smartest,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1303" data-t="1303">most sophisticated philosopher in the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1306" data-t="1306">You get angry plebs. You get angry,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1310">21:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1310" data-t="1310">Bitcoin developers. You get angry,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1313" data-t="1313">sophisticated philosophers. You get angry, you know, just a slew of angry people constantly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1319" data-t="1319">coming after you that you gotta analyze their responses,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1323" data-t="1323">which I think is just a it's a good position to be in,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1327" data-t="1327">because it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1330" data-t="1330">it's being in that adversarial environment, like, in that that like, if you're a black belt</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1336">22:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1336" data-t="1336">jujitsu</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1338" data-t="1338">practitioner and you're out there and you're only,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1341" data-t="1341">training with white belts,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1343" data-t="1343">you think you're gonna be the best in the world. And and what's actually gonna happen is your skill set's gonna degrade,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1350" data-t="1350">Whereas in in many ways, we're we're black belts dealing with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1355" data-t="1355">black belts of journalism, dealing with black belts of all sorts of other, you know,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1361">22:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1361" data-t="1361">practitioners of of different skill sets that we're challenging on a regular basis. And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1367" data-t="1367">I think that's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1369" data-t="1369">part of the reason why, you know, individuals like Matthew Kratter just are are so alarmed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1375" data-t="1375">by us because they they want to protect their</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1379" data-t="1379">like, Matthew Kratter is that black belt,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1382" data-t="1382">and Bitcoin University</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1383">23:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1383" data-t="1383">is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1384" data-t="1384">exclusively</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1385" data-t="1385">full of white belts. He doesn't allow anybody in that isn't a white belt</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1390" data-t="1390">because he is afraid.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1392" data-t="1392">He's the he's the presser professor that's, you know, afraid that a student is gonna make him look stupid and challenge him. That's why he expelled Stu</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1400" data-t="1400">from Bitcoin University.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1404">23:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1404" data-t="1404">Yeah. I think Crowder is afraid of the plebs,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1407" data-t="1407">ultimately.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1408" data-t="1408">And so he tries to shield himself</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1411" data-t="1411">from any pleb who's stronger, smarter, or might challenge him. And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1416" data-t="1416">he he just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1418" data-t="1418">Matt Schroeder,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1421">23:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1421" data-t="1421">he's cultivating</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1422" data-t="1422">a community of compliant but compliant to Bitcoin University's ideology.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1427" data-t="1427">And there's gonna be a lot more of that because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1431" data-t="1431">Mike Brock</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1433" data-t="1433">ran into, I think, a similar problem that a lot of people have. They they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1439" data-t="1439">they they discover Bitcoin and they think that they found a cheat code, so they can now play</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1444">24:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1444" data-t="1444">life,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1445" data-t="1445">the game of life on easy mode you know they they they're just they're gonna go through</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1450" data-t="1450">like a Mario just dunking on the plans like Mario jumping on the little mushrooms just clean bopping them on the heads</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1457" data-t="1457">and they they go wet it's just gonna be that easy and then they're gonna go and they're gonna find the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1462" data-t="1462">Fiat Bowser</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1463" data-t="1463">who's holding some hot hot babe who is just all she cares about is money,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1470">24:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1470" data-t="1470">and once you have enough Bitcoin, she's gonna realize I could do that. I wanna go I'm gonna go with the hero who just beat this game on easy and they they think they've gotten and they think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1480" data-t="1480">that that's what it's gonna be and they they think that they're gonna go through life</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1484" data-t="1484">once they've discovered Bitcoin and they're and they're everybody's gonna be glazing them glazing their means they're gonna have to because they're right Your friends and family have to admit that you're right.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1494" data-t="1494">And they find this they realize it's not true. And if their ideas cannot handle an adversarial environment, they could their means</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1502" data-t="1502">they feel entitled to have their means glazed. And when they don't get it, they wonder why.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1508" data-t="1508">And they start to lash lash out and instead of using the the feedback,</span></span></p>
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   +<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">the high entropy feedback like in Jiu Jitsu when you are facing that pressure, somebody's trying to choke you out or break your arm or put you in a omoplata</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1522" data-t="1522">And you have to figure out how to how to navigate that negative feedback, that harsh feedback</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1528" data-t="1528">into</span> <span class="cue" data-t="1528">to achieving your goals.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1530" data-t="1530">And they can't do that. They they like I said, they go into</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1535" data-t="1535">the do the dojo.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1537">25:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1537" data-t="1537">They go into the dojo and have and it they go to the dojo to get glazed, not to have an adversarial interaction.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1546">25:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1546" data-t="1546">Well, you see you see this happen</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1548" data-t="1548">all the time where you you've got these individuals that that set up these dojos. They they don't</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1554" data-t="1554">actually have the proper credentials to be instructing their students. The only people that show up are the ones that are glazing them, and all of a sudden,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1561" data-t="1561">a black belt from another dojo</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1563" data-t="1563">shows up and they're like, you're you're a faker.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1567" data-t="1567">And,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1568">26:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1568" data-t="1568">I don't remember</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1570" data-t="1570">when this specifically happened, but it might have been q two</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1573" data-t="1573">around that time</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1576" data-t="1576">or getting into q three paper Bitcoin summer</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1579" data-t="1579">when you showed up to Matthew Kratters' Dojo and you pointed out that he charged</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1585" data-t="1585">$790</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1586">26:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1586" data-t="1586">courses and he had a meltdown.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1589">26:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1589" data-t="1589">Right. It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1592" data-t="1592">it's on his website. I mean, if you go to bitcoinuniversity.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1596" data-t="1596">If you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1597" data-t="1597">are searching</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1599" data-t="1599">for an institution of higher learning that that meets your values and is aligned with your incentives and you go to, you know, bitcoinuniversity.com,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1609" data-t="1609">and you want to enroll in courses, you want you you wanna see this, you know, curriculum,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1615">26:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1615" data-t="1615">You wanna learn about Bitcoin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1617" data-t="1617">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1619" data-t="1619">it says $790</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1621" data-t="1621">payable with credit card.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1624" data-t="1624">So we reported that. We've said, hey. If you're looking</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1628" data-t="1628">for an alternative, we know that college is a shit coin.