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Why Bitcoin's 2025 Bull Run Depends on US Election | EP 1002 · Simply Bitcoin

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  It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
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  It's going on forever you're against Bitcoin, you're against
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  freedom Yeah, we're going to simply Bitcoin live your number
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  culture, medic warfare will be your guide through the
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  separation of money and state. Guys, sit back, relax, enjoy the
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  ride. Welcome to the most watched
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  daily Bitcoin live show on YouTube Rumble an X simply
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  Bitcoin. Anyways, I said it.
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  I overemphasized it in the beginning of the emphasized the
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  separation of money and state. And after all, that's what we
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  want. We, we really believe in the
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  theory from the book The Sovereign Individual.
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  And if you're a Bitcoiner, you should have definitely read that
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  book by now. But it's just this theory that
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  the introduction of information technologies and mass scale
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  peer-to-peer communication, whether that's information or
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  money, is really going to be the death of politics.
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  And I believe in that theory over the long term.
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  But what keeps me up at night, what has me worried, reason that
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  we've created this show for you guys is that there's going to be
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  a transitionary period. And during that transitionary
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  period, unfortunately, politics are a thing.
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  We've taken a very neutral approach on simply Bitcoin to be
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  inclusive in our messaging because a lot of people are
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  polarized just because of the situation in in many countries,
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  right. And we believe that, you know,
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  you don't change Bitcoin, Bitcoin changes you.
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  So what we want is for as many people to take the orange pill
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  as possible. However, it's getting to a point
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  where Bitcoin is, you know, jumping the cosm and it is
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  becoming political. Bitcoin itself is apolitical,
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  but what happens if the world adopts a Bitcoin standard is
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  extremely political. So we're single issue voters on
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  simply Bitcoin. And what we do is we support any
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  candidate regardless of their ideology, if they support the
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  orange coin Now here in the United States, realistically,
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  it's going to be Biden versus Trump.
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  Biden many times. And we'll make the case for you
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  guys today. He's walking it back a little
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  bit because it's hurting his poll numbers, but I'll get we'll
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  get to that. During the numbers segment, the
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  reality is that Biden has a pro CBDC stance and an anti Bitcoin
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  stance. Trump has an anti CBDC stance
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  and a pro Bitcoin stance. Not to mention the fact that he
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  said at the Libertarian convention that he's going to
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  release Ross Ulbricht. I don't think it's a coincidence
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  that, you know, the 1st president in U.S. history was
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  convicted of a crime two weeks after he made those
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  announcements. Even if you don't think that
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  there's a direct linkage between the two, you kind of have to
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  zoom out and understand. So on today's episode, we'll
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  make the case for you guys, at least here in the US.
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  And what I'll say is you really have to understand what what our
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  goal is. That's simply Bitcoin.
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  And what your goal should be as a Bitcoiner is fundamentally the
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  separation of money and state. And we support anybody who is
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  going to accelerate that process because the reality is that they
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  can make your life a living hell from a regulatory standpoint if
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  you don't pay attention. Like the attack on self custody
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  is real, right? Even though they're kind of
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  walking it back a little bit. But the the regulatory hostility
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  in certain jurisdictions is real.
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  That's why you see, you've seen this mass exodus of lightning
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  companies leaving the United States, right?
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  That's not a good thing, right? As a Bitcoin entrepreneur, as
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  as, as someone who is trying to build a business in the
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  industry, you don't want that, right?
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  So of course there's freedom country, there's Bitcoin
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  country, El Salvador. But if you like the US or
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  Europe, really it's this is happening everywhere.
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  It's happening in Canada too with Trudeau and you know, his
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  political opponent, which is pro Bitcoin.
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  You know, the uncomfortable pill that Bitcoiners have to swallow
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  is you might not care about politics, but they sure as hell
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  do care about you, right? So, you know, we are going to
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  support and we've already endorsed any candidate who is
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  pro Bitcoin, regardless of their ideology because it's just going
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  to make our lives easier. It's it's going to lead us ever
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  so closer to our goal of the separation of money and state.
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  I mean, freeing Ross, like that's a big effing deal,
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  everybody. So you have to understand what
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  we're up against. You have to understand the
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  establishment, the unit party in Washington, DC, why the unit
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  party is so strong. Hint, hint, the Federal Reserve
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  hint, hint the the money printer.
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  We're against a leviathan. That's really what it's what's
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  happening right now. And that leviathan is fighting
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  back. And that's why you saw, you
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  know, the first time in American history, an ex U.S.
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  President who's currently, you know, going to be in the
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  election in November, you know, get convicted of a crime.
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  So if you stand on a certain ideological level where you you
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  you see Trump as a divisive figure and you don't you dislike
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  him. I understand but frankly I don't
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  care because one guy is anti Bitcoin pro CBDC and the other
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  guy is pro Bitcoin anti CBDC. And I'm only looking at this
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  from the separation of money and state perspective.
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  I think everything else is divide and conquer Fiat politic
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  garbage. So bit corners are going to
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  inherit the earth. I think we're going to be some
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  of the most powerful influential people in the next 5/10/15
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  years. And with power and influence and
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  wealth, you know, you are going to see Bitcoiners in positions
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  of influence. That's the reality.
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  It's like, do you want to be ruled by a tyrannical
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  government? Who who do you want to control?
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  The men with guns, right? You know, like, do you want a
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  pro Bitcoin government like El Salvador or do you want an anti
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  Bitcoin government? Is that the country you want to
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  live in, right? Or you can be OK with moving and
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  adopting that digital nomad lifestyle.
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  That's OK too, right? But if if you don't want to do
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  that, if you want to hold the line, unfortunately, we are at
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  this point in the movie where yes, things are political and
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  unfortunately we have to talk about it just the way it is.
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  It's just simply Bitcoin. And you know, this is the
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  separation of money in state after all.
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  And this is just one part of the milestone.
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  I mean, did you really think that Bitcoin was going to become
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  the world reserve currency without this eventually
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  happening? I anticipated this happening 20
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  and 2028. I didn't think this was going to
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  happen now, but things are obviously happening way, way,
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  way sooner. So anyways, I do want to bring
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  up my legendary code. Always optimistic.
