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4:19Richard Greaser Alright. We're recording. How's it going, Ron?

4:23Rod Palmer It's going great. What a great we're recording this on Memorial Day weekend. It's great to be an American. It's great to be in place. Mentally, we already know Bitcoin has already won. It's just great. Yeah. I mean, how what

4:36Richard Greaser how much of a better president to prevent present the American people on Memorial's Day, the the reality that Bitcoin is won, which means there's gonna be less war in the future and less people to memorialize.

4:50Rod Palmer Right. There's there's a lot of war going on right now, and having to put all the victims on, like, a wall or a memorial, that's adding spam to the government blockchain, if you know what I mean. Yeah. I mean, there there's gonna be a period of war as

5:05Richard Greaser these these people, they have to bankrupt themselves, first, you know, in the same way that the fiat maximalists need to just see things play out a little bit longer to realize that the dollar is dead. You know, same same thing with all these governments that are declaring war on each other constantly.

5:25Rod Palmer It's gonna take a little bit. You can't you can't see something you don't want to see. And I think it takes until bankruptcy to kinda get through the details and and have a judge, a credentialed person of the law, sign

5:40Richard Greaser failure and assign liquidation. You they just they need to see it through their own eyes. But maybe they won't see it because I think Bitcoin derangement syndrome, you know, like one of the things that we're gonna have to push for is that in the DSM six, so the next edition of the diagnostic statistical manual, psychiatrists use to diagnose people, we need to make sure that the Bitcoin derangement syndrome is in there. Because, like, if you don't if you don't like Bitcoin after it's already won, there's gotta be something severely wrong with you.

6:13Rod Palmer Right. And we need to make sure that we give people the proper treatment and give people the care that they need and the compassion that they need. And we need to make sure we ban sellers like salty no coiner. Like, that's not that's not productive. We need to give these people help so they can see that Bitcoin has already won, like, that they can see the truth. So what do you think the treatment for Bitcoin derangement syndrome is? Well, to put it, globally, an orange pill. I don't need but it needs to be some sort of credentialed pharmaceutical, but it has to be orange. Have an orange pill a day, and you will be cured.

6:49Richard Greaser Do do you think it would be like a benzodiazepine or, like, an SSRI? Or like what type of pharmaceutical would we be dealing with? Or would it be something proprietary and new that the pharma companies have brought to market in kind of like a breakneck speed to address, like, the growing issue?

7:11Rod Palmer Well, there's alpha protocol. That's one, but it could be it could you could you could have the vaccination, and maybe we need more than one of those. But if we we maybe can't cure the people who are already afflicted, but we can vaccinate people against future BDS.

7:29Richard Greaser Yeah. Well, I mean, this is really exciting. The the thought of a vaccination against Bitcoin's arrangement syndromes, we're really on the eve of Donald Trump winning the presidency. And we all know his alignment with supporting vaccines historically.

7:48Richard Greaser Right. He's supporting Bitcoin now. So I would imagine he would be rushing a product like this to market. I mean, we might see an operation warp speed two point o in this next presidency when he most likely wins.

8:03Rod Palmer And I think we have a good example of how to incentivize. Incentives matter. Incentivize people to get this vaccine because I know, you know, I don't wanna work with anybody here at the Bugle who who doesn't get one, who needs one. Think about, do you wanna work with somebody with BDS? Do you want that infecting your workplace, or do you want people to to make sure they take care of that not only for themselves but for others' protection?

8:30Richard Greaser Yep. If if I were Donald Trump, I'd be looking at what Bukele has done in El Salvador to increase Bitcoin adoption as well as eradicate noncompliance, both in the government and, you know, among the citizenry. And I think the the first step would be for Trump. You know, he's a big fan of stimulus. So imagine if he pushed through stimulus where everybody got thousand dollar,

9:00Richard Greaser custodial lightning vouchers that they could redeem through KYC ing. And in many ways that paired with the vaccination like you you you go and you get the pharmaceutical product and then you get to redeem a thousand dollars in Bitcoin in a custodial lightning wallet.

9:19Rod Palmer How crazy would that be? I love that idea. I hope Dennis Porter is listening to that idea. My only thing that I would add to your, observation about Trump should look at Bukele's blueprint is that you can only if we're gonna do what Bukele did, we're gonna need we're gonna need prisons, for people who refuse to comply. And I think we could build them rehabilitating citadels,

9:45Rod Palmer and we could put the people who have BDS, we could put them in the citadels and they would see what they're missing and the value that they could provide in this new value for value paradigm when they get out of the citadel. Yeah. I mean, so, like, you know, if you're gonna integrate somebody into the Citadel,

10:04Richard Greaser it's really important. So I I know the Bitcoin women are gonna be homeschooling their kids in these citadels. Right? And so so part of the curriculum will be listening to, you know, podcasts on a regular basis and and giving people all the context that they need to know about Bitcoin that they've missed out on, you know, for the past fifteen years. And

10:28Richard Greaser so, you know, I'm sure a lot of it will be, like, assigned Nakamoto Institute reading. There'll be, you know, the Sailor Series, things like that. What Bitcoin did will probably be a big part of the curriculum. And and we can just plot, like, as these kids are being homeschooled in the Citadel, we can take

10:49Richard Greaser the recovering, mental health patients and put them into the homeschooling curriculum and give them all the context they needed. Like, there's a need to re educate people because the public education system has just, like, failed them so thoroughly.

11:09Rod Palmer I mean, you've got common core mathematics. You'd have people reading books like To Kill a Mockingbird or Grapes of Wrath when they should be listening to the Sailor series, they should be listening to Bitcoin Audible. And these are the things that could replace the outdated education. I mean, Guy Swan even has an AI podcast. I mean, they need to learn AI. Podcasts kind of solve all these problems. 100%.