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1632">27:12</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1632" data-t="1632">The the universe the ideally universities have definitely proven this year to be a shit coin.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1638" data-t="1638">They're a Bitcoin university. It's an alternative. $790</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1642" data-t="1642">is definitely cheaper than $50,000</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1643" data-t="1643">a year at your Harvard,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1646" data-t="1646">and he blew up on us. And, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1649" data-t="1649">could maybe</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1650">27:30</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1650" data-t="1650">some of his some of the plebs who follow him said that he doesn't like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1655" data-t="1655">advertisement. He doesn't like people to advertise what he's doing. He doesn't like people who market or advertise</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1661" data-t="1661">and get the word out about what he's doing because he's humble. He just wants to help plebs learn about Bitcoin. He doesn't want praise and adoration. He has more free marketing.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1670" data-t="1670">But that's the that was the best explanation we got. We don't understand why he was so angry.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1677">27:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1677" data-t="1677">Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, it was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1682" data-t="1682">I mean, I think I think he knew that if he lets you in his dojo to spar,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1687" data-t="1687">he would look</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1690" data-t="1690">completely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1691" data-t="1691">inept in front of all of us students.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1694" data-t="1694">And that the only way for him to do it was to to block you and to block the bugle</span></span></p>
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   +<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">and to to label us as,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1704" data-t="1704">as bad actors.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1705" data-t="1705">Like, he he I think he was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1709" data-t="1709">fairly self aware in that regard of knowing that is the only way to deal with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1714" data-t="1714">journal journalists of our caliber and and Bitcoin podcasters of our caliber because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1721" data-t="1721">I'm I'm still blocked by Mike Brock, by the way.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1725">28:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1725" data-t="1725">I think he realized that too. That</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1727" data-t="1727">in that scenario, when I went into his dojo</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1730" data-t="1730">and I hammered him,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1732" data-t="1732">he had to pretend like it didn't it,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1735" data-t="1735">never even happened. Like, he never ended up publishing that video.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1741" data-t="1741">He never references it. He he kind of exists like it it never happened. And,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1748">29:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1748" data-t="1748">I don't know.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1750">29:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1750" data-t="1750">Well, yeah, that's that that is the the ref the last refuge. Right? Like, if you do something embarrassing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1757" data-t="1757">and it makes the news,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1759" data-t="1759">you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1760" data-t="1760">you just have to shut your mouth and hope that nobody reads a newspaper.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1765" data-t="1765">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1766" data-t="1766">the the bugle is a smaller organization,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1769">29:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1769" data-t="1769">so it's less likely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1771" data-t="1771">that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1773" data-t="1773">people, especially in Los Angeles, like, it is, in his the circles that he runs in, are gonna read the bugle and and see how embarrassing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1781" data-t="1781">his,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1783" data-t="1783">he, you know, his his sparring match with some credential journalists</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1787" data-t="1787">of our caliber,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1789">29:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1789" data-t="1789">you know, he's gonna hope that they don't see, he has learned not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1793" data-t="1793">to not to, raise attention to the journalism written about him by us because,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1800" data-t="1800">you know, he realizes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1803" data-t="1803">the truth</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1804" data-t="1804">to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1805" data-t="1805">it. Absolutely. He doesn't wanna call attention to</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1808">30:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1808" data-t="1808">the truth. That is what Matthew Kratter is constantly trying to avoid. He doesn't wanna call attention to the truth. He wants to, he wants to just scare the plebs.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1818">30:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1818" data-t="1818">Absolutely.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1821" data-t="1821">Well, q q three was pretty interesting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1823" data-t="1823">It was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1825" data-t="1825">really the kickoff of paper paper Bitcoin summer. You you had a great paper Bitcoin summer.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1832">30:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1832" data-t="1832">Why do you the paper Bitcoin summer was great if</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1836" data-t="1836">you what's the term, Riley? It's like if you knew the good old days, if you knew in the good old days when they were happening,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1843" data-t="1843">you could stop and enjoy them. It's like I knew right away that Paper Bitcoin Summer was too good to be true, but nobody else knew that, so there was still a lot of parties, a lot of optimism, and I decided to join them. I decided to join Paper Bitcoin Summer and have a good time, because I knew,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1861" data-t="1861">it was it was definitely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1863" data-t="1863">too good to be true. It wasn't gonna last. But, you know, that's why I didn't buy any paper Bitcoin. I would you you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1869" data-t="1869">contrary to popular belief, you don't even have to own Bitcoin to be a part of Bitcoin community to be be a part of Bitcoin Twitter. I mean, Swan didn't have any Bitcoin. They would take they would take your Fiat and keep it and then gives give you somebody else's Bitcoin.</span></span></p>
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   +<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">It's kinda like an LTCD escaporation there, but they were gaining Fiat. You don't have, like, what was his name?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1890" data-t="1890">Who was the guy that crashed out super hard last cycle? He's on Clubhouse.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1894" data-t="1894">He's got, like, he's, like, the old guy.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1898" data-t="1898">The old Jewish cranky guy.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1901">31:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1901" data-t="1901">Bitcoin Tina?</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1902">31:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1902" data-t="1902">Bitcoin Tina. Right? Bitcoin Tina didn't know Bitcoin. He's had he crashed out because he had, GBTC. A lot of people who had GBTC ended up crashing out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1911" data-t="1911">You don't,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1913" data-t="1913">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1914" data-t="1914">you don't have to buy paper Bitcoin to get into the parties, to get into the fun, to get in on the means, to get in on the action,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1922" data-t="1922">so I had a great time. I I just enjoyed it for what it is. It didn't put my put my money into any stupid stocks,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1928" data-t="1928">so I had a good time. And if you did that,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1931">32:11</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1931" data-t="1931">mostly you had a good time too.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1933" data-t="1933">But some people,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1935" data-t="1935">they didn't they didn't they they were Peter Pilots. They never wanted paper Bitcoin summer to end.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1941">32:21</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1941" data-t="1941">Yeah.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1943" data-t="1943">I didn't go to any of the parties.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1948" data-t="1948">Yeah. Wait for Bitcoin. You were grumpy for paper Bitcoin summer. I remember that. I I wasn't that grumpy. I I I You looked like I was grumpy this summer.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1957" data-t="1957">I was a little bit grumpy, but I wasn't that grumpy. I just I I live vicariously through you. I watch you having fun going through the going to to the parties, and I had fun watching you have fun.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1968">32:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1968" data-t="1968">And you can do that too. You can do that too. There was a lot of people who enjoyed Vapor Bitcoin summer vicariously.