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  How you doing Opti? I'm doing great, man.
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  Life's absolutely wonderful. We're alive.
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  We get to wake up to another beautiful day in paradise.
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  We get the talk on simply Bitcoin.
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  Oh, I guess. Sorry guys.
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  I guess my MIC man restrains really wrecking me.
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  Really wrecking me. Anyways, man, at this point in
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  the movie, Nico, I am just falling into the cliche, man,
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  thinking about the Roman Empire. So I'll probably I'll probably
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  reference that one more time before the show's over.
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  But yeah, man, crazy times. Absolutely love it.
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  It's so good being a Bitcoiner. We just get to watch from the
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  sideline. It's like, it's like watching a
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  a football match or like the gladiators fight and you're just
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  sitting in the sidelines eating popcorn.
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  Like man, oh, look at that one. Go look at oh, look at that,
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  look at that punch. This is great.
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  Anyways, anyways, you did bring up about being a digital nomad.
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  So I want to bring in our guest today shouts out to Evan, AKA
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  Captain Sid Bitcoiner, creator of Rite of Passage.
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  And I think I think there's going to be a great show.
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  But before we move on, Evan, first of all, how you doing
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  today? And then can you give the people
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  out there at LDR of what Rite of Passage is?
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  Good, I'm doing great because I got to ride my motorcycle today
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  and a rite of passage has to do with motorcycles.
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  The rite of passage is a an adventure I designed last year
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  and now I'm I'm trying it out in different formats and doing it
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  in different ways. But basically the idea is to
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  bring BIC winters together to bond with each other and to go
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  through adventures that help them grow personally.
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  And so I did that once last year through a motorcycle trip in
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  Thailand. And now we're doing more
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  motorcycle trips, one in the US, one in Thailand, and then
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  another one that's more like half business, half personal,
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  half adventure in Thailand that I call a mastermind.
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  So yeah, that's right, a passage.
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  Awesome, dude. Well, man, I can't wait to hear
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  more about that during the culture.
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  And it's going to be a spicy episode, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Also, I didn't really optimize the title for views today just
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  because you know, it was a, it was a, you know it was.
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  Hey, are we taking the gloves? Off today, Nico.
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  We're taking the gloves off, brother.
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  I didn't optimize the title for views just because I felt like I
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  needed to cover this just because of the historical
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  precedent where we are in the movie and what you guys could do
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  as individuals in terms of taking agency in action.
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  So guys, we really appreciate if you guys could smash the like
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  slightly move the Overton window in today's episode.
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  things. We are just getting started
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  ladies and gentlemen all right, I'm going to start off with this
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  quote. Things are going to get spicy
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  and we are going to move the F out of the Overton window.
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  We usually don't talk about these things because we try to
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  be inclusive in our messaging. However, I want everyone to
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  understand that this year, specifically in the United
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  States, the regulatory environment is on the ballot.
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  You know, Bitcoins on the ballot, Ross Albrecht's Freedom
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  is on the ballot, Central bank digital currencies is on the
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  ballot. And because of those reasons and
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  only because of those reasons are we going to be talking about
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  these certain topics because all the other policies and you know,
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  political bullshit, like we're not interested in it.
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  We are single issue voters here. It's simply Bitcoin and our main
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  literally our 'cause our purpose is the separation of money and
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  state and empowering individuals by, you know, advocating for
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  self custody and hoping that those individuals use the tool
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  that is Bitcoin to empower themselves to become sovereign
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  individuals. But I do want to read this quote
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  from Plato says if you do not take an interest in the affairs
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  of your government, then you're doomed to live under the rules
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  of fools. Now moving on to my observation
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  from yesterday's event. It's not a coincidence that the
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  1st U.S. President that publicly
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  supported the right to self custody Bitcoin and promised to
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  free Ross. Free Ross was just convicted of
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  a crime. Now I've got to move on to some
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  other things. Moving that Overton window.
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  President Trump was the first US, U.S.
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  President to be convicted in history, First president in U.S.
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  history to not enter a war or leave office wealthier than he
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  arrived. It's interesting a quote that we
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  always use. It's simply Bitcoin.
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  You know, you saw the legacy media attack El Salvador when
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  they adopted a Bitcoin standard, right?
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  And we've always say that the flock is over.
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  The flock is heaviest over the target, right?
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  Here's Cernovich. He's a popular kind of, you
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  know, right wing commentator. And he called us cucks.
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  Essentially. He said you know the crypto
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  cucks are silent pussies, talk tough about taking on the
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  monetary system but don't want to be seen as pro Trump.
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  Truly a revealing moment and proof that they don't have the
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  will to stop what Biden will do to crypto if he wins in
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  November. Here is Nolan love Nolan host of
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  the wake up call. What's it called?
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  Opti The the. Breakup.
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  The Breakup Thank you host of the Breakup.
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  Huge fan of the show. Nolan drops the hot fire, and he
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  went. In this morning, he went in this
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  morning. Yeah, I bet he did.
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  Like we're going to go in this today.
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  Bitcoiners speak up every morning, 8:00 AM.
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  This is what the Fiat apocalypse looks like.
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  We are optimistic about the future and we'll make and we'll
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  make whether America survives or not.
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  And that's a really good point, right?
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  Bitcoin gives you the power to vote with not only your wallet
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  but also your feet. But at the same time, you know,
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  if you want to stay where you live.
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  And I know that the majority of our audience is based in the US
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  and the ones that are based in Canada and Europe, guys, this
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  applies to you. You will have these types of
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  battles in your home, right? You have Trudeau against
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  Polyver. I, I don't know how to pronounce
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  his last name correctly. Europe is just hostile in
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  general because they've, you know, love their central bank
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  digital currencies. But this is coming to you and
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  this is what I want you guys to understand, right?
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  It is Bitcoin or slavery. It is Bitcoin or central bank
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  digital currencies, period. And make no mistake, and we'll
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  get that to the news section. We'll get to that during the
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  news segment. There is literally at most
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  countries on planet Earth are currently in the process of
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  developing central bank digital currencies.
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  Why? Because governments want to
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  retain the power of being able to create money for free that
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  everyone has to work for. They want that special
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  privilege. Why do you think the Washington,
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  DC suburbs are some of the wealthiest in the world?