11:34Richard Greaser I mean, I I think Bitcoin Audible should definitely be a part I mean, it is a part of my curriculum for learning about Bitcoin, so it should be a part of these these kids and these, these no coiners,

11:47Rod Palmer curriculum. It would really reduce recidivism.

11:50Richard Greaser I I I think there might be a need to to completely throw out a lot of the old credentials and create a whole new set of credentials. Instead of getting a high school diploma, you should be able to get a diploma after, you know, completing this curriculum, allows you to have the title of being a Bitcoin expert. So every high school graduate, every 18 year old kid moving on to higher education

12:16Richard Greaser should receive a diploma

12:18Rod Palmer of being a Bitcoin expert. Yeah. We should put that on, use the the the orange credential system. What's that called again? The DID or if it you don't need Cardano for for diplomas on chain anymore.

12:31Richard Greaser I I mean, that was my first thought. I know I know Charles Hoskinson. He I don't know what he was doing in Ethiopia, you know, with these digital ID systems or decentralized ID systems. You know? It it wasn't done on Bitcoin, so it obviously wasn't successful. Yeah. I mean, they like, LinkedIn.

12:49Richard Greaser Like, somebody needs to come up with a Bitcoin version of LinkedIn where your credentials are tied to the Bitcoin blockchain, and that's what's used to verify your resume portfolio instead of just whatever you write about it because I mean, like, you could very easily, you know, pseudo spoof a bunch of endorsements on skills that you don't have

13:12Richard Greaser on LinkedIn. But when it's plugged into an immutable ledger, like, how would you be able to spoof that?

13:21Rod Palmer Right. There's no span there. It's the perfect solution. There's entrepreneurs out there that were building that for sure. So, yeah, I

13:30Richard Greaser I'm I'm waiting for Michael Sailor to send me an invite to get set up with this platform because I I wanna be the first individual, if not one of the first individuals, using it.

14:34Kailey Welch This week, Richard Grieser launched a new investigative podcast to try and find out what happened to the McDonald's dollar menu. Americans are being ravaged by rising fast food prices and demand answers. The media is not covering this important issue, so Richard has taken the call to get to the bottom of this mystery. Check out the show on Fountain, as well as his debut musical album on Wave Link. The links to both will be in the show notes. Americans wanna know why such an important part of American culture disappeared silently sometime during 2020. You can contribute to the show by sending your tips on what you think happened to the dollar menu to us on our website, bugle.news. Once again, links will be in the show

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15:32Rod Palmer Well, speaking of speaking of these podcasts and these education platforms, you've got a new series that just came out, today about the disappearance of the McDonald's dollar menu. Would you wanna talk about that?

15:46Richard Greaser Yeah. I mean, it it's definitely one of my most important, pieces of work that I've done. And why it's important is because the dollar McDonald's dollar menu is a huge part of American culture because of how many advertising dollars, McDonald's has put into it. McDonald's has, you know, done advertising campaigns with people like Donald Trump, for example, you know, and politic other politicians, other,

16:15Richard Greaser celebrities and and athletes has promoted the dollar menu for, you know, almost thirty years until it disappeared sometime in 2020. And so it's a really big issue that people cannot afford food because up until

16:33Richard Greaser recently when the dollar menu disappeared, the dollar menu was essentially like the equivalent of low income housing for individuals who use low income fast food. Right. Wow. And and now that's gone. So that that's like as if a massive subsidy was just lifted from the or eliminated from the American public. It's like if every state just eliminated food stamps overnight is the significance of the dollar menu disappearing.

17:04Rod Palmer And the obesity problem keeps getting worse now that the dollar menu is gone. That's a weird that's something to look into, right? I mean, what's going on there? This when subsidized food goes down, obesity goes up. Is that the correlation that I'm seeing?

17:20Richard Greaser I I think that could be a potential. I don't know why obesity would have gone up. I mean, it might have been that as a result of the dollar menu disappearing, a lot of people are defecting to other fast food restaurants for their value meals.

17:37Richard Greaser Interesting. So instead of eating McDonald's, they're eating Taco Bell or some other, you know, garbage like that. Foreign influence in our foods, housing, increased obesity, that's something to look into as well.

17:50Rod Palmer Are you, you know, as a journalist, especially a credential of one with a with a degree, college degree, you rely on access to power, access to sources for information. Is McDonald's, has they made an edited ad for you? Are they threatening you? How are you getting are you crowdsourcing or do you have sources coming to you? How do you get this information? How is your research taking place?

18:11Richard Greaser So the first episode I did, I did crowdsourced the three stories that I talked about. The three different individuals sent me in, you know, pretty well thought out theories that I, you know, talked about and dived deeper into, did some research around. So I put a a form on our website for people to be able to send in their theories to me. And so that's where I hope to get a good amount of my information

18:39Richard Greaser on the investigation or at least to give me the direction to go, you know, looking for the information. Because I I really believe that, you know, we can we can solve this as a community that a lot of different minds, even if a lot of the minds are not credentialed, non credentialed investigative skills combined

19:00Richard Greaser with my investigative skills, my credentialed investigative skills will be able to get to the bottom of this and figure out this, you know, to to say it matter of factly, this is a national security issue, the disappearance of the dollar menu.

