0:02Richard Greaser What's going on? This is Rod Balmer. I prepared a brief statement for Bugle listeners today. Before I begin,

0:16Richard Greaser a few acknowledgements. First, I believe Bitcoin is money. Alright? Okay. We all do, retard. We are trolling you

0:29Richard Greaser when we say that Bitcoin is anything other than money. Alright. We're for obviously, we're trolling you. We know that you know that. What does Ray bond in HGX that got the blueberries hashtag? We know.

0:47Richard Greaser We know. If you don't know that we're trolling you and we realize it, we're gonna lose all respect to you. We're just bullying you because it's fun and because it's easy. Second, I believe spam is bad for Bitcoin.

1:07Richard Greaser Again, same situation as I just mentioned. If you don't get it, we don't have time to explain it. We're just going to treat you the way that you have demonstrated you deserve to be treated, like plead cannon fodder.

1:24Richard Greaser And third, I believe the people wildly championing Bitcoin knots often make valid important points

1:36Richard Greaser about resilience, attack surfaces, and the long term viability of Bitcoin. Those arguments matter. The future of Bitcoin against motivated

1:48Richard Greaser self interested actors is not a joke. And I'll be the first to admit Bitcoin Core has a culture problem. It has a growing legitimacy problem.

2:02Richard Greaser The development process has flaws. The funding process has flaws. The incentives of some key core contributors

2:12Richard Greaser are, at the very least, suspect. And if CORE ever expects users to give it the benefit of the doubt again, changes are necessary. I also want to acknowledge

2:26Richard Greaser friends, colleagues, feds, and fellow podcasters on both sides of this node client debate. I count many Corvinists

2:38Richard Greaser and many Nazis as allies, peers, and partners in this weird ecosystem. Hell,

2:47Richard Greaser I'll even smoke a cigarette with a low level fed if he has the decency to take off his badge when he comes to the smoke pit. Also, I'm not being paid by any actor with a stake in core or not. Aside from the tiny public boosts fuel gets on Fountain, which we even read them in each episode for transparency

3:11Richard Greaser for non Fountain users. And also those boosts are laughably small and wouldn't buy anyone, you know, a coffee, much less my fucking opinion. But let's be clear. Can we? Can we be adults? Can we cut the larp, okay?

3:31Richard Greaser Many Nazi influencers are bad actors. Not all of them, but many. There are countless plebs and everyday Bitcoiners who are caught up in this because they're worried and some are genuinely scared. They are scared for Bitcoin.

3:53Richard Greaser They are scared for the security of their savings. They're scared of how the government, the state might react to policies pushed by woke core developers, and they are woke, some of them. And they don't listen to Bitcoin podcasts,

4:10Richard Greaser clearly. Obadeth fear is real because the trust has been shredded across society. People don't trust neighbors, coworkers, or even their own family members.

4:26Richard Greaser Republicans don't even trust Israel anymore. Think about that for a second. Republicans, they don't even trust Israel anymore. Don't take that for granted. It's not just a joke. This has serious ramifications.

4:42Richard Greaser They don't trust the institutions that used to be the scaffolding of civil life. Credentials are the glue because we live in a low trust society and there's no going back. Shout out to Satoshi. Great foresight, by the way. You know, don't trust, verify used to be a meme on Twitter and a catchphrase on podcast, still is. For a lot of people, it was rhetorical candy,

5:08Richard Greaser cute, performative, harmless. Well, it's not optional anymore. We cannot blindly trust anyone, not even cordettes. Bitcoin Core is not an exclusive

5:22Richard Greaser cabal of C plus plus coders. Bitcoin Core is not Shinobi. It's not Gloria. It's not Greg Maxwell. It's not Peter Weil. It's not Adam Back or Luke Junior standing alone at that altar. Bitcoin Core is an institution

5:39Richard Greaser like the education system, like the health care system, like the criminal justice system. It is a story. A mental model people use to reach consensus. It's a process for resolving autistic pedantic, technical

5:57Richard Greaser conflicts. And like many institutions and institutions in terminal decline, EquineCore is taking a legitimacy hit as the bigger quote unquote vibe shift plays out. You know it, we're in the, what do you fourth turning, whatever you wanna call it.

6:18Richard Greaser At the end of the day, the story the end of the story has not been written. It is uncertain and uncertainty makes people fearful, and fear is a fertile ground. And the bad actors, mostly on the not side, are harvesting that fear like it's crop season. And it Listen, those who have built their reputations

6:42Richard Greaser inside Bitcoin Core's institutional framework will fight tooth and nail to defend it. That is predictable, I get it. But the hallmark of a frightened Nazi pleb is this: fear of the state.

6:59Richard Greaser They believe a clinker can no longer shield them, can no longer be trusted to shepherd this project for them. So they are in search of a new priesthood to protect them.

7:15Richard Greaser Here's the rub. Many Nazi influencers would rather pick fights with Bitcoiners than with the state because it's a hell of a lot easier. They'd rather cash in on your fear than confront the real threat. They want you scared because they're selling solutions.

7:35Richard Greaser They're selling node hardware, mining software, premium newsletters, all kinds of content. And if they're not taking your money directly, they're still selling your attention. Attention is a currency. It costs your time, your sats, and your anxiety.

7:55Richard Greaser Bad actors are actively stoking that fear to gain influence over your mind and your ability to afford your taxes. Hey retard. You don't have to be afraid. You don't have to be dragged into their histrionics, but you do have to take

8:15Richard Greaser personal responsibility. If you want protection, if you want the government to protect you, great. Keep using fiat. Use stable coins. Wait for the CBDC. Wait for Tether to roll out. Let them tuck you in. Bitcoin is about separating money from the state, not about running status approved nodes subscribing to their pedophile apparatus.

8:42Richard Greaser Now you might be wondering, why should you listen to a pseudo anonymous podcaster who jokes about smoking cigarettes for breakfast? The short answer is you shouldn't. You should listen to anyone who tells you what node to run. Don't take Luke,

8:59Richard Greaser Shinobi mechanic, Doctor Adam back, or any influencer at face value when they issue edicts. Inc or yourself. If you think for yourself, shinobi calling you a retard stops having power. NVK

9:20Richard Greaser saying your no doesn't matter, doesn't matter. Matthew Crater's fear campaign looks correctly like a staged performance

9:32Richard Greaser because that's exactly what it is. And a word of practical advice, be extremely skeptical of anyone who encourages you to publicly identify as a node runner.

9:47Richard Greaser If you think child porn on your node is gonna cost you peace of mind or attract government attention, do not dodge yourself and become an easy target. Be skeptical of anyone who demands that you choose sides. When people force you into public affiliation, ask who benefits?

10:07Richard Greaser If someone's turning your fear into a product or a crusade, their interest probably don't align with yours. The battle for Bitcoin is real and it is important. But it is not decided by whether you run core version 30 or not. It is decided by the individual. You don't have to trust core. You don't have to trust Loop dude Loop Junior.

10:35Richard Greaser You don't have to relay spam. Run whatever node client serves you best. If you can keep the old compelled to justify your node choice to strangers on the Internet you've already lost the plot. That's not what all of this is a dirty duke. The point of this whole thing is not for you to run the node that somebody on Twitter tells you to. And I'm done debating this shit.

