0:29Richard Greaser Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, and welcome to my incredible new show, Timmy Tether Tonight. I'm your host, Timmy Tether. Let Let me just start out by saying how happy I am to be back in the studio and, most importantly, back on Bitcoin podcasts. I can only hope you missed me as much as I've missed you. Summer is almost over, and what a summer it's been. They're calling it paper Bitcoin summer. That's right. The summer has been all about Bitcoin, treasury companies, and Bitcoin podcasters.

1:05Richard Greaser Paper Bitcoin summer sounds great for podcasters and suit coiners, but if you ask me, buying paper Bitcoin sounds like something for guys with wives who have boyfriends. Speaking of summer ending, that means it's parents' favorite time of the year. That's right. It's back to school season. El Salvador just announced the popular haircut called the Edgar is banned in public schools beginning this school year. For those of you who are unaware, the Edgar is the broccoli haircut for Zoomers in the global South. El Salvador's president posted on social media and said with Zoomers in the country all going back to school that they will have plenty of open space in their prisons in case president Donald Trump needs to ship America's rowdy broccoli haircut Zoomers out of the country to teach them a lesson.

1:53Richard Greaser Finally, has everyone heard about this mysterious cobbler David Bailey is apparently spending a cool quarter million of investor cash on for his new paper Bitcoin podcast team? Apparently, the new public company Nakamoto hired a full time private cobbler for one of the company's vice presidents, right, Steven Lubka. Lubka is famous for walking more than Moses in the wilderness after being denied entry into the promised land. We don't know much about this Nakamoto cobbler just yet, but if he's working on Lubka's shoes, I hope he's a Jewish cobbler because I hear those are the best

2:28Rod Palmer cobblers.

2:32Richard Greaser Alright. We've got a fantastic Bitcoin podcast for you coming up next. So stay tuned. You don't wanna miss it. I'm Timmy Tether. Thank you for tuning in to Timmy Tether tonight. We'll see you again very soon.

3:09Rod Palmer September is coming, folks. The money printer is coming. Jerome Powell is about to inject so much liquidity into the money system. Bitcoin is going to be ripping. You guys that think that

3:27Rod Palmer this dip isn't a buying opportunity, that we're not ripping to the moon, that paper Bitcoin summer isn't going to turn into paper Bitcoin fall. Or just naive, and this is one of the consequences of not listening to enough Bitcoin podcasts,

3:45Rod Palmer is naivety and bearishness.

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3:53Rod Palmer be Bitcoin podcast listeners eventually. It's not time to be bearish. I'm seeing this really, really strange behavior right now. Every bull market up until this point, Bitcoiners universally had a good time. Unless you were getting arrested by the feds

4:13Rod Palmer and thrown into prison, you're having a good time in the bull market. But this bull market, people are grouchy. They're treating it like it's a bear market. They accept the only difference between

4:30Rod Palmer this and and other bear markets. They're they're getting the fighting part down. As yellow says, there's there's things that you do in a bear market. You build and you fight. What's the third one? Do you know? Contest. Well, I don't know if Yellowstone podcast. I mean, that's that's probably

4:50Rod Palmer I mean, I think that's that's sound advice. But, yeah, you, may be mean, but people are not building Some people are building, but the grouchiest people amongst us are not building right now. They're not podcasting. Mister Hoddle, for example, is going on Twitter spaces. He's arguing with Tomer about nothing.

5:14Rod Palmer Neither of them understand what they're arguing about and he's fading Bitcoin podcasts. Plenator's fading Bitcoin podcasts. He's not building anything.

5:26Rod Palmer It's Mister Huddl's stone the whole time too. It's I mean, every morning you get up and you're on your way to work and you have to listen to Tomer and mister Huddl stone out of their goddamn minds at 09:00 in the morning. Because of their whales, they've been in Bitcoin forever. They are just sitting around

5:47Rod Palmer waiting for another Bitcoin podcast to come out, waiting for another space to start, waiting for another drama. Like, my every I'm just quit letting these, like, you know, Dieter. He's another one. Just sits by his pool all day getting stoned. And he's just they're grumpy and but we're you keep talking about you kind of talk about this low mood, but that's what I've been talking about all summer. It's paper Bitcoin summer.

6:14Rod Palmer If the all the all the good times, all the parties, all the optimism, it went off chain and now it is in Bitcoin meme stocks. It's a paper Bitcoin because it's just more fun. There's less responsibility. And the people who had been in here for a few cycles, who are not in paper Bitcoin,

6:38Rod Palmer who might be just retired, you know, whatever, if you're not happy, it means that you haven't taken sovereign control over your life and build, like, the Bitcoin podcast

6:55Rod Palmer lifestyle, that you kind of dreamed of, but you were so excited about in your first cycle. But that's the you know, don't don't try to bring down the people who,

7:09Rod Palmer the people who are taking charge and are doing what they're proud of.

7:13Rod Palmer It's not just, paper Bitcoin though. It's it's things like the Mastodel as well. There there's a lot of people that are are having a really good time, but it's just not the general, Twitter population of grumpy argue orders and, reply guys.

7:32Rod Palmer Right. Yeah. It is. A lot of people, they will they just are always looking for something to be grumpy about. Right? It's like

7:44Rod Palmer you got your limp tart aunt or uncle, and they just everything's going well, but they're just so they, you know, got Trump's derangement syndrome, and they're just so grumpy about Trump, and it's all they wanna talk about at the barbecue's summer. They don't even wanna go to fourth of July and see fireworks because Trump makes them grumpy. And then you got, like, like, the dude, like, your your college cousin who is failing out of gender studies class in at university, and everything's the Jews' fault. It's all Israel's fault. They're out there, all these protests, and they're they got Trump derangement syndrome. They got,

8:22Rod Palmer Israel derangement syndrome. And, you know, they're just they can't no matter how great things are, they're still just same thing with Bitcoiners. Right? Like, people all time highs. I mean, we had the fit today, but the all time high was, like, a week ago. And it's still a strong macro environment. Paper Bitcoin summary is holding the line. And they they wanna be grumpy about something so early. They got spammed arrangement. I was like, how can I be bullish when

8:53Rod Palmer at any moment somebody might they're not even get it? We're not even getting spam, but at any moment, there might be spam. I I I some people don't wanna die for Israel. Some people don't wanna relay other people's spam. It's like this hill they're drawing. They have so many other problems or there's just so many other things to be positive about. And it's stop looking for reasons to be grumpy

9:18Rod Palmer because you'll find them if you look.

