0:00Kaylee Welch This is Kaylee Welch, and you are listening to the Bugle weekly Easter special.

0:09Pastor Jeffs I want to welcome you all to church today. My name is pastor Jeffs, and I am so glad that you can be here with us in the Lord's house of worship. Easter is a day of joy and celebration. It is a day of liberation and of freedom. It is the day where we celebrate

0:30Pastor Jeffs and remember that even though the Jews killed Jesus, he rose again. The fiat system is rapidly dying, but we do not have to die with it. As the central banking cartel is crumbling little by little, as each Bitcoin block ticks by, we have the opportunity to experience new found freedom in the world of block chain and cryptocurrency.

0:56Pastor Jeffs Jesus did not die on the cross for us to go through life struggling to have fun staying poor. He resurrected from the grave in order for us to experience new life through becoming extraordinarily wealthy through meme coins. In recent weeks, our faith has been tested. President Trump, who is a godly man, started a trade war with China which has hurt the price of crypto.

1:25Pastor Jeffs But for those of us who had faith, we listened to President Trump's advice and bought the dip. Evil had thought it had prevailed when Jesus had died on the cross. And today, evil thinks it has prevailed by making the price of Bitcoin go down

1:45Pastor Jeffs in recent months. But president Trump has a plan to pump Bitcoin and all of our meme coins to the moon. Now let's worship the Lord because the God candle is coming.

2:02Richard Greaser For my taxes,

4:33Richard Greaser I wanna welcome everybody to this very special edition of the Beagle Weekly. It is Easter. As I'm recording this, as you're listening to it, it is the day after Easter. I hope you had a good Easter. Hope you went to church with your family, went out to brunch afterwards, did the whole thing.

4:54Richard Greaser If you didn't go to church, I hope you had a good day, a good rejuvenating, freeing day. Easter's a fun holiday. It's a fun holiday because it it's really a milestone. Like, you you got out of winter. You survived winter.

5:13Richard Greaser You're going into the spring. You're going into the summer. It's about to be really nice, you know, when you're a kid. Easter kind of marked the end of the school year, going into summer and into the time where you weren't, chained to a desk, and you could run around in the grass. It was a time where you started wearing shorts outside, and you didn't have to bundle up in the cold as much anymore. For many people,

5:40Richard Greaser Easter marks a time of hope, and and spring marks a time of hope. As it's getting warmer, you're able to go outside. You're able to get more sunlight. You're able to connect with people more. One of the things about the winter, about the cold is that it could be isolating. It'd be painful to go outside and and smoke a cigarette in the cold, but

6:02Richard Greaser as it starts warming up, it's enjoyable. It's really enjoyable to go outside and and, see the the blooming trees, see things become alive again. And I hope that's what's happening for you. I hope you're feeling the stirring in your soul, this this liveliness, this this sense of hope.

6:26Richard Greaser I know the world around us is crazy right now. It's it's really, really crazy. People are starting to kinda universally wake up to it. I think I think there's a lot of people like the Bitcoin podcast listeners figured out that, the world was crazy

6:44Richard Greaser a long time before, but now the general population's starting to figure it out. They're starting to feel a pain from inflation. They're starting to feel pain from just the geopolitical chaos, from all these world leaders,

7:03Richard Greaser making decisions that they have no control over. They're probably grappling with a sense of powerlessness. You've probably been dealing with that that feeling for years and and have found a way to manage it, whether it be through religion, whether it be through believing in yourself, whether it be through both. Hopefully, you found a way to to manage that, the feeling of realizing you're you're really not in control and maybe the world wasn't as safe as, you'd been led to believe it was. If you haven't,

7:34Richard Greaser I would encourage you to keep on listening to forty hours Bitcoin podcast week, and you'll get the entropy needed to probably find that that sense of meaning and and and purpose in your life one way or another to be able to navigate the difficult times ahead. Bitcoin

7:56Richard Greaser why so many people are religious about Bitcoin? It's because it's hope in a lot of ways for a lot of us. It's it's the context needed to understand that you're just not you're not just screwed. You're you're you're not just subjected to the whims of of powerful individuals. You're not just

8:18Richard Greaser destined to only get your content from PodConf. There really is hope for the individual. There's there's hope of preserving the wealth that you've generated, the value that you've generated to the world, and not have it just be completely siphoned away by inflation and taxation.

8:37Richard Greaser That's that's the hope that that Bitcoin provides, and it's a very powerful one. It's the it's the hope that you could transact freely, that you can go and you can participate in, illicit non KYC cigarette transactions in a peer to peer manner, and and and nobody can stop you.