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-1975">32:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-1975" data-t="1975">I I did enjoy I I mean, I was, like, kinda on the opposite end of the spectrum where I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1982" data-t="1982">really enjoyed watching</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1984" data-t="1984">a lot of plebs and podcasters get really grumpy about Bitcoin Summer paper Bitcoin Summer.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1991" data-t="1991">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1993" data-t="1993">they were a lot grumpier than I was, and that that just made me chuckle.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-1997" data-t="1997">I had a lot of chuckles seeing how grumpy they were. Because I, you know, I I think we both, like you said, we we both knew it was too good to be true, that it wasn't gonna last very long.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2008">33:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2008" data-t="2008">I think I I at least was impressed with how short</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2012" data-t="2012">the summer was.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2013" data-t="2013">I thought it was gonna last a little bit longer,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2018" data-t="2018">but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2020" data-t="2020">yeah. I don't know. It it was just funny to see see the emotions on on all sides.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2027">33:47</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2027" data-t="2027">Well, a lot of people invested</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2030" data-t="2030">a lot of money and a lot of energy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2033" data-t="2033">a lot of their reputations</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2035" data-t="2035">if they were Bitcoin summer. And they</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2039" data-t="2039">some of them knew</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2040" data-t="2040">what they were getting into. Some of them didn't.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2043">34:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2043" data-t="2043">Some</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2044" data-t="2044">you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2045" data-t="2045">everybody had a different</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2047" data-t="2047">reason for coming to pay for Bitcoin sooner.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2050" data-t="2050">But, you know what I mean? It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2052" data-t="2052">people spend a lot of money, and it didn't work out. Right? And but that is</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2057">34:17</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2057" data-t="2057">see, that is part of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2060" data-t="2060">where Truce comes in because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2062" data-t="2062">everybody likes to talk about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2064" data-t="2064">they like to glaze paper Bitcoin. Everybody was glazed in paper Bitcoin. All the opportunities</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2071" data-t="2071">to buy paper Bitcoin companies,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2074" data-t="2074">to</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2075">34:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2075" data-t="2075">to buy with leverage, to get</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2077" data-t="2077">outperform</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2079" data-t="2079">Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2080" data-t="2080">to be more interesting than Bitcoin, to be better than Bitcoin. People loved to glaze paper Bitcoin, but they didn't</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2088" data-t="2088">love to talk about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2090" data-t="2090">the risk and how big the risk was and what the and what the risk was and what the rules of the game were.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2097">34:57</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2097" data-t="2097">How would these paper Bitcoin companies be treated by debt markets, by credit markets? You know, fundamentals,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2103" data-t="2103">he's trying to talk about this a little bit. He's a little autistic, and he and he and he sometimes he had trouble communicate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2110" data-t="2110">explaining themselves, but I think people are starting to listen that that fundamentals has</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2115" data-t="2115">very good instincts about about risk and and he would but very few people were willing to talk about Pay for Bitcoin's risks</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2122" data-t="2122">and it and people got caught</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2124" data-t="2124">glazed and confused</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2127">35:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2127" data-t="2127">with Pay for Bitcoin summer</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2130" data-t="2130">ended short ended abruptly</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2132" data-t="2132">and there's they were like looking back and they're like Jesus</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2136" data-t="2136">I was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2137" data-t="2137">absolutely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2138" data-t="2138">I was I was blacked out on glaze I was glazed out</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2142">35:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2142" data-t="2142">and I just couldn't see what you know I I couldn't see I now I have</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2147" data-t="2147">I had glaze goggles on and it</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2151" data-t="2151">it's all really was, I think. I think it was just</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2154" data-t="2154">a a sloppy glaze.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2156">35:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2156" data-t="2156">It was a wonderful time.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2160" data-t="2160">I'm I'm really sad at the prospect of not having another paper Bitcoin summer</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2165" data-t="2165">this upcoming year, but we'll we'll see. It might come back.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2170">36:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2170" data-t="2170">Well, it's it will come back because it may not come back in exactly the the same</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2176" data-t="2176">shape or form as Paper Bitcoin Summer,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2179" data-t="2179">but there is no doubt in my mind that plebs plebs have not stopped.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2184" data-t="2184">I have not for they will not forget again how to glaze in moderation.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2187" data-t="2187">Plebs cannot glaze in moderation. They always overdo it, and in paper Bitcoin will be glazed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2193" data-t="2193">hard again,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2195">36:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2195" data-t="2195">just like GBTC was, you know, a few years ago.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2200">36:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2200" data-t="2200">Yeah. We'll see if Teddy Bitcoins</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2202" data-t="2202">wins,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2203" data-t="2203">the next Maxi Madness because I think that'll be a huge indicator for how, paper Bitcoin summer will go.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2209" data-t="2209">But,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2211" data-t="2211">yeah, there were some other things big things that happened q three.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2217" data-t="2217">It ended with the podcaster getting shot,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2220">37:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2220" data-t="2220">Charlie Kirk getting shot. There was,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2223" data-t="2223">the peak of the I think it's fair to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2227" data-t="2227">to say that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2230" data-t="2230">the Nazi node wars</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2232" data-t="2232">have peaked, and it's all downhill</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2234" data-t="2234">from here for them.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2238">37:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2238" data-t="2238">But it was the peak of the CSAM debate, and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2242" data-t="2242">the term plebslop</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2244" data-t="2244">really started to go mainstream and catch on.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2247" data-t="2247">Those were the the big defining moments of q three from my perspective.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2254">37:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2254" data-t="2254">Yeah. Yeah. The Charlie Kirk.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2258" data-t="2258">Where you at? Every podcaster remembers where he was today, the moment they found out.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2264" data-t="2264">It's Charlie Kirk had been</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2266" data-t="2266">shot.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2268" data-t="2268">And every podcast listener,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2271" data-t="2271">the same.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2273">37:53</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2273" data-t="2273">Okay.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2274" data-t="2274">There was a lot of,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2277" data-t="2277">you know, that feeling that this acceleration was building up towards something, this fourth turning energy was building up towards something. When Charlie's hurt got shot it felt like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2287" data-t="2287">the the pressure had been building to this moment and then</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2290" data-t="2290">the release valve</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2292" data-t="2292">was gonna be action and we didn't know if it was gonna be righteous action, if it was going to be violent,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2299">38:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2299" data-t="2299">sloppy action.