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Mike Hobart | Bitcoin Power Games | Simply Bitcoin TTO · Simply Bitcoin

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Yo, what's up, everyone? How you doing?
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It's your boy hop to you. We are back for another simply
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Bitcoin TTL. I am super excited for this one
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today. I absolutely love when Mike and
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I can have conversations on air and off there and I'm just super
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excited for what we're going to talk about today.
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I don't even really know where this conversation is going to
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go. I have a rough.
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I've rough idea of what we are going to talk about, but every
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time I can, I get together where it's, whether it's on Twitter,
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spacers. Whether it's on the live show.
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Whether it's in person, we are continuously talking about
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basically the same thing. And this is what we're going to
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do today, as you guys can see on the YouTube title.
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This one is called Bitcoin power games.
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And the reason I named it this is because I fundamentally
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believe in Mike does as well. That this is the game.
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We are playing and bar to little bitcoiners understand the real
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game that is going on in the world right now.
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And furthermore, the real game that bitcoiners are playing.
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So before we get too far into this, a little I'ma bring in
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Mike, this is Mike Hobart. In my opinion, one of not only
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the most humble bitcoiners that I know, but also one of the most
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badass bitcoiners, this guy is not only has the proof of work,
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a physical fitness, but he's mental game is there.
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And I don't know if it was just Twitter that you and I
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connected. But when we met in real life,
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what what are we were drinking martinis at the bar and we were
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just ranting on each other for like an hour and a half and so,
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So I figured hey let's try to, let's try to capture some of
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that energy today for the people out there.
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So we're not the only ones privy to these private conversation.
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So what's up, Micah, what do you want to introduce yourself as to
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the people out there that aren't familiar with Mike Hobart on
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Twitter spaces ranting with me every single day?
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Way to put somebody like a midwesterner on the spot like I
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don't like I don't have, you know, at least I didn't do the
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mica thing. This is the legendary Michael
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bar. Yeah.
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Blow more smoke into my ego than I probably deserve that point.
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My prop, my family would probably hate you because they
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get sick of my confidence enough.
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I don't know man like as far as like introduce I guess like the
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best thing that I would be would be just like as a like I'm a I'm
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a pretty natural just like coach or teacher.
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I I've always liked, it's funny because I we were just talking
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before we got on here. Like, I've been the last couple
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months I've been kind of getting back to my exercise science
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Roots because for those that don't know, that's what my went
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to college for exercise and movement science, specifically.
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And the hard part for me, was that I was kind of stuck in this
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Duality, like I love the exercise science space, hated
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the personal trainer title, like, I absolutely hated it,
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like, it was like, One of the most cringe things about the
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space and it also doesn't help that I'm like in an area of the
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country where the population density, for the type of people
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that you want to be training like the from, like upper teens
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up through the 20s into the 30s and even into the lower 40s.
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Like that age, group isn't really here, like they're here,
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but they're also mostly blue-collar workers.
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So a lot of them don't really have a whole lot of time or
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energy or care to get into. Like they don't necessarily want
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to get into the gym and deadlift like a three rep max or
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anything. Now, plenty of like, plenty of
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the high school, athletes do like that.
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Sure. But like the the market for
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strength and conditioning coaches for high schoolers is,
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that's another area that's pretty cringe.
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Like, you don't really need a whole lot of like qualifications
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to get in there. That's another thing that most
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people don't realize. Is like at best typically you
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just need maybe a teacher certification or a coaching
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certification and those are relatively easy to get online.
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So I've been I've been just getting back into my exercise
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science Roots, putting together a website workout plans to sell
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the people of that. Anybody that's interested.
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Yeah, that's, that's about it. Well, I mean, that's not it.
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I've also been writing quite a bit as, you know.
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You also want to drink, am yeah. I work for Great.
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American mining for 2022. That dude, that was a ton of,
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but let's go. And the wild part is that like
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This is something that happens in Bitcoin a lot, right?
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Like it feels like a year can feel like a decade but it went
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by really, really fast and that's what it felt like working
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for Great American money. Specifically like working there
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was a shitload of fun like a ton of fun but then because it was
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so brief. It also didn't feel like I was
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there very long but because of how much fun it was, I absorbed
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as much time as I could. This is very weird kind of
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Duality almost like, what would be the word paradox?
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So that's kind of a long introduction.
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Love it. And I love that that, this is
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where we started. Because, guys, will trust, you
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me, we will get into the house by the end of this, I'm almost
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convinced. We will get some health tips out
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of Mike by the end of this, but I kind of want to start with one
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of your latest articles and and I wrote here in my nuts so I can
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remember, it's kind of interesting that you are, as I
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put it getting back to your roots as a personal trainer, but
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you told me off are made. Well, plug it at the end, but
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you said something that I find very interesting.
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And it's something you and I have talked about for a long
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time and it's just an idea that you said, basically, you know,
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you couldn't find the exact demographic that you want in
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your particular, you know? Environment and your area.
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But it's very interesting that they that this demographic is a
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demographic that has bitcoiners you.
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And I continuously talk about and it's what I've said in
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spaces before is that the majority of us are of that young
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man, military fighting age and I find that this is like, this is
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the thread that, that most bitcoiners are really missing.
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I know the original cryptographer cypherpunks, they
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are more like gen xers and stuff.
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They're a little older than us and I find that the majority of
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people that I interact with our young men of our age.
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Of course, you know, there is women in Bitcoin as well.
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I'm not trying to negate the women that are a part of
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Bitcoin, but I find that the majority of people in this space
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are young men that, you know, are actively wanting to change
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the world that are looking around and they're like, yell,
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like there's something wrong here and I know a lot of the
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problems, but where are the solutions?
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And I think you wrote one of the one of these great articles that
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did a real Good job of connecting these threads and I
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told you this is where we're going to start and it's you
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titled, the article, the Fiat stress machine and masculine
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compression. And I just, I find it very, very
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not only interesting but like an important thing that I'm trying
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to like, push my thumb on is like, guys.
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We as the younger men generation, the young men out
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here. Like we have a lot more power
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than we understand. There's a lot of us here.
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There's a lot of us that want to change the world, but Like
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something has been stripped from us.
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And this is us like, relearning, this aspect of, I don't know,
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masculinity of society of being a man in the world today and,
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you know, for lack of better term.
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Something that they stolen from us, not only part of everything
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else that the Fiat system is taken from us.
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But like, how do we interact with the world and become, you
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know, something that our ancestors can be proud of, and I
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think this is what we're all trying to do is like step into
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really being something. Where The in society.
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And this article guys, definitely go read it first,
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plug your plug your sub stack, and then let's talk about this
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article substance. Should be dr.
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Doom dotsub stack.com, I believe this has the URL.
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It's funny because I actually got actually got called out by
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one of my friends on Twitter. I was kind of talking for her
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through like a difficult time and she eats she she called me
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out and claim the the title Doctor Doom isn't Oxymoron
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because like I, especially lately last couple months.
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I've just been talking about like all, like the kind of
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positivity stuff and like, propping everybody up, but you
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can't be do me all the time. Like, if you're just do me all
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the time, there's no point, there's no point paying
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attention to anything. I say, what was it?