11:01Richard Greaser I am done getting framed or farmed for engagement. I am done wasting precious time that could be spent listening to Bitcoin podcasts. And this is by my final statement on the note debate. If you catch me engaging again, I want you to call me out. Publicly shame me for breaking my pledge to disengage. Hold me accountable because I will appreciate it. The too long don't read of all of this?

11:30Richard Greaser Stop scaring the plebs to sell merch and raise money from Jack Dorsey. Just stop. Stop all this bullshit. It's annoying. It sucks. You're pissing me off. And you're scaring the plugs. End of statement.

11:45Richard Greaser It's over. I'm done. Thank you.

11:48Rod Palmer So you went on Plug Chain Radio and decided to do a a sermon. Is that what happened here?

11:56Richard Greaser Yeah. Exactly. I, I went on Plug Chain Radio and part of the thing I appreciate about Plug Chain Radio is the sermons. But, Bobby was not there. He couldn't find his house or something like that. So we didn't get a good sermon.

12:14Richard Greaser So I wrote my own.

12:16Rod Palmer Well, I enjoyed it. Yeah. There there there is this problem with, you can't really do a whole lot of thinking when you're afraid. Right.

12:24Richard Greaser It is a very high time preference activity

12:28Rod Palmer to be afraid. Fear's fear's an important emotion. It it's an emotion that allows you to identify threats. But I think fear also is weaponized. It's something they taught us in journalism schools, how to use fear to forward and promote whatever the CIA's agenda is. The CIA is really good at fear. Intelligence agencies are really good at it. Trained journalists are really good at it. They're good at they're good at making the plabs, the uninitiated,

12:58Rod Palmer the unintelligent, afraid, turn their brains off, and then react in a certain way. It happens over and over and over again. You're afraid of the Muslims, so you're gonna support the invasion of Iraq.

13:14Rod Palmer You're afraid of whichever group, so you're gonna you're afraid of drug traffickers, so you're gonna support the feds bombing, Venezuela. You're afraid of the truth, so you're gonna let the Pentagon throw journalists in jail for reporting on the news. You're afraid

13:35Rod Palmer of losing your nice things. So you're gonna let the pedophiles continue to run society.

13:44Richard Greaser Exactly. You have to ask yourself every time the government tells you what you should be afraid of, every time the government tells you that you should be more afraid of Jimmy Kimmel

13:58Richard Greaser or you should be more afraid of Venezuelan fishing boats than the fact that the government is full of criminal pedophiles who are all enabling each other and have full control and power and authority over your life.

14:17Richard Greaser If you think that that's less scary than Jimmy Kimmel, you it sounds silly on its face. Right? But unless they've got something scarier than what Epstein represents, it's it's a Siam. Absolutely.

14:36Richard Greaser And claps are very susceptible to Siams. I think that's important. I think we all know that. So it's not it is not nice to bully plebs. ARPNN for their it sucks enough to be a pleb.

14:53Richard Greaser It's scary out there. And you don't know what to do. And scaring them on purpose to sell them hardware wallets and nodes and all these things, it's just not very nice is all I'm gonna say. You should be helping the plebs whenever you you'll have to spend you don't have to spend all your time explaining

15:15Richard Greaser every little corner of Bitcoin, C plus plus to a pleb like Chris Guida just because he he asked too many questions. You don't have to spend all your time helping the plebs, but if you have the opportunity to scare them or to comfort them and it costs you the same amount of energy, it's just not nice to scare them and sometimes people just they use scaring the plebs to their benefit, and it's just it's a bad act. That's what I mean by bad actor. I think we're all tired of talking. I'm not gonna make the commitment not to talk about it anymore,

15:51Rod Palmer but I'm just not that interested in talking it. So I I appreciate, your desire to not get roped into it anymore. I've I've been focusing on things that matter more to me, personally. I've been having a good time. I've been enjoying life while while while people are walking around. They're they're afraid. I'm confused by it because I think, in a lot of ways, it's it's good time because

16:17Rod Palmer I think I've said this over and over again. It's just I think one of the issues a lot of people are experiencing and what they've done is they spent a lot of time listening to kind of the the doomer narratives on Bitcoin podcast, and they

16:36Rod Palmer didn't take action because the the fear put them in a freeze situation. They didn't adjust their behaviors. They didn't adjust their relationships. They didn't adjust their strategies for the first fourth turning. So instead of doing the things that they needed to be able to prepare for it, they, just were stuck.

17:00Rod Palmer And they're smoking weed. They were angry at David Bailey. They were doing whatever that wasn't productive. And I I think that's a that's a dangerous spot. I I haven't experienced that. I've been prepared

17:18Rod Palmer parent. And Yeah. I encourage you guys. If if you're if you were like that, if you were just you've been so terrified, you haven't been able to prepare, There there are some behaviors that need to change. Maybe you need to log off of social media, and you need to read Atlas Shrugged. And you need to, be a grown up, and you need to, go buy a suit at a store and turn in your gym shorts.

17:46Rod Palmer At least some of them. Yeah.

17:48Richard Greaser There's, I think there's also, I think where I'm coming from is a sense of feeling guilt. I feel guilty because I took the time to to send the foreturning

18:05Richard Greaser card cover to a 100 different friends and family members. I I sent them countless, Bitcoin podcasts, articles,

18:18Richard Greaser tweets, Bitcoin magazine articles, books to tell the and told them like the fourth turning is coming, Hyper Bitcoinization is coming. It's a gradually then suddenly situation. You can't trust. You have to bear I've been warning them, and

18:36Richard Greaser so many people just didn't take the advice. They didn't listen to forty hours of Bitcoin podcast per week like I did, and I feel a sense of guilt that, they're not ready and, you know, I perfectly positioned myself for this fourth turning. But you have to assuage yourself of that guilt I think, because no matter how hard you tried to warrant to bill them, ultimately, they had to make that decision for themselves. And just like you didn't

19:06Richard Greaser find Bitcoin as early as you could have, you know, the best time to start listening to Bitcoin podcast for forty hours per week was 20, you know, fifteen years ago when Bitcoin came out. But the second best time is today. And so as people realize, you know, that they were prepared, at least there is a lifeboat. Yeah.

19:29Rod Palmer Well, last week was a pretty interesting week. I wasn't online as much as, I could have been. I was busy, Bitcoin podcasting with Odell. I was busy talking to people like Michael Goldstein and Doctor. Adam Back.

19:46Richard Greaser What was it like to be in the presence of such experienced podcasters? Because even if the cameras aren't recording, you know, it's still a very similar atmosphere to a Bitcoin podcast. Is that how you felt?

20:02Rod Palmer It was definitely a Bitcoin podcast in person. I I was afraid to talk to doctor Anabag because I think I I thought I was gonna fall asleep. I thought I was gonna walk up, and I was just gonna fall asleep. And, what actually happened, I think having Michael Gold Michael Goldstein, he's kinda like walking cocaine.