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2300" data-t="2300">We didn't know what would this action was gonna be, but it felt like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2305" data-t="2305">I mean, the the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2306" data-t="2306">the FBI, the juror the justice department is led by a podcaster.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2311" data-t="2311">A podcaster is investigating the assassination of a podcaster. We thought this was going to go a certain way.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2318" data-t="2318">Our predictions,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2320">38:40</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2320" data-t="2320">I think, broadly were not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2323" data-t="2323">very accurate, at least our time for references weren't, because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2326" data-t="2326">we did not realize</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2328" data-t="2328">how sloppy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2330" data-t="2330">it was going to be. This moment was going to unleash</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2334" data-t="2334">the trial, but most importantly, slop, especially</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2339">38:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2339" data-t="2339">the kind of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2341" data-t="2341">ugly,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2344" data-t="2344">vicious,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2345" data-t="2345">knee jerk,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2347" data-t="2347">antagonistic type of slop that came.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2350" data-t="2350">And that's what really it it really boiled into you, and it the CSAM kinda came out this. You're a pedophile</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2356">39:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2356" data-t="2356">if you don't run knots in this filter,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2361" data-t="2361">this filter scheme that we've got that we're saving Bitcoin, you're a pedophile, you're a you're putting child, you're enabling child pornographers</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2369" data-t="2369">or that Charlie Kirk deserved it, or this is racist, or these people deserve to be assassinated, or every single immigrant needs to be loaded into a catapult</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2378" data-t="2378">and fired into the Gulf Of America.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2381" data-t="2381">It</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2383" data-t="2383">it the vitriolic slop just that came from and what has so far</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2388">39:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2388" data-t="2388">been</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2390" data-t="2390">the development</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2392" data-t="2392">of Turning Point USA</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2395" data-t="2395">in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2397" data-t="2397">His wife, Erica,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2399" data-t="2399">is turning</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2400">39:60</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2400" data-t="2400">his estate and his legacy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2402" data-t="2402">into plug slot.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2404" data-t="2404">She's turning it into WWF,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2406" data-t="2406">Righteous Gemstones,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2410" data-t="2410">USA,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2411" data-t="2411">e two bomber, Epstein, Didipari,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2414">40:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2414" data-t="2414">pupslop.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2415" data-t="2415">And that's disappointing because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2419" data-t="2419">a podcaster,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2420" data-t="2420">he was to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2421" data-t="2421">people were comparing it to Martin Luther King or George Floyd.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2425" data-t="2425">And just like George Floyd is legacy became Club Slav.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2429">40:29</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2429" data-t="2429">Absolutely. Or is becoming or is becoming Club Slav. So it's like, that was kind of the marquee event because right</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2435" data-t="2435">right before Charlie got shot,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2438" data-t="2438">just I think it was a week before that is when Dennis Porter stopped making announcements.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2444" data-t="2444">Dennis Porter</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2445" data-t="2445">almost it's like he sensed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2448" data-t="2448">what was coming</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2449">40:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2449" data-t="2449">and step stepped out of the limelight</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2452" data-t="2452">for his own protection.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2455" data-t="2455">He saw it making announcements,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2457" data-t="2457">and then Charlie was shot, and then everything's devolved in the plug slapping. We've been in a plug in a an announcement recession.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2464">41:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2464" data-t="2464">Yeah. It was almost like there was an implosion. It it it feel like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2470" data-t="2470">q three was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2473" data-t="2473">in many ways, it it was like a controlled demolition</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2478" data-t="2478">a lot of ways. And and and PubSlop was the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2482" data-t="2482">the orchestration of this demolition of, like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2486" data-t="2486">Erica Kirk is</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2488">41:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2488" data-t="2488">PubSlop controlled demolition at Turning Point USA.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2493" data-t="2493">You got CSAM being the control the PLEVSLOP controlled demolition</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2498" data-t="2498">of the spam wars. You've got</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2501" data-t="2501">Dennis Porter</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2503" data-t="2503">announcement</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2504" data-t="2504">slowdown.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2506">41:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2506" data-t="2506">I don't remember when his last announcement was. The it was the California</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2510" data-t="2510">guy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2512" data-t="2512">which I think happened a little bit after that, but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2515" data-t="2515">Dennis Porter announcement slowdown was the,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2519" data-t="2519">demolition of the Bitcoin price</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2522" data-t="2522">in the bull market.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2523">42:03</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2523" data-t="2523">You got</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2526" data-t="2526">the Epstein list</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2528" data-t="2528">being the Pub Slot demolition of the the excitement around the the Plebslop presidency,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2536" data-t="2536">it just</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2538">42:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2538" data-t="2538">It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2541" data-t="2541">the glaze got unsustainable.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2543" data-t="2543">There's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2544" data-t="2544">there it's impossible</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2546" data-t="2546">to glaze the amount of slop</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2549" data-t="2549">coming our way. We cannot sugarcoat the truth anymore</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">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2553" data-t="2553">because it's coming at us too fast,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2556" data-t="2556">too high definition, from too many perspectives, from too many angles.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2560" data-t="2560">It's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2561" data-t="2561">one one of the things I tweeted after Charlie Kirk got shot,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2564" data-t="2564">and that because that was the week after</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2567" data-t="2567">that that girl in Charlotte, that hopped on girl got stabbed to the neck by that dude that should have been in prison.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2575">42:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2575" data-t="2575">And it was it was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2577" data-t="2577">you couldn't stop</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2578" data-t="2578">you couldn't avoid seeing</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2581" data-t="2581">an image of somebody getting stabbed in the neck or shot in the neck</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2585" data-t="2585">on on any timeline</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2586" data-t="2586">that week or that two weeks and it was I tweeted like, you might as well watch the video, you might as well look at it because you can't avoid the truth anymore.