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What was the original question? You just want me to talk about
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the article bit? Well, trust talking about use
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actually set it today, and I thought this was a very like,
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Very solid Meme. And you said something earlier
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today in our space is like Society adopts the
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characteristics of the craxi. And it's like all of us.
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Young men are looking for something in the world right
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now. And like I said, you know, like
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making our ancestors proud, becoming something worthy and
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society. And I think this is something
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you and I continuously talk about.
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Yeah, yeah. Okay.
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So like in the re the reason that I'd love one of the will
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not the main reason but one of the reasons that I even decided
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to write like this article in particular, is that there's been
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there's become like a, if you haven't seen it yet, I don't
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know what rock you've been living under but there's like,
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there's been a real social movement to really kind of Push
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back against the popularity. And I would probably, I would
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actually call it almost like an endemic of the use of
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pornography, like, only fans and, you know, porn hub and
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whatever, but like, social media in particular influencers are
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taking it from a sense of, you know, you're reducing your
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testosterone, you're taking away your drive and all this stuff
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and while that's very true, not a whole lot of people Looking at
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the Dynamics that are under the hood because that's very much
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above the hood in my opinion. That's very much service levels
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like skin level. It's very, very easy to see but
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nobody's really taking into account like the economics of
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stress, nobody's taking into. And that's that was that was the
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point of this article is looking into.
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Yeah, sure. Like I agree porns a problem
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diets. A problem not working out.
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Consistently is a huge problem, but Not a whole lot of people
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were looking at the fact that, you know, like we all stressed
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out about money, right? Like it, if you're if you're not
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part of the the what do you guys at simply like to call the
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unproductive class. Like, if you're not part of the
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unproductive class, you're probably just riddled with
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stress. The majority of your like maybe
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not the majority of your life, but a large part of the year.
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If you're living paycheck to paycheck, I would argue.
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You're probably very stressed out on a consistent.
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Is. And if you're not, if you're
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living paycheck-to-paycheck, like statistically, there's a
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likelihood of having two jobs, I think, the average for a, this
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is, this is just for a dual adult house for the household,
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the average number of jobs in a dual adult, household is 2.3.
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So that means that, at least on average, one of the adults is
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working two jobs, and we have to when we're thinking Thinking
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about economics and public health and behavioral economics,
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specifically like we have to consider the Dynamics of a
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population that is overworked and overstressed, and also look
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into how those economics are going to be affecting fertility
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rates. They're going to affect the
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freaking dating and marriage markets, like, marriages are on
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the decline. Divorces are on the incline and
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people are getting married and having kids.
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Slater, which is not good for demographics.
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Like if you've read Peters, I hand you probably picked up on
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this. I warned, I caution people and
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Peter's I hand because while he does make a lot of good points,
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he's also a statist, pretty heavy statist.
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And he's also very close-minded to things that he isn't a
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complete expert in which, you know, can't really fault him for
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that. Most people do that?
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But if we're looking at like young men in particular, like we
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have to really take into account all the Dynamics that are
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driving like the behavior. So if you're a young man that is
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whether or not you have college debt, if you're a young man
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who's anywhere from 18 to 30, if you're out there trying to make
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things work, and you're earning minimum wage, which could be
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anywhere from fifteen to thirty thousand dollars a year, you're
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barely paying rent. You can't really afford like
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it's really, really difficult to eat super, super healthy and
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have a quality gym environment on that kind of Income and when
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we look at the public health Dynamics, but you start these
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start, when you start like lining, these things up and
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really considering that you start to understand why the US
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and Western world is in the position that we're in right
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now. Like, well, I think 10 percent
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of the population is diabetic with additional 30% being
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pre-diabetic and that's just diabetes.
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That's not that's not considering the other.
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Chronic metabolic syndromes like arthritis.
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It is osteoporosis. Well Alzheimer's would be one
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but it's later on it's actually being called type 3, diabetes.
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Now obesity, obviously morbid obesity, the terrible
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testosterone rates amongst young men in particular, the fertility
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rates obviously. Like all these things, like we
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have to really, really like look under the hood, it actually gain
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an understanding because it's while porn is a problem.
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It's not the only problem in my opinion it's not the sole
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problem like to the point that you brought up Opti like If you
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want to fix the problem, you have to give a sense of purpose,
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first, right? And in order to do that, we have
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to look at all the problems. First in order to start, like,
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tackling down some of these issues and One of the biggest
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things in my opinion, I think that you could agree is that a
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the young men need not only they need a purpose but they need a
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savings vehicle like they need a vehicle in order to like be able
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to scrape away, what little they can and resources, put it to the
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side and prepare for their future, and some respect because
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I was there before I found Bitcoin in 17 like, in 17, I was
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like, I don't know where the, like, what the hell?
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I'm supposed to do, like I Was preparing to mobilize for an
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appointment. I was about to go over.
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See those about to earn my first salary and it was also going to
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be tax free. So I had a lot of, I do a lot of
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capital that was going to be coming to be that never had
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before. I don't want to piss it away
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like every other, you know, young soldier in the Army does
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when they go on their first appointment.
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So I started looking into investment vehicles and
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strategies on how to do it well as mobilizing down in Texas and
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I came to the conclusion that like all the best investors were
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always ahead of the curve as far as like they put their money
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where the market was going to go first or not first, but
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eventually, it was going to go like Amazon apple right now.
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The problem was before I came across Bitcoin.
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I was looking at all these different investment
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opportunities and I came to the conclusion that they were all
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the exact same. Everything was the exact same
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like there was nothing special about anything.
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The only Any special investment opportunities you could ever get
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as an American citizen would be something that's behind the
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accredited investor wall, because by the time those
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Investments actually get to the public markets, all the values
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been captured. So like the the average American
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cannot actually generate wealth really in any of those regards
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unless you're going to just like capture maybe three to eight
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percent per year. Nobody in the middle class can
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really afford to do that unless you're willing to sacrifice 10
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to. In years of your life, which if
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you're going to do that, why? Like, like, what what are we
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even doing? Like, what?
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Like, let's talk about something that's more, that's more real
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and more impactful to the larger pipe population, and that's
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where Bitcoin comes in. Now, you take Bitcoin and you
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allow for these guys, to be able to save a little bit acquire,
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accumulate resources, accumulate enough resources to the point
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where they can start taking some risks and actually trying to do
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something that they value with their day-to-day life.
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Which could mean, you know, starting up your own business or
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saving up enough to go take on like an apprenticeship or
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something like that. Because another thing that a lot
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of people don't know about the trades, I grew up in the pipe
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fitters trade. Sometimes you have to sit on the
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bench and wait for an opportunity an apprenticeship
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school like you don't just apply and get in like there's lots
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that have to be filled. So when it comes to try and like
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trying to like wine up your life like this and the point where
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you're not working, some dead-end bullshit job it just
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beating your head against the wall to earn a couple extra
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bucks. Like that's not good for the
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soul and that's not good for your testosterone levels.
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It's not just that good in general.
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So this kind of like Framework starts to allow for us to start
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actually looking and like putting into place actual
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solutions to the point of where we've got young men in our
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population that have purpose and that also can start learning to
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like, actually understand what real masculinity is versus what
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the Fiat dollar produces, which is it just promotes it?
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Promotes theft? It promotes lying.
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It promotes backstabbing and promotes cheating it promotes
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fraud like ever since Since 2008.
