0:03Richard Greaser Here's the big names. It's great to be here. The music, the magic, the madness. Championship

0:09Rod Palmer night. There's nothing like it. Final seconds for the championship.

0:21Unknown Well, it's already that time of the year again, folks. That's right. I'm talking about March Maxi Madness. Maxi Madness is bigger than ever this year. The Bugle is happy to announce the Maxi Madness tournament bracket pick em challenge. Fill out the bracket making your predictions for the outcome of Maxi Madness for your chance to win a BitX from CryptoCloaks. The winner will also receive a Podkoff t shirt, an Evian Parks seriously snarky candle, Otis Bittmeyer coffee beans, and two cypherpunk sticker packs from the Ungovernable Misfits. Visit bugle.news/maxi-madness to fill out your bracket before Thursday, March 20 at 8AM Eastern Time to be eligible. Also, don't forget to vote in the Maxi Madness tournament on the Bugle's Twitter timeline beginning March 20.

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1:49Unknown Welcome to this edition of the Vehicle Weekly. This is a big one. This is a big week. One of the biggest weeks ever. It's a very big week. We got some big things coming. Some big announcements to be announced. Biggest announcements to be announced. Earth shattering announcements. But

2:08Unknown I'm excited for this week. I'm excited to be podcasting today. Us podcasters, we're the tip of the spear. We're the front line of the orange revolution. We are battling bad UX. Last week, we had some issues with bad UX. I think we conquered those. This episode should be a little bit smoother. Big thanks to Timmy Tether for coming in and saving the show last week. That was huge. Thank you, Timmy. How are you doing today, Rod? What do you got going on? Oh, yeah. No, we've been

2:40Unknown we definitely want to apologize for the poor user experience on the, on your behalf, for last week's episode, but we've been working really hard and we we've been working so hard on Maxi Madness and this partnership and this promotion that, we haven't had time to interview. And also right now, it was a tense time. There's a lot of people and we're gonna get into Maxi Madness, but there's a lot of people who feel slighted. They feel like they deserved

3:07Unknown to be in Maxi Madness. They deserve to make the tournament this year, and they were left out. So it's been a tense time. We've been managing the Bitcoin podcast community and the influencers. We've been managing their, their inputs and their outrage. But we've been putting together a great tournament for you and it's 64 Bitcoin Maxi influencers. We did this last year. People loved it. The winner was Yolo. 64 influencers

3:33Unknown and you vote it's up to you. You decide which Maxi moves on to the next round. And it's just like March Madness college basketball. You go to the Sweet 16, the Elite eight to file four and then the champion. And the winner this year is going to not just have the prestige of Maxi Madness, you know, champion, which, you know, like I said, yellow is he's been he's been spending the whole year as the, defending champion. He's excited to go number one seed this year, but, there's gonna be prizes.

4:06Unknown Do you wanna talk about these prizes and, like, some of the ways that, people are gonna be able to participate this year that's gonna be a little bit more, you know, interactive

4:16Unknown than last time Yeah, it's gonna be a lot more interactive than last time I just before I go into the prizes, I I wanna address. For the individuals that are upset that they weren't included in the March Maxi Madness, the the committee did a lot of work on this. There's a lot that went into it. And if you weren't included, I I don't think it's fair to be upset with the committee. I think you need to do some self reflection, some soul searching. You have to ask yourself, why didn't the committee consider you worthy of being in the tournament and just try to double down over the next year.

4:53Unknown Really, increase your performance, increase your podcast appearances, work on your podcast, make it better, and and use it as motivation to be a better Maxie instead of getting upset at others. It's, Yeah.

5:10Unknown And and right now, it's been a few years. It's bad. Maybe not a few years. The last real good Bitcoin book that somebody published was the, the Bitcoin dollar

5:24Unknown by Mark Goodwin. And it's been it's been a while since we had one. And I think that, if you want to make it into Maxi Madness next year, start working on writing your Bitcoin book. Vlad Kostia loves Bitcoin books. He really wants to read more. He thinks of these Bitcoin books like, when you think of Bitcoin podcast forty hours per week, write your own book and if you're good enough to be on Sly Goomba's, Bitcoin brilliance podcast that he just started that covers,

5:54Unknown magnum opuses such as, the Bushido of Bitcoin. Yeah. That you can get on slide Goomba. That'll get you into PodComp or, Maxi Madness next year. Yep. As far as the prizes, so one of the things that we really wanted to

6:08Unknown incentivize this year was for individuals to fill out the brackets and to engage in the prediction process. I think it just adds a lot of value to the competition

6:22Unknown in general. It adds game theory. It adds game theory.

6:25Unknown Adds a lot of game theory. So we're gonna be partnering with CryptoCloaks and Ungovernable Misfits. We're gonna be giving the winner, whoever has the, the closest bracket to a 100% correct. Gonna be giving them a bid ax from CryptoCloaks

6:42Unknown and, a package of goodies from Ungovertible Misfits, peer to peer, mesh to do all economy. So there's a few vendors that are gonna be included. There's gonna be a orange pill candle as well as a bag or two of Otis Bittmeyer coffee

7:03Unknown and an Ungovernable Misfit sticker pack. And if you have not seen the Ungovernable Misfit sticker pack, it is it is really cool. And I've I've yet to experience Otis Bittmeyer coffee, but I've heard it's it's pretty next level. Some pretty good stuff. And we're we're supporting the decentralization of mining by promoting the bid acts with CryptoCloaks. So this is something that PodConf really cares about. PodConf really cares about the bid acts

7:31Unknown a lot, and Podkoff is sponsoring with us on this. And, you know, CryptoCloaks is an interesting vendor. Right? He he's kind of noncompliant in some ways, but in other ways, he's also compliant. So he's kinda like borderline Podkoff, I would say.