19:16Rod Palmer Totally agree. Yeah. And and this is this is really important point that you make because that's why they call it a lead. You don't have the skills if you don't have the credentials to report news like this. But you can help somebody who's qualified like Richard by giving them a lead, and that leads them to the truth, which they can turn around and present to you in the reporting. So now you don't have to think for yourself because you used your instincts to provide

19:44Richard Greaser somebody smarter than you with a lead. Yeah. I mean, I so on on the topic of, you know, what has been McDonald's response, I mean, the the episode is at at the time that that we're recording has only been out for, like, four hours. And so there there hasn't been enough time for there to be a response. You know, we're recording on a weekend on on a holiday. So I'm sure, you know, their employees and and PR firms that manage a lot of these things have not had time to, see it. I I did DM the McDonald's,

20:18Richard Greaser Twitter account, you know, a few weeks ago asking where the dollar menu went, and they never responded. So they they might be trying to ignore all the questions that I'm asking. I know I've been active enough online and have asked, you know, some pretty serious questions to the point where I know that they're watching what I'm doing. But I think that they think that, you know, this is just gonna blow over, and it's it's not gonna be for what it is, which is the most important investigative

20:50Rod Palmer journalism happening on the Internet today. You think that do you think that this might lead to a Pulitzer award for you?

20:58Richard Greaser You know, maybe, but probably not. I mean, I I think the solution to things like that is we we need to create a whole new standard of of awards. Like, you know, the Nobel Prize is a scam, they give it to war criminals all the time, the guy that started it was a war criminal, and other awards like the Pulitzer Prize are tarnished by kind of,

21:22Richard Greaser sometimes they give it to non credentialed individuals, but most of it, pollsters just give in to corporate media, the ones that are bought off by McDonald's that are not asking the questions of where the dollar menu went.

21:33Rod Palmer Maybe it's time to create a greaser, and you can set a good example by giving yourself the first greaser, and then others can try to emulate your your standard of journalism to be worthy of a greaser with under this new Bitcoin standard of journalism?

21:51Richard Greaser That's not a bad idea. I mean, maybe it would be the Greaser Awards or maybe it'd be the Bugle Awards, because there are many fine journalists at this institution that are doing work that's just as important as I am, but maybe a little bit less, experienced in the way that they're, you know,

22:10Richard Greaser approaching it and delivering it. But they'll they'll get there under my tutelage, as well as yours. I mean, you're a very credentialed journalist as well. Right. I

22:20Rod Palmer think between us, the other big competition in the space that's already there is Predator. I think that he's definitely in the running, gonna be in the running in future years. So,

22:32Richard Greaser I mean, would you consider, so you're building a little bit of rivalry with him?

22:38Rod Palmer Yeah, as you know, couple of mock rakers just going back in full art online, I think it's all it's all very professional professional competition. It's good for journalism.

22:48Richard Greaser Yeah. And it it's good for Bitcoin too, which I think is important to to remember. Absolutely. That's what's most important. Yeah. Well, it it's been a very busy news week, hasn't it?

23:00Rod Palmer That's true. We've got a lot to dive into. I mean, we could probably start with, one that's been trending the past few days is the Breedlove scandal. Robert Breedlove posted, a picture with his porn star girlfriend. A lot of people got jealous, a lot of people got upset about that, and there's even been reports that I've seen that the the OnlyFans community has been shaming wherein Bundy who is, Robert Breedlove's new girlfriend for for dating a Bitcoin podcaster which is very narrow minded of them is very edges but it just goes to show you that there's a lot of controversy and conflict going on and it's d plus plus and shinobi are not the only love interest in this space, causing some people to turn their heads.

23:45Richard Greaser Yeah. I mean, that was a really good story that you did. I think I'm probably gonna publish that, the morning that this podcast is, is released so that people understand the context of what you're talking about.

23:58Rod Palmer Good idea. But, yeah. I mean, the the OnlyFans community, it appears to be even more toxic than Bitcoin Twitter. That's hard to believe, but it turned out to be the case. They are they think, first of all, they they're they're critical of, of Robert for claiming to be Austrian, but some of them are are native to Austria and they said they they'd never seen him before. They'd never seen anybody in his family, so he might be lobbying about being Austrian. But, obviously, that we we know what they're talk we know we know that they're incorrect. We know he's talking about economics, but sometimes things get lost in translation. Did I tell you my theory on this relationship yet? No. I don't think so.

24:39Richard Greaser So I have a I have a source that told me that they found and I haven't I've yet to verify it. I've been too deep in this McDonald's article. But they told me that Robert has has a listing on Fiverr offering OnlyFans girls the ability to increase their

25:01Richard Greaser subscription substantially because there's a large portion of the Bitcoin community that for whatever reason sexually satisfies themselves to Bitcoin influencers significant others.

25:14Rod Palmer Wow, that That would be quite the scandal, but it would I mean, there is no better place to get to watch your career to become a next level influencer than the Bitcoin Twitter space and the Bitcoin Twitter community.

25:30Rod Palmer That

25:32Richard Greaser I don't I don't know if Bitcoiners want their podcast donations going to porn stores, though. Well, you know, individuals like Robert Robert Breedlove, they they predominantly don't operate on the value for value True. True. Platform. So I don't think it the the question is, do sponsors want their sponsorship money going to porn stores?

25:57Rod Palmer That's the right question. I think that there is an element of sexual energy that goes into some of this hot comp entertainment and content. Like you said, people sexually pleasuring themselves to other people's significant others.

26:13Rod Palmer But it it can't be, it has to be real value for value relationship. It can't be one-sided. Where somebody else is using their position of influencer strength to give the other person a favor. That's that sounds like exploitation. Mhmm. You have to get married to the other influencer

26:33Rod Palmer to to market them, to boost them, to have a bigger platform. Otherwise, it's just prostitution. It's not it's not a real value for value relationship.

26:45Richard Greaser Yeah. But, I mean, how many of these influencers are are completely okay with prostitution? Like, it it seems like that's kind of the status quo for that industry.

26:57Rod Palmer Well, I didn't realize it until this scandal came out. It's kind of exposing the city underbelly of this influencer community, this influencer, ecosystem. It's a it's much more cutthroat and much more fiat than I expected.

