0:00Richard Greaser I'm an angry butch lesbian who's been one shotted by MSNBC. Me, my bull dyke wife, and our 17 year old dog are headed to Minneapolis to ram feds with our Honda Pilot. Trump derangement syndrome? Nah. I'm not mad at him. We're here to melt ice, and we're headed to ground zero after we drop our non binary kid off at Somali day care.

0:22Rod Palmer Fuck me. Good?

0:25Richard Greaser And if you don't have the right car insurance, one trigger happy fed could lead to me clobbering my Honda into your car that was just parked on the street while I bleed out on TikTok. So get car insurance from First Amendment Mutual. First Amendment Mutual protects you from the mayhem caused by libtards with Trump derangement syndrome.

0:51Rod Palmer Welcome to 2,026, faithful podcast listener. We're twelve days into January, and a lot has happened. We took out Venezuela's dictator, Nicolas Maduro. The Iranian government is on the verge of collapse.

1:07Rod Palmer The Ukraine war is escalating. US is hijacking Russia's shadow fleet of oil tankers. And now Trump is talking about invading Greenland. But we're not just on the verge of World War three. No. That's not enough. We're also on the verge of a civil war.

1:24Rod Palmer ICE agents and broccoli haircut, TikTok journalists went to Minnesota to shut down the Somali day cares and ended up killing some George Floyd, which has sparked another round of civil unrest in America's streets. But we didn't get here overnight, folks. You got here because journalism has failed us. The mainstream media doesn't inform you anymore. It possesses you. It crawls inside your skull like cordyceps, mushrooms, and whispers, Trump is coming back. Trump is already back. Trump's behind you right now. And suddenly you're not a person. You're a content delivery system with a pulse. I mean, look what the media did to Mike Brock.

2:04Rod Palmer They give you Trump Terangement Syndrome like it's a Pfizer booster. Two doses plus a lifetime subscription. You don't even know what you're mad about anymore. You just know you're mad at authority, for authority, becomes of authority

2:18Rod Palmer all the same time. You're screaming fascism at a guy whose job title you don't understand. In a historical era, you learned about exclusively through podcasts recorded in Brooklyn basements. And then they tell you it's a fourth turning, which is just astrology for men who own bookshelves.

2:36Rod Palmer This is the crisis phase, they say. Institutions will collapse, yeah, starting with you because you watched six MSNBC panels, two TikToks, and a guy named real patriot angel four twenty, and decided today's the day you're gonna confront the federal government in cargo shorts. Next time, you know, you're in the streets, adrenaline pumping, yelling about democracy like it's a coupon code, while the media is live tweeting your nervous breakdown with the chyron that says unfolding situation, and it goes bad, don't worry, they'll honor you.

3:08Rod Palmer You'll be remembered as a complex figure, a tragic symbol, a thread. Because the media doesn't care if you live, they just need content. They need a narrative arc.

3:21Rod Palmer They need a body to explain why tomorrow's panel needs to be six minutes longer. They need to compete with broccoli haircut zoomers with a YouTube channels four times bigger than their dying boomer audience. So yeah, don't let the mainstream media give you TDS, because history isn't a marvel movie, the fourth turning isn't a larp, and ice isn't a metaphor. The people selling you panic from a studio with catered lunch will absolutely be fine when you're not. They'll just call it another chapter.

3:54Rod Palmer But you might be dead, like Renee Goode. And while Renee's wife and the ICE agent who shot her are gonna be able to retire from their GoFundMe fundraisers, your family probably won't. When you get ICE by a fed or run over by some libtard screaming about Nazis, everyone will be broke from donating to those who came before you, if they're not broke from hyperinflation

4:19Rod Palmer caused by World War three, or the money we print to buy Greenland. I guess the lesson is this, It's the fourth turning and it's getting real. Your goal is to listen to as many hours of Bitcoin podcasts as you can. Your goal is to reread Atlas Shrugged from the comfort of your homestead, or your pod.

4:42Rod Palmer The lesson is to not let the mainstream media and uncredentialed journalist cause you to crash out and get TDS during the fourth turning. Good luck.

4:54Richard Greaser It's real. The the Trump arrangement syndrome stuff is real. Like, it it is at catastrophic levels right now. There there's been all this, like, Zoomer, TikTok brain discussion around anxiety.

5:10Richard Greaser There's this book that's circulating that they all read called The Anxious Generation.

5:17Rod Palmer Yeah. It's real. It's And, right, before we get right into it, you know, this is the first episode that we recorded at least of the year. We're back 2026. This is not the Bull Market Bitcoin podcast

5:35Rod Palmer like we started 2025 out with. This is the the fourth turning, the GDS year. I don't know. What what we did our our, our year

5:50Rod Palmer end review episode was the last episode. Is did we do predictions? Did we already do predictions for this year?

6:01Richard Greaser I don't think so. No. We did we did not do predictions yet.