7:51Unknown More on the non Podkoff approved side of things. So that that's I feel a little bit better about supporting him other than more so than some of the other, vendors of the bid acts. But, yeah, I'm excited about what the mesh to do and then, you know, I want I want people to see it. I want people to see that you can engage in this peer to peer economy. You know, we talk about on the show all the time. The way you should be buying cigarettes

8:22Unknown is peer to peer. Should be using Bitcoin. You should be using, non custodial lightning. You should be using even potentially shitcoins like Monero to purchase your cigarettes noncompliantly and privately because there's no reason the government should have any information

8:41Unknown on your on your cigarette purchases. Like, this is the the path of being self sovereign is the path of, you know, being a good podcast listener. It's smoking. Like, I I really do think the the route that you go about buying your cigarettes

8:58Unknown really influences your cigarette smoking experience. It it influences your self worth. It influences the amount of information you can really absorb through podcasting in general. Because, like, if you're sitting there smoking

9:15Unknown a compliant cigarette, I I think it's just gonna lead you to compliant podcast. And we I I care about noncompliant podcasts. I care care about, non PodConf approved content creators in general.

9:33Unknown I have a question. Is this Bitcoin candle made with tallow, beef tallow? I don't think so. Interesting. I was just hoping I've been that's the big thing right now. I mean, if you are already smoking cigarettes, if you're already listening to forty hours per week and you're already eating, you know, an all meat diet, eat at beef tallow candles

9:55Unknown and beef tallow products, beef tallow skincare to your routine. This is this is going to raise your testosterone. It is going to make you more thermodynamically sound. So, I, you know, may I hope this candle, if it's not tallow, maybe we should get a tallow product thrown in. But, yeah, we're gonna have the brackets this year and the brackets. You're gonna be able to go in there. You just put in, you know, an email address, anonymous one for proton

10:22Unknown and, you can get access to the bracket. You fill it out, it'll be scored, it'll be transparent. It will be open, you know, open to the public, the scoring and the winner will all be there transparent for you to see. The winner gets the prize. And, yeah, you can always do some peer to peer lighting stats, with with some wagers between fellow plebs in the group chat too if you want. But,

10:47Unknown maybe next year, we'll be able to build

10:50Unknown the gambling right into it. Yeah. I'm looking forward to it. I think we can we can really build this and iterate iterate on it over time and turn it into something really cool. I wanna

11:01Unknown get to you. I wanna get to you. Why people should vote in Maxi Madness? Like, what is this? You know, we just had our we just elected the president, Donald Trump, to get the strategic Bitcoin reserve. But, so we know that was why we voted. What, why should people vote in Maxi Badness? What is this, tournament?

11:19Unknown What is it for? What does it represent? Well, I would consider it one of the most important events happening in Bitcoin, personally. I think it's it's really important to know who the general podcast listener ecosystem thinks is the best Maxi.

11:39Unknown Right. Because Podkomp isn't democratic. Podkomp doesn't doesn't have elections. Podkomp doesn't, you know, they people say who elected this person to be the spokesman of Bitcoin? Who elected this person to be the CEO of Bitcoin? Michael Saylor or, you know, whoever. Josh Mantow.

12:00Unknown But the Baxi Madness tournament gives you it's an election. It is bringing democracy to the influencer community and it's your chance to but you decide who's the spokesman for Bitcoin on podcasts, on the, in the media, in the government.

12:17Unknown Do we want David Bailey being our spokesperson in the White House? No, but we didn't get to vote on that. But, but the Maxi Mandas tournament gives us the right to vote for that, to find out who's the who's the voice of democracy in this community.

12:32Unknown Mhmm. Yeah. You know, Podkoff, they're they're pseudo spoofing us. They're they're trying to control the narrative behind the scenes. They're they're very shifty in the way they do it. Like, when you go on YouTube and you look at thumbnails from all these different Podkoff approved YouTube channels,

12:53Unknown they all have Michael Sailor on it. And so if you're an average average individual, you think that Michael Sailor is the end all be all. They don't promote memers. Like, last year, we saw I I think this is earth shattering. It's a it is in many ways, it's a it's a way to actually determine what public perception of

13:15Unknown influencers is. And we saw yellow defeat Michael Saylor, which is huge. But you don't on on the PodConf on on Simply Bitcoin, on all all these YouTube channels that are PodConf approved, you don't see my or yellow thumbnails ever. You don't see any representation of memers or or very, very little. I guess simply kind of. They don't they don't talk to yellow on CNBC.

13:40Unknown They talk to Anthony Pompliano and Mark Yusko and Kevin O'Leary, mister wonderful. They talk to shitcoiners, basically people who they use Bitcoin to get a platform and they become influencers and, but they don't really care about Bitcoin. As soon as they don't have to use the Bitcoin community anymore, they, they, they move on Like Michael Saylor, right? He talks about digital assets now and he won't say that there is no second best. He's not. Michael Saylor has not said there is no second best since Donald Trump won the election. And that's not a coincidence.

14:15Unknown When people ask, they say, why what about president Bukele from El Salvador? What about senator Launice? Definitely hot enough to be in the tournament. Why is a she in there? Why isn't Donald Trump himself, the president of The United States in there? Because they've already been democratically elected. They have been chosen by Bitcoin to lead them

14:38Unknown in the, in the public sphere. And we're focusing on the people who, who need that, need that, need that who who can take that torch. And not only that, they weren't they weren't elected

14:50Unknown entirely by Bitcoiners. You know what I mean? They were they were elected by shitcoiners. They were elected by no coiners. It

14:58Unknown is completely different. And By by foreign meme coiners? No. Mhmm.