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2596">43:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2596" data-t="2596">The truth is common and it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2598" data-t="2598">if I would add to that it's like the truth can is no longer going to be glazed the revolution will not be glazed</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2605" data-t="2605">and</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2607" data-t="2607">that's kind of where it is like we it is became unsustainable and now we have no way</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2612" data-t="2612">for rose tinted glasses we use</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2615" data-t="2615">to view reality, there's no escape, we cannot go to any single outlet television channel</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2621">43:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2621" data-t="2621">newspaper</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2622" data-t="2622">and get glazed like we used to.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2626">43:46</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2626" data-t="2626">Yeah. Q q three was really that inflection point</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2629" data-t="2629">in the foreturning.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2632" data-t="2632">I I think this it was really the it that was</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2636" data-t="2636">the quarter that's gonna define</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2638" data-t="2638">the feature of the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2641" data-t="2641">of the four turning. Just the the entire,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2645">44:05</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2645" data-t="2645">what's the word?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2648" data-t="2648">The entire atmosphere of what it's gonna be like, what it's gonna feel like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2653" data-t="2653">political discourse, the way that people communicate with each other,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2658" data-t="2658">general violence,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2662" data-t="2662">just the economic chaos, the way the information</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2666" data-t="2666">flow works,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2668">44:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2668" data-t="2668">the types of topics that people will podcast about, the way that podcasters will argue with each other,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2677" data-t="2677">the way that institutions are just gonna collapse</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2680" data-t="2680">in in faith and trust in</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2683" data-t="2683">them, the way that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2685" data-t="2685">excitement will just fizzle out,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2688" data-t="2688">people will turn on each other.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2691">44:51</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2691" data-t="2691">Q three was wild.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2694">44:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2694" data-t="2694">You know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2695" data-t="2695">q three,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2697" data-t="2697">that's I mean,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2699" data-t="2699">you had</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2700" data-t="2700">core v three that,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2704" data-t="2704">that activated</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2706">45:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2706" data-t="2706">on, what, October</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2707" data-t="2707">30</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2708" data-t="2708">or October. It was Halloween, basically. We had the spooky</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2712" data-t="2712">spooky spaces,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2713" data-t="2713">the death of Bitcoin, and,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2716" data-t="2716">lo and behold,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2719">45:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2719" data-t="2719">it was absolutely it it,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2722" data-t="2722">Obviously, we know that core v 30 is not</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2726" data-t="2726">the most likely explanation for why the Bitcoin price</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2730" data-t="2730">crashed from all time highs in October and has been on a downward bear market,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2736" data-t="2736">tilt ever since. However,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2739" data-t="2739">Motze Klevsloppers</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2742">45:42</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2742" data-t="2742">love that explanation. I love to share. Adam Smekka's got the highest IQ. He sees a correlation,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2747" data-t="2747">so it's at least we're talking about. But,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2752" data-t="2752">the I'd say maybe maybe the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2756" data-t="2756">better angle on it is that the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2759" data-t="2759">accumulation</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2760" data-t="2760">of our decisions</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2762">46:02</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2762" data-t="2762">at of our consensus</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2765" data-t="2765">more broadly in the Bitcoin community and and the broader</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2768" data-t="2768">general society</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2770" data-t="2770">is, has been has come to fruition, and it is</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2775" data-t="2775">Bitcoin's price can't keep going higher if we can't glaze the truth. We have to have a we have to find a better way to glaze</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2781" data-t="2781">the truth</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2783">46:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2783" data-t="2783">or to tell the truth. Otherwise, Bitcoin cannot sustain.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2788">46:28</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2788" data-t="2788">Absolutely.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2790" data-t="2790">Well, we're we're at the end of q four.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2793" data-t="2793">Q four has been,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2797" data-t="2797">just dealing with the aftermath of q three pretty much, and, it seems like it's setting up for, just the beginning of next year.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2806" data-t="2806">I think the defining moment</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2808" data-t="2808">of this quarter was Dennis Porter's disappearance.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2812">46:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2812" data-t="2812">He has not or I think we're getting close to thirty days</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2816" data-t="2816">at this point of no tweets, no announcements.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2820" data-t="2820">Price dip in.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2822" data-t="2822">People are questioning whether we're in the bear market or not.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2826" data-t="2826">You got the samurai,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2828" data-t="2828">developers</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2830">47:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2830" data-t="2830">going to prison.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2832" data-t="2832">You got</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2833" data-t="2833">the quantum</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2834" data-t="2834">people slopping about quantum FUD</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2837" data-t="2837">everywhere.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2840" data-t="2840">It's cold. It's cold outside.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2843">47:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2843" data-t="2843">We're definitely in,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2845" data-t="2845">a cultural winter,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2848" data-t="2848">if not a, price winner.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2850" data-t="2850">But, yeah, I mean Few weeks ago,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2852">47:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2852" data-t="2852">we were</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2855" data-t="2855">optimistic that, we're gonna be at a 100 k</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2859" data-t="2859">right around now. We thought we're gonna get another 100 party,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2862" data-t="2862">on Michael Taylor's yacht. I mean, they we're talking about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2866" data-t="2866">trying to revive Vides Capital or at least have somebody at Vides Capital,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2870" data-t="2870">make sure that, Tatum had a good suit a good tuxedo</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2874">47:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2874" data-t="2874">to wear the Sailor's next hundred ks parade because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2877" data-t="2877">there's a good chance he's gonna run into Aubrey Strobel there.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2882" data-t="2882">They won't wear his wrinkly old church clothes to the hundred k party, but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2886" data-t="2886">it's</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2889" data-t="2889">again,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2890" data-t="2890">our our optimism is not</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2893">48:13</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2893" data-t="2893">needing reality.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2896" data-t="2896">Is it is it is it pointless to be optimistic, I guess, is my question. That is going into 2026.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2903" data-t="2903">Is it cringe to be optimistic?</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2906">48:26</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2906" data-t="2906">I think in a lot of ways, yeah. I mean, it just kinda depends on what you're optimistic about.