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  Why do you think that's the case?
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  Like, Washington, DC doesn't produce anything.
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  It's not Los Angeles. It's not New York.
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  Like Los Angeles, entertainment capital of the world, New York,
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  financial capital of the world. You know, Miami's got its own,
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  you know, things. Texas energy capital, energy
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  capital or that's that entire state, right?
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  What the F does Washington DC did?
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  It's nothing. It's their proximity to the
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  money printer by the all the lobbyists get ridiculously
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  wealthy. That's why these politicians are
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  worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  But I'm going to go back to that original comment.
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  First president in U.S. history to not enter a war, leave office
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  wealthier than he'll arrived. And also, he promised to free
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  Ross Ulbricht and he promised the right for bitcoiners to take
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  self custody. He promised to protect
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  bitcoiners taking self custody. Like, I mean, come on, bro.
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  Anyways, moving on, here's Alex Gladstein.
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  US legislation has been drafted to classify not reusing Bitcoin
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  addresses as mixing. There's also efforts to force
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  unhosted wallet providers to collect user info for taxes.
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  Did we call that or did we not call that?
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  Yes, That means if you're using Sparrow, if that, if you're
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  using Electron, they're literally trying to pass laws
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  right now that Wood Forest KYC onto those wallets, which would
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  defeat the entire purpose because all of a sudden, you
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  know, depending on where you happen to be born in, you're not
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  allowed to use a Bitcoin wallet. No, no, you can't do that.
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  They're forcing the existing system onto Bitcoin because they
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  want that privilege of being able to create money for free.
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  Here is Ryan Selkis and him and David Bailey, CEO of CEO and CEO
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  of Bitcoin Magazine have been doing in my opinion, the most in
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  terms of the political lobbying and stuff in, in, in, in behalf
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  of the respected industries of the crypto industry.
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  And David Bailey on behalf of the Bitcoin industry.
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  And that's why Trump named Bitcoin by name during his
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  speech during the Libertarian conference.
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  So here's what Ryan says. I got into crypto and I have
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  worked tirelessly and fervently for this industry because I
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  believe it protects and extends American constitutional values,
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  free speech, self-defense from a corrupt state, private property,
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  due process, decentralization and peaceful revolution.
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  Now here's David Bailey, you know, mentioning some things
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  that have happened to Trump and again, moving the Overton window
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  slightly slightly a little bit more media smeared on, smeared
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  him, FBI spied on him. Russia gate witch hunt, special
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  mail in election, impeachment twice censored from all social
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  media, home raided, assets seized, politically prosecuted
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  in four phony trials and still going to be re elected president
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  now censored from social media. Sounds interesting.
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  Now let me go back to this right.
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  So first US president to leave office in modern history and not
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  be wealthier than he arrived. He didn't enter a war.
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  He got censored on social media. I mean sounds familiar, doesn't
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  it? It's almost as if, you know, the
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  establishment, the same establishment that is funded by
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  the Fiat money printer almost that's it's almost as if they
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  see him as a clear and present danger.
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  And by the way, this isn't just Trump, this is RFK Junior.
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  You're seeing the rise of populism.
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  It's not really just on one ideological side.
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  It's happening on both sides. That's what RFK is doing.
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  And you know, that's what Trump is doing as well.
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  And by the way, you know, look at the Overton window shifting.
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  Check it. Take a look at this Fiat enabled
• 23:08
  war, all wars in the past century.
• 23:11
  Bitcoin lets us live up to our promises, says RFK junior.
• 23:17
  So for anyone who just can't stand Trump and detest Trump,
• 23:21
  yeah, you got RFK Junior too. Just understand that if you vote
• 23:25
  for Biden in November, you're voting for a pro central bank
• 23:29
  digital currency candidate and an anti Bitcoin candidate.
• 23:34
  Now what's really interesting and I'll, I'll leave it with
• 23:36
  this last bit with David Bailey and this is the reality and
• 23:41
  everyone has to understand this. The reality is that America was
• 23:45
  captured a long time ago, decades ago.
• 23:47
  The justice system is broken, the political system is broken,
• 23:51
  the medical system is broken, the culture is broken and the
• 23:53
  money is broken. Our only hope for arrival is
• 23:58
  Bitcoin. It's all that matters.
• 24:01
  And that's what I want people to internalize and for people to
• 24:05
  understand because I like, I get that you might feel a certain
• 24:12
  way about certain political candidates and you might detest
• 24:16
  them, but what I got to say is you're brainwashed by the media.
• 24:22
  That's what I got to say. You're not understanding what
• 24:27
  you're not understanding. You're not grasping the bigger
• 24:29
  picture. This is why we start simply
• 24:33
  Bitcoin all the time. Our goal is the separation of
• 24:36
  money and state. You want to be able to afford a
• 24:39
  home as a millennial or zoomer? Bitcoin fixes this.
• 24:45
  Not politicians, not Trump, not RFK Junior, not Biden.
• 24:49
  Bitcoin fixes this, but it can only fix it.
• 24:53
  It's going to fix it regardless. But if you want to be able to
• 24:56
  live a good life in your jurisdiction and you don't want
• 25:00
  to be persecuted, you don't want to be put in a box like the
• 25:04
  Samurai wallet, developers like the Tornado Cash, developers
• 25:08
  like Ross Ulbricht, right? You're seeing the laws that
• 25:11
  they're trying to pass. So I'm making the case for you
• 25:14
  guys. They are literally trying to
• 25:17
  pass a law that if you don't use a wallet that collects KYC
• 25:24
  information, they're going to put you in a box.
• 25:27
  Meanwhile, they're spending trillions of dollars more than
• 25:31
  they collect in tax revenue. They're sending billions to fund
• 25:35
  another foreign fucking war with the most heavily armed country
• 25:40
  on the face of the planet has the most nukes in the world,
• 25:44
  right? Let's just keep funding these
• 25:46
  God damn politicians. Let's keep doing that, right?
• 25:49
  No, no, no, but you, we have to make sure we know where every
• 25:53
  single dollar is going. But us not Sorry, guys.