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But those have been the rules of the game, like the, the
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cheaters, the fraudsters in the Liars, are the ones that get
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ahead. It's not, it's not the guys that
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are the blue collar workers that are out there every day or the
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farmers are out there every day doing what's right?
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Because they know what's right, but they're still basically six
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feet under already because they're Laden with debt because
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they can't afford that. You can't actually make the
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economics work of having an honorable and valuable
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lifestyle. And be able to make it out with
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generating actual wealth. And that's probably like one of
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the biggest Disgusting. Thefts of the American
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population that probably has happened.
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Since the justifications for the Revolutionary War, in my
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opinion. Because we, I mean, we are not
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we're not being represented anymore and that's that's the
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really frustrating part. Mike, honestly, first and
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foremost, like you literally explain my story to a tee, you
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know, like same boat in 2017. I've said in the past, like
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Bitcoin, in my opinion is like the great motivator and
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obviously I'm talking about our demographic.
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Like, you know, young man, I'm 30, 30, enum lower lower end of
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my 30s. And I've just noticed the effect
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that this had on me personally, and all my friends and like,
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this couldn't have been Been like this, what you just said to
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me, like couldn't be more closer to the truth than anything that
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I know to be true. Like this is literally, the
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facts of the scenario. I was having this exact
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conversation with my friend this morning obviously not as
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eloquent as Mike can put it, but I was doing the same ranch with
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him and he kind of like once I was actually able to like get
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that point across that you just got across to everyone
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listening, he sat there and he was like, wow, like You
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literally are explaining it and it makes perfect sense to me
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now, like, what game is actually going on right now.
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I'm like, dude, this is literally the game that is
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happening. Now, you are ahead of the curve
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and you understand what game is actually being played, and this
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is something like you. And I have talked about this
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offer, but the idea that Bitcoin when it succeeds, it is the
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ultimate power play. And by power, I mean, like the,
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you know, the political power game, like, the ultimate power
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and Status game that most Men try to achieve to and and and
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you know go after like we are literally I guess on maybe it's
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more metaphorically, you know, like flipping over the chess
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game and leveling the playing field and trying to take back
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all our power as an individual, as a man because it's been
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stolen from us via the money printer.
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And like, this is the ultimate game and I feel that most people
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don't understand. Are they shy away from that?
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You know? Like bitcoiners try to shy away
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from politics and you and you have.
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And I have had this Conversation like politics is just pure
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power. Like it's just a game of power
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and all the politics is literally just a power Dynamic.
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That's all. Yeah.
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Exactly. And most people are shying away
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from this on my Nico and I like had this Epiphany one day.
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And we're like, this is all a power game.
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Like this is what is happening right now.
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What's um, what's the like the origin of politics?
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You'll always tell me. It doesn't it, like literally
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mean like power or something? Like, you know, I don't that
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must be somebody else that's more educated.
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Than me because I don't know. I don't know what the origin of
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politics would be. Maybe?
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I went down an autistic Brandt wants but probably because like,
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because like to be fair though, like You're you and you
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encounter politics when you're at your job, like who gets who
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usually gets the promotion for a job, it's rarely ever the person
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that does a job, the best. It's usually a combination of
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the person who is liked most and does the job adequately unless
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you're in the Army, then Army would goes by rules of, fuck up.
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Move up. So like you don't want to be in
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that kind of situation. There was, there was something
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that you you mentioned that I wanted to touch on and I have
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lost it. So I We just want to get back to
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talking again, I don't know. I think it was Bitcoin is a pure
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power game or politics is power. I don't remember exactly, which
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was something, it was something to do with the young, man.
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I can't remember what it was. I'll probably think of it as
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we're talking more. No worries.
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I mean, it just, it, really, it really blows my mind that, like,
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you know, I try to do my best to, you know, paint our
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narrative. So that more people can get You
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know, the same orange pill that we get and we understand it and
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you kind of frame this perfectly in one of the spaces for me and
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I was kind of shying away from actually saying it out loud and
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then you were able to like explain it even better and it
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just idea that we just kind of touched on in the beginning
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about like look if you're young man out there.
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If you're what your mid-30s, your gen gen Z or like the most
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important thing you can do right now is to get rich, is to save
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and build something for yourself Billy.
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Capital and this is not me telling you to do anything
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immoral. Because I know in our society
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right now, like getting rich is like this, like trigger word and
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everyone's like getting rich is bad and speculating on Bitcoins
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bad, and it's like God, that's what that's what we were raised
23:55
on. Like every like, every single,
23:57
like kids movie demonize somebody that wanted to get
24:01
rich. They're like, oh, you're
24:02
screwed. I'm like, no.
24:04
Like I'm not like a piece of shit person.
24:07
I just want like I just want Financial Independence so I can
24:10
have the freedom to do. Do what I want and I have to
24:13
live, like, work. Some bullshit job.
24:15
Like, that's not. How is that like the bad guy?
24:18
Like one of the great? Wonderful.
24:20
Great example, is, actually, a recent movie, is the movie
24:22
Tangled. Like the, the protagonist.
24:25
I can't remember his name. You don't really care.
24:28
Flynn Rider the, the character like he just wanted to get rich.
24:34
That's all I want. Because he grew up poor.
24:36
Like how can you slight anybody for that?
24:38
When the What is it? The the the bottom sixty percent
24:45
of the u.s. is living paycheck to paycheck or something like
24:49
that. Like even if it's more than 60%
24:53
that's bad. Like that's a really that's a
24:55
not a strong economy like whatsoever.
24:58
And one of the one of the things that I wanted to touch on was
25:03
like back to the demographics of men, like what you should not be
25:10
surprised that On top of the economics, like the cold kind of
25:14
Behavioral economics thing that I laid out, like then then you
25:17
have to consider also the the kind of judicial legal system as
25:24
far as parenting goes when you're dealing with co-parenting
25:28
or divorce, like both of the both of them.
25:31
Now I'm not suggesting that there are pieces you guys out
25:33
there. There are plenty, there are tons
25:35
of guys that are pieces of shit, but the system very much favors
25:40
the Mother. And I'm not complaining about
25:42
that either. I moms are very very important
25:45
but like, fathers are not utterly useless like we play.
25:51
I'm not a dad, but as men as father's, we play a massive role
25:55
in child development, it comes much later like for a lot of the
26:00
functions of like teaching like the the cold hard facts of
26:03
reality but the father figures very, very important and you can
26:09
look in the demographics as far as like men that fail or they
26:13
mended do poorly in college or men, the end up and incarcerated
26:17
like a lot of them come from fatherless or fractured homes
26:21
and when you have a system that out of balance favors women, and
26:27
almost actually like is very Aggressive or offensive against
26:33
the men, on top of all the economic stuff, like no wonder
26:39
guys are just fleeing to video games living in their mom's
26:43
basement. Not like, and not going out into
26:47
the dating market. And reproducing, they can't
26:49
afford to get their own home. They can't afford the land,
26:51
that's for damn sure. They can barely afford to pay
26:55
rent. They can't afford to like really
26:58
like just live, like healthfully Why the hell would you be out
27:03
risking like dating and getting laid?