9:21Rod Palmer Yeah. I think we need to recalibrate where the grumpiness is being directed at. And one of the logical places directed at is fiat money and fiat authority. This is this is the things that that a lot of Bitcoiners from different perspectives and and value sets have come together in the past is is

9:48Rod Palmer realizing that it's it's those things instead of the Jews or you know, because there's some pretty gnarly Jews out there. A gnarly Jew got interviewed or or at least the transcripts and and did did you listen to the Glenn Maxwell

10:06Rod Palmer fad podcast at all?

10:09Rod Palmer I didn't listen to it, but I saw some, pretty controversial headlines.

10:16Rod Palmer I I listened to a little bit. She doesn't have the best podcasting voice. She's got one of those stupid British accents, and she didn't really say anything that interesting. She said a lot of stuff that sounded like she was trying to get a pardon, and I think it would be fair to

10:39Rod Palmer say that none of the information that she presented was admissible because she was speaking under duress. So but yeah. I mean, there's some gnarly Jews out there, which I think you have to, you know, admit, but there's some pretty good Jews out there too.

11:00Rod Palmer And there there's there's tons of things to be grumpy about, but it's just you have a finite amount of grumpiness. So just choose carefully where

11:16Rod Palmer to direct it at and just ask yourself before you get too grumpy and you you act out based on that grumpiness, ask yourself what are the consequences are. Is it a good use of resources or could it be directed towards something else? Because there's people like you look at you look at Carl, for example. Carl

11:42Rod Palmer is grumpy, but he's directing his grumpiness. He posted a really good and interesting vlog on Noster of his homestead. Like, that's how he's channeling his grumpiness as he he's feeding his chickens. And is that a good use of grumpiness or compared to what Platter is doing, which is

12:08Rod Palmer going after simply Bitcoin and BTC sessions for sharing the same ref links? What's a better productive use of your time? Should you be spending time on Twitter arguing or should you be podcasting? Should you be trying to cancel

12:27Rod Palmer Rob and Becca for laughing? Or not Becca wasn't even laughing. Becca has no idea what's going on. But should you be canceling them, or should you be building something and then trying to cancel Jerome Powell and the the central banking cartel?

12:48Rod Palmer What I'll I'll leave it up to you. Just to just think about it. Think about it a little bit.

12:55Rod Palmer Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I will I I don't wanna tell you how to be grumpy or what to do with your time. But I would say, think about the podcast regimen, the algorithm, the the

13:13Rod Palmer so the part of the social graph of Bitcoin's social, you know, gossip network. Where do you fall on that? Because it's similar to you. Like, right now, there's, like, a it's low consensus. Right? But there's a lot of disagreement about, Bitcoin policy,

13:31Rod Palmer node policy, political policy in the, you know, the broader, culture. You've got disagreements internationally. There's war. It is not a time of high consensus. And

13:46Rod Palmer as a time of not it's hard to know what perspective, or what side, you know, or what to think or or we just what is most beneficial to, to kind of pattern and try to try to model and what to think about and how to learn and how to process things.

14:06Rod Palmer Similar to, like, you know, education. We used to have these institutions and people are now paying a lot of money to go to these prestigious institutions. They are expecting them to to to teach them skills and help them navigate reality. You know, they you think they're gonna learn how to code or think you've learned engineering,

14:29Rod Palmer learn all learn the stem, and they get there and it's just like this divisive pseudo science, and it just boil it it just come it gets into, like, just pure nonsense and zealotry and, charlatans.

14:45Rod Palmer Professors are charlatans and it's no different in Bitcoin. I mean, Bitcoin's university, you have professors like Matthew Kratik. People sign up for Bitcoin University thinking that they were gonna learn how to use a hardware wallet, and they really learned the difference between, Bitcoin's original signature scheme and Schnorr signatures. And they thought they were gonna learn about how ordinals work and how to run their notes. And instead, they're just constantly hit with, Matthew Krater videos about, you know, these religious battles of for Bitcoin and who and who should no be called retarded and who is a badass. It's it's like,

15:26Rod Palmer just teach me how to use the protocol, brother. So you've gotta be cognizant of what you're consuming in Bitcoin podcast. Because if you're if you're not listening to forty hours and gaining new perspectives and learning about things that, help you improve and and grow in life, and you're just bickering, and and listening to divisive stuff, that might make you grumpy too. You you gotta consider that. You don't wanna what you consume is how you might ultimately,

15:60Rod Palmer might be your outlook.

16:03Rod Palmer I think it's worth consuming a lot of the content, but, like, the reason for forty hours is that you have the context necessary to be understand to be able to understand the content that you're consuming. Like, it's you you need to broaden your horizons. You need to hear a lot of different opinions about things. You need to actually,

16:25Rod Palmer research things and and and verify things to inform your opinion on it so that you realize when you're listening to Matthew Crater that he's just a grumpy gay fat. And I listened to Matthew Carrater this week. He he's funny. He was insinuating that I was a bad actor, because I was on stage listening to Portland Hoddle. And it was just it it it it's funny to listen to those guys. It's it's it's pure entertainment, but, you know, you're you're hearing

16:59Rod Palmer what a lot of people are thinking and hearing their perspective, which I think is valuable in and of itself to get that I'm never going to tell anybody to never listen to anybody's Bitcoin podcast.