• 25:57
  Like, you know, the Pentagon lost a couple billion in the
• 26:00
  counting up. Oops, can't explain it.
• 26:03
  Where's the gold at? Fort Knox.
• 26:05
  Where's that? Haven't seen that in the 70s.
• 26:08
  El Salvador is the problem, ladies and gentlemen.
• 26:10
  Remember, they're an issue to the United States.
• 26:13
  It's only a $32 billion economy. And you know, they just made
• 26:19
  their Bitcoin reserves completely public.
• 26:21
  But somehow they're a threat to democracy because that's what
• 26:24
  they've been saying, right? No, it's not a threat to
• 26:28
  democracy. It's a threat to the status quo.
• 26:31
  That's what is happening. That's what you have to
• 26:33
  understand. And people like RFK, people like
• 26:39
  Trump are trying to take on that system in the traditional world,
• 26:45
  in the traditional sense, in the traditional Fiat system.
• 26:48
  So it kind of creates a situation where the enemy of
• 26:51
  your enemy is your friend. Now Biden administration, and I
• 26:55
  think Elizabeth Warren and Co have realized that, oh, crap, we
• 27:00
  took a step too far. This isn't popular with our
• 27:04
  voter base. That's why the Ethereum ETF got
• 27:07
  approved. And This is why you hear news
• 27:09
  like this. Biden campaign ramps up crypto
• 27:13
  industry outreach in surprising tone shift.
• 27:17
  That is utter bullshit and I'll tell you why it's bullshit.
• 27:20
  We're going to move the Overton window even more, All right, And
• 27:23
  we don't talk about this ever, but I'm going to talk about it.
• 27:27
  You can't be a pro Bitcoin and pro CBDC politician.
• 27:33
  Any other politician that says otherwise, it's a complete and
• 27:37
  utter fraud. You can't have that.
• 27:39
  You can't be pro CBDC and you can't be pro Bitcoin.
• 27:44
  That doesn't exist. It literally contradicts each
• 27:46
  other. The reason that they're changing
• 27:48
  tune is because holy shit, this is unpopular with a portion of
• 27:53
  their demographic voter base. Now, let's take a look at the
• 27:59
  data, right? This, you know, put the emotions
• 28:03
  aside. Let's take a look at, you know,
• 28:06
  don't trust verify. Let's take a look at this
• 28:09
  because this is what actually happened.
• 28:11
  There was a bill that was passed that would ban the Federal
• 28:16
  Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency. 213
• 28:22
  Republicans, meaning basically the entire party voted for the
• 28:27
  bill. 3 Democrats voted for the bill. 192 Democrats voted
• 28:35
  against the bill. So when you see this, this is
• 28:41
  pandering. That's the reality.
• 28:43
  When you see this, it tells you exactly what's going on.
• 28:47
  Now we're going to move the Overton window slightly more and
• 28:53
  we're going to talk about some things.
• 28:55
  So what what is the what are the consequences of these anti
• 29:03
  Bitcoin policies? The regulatory hostility by the
• 29:06
  way, Caitlyn Long, the CEO and founder of Custodia bank, though
• 29:11
  EU s s first quote UN quote crypto bank that is fully
• 29:15
  reserved got denied a federal banking charter.
• 29:18
  She came on simply Bitcoin IRL and she told me that order came
• 29:22
  directly from the White House. So you have Bitcoin privacy
• 29:25
  developers jailed. You have the 1st U.S.
• 29:28
  President to support Bitcoin that that has a chance at
• 29:32
  winning jailed. You have a proposed 30% Bitcoin
• 29:37
  mining tax. You have lightning companies
• 29:40
  pulling out of the US in mass. Now you have to ask yourself,
• 29:44
  and we're going to move the Overton window slightly more
• 29:46
  once again, why? Why are they pro CBDC?
• 29:50
  I'll break it down 5th 10 into the Communist manifesto.
• 29:54
  Optium going there. No Celt, no central bank, no
• 29:59
  wealth redistribution via inflation, no equality.
• 30:03
  Simple as that. You can't have equality without
• 30:06
  taking other people's money and giving it to someone else.
• 30:09
  You can't have that. You need effective wealth
• 30:12
  redistribution mechanisms. That's the only way it happens.
• 30:16
  You can't do that without effective coercive means.
• 30:20
  Can't do it. So in my opinion, right, they're
• 30:26
  going to have to reinvent themselves.
• 30:27
  They're going to have to reinvent how they look at this
• 30:31
  because I do fundamentally believe with a lot of Bitcoiners
• 30:35
  that are coming at it from the progressive stance.
• 30:38
  Because I do believe that Bitcoin gives anyone around the
• 30:42
  world the ability to use money and the ability to transact with
• 30:47
  everyone freely. It gives them the opportunity,
• 30:50
  specifically the lower and middle classes, the ability to
• 30:54
  protect themselves from the ravages of inflation, because
• 30:58
  inflation affectss the lower and middle classes the most.
• 31:02
  But the central planning part of that, it is incompatible with
• 31:08
  Bitcoin. The redistribution of that is
• 31:13
  incompatible with Bitcoin. Not from an income tax
• 31:17
  standpoint. That's a whole other discussion,
• 31:19
  which I don't want to get into. But you have to understand that
• 31:22
  the wealth redistribution for equality comes from two places,
• 31:29
  Direct income tax, which doesn't pay for the entirety of the
• 31:34
  bill, and wealth redistribution via money printing. the US spent
• 31:42
  1.7 trillion more than it collected in tax revenue last
• 31:46
  year. When you hear politicians
• 31:48
  offering free college, offering all this free shit, where do you
• 31:53
  think it's coming from? Like it's not free dude.
• 31:59
  This is what you have to understand is people are just
• 32:02
  not aware to the hidden tax of inflation, but it exists.
• 32:06
  It's like they're taking $100 out of your front, out of your
• 32:10
  back pocket and giving you 5 bucks in return.
• 32:14
  And you're like, oh, this is this is cool.
• 32:16
  The numbers stay the same. It still says $100 but it's lost
• 32:20
  $5 or $20.00 of purchasing power.
• 32:23
  And then they're giving you cents back and saying, oh, it's
• 32:25
  free college. Great.