6:05Rod Palmer Because so much has had it's twelve days into the year and so much has happened. Where we I just went over some of it, but we've got a lot to counter. We've got a lot of 2026 review to do already.

6:20Rod Palmer What is, what is the, I guess, the highlight or the the main thing that, you've been focused on these first twelve days has been a lot?

6:35Richard Greaser Well, I've been working on the hero series. I've been super dialed into that. I've been working on, the hero's album. That's what I've been focused on. I I think, there there there's a set of individual that that will make it out of this, and they will really determine

6:56Richard Greaser how it all plays out. And it it is the individuals that decide to be heroic in the these hard times and don't lose their minds. And and I'm excited about this this concept and this idea. The the people that are more active participants and and acting out of their

7:20Richard Greaser their own volition instead of just being pinballs being, updated with different the the new variant or the new booster shot of Trump derangement syndrome just responding, and reacting to everything, like the red team chat.

7:39Rod Palmer I mean, the the plebs with TES in the streets in Minneapolis and, in other cities, they they think that, you know, Ray Good herself, the the lady who got shot, she thought she was a hero. They think they're heroes. So how do you know if you're the right type of hero?

7:59Rod Palmer Because everybody I mean, that's kind of the problem, like, woo, every all the normies, we live in a generation among people who grew up watching Disney movies and other Marvel movies and they all identify they all think that they're the hero of the fourth turning. Every individual thinks they're the hero of the fourth turning and they're getting one shot left and right by ICE agents, by MSNBC, by Mike Brock's essays,

8:26Rod Palmer by Pledgeslop. I mean, people are getting one shot left and right trying to be heroes. What is like the the the hero's cookbook or like the hero's, you know, do is VTC Sessions gonna do a tutorial about being a hero? Like, how do you become the right type of hero and not get, you know,

8:47Rod Palmer run over by by libtards in the in the snowy streets?

8:51Richard Greaser Yeah. That's a really good question. It's, I mean, it it's I I think, generally, you need a sense of self awareness. You need to be able to look in the mirror

9:07Richard Greaser and get an accurate depiction of yourself.

9:10Rod Palmer And,

9:13Richard Greaser and you just need to be grounded. It's it's, is typically the if you're self evaluating yourself, you're you're incredibly unhappy. You're giving your power to other people. They're they're just ruling your life. You're you're reactionary

9:34Richard Greaser to whatever Plebslop stimulus is being thrown in your direction. Like, you're probably not gonna be showcasing a whole lot of qualities of of heroism. It it's, generally, like, I like Rand's framing of heroism. I I talked about this in episode one of my my hero series pretty in detail. I won't get into this super detail, but

9:58Richard Greaser they're they're just individuals that live in integrity and and really live out to be their, live into their potential. And it it I think the question is is, like, when you're looking in the mirror, are you are you living into your potential? And 99%

10:17Richard Greaser of the population will say no. I mean, you you got individuals like, Renee Goode that, you know, probably lived pretty insignificant lives. I I bet she was, like, some semblance of a Disney adult. And, you know, suicide by cop being thrust

10:43Richard Greaser into relevancy just because the plug slot media finds it to be a convenient situation is not it I don't think that's really, you know, an act of heroism. But the the this is the thing is, like, you know, the heroes to the plums oftentimes are individuals that aren't very heroic or impressive. Like, you look at George Floyd. They they they they like to to prop up these martyrs that, you know, oftentimes are pretty mediocre, and that that's what makes them relatable to the plebs.

11:18Rod Palmer Can plebs be heroes?

11:21Richard Greaser I think they could grow up to be heroes, but, you know, historically, the plebs almost always hate heroes. They almost try and fight them because the plaids are followers. They tend to follow people that that don't live in integrity,

11:39Richard Greaser and that puts them in conflict with the individuals that are the the individuals that are trying to, you know, change the world. You look at, like, Howard Rourke in the fountainhead. The Plebs didn't hate like him at all. They're like, wow. Your art sucks. They didn't they had no appreciation for, you know, his his buildings that he made because what they what they wanted was the the Peter Keating type of slot.

12:09Rod Palmer And what about sidekicks? Can pledge be sidekicks to heroes while they're to see the the oldest the oldest story arc, the oldest narrative arc, maybe of all time, is the hero's journey. So a pleb who embarks

12:27Rod Palmer first of all, the fourth journey is a great time to embark on a hero's journey. But if you are a pleb, you're not ready to be a hero, can you be a sidekick like a Robin? Like a Batman or Robin, you have a pioneer Batman,

12:43Rod Palmer and you have Robin as sidekick and a pleb to your sidekick.

12:47Richard Greaser Maybe. I don't know. I should I should do I'll have to think more about sidekicks and and the roles as pleb to sidekicks. I I don't really think about that. Maybe that'll be use useful to to add into it. But, yeah, I don't know. I mean, the the first two weeks of the year have been incredibly interesting. It's it's never been a better time to monitor the situation.