20:22Rod Palmer His brain is just firing on all cylinders. He he's all excited. He's high energy. He's talking quickly. The stuff he's saying is so profound. So when back starts talking about relay policy, you know, Goldstein

20:41Rod Palmer really brings brings things back into being interesting and talks about different topics. But, yeah, one of the things that Michael Goldstein was talking about, which I thought was really fascinating, was this idea. It was called the Nirvana effect.

21:02Rod Palmer And the way that he described the Nirvana effect is, people getting frustrated and grumpy because things aren't perfect, which I think a lot of this is something that has happened over and over in Bitcoin. I think Roger Ver is an early example of this, where he got Bitcoin derangement syndrome because it wasn't the perfect thing that he wanted. Right. And other people failed his purity test. The users of the network failed his purity test. So he had to fork off.

21:37Richard Greaser Same with Vlad, Costia. You just got Bitcoin derangement syndrome because it wasn't it didn't meet his purity test for how privacy should work or how, you know, whatever it should work. And there's a lot of people that tend to do this. And I think we were discussing the Nirvana

21:58Richard Greaser effect earlier, and we looked up the definition on urban dictionary, and it talked about the definition being, like, talking about something too much. It's like being too close to the signal can kinda, like, make you lose perspective. They say, like, you fail to see the forest through the trees. And we're talking, you're too close to the conversation.

22:24Richard Greaser You tend to realize how imperfect or, you know, the story is not as optimistic as you thought or there's more problems than you realized there would be. And it starts to make you get Bitcoin derangements and or more get frustrated or grumpy.

22:44Richard Greaser Is that kinda like is that kinda mesh with what, you were thinking there?

22:49Rod Palmer Yeah. I think it's good to I was experiencing this on Noster, so I posted a controversial Noster post. I don't know what to call it. When you do a post on Twitter, you call it tweets. On Noster, I guess you call it post, but I think there needs to be a better

23:09Richard Greaser Notes. Notes. Notes. They call it notes.

23:13Rod Palmer So I was noting when I did my Noster post, I was noting. I don't like the sound of that. There needs to be a better term than noting. Notice, you should be noticing, not noting. I guess noticing is what you would be doing if you're reading Noster post, right? I don't know. We we gotta we gotta workshop this a little bit. We'll,

23:39Rod Palmer we'll put something up in the the bugle newsroom and and maybe do a bounty. This would be a good use for a lightning bounty right here. Come up with, the terminology of what it means to to post on Nostr. But, anyways, I posted a controversial post on Nostr saying that the memes need to get better. Because I was scrolling the Nostr timeline, and I couldn't believe how bad and cringy the memes are.

24:05Rod Palmer And there's this constant issue. You go to the party and you're talking to a guy, and the guy likes to listen to himself talk and doesn't know how much everybody else hates him hates hearing him talk. There's a lot of that going on in this ecosystem.

24:26Rod Palmer Absolutely. I think what's really important for people to understand right now, there there's been people that have been around for a while, and they've gotten tied to this identity of fighting the culture, fighting the system of being the underdogs.

24:48Rod Palmer And so, you know, I was talking with some people as again, Michael Goldstein. I I gotta say that guy, I I'm genuinely impressed by him. It's very rare that I get super excited and impressed about somebody in Bitcoin, but that guy

25:05Richard Greaser Well, I think, I think it's good to remember his personality of the unit. It seems like he's always doing coke, just excited and talking fast. And that's how you sound to your friends and family members when you're talking about Bitcoin, which especially when you first get orange billed,

25:24Richard Greaser you seem like you're on a stimulant and you're just talking so fast and you're so excited and so optimistic. And they notice that. And it's important to hone your ability to communicate your optimism. And Goldstein does a great job of that. He continues to be excited and optimistic about things including Bitcoin,

25:44Richard Greaser in a coherent way. And I think it's very when you when you're around somebody who does that, it is contagious and it is exciting and it does it is, you know, it spreads your optimism. So try to be that presence instead of just rambling, you know, somebody at a party who's actually on cocaine, and is rambling about incoherent business ideas.

26:07Rod Palmer Well, I mean, he was wearing a suit and Doctor. Back wasn't. So it's easy to One thing that I've learned working in the media is never underestimated you, first and foremost. But

26:24Rod Palmer also never underestimate a guy in a suit. A Jew in a suit, you gotta take him seriously. And then when they're, a prolific Bitcoin podcaster, True truly a pioneer in a lot of ways. So this is very, very impressive pioneer. I'm very impressed by this. You know, I've been impressed by him for a while following his work for a while, but, you know, having the first interaction in person was very important. And this is but this for me is the key takeaway

26:54Richard Greaser is suit coiners are like Jews. You don't have to like them, but never underestimate them. Mhmm.

27:04Rod Palmer Yeah. But we were we were talking about the libertarians, and we're shitting on the libertarians. And the libertarians largely have failed to understand the importance of Bitcoin. And part of the reason is because Bitcoin is

27:21Rod Palmer a technology that could allow them to win for the first time ever. And they've tied their identities to losing over and over and over again. They just want

27:37Rod Palmer to, issue purity tasks and sit on the sidelines and lose. That's where their identities are. They just And I think a lot of the Bitcoin ecosystem is like that too, where they've tied their identities to being

27:55Rod Palmer the outcast. They don't understand that Bitcoin is one, that it is a culturally relevant topic that, in many ways, is going main stream. The the MPCs, the plabs are are starting to come in. They're starting to get interested in it. They have their retarded opinions. They're gonna have their retarded opinions. You can't change

28:21Rod Palmer retards. They're gonna be retarded. But things are changing pretty dramatically,

28:31Rod Palmer and it's time to to grow up. Like, if if what I would suggest for I I wanna suggest people to liquidate their Bitcoin positions like that ocean guy, Jason, or whatever his name was. But if you want to be a loser and that's where you want your identity to be,

28:50Rod Palmer go hang out with the libertarians, because the Bitcoin ecosystem is not full of a bunch of losers anymore. It's full of a bunch of winners, it's full of a bunch of pioneers, it's full of a bunch of people that have radically changed the world. And I think it's really important to have at least an ounce of self respect when you look at yourself and you've interacted in this community to know that you're actually kind of cool

29:15Rod Palmer and kind of the shit for having being a part of this, that the Bitcoin podcasters, like, there's something that has bothered me a lot is, you know, Bitcoiners is, like, groveled at Joe Rogan's feet. Like, have a Bitcoiner on, have a Bitcoiner on. Fuck Joe Rogan.

29:37Rod Palmer Where we're going, Joe Rogan's gonna be begging to come on our podcast.

29:42Richard Greaser Yeah.

29:43Rod Palmer But we don't need to we don't we don't need to give a shit about this bald old man who is a horrible comedian and is very unintelligent. If he if he the dude has never listened to a Bitcoin podcast. Why the fuck would you give a shit about a guy's platform or opinion that has never listened to a Bitcoin podcast? Sure. He's got

30:06Rod Palmer a lot of subscribers. He's done a lot of cool things, but you don't have to give a shit about it. I mean, it's it's there's something culturally relevant here, and I think it's important for individuals to have higher standards for themselves.