8:58Richard Greaser That's a very, like, freeing and liberating and and powerful position to be in. And coming like, living today in our society with with the way that everything is, with smoking bans, with, just these, like, stupid trends of, like, content. You know, you turn on the TV and you watch something and it's just making you feel bad about yourself, and then you're bombarded with

9:25Richard Greaser advertisements for a bunch of products that you don't really want that are kinda useless, like, you know, the pharmaceuticals and and stuff like that. It just breaks you down. It breaks down your spirit. It breaks down your sense of, like, hope and humanity. You know, you turn on the TV and it's

9:45Richard Greaser just blasting you with fear. It's just blasting you with stuff that that makes you wanna be fearful, and then all the examples that are presented to us in pop culture are relatively negative. There's not there's not a ton of examples out there of what it means to be an actual

10:06Richard Greaser sovereign individual. And then you escape into the world of Bitcoin podcast, and you begin participating in the 40 HPW. Now you don't have time to watch bullshit on Netflix

10:19Richard Greaser all day because you're you're actually learning about the world and you're trying to navigate. And you're you're you're not just listening, to listen. You're you're listening to figure out ways of how to apply this stuff to your life. And you begin moving forward. And, like, I I think that's that's the feeling we all wanna feel. We we don't wanna feel stuck. We don't feel we don't wanna be waiting for the world to just collapse to be begin be able to start life and to begin rebuilding.

10:53Richard Greaser We don't have to wait for that. We can start moving forward. We could start building, and we can start feeling better about ourselves, feeling better about our circumstances, feeling better about our families, our relationships. You can look in the mirror and instead of, like, kind of avoiding eye contact with yourself, you can look yourself in the eyes with pride because you're moving forward in life.

11:18Richard Greaser You're moving forward in life. This is such a privileged position to be able to experience this. The majority of people do not experience this and this is why it's so important not to really use the majority of people as a benchmark to compare yourself on whether you're doing well or not. They're the fiat standard, and you're living on the Bitcoin standard. Why? They're on an entirely different planet. Like, you need to be comparing yourself to actual good examples in your life of of people doing interesting things, people actually trying to push themselves forward,

11:55Richard Greaser people trying to grow, people trying to build a better future instead of just extracting everything they can out of other people that are being productive, the the looters in society. Right now I'm on vacation. I'm, reading nine rands,

12:13Richard Greaser Atlas Shrugged, again. It's a fun book. Every time I read it, I experience something slightly different. And these characters like Dagny Tower Taggart and and Howard Roark are incredible people. And we need to look for those types of people in our lives to surround ourselves with. We need to look for those people that the people that

12:41Richard Greaser move the world. And instead of casting scorn at them, we have to lift them up as examples for other people. Tell your kids, hey, look at that person. They're legit. You know, have your daughters watching Lynn Alden,

12:59Richard Greaser interviews, hearing about the broken money, seeing that she's hot, seeing her as an example of what it what it looks like to live as a sentient human being, as as somebody to applaud, as an example, have your sons,

13:16Richard Greaser have them listening to Bitcoin podcasters out there. Hopefully, they're listening to if you're a father, hopefully, you've started a Bitcoin podcast and and then that your son can listen to your your Bitcoin podcast even after you die. If that's a fear, you know, that's something we all have to consider is, leaving something behind for our kids to consume after we're dead, that they can be connected to you, that you've you've generated years and or, well, hours and hours and hours worth of Bitcoin podcast where they can stay connected to you after you're dead.

13:49Richard Greaser What an incredible incredible thing to gift your children. Your years and years of Bitcoin podcast. We need hope. And Easter Easter is the holiday

14:04Richard Greaser of hope. Christmas is too. I would say Easter's more significant, in the Christian world, spiritually, than Christmas is. Because it's really it it's really about

14:20Richard Greaser the day that everything happened that that makes Christianity what it is. Christianity wouldn't even be a religion had Jesus not died on the cross and and risen again. It would have been,

14:35Richard Greaser I don't know, just just like a story. Jesus wouldn't have been significant, like he is. He he would have been another prophet, but it it it's the one thing that that separates him from all the other prophets in in Christianity. And that's why that's why it's such a big day. That's that's why people that don't go to church at all go to church on, on Easter.

15:01Richard Greaser Because it's the day. It's the day in Christianity. You might not be a Christian. That's okay. The world is very uncertain. Very uncertain. It's hard to tell what is true because you're getting so many different conflicting messages. A lot of people just want to fall in

15:24Richard Greaser to something greater themselves, to have faith in something, to to to be married to some sort of dogma that brings clarity in a world that doesn't have very much clarity into a very confusing, chaotic, and and just strange

15:47Richard Greaser mosh pit of of nonsense. Like, most most of what's going on in our world is it's nonsensical, and it's frustrating, and it wears you down. Your entire life, your body's just degrading. You're just getting weird down worn out. But for your soul, for your spirit, that doesn't have to be the case. You don't necessarily need dogma in order for your spirit and for your soul