27:06
When you have the risk of getting the girl pregnant and
27:08
then on top of that, you have to support like another life and
27:13
you have to risk her, still leaving and taking 50% of your
27:16
stuff. Like, what what, what where is
27:21
where is the math in there? Besides just, you know, go be a
27:24
man and get laid. Where is the math?
27:26
And where's the real world justification to actually try
27:28
and live a full life? Most guys This is what this is,
27:32
what I wanted to touch on most of the guys out there that were,
27:36
like, Millennial or younger that I've interacted with, in the
27:39
last couple of years outside of the Bitcoin Community.
27:42
I just, I described them as narcissistic or nihilistic
27:46
narcissist because they see the world like kind of like, in the
27:51
way that I laid it out and they're like, well, what's the
27:53
point? Like, there's no way for it to
27:55
improve. The Fiat dollar is broken.
27:58
America is broken, we don't see a way out now We're going into
28:02
like potentially world war three or whatever, like why should I
28:06
do that when I can just smoke weed jerk off and play video
28:08
games in my parents basement? And like that's enough for me to
28:12
get by like it's that's a disgusting rationalization, but
28:16
that's where the nihilism comes from.
28:18
And then a lot of these guys come from broken families
28:20
because like the jet X like a lot of the Gen-X dad's that I've
28:25
encountered with, including my own, like I love my dad, like he
28:29
taught me a lot of rules about like Only leadership being a
28:32
man, taking care of your guys taking care of your team and all
28:35
that. But he had his flaws just like
28:37
every other Dad does. And a lot of these dads that
28:41
I've interacted with a lot of the sons, which would like be my
28:44
peers I've interacted with they a lot of these father figures
28:50
had serious insecurities that they Mast with significant
28:55
levels of narcissism and the children picked up on that
28:59
because that like that's what kids.
29:01
As do their sponges, they soak up, whatever they're around.
29:05
And then you're so you're dealing with the this nihilistic
29:08
Millennial and gen Z generation. That is also learned to cover up
29:14
their insecurities with narcissism and then you get to
29:18
this point where they're like, oh I'm the best.
29:19
There is for whatever useless reason, but the world's ending
29:24
anyway. So why should I care?
29:26
And they like from that frame point, you start to under you.
29:29
Start to really understand a lot of the politics.
29:31
This is happening right now particularly on the like extreme
29:34
left liberal like political side and - we don't have to make it
29:38
super political or anything. But like really both extremes,
29:41
you can kind of see where all this stuff is coming from, and
29:44
that just gives you a better framework for like, how we need
29:46
to fix this. Bro, dropping too much sauce, my
29:52
trifling too much sauce. I really like your framing
29:55
though. What do you nihilistic
29:57
narcissist? That's, that's kind of why I
30:01
like, you know, my my moniker on the Internet is Optimus field
30:05
because like I was that person, you know, like I used to kind of
30:09
jokes and joke and say like the same thing, like what's the
30:12
point of all this? I'm just going to go, like, you
30:14
know, what's the mean? Get my kicks on Route 66, like
30:17
just fucking party, whatever, have fun.
30:19
Unjust, like, don't worry about the future because, like, when I
30:23
looked out at the landscape and this was, you know, from
30:26
whatever like 2012 to 2017, when I like became an adult, got out
30:31
of college and all this stuff. I looked around and it was like
30:34
the world seems to be falling around me and there is no
30:38
solution to this and all the solutions are pointing to me,
30:42
just grinding it out and you know, like hey this is this is
30:46
the world deal with it and then I find bit And I'm like, holy
30:51
shit, like there is a totally new world here for not only me,
30:54
but for everyone of my generations.
30:56
And this is when I first started like my Johnny Appleseed, you
31:00
know, evangelism where I'm like, guys, you need Bitcoin, like,
31:03
everything in your life is messed up because of the little,
31:07
like, the basic pretenses that we're starting this conversation
31:10
was like, young men are hopeless.
31:13
They don't have a way to build, what they've been told they
31:17
should do for their, for their lives to be a successful man.
31:21
And we were literally, like, you know, rudderless boats, just
31:26
blowing in the wind. And what did they tell you to
31:28
do? Oh, you know, just enjoy your
31:30
time. Go party, have fun and figure it
31:31
out later guys. Like you can, you can figure it
31:33
out later and it's like, no. Like that's the most detrimental
31:37
advice. You could probably give a young
31:38
man is like, oh be a Perpetual child in college forever.
31:42
And then well, you know, one day, you'll figure it out and
31:44
you'll get rich and you'll it's like, holy shit, you know, like
31:47
I come from I basically come from the same type of family,
31:51
you know, like I wouldn't say it's like a broken home but my
31:55
parents got divorced and like I do have a stepdad that I
31:59
consider my dad and he's the one that kind of raised me and
32:02
taught me like how to be a better man and all this.
32:04
But like I fundamentally had to learn all this stuff as I was
32:08
growing older. And this is why I keep latching
32:10
onto this idea of like, look, I am the same way as Mike started,
32:13
this conversation. Like, I've always kind of looked
32:15
at myself as a teacher and I always want to help my younger
32:18
friends. Get Long in life and be like
32:20
luck, bro. I may be older than you but I
32:22
can accelerate your learning curve and you can be better than
32:26
I am at my age. Like, this is why you should be
32:29
listening to me. Like I went through all the
32:31
pain, I made all the mistakes. I see this ending, like I made
32:33
all the Bighorn mistakes and yeah, I'm still here and like,
32:37
hey, you know, listen to me or not.
32:39
But this is bad kind of to the idea that you and I talked about
32:42
all the time on the importance of Fitness, the importance of
32:45
like living a good life and how this is one of the best ways to
32:49
Our message is, you know, being fit mentally being physically
32:53
and having that purpose and having that optimism.
32:56
And and just continuously, just pushing that message as hard as
33:00
possible. So more people like, yo like,
33:03
what's this Mike and Opti. Shit that there are my I want to
33:07
live this life because everyone around me is is Doom and Gloom.
33:10
It's fear porn. It's very negative and we are
33:13
just like, boys sit down. Have a conversation with your
33:18
old uncle opt-in. Mike and we're going to teach
33:20
you the ways of of like what we've learned what you know, the
33:24
Hard Knocks of life and its really kind of something.
33:27
You also said in our space is a while ago and it's his idea of
33:31
like learning to be an entrepreneur and how Bitcoin has
33:34
taught you. These, I don't know like
33:36
business practices and and you and I always talk about like the
33:39
winning mentality and how easy it really is to start
33:42
dominating. Once you understand like what
33:44
the games being played, and this is like why I want to
33:47
continuously trying to push this mess.
33:49
It should a young ones out there.
33:50
It's like bro if you are in, you know, your early 20s, early 30s
33:55
and you are lost, like I'm telling you from personal
34:00
experience that, this is the way, this is what you're missing
34:03
in your life. Is this purpose of?
34:05
Like, I can better myself, I can bootstrap myself.
34:08
All I have to do is provide value, build something and help
34:12
the people around me, get rich. Put my Capital where my mouth is
34:15
and build the world. I want to see and I feel like
34:18
this message is Like very simple, like a very non-complex
34:24
message, but it gets like lost and on people or something.
34:27
I really, I don't understand. It's just, it's just like the
34:31
stuff that I told like you and Nico and the spaces.