27:16Richard Greaser Yeah. I mean, I'm sure for many that are that are fan of, the, the type of sports ball where they kick the ball around, that's really popular globally, You know, whenever the World Cup comes around, there's a lot of revelations

27:31Richard Greaser around, the people organizing it, doing things like using slave labor. And that's kind of what this feels like. You you learn that your your favorite Bitcoin influencer is a prostitute or is engaging in prostitution.

27:46Rod Palmer I thought I thought this could be I thought Bitcoin fixed this, but, apparently it doesn't fix everybody's hearts and souls. There's still a lot of trusting and not verifying going on when it comes to the character of our favorite influencers.

28:02Richard Greaser Well, I mean, I think this goes into, you know, this idea of, you know, we need we need to be updating, you know, the diagnosis he's mental health diagnosis he's from from a Bitcoin standard because all that whole

28:19Richard Greaser that whole system was written on a Fiat standard. You know, stuff like this, you know, it it might be a result of, you know, back, you know, fiat, like, you know, maybe somebody, maybe Robert, his family lost their house during the two thousand and eight financial crisis.

28:37Rod Palmer What about this hedge fund during the twenty twenty one Bitcoin crash? I mean, he went through financial problems himself. It sounded like he was moving his assets overseas because he had so many creditors coming for him because they, you know, they did not have dining hands, and they wanted to pull out quick and he couldn't he couldn't pay the creditors.

28:57Richard Greaser Yeah. I mean, that that you might be able to diagnose him with PTSD from a situation like that.

29:04Rod Palmer I mean, what is more traumatizing than a than a than a huge dip in Bitcoin at the end of a a bull run? Right? Like, you think that you are rich now, and you go back to being poor. And that's that could be and people throw themselves off of of of buildings in market crashes. Why wouldn't that be a a most traumatic stress disorder qualifying event?

29:25Richard Greaser Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, people got caught launching speculative attacks. They were they were going off of what they knew to be true, which is that Bitcoin had already won, and they just got red pulled by people that didn't realize that Bitcoin had already won.

29:44Rod Palmer Yeah. So It's not it's not just about being right. If you're early, you're wrong. Well, he wasn't you know, we are haven't been wrong about Bitcoin already winning. That's already true. But until everybody else figures it out, you know, you are subject to volatility in markets.

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30:52Richard Greaser Yeah. I mean, this is like the second order of facts of mass formation psychosis. Totally.

31:01Rod Palmer And it isn't something that magnifies the problem is that the day after these revelations of prostitution and the value for value perversion of our space. You know, Roberts estranged wife joined, went on spaces and aired the dirty laundry, and this is leading some to speculate. If the whole

31:23Rod Palmer situation was a publicity stunt by triple elite memes, who had now had a daily spaces with good attendance every day since. And they launched this space with Janet Roberts. It's a strange one. There's just there was a whole lot of drama, a lot of accusations leveled

31:41Rod Palmer my Janet in that 10 spaces. It was very, well attended and it's very controversial.

31:46Richard Greaser Interesting. Well, I mean, you know, it's unfortunate that a lot of that activity is happening on Twitter spaces and being done by non credentialed individuals.

31:59Rod Palmer Is that all that too? Yeah.

32:00Richard Greaser I wanna say that you know that's the issue. A lot of misinformation is is told there. Yeah. A lot of dangerous misinformation. And so, I don't know. I mean, maybe maybe there's a need for credentialed individuals like us to take over the the morning Twitter spaces scene.

32:21Rod Palmer And There's a there's a huge opportunity. Huge opportunity there. If we if somebody else doesn't wanna do it, it it seems like the burden

32:31Richard Greaser is on us. Yeah. I mean, I think this could be a moment, you know, one of my favorite parts in the Bible is when, you know, Jesus is at the synagogue and he goes and kicks all the vendors out. And I think if the bugle, the bugle could essentially go through that same process, restoring the sanctity of Twitter spaces in the same way that Jesus restored the sanctity

32:56Richard Greaser of the temple, of the synagogue.

32:59Rod Palmer Yeah. Kicked out the marketing merchants that people were trying to sell things and, the false prophets. Yeah. Right.

33:07Richard Greaser That that might be the direction that we're we'd have to go. To be continued there. I have to think about that. I mean, there's there's yeah. It's the when when I think of Twitter spaces, it's not something I want to do. I'd much rather, you know, devote my time to, you know, finding the McDonald's dollar menu, but, you know, the best people in Twitter spaces are not the people that wanna be there, but the ones that feel called to be there. And so that's something

33:37Rod Palmer Yeah. Fulfilling your duty. Some people feel called to the fulfilling their duty. Well, there was,

33:45Richard Greaser very, weird curveball that was, thrown this week, which was that, that Donald Trump wants to, free Ross Ulberg.

33:55Rod Palmer Now that came out of nowhere. What do you what do you think was behind that? Do you think David Bailey's involved?

34:01Richard Greaser Yeah. I think David Bailey's responsible for it. We we had that article this week, about Donald Trump naming Michael Sailor to be his VP.

34:13Richard Greaser I I just think he's he's just so thoroughly orange like, did you did you hear him talk about self custody?

34:19Rod Palmer It was it was like a totally different person. And I I've also got also seen reports that the Sailor nomination, although it may not be official in terms of who gets sworn in Sailor will continue to be kind of like the shadow vice president it's more of

34:38Rod Palmer a it's more of a nod to the community to let people know that somebody's working behind the scenes. Yeah. I mean, it it's very interesting timing that,

34:48Richard Greaser like, Donald Trump has communicated with his his support base via online messaging boards using cryptic language, you know, for a long time. And shortly before this announcement, Michael Saylor began doing the same thing using Stacker News.