30:23Richard Greaser Well, screw you, Rogan. It the question is, do you want to pass Ron Paul's purity test? Or do you want to win? Because, I mean,

30:38Richard Greaser you talked about, like, libertarians are addicted to losing. They're addicted to they know they have nothing to to offer. They would they just wanna feel morally superior because they pass enough purity tests.

30:54Richard Greaser But we've already discussed time and time again on this show that the effort of trying to pass all the purity test is a losing effort. We are all, purity test failures, and we're born that way. So do you wanna win or do you wanna pass purity test? Because you can't do both. And just because an unfunny podcaster,

31:19Richard Greaser unfunny comedian gets fired from the tonight show, that doesn't mean you have to halt your efforts to try to pass a purity test. You don't and don't let people use purity tests to try to dissuade you from building if you're proud of what you're doing and you want to win and you're and you're playing to win. Don't let somebody who doesn't listen to forty hours of podcast Bitcoin podcasts

31:46Richard Greaser per week and who hasn't been listening to forty hours of Bitcoin podcasts per week, tell you that you can't do what you're doing or that you

32:01Richard Greaser shouldn't you shouldn't have a chance to win, based on, you know, some purity test you fail.

32:08Rod Palmer Their opinion doesn't matter. I think it's time for self respect. That's what the suit is. The suit is a sign of self respect. There's a lot of people that are really resistant to the suit. There was a time in American history where where men almost universally wore suits. There was a time in American history where men looked at themselves in the mirror and they had self respect. There was a time when women had self respect. And I think we need to

32:36Rod Palmer that that's what I wanna go back to. That's what I want to experience in my life. And it is what I experienced in my life, is I have self respect. That's why I do the things that I do. That's why I'm a Bitcoin podcaster. That's why I don't waste my time getting sucked into stupid arguments

32:59Rod Palmer constantly about nonsense. That's why I don't live in fear being terrorized by these very silly ideas. And I actually, you know, slow down and ask questions because I have fucking self respect.

33:15Rod Palmer Guys, you're not a plumb anymore. If you're if you are a plumb and you're stuck trying to hold on to this, you're gonna have a bad time. You're not gonna do well. You want to hold on to the you wanna listen to Plebslop,

33:33Rod Palmer the Plebslop podcast? You wanna listen to macro gibberish that confirms that you're right, but it doesn't make sense. That's what you want to do with your time.

33:45Richard Greaser Yeah. The you talk about there was a time where everybody wore suits and we got away from that. If you look at the correlation, it started around 1971, with technology, computers,

33:59Richard Greaser the acceleration that we think of today coming with AI were really began in the technology information age. And people were so, you know, computer programmers, tech guys, they were so smart and they were like so ahead of the time, ahead of the curve that they didn't have to wear seats to work anymore. They were so rare that they were so early and so technically proficient and had so much foresight that they could look like, you know, they could wear a t shirt and sweatpants to work and they could, they didn't have to comb their hair or wear deodorant.

34:33Richard Greaser And there was a pond like that where it was enough to have a, you know, look like a sloppy wizard in cargo shorts with a Bitcoin t shirt on because you were so early to Bitcoin that you didn't have to wear a suit. You didn't even have that self respect. You just, people still had to respect you.

34:53Richard Greaser We're not in that point anymore with Bitcoin. We're not that early. So wearing a suit is now. It's like, okay, you own Bitcoin. Well, great. Congratulations. Everybody owns Bitcoin at this point. But do you actually have self respect? Do you not have the skill and the talent to run your own node and manage your own self custody?

35:15Richard Greaser But do you still have the self respect of that a Bitcoiner should at least exude that self pride that you, listen to podcast? Well, that's that's how you represent that with a suit. I don't take self custody, but I'm still

35:33Richard Greaser I still have self respect. Oh, yeah. Well,

35:37Rod Palmer there's a lot of stuff going on in the world this week. So one of one of the things I'm really wondering, I I mentioned it to Odell. I asked him on the interview was, what do YouTube thumbnails look like in in peak clown world? I think this is an interesting idea to speculate

35:55Richard Greaser on. You have to wear you have to wear clown makeup to succeed in clown world. Is that the question? Does Marty Bent have to wear clown makeup to succeed as a podcaster in this clown world?

36:12Rod Palmer I think it's something that we have to track. I mean, I I do think that is reasonable. Maybe that's where you know, I was speculating that these guys start turning themselves into AI women in bikinis, thong bikinis, but maybe it is that they get to the point where they

36:34Richard Greaser have to wear clown makeup in their YouTube channel. Maybe the choice is we either put on a suit or you post open mouth thumbnails, because those are the only two ways to identify on YouTube that are, you know, on the timeline anymore. I would like to ask, the Simply Bitcoin guys what they think. Not everybody who wears clown making, what do they say? What's the old, it's a cliche

37:00Richard Greaser about clowns is that they're usually sad, a sad clown and I think if you think of it through that lens it's

37:11Richard Greaser especially if you know, right? There's a lot of people who post open mouth thumbnails who are not proud to open map thumbnails. They are, you know, their response is like a man's gotta eat, gotta make money, gotta compete on the timeline and the algorithm.

37:28Richard Greaser And that's how it works, you know, open mouth thumbnails and but they're not happy about it. And a lot of those open mouth thumbnails, if you really think of them as a big frown,

37:38Rod Palmer they're sad. It's something that we have to track for sure. Folks, if you put your face on the Internet, it might be used for an open mouth thumbnail whether you have your mouth open or not because you can edit it with AI now.

37:53Richard Greaser Fun fact. Well, what do you You know, it's like Scottie Pippen, somebody could take your whole your whole brand, your whole persona, your whole platform, and turned it into an open mouth thumbnail platform on their own, you know, account and be more popular than you. They could take over. They could just turn you into a clown and control your entire reputation. Some people make it easy to do that like David Dennis Porter. Excuse me.

38:20Richard Greaser He doesn't mind being a clown.

38:23Rod Palmer So I think it was the week prior, Jimmy Kimmel got fired. No. It was it was, like, five days ago, four days ago. Okay. So it was this last week. So so there was a fake attack on journalism, and there was a real attack on journalism that happened this week.

38:42Rod Palmer And people got upset about the fake attack, and they don't seem too particularly upset about the real attack, which is not surprising. You shouldn't be surprised here. But, the the fake attack was Jimmy Kimmel getting fired, for cause. You know, when somebody sucks, when an employee sucks and they are paid enough money to afford expensive Jewish lawyers, it's it's tricky to fire them. Right?

39:14Rod Palmer It can be tricky to fire them because the expensive Jewish lawyers might sue the organization. So what they did is they you know, Jimmy Kimmel has been saying absolutely retarded shit for years. Nothing new there. Saying off color, stupid nonsense. But they they got him for one. He said something about Charlie Kirk and, you know, got canceled for it. And they whipped up a mob of angry clubs.