15:04Unknown Yeah. I mean, APAC was a big part of them getting into the office. The CIA.

15:10Unknown Yeah. USAID.

15:11Unknown Swan Bitcoin and Corey Clipsta and David Bailey and Bitcoin Magazine. Yeah. I mean, this is you know, Podkoff has backed those people, and and we do have a lot of Podkoff approved influencers on there, but it's a little bit different. But, yeah, I think I think the

15:31Unknown ecosystem needs to see Joe Nakamoto lose first round and just get completely destroyed by Walker. I think these are the types of things that people need to see. Like, there's a lot of clubs out there. You know, they look at Joe Nakamoto tweets, and they like it. And they think, oh, he must be a good guy because, like, he's got Nakamoto in his name, and he likes Bitcoin. But they need to understand nobody likes Joe Nakamoto at the end of the day. Right. Like, there there's a lot of casuals. There's a lot of casuals. There's a lot of people who just kinda pass by.

16:03Unknown They don't they don't understand the intricacies of the influencer ecosystem. And this is a way to present to the casuals all these cultural nuances that really matter.

16:16Unknown Right. And when you get to like the first round in the influencer bracket, you get to a matchup right away between you know, there's two matchups that I think of in this one. There's

16:30Unknown Aubrey Strobel versus Predator, and then there's Madex versus Michelle Weakley. And you have to decide, is is Aubrey Strobel so hot that we would rather have her on the news

16:44Unknown than play like, would you really have a platter? I mean, if it comes down to who understands the protocol better, who I am, I wanna transact in the trenches with if the if if we're trying to, you know, donate to truckers in Canada and evade the FBI, I'm I'm going with predator. I'm running knots with predator. But if I'm trying to orange pill people, I'm going with Aubrey Strobel. And you have to think of it like that. And you have to look at who's gonna orange pill my friends, my community. Madex is this naked autistic, you know, guy screaming about three d printed guns? Is my family and friends, my community, my church? Are they gonna be like, I'm gonna but I'm gonna I I think this person is is right about economics and money?

17:26Unknown Or are you gonna talk to Michelle Weakley who has multiple times done business at the same table with the Communist Party of China? She knows how. She knows how to

17:40Unknown to not only orange pill your uncle, but how, you know, how to help Jason P. Lowry in the soft war against our enemies like China, Russia, and all these other bad actors. This is what's at stake here. Yeah.

17:57Unknown Well, I wanna talk about some of my predictions. I I know you haven't published yours yet, but I'd be curious, some of your thoughts, but I submitted my bracket last week. I thought so what one of the individuals I think is gonna perform really well, but, I don't

18:20Unknown this individual is gonna have a breakout year, I think he's gonna surprise a lot of people, is Fred Kruger. I know Fred Kruger's been at

18:29Unknown at the crux, a lot of controversy, but I think he's gonna This is this is where I I a 100% agree with you. This is where it gets down to in a true democratic private ballot circumstance, who do you want to help you orange pill the world? A mathematician,

18:50Unknown really a mathematician who was friends with Giovanni who invented the power law, which is, until the past few days, was the biggest, most important, you know,

19:04Unknown chart we had in Bitcoin, or, you know, who's who's Fred going up against in the first round? Is that Preston Pysh? Let me pull up my bracket. Yeah. I mean, do you want that true mathematics genius? Or do you kind of want the

19:25Unknown the macro, the guy who the macro guy in khakis who, is really excited about stable coins, helping to make the dollar stronger. You know, the guy who made meme coins a little bit as a joke versus the guy who's trying to make the dollar stronger. I know that's that's I think people are gonna make decisions on that one. Yeah. Well, Fred

19:49Unknown Fred's like great asset to the community as far as orange pilling the MPC Wall Street type folks. You know what I mean? Preston Preston's also a great asset to the Bitcoin ecosystem or or, you know, also potentially the intelligence

20:09Unknown ecosystem as well. But, yeah, I think there's some so for let me just go through my thread real quick. So first part, I thought I think Fred Krueger is gonna have a good performance. I don't I don't think he's gonna win, but I think he's gonna have a good performance. I think, Joe Nakamoto is gonna get absolutely destroyed by Walker. I mean, that that's like might as well just have given Walker a buy in my opinion because nobody likes Joe. Think David Bailey

20:42Unknown is gonna have a pretty good performance as well. He's going to get let's see. I don't go into the Suite 16 and listen to Dennis Porter. And the reason why I think Dennis is going to beat David is because Dennis cures erectile dysfunction and David doesn't. I have yet to hear of any documented cases of of David Kieran ED.

21:07Unknown And

21:08Unknown yeah. And somebody somebody wrote out and they were they were upset with us. And I won't name names because, it was a very personal request. Somebody, they really they really are into pregnant pregnant, moms and they think pregnant moms are hot.

21:26Unknown And they really wanted us to put, put some pregnant moms in the Maxey madness. But I elected we elected not to do that because it was an unfair advantage, I think. I don't think I think a pregnant mom would've won. Yeah. That's a good point. That that's part of the reason why, yeah. Is this surprising how many people were, you know it was like, you know, if we left Lyn Alden out, it would have been the same type of response. Like, how can you do that? Yeah.

21:54Unknown Now I'm I'm curious. So I think Shinobi is gonna put up a good fight against Dennis Porter in round one. I do think Dennis Porter is gonna win. You got any thoughts on that matchup? Is is Shinobi a dark horse? Is he a bracket breaker for me here?

22:11Unknown Well, that's a good question. So I think that sometimes you get a matchup in politics or in an election or in a selection where people try to make it seem like there is some competition, but it's really not there.