35:05Richard Greaser And so I think that was kind of a signal to

35:10Rod Palmer a shift. Yeah. It'll be interesting to keep following that because I think that it's gonna be a very tumultuous couple of months. But this this free Ross announcement is a game changer. Yeah. I mean,

35:23Richard Greaser I I'm excited at the the prospect of having Ross on the podcast once he gets out and goes on the the PodConv tour and has kinda recovered.

35:32Rod Palmer That'll be really exciting. I I wonder who would which, you know, which show will will be the first one he goes on. And I wonder how much how many advertisers will be flooding to get their advertising

35:48Richard Greaser on that show. I I mean, probably not a whole lot of them because I think a lot of the the advertisers are pretty scared of Ross's noncompliance. But my my bet would, would be that he'd go on what Bitcoin did first, that that would be the first show that Ross would appear on. Yeah. That would be my guess too. I think that'll that'll be a really good one to suss out

36:11Rod Palmer everything that everything that he's gone through. But I I I'm hopeful that the advertisers will be, you know, now that his sentence has commuted, you know, it kinda wipes out it wipes out all the history. It makes it makes it like he never had to go to jail in the first place and everybody kinda just is happy. Yeah. I I mean, I hope it's that way. Be died ons. Yeah.

36:32Richard Greaser I hope it's that way. I mean, I I would say Ross is a very important individual and in Bitcoin's history, because he he gay he created, like, a good use of bit bit like, I wouldn't be able to buy cigarettes for Bitcoin today if it wasn't for Ross creating the Silk Road. Like, that was one of the first ways for people to buy non KYC cigarettes.

36:57Richard Greaser And for that reason, I will always be a big fan of his.

37:03Rod Palmer When are you gonna find non KYC Marlboro Reds now?

37:08Richard Greaser I I've got a I've got a local guy in New York, that I I have a deal with. I don't I don't wanna say say too much about it, but, I orange pilled him over the years. It it's right down the street from me. It just takes a short walk. You know, we I I consume volume of cigarettes, so I I help him move a significant amount of quality or quantity of, non KYC cigarettes.

37:33Rod Palmer Say that's gonna be a really good, you know, layer two for liquidity in a, you know, in eCash or a Lightning Network hub. People should look into that.

37:47Richard Greaser Yeah, I mean, just between my wife, my kid and I, we consume like a carton every other day. And so, yeah, between the three of us, I mean, that's anywhere from six to seven cartons a week.

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38:47Rod Palmer Due to inflation, buying cigarettes for your family is really difficult. That is one of the they don't include cigarettes in the CPI, unfortunately. That's I think that's deliberate.

38:60Richard Greaser Well, yeah. I mean, this is this is, you know, where we could use different alternatives to the CPI. Because the CPI is focusing on the dollar. And since Bitcoin has already won, we need things like the Bitcoin price index. Because if you look at the price of cigarettes and Satoshis over the past, you know, little bit, they they continue to go down over a long enough time horizon. Like, it it got real rough in the bear market.

39:30Richard Greaser But, you know, today, you know, as Bitcoin is well above the the what was previously thought to be an impossible resistance to breakthrough the the 58 ks level,

39:42Rod Palmer yeah, cigarettes are looking good. What is your prediction for when we will finally hit cigarette parity?

39:50Richard Greaser Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I I I try to avoid any sort of price predictions because I am a journalist and I'm not Right. A trader. I I'm not a quant guy. I'm not a macro guy. I don't you know, I cover those topics, but I tend to to refer to the experts. So, you know, I would I would look to to people like Will Clemente, Willie Woo, and and Dylan O'Claire. I I think that's a really good question is is to see what an aggregate just to get an aggregate of all these different people's,

40:21Richard Greaser predictions.

40:23Rod Palmer Yeah. They they should come up with, like, a a tobacco council. We need, like, a cigarette index. I think that would be very helpful to average the average person, the pleb, to really see the value of of their purchasing power grow over time in terms of Sats per cigarettes.

40:44Richard Greaser Did did you ever see the Chapwood index

40:48Rod Palmer when that was big? I don't think so. I don't think so.

40:51Richard Greaser I'm gonna the Chapwood index isn't oh, wow. Okay. It looks like he's doing it again. So he took a couple years off. Looks like he's got twenty twenty two and 2023 information. But the Champloo index is an index that Oh, okay. That's your cost of living. Yeah. And Interesting. I think he would be

41:14Richard Greaser a good individual. The guy behind this would be a good individual to to gather that information on cigarettes because the problem with cigarettes is the pricing is so different depending on where you go because of, taxes and and all the the KYC issues. Very interesting. We should we gotta reach out to Chapley. That might be a good one. It's good it's good to see that he's, he's got it up and running. Wow. So in New York where I live, it says,

41:42Richard Greaser the the last half of twenty twenty one and the first half of twenty twenty two, the inflation rate was almost 20%. Wow. Yeah. In first half of twenty nineteen, it was only 12%.

41:56Rod Palmer In Austin, last year was 10%. So '22 was almost 15%.

42:01Richard Greaser But I feel it. But but, I mean, if we look at this, like, we need to see the inverse of this. So, like, the Bitcoin price index would be would be way better. So if you took his basket of goods and priced it in Bitcoin.

42:15Rod Palmer Yeah, huge shout out to the On Zero guys.

42:19Richard Greaser Yeah, they're they're way ahead of the curve. They realized they'd already won before even the journalists. And they did it without any sponsorship money, which is pretty impressive.

42:29Rod Palmer Something to study there for sure. Yeah.

42:33Richard Greaser But yeah. So so Trump Trump likes Bitcoin, apparently.