16:13Richard Greaser to grow and to flourish. For me, smoking cigarettes are a big part of treating my soul. And why that is is because I see it as sticking up my middle finger to the man. The man tells me that

16:29Richard Greaser cigarettes are gonna kill me. It tells me that smoking cigarettes is offensive. It tells me they tell me that I am stupid because I'm engaging in this activity of harming myself. But the reality is, is that going along with them blindly is incredibly harmful to myself. It it means I have to sacrifice using my brain. I have to accept their dogma. I have to surrender to their authority and trust them. And they don't deserve the trust. They have,

17:06Richard Greaser if anything in the last few years, just shown that they don't deserve any trust whatsoever whatsoever. And so when I when I stand there and I smoke a cigarette, I feel pretty good about myself, and they look at me with scorn, and they do. They look at me at scorn, and they you know, in their heads, they're thinking, oh, he's not 25 feet away from the door. He's too close, and, you know, I have to smell it. And, you know, I see this. Like, sometimes people walk by me, and they take their shirts, and they put it over their nose, and they look all offended by the fact that I'm smoking a cigarette. And I just chuckled to myself. I chuckled to myself because in that act, I'm I'm saying

17:44Richard Greaser I'm sticking up my middle finger to these guys, to, the man. And I'm saying I'm gonna do something because I'm using my brain, and I'm gonna value I'm evaluating the risks. I'm evaluating the risks of doing something that you say is incredibly dangerous. And I'm actually thinking for myself, I'm not just taking what they're telling me

18:08Richard Greaser blindly as fact. Bitcoin has allowed me to do that because Bitcoin gave me the context of a whole entirely different world outside of the reality

18:23Richard Greaser that they have constructed for me to live in. It's a world that can't be about self empowerment. Now there's a lot of people out there that are looking to take that away from the from the people using Bitcoin. They wanna make Bitcoin about compliance. This is PodConf that I'm talking about. The podcast conference industrial complex.

18:46Richard Greaser They wanna make Bitcoin about compliance. They wanna make it about fitting into the system and and and serving the system. Bitcoin is a tool to allow you to comply and to serve the system. To you buy Bitcoin in order to be able to afford your taxes. Bitcoin, to me, it it it's not about that. And if you're listening to this podcast, it it is probably not about that for you either. We don't

19:15Richard Greaser I don't wanna comply with these looters. I'm reading Atlas Shrugged, and it it it's great. Like, what one of the reasons why the book's so great is because it it really gives you the context of, like, of just how pathetic a lot of these people are

19:36Richard Greaser that just wanna sit there on the sidelines, and they they wanna steal from you. Like, you know, all the people in Washington, the the weaker participants in industry, the, like, doc doctor Straddler. I might have gotten his name wrong, but whatever. We'll just continue. I'm not gonna look it up. Doctor Stradler,

19:58Richard Greaser you know, in the Science Institute, they wanna restrict so so Hank Reardon, this industrialist, the one of one of the main characters of the story, the really great character. So one of the things he did is he developed a new

20:14Richard Greaser form a new metal. It's called Reardon Steel. And Reardon Steel is significant is a significant improvement on regular steel. What it allows for is for things to be built, it's way stronger, it's way lighter,

20:32Richard Greaser it's just overall better. But everybody freaks out about it, and they say, oh, it's not safe. You can't use it. And the government comes in, and they're like, if this our economy is in bad shape, and if this comes to market, it's gonna challenge

20:53Richard Greaser the entire economy. It's gonna put people out of business because they're dealing with inferior products. And this is such a weak attitude, and we see it over and over again. We see the subsidies in our economy, the way that seed oils are subsidized, and and the farmers, and, you know, the American cars. And it what always happens at the end of the day is when things are subsidized, an inferior product is created for the market.

21:20Richard Greaser Because market competition causes people to compete with each other to try and make a better product. It's very, like, basics. If you read Economics in One Lesson, that's a good book. You probably been told to read that if you listen to 40 HPW, but it just outlines it. It outlines how tariffs and and

21:44Richard Greaser how how subsidies are are harmful. But this this is this is the consensus amongst the quote, unquote experts, the the people resting on their credentials,

21:58Richard Greaser the people flaunting their their credentials without really keeping up with the times, without staying on the ball, the people that that refuse they they scoff at you if you suggest that you should listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast a week. They just scoff at you like Mike Brock did to me in the debate. They believe in subsidies. They believe in these controls in the economy, and it's because they have really low opinions of themselves. And it's because they're not very exceptional people. They don't they don't have confidence in themselves to be able to compete in the open market with other people. And so what they do have to do

22:35Richard Greaser is they have to act as gatekeepers. You to do anything productive, you have to go out there and ask somebody somewhere for permission to do it. That's a system that they've created. If you if you truly have a revolutionary product, if it's too revolutionary, they're gonna try and squash it in the same way that these characters in Atlas Shrugged tried to squash

23:02Richard Greaser Reardon Steel and keep it from happening. So the the Science Institute goes and approaches Hank Reardon, and they they ask him how much it would he would he would allow them to pay them in order to outright buy the rights to Reardon Steel so it never comes to market. And, of course, he says, I'm not interested.