13:13Rod Palmer Yeah. The revolution will not be televised. It will be monitored, however. I mean okay. So I've been monitoring the situation pretty hard. I mean, going back to last June

13:28Rod Palmer when, when The US and the Israel, they they bombed. I ran for the sake of the economy, and I never stopped. Some people did. They took time off, and they came back after Christmas. They did their Chris their New Year's resolutions, which allowed people's New Year's resolutions monitored the situation more closely.

13:50Rod Palmer If you are new to monitoring the situation, Where do you start? Do you have any tips? How many monitors, literal computer monitors, do you need to monitor the situation? Which websites? I mean, do you use I mean, I'm I'm thinking you need two or three monitors. You need to have your Twitter timeline open, maybe Tally market or Predix, you know, listening to podcasts, where do you but where do you start? Do you there's so many situations to monitor. Can you do monitor more than one at a time?

14:23Rod Palmer Which one do you start on? What's a good starting situation to monitor?

14:29Richard Greaser Well, you know, part of what's so great about being a journalist is that journalism is full time situate it's professional situation monitoring. And, I think in every news agency, every journalistic, serious journalistic agency,

14:49Richard Greaser you create your own situation room where you have a lot of monitors to be monitoring on. And, I think this is kinda what separates the the credentialed journalist from

15:04Richard Greaser the casual, you know, blogger like Mike Brock. Frank Korva, he's got this insane

15:16Richard Greaser situation monitoring room. Mark Goodwin and Whitney Webb, unbelievable. It's like on par with the White House. They they've got so many monitors up on their wall. You got Lola. Lola's got a ton of monitors. Shinobi, on the other hand, he's just got his laptop. He's not a very serious situation monitor. And you can kinda see it in the group chats when he gets all wound up about something. But, you know, Shinobi is too busy, you know,

15:45Rod Palmer he likes to monitor in this situation from a flip phone. Like, that's that's that's an amateur but one advice I would give, and we talked about this before, is if you're new to monitoring situation, you're you're you're an amateur, so to speak, you don't have credentials,

16:05Rod Palmer You don't have to spend $30,000 on a Bloomberg terminal to monitor the situation. Don't be like Green Candle. Green Candle, he spent all of his

16:17Rod Palmer all of his, all of his money on a on a Bloomberg terminal to monitor their situation, post plebslop, and, you know, you see he's probably regretted it a little bit, especially now that they're suppressing the plebslop on the timeline, but we'll get into that a little bit later. But that's

16:35Rod Palmer actually, maybe we should get into that now because you talked about this before we before we went live, which is the situation that we're all monitoring is in large part coordinated

16:51Rod Palmer through social media algorithms. So there's, like we said, there's the Venezuela situation, there's Iran in The Middle East, there's Syria, there's Russia, Ukraine, there's NATO, Greenland, and I can go on and on even China, Taiwan and then there's regional

17:10Rod Palmer more isolated situations, you've got them US cities, you've got all those civil wars and unrest going on and all over other parts of the world. To know which situation to monitor and to have everybody's attention is really coordinated through these social media algorithms and now they're playing games with the algorithms, they're suppressing, you know, FlevSlop, they're suppressing other types of slop

17:39Rod Palmer and that can have unintended consequences because sometimes it is slop that kind of signals people's attention and draws them into a situation to monitor, so tinkering with the algorithms can really have a profound effect on

17:54Rod Palmer everybody's attention and what they're focused on?

17:57Richard Greaser It controls everything. And, I think it's important for individuals to just be aware how much their lives are controlled by these, algorithms. And, the pub sloppers, one thing you'll only get from them

18:16Richard Greaser is you'll they they will only talk about this phenomenon if it disadvantages them. What they what they typically do is they talk about how great social media is

18:32Richard Greaser for creating some semblance of, you know, freedom and and and discourse, you know, when when the algorithm is, circulating and promoting their plug slot. But then the second that, the algorithm changes and it it it's not promoting, their slot, they

18:53Richard Greaser will start tweeting about being shadow banned and throwing a hissy fit.

19:01Rod Palmer Alright. So the that's a good point. As the algorithm changes, do you do you fight the algorithm, or do you ride it like a wave? Because

19:16Rod Palmer yeah. I mean, I'll I'll start with that. Like, do you do you resist, or do you try to force, your content into the algorithm, or do you just kinda do you need to go with the flow?

19:31Richard Greaser I don't know. I mean, I think individuals should respond in their own unique way and and think critically about things in the situation, but, I think it's important to have a have a low time preference as a podcaster that a lot of people, you know, they just wanna

19:55Richard Greaser get start recording a podcast. They they want to start engaging in the conversation, and they have this expectation off the bat from getting a lot of engagement, a lot of, following. And and you gotta just stick with it. You know what I mean?

20:15Richard Greaser Build momentum over time. And I think that is,

20:23Rod Palmer How do you how do you know the difference between being shadow banned and just being irrelevant? Or are they the same thing?