34:34
It's like when it like, for fitness and health, it's not
34:38
complicated. It's actually really, really
34:40
simple. Now what people are doing is
34:43
they're completing simple and easy.
34:45
Simple does not mean easy. It actually rarely ever means
34:49
easy because if it's like, if it's simple, you're gonna have
34:52
to put like some serious effort into it.
34:54
That's the problem. Like, most like most most people
34:57
they see a complex problem. They think it needs a complex
35:00
solution, rarely, ever the case, actually, and I'm that's coming
35:06
from. I was a, I was an aircraft new
35:08
draw, like specialist in the Army, very complex, very
35:12
specific stuff. Most of the time is a relatively
35:15
Simple Solution. Now that simple solution can,
35:21
you know, require some complex steps to like execute it.
35:24
But that's a little bit different.
35:28
But yeah, I think I can, you know, you know, I've said it
35:31
before. Like people are exceptionally
35:35
skilled at overcomplicating things where they definitely
35:38
don't need to be. And I think, I think that like
35:42
we're also kind of you and I hurt are swimming against the
35:45
tide on that or swim against the current of the river right now.
35:48
Like, most people are thinking we need, we need complex
35:51
solutions for complex problems. We're out here.
35:53
Trying to help all the young'uns out and saying, hey guys, it's
35:57
not that difficult. Like, go go with some heavy
36:01
shit, eat some good food, get some good sleep.
36:06
Read books and then you'll figure it out along the way.
36:09
Like it's like all you like, because like we were getting out
36:12
with with the entrepreneurial stuff, like learning how to be
36:15
an entrepreneur. Like I'm going through the paces
36:18
just as much as you are. Right now.
36:19
We're kind of actually exploring it.
36:21
Like parallel to each other as we're doing our own thing, but
36:26
really all you have to do is just like you, you, you learn as
36:30
much as you can and then when it gets to the point of you're
36:33
going to, you're going to find a passion in there.
36:35
You're going to Of something, whether it's, whether you're
36:38
like, Jesse from Fast and the Furious, and you just love
36:40
working on engines, or you're like myself, you love, just
36:42
figuring out how the body works, or you have figured out how
36:46
Bitcoin and lightning network works or you love figured out,
36:50
really, how anything like happens or you're a hair stylist
36:54
or a barber, you love doing that, like, all of that value
36:58
and it's all important value to the system.
36:59
As long as you do it, you enjoy it and you do it.
37:02
Well, All you have to do is be, stay persistent at that point
37:07
and then and then like the value will flow from the market
37:11
towards you. Now, it's also not necessarily
37:16
that easy because you have to like, you know, talk about
37:18
yourself when you get to that point and talk about your
37:21
business and all that stuff, but that's, that's, that's kind of
37:25
superficial surface level stuff. Absolutely love it.
37:29
Yeah, man. It's it's very interesting.
37:32
I think, I think you hit the nail on the head and you said
37:37
it's definitely simple but the follow-through is the hard part
37:40
and that's where people, that's where people, you know, like
37:44
stop on the journey. What's the meme?
37:45
Where the guy's like digging digging for gold and he stops,
37:48
three feet from gold. Like, I think that's what a lot
37:51
of people think it's, especially us, young people, well, because
37:54
it's when the difficulty mounts. Exactly.
37:57
And especially The Young, The Young Ones out there, we've all
38:00
been inundated with social media and we all have this view of
38:04
like, oh, I'm not a 24-year old millionaire, like, I must be a
38:09
failure. I'm not a, you know, a 30 year
38:11
old millionaire. I must be a failure, like, I
38:13
didn't get successful overnight. And it's like, guys, it takes 10
38:16
years to be a success overnight. Like, this is what most people
38:19
don't tell you is that it's going to take hard work.
38:21
It's going to take persistent and the only difference between
38:25
you and someone that successful is not only the mentality.
38:28
But it basically that they didn't stop and they did it
38:31
earlier than you. So just don't fucking stop guys.
38:34
Like this is the simple process and on the mentality thing, I
38:39
actually wrote a little bit on this for my, one of my future
38:42
projects this morning on the men.
38:45
The mentality thing is actually one of the biggest ones because
38:49
there's in in psychophysiology and behavioral like behavioral
38:56
therapy, there's been a lot that's come out in the last
39:00
couple of years that they have found that negative thoughts,
39:04
produce an environment within the brain and the body that
39:08
promotes further negative thought.
39:11
So when you're when you're an individual that's ruminating on
39:14
negative thoughts, you're literally incentivizing your
39:18
brain and your body to produce more negative thoughts to the
39:21
point of where it just becomes it becomes a almost like a
39:24
depression, anxiety, Cascade. And the worst part about that is
39:30
that that's all that almost all of his perception like all of
39:35
it. Because like I was I was very
39:37
much in that same position back 10 years ago to the point of
39:43
where you get stuck in this trap of negative thoughts.
39:47
You don't think you're capable of doing anything to wear.
39:49
Your confidence is at like rock bottom.
39:51
So when you go to try and do anything that's difficult or
39:55
taxing, you don't expect to win. So you don't put as much effort
39:59
into it. So you basically guarantee your
40:02
own failure, and the hard part is that you have to really you
40:07
have to really train yourself, like through self-talk and all
40:10
sorts of other stuff, which I had to practice as well.
40:13
I guess it's never easy. Like, you have to, you have to
40:16
get to this point where You have to rationalize away, the
40:20
negative shit like and I apologize.
40:23
It's very like life coaching and self helpy and it's kind of
40:26
cringy, but it's like a very real problem that needs to be
40:30
addressed. And you have to get to the point
40:32
of where when you're having those negative thoughts.
40:35
Like you don't think you can do something.
40:38
You really have to think about the bigger picture in the sense
40:40
of, okay, you don't think you can do it.
40:43
But what's the, what's the alternative?
40:46
Are you just not going to try? Are you going to go works?
40:48
Like shitty dead-end job, you're going to just like, get further
40:51
into the depression thing or is taking this risk worth it.
40:54
Because at least you still have a chance to success.
40:57
And I'm not saying taking a risk in the sense of going all-in,
41:00
100x on bitcoin or some stupid shit like GameStop.
41:04
Like you have to put in you have to have real intent and you have
41:07
to have real research real thought behind it but if you
41:12
really want to start like changing your circumstances, you
41:14
have to change the way you think about your own circumstances
41:16
first. 100%, I tried to avoid necessarily talking too much
41:25
about this because it does sound very whoo of like oh, you know,
41:28
self-help life life, coach stuff.
41:30
But like this is the only reason why I'm here today is because I
41:35
wanted to fundamentally understand, not only how the
41:38
mind works but what reality was. And that's one of the things,
41:41
I've understand, the most like, your brain doesn't know any
41:44
difference from negative and positive thoughts.
41:46
It just it's pretty much binary. It's like Like whatever you
41:49
think your reality is, what's the Henry Ford quote?
41:52
Whether you think you can or you can't like you're right, yeah.
41:54
This is like how your how your life is.
41:57
So like that's the important literally, that's why my name is
41:59
Optimus Fields, like I try to just be as positive and hopeful
42:03
about the future as possible because I understand the power
42:06
of your thoughts. Like if you truly understand how
42:09
your mind works in the power of your thought, you'd never think
42:11
a negative thought in your life and this is part of the process.