23:27Richard Greaser And they say, well, you could get really rich right now. Why would you wanna continue to struggle and toil and and sell things at a low margin over and over again for years when you could make way more money by just selling us the rights?

23:45Richard Greaser And his answer to them was, because it's mine. This is mine. What a powerful statement. What a powerful statement. And I think that's a statement that we all have to make. We we all have to have that thing in our lives. For for me, it's the bugle. We all have to have the thing in our lives that's ours. Most people out there, they spend their whole lives working for somebody else to build something for somebody else. And that's fine.

24:12Richard Greaser That's fine. If you have a day job, you you gotta earn a living. You you know, a lot of people with families, they need health insurance. They need, they need to be a part of this system in in some way or another. But the thing that they fail to do is they fail to build anything that's just theirs. That's that's self gratifying,

24:37Richard Greaser that that's empowering. When I'm working on the bugle, I feel good. And I it's actually something that rejuvenates me. It helps me feel excited about life. It helps me feel motivated. It helps me to feel present. It helps me to

24:60Richard Greaser just feel better about myself when I I'd I I can stand taller as a result of it, and the reason why is because it's mine. And so when somebody never, like, comes and they say, hey. I wanna buy it. I plan on having a similar conversation as Hank Reardon did with the Science Institute. We've chosen to go a harder direction with this thing. We have chosen to go the route of value for value. And the reason why is because I think it's better. I think it's better than being a marketing agency for somebody else's product that that's probably funded by venture capitalists, which, you know, in many ways

25:40Richard Greaser are the looters. I was at a Bitcoin conference a few years ago, and I heard a really interesting debate between Jimmy Song and Mike Jarmez from from Lightning Labs. And it was all on whether or not you should take VC money. And I think Mike's a good guy. I think he's got good intentions. You know, Jimmy Song came at him pretty hard and, you know, essentially said that the VCs are leeches

26:08Richard Greaser on the on the Bitcoin industry, that they wanna just come in and they wanna control. And what he essentially was describing and and and talking about was kind of what I'm describing and and and talking about is, this idea of doing something for yourself, something meaningful.

26:27Richard Greaser And, like, when you allow a lot of people in that have control over your vision and over your, decision making powers, when you dilute yourself, it's not really yours anymore, which is part of the reason why the value for value just that these these

26:49Richard Greaser platforms exist is so important. It's so important. Because you, audience, you you you're really what makes it happen. You're you're what allows me to do this. You're what allows me to bring cartons of cigarettes home to my family to keep everybody, properly,

27:10Richard Greaser properly supplied with nicotine. Product that I'm selling we we've got some products on Orange label. We just start we just partnered with them doing alpha protocol. So now you can buy creatine from us. We're capitalizing on the on the creatine meme.

27:26Richard Greaser Something I wanted to do for a little bit, but it it kind of got, ramped up as a restart person about creatine. We're selling some products there, but, you know, why we're selling those products is to support this, to support the content. Because the content

27:43Richard Greaser is our product at the Bugle. It's what allows us to do what we do. When you boost us on Fountain, it's what allows us to do what we're what we're doing. The more the higher value product that we can provide,

28:01Richard Greaser I think the the higher that people want to support us. And and so that's always the goal. The goal is not necessarily to swindle people out of their hard earned Bitcoin, but to make a product so compelling that that people want to to see it succeed. They want to see us continue to grow, to continue to get better.

28:24Richard Greaser And we have gotten tremendously better. We brought more people into the mix. We've got people doing all sorts of stuff. If if you didn't get a chance to check out James r p b Stephen's article about the, the cargo shorts, the the inseams and the shorts. That that was a good one. But that's one of the things, like, I I really wanna do with this platform, with the Bugle, is to to create a platform for people to really be able to express themselves freely in the same way that I'm able to. And bringing Rod into the mix has been great. To just see him grow and develop as a journalist,

29:00Richard Greaser and, yeah. I mean, he's he's absolutely fantastic. Absolutely, absolutely hilarious. When I get back from vacation next week, when I finish at Atlas Shrugged, I'm looking forward to listening

29:15Richard Greaser to forty hours Bitcoin podcast a week to to listening to Rod's, episode with Discovering Bitcoin. I I haven't been able to listen to the rock paper Bitcoin one because I'm on vacation, but we just went on their on their show as well. But, yeah, the message of Jesus, the mess the the message of the resurrection, I I didn't really mean for this to be, a church sermon, but I mean, guess that's just what inevitably happens, when you're celebrating a holiday like this,

29:47Richard Greaser is the message of Jesus he he's such an interesting figure. You know, if you go and you read the bible and you read about him, he he was not PodConf approved. That was very clear. He liked to stir the pot, and he wasn't trying to adapt his message to the culture around him

30:11Richard Greaser at all. He was he was just flipping tables. He was causing a a mess. You know? People are getting angry at him because he's healing blind people. He was just confusing people, breaking their brains. He was not willing to compromise at all.