20:35Richard Greaser Well, when when you live by Plebslop, they are the same thing. I think the way the way you transcend transcend, you know, being ruled by the algorithm and being irrelevant, you know, when when it works against you for whatever reason is,

20:54Richard Greaser you you put something relevant and interesting and compelling out, and you get in people's heads, and you become memorable. Like, you you have impact on people. I think that that that's the way to transcend, you know, just being a a slop slave.

21:12Richard Greaser Do you

21:14Rod Palmer to be in people's heads, to be memorable, to be relevant, do you have to glaze do you have to glaze to stay in the algorithm?

21:25Richard Greaser Yes. I mean, of course, but it's just about glazing the right people. Like, you have to have the discernment to know who who to glaze and who not to glaze. And I I think that's where, you know, many people make mistakes is they they they glaze the wrong people over and over and over again. It's just, I don't know. You you gotta you gotta glaze carefully, in my opinion.

21:52Rod Palmer Glaze responsibly. Yeah. I think I posted a week or two ago, If you're new to monitoring the situation, you don't know where to start. Follow the glaze because once you start following the glaze, you you end up

22:09Rod Palmer in the thick of things in in in the in the the the well, you don't necessarily wanna be in this situation. You wanna monitor the situation. Because if you don't, you risk

22:24Rod Palmer becoming the situation, being monitored. And if we're in the fourth turning, you put into that context. What advice do you have the people to pledge

22:37Rod Palmer who might be going along there maybe you're like Shinobi you're Naruto running through Minneapolis and not paying attention to the situation because you don't have the right technology you're just using the flip phone it's lagging your three or four situations behind and next thing you know you wind up you find yourself in the middle of the situation being monitored, which is

23:00Rod Palmer definitely not where most people wanna be, especially if you're not prepared, especially if you haven't been listening to forty hours per week. You are not prepared to be the situation being monitored, but you're there. It's too late to back out now. What advice do you give to people who wind up? They woke up from their phone and they realize all eyes are on them. Broccoli haircuts are pointing their phones at them.

23:29Rod Palmer They're streaming live on TikTok, on YouTube. What do you do? Start a podcast.

23:38Richard Greaser Right there. Right in the middle of the street. Start a podcast. Just just take advantage of it. Yeah. Take advantage of being the center. Like, it Haley Welch, the Hawkgirl, she she did the perfect road map. You say you you you start a podcast, get on social media, you you get some creative juice to, you know, manage your persona or whatever, and then, you launch a meme coin and then you rug pull, and then you can retire

24:10Richard Greaser and never have to do anything again and just kinda go in go into the shadows while people forget about you. She she set the playbook for how to do this. Right?

24:21Rod Palmer Right. That's true. That's a good point. Now you made it sound pretty easy, and conceptually, that is true. It is easy to start a podcast. But

24:36Rod Palmer I think it's a little bit easier said than done. So advice for, like, now you, all eyes are on you for being monitored, you're part of the situation, and maybe not necessarily individually, but you are in the thick of it. How do you avoid getting one shotted and ending up being, you know,

24:56Rod Palmer turned into a, a meme with, you know, blood spewing out of your neck? Everybody's laughing at you.

25:04Richard Greaser Well, I mean, I think That's perfectly speaking. Well, you don't you don't marry a CIA asset like an intelligence asset. I think that's, like, lesson one. If you don't wanna be casualty of the pepslop wars, don't do that. She might seem like she's gonna make your podcast better, but,

25:29Richard Greaser you know, there there's gonna be consequences on the back end for that one. And, you know, when you do get one shotted, she's gonna be twerking on your grave with JD Vance.

25:43Rod Palmer So don't don't get that's a that's a good point. Because a lot of people, the plebs in general, I've been scrolling the time on the plebs think ICE is on their side. The plebs think the feds are their allies in the foreturning.

26:01Rod Palmer What is your advice to people who want to or think the feds are on their side in the foreturning during any given situation being monitored? Do you do you trust the feds? Do you do you fear the feds or do you

26:20Rod Palmer maybe maybe the best advice is just respect, not respect in the sense of salute, hello, sir, I'm a patriot, I support you. Respect in the sense of understand

26:34Rod Palmer the severity of the situation and the consequences of not the way you respect God or the way you respect nature. Respect mother nature, respect the feds, like, what's your advice there?

26:48Richard Greaser Yeah. I mean, if you, you're a pioneer. Right? You're out in the frontier. You got your livestock that you gotta protect. Right? And a wolf comes onto your property. The wolf starts, you know, screwing with your, with your livestock,

27:07Richard Greaser which you need in order to, feed your family. You come across the wolf one day.

27:16Rod Palmer You need that livestock to produce tau o to sell on Twitter.