39:42Rod Palmer And, they use that as an excuse to fire him because his ratings sucked. He just People weren't excited to listen to his nonsensical liberal plebslaw. But the real attack on journalism, folks, is that the Pentagon is,

40:03Rod Palmer threatening journalists reporting on the things that they're doing right now. Pentagon saying that journalists can't report on stuff that they're doing for national security risks. Once we've seen this before,

40:17Richard Greaser this is we've talked about this over and over. You have Podcom approved podcasts and non Podcom approved podcast. Just change a few letters.

40:30Richard Greaser One word. If Pentagon approved podcasts and non Pentagon approved podcasts. That's the new future, right? That's what they're trying to set up. Which podcast is Pentagon approved? Well, it might not be

40:45Richard Greaser as obvious as, the podcast with a big stamp and a label on it, but, it'll have the same, it'll have the same feeling. You know,

40:58Richard Greaser the Pentagon podcast, the journalists who satisfy the Pentagon's security tests, they'll just blatantly not state obvious things even though they're obvious. Like, Lynn Alden is hot.

41:13Richard Greaser A PodConf approved podcast won't say it. Nobody knows why. There's been no official documentation on whether or not it's allowed to acknowledge that Lynn Alden is hot on this podcast. But

41:29Richard Greaser it just, you know, it just won't be discussed. And I have a feeling that's going to be how this works. Some journalists will be able to say obvious things that seem completely unoffensive unless

41:44Richard Greaser for some reason everybody else won't say it.

41:48Rod Palmer Yeah. So this reporter at Bloomberg put this article out that disclosed TV is circulated. It says the Pentagon limits journalists access to military information. The guy who wrote the article, he's got some stupid Polish name with a bunch of Cs and Zs in it, Tony Zukse. So apparently,

42:13Rod Palmer the Pentagon is requesting or threatening journalists saying that they can only report on preapproved information, so even if it's declassified. So they're saying journalists cannot report on even declassified has that has committed countless war crimes, invaded countries

42:46Rod Palmer based on lies that the New York Times and other organizations have propagated, is now telling journalists that they cannot report on things that are declassified and they have to go off of a pre approved list. I mean, they're really taking that PodConf approach. And people are upset about Jimmy Kimmel getting fired right now.

43:12Richard Greaser Folks, this is what they are saying with this policy, and this is what it boils down to. If you're a journalist, you can't repeat

43:24Richard Greaser the things you hear on podcasts. They don't want journalists to report what they hear, talked about, discussed, or information that is broken by podcast. It has to go through the Pentagon's filter first. If the Pentagon doesn't approve what you hear, what the journalist hears on a podcast,

43:45Richard Greaser it can't report on it. You can't, it can't be written about. It's why you have to listen to Bitcoin podcasts because the journalist will no longer be allowed to cover what they hear on a podcast

44:01Richard Greaser until it's approved by the Pentagon. So you have to listen to podcasts yourself. You cannot trust honestly, this makes it so you cannot even trust anybody to tell you what they heard on a podcast because by doing so, they could be late. I mean, they could call you a journalist.

44:20Rod Palmer I would argue that podcasters are journalists in a lot of ways. Some better than others, some uncredentialed, some noncredentialed. Joe Nakamoto doesn't have his credentials, obviously. But, yeah, these are the danger this is a problem with purity tests. A lot of times is, the peer people get emotional about purity tests, and they'll get more emotional over, you know, very silly purity tests like,

44:47Rod Palmer you know, whatever David Bailey is working on, whatever sort of financial nonsense he's doing. They'll be mad at David, and they'll they'll miss the entire point of what's going on. They don't have enough emotional energy left to even think about something like this. They'll rate a plotter tweet, they'll start spiraling into circles. They'll be so upset.

45:10Rod Palmer I can't believe that this person did this. And then, like, we're we're at the precipice of something dangerous right now on a lot of different fronts. So, you know, people got excited about Trump. He said, play with your Bitcoins at the Bitcoin conference. He said, no new wars. Now he's threatening Afghanistan. He wants to go back into Afghanistan.

45:33Rod Palmer He's talking about invading Venezuela. Things are he he promised to end the Ukraine war. That seems to only be escalating. Who knows what's going on over there? And people are mad about shit coins and Taproot Wizards.

45:52Rod Palmer Fees are at all time lows. Blocks are near empty. Mining pools are going to subset, one set, a vByte transaction fees. Where are people's priorities right now? Holy fucking shit. Like, they're more willing to get upset

46:11Rod Palmer about shitcoins than a potential global war escalating their either their kids or or them, if they're young enough, getting drafted to go get slaughtered by drones,

46:30Rod Palmer suicide drones. The Epstein client list running rampant. A guy that should be running a seven Eleven, running the FBI, telling a Christian man that he'd see him in Valhalla, saying that Epstein didn't kill himself after going on podcast and saying that he did. There's

46:52Rod Palmer some things to be frustrated about and angry about right now, And instead of I guess I was talking about this recently on my music show, is just people's compasses

47:12Rod Palmer are mal calibrated. Their sense of direction is completely upside down right now. The institution of journalism is it's important. This is why podcasting is important, because much of the institution of journalism has been co opted, we know this.

47:33Rod Palmer We know that a lot of journalists have zero self respect. This is why the bugle's important, because we have self respect. Many journalists have very little self respect. You look at Pete Rizzo right now, you know that he doesn't have any self respect. You look at his clickbait tweets

47:53Rod Palmer that he puts out. He doesn't have any respect for his readers, too. I think this is part of the clickbait stuff. If you're putting out clickbait, you don't have respect for the people watching your content. And it's

48:12Rod Palmer important to slow down and to think a little bit about what you're seeing, what disseminate information that is accurate,

48:36Rod Palmer to question information that is inaccurate. Because, you know, if the Pentagon gets away with this, like, the next thing you know, we're gonna be like The UK where people are being arrested for posting memes.

48:50Richard Greaser The the ultimate takeaway for me is, it's very obvious and it's been obvious and I for years now, and I don't part of my journalism is an attempt to communicate this message which

49:10Richard Greaser is the media, journalists, politicians, everybody, brands, companies, corporations, they the content they put out,

49:20Richard Greaser what they don't respect you. They don't respect their audience. They don't respect you. And you should. And if you start to come across to anybody, whether it's a company, an organization, or an individual, who doesn't communicate with you in a way that demonstrates that they respect you, like that they have any respect for you, you know, you don't have to pay attention to them anymore.

49:45Richard Greaser And this is part of the problem, which is as long as we're all spamming each other's notes, we're not focusing on what the real issue is. We're just trying to troll each other and figure out different ways

50:03Richard Greaser to prove that no matter how many filters you put in front of you, we can still span your note. And at the end of the day, we need to be coming together. This is like why we need to stop doing this. It's it's not if you're a core person or a Nazi, both Republican or a Democrat. This message is not, should not be resonating with only your side. It it's everybody needs to hear this. We need to come together

50:31Richard Greaser and and focus our energy on we need to spam Palantir, not each other's notes. Spam Palantir. Spam the Pentagon. Spam the pedophiles. Don't spam my note. And I think if we if we

50:45Richard Greaser come to this consensus, we won't have to have this argument about mental policy anymore. Yeah.