42:38Rod Palmer Apparently, his son does too. Aaron. Do you have any,

42:41Richard Greaser theories as to which NIM is Barron

42:45Rod Palmer Trump? Yeah. For those who don't know, David Bailey, I think it was, said that, Trump had a sign his sign Barron had a crypto NIM, a Bitcoin Twitter NIM.

42:54Richard Greaser And I I have long suspected that it was Ghost of Dick Whitman. What's your theory on that? Why why would you think it would be him?

43:02Rod Palmer Just the aristocratic autistic arrogance. He knows. He knows it already won. And he's been trying to say that, and he's been trying to spread that message. And I think,

43:18Rod Palmer you know, like the on zero guys, he already knew, and I think it's because he had inside information. The only way he could know is having inside information like Baron Interesting.

43:30Richard Greaser I mean, that's a that's a I think it I mean, I think we should turn this into a witch hunt figuring out which account it is. One one of my fears is that Baron Trump is gonna kinda turn into a a character like Spencer Schiff. It's kinda like a bait and switch.

43:45Rod Palmer That would be really disappointing. Spencer Schiff, yeah, he went off the deep end. And he turned on hyperbitcoinization. Maybe his dad finally got to his brain and rewired it. Yeah.

43:58Richard Greaser Yeah. I mean, if if Barron Trump is ghost of Whitman, he'd that means he's one of the most base plaids on Bitcoin Twitter. And we're gonna have one of the most base plaids in the White House next year. Imagine Barron Trump doing warning Twitter spaces from the White House

44:17Rod Palmer Bitcoin Twitter spaces? That's what we've been working towards. That's like the ultimate morning show. I mean, you could do it at, like, 9AM central. I think there's gonna be a few existing spaces that are a little upset about that, but I think the free market will decide where those levers go. What okay. So so if if,

44:39Richard Greaser like, if this is the case, Barron Trump might be the most valuable prospective Bitcoin influencer in the world instantly.

44:50Rod Palmer Yeah. That would be an overnight success. I mean, that would be the number one interview on every podcast for at least a year. I mean, it would extend beyond a year. Yeah, I mean, he he told me. This would take it mainstream. This would get covered by the mainstream media.

45:07Richard Greaser He he might be kinda close to like, like Michael Sailor in relevance or Jack Mallers. So, like, CNBC could be bringing on, Barron Trump to talk about Bitcoin and orange peel them.

45:20Rod Palmer In the White House with the background. Instead of an empty closet.

45:24Richard Greaser Yeah. I mean, every almost every journalist in the world wants to do an interview in the White House. Like, that's something that they they stay up at night fantasizing about before they fall asleep. And then when they fall asleep, they start dreaming about interviewing somebody in the White House. And so to get the potential to interview Barron Trump

45:45Richard Greaser in the White House with about Bitcoin, especially knowing that he's a based NIM like Ghost of Whitman, or or potential alleged potential Ghost of Whitman. I mean, that would that would be bigger than,

45:60Richard Greaser Tucker's interview with Putin.

46:03Rod Palmer I I I wonder if it would be enough for Peter McCormack to finally dress nicely, or would he wear a Metallica shirt to the White House?

46:14Richard Greaser I I hope that he would wear a Metallica shirt to the White House. I mean, that would be I mean, you know, what's funny about him doing that is, you know, he's he's a a funny talker. I I don't know if you listen to the the podcast I did with Max and John, but they they told me to refer to him as a fag. So he's a he's a funny talking fag that reps American metal bands instead of,

46:41Rod Palmer you know, his own his own country. In America, it's the opposite. The the Fags are wearing, like, Rolling Stones t shirts or the Beatles, and he comes in, he reverses it, and he he wears the American, iconic music.

46:55Richard Greaser Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, there there's this point in in American history where the British bands were dominating the American music scene, and they called it the British invasion. And it seems like, you know, there's almost an attempt by this segment of PodConv to try and and and maybe this is something, you know, I I could talk to Max and and John about because maybe they're part of the problem where they're trying to morph British and American culture and turn it into a monoculture just because we speak the same language

47:27Richard Greaser with vastly different dialects. Like, I can't barely understand British people when they talk. It's so obnoxious.

47:34Rod Palmer My only hope is that if Peter dies to an interview in the White House, that he has enough respect to drop the accent and to speak and to speak American English when he's when he's in our most sacred offices.

47:49Richard Greaser Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's it's just so obnoxious when people, like, the audacity for British people to come to The US after, you know, we fought a war against them for independence.

48:05Richard Greaser And all all the nonsense that they did to Americans to to try and, you know, just bring that type of attitude where they they speak in their own dialect and they don't, It's just unbelievable to me.

48:20Rod Palmer It's pretty alright. Onto our last topic for today. I think we would be remiss if we didn't discuss Sailor's conversation with Peter. Speaking of Peter what Bitcoin did this weekend. He had a lot to say. He basically confirmed Matt Odell's accusations about being against donating to core devs. He can he can he compared

48:45Rod Palmer research and development in things like OPTAP and covenants to, gain of re gain of function research in COVID. He came out against the vaccines, said SegWit was like smallpox, mentioned the core dev industrial complex.

49:00Rod Palmer He he basically said that donating to core devs was how you ended up with with

49:06Richard Greaser men and women's locker rooms. It was it was a wild interview. I mean, there there's a lot to uncover there. So he compared Segway to smallpox?

49:14Rod Palmer Right. Yeah. And he talked about how everybody agrees that we need a smallpox vaccine or if they agreed we need SegWit, that these newer technologies are vaccines for things that are not obviously problems, that they're solutions to problems that may not even exist. That's a really interesting theory.

49:35Rod Palmer I think you can have a listen to that and to make their own determination here. Well, yeah, can I expand on what?

49:42Richard Greaser Well, I I before we were talking about the show, it sounded like he made a bunch of anti vax comments.