30:31Richard Greaser At all. But the death and the and the resurrection, you know, and this message that was presented to people was that they weren't ruled by their shortcomings, and that they were actually free and that they could live in that freedom. What a powerful message. What a powerful message. It wasn't about complying with

30:52Richard Greaser the system. It wasn't about complying with the world around you. It was about rising above it. I think it's a message whether you're Christian or not, that we can all be inspired by it, that we can all relate to. If you try and live your life based on conventional wisdom, you're gonna be unhappy. What the Bible

31:14Richard Greaser talks about in the New Testament, it's a story of Jesus. Is it it's a story like Atlas Shrugged in a sense that it provides context

31:26Richard Greaser and contrast between the powers that be, the the Pharisees, the Romans, you know, all all these people that just were so hell bent on controlling people. They were so they're like, that's that's all they really cared about. They were just cared about control. They care cared about rules. They cared about control. They cared about taxes. They cared about all these things in order to keep to make people behave a certain way,

31:57Richard Greaser to think a certain way, to to look a certain way, to behave a certain way. And what Jesus came along and and and showed was he just flipped it all upside down. Like, you know, the the most the most influential person in human history was born in a manger, was not born in a palace,

32:21Richard Greaser was not born in into great wealth, was a carpenter. And I I would I would kinda I would say that being a carpenter in in many ways is like be being a blue collar worker. He he didn't go to Harvard or Oxford or the the famous religious schools or whatever at the time, the equivalent of Harvard or Oxford at the time. He was just a guy that walked around other guys, that hung out with prostitutes, that hung out with, normal people. And we we just we just, did an interview with John Seth. And one of the things I like about John Seth and and I liked about

32:57Richard Greaser Bitcoin Uncensored was that they just a lot of their interviews, they just interviewed people that were using Bitcoin just like normal people, you know, at a time that was you know, the PodConf wasn't as developed, but there there definitely was kind of like a PodConf type attitude of, like, let's, make things look a certain way. Let's let's make Bitcoin look

33:24Richard Greaser clean and and compliant so that, you know, all the suits would accept it. You know, he he's running around in orgies interviewing people. Maybe that's that's pretty funny, but, like, you know, talk with sex workers, talking about, like, drivers of sex workers that use Bitcoin

33:47Richard Greaser or people. This is one of the challenges that Polycom throws in in front of all of us. They offer they offer us fame. They offer us gratification. They offer they offer you money in order to

34:04Richard Greaser influence you, try and get you to be a certain way. Say the same things as everybody else, to think the same things. And if you get out of line, there's gonna be a lot of pressure on you. I think it's important to live by principles. You pick the principles, and and sometimes you'll have overlaps with Podkoff and people in Podkoff. You get along with them. You you don't have to necessarily be at war with everything and everyone. I don't think that's productive to just be violently lashing out at the world. Like, you have to be calculated. And when you when you see something

34:36Richard Greaser that you disagree with, you you stand up and you you say something about it. But the thing about Podkoff is what they try and get you to do is they try and get you to surrender your principles. Just take them and throw them out the window. You LARP is having principles. You you LARP with this idea of being Bitcoin only, but it nobody's really Bitcoin only. Everybody shit coins in one way or another. Before the cross, before before God, we're all shitcoiners. Do you have a bank account? Did you use USDT on Tron? Did you play

35:13Richard Greaser slots that one time? Did you smoke a menthol cigarette? Do you vape? Do you do Zins? Did you eat seed oils? We're all shitcoiners. In the eyes of god, we're all shitcoiners. Alright? What Podkoff tries to do is they they try to they try to get you to to present as if you have principles and to go go on these moral crusades that don't really matter. They try to suck you into group think. They try to suck you into

35:41Richard Greaser peer pressure and trends. And in doing that, they try to get you to turn your brain off. Because instead of being an individual, now you're part of a group, you're part of a collective. And like we need friends. I just don't I don't really believe in being like these lone wolves. I don't think it's healthy or productive. We need people around us

36:03Richard Greaser that build us up. We need people around us that encourage us, that know who we are. I think that's something that we all need. I think I I think we're social creatures, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we have to be tribal and and and turn our brains off. We just have to to find people similar to us with similar values. And I think one of the most important values it's not necessarily, you know, if you believe everything,

36:29Richard Greaser you have the same view on economics, you have the same view on relationships or or diet or, you know, all of these kind of, superficial things. I don't think we have to be too focused on the superficial stuff. Though, you know, to some degree, it matters a little bit. Like, you have to have some sort of overlapping interest, so that way you can actually relate to the other person.