50:54Rod Palmer I don't I don't love like the idea of like coming together because I think a diversity of opinions is good because it means that people are thinking for themselves. Like, I don't think there needs to be any unity. So to say, like, you should if you don't like Shinobi, I don't I don't think you should start liking him necessarily or, you know, mechanic or or whoever it is that you're grumpy at. But it's just I think it's vital to to choose where you direct your energy

51:23Rod Palmer and to not get caught up in distractions of things that don't matter. And to focus on what the what the problem is, you know, if if if the Pentagon gets away with this and they they start to regulate what journalists can

51:43Rod Palmer and can't report on, the next thing you know, mining pools are gonna start censoring transactions. And they say, hey, you cannot or or, you know, other platforms will start censoring transactions, and they say, hey. You can't send this podcaster Bitcoin.

52:03Rod Palmer That's the that's the problem with where we're at and the direction that we're heading at. And so I don't I don't think like, you you can find unlikable people allies in a lot of ways. Like, there's you might you don't have to like them, but there's gonna be people out there that are are much more on your side than, than other people for sure.

52:25Richard Greaser It at the end of the day, spam in other people's nodes means you're spamming yourself. If you run a node and you wanna spam Matthew Crowder's node, well, you have the trade off is that you have to spam your own node because that's how

52:45Richard Greaser Bitcoin works. And that's how society works, and that's how life works. If you want to spam Shinobi, if Shinobi wants to spam you, they're ultimately spamming themselves because there there is a

52:59Richard Greaser constraint on the amount of resources and energy and time that any of us have any given ten minutes of our lives. And if we wanna spam each other, we're ultimately spanning ourselves. So just broadcast what you think is best for you and most beneficial to you and stop.

53:20Richard Greaser Even even when it's cheap, even when it's easy, even when the fees are low, it's just not is the ask is it really worth spamming and trolling your opponents when it, at the end of the day,

53:36Rod Palmer they're also spamming your own time and yourself. Yeah. I think people are way too hyper focused on, or there's some people, this isn't everybody. And I think this is the hard part of where we're at right now is actually gauging sentiment. People are going on Twitter, they're trying to gauge what the sentiment is. It's not really a good platform to be able to do that, because you don't know who you're interacting with.

54:06Rod Palmer The government does, the NSA does. But you you you don't have the power. You don't have access to Palantir. So it's people people's brains are being spammed. And I think that's that's more dangerous than your note getting spammed.

54:23Rod Palmer Your brain getting spammed. And so finding ways to, to filter the spam in your brain

54:33Richard Greaser is important. You're not relay, you're not relaying it up. Don't, don't bog down your mom, your dad, your coworkers, your grandma, your neighbor, don't bog down their resources,

54:47Richard Greaser their mental faculties with other people's spam. Like you don't have to share everything just because it pissed you off. Just because Shinobi called you retarded doesn't mean you have to to board and relay that information to everybody around you.

55:06Rod Palmer Absolutely. Yeah. Be careful about what you're relaying. But, yeah, I guess it's it's been kind of a heavy podcast, and I think the last one was a little bit heavy too. I think it's important to remember that there's good things happening right now

55:25Rod Palmer to highlight those good things that are happening. Folks, we're entering in the golden age of Bitcoin podcast. We are in many ways entering in the golden age of Bitcoin. Smell the roses. Take time to smell the roses. Take time

55:46Rod Palmer to enjoy the people around you. Take time to enjoy posting good memes. People got grumpy with me for saying that the memes on the Oster suck. Not all of them suck. I don't know who it was, but somebody pointed it out to me to go find Korn DeLorean

56:08Rod Palmer on Oster. And I was very impressed with Korn Korn DeLorean's memes. Those are some good memes. This is the problem with letting your brains get spammed, is you miss all the good stuff that's out there. There's a lot of good stuff. The the noise overtakes the signal. The signal, it's not that the signal doesn't exist.

56:32Rod Palmer It's that it's being drowned in the noise. And so we need to operate

56:42Rod Palmer with a much tighter relay policy for your brains. And unfortunately, social media is difficult, makes it difficult to do so because it's just filled with spam. It's filled with pep slop. It's filled with nonsense. That's part of the reason why it's nice to to hang out with people in person. Shake your favorite podcaster's hand.

57:06Rod Palmer Smoke cigarettes together. Talk about things other than the same stuff that you talk over and over and over again. Talk about interesting things happening in the world. Talk about music. Talk about books.

57:22Rod Palmer I've been reading a really good book, this week. I really, really like it. So, you know, JK Rowling has a, another pen name, Robert Galbraith. Do you know this, Rod? So she wrote this series, about a private detective that I really like. The the book is titled The Hallmarked Man,

57:44Rod Palmer And it's like the seventh book in the series or something like that. There's a bunch of them, but fuck, is it a good book? It's a compelling story and there's tons of shit like that that you could be doing.

57:57Richard Greaser My, my, my whole perspective on it is that you're right. Everything you're saying is right. My, but it is refreshing to be around people who understand the gravity of the situation.

58:14Richard Greaser You know, the past two episodes you said have been heavy. People who understand the weight of the world we live in right now and are still gleeful. Because I think that is the message because it is heavy. It is serious. It sometimes is scary and the user experience

58:33Richard Greaser is very terrible in many situations, but we're not grumpy. We're so gleeful. And the people who are grumpy right now, and all they want to talk about is the weight of the world. That's not an optimistic story. Being gleeful despite, you know, that's like the book of Job.

58:52Richard Greaser Job in the Bible, right? Like his entire, he had a million reasons to be grumpy, but he refused. He refused to be grumpy and he chose to be gleeful. And that's an inspirational story to me. It tells you that, there's always a reason to be gleeful,

59:12Rod Palmer always a reason to be bullish. That's an interesting take. I've always I I thought the book of Job I get a different take from the book of Job that God's kind of a prick, but,

59:22Richard Greaser God is kind of a prick. I don't think there's I don't think there's anything I don't think there's anything wrong with admitting that God is a prick. But just because God is a prick doesn't mean that you have to be grumpy. Like, don't let God make you grumpy. That's

59:39Rod Palmer that's a pretty powerful place if that you can sit in if you're not allowing God to make you grumpy.

59:45Richard Greaser I don't know if it is achievable by people, by most people, by anybody. I don't know if I don't know if even a Buddhist monk can can be so Zen that he doesn't let God make him grumpy. But, you know, God's not always trying to make you grumpy.

1:00:03Richard Greaser So if you strive to make it so that God can't make you grumpy, well then if you succeed, nobody else will be able to make you grumpy, only God. And if God's not always trying to make you grumpy, there'll be times in your life where you'll have no excuse to be grumpy. God, if you have no excuse.

1:00:22Rod Palmer Yeah. If God can't make you grumpy, paper, get Bitcoin, can't make you grumpy. Spam can't make you grumpy. God is, if God is not trying to make me grumpy, you know,

1:00:33Richard Greaser who could possibly be able to? Hell yeah. Well, Nothing stops this glee, I think should be the,

1:00:45Rod Palmer the mantra. Yeah. So, Doctor. Adam Back followed me on Twitter this week. And,

1:00:52Richard Greaser so that means Shinobi followed me with a different account. I don't know if Doctor. Adam Back is grumpy or gleeful. See, he has a very good poker face, a very good podcast poker face. It's hard to tell. He says, you know, like he's bullish. He always says really bullish things, but a lot of people do, you know, and it's he's very good at masking if he's just trolling around. I mean, he's you can't see that little Adam Back smirk on his face from the Musaeton video.