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2911" data-t="2911">I think there's a lot of things to be optimistic about, but it's just</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2916">48:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2916" data-t="2916">I don't know. I think a lot of people are not looking forward to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2920" data-t="2920">another Thanksgiving,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2921" data-t="2921">another Christmas next year.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2923" data-t="2923">A hot wave having to</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2926" data-t="2926">having to face disappointment that they're, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2929" data-t="2929">family members saying, I told you so.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2932">48:52</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2932" data-t="2932">They're not looking forward to maybe having another Christmas where the pledge don't get Christmas presents.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2936" data-t="2936">Like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2938" data-t="2938">people are tired. They don't know if they can do it again. And so they just don't have the energy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2943" data-t="2943">to be bullish.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2945" data-t="2945">They're going into 2026,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2946" data-t="2946">and they're like,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2948">49:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2948" data-t="2948">just even somebody</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2950" data-t="2950">talking about being bullish makes me grumpy. I just don't have the energy anymore.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2956" data-t="2956">Yep. I mean, can you blame them? Can you blame them?</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2959">49:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2959" data-t="2959">I mean, I think it's a it's a good, healthy,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2964" data-t="2964">experience for people because I I I think that, you know, when when you build your</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2969" data-t="2969">your house on stand when you on sands, when you build your worldview on top of Plattswap when it gets dismantled by the storm,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2980" data-t="2980">I think it's a good, healthy</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2981" data-t="2981">experience.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2982" data-t="2982">And, like, the the pain that people are experiencing right now is,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-2989">49:49</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-2989" data-t="2989">it it it's healthy because you should feel pain, like, when you build your life on top of blood slop.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2995" data-t="2995">You shouldn't feel optimistic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2997" data-t="2997">about</span> <span class="cue" id="t-2998" data-t="2998">the Publix lab narratives that have been</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3002" data-t="3002">dismantled</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3003" data-t="3003">by reality.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3004">50:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3004" data-t="3004">But does that mean that you're not optimistic</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3007" data-t="3007">entirely? I don't know. You you're gonna have to go through the soul searching yourself to figure that out. But,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3013" data-t="3013">no. I don't I don't blame her.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3015" data-t="3015">I get I think it's totally</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3018" data-t="3018">a healthy, good experience to to not feel optimistic about,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3022" data-t="3022">you know, whatever's in the future. But</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3027">50:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3027" data-t="3027">Well, I would say I would add to that that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3029" data-t="3029">I think at this point,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3031" data-t="3031">you don't have I mean, you don't have to like Club Slap. I don't think anybody really likes it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3038" data-t="3038">Some people do, but you don't have to.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3040" data-t="3040">You don't have to embrace Club Slop.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3042" data-t="3042">But you most probably, you don't have to be afraid of Club Slop, but you do have</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3048">50:48</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3048" data-t="3048">to respect it. Because whether you like it or hate it, love it or fear it,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3053" data-t="3053">it's reality. PlevsLop is here to stay, and PlevsLop</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3057" data-t="3057">is,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3060" data-t="3060">the the the plebs can slop longer than you cannot crash out, basically, is the way to think about it.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3066" data-t="3066">So just respect the Plev Slop and if you respect it, respecting Plev Slop is like, you know, is wreck respecting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3073" data-t="3073">a big,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3075">51:15</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3075" data-t="3075">a big rabbit dog. You don't have to like dog. You don't have to be afraid of the dog necessarily</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3080" data-t="3080">as long as you stay away from it and you respect it. You have nothing to worry about. You will be okay. That's how you should feel about Ploapslop.</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">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3088" data-t="3088">There sure are some people that absolutely love Ploapslop, like, neat neat creations,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3093" data-t="3093">Austin L. Gold, Adam Smacka,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3095" data-t="3095">those guys,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3099" data-t="3099">they love their club slot.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3101">51:41</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3101" data-t="3101">And it's yeah. I mean, people people can definitely</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3105" data-t="3105">they can just they can be they can glaze themselves and be glazed over by club slot.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3110" data-t="3110">Nobody wants</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3112" data-t="3112">nobody wants to end up in that situation.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3115" data-t="3115">Those guys aren't those guys don't even love</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3118" data-t="3118">the the plex their plexilop addictions, I guess,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3121">52:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Rod Palmer</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3121" data-t="3121">if you're really thought about it.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3124">52:04</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3124" data-t="3124">Alrighty.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3125" data-t="3125">Apologize about the cadence of the episodes. It got completely turned around with the, holidays, but here are the fountain boost folks</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3134" data-t="3134">for the quantum coral has commenced.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3136" data-t="3136">This episode was, published,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3139">52:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Kailey Welch</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3139" data-t="3139">I think, a</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3140">52:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3140" data-t="3140">week later than, we intended to.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3144" data-t="3144">Kaylee's been running around with Ecash Shaler,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3147" data-t="3147">and so she's a little bit distracted by that. But</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3152" data-t="3152">thank you for the boost on this one, guys. Late stage Huddl says, keep up the good work, boys. Hope y'all had a Merry Christmas</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3159" data-t="3159">and are having a happy New Year.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3161" data-t="3161">Well, you sure did.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3165">52:45</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3165" data-t="3165">It's gonna be an interesting year. I mean, it's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3168" data-t="3168">you got the we didn't talk about this at all in the episode, but you got all the the shit going down with Venezuela. The the empire marches on.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3178" data-t="3178">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3179" data-t="3179">there's gonna be a lot to Bitcoin podcast about this year. I guess that's,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3184" data-t="3184">you know, one of the ways that you</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3186" data-t="3186">mitigate</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3187">53:07</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3187" data-t="3187">the volatility of the four turning is you become a podcaster, so you you have, like, a reason to deal with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3194" data-t="3194">all the shit because you got stuff to talk about. But yep.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3197" data-t="3197">Next boost, Enoch six one six says, hey, guys. Merry Christmas to you both.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3202" data-t="3202">Hope you had a great one.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3204" data-t="3204">You definitely started this episode on a high note,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3207" data-t="3207">but you nailed one thing. The fun and narratives on x are constantly shifting, and the plebs</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3213">53:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3213" data-t="3213">keep falling for the same stuff.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3215" data-t="3215">It's fine to debate and swap ideas, but constantly fighting in the comments</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3219" data-t="3219">is just getting exhausting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3221" data-t="3221">It's also true that the people you mentioned are trying harder every day to say something even more outrageous just for engagement, and they're getting paid for it. Honestly,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3230" data-t="3230">that's one of the reasons I'm tired getting tired of x.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3235" data-t="3235">While it's true,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3236">53:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3236" data-t="3236">I've met some great people online, including you guys.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3239" data-t="3239">I've also run into so many crazies in my DMs who just won't listen to reason.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3245" data-t="3245">That's why when it comes to Bitcoin,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3247" data-t="3247">I'd rather just read article, listen to podcasts,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3251" data-t="3251">and check out the core newsletter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3253" data-t="3253">X just isn't the same anymore. Plus,</span></span></p>