17:17Rod Palmer I think I I would say Aegis, but you have a a scarce, a limited amount of time. And it's being careful and deliberate about the podcast

17:29Rod Palmer that can that fill your forty hours and being intentional about how you construct your schedule is important. But you made a you brought up a good point, which made me think it's sometimes you do need to understand the context, and we need, like, a Bitcoin rating. Like, you know, on TV, it comes up and says this is TV general audience. This is TV, you know, 13 and up. This is for mature audiences only. We need something like that for Bitcoin podcast. So every podcast that comes out, it's like, hey. Is this,

18:02Rod Palmer am I qualified to listen to this podcast and gain the wreck with, you know, or is is it just gonna make me grumpy? Or is it just gonna make me anxious? Or is it just gonna make me, feel like I have to, you know, buy a new expensive product that I don't need to?

18:26Rod Palmer Absolutely. Absolutely.

18:28Rod Palmer How would you how would you how would you structure such a rating scale? Like, what like, think, simply Bitcoin, like, versus Matthew Kratter or versus, you know, Bitcoin off tech or versus the Buick? How would you rank those or how would you rate those for

18:50Rod Palmer a broader audience? If you've never listened to a Bitcoin podcast before and you come across, like, what ranking should people be going for?

18:59Rod Palmer Well, I think the most dangerous content to listen to is the content that is geared towards the plebs. So what is presented as the most watered down, simple explanation of Bitcoin oftentimes is the most dangerous one for people with low context to listen to.

19:22Rod Palmer I think a lot of us started out with What Bitcoin Did in the Pomp podcast. Like, those were our first podcast. That's they they they cast the broadest net. So I I think probably the the best podcast to start

19:41Rod Palmer with, which are oftentimes hardest for the new participants to understand and get into because they're like, you know, Bitcoin podcasting is kind of like taste in the sense of, like, you know, if you're hooked on sugar, you're gonna crave sugar and things that are sugary are the best tasting things. And, like, when individuals come into the Bitcoin podcasting ecosystem for the first time,

20:09Rod Palmer their taste is miscalibrated. They're just used to consuming junk, so they're going to crave the junk, and the stuff of higher quality isn't going to taste good. But once you, like, detox off the sugar and you start eating healthier, you're going to crave healthy food and the junk just seems so much less attractive to you anymore. But that's the key is you don't get to a healthier lifestyle

20:36Rod Palmer unless you start eating healthier. So, you have to start out eating food that you might not find as tasty to recalibrate your taste. So, I think the intellectual Silk Road and what we're building here is,

20:52Rod Palmer in this ecosystem, in this network, is one of the best places to start and is the safest content. But it's also like the Bugle, you know, we've often said, I think you came up with this, Rod, is like, this is the podcast for the forty hours per week listener. A lot of people don't understand the context of what we're talking about unless they first listen to forty hours. So this is definitely not

21:20Rod Palmer a beginner's podcast. This would be I think you'd probably do the scale based on like one to 40. You know what I mean? Depending on like how many context hours you need. And so we would probably be in a similar category according to your rating scale, as far as a lot of the Pleb podcasts are,

21:47Rod Palmer as far as the context needed. Like, you you need a lot of contacts listening to the Pleb podcasts that are showing you all these products as you do to just understand the basics of what we're talking about. I think, like, the safest ones probably to start with is, go listen to stuff that, like, Blockchain's doing and the stuff that, Ungovernable Misfits is doing. Those are because you're gonna get a lot of, you know, good information from them.

22:17Rod Palmer Yeah. I think, honestly, where I'm most cons well, not most concerned about, but, I think it's important is we need to have labels like not NSFF, not safe for feds because there's a lot of Bitcoin podcasts that are not safe for feds. It's going to be very offensive to them. They're gonna be very, likely to have an emotional reactionary response to what people are talking about and what they're saying. And,

22:47Rod Palmer a, Fence shouldn't, you know, if you mentioned the government, like the, you know, the NSA and the CIA, they their pull, policy dictates that they have to listen. So it's like that. It's an easy way to get listeners. Right? We've joked about that before. If you mentioned the CIA or the NSA or Mossad, they have to listen to your podcast that triggers something in the Palantir systems. But also it's sometimes feds get orange built too. And if you go in straight hearing, you know, people talking about it, like, maybe they need more fed friendly content, which is a lot of the PodCon stuff.

23:22Rod Palmer Yeah. Yeah. PodCon content almost universally is safe for feds. That's a that's a good point. I thought somebody was telling me that we should, put labels or or disclaimers on our podcast at the beginning. I've done this before, but it's not safe for feds.

23:41Rod Palmer Yeah. There's a used to warn people that, were non compliant. They might might be offended by some of the content. We were sponsored by PodConf. I think a lot of people appreciated that. Maybe we should bring that back.

23:58Rod Palmer Yeah. Feds get offended by a lot of things. They're typically pretty immature. They don't understand nuance. Alright. Matthew Kratter is doing a good job of, kind of, or what he's doing essentially is he he's curating the the not safe for feds comp content. So if you like, there's a reason to listen to Matthew Kratter is if you want to understand all the content that you could listen to that's not safe for feds. Like, he's he's documenting it for sure.

24:32Rod Palmer Yeah. It's yeah. So it's, you know, some people he he he kinda cuts it all up. So it's like, you don't want to dive into the not safe for fed stuff. Maybe you don't wanna get in trouble at work on your computer. Maybe you just don't, can't get past the filters. You can get kind of a high chest. It's almost like a Christian perspective on MTV. I think my youth pastor used to have her. It's it's filtered for you through that. This is not safe for fed content filtered by

25:02Rod Palmer of you know, some of you were used to work for not Palantir, but, Peter Thiel, which is which is Matthew Kratter. Speaking of, you know, it's easily offended. It an unrelated, you know, easily offended group is, not. It's like they

25:23Rod Palmer I mean, it's we're ignoring the elephant in the room if we don't bring up this topic. The knots, the Nazis versus the corniness. This battle is we thought it would go away. It's hotter than ever. Shinobi was tweeting and arguing and calling people retarded on spaces and threads and on Twitter all weekend. People were plants their their Comcast nodes were,

25:50Rod Palmer in jeopardy. I mean, from your perspective, what's going on this weekend and and what's going on with this this Nazi, Corvinus flare up?