1:01:19Rod Palmer He seemed pretty gleeful to me in person when I was talking to him. He seems like he's having a good time.

1:01:29Richard Greaser I guess, you know, Tether's being really successful lately, so he has a reason to be gleeful. Him and Samson.

1:01:37Rod Palmer Samson's grumpy, though.

1:01:40Richard Greaser That's true. That is true. Samson has become grumpy about Bitcoin core and the knots debate. So even if if Samson can be grumpy about it, you know, anybody can.

1:01:52Rod Palmer Samson's don't yeah. Samson's allowing God to be make him grumpy It's pretty apparent. We have not seen the god, Candelio, yet, and it is making Samson grumpy. And,

1:02:06Rod Palmer it's interesting.

1:02:09Richard Greaser That is that. I didn't think of it from that perspective, but there are and there are a lot of people who like Samson, are grumpy because we have had a God candle and I bet you they promised a lot of people in their life that Bitcoin was God's money and that the candle was coming and it has it come, so they're they're frustrated.

1:02:36Rod Palmer Yeah. I think they just need to check their, their time preference. I think we all would have thought that, Bitcoin would be a lot higher than it is right now. But, you know, one of the things that you always gotta factor into the scenario is that the rest of the world isn't like you. If you're a pioneer, you can't accept

1:02:57Rod Palmer the plagues to just up and become pioneers. You're you're you're truly a special individual in a lot of ways.

1:03:04Richard Greaser Yeah. And if you, I think better said before we get to the boost is that, you know, when it if you make the Bitcoin prize god, it's very often going to make you grumpy or try. It's gonna it's gonna constantly try to make you grumpy. Anybody who makes the price of Bitcoin their god

1:03:26Richard Greaser is usually more often than not pretty grumpy. They get a few months here and there every couple of years, but even let you know, if it's not volatile enough, people will still be grumpy even when it's at all time highs. Do you think Plettetor's made the price of Nakamoto stock has gone? NACA or Sequans. Basically, his Pledder has made David Daley and Swan his gods

1:03:50Richard Greaser in Bitcoin, and they are really letting him down. Can't even get a webinar on time. Same with Joseph Bachelor. Holy shit. That's that is the problem with making David Bailey your God. You're gonna be pretty grumpy

1:04:08Rod Palmer despite David not being a grumpy guy. Well, one of the things I'm really excited about this week, before we get it in the found boost is, plan to interview David Bennett of the, Bitcoin and podcast. He's one of my favorite Bitcoin podcasters. So I'm excited for that one. Very, huge Noster personality

1:04:28Rod Palmer goes by none of your business

1:04:30Richard Greaser on Noster. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It did. It did. That'd be a good one.

1:04:38Rod Palmer Absolute sleeper when it comes to Bitcoin podcasting. There there is some real sleeper podcasters. Like, people like to talk about Natalie and not to say that she's not a good podcaster, but people like to talk about Natalie or, Preston Pich or Marty. But there there's these guys out there, like, Dave Bennett that are they're some of the best in the world that I think deserve a lot more recognition. But, yeah, onto the fountain boost. So, I'm excited for that interview because we're gonna

1:05:09Rod Palmer be able to read fundamentals rebuttal, to your comment about him on the Odell interview. But, First Boost from fundamentals, 10,101 SAT says,

1:05:24Rod Palmer podcaster life insurance is now in development, pays off, and found a boost. We are in stoppable.

1:05:31Richard Greaser Yeah. Yeah. I had a feeling that, our Jewish listeners were going to love skits about insurance. They go, those guys love insurance.

1:05:44Rod Palmer Who likes insurance more? Boomers or Jews? Or Boomer Jews?

1:05:51Richard Greaser Well, a lot of boomers don't like insurance because those seem to work for them, but, the Jews love it. The insurance really usually works out for the Jews.

1:06:00Rod Palmer What do you mean it doesn't work for them?

1:06:03Richard Greaser You know, people, their house burns down. The government comes in a week before a big fire, and they're like, no, no insurance coverage for your house. If it burns down a fire, then it burns down a fire. Or no insurance for the storm or this flood, or no insurance for, you know, this exchange went

1:06:24Richard Greaser bankrupt and now you have no insurance on your Bitcoin or your crypto. It's just, it doesn't seem to work out when things go wrong. But, in all those instances, it usually does work out for the Jews. So I think that they have a pretty good

1:06:41Rod Palmer respect and they like the insurance industry. The guy that took out the terrorism insurance on the World Trade Center before 09:11, he sure likes insurance.

1:06:51Richard Greaser Yeah. And again, I think the, I think that she's really benefited from that situation as well. Insure from an insurance perspective that it worked out for them.

1:07:01Rod Palmer They just know how to play the game better than anybody else.

1:07:05Richard Greaser Gotta respect it.

1:07:07Rod Palmer They respect themselves. I've never met a Jew that's afraid to put on a suit. That's for sure. Well, thank you for the biggest fundamentals.

1:07:14Richard Greaser We should all respect ourselves as much as the Jews respect respect themselves. I think that should all that should be an aspiration all of us have. Maybe we'd have, maybe we'd there'd be less conspiracy theories if we all respected ourselves as much.

1:07:28Rod Palmer There'd be a lot less complaining about the Jews. That's for sure.

1:07:31Richard Greaser How are you? That's one is, 5,420 sets. Friend of the show. Best coffee shop, experienced curator in the industry,

1:07:43Richard Greaser Otis Bitt Meyer. When folks cry out to the government for more legislation to solve a problem, I'm reminded of the following wisdom from our modern prophets, run the jewels. That's a, that's a band, by the way. You can probably find them on wave like. Funny fact about cage that ever built for just one group. So when that cage is done with them and you're still poor, it come for you.

1:08:10Richard Greaser The newest, lowest on the totem. Well, golly gee. You've been used. You helped to fuel the death machine. That down the line will kill you too. Oops. They probably deliver those lyrics a little bit more beautifully, and

1:08:31Richard Greaser nicer sounding than I did, but, run the jewels. I mean, they they spit facts.

1:08:41Rod Palmer I've never heard of this band.

1:08:44Richard Greaser Interesting. I think you I I think you'd bike run the jewel. It is, you know, they're kind of, I wouldn't say exactly hip hop, but it's, pretty pretty much a hip hop group, and they don't just sing about, CIA psy ops about, you know, drugs and ditty parties. They do usually have a, more thermodynamically

1:09:07Richard Greaser sound message.