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   +<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">I don't have as much free time as I used to. Anyways,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3261" data-t="3261">I wish you all a happy New Year twenty twenty six. Let's see what's in store.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3266" data-t="3266">2026</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3267" data-t="3267">is definitely looking like it's gonna be a very</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3270" data-t="3270">interesting year.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3272" data-t="3272">Yeah. I mean, you you see this, like, there's</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3277">54:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3277" data-t="3277">there's been a major drop off</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3280" data-t="3280">in activity in the in the Bitcoin</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3284" data-t="3284">Twitter ecosystem.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3287" data-t="3287">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3288" data-t="3288">you know, the people oftentimes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3291" data-t="3291">throw it up the price, but it it's just there there's not a lot of stuff to get excited about</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3299">54:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3299" data-t="3299">on there. And and and people are grumpy, and they're you know, the the algorithm is just it like, Twitter seems to be the rage bait site.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3309" data-t="3309">That's what people are doing. They're just rage baiting each other.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3312" data-t="3312">They're just dunking on each other.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3316" data-t="3316">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3319" data-t="3319">I understand why it's it's uninteresting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3322" data-t="3322">I mean, there's, like, a bear market across, I think, all the, Bitcoin adjacent</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3327">55:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3327" data-t="3327">social media</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3330" data-t="3330">groups in general.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3332" data-t="3332">The group chats are quieter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3335" data-t="3335">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3337" data-t="3337">you know, for a lot of people, it just doesn't make sense to be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3341" data-t="3341">participating in these platforms</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3343">55:43</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3343" data-t="3343">because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3344" data-t="3344">they they're</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3346" data-t="3346">the front lines of of the war</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3349" data-t="3349">in many ways</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3350" data-t="3350">of the foreturning of of all these different parties fighting against each other and jockeying for control and influence in the world.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3358" data-t="3358">And you go on there, and you're just being</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3361">56:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3361" data-t="3361">subjected to sign up after</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3363" data-t="3363">And, like, that really there there's only a few reasons to be</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3367" data-t="3367">participating</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3368" data-t="3368">in social media, in my opinion.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3371" data-t="3371">One is networking.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3373" data-t="3373">Two is selling something.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3376">56:16</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3376" data-t="3376">And three is trying to either propagate or counter narratives</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3380" data-t="3380">for a variety of reasons.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3382" data-t="3382">And</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3383" data-t="3383">a lot of people just do not understand that that this is, like, the purpose of these platforms. Like, if you're out there and you're trying to propagate or counter narrative, you're like, you're gonna be disadvantaged</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3392" data-t="3392">just kinda like playing,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3394" data-t="3394">at the casino</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3396">56:36</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3396" data-t="3396">in Vegas. You know, the the house has the advantage over you. I mean, you can still win in some ways, but, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3403" data-t="3403">you might you might just be feeding into</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3406" data-t="3406">the Leviathan</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3407" data-t="3407">of information warfare</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3410" data-t="3410">unnecessarily</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3411" data-t="3411">or, you know, whatever. But,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3416">56:56</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3416" data-t="3416">it's it's it's like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3418" data-t="3418">it's somewhat</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3419" data-t="3419">as as somebody that's creating content, it's kind of</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3425" data-t="3425">I feel as pollic is in my interest to try and get our listeners engaged</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3429" data-t="3429">on on the social media, but, like, I just don't think it's that good for you.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3433" data-t="3433">And so, I mean, that's why, like, all the these podcasters and pod comps, like, they're they're always trying to</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3439">57:19</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3439" data-t="3439">to get people on social media to engage with them and engage with the content,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3443" data-t="3443">you know, whatever. But, like, I I I think</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3445" data-t="3445">dropping out,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3448" data-t="3448">if it's just not doing anything for you, if you're not feeling good, then why the fuck are you doing?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3453" data-t="3453">Just hang out in the group chat</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3456" data-t="3456">or,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3457">57:37</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3457" data-t="3457">you know, hang out hang out with people in person. You just like the you gotta do the things that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3463" data-t="3463">that make you feel good. Like, if it if it doesn't feel good, just stop,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3467" data-t="3467">and and don't feel bad about it. But, yeah,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3470" data-t="3470">Enoch, thank you for boosting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3472" data-t="3472">Appreciate</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3474" data-t="3474">you engaging</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3475">57:55</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3475" data-t="3475">with the podcast.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3477" data-t="3477">You too, late stage hall.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3479" data-t="3479">Jason c, 2112</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3481" data-t="3481">sats says, outro</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3483" data-t="3483">music was real toe tapper.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3486" data-t="3486">We we've got the the plexus</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3488">58:08</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3488" data-t="3488">Christmas album. That was a lot of fun writing that with Rod.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3495" data-t="3495">I forgot which Christmas song we ended with, but it was one</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3499" data-t="3499">of them. Sasha, 2,100</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3501" data-t="3501">says, great show. Well, thank you, Sasha.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3505" data-t="3505">User two two two nine zero six six six eight.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3509" data-t="3509">Fifteen hundred says, I was married to quantum mechanics</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3513">58:33</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3513" data-t="3513">theoretician,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3514" data-t="3514">but she left me for a particle physicist.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3517" data-t="3517">But then he divorced her to date a nuclear scientist, but then she broke up with him to hook up with</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3523" data-t="3523">a astrophysics</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3525" data-t="3525">researcher.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3527" data-t="3527">Sounds like a lot of autism to me.</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3539">58:59</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3539" data-t="3539">I feel like, you know,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3541" data-t="3541">people like that that are that educated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3546" data-t="3546">are really hard to interact with because they just live in this world with so much context that</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3553" data-t="3553">it's like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3554" data-t="3554">gods among mere mortals in some way. And that that's how Bitcoin podcasters are hanging out with with,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3561" data-t="3561">you know, no coiners,</span></span></p>