27:21Richard Greaser Exactly. You're you're not gonna, you know, take this wolf unseriously. Right? You're gonna you're gonna understand it's,

27:34Richard Greaser it's positioned as a predator, as a as a viable threat to your lifestyle, to your homestead, and you're gonna you're gonna have a respect for it as a dangerous thing of, like, you know, not only can it kill your chickens, it can kill your,

27:51Richard Greaser kill your family, it could kill you. And so you gotta treat it, you know, with respect in the sense of, as a serious threat. You know, and you need to be careful and respond accordingly.

28:05Rod Palmer What if the wolf is wearing plebs clothing?

28:10Richard Greaser You gotta be you gotta tread even more carefully.

28:14Rod Palmer It's a it's a it's interesting. If you see a pleb dress like a pleb, you're saying that's probably when your spidey senses start tingling. You should say, I don't wanna talk. I'm not joining this guy's group chat with I'm not going I'm not joining this fed in plebs clothing. I'm not joining his Discord server. Because that's how you get that's how you end this is this is this is probably the most likely

28:42Rod Palmer scenario for how you end up being this situation. You're just a pled you're just for a pled you're a pioneer you're anybody. You're going about your day maybe you're just trying to work hard for your family and a pled or you know somebody comes along looks like a pled.

29:00Rod Palmer They're friendly. They could talk about podcasts. They're saying you really good racist memes, and they say, hey. Hey. Hey. You you wanna join my group chat, this special group chat I got? It's really cool, we're all in here, we're sharing all kinds of cool memes, stuff you can't show your kind of workers, HR ladies, even the even the new HR ladies, the ones who call you retarded, they will get you in trouble if you share these memes. And you're like, dude, I wanna see those memes. These guys are not glazing.

29:28Rod Palmer You get in the group chat and they get you all wound up and they gas you up and they glaze you, and they send you in to do some sort of activist thing, something something funny, you wanna make a name for yourself, You wanna be popular in a group chat. So they send you out and they say, you need to go park your Honda Pilot in front of the feds and block them. You're a legal observer. This is a real time. You're a legal observer. You can go to you will be a legend. Record it, and then next thing you know, you're bleeding out on TikTok, crashed into the max of cars.

30:03Rod Palmer And now, you you know, it's too late for you.

30:07Richard Greaser It's a dangerous thing to underestimate people.

30:12Rod Palmer That's a good point. Can you say that again? And talk and and and elaborate.

30:17Richard Greaser Well, it's dangerous to underestimate people. It's, people do it all the time with us. Mike Brock did it to me. He he severely underestimated my,

30:30Richard Greaser ability as a as a podcaster and a journalist. And, when you when you underestimate people in the wrong way,

30:44Richard Greaser they could severely take advantage of you if they know what they're doing. And, yeah, there there's nothing more dangerous than the the fed and plaid clothing, for sure.

30:59Richard Greaser The the the plainclothes fed is, could take you for a ride. And

31:08Rod Palmer Now there's there's there's two types of people. There's more than two types of people. It's two that I think about the most. There's a type of person who they're very outspoken, very,

31:25Rod Palmer the they they they want you to know. They're very they want you to know not to underestimate them. They feel constantly disrespected and underestimated. Those people are per it's a pretty clear cut, you just stay away from those people because they're trying

31:45Rod Palmer to constantly do something or to create an action so that people will respect them, maybe not in a healthy way or not underestimate them. You don't wanna be around somebody who's trying to constantly prove themselves in line they shouldn't be underestimated. Then there's the other person who's easy to underestimate. Maybe they're unassuming

32:06Rod Palmer or maybe, and this is where I'm getting, they want you to underestimate them. The people who want you to underestimate them are the most dangerous because it's easy to do,

32:21Rod Palmer and then when your guard is down, when you're unprepared, and you're in the situation, and you underestimated them, you're unprepared for whatever it is they do. How do you have the self awareness or the

32:39Rod Palmer instincts or how do you know that you maybe you've gotten to a situation where you've incorrectly underestimated somebody and it may be now to your detriment? Because see, you may underestimate somebody and it ends up being a good day and they may end up surprising you in a good way and it leads to something great, but you may underestimate somebody to your demise, How do you avoid that?

33:03Richard Greaser I think always having self awareness is a huge one. Trying to constantly reflect on your interactions with people. And,

33:20Richard Greaser when you start losing, just know when to retreat and to, cut your losses, I think is the big one. I think where a lot of people get in trouble is they, overextend themselves. And, you ever you ever play the game risk?

33:37Rod Palmer Of course. Yeah. Love that game.

33:39Richard Greaser Well, I mean, one of the one of the ways that, you know, you win risk is through just constant gradual expansion. If you if you, like, there there is a point in the game where you gotta go all in and just go and dominate other people. But if you are

34:02Richard Greaser either constantly losing territory or you are, you know, you get a little bit overzealous, you shoot your shot too early, and you try and expand, you're gonna get completely clobbered by another person as you get overextended. And I feel like it's the same thing, you know, when you're interacting socially with people,

34:23Richard Greaser especially strangers that you don't know very well, is you you have this constant, gradual expansion, and you you just you you operate knowing that individuals might have bad

34:41Richard Greaser intentions for you and that they might have a set of cards up their hand that they can deploy and, while they don't look very strong at in the moment, they might deploy those cards and just come in and clobber you at some point. And so you gotta you gotta be

34:59Richard Greaser and just, like, a little bit more alert.