49:48Rod Palmer He did. He really did. He and he talks about the smallpox vaccine and compares it to these newer vaccines and people's, you know, their hesitancy to try them, and to get them. Maybe they they should be rejected

50:05Rod Palmer if you, if you compare them to changes on Bitcoin that went on went to not ossify, that these are being spread by data monitors who are spreading FUD and they try to they think that they have

50:20Richard Greaser vaccine for the for the FUD Wow, that's pretty that's pretty crazy

50:26Rod Palmer It's like he doesn't say it explicitly, and he essentially calls shinobi doctor Fauci. Wow.

50:34Richard Greaser I mean, that would be if Michael Sailor compared me to doctor Fauci, I would be pretty happy because he is a very credentialed individual. And I I feel like that's a that's that's a lot of respect.

50:49Rod Palmer And I in my opinion, Shinobi deserves that respect.

50:53Richard Greaser So I but I I don't know how people will think about that. Yeah. I know I know there's a lot of lot of people in the community that that believe a lot of misinformation that might upset them. So I imagine Matt Odell is probably gonna be pretty upset about that. Yeah. He doesn't mean I don't think he,

51:08Rod Palmer like, addresses Odell directly or by name, but you can tell that he is hoping that is listening. Wow.

51:18Richard Greaser Well, I haven't gotten a chance to, to listen to that podcast. I mean, do you do you have any, like, important recaps that you wanna, you know, kind of expand on?

51:28Rod Palmer Yeah. I would I would definitely listen to it myself to make my own determination, to come to my own conclusions, but a lot of it is just pod comp discussion, fluff. I would start at about one hour and thirty minutes

51:43Richard Greaser into the podcast. How how long is it?

51:46Rod Palmer It's over two hours. There's a lot of advertisers that you'd, to be included. Oh,

51:54Richard Greaser they had to extend it. So is there, like, an hour of content and then, like, an hour of advertisers?

51:60Rod Palmer Basically. Yeah. That's exactly Wow. That's pretty much the breakdown. Yeah. I mean, it's kind of incredible. It's actually it's actually it's actually more like sixtyforty. I think, practically, that's the new portfolio, the sixtyforty, 60% ads, 40% content.

52:17Richard Greaser I I think that if we were gonna judge the the health of the Bitcoin industry, it's it should be based on how many advertising minutes are on each What Bitcoin Did podcast. And and the more advertising minutes there are, it means that there's more marketing dollars to be spent.

52:38Richard Greaser That index right there. Yeah. Track that. I mean, we we'll we'll know when when these companies, just completed recent fundraising rounds.

52:49Rod Palmer Right, and that money will come right into

52:53Richard Greaser the space via advertising. Absolutely incredible. Well, I'm gonna go listen to that right after this. Should we wrap it up with the boosts, right? That's what I was just gonna say. I'll start off with the first one. So John boosted us for 69,420 sats and asked when decentralized

53:12Richard Greaser compliant bugle coin airdrop. Wow. Okay. So that made me think of a whole bit of news that we didn't cover today, which was the Ethereum ETF and the implications of that PodSoft So maybe

53:26Rod Palmer the answer to that will come in the next episode. We got to cover that. That's a big one. We don't want to gloss over it.

53:32Richard Greaser Yeah. Yeah. I won't go into it too much, but I know that now that the precedence is that anybody can launch a digital commodity ETF, Otkoff is in the application process to get, compliance coin as an ETF.

53:49Rod Palmer The perfect match. No face advertising there. That's it. It's all pure honest advertising.

53:54Richard Greaser Yeah, well, the other thing, man, there's so many topics I wanted to cover, but yeah, I'll just stick with the boost. Thank you, John, for your boost. We're not planning on launching any coins, doing any airdrops, launching any ETFs. We're we're a news agency. We're not a financial services agency.

54:16Richard Greaser We for now, we're only using Bitcoin. We're we're I I'm a a Bitcoin maximalist, and I don't want, you know, all these different altcoins. I'm not like religious about it, you know, and I'm not like gonna like shout somebody down for using an altcoin, you know, for me personally, I don't think we're gonna do any sort of, you know, Eagle issued tokens anytime soon.

54:39Rod Palmer Well said. Well said. Yeah. The next the next news comes from Stack Satoshi. Now that we have synthetic dollars, decentralized central banking, spending Bitcoin should be made illegal. Satoshi's vision was for Bitcoin, the network, to be used as the scaffolding for the new financial system. When transactions are dangerous, small minded use that case. Excuse me. A small minded use case that threatens NGU. Well, that's a hard take. I I am against anything that threatens NGU,

55:10Rod Palmer so I have to think about this one a little more.

55:13Richard Greaser Yeah. Well, I I mean, I don't think that transact well, you know, people need the ability to be noncompliant in our our current political atmosphere. But when Donald Trump gets elected and he gets the government to be compliant,

55:32Richard Greaser I mean, he could really usher in a future where this is true, but more in the sense of, you know, we would be transacting using Bitcoin within platforms like PayPal, Cash App, and

55:47Richard Greaser Coinbase. And so it's kind of like a middle ground where, you know, they're not actually transacting Bitcoin around, but they're just changing numbers in the database. So it's kind of like a middle ground here. So Yeah. I mean, I I could see, you know, for the sake of

56:07Richard Greaser national security, for the sake of NGU, Donald Trump making he he he said that he was not gonna threaten self custody and that he was gonna promote self custody, but that doesn't mean he's gonna support, spending spending the Bitcoin.

56:24Richard Greaser And so maybe with this pick of Saylor, they see it more as like a savings mechanism than a spending mechanism. And they're going to promote the idea of you being your own decentralized central bank by issuing stablecoins on your Lightning node and transacting that way.

56:44Rod Palmer It's a dollar going.