22:29Unknown I feel like that's Dennis Porter versus Shinobi. I think a lot of people really want Dennis Porter on the front lines, orange pilling, over Shinobi. And I think

22:39Unknown that's an easy one for Dennis Porter. I think so too. I mean, like, why would people that are being called retarded by Shinobi vote for him? You You know what I mean? It's Right. Right. Exactly. I think that was a tactical it was a major tactical mistake by Shinobi over the last couple of years to call everybody in Bitcoin retarded. It it just does not serve him well for his performance in Maxi Madness at all. No. No. That's thank you. That is a very good thing. Because

23:13Unknown when when it comes to deciding which influencer to listen to to know if you should do a soft fork or if you should support covenants or if you should support, you know, ArcLightning Layer two. You you're not gonna listen to the people who told you you were retarded every time you tried to voice your opinion

23:34Unknown the past four years. And Shinobi's done that and I think that we have to ourselves be, like, be careful about how many all the people we call retarded now because everybody's calling each other retarded these days and you're gonna have to convince them to support covenants or to support your soft work And if you call too many people retarded, they're never gonna they're never gonna come to consensus with you. Yeah. I mean, the majority of people when they

24:04Unknown get called retarded by Shinobi, they're not gonna they're not gonna soul search. They're not gonna question why they're retarded. They're just gonna say, oh, Shinobi's an asshole. I'm not voting for him in Maxi Madness. Like, that's just the the conclusion people are gonna come to. Like, if you wanted

24:21Unknown a surefire It's like Konza. It's like Konza. It's low signal. He just he's tweeted 25,000 times. And when Alden simply said, if you've tweeted 25,000 times about what you believe to be a very important subject and you only have 4,000 followers, that is an incredibly low signal. If you are calling

24:44Unknown 25,000 plebs retarded on spaces every year, it's just if at this point, you know, it's you'll call you would call Jimmy Song retarded. He's one of the most important core devs we've ever had. If you're calling Jimmy Song retarded, your your retards just don't mean anything. Yeah.

25:04Unknown Well, I think shinobi could be used pretty effectively. So, like, say there was, like, a a fork that you didn't support. Right? You you wanted more than anything for it to not pass. All you need to do is you need to get Shinobi to be an advocate for it, and he'll call everybody that doesn't support it retarded, then they'll just make them wanna support it less. And that's that's a surefire way. So maybe we could look at convince his That's why he's what? BIP 300

25:34Unknown and BIP three zero one.

25:36Unknown That's why when Dieter Bob says that shinobis compromised, that's what he means. He thinks that anytime people want to build more private, good solutions,

25:49Unknown that they send him in to advocate for it and get it shut down? Well, there's a few people I want to highlight real quick. So, I think Optimus Fields will beat Michael Saylor first round. I think a 16 seed will upset a one seed. Oh, yeah.

26:05Unknown Michael Saylor's time is, you know, his past is prime. It is time for, like, simply Bitcoin. It is time for Opti. Like, it is time for that young, non compliant, like, real post and offensive means sometimes. You need people like that. Sailors sailors on the way out.

26:25Unknown If this happens, what I could foresee happening is that Simply Bitcoin starts using Optimus thumbnails instead of Sailor thumbnails, every

26:33Unknown week. He Opti has a face for YouTube thumbnails, for sure. Totally.

26:41Unknown I think Isabella is gonna have a really good performance. I have her go into the the final four. I think Aubrey Strobel is gonna have a good performance. So one of the matchups that I have in the second round is Aubrey against Kizer. And I think the community is gonna determine that Aubrey has nicer legs than my Max Kizer.

27:03Unknown Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, I'm so excited for Aubrey and for, for Isabella this year is because the plebs who've been stacking since 2020, the plebs who've been stacking since 2017, they've been stacking this time thinking that

27:22Unknown after a couple of cycles, they're going to have a girlfriend like Aubrey Strobel and Isabella. But that's what they've been working towards. And they just, you know, they're just so fun and so upbeat. And it's just,

27:34Unknown I think they're hot, you know, The hotness factor is there. I think yeah. I mean, the orange shells are gonna vote for them. No doubt. I think the thing that would really, really mess up my bracket predictions, which I'm not expecting them to do, but if either Isabella or Aubrey post feet picks, I think that that might take them to the championship. That like, I don't think Dennis Porter can compete with Isabella feet picks. You know what I mean? I think right now we need to

28:04Unknown I don't know how to enforce it, but we need to call for a moratorium on feet picks from, you know, this point and through the tournament. Otherwise, otherwise, we can't. The poly market's gonna be skewed.

28:14Unknown Mhmm. So in the final four, I have yellow against Lynn Alden and Isabella against Dennis Porter. I think Dennis is gonna beat Isabella, and I think this year, Lynn Alden Lynn Alden has had a hell of a year. I I think she's gonna beat yellow in the final four. I think yellow is gonna have a really good performance.

28:37Unknown But I think that Lynn Alden the the the voters, they're gonna determine that Lynn Alden is hot. Like, that's what this Maxi Madness is a referendum on is the reality that Lynn Alden is hot. Now Lynn was responding to my prediction. She said she thought that something was gonna stop this train, And it I I think she's just trying She's so humble. She's so humble.

29:03Unknown Yeah. So humble. That's part of why she's hot.

29:07Unknown It is. It it really is part of the reason why she's hot. But in in my my credentialed opinion on on the subject is nothing stops this train.

29:15Unknown She's going all over the world. No. I think she's more humble than Matt O'Dell. That's my controversial opinion there. But my prediction, my upset alert is I think David Bailey is going to emerge

29:31Unknown from the, PodConf division in a stunning upset over Dennis Porter and here's why Simply, it's as simple as this David Bailey got Ross free and he got, he got the strategic Bitcoin only

29:49Unknown reserve, the strategic Bitcoin only reserve. Dennis Porter has gotten zero states bills passed and the ones that he's, you know, actually moving through these

30:02Unknown these state legislatures are digital assets, strategic reserves. And listen, I think people

30:12Unknown a few months ago were thinking Dennis Porter was gonna run away with this. But right now, David Bailey, I would say, is is over him.