26:00Rod Palmer Yeah. I was actually in the I happen to be in the Twitter space. So I don't I don't go on Twitter spaces very often because I'm too busy doing productive things like podcasting. But for whatever reason last week, I I felt like being in Twitter spaces. I so happen to be in the infamous one that everybody's arguing about, which, you know, the framing of it's really interesting. So Portland HODL came into the Twitter space to explain that he had found an exploit

26:30Rod Palmer in knots nodes, and then he what he was doing was he's presenting his PR. So one of the things that Portland HODL really wants to do is he wants to be a NODLs developer. So he submitted a PR to the NODLs GitHub repository, and he was explaining it

26:50Rod Palmer to a bunch of the corniness, including Shinobi and, you know, Rob Hamilton. And and so, you know, the Knotts people, they they have this problem, which is they don't believe in a world of

27:06Rod Palmer nuance, and they don't do any research. And they oftentimes just kinda get sucked into, click baity things and just settle for, you know, simple understandings or simple explanations of complicated

27:22Rod Palmer topics. And I think the the news is that Portland Huddl, not now has, two developers. The way that this the story, unfortunately, has been spawn

27:39Rod Palmer is that, Portland HODL is a bad actor. So they're literally attacking their own developers, essentially, trying to make their their node implementation better. Like, that's that's really the story of what's going on here. So it's a case of, the the, you know, the there's this meme that the the right wing culture warriors had,

28:05Rod Palmer which is that the left always eats itself. And it it seems like the the Nazis are suffering from the same exact problem, which is the Nazis are are eating themselves.

28:20Rod Palmer That seems to be the story this way. Well, this is yeah. This is this goes back to the lessons we learned eight years ago in World War two. The Nazis different type of Nazis back then, but they were obsessed with purity. Adolf Hitler, the Aryan brother, like, they were just obsessed with purity. They had Jewish derangement syndrome. They ref they just won. They just grew

28:48Rod Palmer a tighter and tighter extremist clique, of people who they thought they were better than everybody else. And the Nazis today, it's

29:00Rod Palmer they are running the same risk of, like, this, what's the when you when you fast, people who like to fast, they go into, that, stage where your your tissues start to

29:16Rod Palmer autophagy. They start to consume themselves. And that's healthy in small doses, but eventually if you don't eat, you would starve. Your body would eat itself. You would starve and die. It's the same thing that happens with group chats, with Bitcoin bot, get with communities, with these, you know, fringe node elements. They're so they have spam derangement syndrome, and they're obsessed with purity tests. But nobody who knows how to code, passes their purity test. None of the court devs pass their purity test other than Luke. None of the nobody else who understands, you know, has taken a JavaScript boot camp or,

29:56Rod Palmer you know, tried to learn Python online on a tutorial, maybe watch something for BTC sessions and got it in their recommendations. None of those. People, passed the knots purity test, so they they reject it. And they if you if you want to be a successful movement,

30:19Rod Palmer if you want people to understand your point, like, you can't be so exclusive and you you have to understand that you have to until you're independent, you need help from devs. You need help from people who know how to cope. You need to have a more diverse, you know,

30:38Rod Palmer pull request developer repository.

30:44Rod Palmer Totally. Yeah. I mean, it it they they, in many ways, are following the Nazi playbook, which is you find a scapegoat to attack, and then you have a savior from the scapegoat. So Adolf Hitler was the scapegoat

31:01Rod Palmer or sorry, the the savior from the scapegoat, the Jews, and

31:06Rod Palmer the The GFCs.

31:08Rod Palmer Yeah. The scapegoat in this situation is yeah. The gay people and the Gypsy. I you can't just focus on, that's a poor representation of history when you talk about just the Jews. The problem with the Jews controlling all the history textbooks is they they get a little bit overzealous with, representation of themselves. But, you've got the

31:34Rod Palmer in this case, it's the core devs, which are the scapegoat. The the purity problems with them is that they're having sex. Nazis feel like devs you know, if you read Jimmy Song's book, Programming Bitcoin, you should still be able to have sex.

31:55Rod Palmer Like, that shouldn't be the line where the purity test is drawn, in my opinion. There there there's reasonable expectations on how people should be having sex, mainly around the fact that it should be consensual and and not with children. I I think

32:13Rod Palmer many many of these people that are lobbying these purity tests at core developers do not share the same standards for their their ruling class, which many of them voted for in the last election, which is it's strange to me.

32:35Rod Palmer But, yeah, it's it's it's interesting. I I thought the Corbynists officially defeated the Nazis, but it seems like the Nazis are they're continuing to hang on and and fight this this war. And they they just didn't realize they've lost yet.

32:53Rod Palmer And do the a lot of the core devs, they they've been reaching out all of branches. They've been trying to like, like Portland Hoddle, they identified exploits, vulnerabilities, they they patched them in core,

33:09Rod Palmer or they found them, you know, alone in knots and tried to patch them for knots. In the knots, you know, they just don't they don't accept help. And I think that it's it's okay to ask for help. And it's it doesn't

33:29Rod Palmer spam spam derangement syndrome is is just causing a grumpiness that and a and a retreat that it is it's not. Maybe your node has more resources, but you have isolated yourself and, and you're, you're causing potential vulnerabilities for your node as well.

33:49Rod Palmer Yeah. I I think that's about it on the the whole Corvinus versus Naz debate is that that's all we gotta talk about it. But, you know, one of the things I'm interested in this week so, you know, in the the world of politics, political

34:09Rod Palmer definitions are constantly changing. Donald Trump, in many ways, is like a a nineties Democrat, and he is being labeled as far right. I think the thing I keep on posting about is that Donald Trump appears to be trying to to look at or make Obama look like a libertarian. Do you think it'd be fair,

34:37Rod Palmer you know, with the way that the the political overton window has shifted, what's acceptable today in regards to surveillance, and and just general overt coercion? Is Obama technically a libertarian now when you look at him historically with what Donald Trump is doing?

35:01Rod Palmer It's hard to say that the guy the first guy to drone strike an American zoomer, is a libertarian. I I it's I see the point that you're making at the scale and the magnitude

35:18Rod Palmer of, the violation of the non aggression principle by by Donald Trump. But it's, you know, first guy did drone strike. It's drones. It's that's gonna be the big problem. Right? Like, how many people are gonna get killed by drones in the next fifty years, the next hundred years?