1:09:11Rod Palmer I'll make sure to check them out right after this. I love Otis. Big fan of Otis. Otis and I are concocting some plans. We're scheming. So,

1:09:22Richard Greaser hopefully, we'll have some announcements in the future, some cool things to talk about. But, yeah. But, yeah, I I forgot. Run the jewels. That's the lead singer is Killer Mike, who is, he's a Bitcoiner. I think we talked about that with, Teamster,

1:09:36Rod Palmer with Teamster Mike. Interesting. Next boost, OD, 40 HPW, 2100% says, oh, but yeah. Ozempic killed the body positive movement, not the fat jokes. Cancel all cancel culture.

1:09:53Richard Greaser That's still you know, this is the problem with purity test is even when you try to have, like, the anti purity test, it still becomes a purity test. So you can't cancel all teams for culture. And like I said, do you wanna play to win or do you want to win priority tests? And I do, I do get the, the sentiment, but, it's just another pitfall. Even with good intentions,

1:10:19Richard Greaser you still fall into the pure distress trap.

1:10:24Rod Palmer Yeah. You know, I've witnessed this interesting phenomenon where, you know, when I was getting my credentials, there were these street preachers that would go out there and they would say things that were kind of offensive to people. They would say like, they're going to hell. They'd yell at women and they'd be like, Hey, if you're wearing yoga pants, you're going to hell or you're a slut.

1:10:49Rod Palmer And, these, these people would, like, go around them in a crowd and freak out at them and, like, yell at them as to why they were wrong. And what would always happen is they would end up with the news.

1:11:09Rod Palmer They get a lot more attention as a result of everybody standing around them. And I think this is the importance isn't to go and, you know, screech at, you know, the cancel culture people as to why they're wrong, But to just do something better with your time.

1:11:36Richard Greaser Do you have sold the attention that you are paying to them? Yeah. Cancel your Disney subscription. Cancel your Netflix subscription. Cancel your Wall Street Journal subscription. Cancel your, subscription to

1:11:52Richard Greaser Jameson Lop's, Twitter page. Cancel your subscription to the cast and steams. Cancel your subscription to their content. Just move on. You don't have to make better content than them. You don't have to you don't even have to listen to better content. You just have to pay attention to something else. Preferably something

1:12:15Richard Greaser that is worth your time. That is more befitting

1:12:20Rod Palmer of a Bitcoin podcast listeners time. Engage in pioneer activities for sure. Value for value activities. Very well said. Well, thanks. Thanks, Cody.

1:12:30Richard Greaser Yeah. Odie. Enjoy. You I think you're, like, up there in Norway or something. It's cold as fuck. Pretty woke. But you're still positive. Not even the the Norse gods can make Odie grumpy. Hell, yeah. Next one is from Jason C. Back on the chain, the fish guy.

1:12:49Richard Greaser Build of you. He based at 1,221 sets. He says, build, deliver, heal, repeat. Pioneers will win. Hashtag forty hours per week. Exactly. Build, deliver,

1:13:03Richard Greaser heal, repeat. It's pioneers, the steps to, you know, some of the steps to being a pioneer,

1:13:11Rod Palmer and we will win. Absolutely. Pies. 01/2021 SAT says, can I teach a class at Bitcoin University on how to make sure you get in your 40 HPW? That's an interesting proposal. I you know, Pies I don't know if you have the credentials to be, like, a tenured professor, but maybe there's an adjunct

1:13:37Rod Palmer position there for you. I think it

1:13:42Richard Greaser I think he'd be great. I think he'd be a great adjunct professor to, like, go to outreach to, correctional facilities, state prisons, and, you know,

1:13:54Richard Greaser spread Bitcoin university, excuse me, University of Bitcoin education, and curriculum to the people who I think were the mess his message would resonate the most soundly.

1:14:09Rod Palmer That's a good idea. Yeah. I mean, I would take class from Pies. Somebody somebody that listens to as many podcasts as he does, the the peripheral work is there

1:14:21Richard Greaser even if it's not as long. I'd love to see a conversation between Goldstein and Pies. It's like a very similar high energy and optimism that I think would be an interesting, you know, breaking bread, see coiners, and the blue collar plebs. Blue collar pioneers, excuse me. It'd be really it'd be really interesting.

1:14:42Rod Palmer It would be. That'd be fascinating. I'd love to be a flight. That that's a conversation worth having as a podcast for sure. Next one is, 101 sats from the Oscar gang.

1:14:53Richard Greaser Pioneer chain, hashtag pioneer chain. Thank you, you know, Oscar gang.

1:14:59Rod Palmer So the meme gangs were all on Twitter last cycle. Are they gonna be on Nostra? The cycle we're gonna see some some meme gangs on the Oscars that would not stay gang is?

1:15:10Richard Greaser Deac, a little bit. It kinda reminds me like Bellator. Some of the retired memers kind of taken their, their meme gang, you know, their black belt and being a meme gang or taking it to noster and helping,

1:15:26Richard Greaser helping grow that network.

1:15:29Rod Palmer Very interesting. Thank you, Noster King. Then it looks like the last boost from, BTC on board, a 100 sats, three thumbs up emojis. Folks, I hope you have a good week.

1:15:45Richard Greaser Yeah. I, reiterate what we talked about. Maybe the last few episodes, the last few streams we've done have done a little bit heavy, but don't mistake weight for not being bullish. We're extremely bullish. We're not grumpy. And I think, as I kind of said at the beginning of the episode, it's very hard

1:16:07Richard Greaser to really talk about all this conflict in the Bitcoin community anymore without without bullying one side or the other, for me at least. And, you know, that made me make me come off as grumpy or just mean to the plaids. And I know I'm done with that. So I think I've had there's nothing more I have to really say in the debate. I wanna focus on I'm gonna focus my time and my attention on, on being gleeful and focusing my time on things I find productive.

1:16:40Rod Palmer Looking forward to it. I I wanna do the same. That seems like a great take to have right now. I mean, it's we're in the fourth turning. Things are gonna be difficult regardless.

1:16:54Rod Palmer And the title of last week's show was Life Isn't Going to be Easy. Life isn't going to be easy, but it doesn't mean that it has to be miserable.

1:17:06Richard Greaser And Yeah.

1:17:09Rod Palmer Another means are gonna be oh, good.

1:17:12Richard Greaser That was a you like you it would kind of learn and we talked I talked about this on Blockchain Radio recently. And we talked about this with paper Bitcoin summer as it pertains to Platitor and how we found him on Noster, to to tell him to join us for paper. But at this point, it is we've figured out that it's impossible not to be able to find some money and spam their mood and troll them. And annoy them and call them a retard

1:17:41Richard Greaser and pick a flight with them, and just scold them, tell them how many purity tests they failed. But, you just don't have to

1:17:54Richard Greaser let it make you grumpy anymore. You just have to learn how to, just because you have to turn it around for yourself, just because it's cheap to spam your enemies, spam your, spam the pledge. It's not worth your time.

1:18:10Richard Greaser It's not worth my time anyway.

1:18:15Rod Palmer Well said. Well, folks, I hope you have a great, a great week this week. I hope you spend time with the people that you love. I hope you do the things that you want. I hope that you have the ability to

1:18:34Rod Palmer smoke a lot of cigarettes, listen to the Bitcoin podcast that you like.

1:18:39Richard Greaser Maybe Join sports ball if you like it.

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