36:57Richard Greaser But there's something deeper. And, like, if you're an actual individualist that believes in using your brain, then that's the thing that's that's that's ultimately important to look for in others that you wanna connect to and relate with. Do they have the capacity to use their brains? Do they value

37:17Richard Greaser using your brain over being a part of the group? I think that's the key right there. I think that is the key to success. And that's why I'm interested in interviewing a bunch of people that are different than me, and I'm interested in interacting with people that are different than me, but then we have similar values. Like, I went

37:39Richard Greaser on the Outlaw Crypto podcast, a guy that, you know, tries to promote privacy coins and, you know, sees respect for Bitcoin but really isn't into it, in the same way that he's into Monero and these other privacy coins, like maybe Zcash or, you know, whatever else there is. We we have different philosophies on life and and different philosophies on the world, but it seems like he's an individual that that's questioning things, and and I've got respect for that. You know, somebody that's out there,

38:11Richard Greaser you know, doing a podcast, talking about these things, trying to get people to actually engage in in using these these tools. I've got respect for that. I've got a lot more respect for that than, you know, a lot of these people that that are Bitcoin only, but they they got their brains turned off. They're part of the group. They're part of the tribe. They're they're submitting everybody to the purity test. And we look at a lot of these Bitcoin maximalists. And I think, you know, in the context of Easter, one of the things we have to ask ourselves and, like, one of the lessons, you know, that we can take away from the Bible looking at is, you know, asking ourselves, are are we the Pharisees?

38:51Richard Greaser Or are we, you know, the disciples? Like, where do we fit into this story? Where do we fit into this story? The Pharisees were people that turned their brains off, that were part of the group thing. They they they valued this rigid dogma

39:09Richard Greaser over the truth. Doesn't mean that everything that they were saying was false. But in the in the biblical Easter story, the Pharisees were the bad guys. They were the ones that championed killing the Son of God. If we're gonna be intellectually honest, we have to consider

39:31Richard Greaser and ask ourselves, are we these people? Are we the bad guys or are we the good guys? And how do we know if we're the bad guys or the good guys? And that's where stories like Atlas Shrugged, stories like, the Easter story come into play as they they provide context for us to understand, are we like, who are the good and the bad guys? They have these themes in it. Jesus preached the idea of liberation

39:57Richard Greaser and freedom. The Pharisees preached servitude and compliance. You were bound by rules, and Jesus taught that you're free

40:08Richard Greaser of the rules. What a what a staunch contrast. What a staunch contrast. Oh, well, I hope you had a good Easter, with your family. I know my family had good. One of the things I love to do is so funny,

40:25Richard Greaser If you ever get the chance to do this, it's, one of the things that I do you know, kids love Easter egg hunts. So we took our son, my wife and I, we we took him to an Easter egg hunt. And, one of the things I did is I I put a bunch of cigarettes in all the Easter eggs and then proceeded to watch the parents freak out as their kids were pulling cigarettes out of the Easter eggs. It was great. It was really, really funny. They all looked at me and they're like, what are you doing? I'm like, well, you know, my family started me smoking when I was six years old, and look at me. I'm the John Galtz of journalism. I'm doing pretty great today. Doing pretty great today.

41:03Richard Greaser But, yeah, after the Easter egg hunt, we went out to brunch. Brunch is always fun. It's always great on Easter morning. Got a chicken fried steak. Not the best for you. It was dabbled up with seed oils. Guess that makes me a shit coiner. I failed in the eyes of the Pharisees. I ate seed oils. But, yeah, we went out to brunch and, had a good time. Had a good time with the family. We spent good quality time together, and and I was able to be present with them

41:33Richard Greaser because I'm a man that feels secure in myself. I feel good about what I'm doing. I'm not trying to live into somebody's idea of who I should be. I have chosen a path for myself, and I'm walking it, and I'm moving forward. I'm not all bummed out by all the rest of the world thinking differently

41:54Richard Greaser than me and trying to convince everybody else to think like I do. That's all distraction. If you're really secure of what you believe, then you realize there's gonna be consequences for what you believe. Hopefully, positive consequences that you feel good about yourself, and and you have success in your life, and you're moving forward. And then other people have to reap the cons

42:17Richard Greaser consequences of their own actions, and what they're choosing to do. And if they're actually wrong, then there's gonna be negative repercussions for that. And and what you can exist as is an example. You could be an example to these peep these poor people that have their brains turned off and trust the TV and don't listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts a week or supplement creatine or smoke cigarettes. You can be an example. You can be jacked. You can be happy. You can have a happy relationship. You can be, dropping fire on your own Bitcoin podcast. Compare earning Bitcoin in a value for value economy. You don't you don't have to be just, like, submitting to the Williams of PodConf