35:37Rod Palmer How hard to call the guy to kick that off? A libertarian.

35:42Rod Palmer Yeah. Yeah. I mean, one of the one of the hard parts about calling Obama a libertarian is that he actually won an election. So that in of itself

35:52Rod Palmer was Two two elections. That's

35:56Rod Palmer two two x, the amount of elections that libertarians have won. Oh, he he won a he won a bunch more than that or or he won some before that because he was a senator too. I don't remember how many senate terms he had, but, yeah, he, I I'm just talking about the general framing. If if a libertarian ever actually got elected, hypothetically, I think they would be Jerome bombing as well.

36:21Rod Palmer It's, they they like to posture this is the thing about, you know, if if you never win, then you have perfect purity because everything that you believe and and say that you would do is theoretical

36:38Rod Palmer instead of actual. Right. Right. It's it's is similar. I mean, I I don't wanna bring it back to what we're just talking about, but if you know what I'm talking about, like, if it's more important to you to be pure, and be able to say I told you so and be able to look back and say, well, I had the right opinion back then. You know, your what you're giving up is

37:06Rod Palmer actually doing something about anything and and, you know, furthering your own self interest, be being an independent individual

37:17Rod Palmer who leaves this molecule. If you don't care about that, and you just want to be able to, you know, say, I told you so. That's the only reason that that's what would that's why I would be a libertarian, but that's about it. Yeah.

37:34Rod Palmer I mean, you know, there's there's lots of ways to waste time. You can watch sports ball. You can listen to Fiat podcasts like Lex Fridman. You can watch bad movies that aren't produced by Jews.

37:50Rod Palmer Well, I think I think libertarian is a great I think if you're a libtard and you don't wanna be a libtard anymore, I think instead of don't go you can't. It's if you're a libtard, you can't go into the maggot. You can't just become maggot. You gotta ease your way in. And I think if you think about it from the standpoint, instead of getting super angry, and screaming and having a meltdown every time you see a cop arrest a black person or you see an ICE agent, round up an immigrant,

38:19Rod Palmer you can be libertarian and you can just say, well, if if if everybody had believed where I believed, this wouldn't even be illegal. So don't get mad at me about this. Or if it, you know, if it's us and me, there would be no borders. So, you know, don't get mad at me for this, ice raid. You know, it just gives you that ability to kind of feel like none of this is my fault. None of the problems in my community are my fault because if I was in charge, it would none of this would none of this would be a problem. Well, there would still be a lot of problems.

38:51Rod Palmer Nevermind. You get what I'm saying, right?

38:55Rod Palmer Yeah. Well, there's no utopian reality ever, I think is the important lesson to take away. If everybody followed your period, if everybody followed your purity test, the world wouldn't be perfect.

39:10Rod Palmer Yeah. Bitcoin Bitcoin would not suddenly be perfect scale. Like, it wouldn't be everything everybody wants it to be just because everybody ran knots and every and all the spam got filtered. And it should be you know what I mean? It's it's not everything would be better if the government just opened grocery stores, instead of letting, you know, Hy Vee or fucking Publix

39:37Rod Palmer or Meijer, wherever your region. It's sometimes you're gonna have to go to a grocery store that you don't like. Sometimes you're gonna have to deal with these kinds of things. The world's not gonna pass your purity test. Absolutely.

39:54Rod Palmer I've been hanging out on the Oster a lot more. I've been enjoying this. Have you done any V logs yet?

40:01Rod Palmer I haven't done any V logs yet. I was complaining about this today actually is You, you check the notification tabs on Primal and it'll have you thinking you've gone viral. Right? And then you go and look at the post you got like three likes and a zap. And the UX here is, is very misleading. I'm I log in thinking I'm like the most popular Diane Oster. It turns out like it's just the same two people,

40:30Rod Palmer you know, like in my memes, which I appreciate those people, but it's it's I wish there was more. I wish there was more interaction. Yeah. I think you have to try harder

40:40Rod Palmer on, Nostra. I've been getting a decent amount of engagement. The the the interesting thing, I I've been using Primal in you know, some of my posts will get a bunch of reactions, but I don't think Primal shows it. I think, like, if you use, like, Amethyst or other things, you can do, like, smiley face reactions,

40:60Rod Palmer but they don't count as likes. I've been I've been confused by the the mechanics of how this app works, but I've been I've been enjoying it. I've got a sometimes I get more engagement on Nostred than I do on Twitter, which, has been fun. But I've also been putting a lot more effort. I've been vlogging pretty hard. I was inspired by Marty Bet. I've been trying to peer pressure Marty into getting better shoes.

41:32Rod Palmer And, you know, one of the one of the big memes or or things that, you know, you really shed light on this week is, knock him out as cobbler. Was that last week? I guess it's the last two weeks, but, ten thirty one needs a cobbler, like, desperately. Like, Marty needs better shoes. He's walking around trying to represent Bitcoin. He's got shitty shoes on. I don't know how anybody

41:59Rod Palmer any respectable person like, sure. Marty, you've been podcasting a long time. You got one of the biggest Bitcoin podcasts in the world. The the plaids aren't as critical

42:14Rod Palmer on your shoe attire as the people that, like, actually pull power in the world. And it's time to grow up, be a little bit more pro

42:27Rod Palmer professional, and not wear lame shoes.

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44:10Rod Palmer Yeah. It's, you know, you see, he's kinda had a rough summer. Dennis Porter has. But

44:21Rod Palmer you still see him. He's still wearing a suit in Dennis Porter as a cobbler. I think it's very obvious. It's just sad to me that we have to keep drilling home that every every Bitcoin podcaster should take themselves as seriously

44:37Rod Palmer as Dennis Porter takes himself because we're important. We are changing. We're impacting the world. We are broadcasting signal, and we are most importantly, helping contribute to NGU and the Bitcoin price, and and hyper Bitcoinization.