• 32:28
  So anyways, moving on. And I can't emphasize this
• 32:33
  enough. There's opportunity here for
• 32:40
  both sides, both ideological sides, but the establishment,
• 32:44
  the Uniparty of Washington DC, the party, and on the
• 32:49
  conservative side to the neocons that believe in the endless
• 32:52
  wars. And you can't have endless wars
• 32:55
  without a money printer, bro. That needs to change and it
• 33:00
  needs to change on all sides. And that's what RFK and that's
• 33:05
  what Donald Trump represent. And that's exactly why the
• 33:10
  legacy media has targeted them. That's exactly why and part of
• 33:15
  the reason that they literally convicted this guy.
• 33:19
  That's literally the reason that Ross Ulbricht went to prison.
• 33:23
  This is literally the reason that Edward Snowden can't come
• 33:26
  back to the US. This is literally the effing
• 33:29
  reason that Julian Assange is still in a fucking box.
• 33:33
  This is what we're up against. We're up against the law, the
• 33:36
  leviathan of the administrative state, the unelected bureaucracy
• 33:40
  that remains in power regardless of who gets elected, that is
• 33:44
  fueled by the government's monopoly, its ability to create
• 33:49
  money for free that the rest of us have to have to work for.
• 33:53
  And this just has disproportionately hurt the
• 33:59
  millennials, the zoomers that have completely lost an ability
• 34:04
  to be able to purchase their first home.
• 34:07
  It has completely stolen their time, their energy, and it has
• 34:12
  fueled this churn House of war, death and destruction.
• 34:20
  And on the ballot in November, it's an opportunity to end that,
• 34:25
  to make a change. You have RFK or you have Trump.
• 34:31
  Realistically, it's really going to be Biden versus Trump.
• 34:37
  If Trump wins or if RFK wins, we have a pro Bitcoin president in
• 34:42
  the White House, giving Bitcoin time to shine, giving Bitcoin
• 34:47
  entrepreneurs the ability to, you know, innovate in the United
• 34:52
  States. Or you have someone who will
• 34:57
  attack the industry. Try to introduce a central bank
• 35:03
  digital currency, which we'll get to during the news.
• 35:07
  And you'll have your kids living in a slavery system That that
• 35:11
  that's literally the choices at hand.
• 35:14
  And that's what people have to fundamentally understand.
• 35:16
  And guys, this is not about fucking politics.
• 35:18
  I can care less about all the other fucking issues because all
• 35:22
  the other issues are not only divide and conquer, but their
• 35:27
  symptoms of broken money. That's, you know, that's really
• 35:33
  what it boils down to it. Stacey Herbert has this quote
• 35:37
  that she always references. I forget what the exact quote is
• 35:42
  and who that person was, but basically it goes along the
• 35:46
  lines of if the leaders of the country are stealing, they'll
• 35:55
  make laws in order to protect that.
• 35:59
  And make no mistake, the swamp of Washington DC is stealing the
• 36:05
  lifeblood out of everybody. Remember why Bitcoin was
• 36:09
  invented? Remember why Bitcoin was
• 36:12
  discovered? 2008 Chance genesis block
• 36:15
  chancellor on the brink of the 2nd bailout for banks.
• 36:19
  Satoshi knew that they were just going to continue printing
• 36:24
  money, therefore debasing people's purchasing power.
• 36:28
  And remember that no effing banker went to jail for what
• 36:35
  happened in 2008. 2009 Julian Assange went to jail.
• 36:42
  Ross Albrook went to jail. Bitcoin privacy developers went
• 36:46
  to jail. They want to pass a law that if
• 36:48
  you don't use a KYC Bitcoin wallet, you're going to go to
• 36:51
  jail. The 1st president in U.S.
• 36:53
  history that has a chance at winning the election to support
• 36:57
  Bitcoin and free Ross convicted of a crime, potentially going to
• 37:00
  jail. I hope you guys understand.
• 37:03
  I hope you guys get the picture, and I hope you guys have the
• 37:08
  consciousness and the ability to look past the partisan bullshit
• 37:13
  and understand the clear and present danger and understand
• 37:17
  the leviathan of which we are up against.
• 37:21
  Because they're not just going to go gently into that good
• 37:24
  night. They're not just going to give
• 37:26
  up. This is a tremendous amount of
• 37:29
  power. Power is intoxicating.
• 37:34
  So I hope you guys have the maturity and the ability to
• 37:38
  understand what's at stake, to understand what's going on.
• 37:43
  We're Bitcoiners, we take self custody.
• 37:45
  We can always move to El Salvador, right?
• 37:49
  But if you want to stay in Europe or in the United States
• 37:52
  or in Canada, there gets there gets to a point where you have
• 37:59
  to stand up and you have to fight metaphorically for what is
• 38:02
  right, even though it might not be popular.
• 38:06
  And Opti will be the first one to tell you.
• 38:09
  I mean, when he brought up trunch Trump derangement
• 38:12
  Syndrome, I went off on him because I was like, dude, like
• 38:17
  you can't say that I want to be inclusive on the show.
• 38:23
  But when the first time in American history they convict
• 38:30
  the, the, the opponent of, of the politician, yeah, you got to
• 38:39
  say some shit, bro. You got to say something.
• 38:42
  You got to say something. And this is serious.
• 38:44
  This is a big deal. So again, I'm going to say it
• 38:48
  simply Bitcoin endorses Donald Trump for president and 2024.
• 38:52
  And simply Bitcoin endorses RFK junior in 2024.
• 38:57
  And we are vehemently against the Biden administration and we
• 39:02
  do not wish them to win re election because they are
• 39:06
  fundamentally anti freedom. And I can literally just tell
• 39:10
  you that because they voted for a central bank digital currency,
• 39:15
  which we'll get into more in detail during the new segment.
• 39:20
  So anyways, that's my bid on that.
• 39:24
  And yeah, it. But anyways, Opti, what's your
• 39:28
  take on all this brother? All right, all right.
• 39:30
  Well, first and foremost. Nico Jones is so.