42:60Richard Greaser in compliance. You'd be a dangerous individual. Dangerous to the establishment. You can you can look the people that are destroying our society, you can stick your middle finger up and you can still have a good time. You don't you don't even need to give them power over yourself. They're not the ones in control. You're the one in control. You have the power. What a great feeling. What a great example

43:24Richard Greaser to offer the world. And then not only that, you can identify other people out there like you that feel good about themselves. You make friends with people. Have real meaningful relationships and talk about things more important than than sports ball or the weather or or, you know, whatever Trump the TV said Trump is doing. You can actually have depth to your relationships. This is what was so funny about my debate with Mike Brock.

43:55Richard Greaser They're probably I don't know how much longer I wanna I wanna talk about this, but, you know, it was just like it was great context of, like you know, he thought it was astounding that I was talking about this idea that you should you should focus on your own self interest, that the greater good and that altruism's a lie. He he was just astounded by that. And just look at him. Just look how pathetic he was. The world needs to see those types of conversations.

44:21Richard Greaser They need to see the contrast between those that are actually have confidence. And there there's a difference between being extremely egotistical

44:33Richard Greaser and narcissistic and being self interested and having confidence in yourself. And, like, you you know that you're a competent individual. You know you have actual humility. You have an accurate depiction of who you are and what you're capable of. You have a list of accomplishments which you can stand on and feel good about. You built things for yourself. Ego and narcissism, that's all that's all insecurity.

45:01Richard Greaser That's the that's the polar opposite. That's not what I'm I'm advocating for. I'm not advocating for, thinking you're the smartest person in the world and and being a compulsive liar and, you know, doing things like that and just, like, screwing people over. No. If you actually have self confidence in your own self interest, you you know you don't need to screw people over because you can produce things of value. You don't have to steal from people. You don't have to mislead them and and and and get them to to buy into something that, you know, is vaporware is worthless. I think that's what we're doing with the vehicle. We're not we're not trying to get you to buy into vaporware.

45:41Richard Greaser We're trying to produce something valuable, and I think it is valuable. It's valuable to me. I'm enjoying this, and other people find it valuable. And I think that's one of the liberating things is, like, why why are we hitting on old cylinders and we're putting out good stuff? Because I think we you know, like, I know for myself, I find it valuable. It's valuable to me.

46:05Richard Greaser I enjoy listening to our podcast. I I enjoy the content. I think I think Rod feels the same way. I don't really wanna speak for him, but I think I think he feels the same way. You know, Kaylee does. Kaylee feels really proud of what she's been able to, help us accomplish.

46:23Richard Greaser She feels proud that she's smoking hot, that she's not fat. She's smoking cigarettes, that she's able to competently drive drunk. Feels good. But anyways, let's get into the boost for this week. Or before we get that, go check out our shirts or clothing on orangelabel.co.co. Go check it out. 40 HPW T shirts. They're great. If you're going to Vegas and you're doxxing yourself to all the spooks out there,

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47:19Richard Greaser That being said, I should probably listen again. Heart cigarette, hashtag 40 HPW headphones emoji. Well, thank you, Shadrach. I'm glad you're able to afford taxes. It's one of the beautiful things that, Bitcoin can allow us to

47:37Richard Greaser to do for multiple reasons, but I don't wanna get into that because, I don't really I know the spooks listening to this episode too. So you gotta sometimes, whatever. Oh oh, that's a tangent I don't wanna get into. But, anyways, thank you for the boost.

47:54Richard Greaser 10,000 sats. That's that's, like, 10 cigarettes at this exchange rate. Jason c, the cohost of Off the Chain, I believe it is, the fish podcast that him and fundamentals do. We're on the chain, back on the chain.

48:12Richard Greaser Gosh. They're gonna correct me again. But, anyways, it's a good podcast. They're talking about fish. They're talking about the bugle lot. Fundamentals, big fan of ours, and it seems like he bugle pilled Jason c. 4,200

48:29Richard Greaser sets, dear Ron and Dick. Solid content these last two episodes, including Dick's commentary following his recent debate. I was also amazed by Brock's inability to differentiate selfishness from self interest. We can share for and relate to others only to the extent that we can care for and relate to selves first and foremost.

48:50Richard Greaser Sincerely, Jason. It's very, very basic stuff. And one of the reasons why, you know, Mike Brock, he kept he kept on asking me why I was treating him like 14 year old. It's like, well, because you're not considering things from the most basic first principles. You're not you're not willing to go

49:11Richard Greaser to the very beginning of the argument. And and this is the problem that a lot of people make is they build their entire world views built on faulty assumptions. You know, the bible is described as building a house on sand. Jesus tells us to build houses on

49:32Richard Greaser solid ground, not shifting sand. And in order to do that, you have to go back to the very basics. You have to go back to the foundational arguments to challenge assumptions. We always have to challenge assumptions. That's one of the reasons why I like hanging out with people that think differently than me is because it gives me entropy in my life. They challenge me on my assumptions on a regular basis.