44:55Rod Palmer So just when you get to this level, everything matters. It's the deep little details. And I think that it's long path. Bitcoin podcasters

45:04Rod Palmer need cobblers. I just got the coolest Twitter ad for Carhartt. You know Carhartt's making sweatshirts?

45:12Rod Palmer Yeah. Carhartt's got all kinds of crate gear. Carhartt is pioneer

45:18Rod Palmer attire. It's not as good as it used to be. Unfortunately, Carhartt is facing a drop in quality. I think that's been one of the biggest bummers about Carhartt. But, yeah, they make some pretty cool

45:37Rod Palmer stuff still, I would say. Oh, yeah. The pioneers like their Carhartt gear. That's for sure. As they should. Well, Bitcoin's dipping. It pumped on the the news that Powell was gonna start

45:57Rod Palmer printing theoretically, that it dipped this weekend. We'll see if it keeps on dipping. A lot of people are being super deep and bearish saying that Bitcoin topped

46:12Rod Palmer for this cycle. I see it as a great dip buying opportunity.

46:16Rod Palmer It only just goes back to what you're talking about. It's a bull market. Bitcoin dips in bull market. Bitcoin has plenty of dips in bull markets. What's it gone down like a couple of come on. Like, Bitcoin dips 30% in bull markets, and everybody's gotten their knickers and knots over a, you know, 4% dead. Calm down. Like, give me a break. You act like you've been there before. A pioneer doesn't get,

46:46Rod Palmer doesn't piss his Carhartt, you know, pants just because, you know, a weather or a winter storm is coming. No. Act like you've been there before. This is what this is what you signed up for. You signed up for volatility. So quit getting getting worried about it

47:07Rod Palmer before even actually manifests.

47:14Rod Palmer 100%. Well, you got any other topics before we go over to the fountain boost? No. I think,

47:21Rod Palmer I think we we covered a lot in a little in a short amount of time this week. Yep.

47:26Rod Palmer Before we go into the found boost, I I do wanna shout out our, our subscribers to our paid content. So we got some we got some interviews coming out this week that I should have published at some point. We got Rod Palmer's, job interview. We've got

47:46Rod Palmer Maggie Morris and Rob Palmer or sorry, not Rob Palmer. Morris Spitzbars talking about their Fed article that they did. Those are gonna be two great listens. But we've got Turkey, Jason c, Shadrach,

48:05Rod Palmer Southside Dave, Open Mic, and Avi Burra. Subscribed. So big thank you to those guys. A lot more cigarette money flowing in. Really appreciate it. We we we hope to, you know, pay you back with with great content behind the scenes that you can unlock. But,

48:22Rod Palmer Early adopters. Early adopters always always benefit.

48:29Rod Palmer Totally. Well, the first boost, Sean, 4,000 sets. Let me just make sure these are ordered correctly. It looks like they're not ordered correctly. I don't know why I found those.

48:46Rod Palmer Alright. First boost, Sean, 4,000 sets. Says purity test graded on a curve. Hundred hundred emoji. Yeah. How how should the grading curve be defined?

48:57Rod Palmer Four people about purity test. Everybody's got their own. Everybody grades it on their own curve, based on, you know,

49:05Rod Palmer who their favorite influencers are, who their podcasts are. You know, it's it's impossible to know. That's why it's so hard to pass purity tests. It's always easier. You know, if you make friends with the people issuing purity tests, I guess that's the grading curve. They're gonna be easier on you. One thing we know about purity tests is they definitely are not Nobody's equal under the law in The United States or anywhere in the world. In the same way, nobody's equal under purity tests.

49:36Rod Palmer Perk. Boom. Next one is from, the two angry cunts podcast, 2222 sats, two angry cunts podcast that is Bubba and,

49:50Rod Palmer I feel I feel bad. I will I've been listening to their podcast. I don't I don't remember the kind of host name.

49:57Rod Palmer She's great. Super based.

49:60Rod Palmer Super based. She said, thanks for the shout out, fellas. Much appreciated by Bubba and myself. Stay sarcastic and remember, all boobs are based. I don't think I'm being too sarcastic,

50:17Rod Palmer but I'm glad that, you enjoy the content and I agree. All boobs are based.

50:24Rod Palmer I'm a big fan of boobs. There was this big controversy about whether Amy Klobuchar said that, what's her face had perfect boobs or not? Sydney Sweeney.

50:38Rod Palmer Yeah. It was interesting. The Democrats right now, they consider city Sweeney fascist. They consider big boobs fascist, and they didn't like that Amy Klobuchar was,

50:54Rod Palmer appreciating fascist boobs. That's, again, that's like what we said earlier. People are just looking for reasons to be grumpy. And if you're grumpy about Sydney Sweeney's boobs, that is a choice. I'm sorry.

51:08Rod Palmer I think part of the reason why they're grumpy about Sydney Sweeney's boobs is they feel like they're taking she's taking the spotlight away from the big booty Latinos right now.

51:20Rod Palmer Oh, yeah. Of course. It's who am I who am I kidding?

51:25Rod Palmer Well, thank you for that boost. Turkey, 500 sats. Appreciate it, Turkey. Thank you again for subscribing to us.

51:35Rod Palmer Next one is from the next two are from Pies, both a 121 sets. First one, I feel like listening to podcasts at one point o is pussy shit. Kinda like men who think tennis and golf are real sports. Well,

51:52Rod Palmer a lot of boomers are not going to like that one. And Dieter Bob, if he listens, he's she I think he loves tennis. But, you know, I don't think pies would consider Dieter Bob a man. The other one next one for pies is I slowed down the speed so I can absorb as much high signal pleb talk as possible. Super weird listening at one point o speed. Interesting. I don't I know. I wonder what podcast he was listening to to hear high signal Pleb Talk

52:21Rod Palmer because, it's not ours.

52:24Rod Palmer Yeah. The the speeding up podcast is actually a pretty good hack because there there's some podcasters that are interested to listen to, but they just have such a boring delivery. So, like, Jeff Booth is so low energy and boring when you listen to him on one point o speed, but

52:43Rod Palmer it's when when you turn it up to 1.5 or I I don't know if I've done two two x yet, but at 1.5, it sounds like you're listening to podcasters on cocaine, which is a great it it makes a lot of podcasts more interesting if you do that. It's a good good hack, for sure.