56:45Richard Greaser Yeah. So I mean, you could back your stablecoin in a bank and

56:55Rod Palmer You become you become you become the welfare to the banks. You're the one we are the ones propping them up the way it should be.

57:02Richard Greaser Yeah. 100% I mean, you know, this gives like a new use case for individuals to buy US treasuries, to back their own stablecoins.

57:12Rod Palmer That protects our that protects its national security issue.

57:17Richard Greaser Wait. Yeah. I I'd be really interested to hear Greg Foss's thoughts on this because I know he has a lot of knowledge and,

57:24Rod Palmer he's a credentialed mathematician. Yeah.

57:27Richard Greaser Yeah. Well, thanks, Nektoshi, for your for your support. Next boost is from Fundamentals who says, you know, Fundamentals has gotten a little bit feisty with me on Twitter over the last week. I don't know if you saw that. I've seen that. Me too. Me too. Yeah. He says, pretty banger episode. I didn't realize how much of a difference it makes to have real journalists on the show. Maybe if maybe if you

57:50Rod Palmer ousted and spoke a little less and listened a little more to the correct voices, the the the authority on news, maybe you would have more revelation like this. Is it I hope it was a serendipitous

58:04Richard Greaser episode. It helped you kind of humble yourself a bit. Yeah. I mean, I I think the problem is a lot of people don't have the proper context to understand why credentials matter, because the Bitcoin community has been so influencer driven and so uncredentialed for so long. But now that it's, you know, Bitcoin has won, it's becoming more legitimate in the eyes of the fiat maximalist, it's time for things to settle down and become more credentialed and and for the, you know, the real journalists to be able to crowd out the the podcasters.

58:38Rod Palmer So I mean, it's a big deal. That momentum is shifting for sure. The, the next one comes from Orange Mart. Thank you for serenading us with this compliant conversation. Thank you so much for the 5,000 sats, Orange Mart. Thank you even more for, you know, providing that video showing somebody defacing the PodCon funeral I had rumors eye that it was Richard, Richard Grieser, but, in my opinion,

59:05Rod Palmer some people might call it defacing, they might call it graffiti

59:08Richard Greaser it looked better after he left it, if you ask me, so I think that, that's an improvement, that that's kind of a bit Bitcoin improvement paint. Yeah. I mean, I I think it added a lot of value to the the picture and, you know, I think the audience knows it wasn't me defacing the mural. I wanted that to happen. I encouraged it to happen. I wanted to do it myself, but I just have not figured out how to get past the tutorial yet. I haven't had a chance. I've been too busy chasing down leads on the dollar menu.

59:39Rod Palmer He's a little rusty on his video game typewriter, so to speak.

59:44Richard Greaser Yeah. I'm very rusty. Next one is from you, Rod. You said mission accomplished. What what did you mean by that boost?

59:52Rod Palmer Bitcoin has already won. Plain and simple.

59:56Richard Greaser Beautiful.

59:58Rod Palmer Thank you for your patience. Next one, we got John again. 2,100 sats. The rising cost of Adderall is a direct attack on journalists, and that I mentioned that we should get cheaper Adderall, and we should have priority for Adderall as journalists. And I stand by that, and I agree it is an attack on journalists. I agree too. I mean, there's other attacks on journalists like, you know, alcohol attacks. Cigarette taxes.

1:00:22Richard Greaser Yeah, smoking bans, cigarette taxes, all sorts of stuff to really like prevent the people with the credentials for doing their best work. And it it seems like I mean, why why would they deprioritize credentialed journalists and receiving Adderall

1:00:40Richard Greaser over, like, you know, goofball kids that aren't doing anything at school? That like 12 year old kid that is struggling with his math homework should not take precedence over the bugle newsroom writers. Absolutely insane.

1:00:54Rod Palmer Absolutely not, absolutely not and I think that it's up to us to make people understand the value of what we produce, so that will change. And I guess I'll just do John's next list as well for 2,100 Sats. He's excited to see what Langley engineers have to offer to Bitcoin. And, I agree. And I just wanted to add that part of the reason Bitcoin has already won is due to those engineers at Langley. Yeah. I mean,

1:01:21Richard Greaser we can go we like, we're not big fans of the of the CIA on the show, because of their noncompliance, but, you know, we have to give credit where credit is due. I mean, they've really been promoting a lot of freedom technologies for them to be able to launder their illicit funds and be noncompliance. So it it just fits into the Bitcoin game theory here.

1:01:41Rod Palmer Yeah. Like it or hate it. There's a lot of cipher punks in the CIA.

1:01:46Richard Greaser Yeah. Our last boost is from Enoch who said Marxist babbling, which I don't I don't really know what that means. I mean, it sounds like some sort of stupid conspiracy theory.

1:01:59Rod Palmer Maybe he was just commenting on the wrong podcast. Maybe that was a mistake. Maybe he was commenting on what Bitcoin did.

1:02:08Richard Greaser Yeah. Yeah. I mean, maybe yeah. We'll have to reach out to Oscar Mary and the guys that found it and make sure that, you know, boost aren't bleeding over from other episodes because that could be that could that could just be a bug within the app. That that looks like a mistake to me that somebody would even claim to say or just dare to say anything as absurd as that. Yeah. It wouldn't be the only bug. Yeah.

1:02:33Rod Palmer Well, I think that concludes it. Yeah. I would I guess my my advice going out here is, check out the McDonald's dollar menu, episode one, Peppersher produced. The link to that,

1:02:48Rod Palmer will be in the show notes so you can find it. And if you have any tips, if you are close to the matter on the ground, maybe you work for McDonald's, maybe you work for Quimper, maybe you work for a franchise, send your tips in. Let us know what, what you think happened. Yep. Well, we'll see you guys next week. Thanks for

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