35:01Rod Palmer My advice is kind of along the lines of what you said about self awareness. The first and foremost, don't underestimate yourself. Because if you underestimate yourself, you're more likely to underestimate others. But if you don't underestimate yourself, if you do understand

35:22Rod Palmer the estimate, the the appropriate estimation of your abilities, you are more likely to notice and see that in other people. But if you underestimate yourself, you're more likely to project that into other people. And when you project the underestimation of yourself into others, that's where you're gonna get in trouble.

35:41Richard Greaser Yeah. I I think a lot of people get the in this dangerous position when they're when they're acting from a place of weakness, like it's having a inferiority complex type situation where they are demanding

35:57Richard Greaser of other people's attention or demanding of other people's time and, you know, energy. And that's a dangerous place to be. But, you know and there's there's kind of like an overestimation of of yourself,

36:14Richard Greaser which is actually you know, when when you're overestimating yourself, you're actually coming from a place of insecurity. And in some ways, you are underestimating yourself at the same time. Like, it's like, you know, you're driving on the highway, and you hit a patch of ice, and you overcorrect, and then you just start swerving out of control

36:36Richard Greaser and spinning in circles, that that's kinda, you know, what happens here. So we're we're getting I'm I'm sure we'll talk about this next week, on the next episode, Rob, but we're getting some, notifications right now that, the sailor crash out episode is out.

36:56Rod Palmer The group shows You're gonna look forward to that. And I it was a rumor I tweeted about this. There was rumor that the sailor is crashing out, apparently, on the late steps, so which just dropped this morning of what Bitcoin did, Sailor does crash out. D and E mentions the paper Bitcoin summer maybe hasn't had

37:16Rod Palmer the greatest ending, and it was fairly innocuous statement, but apparently this this was not well received by sale.

37:26Richard Greaser Yeah. I'm excited. I'm gonna listen to it, this morning after, we get done recording here, but, I I don't know. I mean, do you got any big predictions for, for the year for 2026?

37:40Rod Palmer Big predictions. I mean, I think that my prediction is that this will be World War three and the civil war are both going to occur, or they're both going to begin in 2026.

37:56Rod Palmer I don't think that in December of this year that there will necessarily be a consensus that those two things have occurred, but I think in the future we will look back and people will say, 2026 was the beginning of the of the the second half or, like, the the culmination

38:16Rod Palmer of the fourth turning. It will be remembered as the World War three, the escalation, the civil war in The United States, and then, I think, is part like a broader umbrella that will be global cultural

38:33Rod Palmer revolution as well. I think it's gonna all happen. They'd all begin. I mean, it can really begin before 2026, but it's the the dates that the children will have to remember

38:45Rod Palmer or will be asking CHAD GBT about in the future, The dates will really start to get heavy, and they'll have to memorize those dates, and 2026 will kinda be the beginning of those rapid fire events.

38:58Richard Greaser There's a lot of stuff happening that I mean, I talked about this in the in the episode that I published. We we're living in a time that's gonna define the future in a pretty dramatic way. Like, all all like, you you you go eighty, sixty to to ninety years from today in the next four turning.

39:22Richard Greaser All the conflict, all the chaos, all the, you know, just general upheaval that's happening, the the global conflict, if if there's a war, if Bitcoin hasn't, fixed everything by then, which it probably will. But,

39:40Richard Greaser you know, saying in the sense that, you know, humanity relapses into to nonsense after, you know, Bitcoin fixes everything, All the wars that are gonna happen are gonna be, you know, as a result of

39:57Richard Greaser how everything plays out this year and in the coming years. It's, it's really one of the most interesting times to be alive. And,

40:12Richard Greaser I mean, I I I think both those things, like, you know, have already started, you know, in a pretty dramatic way, World War three and and the civil war. I think, you know, people go back and, I I don't know when they'll say both of those things started, but this is you you know, you're kinda getting into the point where it's, like, maybe maybe we're in, like, a a Fort Sumter type moment right now this year.