49:58Richard Greaser And if you're actually building your worldview and your opinions and and your values on on top of something solid, then challenges aren't aren't troublesome. It just continues to strengthen your conviction in the things that you're doing and the things that you're believing in. It shouldn't be seen as

50:19Richard Greaser a challenge. Like, how dare you question this very basic thing that I believe in? It get it kinda gets annoying sometimes, like, you know, if people are wanting to challenge me on on my cigarette smoking, like, it's just like, okay, dude. You're annoying. You know, but, like, I welcome it every once in a while because it makes me think about it. You know, like, I think we constantly have to reevaluate the things that we're doing and think about them. It's a productive thing to do. It's a helpful thing to do. What's unhelpful is just getting stuck in the motions

50:50Richard Greaser over and over again. Because, like, the thing is is if you go the wrong direction, you might blink and twenty years later, you just realized you wasted a bunch of time doing things that weren't valuable to you, that didn't matter to you, that accomplished nothing, and you're not any closer to where you wanted to be. That's a real thing that, I think we all have to consider and and be afraid of. You know? And it is why I'm a big believer in this idea of, you

51:18Richard Greaser know, of objectivism and and Randian philosophy, really, like, believing in yourself is because, I don't wanna be like that. I don't I don't wanna go like, I've already done that in my life. You know what I mean? I've already wasted time working for the man. I talk about every once in a while my my time in the the traditional media establishment and it just sucked. It was soul sucking. Why would I wanna do that ever again in my life? Why would I want to set an example for my son of how to be just a servile shell

51:52Richard Greaser of my potential. I don't wanna do that. Next boost from Shadrach. 1093¢. Poignant, topical, robust, and balanced. That's what real journalism smells like. Cigarette emoji, hashtag 40 HPW. Thank you. Blizzo, 1010¢.

52:10Richard Greaser Mike Brock needs to pump his Bitcoin podcast hours up. Mike Brock can do whatever he wants. He can have fun staying poor for all I care about. Maggie, 1000¢. Maggie Morris, one of her very talented, Beagle staff members meant to boost 1,700 sats out of respect. Well, thank you. I'm not really sure, what that means, but it looks like, Maggie actually double boosted,

52:36Richard Greaser 1,000 sats. So above the, 1,700 sats mark, 2,000 sats for Maggie. Really appreciate it. Jason c again, 420 sats. Jason says, I sometimes forget the level of understanding that can only come for 40 HPW.

52:55Richard Greaser The vehicle weekly has been a cornerstone of my 40 HPW training since the first episode. No noise, only signal. Thank you, Jason. Got five likes on an oster. Pink monkey, 500 sats. No comment.

53:12Richard Greaser Anonymous says, I can't see who this is. It just says anonymous. 420 SAS. This is the most thermodynamically sound, high signal content I've ever had the pleasure of engaging with all week.

53:28Richard Greaser Glad to hear that. Glad to hear that you enjoyed it. 300 stats from, BTC on board. Salute emoji, thumbs up, lightning fire. Hunterid, 77 stats again for Maggie.

53:44Richard Greaser Says, I'm interested in hearing your take. Is Richard, Dasha, or Rodeo Anna, or the other way around? It's hard one to call. Thank you. I have no idea what that means, Maggie. But if you message me, I'll try and explain if you clarify a little bit what you mean. Anyways, I wanna thank everybody for tuning in to this,

54:09Richard Greaser special edition of the Bugle Weekly, the the Bugle Easter special. And, I think Pastor Jeff's is kind of a a tool. And I I think his I his

54:28Richard Greaser his theology, I think, is is rather flawed. He he's a shit coiner. He believes the god pump is happening. I I think he would definitely if he wasn't so, like, shit coiner Jason, I think Podkamp would be friendlier with her with him. But I think one of the things he's right on is I I do think the pump is coming. Could feel it in my bones.

54:53Richard Greaser It's been a long, long bear market. And, you could argue that we're in a bull market. You know, Bitcoin has pumped pretty dramatically from the lows a couple years ago. But, you know, it's going up, and it is gonna con continue to go up because of people starting Bitcoin podcasts. Bitcoin podcast power law is real, folks. It's real. Anyways, I wanna thank you again for tuning in. Thank you to all the boosters. Check out our merch.

55:23Richard Greaser Shell the podcast. Go bugle pill somebody. Go tell somebody about the bugle. Tell tell them what we're up to. Thanks for tuning in.