30:20Unknown Well, talk talk about noise. Cynthia Lomas, just weeks ago, was saying that the states were gonna lead, and she was completely wrong. Just complete noise. But I I do wanna clarify. So Dennis hasn't he has passed legislation. He he has passed multiple bills that the right to do what

30:43Unknown you already have the right to do bills, which were huge, in my opinion. Protecting our rights to do things we already have the rights to do,

30:52Unknown which is very, very Boy, no. That's what this is beyond. That's what pisses me off. Dennis Porter has been going out there saying that he has to get the right to self custody, the right to mining, the right to this. And we just we come to find out we never needed that. We don't well, now that Donald Trump is one, we never needed all these we've donated all this money to get all to to get the government to give us permission, and we didn't even need it.

31:16Unknown He he was it's snake oil. I I don't know. I think it I think it is important. And the reason why it's important is because we don't know who's gonna win the next election. You know what I mean? It might not be a Bitcoin pleb in the White House. It might be a shitcoiner. It might be a no coiner. You know, historically, throughout the entire history of The United States, every president up until Donald Trump, this time around after David Bailey orange killed him, was a no coiner. And so there's a very serious precedence of nordcoiners running the country.

31:50Unknown But even worse, but even worse, the next one could be a Democrat. And that's where I will, I have to give Dennis credit. Dennis loves to rub shoulders with Donna Crafts. He likes Anthony Scaramucci. He likes Senator Ron Wyden. He likes, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who was, you know, that was she was in group chats with Sam Bankman Fried. Okay. Like,

32:16Unknown so at least Dennis is willing to go to that other side and and do business and it to to Orange Bill Democrats. So, you know, you got, yeah, don't, I guess, don't count that out. I still think David Bailey's got it. Yeah. I mean, we we need we need people on both sides advocating for us. So you got Dennis on the left.

32:37Unknown You've got David in Bitcoin Magazine on the right. We're hitting it from both angles. We we've got a handful of people kinda catering to the Libertarian Party, but they don't really matter. It's kinda like a social club. I I I think the Libertarian Party, like, you know, you want you wanna orange pill them because you wanna orange pill everybody, but they're they're too busy, like, podcasting about all these other topics that don't include Bitcoin. They're busy, you know, detracting from Bitcoin meetups from, you know,

33:06Unknown throwing

33:07Unknown Yeah. It's it's like, listen. Right now, we're trying to separate money from state. We can worry about age of consent laws in The Citadel's, in our own Citadel's. This is what we're but we gotta separate money from state first. But libertarians, they get sidetracked on things like, you know, can I smoke weed? Do I have to smoke Delta eight? Can my girlfriend still be in high school? Like, you just just worry about the money. Fix the money. Fix the world.

33:36Unknown Yeah. I mean, why why would you wanna listen to a podcast that's sponsored by a company selling kratom? Like, we we need to hear about which Bitcoin KYC exchange is the best. We need to hear about which hardware wallet is the best.

33:52Unknown These are the types of sponsors and topics that that we wanna be focused on. And and kratom just takes away like, if you take kratom, it's gonna make You can't listen you can't listen to Bitcoin podcasts at full speed when you listen when you're taking kratom.

34:07Unknown Kratom is detracting from forty hours per week. But you don't don't don't do that. That's and that's all libertarians were giving you. They're giving you kratom. Exactly. It feels good. It feels good. But it's not it's not making it's not helping you. It's not getting you to the point where Bitcoin has already won for your life.

34:26Unknown Yep. Like Angela McCardell had this retarded tweet this week. So she she was asking, how do you deal with neighbors that play their music really loud, without having to call the cops on them? And and the answer is simple. One, real estate is a shitcoin. Two, if you have your Bitcoin, you can move your wealth all your wealth with you on a dime. It's not that big of a deal to move. You don't have chairs. It's you don't just you don't have very much stuff. You you have your your nice headphones to listen to Bitcoin podcasts and maybe a bed. You just move. And and you you vote with your feet. You say, if you're gonna be a discourteous neighbor, then you're just gonna you're gonna move somewhere like,

35:10Unknown where there's a good meetup scene or or a good you're gonna move to Bitcoin Beach or you're gonna move to, you know, Bitcoin Jungle or or many of these Yeah. You know, different You know,

35:21Unknown and and the other thing is Bitcoiners or libertarians that get so obsessed and they don't like, you know, they don't like the s the strategic Bitcoin reserve and they don't like Donald Trump because he is doing deportations and closing the border. And they don't believe they they think that there should be open borders. But, you know, there's a reason why node runners

35:43Unknown use Bitcoin knots because boundaries matter. Spam, you've gotta keep out the spam. You gotta keep it out. And if you don't, you that's why you gotta focus on decentralization. 100%.

35:56Unknown We're we're built differently. This is like why listening to Bitcoin podcast is so important. It's because you don't Angela McArdle is in the weeds. The libertarians are in the weeds. They're they're way too focused pontificating about all of these, you know, silly social issues that don't matter. The agent consent laws are are like, why would that be a primary focus for you

36:21Unknown to care about? You So

36:25Unknown it's like, you know, it is hypocrites. They're hypocrites. They love regulatory clarity about gender, but they hate regulatory clarity about, you know, about borders and about, you know, other thing in Israel, things like that. It's like, stop being a Puritan.