42:14
I think, as bitcoiners, we do harp a lot about the negativity
42:17
in the world. And this is why you and I have
42:20
really delve deep into hey bitcoiners, we could do a little
42:25
better in our messaging is one of the most important things
42:29
that I've learned lately. It's like, okay, if we're honest
42:33
with ourselves then as bitcoiners aren't doing that.
42:37
Good of a job with the Bitcoin message because there'd be more
42:40
bitcoiners if we were doing a great job.
42:43
And I think it's back to this whole idea of as much as as we
42:49
need to point out the problems, we need to give people the
42:51
solutions and paint it in a positive way so that more people
42:55
want to fix their life to get better.
42:58
And actually, Mike, you and I kind of talked about this, I
43:01
don't know if it was in the space or if it was just like
43:04
back and forth in DMS or what have you but it was this idea of
43:08
someone said, like Bitcoin content creators are hardly
43:11
talking about Bitcoin anymore and it's bad back to this whole
43:15
idea of like yeah, we understand fix the money, you know.
43:18
You can understand the technical is around Bitcoin.
43:20
But what's also going on around, this is people like fixing their
43:23
minds and fixing their lives are around this North Star.
43:26
That is Bitcoin and I think that's just as important as
43:29
anything else going on in the world because like hey just
43:33
saving money, you know, saving Bitcoin isn't the end-all be-all
43:36
of every problem in the world. It's just the start.
43:38
Yeah well maybe and so this gets into another I went on a rant
43:42
and toxic happy hour and I apologize.
43:43
I kind of I kind of dragged Anders and puppy through that
43:46
entire and like the the Through this entire kind of autistic
43:49
Grant, which I'm about to go on here quickly because I've been
43:53
working on a essay that I think is very, very, very important.
43:58
I would like to put it into like a book format because I have I
44:02
have a friend that has been working on something that's very
44:06
similar or aligned to what I'm about to talk about and I would
44:09
really like for him to have the input into it as well.
44:12
But so like with the simply guys, and with the cafe Bitcoin
44:17
crew, I've talked a lot in the last couple of months, about
44:20
complex, adaptive systems. Basically, a complex adaptive
44:23
system is like, like, just think of it, like a neural network
44:25
like everybody's seen pictures now of like, a neural network is
44:28
just constantly fluctuating and Amorphis and changing.
44:31
And A complex adaptive system is literally like what the body is?
44:36
It's what a national or global economy is its.
44:40
There's a lot of things that are complex adaptive systems and
44:44
these these systems are seeking homogeneity and just constant
44:48
provement, like they're constantly seeking homogeneity
44:52
through all the different area of variables and inputs that
44:53
they're they're adjusting for and seeking balancing.
44:57
But then they also they react to stimuli and will adapt to the
45:01
new stimulus and shift like resource distribution and
45:03
everything throughout. What people don't understand is
45:08
that in order for that kind of system to operate properly, and
45:11
to evolve properly is it needs a unit of measure that is not
45:17
fluctuating. So the obvious example, would be
45:21
Bitcoin versus the Fiat dollar because the Fiat dollar is like
45:25
it's at the win. Ends of humanity and it's like
45:28
it's literally worthless but with something like Bitcoin
45:32
where the whims of humanity, do not affect the distribution or
45:36
the subsidy cycle or anything, it becomes an actual a true
45:40
measurement of economic activity to the point of where you can
45:45
actually start parsing out the in efficiencies in the system.
45:48
Like a great example would be how Bitcoin provides a use case
45:52
for stranded and waste energy. Right?
45:56
another great use case is in when you, when you look at a
46:00
complex adaptive system, in order for a system that system
46:05
to grow and innovate, Every single cell in node has to be
46:11
trying as hard as it can to do whatever its purposes.
46:16
And this means that within the complexes that have two system
46:19
of the US, When you understand how these systems operate, that
46:25
means that every single individual in the United States
46:28
or the world has value has infinite value because every
46:34
single individual basically has infinite potential.
46:37
Now the only way that that system can improve is a through
46:42
a exchange currency, that is a real measurement of efficiency
46:48
game which would be Bitcoin but be As many participants in that
46:53
system had to be essentially chasing their passions.
46:56
They have to because like the one thing that humans do like
47:00
we're we can be really, really good at just about anything, but
47:03
the passion has to be there because if you're not passionate
47:05
about what you're doing, you're not going to really care.
47:07
You're not going to really try to get better at it.
47:09
Or like, even even like the people that have their passions,
47:13
they try to get better at it without even really caring to
47:15
get better at it because they just love doing what they're
47:17
doing. So in this gets into the
47:20
justification and understanding of like I wanted to touch on
47:23
this around the whole masculinity thing in the young
47:26
guys because it's not just young guys.
47:27
It's also young girls like everybody has value.
47:33
But in order for you to have the most value, you are behooved to
47:37
go out and Chase your and find out what your passions are.
47:39
Because when you find out what your passions are, then you can
47:42
really start to iterate on them and practice them.
47:44
And then you can get to the point of being so skilled at,
47:47
it's where you can provide value to the rest of the system, and
47:50
then you can accrue market value out of it, which would be
47:52
Bitcoin. So that I just wanted to bring
47:54
that full circle because, like, people need to understand that
47:57
like, You don't necessarily need politics.
48:01
You don't necessarily need religion.
48:03
You don't necessarily need family to have value for
48:06
yourself and that's again, I got it, I made it super cringey but
48:10
like people need to hear that. Yeah, I'm I gotta love you.
48:29
50 minutes already and I promised the people we'd give
48:32
them some health and nutrition advice.
48:34
So how about you tldr? What's up?
48:38
What would be like, you're very cookie, cutter average, advice
48:45
for everyone out there it regards to either like I don't
48:49
know eating correctly or exercise like I know one already
48:53
you told me before in the past in our spaces again you like the
48:57
food pyramids, a scam, like Every like it's completely fake
49:01
and they're lying to you and I was like yeah duh like so I
49:06
don't know what what a little rabbit hole.
49:08
Do you want to go down in health and nutrition for the last
49:10
couple minutes and then I got one question.
49:12
The roll this out, the cookie cutter.
49:14
Answer would be for anybody that's regardless of where you
49:18
are as far as like being a novice to adopting a more
49:22
healthy lifestyle. You make one change at a time.
49:25
You take, you take scientific method, like you take one change
49:29
at a time. I'm you practice it for anywhere
49:31
from two to six weeks. Get it to the point where it's
49:34
routinized and then you add on a new change because one of the
49:38
problems is that most people try to like they try to go from
49:41
being a sedentary lifestyle, which those who don't know what
49:44
that means is, basically, what I am is just sitting at a desk all
49:47
day. If you, if you like, if you have
49:52
a sedentary lifestyle and then you try to Sprint and then train
49:56
like an athlete, you're going to fail, your, you're not Only
49:59
going to fail because you're not an athlete.
50:01
You're going to fail because you're taking on too much change
50:03
at once and then you're going to over, you're going to burn out.
50:06
You're going to overload yourself.
50:07
You're going to relapse back to your old ways and then going to
50:10
do it for anywhere from like a couple weeks to a couple years
50:14
and then you're going to go back and try it again and then you
50:15
can do the same thing then you're to fail.