40:42Rod Palmer If you are a calling market pled who is trying to monetize their predictions for 2026 and beyond

40:54Rod Palmer on Predix or on PolyMarket or Kalshi, how do you play it? How do you predict it? Because predictions we talk about these predictions, right? And both of ours were relatively

41:11Rod Palmer broad, somewhat vague, but he had to narrow it down to, like, these very specific outcomes. Where well, you, for example, whooped in his poor tweet again before 2026. I I bet no. I won. I don't know if you actually participated in that one, but if you had to boil it down into some, like, predicts markets

41:36Rod Palmer real or, you know, just a scenario, how would you how would I'll I'll try to think of one myself, but, like, what what's an outcome that you would predict for 2026 that you would dip dip your stats on? Mine also mine will be

41:55Rod Palmer I think the Iranian I Ayatollah regime will fall in 2026. I don't know if that will be I mean, of course, The US and the CIA is involved. I don't know if that will be b two bombers again. And people think that this is

42:12Rod Palmer a good thing, and that's that's their, prerogative. But I predicted the Reagan regime will fall, and then this will lead to

42:26Rod Palmer escalating conflict and instability in The Middle East and in in that Southeast Asia region more broadly. I think that will be maybe a catalyst

42:39Rod Palmer to additional, additional situations to be monitored.

42:47Richard Greaser Well, that that's gonna happen in the next coming weeks, I think. That that's gonna happen in very short order

42:53Rod Palmer as well. Yeah. That was a that was a pretty conservative prediction. Yeah. Yeah.

42:59Richard Greaser So that's the layout. One of one of my predictions that I think is gonna happen, I think over the summer, there's gonna be a lot of social unrest, and there's gonna be widespread martial law in The United States. I think there's gonna be a lot of control over the Internet, a lot of calls for control over the Internet. I think that, you know, all the nihilism that has been, you know, building up

43:29Richard Greaser amongst many young individuals and, you know, older individuals too is gonna boil into just, you know, general violence. I think people are gonna be, you know, snapping left and right. And, physically, it's gonna be pretty dangerous

43:46Richard Greaser over the next year. You've, I don't know. I mean, I I I'd like to you know, next episode, I'd like to, get into or just think a little bit more thoughtfully on on predictions for the next year. But, yeah, let's get into the fountain boost. Let let us know in the boost for this episode, you know, any predictions that you got for the year, and then we we can use that to

44:17Richard Greaser discuss.

44:19Rod Palmer Yeah. And if you, you know, maybe we'll get those loaded up on predicts, and we'll get the we'll get everybody, to see we'll see how everybody feels about you or predictions.

44:31Richard Greaser I think the summer's gonna be spicy. It's gonna be a spicy summer.

44:38Rod Palmer It's why you smoke cigarettes because cigarettes dull to your taste buds, so you can survive the spice.

44:44Richard Greaser First boost from Doobie Satoshi, 10/2021 says, thank you for your time. Enforcement by government is about punishment. Bitcoin will bring more education instead of punishment based on propaganda. Education will be better. Thank you, Satoshi, for bringing a base. That will force society into a better place by education over senseless punishment justified by lies. Everything is upside down near the reversal of the foreturning. Our kids will rebuild

45:12Richard Greaser upside with Bitcoin as base. Bitcoin is hope in a decade or two, our kids will have a better life.

45:20Rod Palmer A decade or two. I hope it's sooner than that. Our kids, you know but I I I would not predict it would be sooner than that.

45:32Richard Greaser Sounds like you're a little bit older. I don't know. I mean, I I think unless you're kind of like a older Gen X, Boomer, you're millennial or Zoomer. It's you're you're in the process of, rebuilding. It's your, your responsibility

45:48Richard Greaser to do that, to lead the charge on that regard. But, fundamentals is trying to make education better. He well, we'll see if he doesn't. He he just started that that math podcast with with Rob Hamilton. But, I don't know. Is is he the example of, Bitcoin making education better, like David Satoshis talking about? Well, Rob and and and fundamentals

46:17Rod Palmer are pioneers in this regard, but definitely check out Magic Internet and Math is the name of the podcast. Just came out. I think they're on the Genesis episode is what it's titled. Reteaching

46:33Rod Palmer math as a liberal art. I I don't know if I think we should be making math liberal, but I'm gonna check that out this week after the What They Quented episode.

46:48Richard Greaser I don't think math should be liberal, but that's they're gonna make the argument. Alright. Next week What what is this? Is it like the the Progressive Bitcoin or podcast where they're they're trying to fit Bitcoin into their, their construct, saying that it's Okay. A prog progressive calculus

47:05Rod Palmer progressive calculus got, Renee good killed, but I will not judge until I listen. Next boost, 5,000 sats from our buddy Bubba. Who the flying flipping fuck is Teddy Bitcoins?

47:22Rod Palmer Jack Dorsey, Michael Taylor, Michael Brock, Matthew Crater, etcetera, etcetera. Who the fuck are we? Me and you to Bitcoin. None of us are important.

47:34Rod Palmer None of our opinions matter to anyone or anything. We are just spunk that landed. Thanks, Pops and Mom, for the landing strip. The importance of the importance of being is not really important at all. 2025 had its moments, but then again, every year prior to it. All this rambling on that we do is nothing more than God's Jerry Springer episode.

47:58Rod Palmer Have fun and forget almost everything you think you know. We're all just dogs on the run. Sometimes we stop and take shit. That that is that's quintessential Bubba right there.