53:06Rod Palmer Tennis and and golf I'm with pies on this. I think tennis and golf are pretty gay. I I think it's not really a real sport unless there's some sort of physical contact. In my

53:22Rod Palmer my personal opinion, like the I guess racing racing Yeah. Racing, there's physical contact. People crash into each other all the time. It's really dangerous. But you like, the the initial sports were all around, like, combat and fighting for the most part.

53:44Rod Palmer And that's just what sports are, is they're they're kind of the, for the pacified masses, it's a reenactment of warfare in a lot of ways,

53:57Rod Palmer and tennis and golf are are really not they don't fit into that. If, you know, if

54:04Rod Palmer if your really strict parents would let you play a quote unquote sport with a girl from school that you're courting on a first date is not a sport. Right? Like tennis, golf. You don't need a, it's not you know, there's no body to body contact. There's no, boxing out. There's no,

54:27Rod Palmer tackling being on top of all, you know, it's if you, if you can't do it, if you're gay, you can't, it's not a sport.

54:36Rod Palmer Yeah. Pickleball is not not a sport. There there's there's a question about e sports. Professional

54:45Rod Palmer wrestling is a sport.

54:48Rod Palmer Absolutely is. Especially, Rampage Jackson. His son really made it a sport this week.

54:55Rod Palmer Yeah. He did. That was terrible. Yeah. E gaming is not a sport no matter, you know, Pleasure probably wishes Nintendo made him an athlete, but unfortunately, it does not,

55:08Rod Palmer in my opinion. Next boost. Thank you, Pies. Next boost from Bubba one thousand Sat says, thanks for the plug or do the kids call that a shout out? I'm so unhip, I'm probably cool. Rob, I would gladly get in the way at Sturgis for you. I'd work on getting free drink for us. You know, lubrication is important.

55:33Rod Palmer Mister Greaser, thanks for the help on Lonely Road, but are you sure I'm real people? I might be a hologram. Look at the scratch and sniff. By the way, the song is really good. A great closer. Okay, boys. Stay angry and sarcastic. It's a turn

55:50Rod Palmer on for the ladies. Yeah. Bubba, I'm pretty sure you're a real person because I smoke cigarettes with you. I don't think you're a hollow I don't think holograms can, take cigarettes out of my hand and light them. Not yet, at least. Man, can you imagine how good of a time it'd be to go to Sturgis with Bubba?

56:10Rod Palmer I know. I would say that that would be that'd be a great trip.

56:16Rod Palmer I think we should do it. Yeah. The the lonely road song is a good song. I really I really enjoyed that one. I've enjoyed, I've been chatting with Bubba a lot. I'm gonna have Bubba on my music show. It's not this Monday, but, the Monday after that on September 1.

56:40Rod Palmer So that'll be good. Do you know when when is, the Fed gonna decide on cutting rates in September?

56:49Rod Palmer Or when are they supposed to Oh, I don't know. I don't know. I I believe the rates, and yeah, I don't even I don't even know how I would check to see that interest rates were actually cut. I don't I don't I don't know how to how to verify that myself.

57:07Rod Palmer But, whenever I see it on Twitter, I don't know, probably middle of next month.

57:14Rod Palmer Yeah. I mean, the best the best way to verify if the interest rates have been cut is to listen to Bitcoin podcasts, obviously, because Bitcoin podcasters love to talk about the federal reserve and whatever they're doing.

57:25Rod Palmer Hell yeah. Pies again, hits us with 121 sets. Yo, yo, yo, the salute emoji, mushroom emoji, Phil, X and MOG.

57:35Rod Palmer Oh, it's pies. Oh, Chill now, 999¢. I've been enjoying Chill now's memes on Twitter. Lots of really interesting kinda esoteric memes. Chill now says system experiment

57:52Rod Palmer initiated. Error. One, installation purity test return failed. Two, podcasters seeking free fair market value by exploiting stereotypes.

58:04Rod Palmer Two, a shrinking two shrinking attention spans. Value adding entropy for a thermodynamically sound product. Entropy minus zero entropy

58:18Rod Palmer error. Unable to collect sufficient entropy. The middle class is dying. The market rejected it. Everything a node is the manifest destiny of the twenty first century, process and memory corruption. So I always enjoy these boosts.

58:36Rod Palmer Is that bullish? I think it's pretty much Is that bullish for Bitcoin?

58:41Rod Palmer Yes.

58:42Rod Palmer Nice. Hell, yeah. I that is, it's probably more it's it looks like it's encoded for AI to understand, and robots to read. But it's still you know, it's it's a great,

58:59Rod Palmer it's very, like, cyborg translation. I think Chill Now is definitely a good follow on the Oster.

59:05Rod Palmer Hell, yeah. Got, 5,000 sats from wait stage HODL. How do you become a subscriber, fountain show as your bonus show, and played about ninety seconds of it, but there's no option to subscribe? The frontier does not have good UX for we p pioneers. I think somebody replied and let you know, but if you can't figure out how to subscribe, you probably need to update

59:31Rod Palmer the fountain app to the latest version. I think that solves it.

59:35Rod Palmer Yeah. That could be the case. The the best way to subscribe is to go to the main podcast page, like, the the feed on Fountain. And at the top, there's a banner that says subscribe for $9.99 a month. So just under $10 or 10 USDT per month. And, that's how you do it. You just go there. You click on that banner. Right now, the exchange rate is 8801¢.

1:00:06Rod Palmer So you might wanna wait till, the price pumps a little bit. The the exchange rate will be a little bit better. But, yeah, that's how that's how you do it. It should be fairly simple. I I guess you have to have your Nasr account connected to Fountain. So that that's been

1:00:26Rod Palmer one of the issues. But, yeah, if you if you do all of what I've described and you still aren't able to subscribe, it it just might be that the revolution doesn't have good UX. So, let me know or let Fountain know, and I'll let Fountain know that you're having an issue. Well, appreciate it, late stage HODL. You're a great great guy. Really enjoy late stage HODL. I I found him on Noster too this week. If I'm not following you on Noster, you're listening to the show, just,

1:01:01Rod Palmer like, comment on one of my posts. Let me know that I should follow you. I will.