36:42Unknown Well, I mean, so so libertarians are kinda stuck in this this issue of, like, they're kinda like emos. You know what I mean? They're like the political emos. Like, the emos thrive off the world being clown world and and being stupid. They don't want the world to get better because if the the world gets better, then they have to stop dyeing their, their hair black and painting their nails and doing stuff like that. So, like, the libertarians, like, they they want a podcast about why you should end the fed.

37:11Unknown That's what they wanna focus on. But the second that you actually have a viable way to end the fed, it's a it's a threat to their ability to their podcasting platform, to their their way to monetize their audience via kratom, sponsorships. It's just it's just, yeah. Libertarians are another silly bunch, in my opinion.

37:33Unknown Yeah. It it's I listen. If you need, I don't ever wanna take it's between somebody and, you know, their god if they use Monero. I'm not gonna take that's a individual right. It's like, you know, the right to get an abortion. Like I'm not making that choice for an individual, but you wouldn't need Monero. If you were buying kratom with Monero on all the libertarian podcasts, then, you know, if you were buying hardware wallets and you were taking control of your teas and your future, you would have, and you were trying to get your digital lightning node to work so you could actually have the privacy

38:09Unknown LARP about thinking you want And she and you just had to manage your UTXOs. You wouldn't have time. You wouldn't have the need for Monero just so you could buy kratom that you you've heard all libertarian. It's just, you know but

38:24Unknown I'm not your parent. Yeah. The the libertarians, I've been enjoying ignoring them. But every once in a while, they'll they'll pop up at my feed and you know? They're they're like the emos. But, yeah, before we get into the fountain boost, there was a big news story this week that I think would be good for you to recap because I haven't been paying attention as much. So it it seems like power law officially died this week, and and we have a new we have a new,

38:53Unknown prediction superhero on the scene. Yeah.

38:59Unknown If you have if you're not familiar by now, you can look it up. Josh Mandel six on, on Twitter. He is a a legendary options derivatives trader

39:12Unknown from the, like, nineteen nineties, the Salomon Brothers. So if you know anything about the nineties, there's a lot of talk on podcasts about the Salomon Brothers, so it was a big deal. And he made a prediction back in November, saying that Bitcoin would close at 84,000. Exactly. And then run the table.

39:33Unknown He would run the table and the top price would be 440,000. And he made that call in early November, and he doubled down, later, a few weeks later, when he was betting against Hodel Magoo, who was calling him, you know, a scammer. And then he, he tweeted earlier this week that, he's like, it's gonna happen. And he explained

39:55Unknown that the reason he knew this is because he bet, based on this, like this prediction, this rule set that was in a book that burned down in Building 7 Of The World Trade Center on nineeleven and the the proof was

40:14Unknown was lost forever that, they was predicted thirty years ago and it closed exactly at $84,000 on Friday as he predicted. And now people are, you know, talking about running the table.

40:29Unknown But Giovanni's power law has been shattered. The stock to flow plan B model is shattered. Like, what Josh Mandel did was make the most

40:42Unknown accurate Bitcoin price prediction

40:46Unknown pre bull market in history. Yeah. I mean, that's huge. I've been critical of Bitcoin

40:52Unknown power law in general. It's just relatively stupid. Like, you know, I've already Yeah. I've already been burned by stock to flow. I've been burned by Willy Woo. I've been, you know, burned by all this stuff before. And, I In power law, it's broken, but people say that this is the big This is the omega candle right here. Yeah. It's,

41:15Unknown I mean, that's that's something that's really important for Bitcoin cycles is, lots of price models and and price predictions, and they they all kinda come and go like shitcoins. It's, if you were gonna compare Power Law to a Shitcoin, which one do you think you would compare it to?

41:33Unknown I would have to go with either XRP or Cardano because it's it's got really hardcore followers and they're not going away

41:49Unknown and it's, this is gonna be really annoying. It's, there's gonna be like the stain on, on the bottom of our shoe and Giovanni's really whiny and complainy like Charles Hoskinson. So it kind of depends on how he plays it out, but he's not handling it well. Giovanni, I tweeted on Friday night about an hour before we was almost 84,000. I said, I knew that Giovanni power law and plan B were nervous right now because their

42:18Unknown their relevancy in the mainstream is gone. Their YouTube channel's gone. Their affiliate links gone. Their podcast invitations gone. And then it hit and Giovanni,

42:32Unknown I mean, he immediately was, he had a tweet thread prepared for that moment to try to discredit it. Like he had his whole PR team helping him write it. And Josh Mandel just replied, at ease, Giovanni, you are dismissed.

42:48Unknown And he just ratioed, and Giovanni's just blown his spews. He's he's livid. Totally. Well, I think it's

42:55Unknown a it's a good time to get into the fountain boost and, wrap up the show. I'll start with the first one. Or, actually, before we get into found boost. So one of the things that we're gonna be launching on, Orange Labels, we're gonna have a Maxi Madness T shirt for you to purchase if you'd like to commemorate this momentous and historic event. The this

43:20Unknown this event's gonna be huge. It's gonna be taught in the history books. Children that are being homeschooled in their citadels in the future, being taught on a Bitcoin standard, listen to Bitcoin podcasts. They're gonna be taught about the 2025 Maxi Madness. This is your opportunity to get out there to buy

43:42Unknown a Maxi Madness t shirt, and they're they're not gonna be around forever. This could be a limited release. We're gonna we're gonna rug pull the shirts off the the site relatively quickly after this event. I would say they're probably only gonna be available to the end of March. So this is your opportunity to get it, to be able to show up at meetups going forward in the decades prior or

44:10Unknown decades onward from today and to show that you took a part of this huge historic event. Beginning into the fountain boost, first boost, 10,000 sass from, late stage huddle says, so unfortunate that the poor future of UX caused us to miss the end of the epic episode.