• 39:33
  Back we're so back all right bet this is this is great OK going
• 39:39
  all the way back because that was a great long monologue and
• 39:42
  people are like when's this monologue going in It's like
• 39:44
  this these are the things that need to be said first and
• 39:46
  foremost there's a point there where you said we predicted this
• 39:49
  and and I love when Bitcoin is the basis of your worldview it's
• 39:53
  the best filter for predicting the future and once you
• 39:56
  understand the Bitcoin fundamentals you can I wouldn't
• 39:58
  say you can see everything coming at you, but you can start
• 40:01
  to parse the information and start to predict the future,
• 40:04
  which is probably one of the best things about being a bit
• 40:06
  corner and me and Evan and Nico before the show you know we were
• 40:10
  talking and we kind of talked about this for a little bit and
• 40:14
  we both we all kind of agreed like look it's simple who's
• 40:17
  going to steal less money from me and that's who I like and if
• 40:20
  one side's fighting bit corners and the other side is starting
• 40:23
  to come out for bit corners it's like it seems pretty simple to
• 40:26
  me but the bottom line remains the same fake money or.
• 40:29
  Broken money or whatever you want to call it, that's the
• 40:32
  reason why we're here and This is why we're seeing all of this
• 40:35
  crazy stuff that's happening in the 1st place.
• 40:37
  But look, with that being said, I'll have to do apsa context
• 40:42
  here. Like I'm not thoroughly informed
• 40:44
  on the details of this. So, you know, take what I'm
• 40:46
  going to say with a with a grain of salt.
• 40:48
  I get my I get my news from Twitter, so you know how it
• 40:51
  goes. But it does seem with what we
• 40:55
  saw yesterday that it's becoming very clear and again, going back
• 40:59
  to what I was saying about predictions that a lot of people
• 41:03
  are are seeing what us bit corners have seen for a long
• 41:05
  time. And it's just the pure
• 41:07
  illegitimacy of the institutions.
• 41:10
  And now people that have been holding out and holding hope and
• 41:13
  like, oh, no, like there's still, you know, a rule of law
• 41:16
  and, and just like work through work through the institutions
• 41:20
  and and, you know, justice will prevail.
• 41:21
  Whether you are on the, you know, the opposite view is a
• 41:25
  totally other conversation. But I think it's becoming very
• 41:27
  clear to most people that they have completely lost faith in
• 41:32
  the justice systems, in the financial systems, in the
• 41:36
  information systems, as we've been predicting for a long time.
• 41:40
  And I think yesterday is a big example for a lot of people that
• 41:45
  the system is completely rigged and unfair against those that
• 41:49
  don't have popular opinions. And imagine us average everyday
• 41:53
  people. Like if this is the case with an
• 41:55
  ex president, there is no hope for any single one of us.
• 41:58
  Like if you for if you, you know, you litter on the street,
• 42:02
  it's like off to the gulags. You know, we talk about that all
• 42:04
  the time that like the gulags are going to be super lit
• 42:07
  because we're all going to be there and it's going to be the
• 42:09
  best place. But it's becoming very clear
• 42:13
  that if you weaponize the law, at a certain point you will be
• 42:17
  on the opposite side of the metaphorical gun.
• 42:19
  Since we are on YouTube here. But I think yesterday, at least
• 42:24
  for people on the right as Bitcoiners, we've known this for
• 42:26
  a very long time, is that the powers that be have damaged
• 42:30
  their reputation and have exposed their own hypocrisy and
• 42:33
  exposed their misinformation. Or as we were talking about
• 42:38
  yesterday, the the pre bunking of information.
• 42:41
  Now I think a lot of people are waking up to what bit corners
• 42:44
  have known for a long time is that everything is fake.
• 42:47
  Everything you hear from coming out from the institutions, every
• 42:49
  word coming out from a politician's mouth is completely
• 42:51
  fake. And you know, whether you like
• 42:54
  Trump or not, I think it's very important to remember a
• 42:58
  fundamental axiom that I think a lot of us notice.
• 43:01
  And Nico, you kind of brought it up like you get the most Flack
• 43:03
  when you're over the target. It's the idea that when the
• 43:06
  system attacks someone, it's usually a good signal that maybe
• 43:12
  they are doing something that the system doesn't like.
• 43:15
  And in this moment of today, trying to clear through all of
• 43:19
  the noise, it's becoming very clear who may potentially be an
• 43:24
  enemy to the system in all of the craziness we are seeing
• 43:28
  here. And I think this just goes back
• 43:30
  to what we've been saying. This isn't information war.
• 43:32
  We are all frontline soldiers. And I think this highlights, at
• 43:36
  least for a lot of people, just how much of A sham the
• 43:39
  institutions are. And when the system attacks
• 43:42
  someone, it should be a a shining light of, OK, maybe I
• 43:46
  need to reflect. And, you know, maybe I don't
• 43:49
  agree with everything someone's saying.
• 43:51
  But if the whole brunt of the force of the system's attacking
• 43:55
  him, then maybe there's something that I need to look
• 43:57
  into and try to avoid, you know, falling into like just pure.
• 44:02
  I don't like this guy. And so I'm glad that he got
• 44:05
  convicted or like he deserves this type of stuff because
• 44:08
  again, always go back to if I was in a position, obviously I
• 44:12
  think of myself a good person, but you never know at at this
• 44:15
  point. It's becoming like the laws are
• 44:17
  being made in real time to just attack freedom loving people,
• 44:20
  attack anyone that the the powers that be don't like.
• 44:25
  And personally, I don't even like Trump that much.
• 44:27
  Like I I just find him kind of hilarious at at like he's a very
• 44:31
  good speaker. I don't even like him that much.
• 44:33
  I don't even. I know, I know, I know, I know.
• 44:36
  Thing to do with. Trump but that's what I'm saying
• 44:38
  I see people in the chat and even people with like Bitcoin
• 44:40
  handles in their name and stuff like like I'm voting for it's
• 44:43
  like, OK, dude, Do you, do you realize that you're voting for
• 44:46
  someone who is anti Bitcoin and pro central bank digital
• 44:51
  currencies? Like like that's where like
• 44:53
  your, your, your, your priorities are.