1:01:09Rod Palmer Same same with me. The next one is Jason c for a back on the chain with fundamentals whose book you should buy if you have not already. Jason says, subscribe. Did you not intend to miss any Google weekly content? And, Richard, I really enjoyed you on Once Bitten. You handle Lauren's opening question with class, and Daniel seemed to return the gesture giving you plenty of space. High signal rip. It was good. It was, if you listen to the the once bitten with Richard,

1:01:43Rod Palmer I almost I almost stopped listening. It's a little rough, like, the first ten, fifteen minutes, but then I ripped the it starts to rip.

1:01:51Rod Palmer Yeah. I was having an off day. I said a lot of umms and likes, and I don't know what that was about. But, yeah, I thought it was a good conversation with Daniel. I I enjoyed Daniel a lot. I I just gotta say I got a tremendous amount of respect for a father that podcasts with his daughter. I thought that was a really cool dynamic, and I enjoyed that. Like, I

1:02:16Rod Palmer was genuinely happy and excited to have his daughter there. Like, I know a lot of people, they they look at kids and they don't appreciate them, but I I definitely appreciate kids. I I like them being included

1:02:35Rod Palmer in the learning process, and I feel like the one of the best things you can do as a parent is to bring like, to give your family a sense of, like, a mission and, like, a shared story and and and to bring your children into it so that they're they're active participants in the family, like, adding value to it in some way. And so what, essentially, what essentially, what Daniel has done for his daughter in allowing her to, podcast with him is she he has allowed her to have this

1:03:09Rod Palmer incredible role in human history in helping to usher in Bitcoin. And that's a that's a really cool story. She's gonna be able to tell her kids and her grandkids someday, like, hey. I was a Bitcoin podcaster with my dad when I was a kid. Like, what a absolutely incredible story, to be able to pass on. What an absolutely incredible opportunity.

1:03:40Rod Palmer And so I was really excited about that. I thought it was cool that she she was there. I got a tremendous amount of respect for for Daniel to do that. I I think parents should be proud of their kids. And and my favorite parents in the world are are people that are proud of their kids, people that don't treat their kids like they're a nuisance because you're I I I don't think kids should be treated like they're a nuisance. I think it's a it's a real disservice. Like, that was one of the things I really liked about, like, Satoshi was you could see these parents in the way that they they appreciated their kids.

1:04:15Rod Palmer John loved his kids. You can see fundamentals, appreciates his kids. It's just they like, that's that's the way the world changes is by treating kids well, unlike the majority of the population did during the COVID lockdowns. But, yeah, I've got some more podcast appearances. I did a I did a podcast with Brandon Karpeles

1:04:42Rod Palmer on the Bitcoin for Businesses podcast. That that'll be good. And I've got another one coming up. I'm going on Bitcoin gauntlet next week, so I'm excited for that one. I I've been listening to Bitcoin gauntlet a little bit. It's very interesting format. But, I think,

1:05:02Rod Palmer yeah, speaking for myself, and and I think this includes you, Rod, I think we're both more than happy to go on just about anybody's podcast. So just let us know. We're happy to do it. Yeah. Yeah. And, podcasting

1:05:15Rod Palmer with your daughter, there's no better way to align father and daughters incentives than to pod Bitcoin podcast together. The next one, Rev HODL. 1121 sats. Once you add another badge to your priority test sash,

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1:06:19Rod Palmer Do you have to like Notre Dame to go

1:06:24Rod Palmer I don't think so. I don't I don't think you have to like Notre Dame or, Mayor Pete Buttigieg or, I think that's the two things they're known for. I hate Notre Dame. Yeah, me too. Notre Dame sucks. You know, as far as,

1:06:41Rod Palmer transportation secretaries, Pete Buttigieg, you know, kinda sucks, but I wanna shout out Shadrach. Shadrach's the transportation secretary for the,

1:06:55Rod Palmer for PASNIA, which is pretty cool. Just random fun fact.

1:06:60Rod Palmer Well, thanks for the Well, you know, a lot of people ask when they talk about, last government. I say, who will build the roads? Well, according to mayor Pete, the last people, the government who built the roads, they beat them racist. So if you want, if you want the government to be in charge of everything, just remember everything the government makes, even roads

1:07:22Rod Palmer is racist. Absolutely.

1:07:24Rod Palmer What, what would it take to make the roads not racist and impede Buttigieg's mind? Do you have to paint them all rainbow? Is that the way to do it?

1:07:36Rod Palmer Rainbow Roads? Yeah. Yeah. Rainbow Roads. Rainbow Roads. Rainbow Highways. I think I think Kamala Harris said trees are racist too, so you gotta make sure that the roads and the trees are not too close to each other, so they're not racist together. I don't know. I I'm not a civil engineer. So interesting problem solved. But, yeah,

1:07:58Rod Palmer Rev Hoddle, great guy. I've been, joining his post on the Oster, joining his random DMs that he sends me about different ideas he's got. Good guy. Big fan.

1:08:14Rod Palmer Actually, I you know, I I've got a product sitting right next to me that I, bought from Rev Huddle like Satoshi that is good. He he sells interesting stuff. Our last boost, PTC on board, a 100¢, thumbs up, thumbs up. Well, thank you, PTC on board. We were talking about you. We missed you. So welcome back. Glad you're listening again or boosting again. Well, that wraps it up, folks. Rod, you got any closing thoughts before we, wrap up this rip? Just, just

1:08:48Rod Palmer be more intentional with forty hours per week and see if that doesn't help you,

1:08:55Rod Palmer stop being so grumpy. That's some sound thermodynamically sound advice. Folks, thank you for listening to this rip, and we will catch you on the next edition of Bee Weekly.

1:11:35Rod Palmer Cannot crush our dreams. We can still have a good time. Don't let them get you down. That's what they try to do. Break down your sense of self by mocking what is true. If you don't believe your eyes and refuse to use your