44:33Unknown I hope to learn more about pegging soon. Lately, I've been practicing docking. I've been docked into my 40 HPW, docking in with my podcasters who have orange pills to give out and ready if I ever meet Sailor in person. I'm ready to dock in with him. Very cool. Hell

44:53Unknown yeah. When we when we come we're we're gonna be in Vegas for the Bitcoin conference this year. And we're gonna be hanging out with with people who listen to forty hours per week. And that's what we're gonna call kinda like our our meetup. It's gonna be where bit for Bitcoiners who listen to forty hours per week can dock. We're gonna dock together in Vegas. So if you wanna dock with us in Vegas, look for us on the intellectual Silk Road. Bay based on this,

45:22Unknown boost, I I think what we should do, we need to get some Bugle branded condoms to bring with us to ensure that people are orange peeling safely,

45:31Unknown practicing safe orange orange peel practices? Yeah. I mean, if you meet a really beautiful woman in Vegas, especially at the casinos and, you offered to give her her first lightning sats and she wants to go back to the hotel with you and because you're orange pilling her for him, you know, make sure you you orange pill safely. Hold on. My. All right. I got my phone open. The, the next one's from Open Mike. Open Mike. Like I said, he's, affiliated with what does he say it? Toonster.

46:03Unknown But that's the the the value for value music platform. But, but he gave us 7,777 sats. He said Bugle Mile High Club flies again. Zap in the Bugle UX fund from 30,000 feet. So, yeah, open mics, listen to us on the, on the plane going to a Bitcoin podcast interview. And, that's hell, yeah.

46:28Unknown Bugle Mile High Club. Love it. Very cool. Yeah. Mike is,

46:33Unknown hustling, working hard. I think it's pretty cool. I've I've I've listened to Bugle weekly on airplanes. I I think that's a great I I don't know. I mean, there's like some benefits of it, some drawbacks. Like, it it sucks to be on an airplane reminded over and over again that you can't smoke on airplanes. Like, that's that's one of the things that's Yeah. The Bugle. Yeah.

46:53Unknown But The Bugle is best listened to while smoking a cigarette for sure. Yeah. It definitely is

46:59Unknown the best while smoking. But but, you know, at the same time, like, I think it's it's important to be inspired. It's important to be reminded of what we what was taken from us, but also what we can build. And when you're on the airplane and you can't smoke, you you should feel angry about it. You know what I mean? You should feel frustrated.

47:20Unknown That's a that's a good healthy response to being cooked by the FAA, these these government agencies that just wanna rob the joy out of your life. But, yeah, Toonster Toonster is a pretty cool platform. They do live streams. It's kinda like Zap. Stream, but but geared for musicians. If you're a musician out there,

47:42Unknown I think you should check out Toonster. Stream your I I think what would be cool is just, like, for people to go on there and jam and have people zap them. Maybe play one of, the songs that either I or Rod wrote. That'd be super cool

47:59Unknown to to see that on.

48:01Unknown Yeah. That yeah. That's what you should do. If you ever wanna try out Tunestr, just steal one of our songs and whatever whoever zaps you for playing our songs, you can keep it.

48:13Unknown Mhmm. Yep. I think it's a great opportunity. And we'll I'll you know, if you shoot me a message, I'll I'll even promote it.

48:21Unknown I'll I'll even Zapier. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. Up to a limit. Up to a limit every you know, she did it. If you get a whole Bitcoin, we gotta split that $50.50.

48:31Unknown Oh, I hope you get a whole Bitcoin doing it. Pink Money three hundred Stats says the revolution will be as complicated as using Linux. Exactly. I I don't know. I I think I should probably do some tutorials on how to secure your Bitcoin on a typewriter,

48:49Unknown an air gap typewriter. That that makes Linux look like a walk in the park. But if you really wanna take your security to the next level, use a typewriter, in my opinion.

49:03Unknown Did you did you see did you skip the OD forty hours per week boost?

49:09Unknown The the way I'm seeing it on on Okay.

49:13Unknown Mine. I got it. Yeah. This is a this is a long one for 365 saps. I dreamed a dream of a of a revolution where justice was finally found, but the buttons were broken, the app kept crashing, and no one could make a sound. The code was buggy, the screens were cluttered, and the users all cried in despair.

49:34Unknown But then I remembered, there's hope in the ledger. Bitcoin is the answer we share. The revolution will not have good UX. No easy flow, no seamless text. The buttons won't work. The loading's slow, but Bitcoin's here to break the VEX. The revolution will not have good UX. A dream to dream where the world was changing, where every voice had its say,

49:57Unknown but the login failed and the menus froze, and we couldn't find our way. The icons were ugly, the fonts were confusing, and no one knew how to make it right. Then came a currency, decentralized. Bitcoin will guide us through the night. The revolution will not have good UX.

50:14Unknown No intuitive simple specs. The icons are strange. The links are dead, but Bitcoins are future with no middle man's debt. The revolution will not have good UX. That was credible. Was that, was that the lyrics to the song you wrote about bad UX, or is that Odie's own lyrics? That was Odie's own,

50:35Unknown poem or or lyrics, essentially. Yeah. I thought that was,

50:41Unknown Unfortunately, I'm bad at reading poetry, so I probably screwed up the prose or I screwed up the melody. But,

50:50Unknown there was a there was a badass cypherpunk poem. I think we need more badass cypherpunk poems for sure, to say the least. Yeah. Cypherpunk poetry. Yeah. Really. Yeah. People people just need to accept the revolution won't have good UX. It it is part of the process. If there's good UX, there it wouldn't be revolution.