50:17
So the like in this is all nothing.
50:20
Like this is like the what I've learned as far as like the
50:23
recipe for success to do one change at a time or one
50:26
Improvement at a time. And you hammer it home.
50:29
Like you get the repetitions in and then you do the next thing
50:33
because like to the point that your again, as I get all sorts
50:37
of questions between like, okay, I need to improve my nutrition.
50:39
I need to prove like, exercising more during the week.
50:42
I need to get better at hydrating.
50:45
I need to get better sleep during the week, like, which one
50:48
do I start with it? Doesn't matter.
50:50
Pick one. And I get it.
50:52
You're going to be Frozen with like choices, but you literally,
50:56
it says again, this is back to the simple.
50:59
Solutions for complex problems, just pick one, pick one, get
51:04
good at it, pick another one, get good at it that that that's
51:07
it. Like, that's all you have to do.
51:10
And as far as far as the nutrition aspect, you want to
51:15
get bang for your buck and nutrition, and that means
51:17
bioavailability and nutrient density.
51:20
Bioavailability is food. That is naturally occurring.
51:24
I have, I don't know if you got, I was going to send it to you, I
51:26
was going to actually bring it up today and I'm glad you
51:28
brought that question up. I don't know if you guys saw but
51:31
there was an article that came out.
51:32
That said, Bill Gates is lab-grown meat causes cancer.
51:35
No shit because it's not naturally occurring, it has to
51:40
be as to be like a food source that occurs naturally because
51:44
that's what Bodies evolved for your body, like produces enzymes
51:49
to specifically breakdown. Very specific naturally,
51:52
occurring products, like glucose fructose lactose protein,
51:58
specifically, animal, protein like all of it.
52:02
Like stop overcomplicating it. You don't need the beyond me.
52:07
It's crap. You don't need freaking Bill
52:09
Gates as crab meat. It's junk like, you don't need
52:12
Oreos, you don't. Literally steak eggs, okay,
52:17
ground beef is a little bit process but you know, sure why
52:19
not whole milk, throwing some fruits and veggies, whatever you
52:23
like whatever you like in there, but specifically you need the
52:26
nutrient density, which is going to be the red, the red meats,
52:30
you know, you can get poultry if you want by.
52:32
I really recommend the red meats and fish.
52:37
Now we're really giving cancel when we tell people to eat, red
52:39
meat garbage for heart disease because of cholesterol which we
52:50
finally found out, it's not cholesterol is causing heart.
52:53
Disease is the freaking inflammation from all the sugar.
52:57
Oof Ben, why sugar? Oh, man, if this is not a
53:05
culmination of the whole Fiat system.
53:07
Now we got a little tiny example in the food system, guys.
53:10
If you read the Fiat standard then you know, that what Mike
53:12
saying is the truth and and it's documented there as well, guys.
53:17
Like this is kind of back to this whole idea that I bring up
53:21
here and I try to hammer out every single day with Mike
53:24
whenever he comes up and we started ranting is this Dia of
53:27
like not only have we been lied to about almost everything in
53:31
our world, but like a very real thing has been stolen from
53:36
stolen from us and that is Health, you know, wealth
53:40
prosperous relationships like living a life that I think a
53:43
true human wants. And this is what the Fiat system
53:47
has stolen from us. And this is why I try to add to
53:51
that conversation with like Mike and other friends is like leg,
53:54
man. You young dudes out there all so
53:57
young Ladies you know you guys want to be fit and healthy as
53:59
well and build a family as well. But I noticed that a lot of
54:04
bitcoiners are very young men and you know this is the stuff
54:08
that I just wish. I knew ten years ago like if
54:11
only left the freaking women that we haven't Bitcoin do like
54:14
the few that are there, freaking awesome.
54:17
Yeah, I agree. 100% agreed and it's like, man, this is how we
54:22
build the world that we really want to see is by what I always
54:26
say, you know, being it mentally being physically and so that we
54:30
can be a shining example of being a big corner.
54:33
And I had this me, my, I know as a lot of Bitcoins have said it,
54:36
but it's very cool. Like, kind of connecting it to
54:38
everything. We said it's very funny that
54:42
like the new another the meme of like the new Counter Culture is
54:47
like just being conservative but it's very funny.
54:49
How like the the new Counter Culture is like doing what your
54:53
great-grandfather was trying to do in the 50s.
54:56
What like we revolted from Like the 60s and it's like you're
54:59
just reverting back to like tradition and like, okay, like
55:02
what doesn't the powers that be want us to do?
55:05
It's like eat red meat, build a family, be strong, mentally be
55:08
strong physically, they wanted his deaf, dumb and blind.
55:11
So like, what are we going to? Do is like, eat eggs.
55:15
You guessed wrong? You know, eliminate all the
55:19
bullshit in our lives, be as positive as possible.
55:22
Be hopeful for our future and like, it literally doesn't have
55:25
to be more complicated than that.
55:27
But obviously, Obviously, as we've been saying, you know,
55:29
like it's not easy. It's just the blueprint is
55:32
simple but you being persistent on that mission is the hard
55:35
part. And it's like, I'd be lying if
55:38
we but I'm assuming that like their days when you wake up when
55:41
you're just like I don't want to fucking do this.
55:45
The fuck. And I think this is just part of
55:47
being like a man, it's like you're not going to always be
55:50
happy and I think actually my this isn't the question but
55:53
what's your idea on like the modern phenomenon on always?
55:57
Being happy. I don't know what that means.
56:01
Like, all right. You see it on social media?
56:04
We are you know, digital basically digitally native the
56:08
first generation of digital media me.
56:10
Like you mean, like it's more popular in the female circles,
56:14
but like, self-love it pretty much like, yeah, it's always be.
56:22
No, I agree. I agree.
56:59
Now. I love it.
57:14
What you say? Self-love is self-development.
57:17
I couldn't be more II. You know it's very interesting
57:21
because I definitely came from like what culture?
57:24
I am a Californian currently yeah exactly.
57:30
So why I say it as a joke I went full woke and then I woke up and
57:34
like I definitely had that like self love, you know thing and
57:38
ever since I basically found Bitcoin and that's why I say you
57:41
know, Bitcoin is a great motivator like Like, I realized
57:45
like yo, you need to improve yourself so that you can get
57:49
better so that you can get more sets so you can provide more
57:51
value and also get more sets and save more shots and it's just
57:56
like a feedback loop of like, okay, build your skills, build
57:59
your body up, build your mind up, learn the things you need,
58:01
so you can acquire more sets. Like this is the game plan,
58:04
obviously it's not easy. Obviously every one of us is an
58:07
individual and we're all coming from at it coming at it from a
58:11
different angle. And there's, you know what I
58:13
have to. Work on is probably not what you
58:15
need to work on but also I kind of want to talk about like guys
58:19
double down on your strengths and fuck your weaknesses and
58:23
like you don't don't focus on the negatives of what you're
58:26
doing, just like get better at what you're good at and it's
58:29
kind of what Mike said, you know, chase Your Passion but
58:31
also I'd be like what what passion aligns with you getting
58:35
paid and providing value to society?
58:38
That's probably the best way and the best Avenue for you to go
58:41
down but I will All I will say. You suck at.