   +
   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3564">59:24</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3564" data-t="3564">forty hour per week listeners. You're kinda like</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3568" data-t="3568">astrophysicist,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3570" data-t="3570">but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3573" data-t="3573">it I think it makes dating hard because</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3577" data-t="3577">the dating pool is so small. You know, when you're, like, a super educated</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3583" data-t="3583">I I don't really know what the point of this message is, but it just makes me think. Like, when you're, like, a super educated</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3590">59:50</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3590" data-t="3590">individual</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3591" data-t="3591">that has an incredibly high IQ,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3595" data-t="3595">the dating pool is pretty small.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3601" data-t="3601">I don't know. I I whatever. Thank you for the boost. That's that's a nutrition boost. I have no idea what you're talking about, but</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3606" data-t="3606">sounds like an interesting dating life. Pelican $61,001</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3610" data-t="3610">says, noster is the US dollar of social media.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3618">1:00:18</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3618" data-t="3618">I I mean, that's pretty interesting.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3622" data-t="3622">That that's a very,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3623" data-t="3623">very, very interesting</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3625" data-t="3625">take.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3627" data-t="3627">And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3631" data-t="3631">what's the Bitcoin of social media then?</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3635">1:00:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3635" data-t="3635">What's the tether of social media?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3641" data-t="3641">I'd like to spend more time on the Oster.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3645" data-t="3645">Should people do some interesting stuff on there?</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3648" data-t="3648">Pies, 121</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3649" data-t="3649">sats. Salute emoji,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3652" data-t="3652">magnifying glass. Steak,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3654">1:00:54</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3654" data-t="3654">mushroom, strong-arm. Thank you, Pies. BTC on board, a 100 sats. Thumbs up. Thumbs up. Thumbs up. BTC on board, a 100 sats says, quantum is fake and gay, VC scam</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3664" data-t="3664">until I can't can factor random</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3667" data-t="3667">three digit integer. Until then, my younger kids are smarter.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3673" data-t="3673">Yeah. The</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3674" data-t="3674">the quantum fun.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3676" data-t="3676">I I don't know. Did that already die? Was it, like, a thing for, like, a week and is already dead?</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3683">1:01:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3683" data-t="3683">The BTS onboard, three thumbs up.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3688" data-t="3688">Again, for a 100¢.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3691" data-t="3691">But,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3692" data-t="3692">thank you guys for the fountain boost. Thank you for being a supporter of the Beagle. Thank you to our subscribers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3698" data-t="3698">Been completely,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3701" data-t="3701">discombobulated</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3704">1:01:44</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3704" data-t="3704">with the holidays. Like, I I</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3708" data-t="3708">I'm excited to get back into</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3716" data-t="3716">more of a</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3720" data-t="3720">consistent</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3723" data-t="3723">content</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3724" data-t="3724">push.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3726">1:02:06</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3726" data-t="3726">Get back on,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3736" data-t="3736">just get back on a,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3738" data-t="3738">a rhythm. Get back with the interview. We're we're gonna</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3742" data-t="3742">develop the rhythm again</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3744" data-t="3744">going into this, upcoming year. I've been working on my hero series.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3749" data-t="3749">I put a lot of thought into this next episode, which I will put out this week. It's</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3755">1:02:35</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3755" data-t="3755">and I I've got, you know, more</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3758" data-t="3758">episodes in the pipeline ready to go. I've been working on my heroes album. I'm excited about that.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3764" data-t="3764">And, you know, we've been working on</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3769" data-t="3769">just creating more content like,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3773" data-t="3773">shows and music videos and all sorts of stuff. And,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3777" data-t="3777">I'll be pushing out</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3780">1:03:00</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Richard Greaser</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3780" data-t="3780">stuff exclusively</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3781" data-t="3781">or or in advance</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3783" data-t="3783">for our subscribers.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3785" data-t="3785">So if you're supporting us, really, really appreciate it. Guys,</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3790" data-t="3790">happy New Year's. Thank you for being a listener of the show.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3793" data-t="3793">We'll catch you on the next one.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3811">1:03:31</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3811" data-t="3811">You heard the call will be something more</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3814">1:03:34</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Kailey Welch</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3814" data-t="3814">and try to ignore it, but the</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3855" data-t="3855">The world needs heroes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3857" data-t="3857">to do what must be done.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3860">1:04:20</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Kailey Welch</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3860" data-t="3860">So answer the call because the brave don't run.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3863">1:04:23</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3863" data-t="3863">Stand your ground.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3865" data-t="3865">Fight for what's true.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3867">1:04:27</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Kailey Welch</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3867" data-t="3867">Choose what's hard in pursuit of virtue.</span> <span class="cue" id="t-3871" data-t="3871">It may seem like all hope is gone,</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-3992">1:06:32</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-3992" data-t="3992">The battle for your heart may bring you close to breaking, but if you keep fighting, victory will be yours for the taking. When times are hard, it's a call to become. You're the best. If you are true to</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4021">1:07:01</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Kailey Welch</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4021" data-t="4021">The world needs heroes</span> <span class="cue" id="t-4023" data-t="4023">to do what must be done. So answer the call because the brave don't run.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4030">1:07:10</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Unknown</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4030" data-t="4030">Stand your ground. Fight for what's true.</span></span></p>
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   +<p class="cue-p"><a class="cue-t" href="#t-4034">1:07:14</a><span class="cue-body"><b class="cue-who">Kailey Welch</b> <span class="cue" id="t-4034" data-t="4034">Choose what's hard in pursuit of virtue.</span></span></p>