51:10Unknown Right. That that is probably struggling through and suffering through the poor UX of Bitcoin is what inspires

51:19Unknown good poetry. What what I think was impressive too is I imagine that Odie wrote that on a cell phone. And it's much harder than than using a keyboard to type it all out. So it probably took, like, three or four times longer to do it with your thumbs instead of all 10 of your fingers. No. I mean, I've written stuff like that, you know,

51:42Unknown on my phone when I, you know, when I was driving through traffic, you know, drunk. That's it's not easy. So if Odie was driving drunk, you know, at rush hour, type in that Cypherpunk poem on his phone while he was listening to our Bitcoin podcast. I mean, that's fucking orange gray level right there.

52:03Unknown 100%. We got a few more. We've got, BTC on board for 200¢. Lightning, lightning, thumbs up, thumbs up. Anonymous looks like a double boost

52:17Unknown from, Pink Moni monkey. Says again, the revolution will be as complicated as using Linux.

52:24Unknown BTC Last but not least. Oh, I was just gonna go. Yeah. BTC on board hits us with all the the lightning emojis. Then Pies. Pies is the man. He said he was gonna dial down on the amount of Bitcoin podcasts he was listening to because he didn't want to have the headphones on his ears all the time. He was worried about his ears health. But listening to us read his boosts and retell his story about being orange pilled in prison

52:49Unknown warmed his heart so much that, that he's back and he's listening to his forty hours per week. So awesome to see you back. Pause, before

53:01Unknown before we go, before we get last words, I'm wondering, you know, it's cool. We're seeing a lot of new boosters, not the same old boosters. So it's cool to see some, the value. The intellectual Silk Road seems to be growing. Yes. It is. And it's really cool to see. It's really cool to be a part of that. So,

53:23Unknown keep, if you're Neo Teep engaging, buy a t shirt. Maybe we'll see you at a conference. Maybe we'll say hi. We'll find out. But, it's cool. It's cool to see the the community growing.

53:37Unknown Mhmm. One thing I do wanna mention, I was talking with Sly Goomba yesterday. Sly's working on a new podcast series, which we're kind of excited about, which is, interviewing Bitcoin authors. So we'll have to make sure,

53:52Unknown when fundamentals gets this book done that we get them on there right away. But, yeah, shout out to Goomba.

53:59Unknown So many new Bitcoin podcasts. It's awesome. It's amazing. It's amazing. I mean, with the intellectual Silk Road, we got, like, four new Bitcoin podcasts in the past. They're in 20, you know, 25 already. It's still the first quarter. So great to see.

54:15Unknown And we need more. So if you're, considering launching a Bitcoin podcast, I would say do it. Go for it. It's it's important. It's important if you if you want the price of Bitcoin to go up and you wanna do it in a way that isn't necessarily relying on podcast

54:34Unknown comp just pumping compliance, start a podcast. That's the best way to make the price go up in my opinion. It's actually it's actually this is this is a theory backed by mathematics. Because if you launch a podcast, you will at least have one to two listeners who will then be learning about Bitcoin.

54:55Unknown This is bringing more people to the ecosystem. That means more people buying Bitcoin. That means more people transacting with it. It it's your duty. It's your duty as an individual. If you if you want this revolution to really, take off, you know, wade through the bad UX of, wade through the bad UX.

55:13Unknown If if if you wanna run the table, start a Bitcoin podcast. Starting a Bitcoin podcast is how you start to run the table in your in your own personal life, in your own, you know, your own Bitcoin journey. So hyper Bitcoin podcastization, that's what I'm that's what we're trying to start here. Mhmm.

55:34Unknown Well, I think it's gonna be a big week. I'm looking forward to Maxi Madness. I think that it starts on Thursday. Right?

55:42Unknown Thursday, March 20, sometime around eight or 9AM Eastern time on Thursday. I think this is this is gonna be huge. It's gonna be Look for the pinned look for our pinned tweet and look on Noster. And you have to scroll because you can't pin anything because Noster, of course, has bad UX. And go to our Telegram channel and look at the pinned

56:06Unknown post there. And that will be the link to the predict thick bracket. You can fill out your bracket and get, you know, be eligible to win a bid ax and some cypherpunk

56:21Unknown gift baskets from the Ungovernable Misfits. Well, thank you everybody for tuning in to this episode, and we'll catch you next week.

56:30Rod Palmer In the morning, I get out of bed, try not to be crippled by a feeling of dread. I sip my coffee and put on my pants. Gotta grind for the damn tax man. Had not been out of jail but for three days. Bailed out after I punched a cop

56:53Rod Palmer in a drunken haze. He punched right back, and I got a black eye. My wife told me if I don't change, I'll probably

57:09Rod Palmer die. Soon the bull market will come. We'll drink and be merry, actually have fun. Then when fiat money is finally dead, we'll settle our citadels, the podcaster said. I'm going to work

57:30Rod Palmer and everyone stares. They think I'm a loser, a hoot doesn't care. I sit down at my desk, headphones on ears, block out the shit from from my n p c peers. The boss comes over and waves her hand to say at the least she's not a big fan. She doesn't appreciate

57:50Rod Palmer all my memes and seems to wanna crush all my ambitious dreams. Soon the bull market will come. We'll drink and be merry, actually have fun. Then when fiat money is finally dead,

58:09Rod Palmer we'll settle our citadels, the podcaster said. She tells me to pack all my shit. She yells at me. I can feel her spit. Turns out the cop was her dad. Honestly, I'm kinda glad.

58:29Rod Palmer I pack up all my shit and give her a wink. She screams that I need to see a shrink. I chuckle as I walk out the door. She doesn't own Bitcoin and we'll have fun staying poor. Soon the bull market will come. We'll turn on the engine, and light a cigar.

59:10Rod Palmer Well, this has been a few shitty days. At least I can go on Twitter and call Sailor

59:21Richard Greaser Gay.