• 44:55
  Are like not you're not thinking about this clearly 'cause if we
• 45:00
  want the separation of money and state, the exact opposite of the
• 45:04
  separation of money and state is a fucking central bank digital
• 45:08
  currency. If there's a regulatory
• 45:11
  environment where Bitcoin is allowed to do its thing, like
• 45:14
  it's allowed to cook, over time, it's going to even defeat the
• 45:18
  dollar, right? But if you create a regulatory
• 45:21
  environment where literally lightning companies are fleeing,
• 45:25
  developers are getting arrested, they're going to try to KYC
• 45:28
  wallets. Like, dude, like, what are you
• 45:31
  doing? Like, what are you?
• 45:31
  What? Like what are you thinking?
• 45:33
  You're so ideologically brainwashed that you can't see
• 45:37
  past the bigger picture and understand that it's like, it's
• 45:41
  not about the orange man. It's not about the policy.
• 45:45
  All the other policies, we haven't mentioned them once on
• 45:47
  this show, it's literally the fact that Bitcoin is on the ball
• 45:51
  ballot and Ross Ulbricht's freedom is on the ballot.
• 45:55
  And there's two guys that will do that.
• 45:58
  And then there's one guy that will do the exact opposite.
• 46:01
  So if you're a Fiat maxi, vote for Biden.
• 46:04
  If you're a your Bitcoin maxi, vote for RFK or vote for Trump.
• 46:09
  Like it's as simple as that. And if you can't get past like,
• 46:13
  like you're, you're, you're like the ideological stuff, like
• 46:17
  dude, like, like you're not your, your head's not in the
• 46:21
  game. Like, like you're not thinking
• 46:23
  clearly. Like you're thinking straight up
• 46:25
  about like the divide and conquer bullshit and all the
• 46:30
  talking points that they use in the media, which we have never
• 46:33
  used on this show. We've tried not to use on this
• 46:35
  show. We've literally just been
• 46:37
  focused on what is the goal. The goal is separation of money
• 46:41
  and state because that will make politics irrelevant over the
• 46:44
  long run, of which we all hate that stuff.
• 46:47
  And that will make that will empower you, the sovereign, that
• 46:50
  will empower you to become a sovereign individual and that
• 46:53
  will protect you from monetary debasement, right?
• 46:56
  So like, you know, like it's one step in that right direction.
• 47:00
  It's one step in that direction. You have one step in that
• 47:03
  direction or you have a step in another direction.
• 47:06
  And then it's like like, you know, two years from now you're
• 47:09
  like, oh wow, like they just KYC the wallets.
• 47:12
  It's like, dude, like you that that's what's on the like we're
• 47:15
  telling you like that's what's on the ballot, right?
• 47:18
  So it's like, I'm going to leave it to you guys.
• 47:20
  Like, you know, I tried to make the case and it's really up to
• 47:24
  you guys to take into, you know, agency in action.
• 47:28
  But you know, like, don't be surprised if shit gets worse if
• 47:33
  the country goes a certain direction.
• 47:34
  Anyways, I wanna get we are going fucking long.
• 47:39
  We're gonna go long today, it's fine or whatever.
• 47:42
  The last thing that I wanna say is the acceleration I think just
• 47:45
  went into OverDrive yesterday and we're seeing a hard fork of
• 47:48
  reality and as bit corners, we all kind of study history at
• 47:53
  certain points. And again, you know, the classic
• 47:56
  thinking of the Roman Empire meme.
• 47:58
  This has happened before and it happened at the fall of the
• 48:00
  Roman Empire where, you know, one side is attacking the other
• 48:04
  political side and it's like where it's just it's just
• 48:07
  repeating itself. Cycles don't rhyme or what's it?
• 48:10
  They don't repeat, but they rhyme.
• 48:11
  We're we're seeing this play out over and over and over again
• 48:14
  until we finally get the money out of their hands until we
• 48:17
  finally start to defund their power and get back to a hard
• 48:20
  money standard. All right, Evan, go.
• 48:24
  I think you're muted. There you go.
• 48:30
  There you go. So so I got some thoughts on
• 48:31
  this. I left the country four years
• 48:34
  ago. I'm originally American.
• 48:35
  I grew up outside Chicago, but that gave me some distance and
• 48:39
  perspective on American politics.
• 48:42
  Living abroad and not really talking to many Americans.
• 48:46
  There is a huge incentive for both sides to keep us fighting
• 48:51
  and to create a division over ideological lines that both
• 48:55
  sides will never budget on. So they're always fighting.
• 48:58
  And that means that we are yelling at each other about all
• 49:01
  these issues that will never get resolved.
• 49:03
  We'll never convince the other side, but they can continue to
• 49:07
  fleece us because we're so busy with those issues that we never
• 49:10
  pay attention to the real issues, being the money printer,
• 49:14
  the main one. But more importantly, I think
• 49:17
  what I've noticed about that talking to Americans since I
• 49:21
  left is that it keeps us distracted.
• 49:25
  It drains our energy, it drains our agency, and it diminishes
• 49:29
  our ability to make our lives better, to work on ourselves and
• 49:33
  our families and our communities, on the broader
• 49:36
  society. It literally diminishes the
• 49:39
  ability of every American to make their surroundings better.
• 49:43
  Which really, you can vote for someone that's in DC, but most
• 49:48
  of you are never going to go to DC.
• 49:50
  You're never going to be affected by most of those
• 49:52
  policies. What matters is what you are
• 49:54
  doing at home right there with the people around you.
• 49:57
  That's where you can have a real impact.
• 50:00
  And creating this fake fight means your energy is trade.
• 50:05
  I saw this with people that I lived with in the in New York
• 50:07
  City before I left the US. The anti Trump mania that people
• 50:13
  shut down because they're so angry about this, the situation
• 50:17
  that really doesn't affect their daily life at all.
• 50:19
  But they then didn't have any agency to do anything about
• 50:23
  their lives. It it drained them.
• 50:26
  And I think this is an extremely important point because to build
• 50:31
  sovereignty in all the other places that matter in your life
• 50:35
  is extremely important. And I'm going to say something
• 50:37
  controversial here for a Bitcoin show, but if you're working a
• 50:40
  nine to five year shopping at the grocery store and you think
• 50:43
  stacking SAS is going to save you, you are absolutely fucked.