59:10
But if you really want to get great like you and David Goggins
59:13
will probably say that would probably say the same thing like
59:17
you have to really lean into your weaknesses.
59:20
Because like it's just like the whole the chain is only as
59:25
strong as its weakest link, like you're no different like so, for
59:30
example, like, in the gym is like body building is a very
59:33
easy example. Like if your legs are your weak
59:36
point you need to hit legs, you need to hit legs extra hard and
59:41
every every guy wants to go in and like just like bench press,
59:45
you know like 3 or 15 pounds in like beat their chests.
59:48
Like King Kong. But if you got tiny legs, bro,
59:51
it doesn't matter because like the real power is in your legs,
59:54
real powers in your legs and your bag.
59:56
And that's where you get into, like, the whole foundational
1:00:00
kind of philosophy of why? I think that, every male and
1:00:04
every young man needs to like, be trained in the gym first
1:00:07
because you learn a lot of philosophical rules in between
1:00:11
the limits of a squat rack like you do the foundational stuff.
1:00:16
First, you get your, you get your Your legs and your back
1:00:21
secured and strong. Then you can do the fun stuff.
1:00:25
Yeah, nothing's more embarrassing than the guy with
1:00:28
like 21 inch arms and like little chicken legs like bro,
1:00:32
come on. Like you look like you look
1:00:35
tough from the top part. But like you need, you need the
1:00:38
whole picture. And yeah, man, I absolutely, I
1:00:42
couldn't agree more and I had a blast but I want to end this.
1:00:46
I'm pretty sure I already know what you're going to say and
1:00:49
I've been asking everyone the same question and it's a very
1:00:53
simple I will question. And sometimes people answer it,
1:00:56
you know, very, very short. Sometimes we get into a longer
1:00:59
conversation but the question is, is Bitcoin, the most
1:01:02
important invention in humanity in human history.
1:01:09
That's a really good question. I'm gonna say no because Bitcoin
1:01:16
relied on writing first, if writing wasn't around, then
1:01:21
there would have there wouldn't be any cryptography.
1:01:23
And if there wasn't cryptography, there wouldn't be
1:01:24
any Bitcoin. Now, I would say that Bitcoin is
1:01:31
currently the most important thing out there because of all
1:01:36
the Dynamics, we talked about, like, behavioral economics and
1:01:38
demographics, all this other stuff.
1:01:41
It's providing a lot of solutions to a lot of problems
1:01:44
and inefficiencies problems being in the demographic issue
1:01:49
in efficiencies being the power problem, as well as the
1:01:52
infrastructure problem that goes along with the power problem.
1:01:56
But I wouldn't say Bitcoin is the most important thing.
1:01:59
Love it. Absolutely.
1:02:00
Love it. No Fiat.
1:02:02
Smack birth control is not hard to top.
1:02:05
Birth control is a very, very Fiat kind of thing.
1:02:09
Ahava the chat, the chat, all of the chair.
1:02:12
I love the jet. Yeah, the chat, they did, they
1:02:19
are the unsung heroes here. This is what makes it that much
1:02:21
more fun is the people that hang out with us on the chat, but
1:02:25
anyways, I told you it's an hour where a couple minutes over.
1:02:27
So at the very me and Mike, what do you want?
1:02:31
The people to know that you're working on?
1:02:33
When can we expect what you're working on and I'm out, I'm
1:02:37
gonna give you a time clock ETA so that you.
1:02:40
You finish it so that we get it bro.
1:02:42
So what are you working on? You kind of mentioned in the
1:02:44
beginning? Where can people find you all
1:02:46
that good stuff? The substrate can be doctor.
1:02:51
Dude, that sucks. I got conned again and then my
1:02:56
Twitter would be the Michael With two e's.
1:03:00
I pronounce it. The but everybody, for whatever
1:03:03
reason, doesn't pick up on the fact, they'll long evenings to
1:03:05
leaves. So the my Go Bart and then what
1:03:11
I'm working on is, I'm working on building out a website where
1:03:15
I can put. It can be kind of like a
1:03:17
One-Stop shop for like my Bitcoin education stuff, my blog
1:03:23
post on sub stack. My I'm working on putting
1:03:27
together some personal training stuff like online personal
1:03:31
training. So anybody that's interested in
1:03:32
that. But that I'm going to give that
1:03:34
like maybe a month because I'm doing a lot of stuff.
1:03:40
I'm I'm getting preparing a presentation for Bitcoin day out
1:03:47
in Omaha on May 6th. So if you anybody's looking for
1:03:51
a conference circuit to attend, like I'll be out there, I'm
1:03:53
going to be speaking so that should be pretty cool.
1:03:57
It's on Berkshire, Hathaway like weekend.
1:04:00
So I'm obviously going to shit on Berkshire Hathaway A little
1:04:04
bit and so that should be pretty exciting at least for me other
1:04:10
than that I would like to be also be putting together some
1:04:15
stuff for a book or two. I've already got 20 like of
1:04:21
content, to be able to put together a book.
1:04:24
But I need to string everything together and that's an amount of
1:04:27
effort that I'm kind of putting off until I can get some of this
1:04:29
other stuff knocked out. So that's what I'm working on
1:04:33
that. So you can expect and then I'll
1:04:34
be talking about any mixture of macroeconomics and shitposting
1:04:39
on Twitter. If you guys follow me, And he'll
1:04:43
be, he'll be ranting in our spaces whenever I get him up
1:04:47
guys. So yeah, my absolutely love this
1:04:50
hangout for 20 seconds while I roll this out and we get the the
1:04:53
full credits going. So yeah guys, I hope you enjoyed
1:04:58
that conversation. I'll bring Mike back on and let
1:05:02
me know what part do you want is to hit on some more and I'm sure
1:05:06
we can definitely come back and do some more rent.
1:05:08
But again guys if you listen to this if there's anything Thing
1:05:12
you take away, man. It's that we are winning.
1:05:15
All you dudes out there all you women all of us in the younger
1:05:19
generation. There's a lot of us out here.
1:05:21
There's a lot of us without purpose.
1:05:23
There's a lot of us that need the great motivator that is
1:05:26
Bitcoin and it's just a pain us to usher in this world.
1:05:31
You know, if you if you, if you take the fourth turning thesis,
1:05:37
we are that fourth turning generation.
1:05:40
We are the hero generation. And it's going to be upon us
1:05:43
guys. So get yourself mentally
1:05:46
physically fit so that we can Usher in the world.
1:05:48
We want to see and also spread the signal to the young'uns out
1:05:52
there. Do not let them beat their
1:05:54
heads, against the brick wall, we have the solutions.
1:05:58
Let's try to get people to stop focus on the problems.
1:06:01
Because the only thing that matters is the solution in the
1:06:04
solution is Bitcoin, take Bitcoin, in the South custody.
1:06:06
Anyways guys, we will see you tomorrow.
1:06:10
Same time as always 12:15 p.m. eastern time on YouTube, really
1:06:14
appreciate Mike's time. I really, I'm really honored
1:06:17
that you guys like this tto series and so I'll keep bringing
1:06:21
in more friends, will continue down the same things and we'll
1:06:24
just keep. Keep beating the message.
1:06:27
Keep beating the drum guys. Alright, anyways, peace out and
1:06:31
we will see you tomorrow boys and girls.