48:13Richard Greaser Sounds like he's underestimating himself.

48:16Rod Palmer Yeah. I think so too. I think Bubba underestimates the fourth turning a little bit, but the fourth turning is really about the millennials hero's journey and the broccoli are consumers rise to power. The boomers I know Bubba doesn't wanna hear this, but the boomers are probably not gonna have the best four turning ever.

48:38Rod Palmer But I think Bubba will be alright because Bubba is, Bubba's a pioneer. Bubba's a boomer pioneer, and he's, he's got a good perspective, but don't underestimate Bubba. Don't underestimate yourself. Don't underestimate your role, and don't us don't underestimate, your wisdom

48:60Rod Palmer because it's been valuable to us.

49:03Richard Greaser Don't underestimate the importance of Bitcoin podcasting either. Thanks for the boost, Bubba. You used to read a lot. 2,500 sat says, glaze not, want not, or glaze not, yet lest you be glazed. Either way, my dad always said it.

49:21Rod Palmer Thank you. That's a good advice. Thank you. Katie. 23 or 2,300 subs. Glad you mentioned the podcaster investigating the assassination

49:32Rod Palmer of another podcaster. Wild. Pretty sure she listens to Bitcoin podcast too. She keeps referring to the official narrative as Fed Slop. Oof. Fed Slop. That's gonna be a lot of Fed Slop in 2026. 2025 was just the tip of the iceberg for the Fed Slop. If you look at the

49:53Rod Palmer Department of Homeland Security social media, the White House social media, eth and the all the federal government social media, it's pretty much all Fed Slop.

50:04Richard Greaser Absolutely. Well, thank you, Katie. Sasha Hodder said 2025 was great year. Excellent episode. Yeah. You know, it's super interesting. We're we're seeing this

50:21Richard Greaser decoupling of the the podcast listener and their lives improving in the non podcaster podcast listener, their lives degrading pretty severely.

50:34Richard Greaser The decoupling has begun. But, yeah, we Rod and I just did an episode with Sasha, last week. If you wanna go check that out, Sunset Circuit, podcast. He he started the the interview, and then I showed up late, and then I ended the interview. It was a interesting format, but we we did some discussion on, yeah,

50:60Richard Greaser just some legal discussion on our thoughts on on different stuff that Sasha was asking about. It it was fun. It was interesting. You know, Rod, I was listening back. You you had, I think, one of the best explanations I've ever heard for why a,

51:17Richard Greaser somebody new to Bitcoin should use Bitcoin right at the beginning of the episode. Have you been practicing that one?

51:27Rod Palmer No. In in fact, I was I was, a little bit distracted. But, yeah, check that out. Sasha is a she's not a Jewish lawyer, but still a good lawyer, Thank you.

51:45Rod Palmer Next one, 2,000 sads from user 22290668. 2025 was the second best year of my life after 1642. Now 1642 marked the beginning of the devastating English civil wars. King Charles the first failed to arrest parliament members and fled to London, raising his loyal standard to rally forces leading to the first major battle of Edgehill. It is also

52:11Rod Palmer the founding of Montreal in Canada. I don't know which one of those two things I assume the civil war must be a civil war buff. You you also must be extremely old. You must be a grumpy boomer if you're not old. But thank you for the stats. Thank you for the boost.

52:32Richard Greaser Older than Brian Johnson's gonna live to at this point. BTC onboard to wrap up the episode with a 100 sats, three thumbs up. Well, folks,

52:45Rod Palmer Thank you, BTC onboard. Loyal listener. Loyal booster. You, the man.

52:51Richard Greaser Well, folks, I wanna thank you for listening to this episode, and, we're gonna be here. We're gonna be here for 2026. This could be your spot to to understand how to, navigate

53:06Richard Greaser the fourth turning. So if you've been a listener for a while, thank you. If you have been a supporter of the Beagle, thank you. Thank you for your boost. Thank you for your support. We appreciate it.

53:24Richard Greaser Have a good week, folks.

53:47Kailey Welch Just wait. Been waiting since I learned how to conjure gate. Oh, I still feel numb at the family plate. Wait. Pastor bros, pastor Cole, pastor Blaine. Praise the Lord. Praise the feed. Everybody But I'm still bored and are in still more. Oh, say you kids got it easy. But my future look like a lotus grand freezey. They see stacks as like it's therapy. I stacked anxiety and some irony.

54:29Kailey Welch Everyone plays in their own reflection. Call it truth when it fits the direction. Left side, right side, same obsession, different fonts, same need for validation. But still no peace in the terms of service. Amen to the cope, amen to the slop, amen to the take that never stops. Because God's real, he's tired of the post, and the comment section's the closest hell I know. They say I'm a go up just for leaps. I believe I'm burnout in Christmas Eve. I got one meaning, not another threat, not another told you so from a guy named Ted.