• 50:47
  You are done because you have no idea how to generate income
• 50:51
  without an employer. You have no idea how to get food
• 50:53
  that isn't within an agro industrial system that provides
• 50:57
  you through the grocery store. You have no idea how to be
• 50:59
  independent, separate from all these centralized systems.
• 51:03
  So as soon as they ask you to bend the knee, like with COVID,
• 51:07
  you have very few tools except your stack.
• 51:10
  And guess what? Now they know about Bitcoin.
• 51:13
  Now they know about the the power of this to tear down their
• 51:17
  system. So they're going to go for your
• 51:18
  Bitcoin first. The next time there's a big
• 51:21
  tragedy like this, a big uproar, something like the pandemic,
• 51:26
  they're going to come for your Bitcoin and they're going to
• 51:28
  make you trade it for freedom. So if you're not ready, if you
• 51:31
  don't have that energy that they're sucking out of you
• 51:35
  through this political back and forth and bullshit, if you don't
• 51:38
  have that energy and you're not building this sovereign mindset,
• 51:43
  this sovereign communities, you're done.
• 51:48
  That's really what I believe you're.
• 51:49
  Done. No.
• 51:49
  And and I agree with you. I agree with you, but I would
• 51:52
  also got to say is that they can really make your life a living
• 51:57
  hell. I've seen it.
• 51:58
  I agree with that too. Just like imagine the app
• 52:02
  stores, all of a sudden you can't download a Bitcoin wallet
• 52:05
  unless it's KYC. They start going after the open
• 52:08
  source wallet developers, which you've they already started with
• 52:10
  Bitcoin privacy developers, right?
• 52:12
  They start to put it like a metaphorical gun to their head
• 52:14
  and saying, hey, you can't develop this unless it's a KYC
• 52:17
  wallet because now all of a sudden you're enable, you're
• 52:20
  enabling money laundering. Like that's literally where it's
• 52:22
  going, right? And This is why it's so
• 52:24
  important. I see someone in the chat saying
• 52:26
  dude really? Trump committed actual crimes is
• 52:28
  now being held accountable, has absolutely nothing to do with
• 52:31
  Bitcoin. OK I have a video for you bro
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  I will support the right to self custody to the nation's 50
• 52:48
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• 52:55
  Bitcoin. And I will never allow the.
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  Creation of a central bank digital currency.
• 53:03
  All right, so you said that right?
• 53:06
  So you said that. Let me pull up that thing again,
• 53:09
  right? Because again, you're, you're,
• 53:11
  you're drinking the kool-aid, brother.
• 53:13
  And I'm going to share this screen.
• 53:15
  I, I, I can't be clear enough for this because you, you, you
• 53:18
  made the claim that I'm being incoherent in my logic making
• 53:21
  sense. Here's the entire Democratic
• 53:24
  Party voting for a central bank digital currency.
• 53:27
  All right bro. So I'll leave you those facts
• 53:29
  and you can do whatever you want.
• 53:32
  I'm just here to just lay out the case.
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• 55:47
  digital currencies. And my question for all of you
• 55:50
  all is what future do you want to live in?
• 55:53
  Very simple question. Do you want to live in a future
• 55:56
  of endless wars, nihilism, you know, poverty, destruction,
• 56:01
  despair, degradation? Or do you want to live in a
• 56:04
  future of optimism, hope, peace, prosperity, opportunity?
• 56:09
  And that is a future of of, of Bitcoin, a future of hope,
• 56:12
  right? What future do you want to live
• 56:13
  in? And when I say Bitcoin or
• 56:16
  slavery, it's really Bitcoin versus central bank digital
• 56:20
  currencies, right. So when you have an entire party
• 56:27
  voting for slavery money, central bank digital currency,
• 56:32
  money that should definitely brought, should be brought to
• 56:36
  attention. And today I want to talk about
• 56:38
  what the dangers of a central bank digital currency are,
• 56:44
  right? But first, I want you guys to
• 56:46
  understand the grave situation that this is like.
• 56:51
  I want you guys to understand that this isn't going away.
• 56:54
  And just because you're not aware of it, because we don't
• 56:57
  talk about it every day, is frankly, it doesn't get a lot of
• 57:00
  views like today's episode, not structured to get views
• 57:03
  whatsoever, just really important to talk about this
• 57:06
  stuff. Look at the world map for audio
• 57:09
  listeners. Here's a world map.
• 57:10
  The entire world, literally mostly every single country is
• 57:15
  developing 1 currently. So in the United States, in
• 57:18
  development, in Canada, it's in development.
• 57:20
  In Mexico, it's in development in, in Brazil, it's in, in, in
• 57:26
  develop. Sorry, it's already in pilot
• 57:29
  mode. In Argentina, it's in research.
• 57:32
  In Ecuador, it was cancelled. That's great.
• 57:36
  In Algeria it's you know, it's in research in Zambia, inactive.
• 57:41
  In South Africa, it's a pilot. In Nigeria launched already been
• 57:47
  an absolute clusterfuck because you know what, it doesn't fix
• 57:50
  the fundamental problem as to why people are using, you know,
• 57:53
  alternative currencies in the 1st place and that's because
• 57:56
  they're sick and tired of inflation.
• 57:58
  You know, in Europe it's in, it's in what mode is this?
• 58:02
  It's in pilot mode. In Russia, it's in pilot mode.
• 58:05
  In China, it's pilot. And we'll talk about the, you
• 58:10
  know, we'll talk about how that's doing in China.
• 58:13
  In North Korea, it's inactive. I don't even know they even had
• 58:17
  money in North Korea. Anyways, so let's talk about
• 58:21
  what a central bank digital currency system will enable.
• 58:24
  And I love this graphic because it just kinda highlights what a
• 58:29
  social credit system is. So essentially, and we'll start
• 58:33
  from the bottom right, you know if you have a 600 mean Opti
• 58:37
  would start at the lowest tier, right?
• 58:39
  Rock bottom confirmed. This is how the government would
• 58:43
  control you, right? So what happens if you have a
• 58:46
  low credit system? That low credits, A low a social
• 58:49
  credit score? Denial of licenses, permits and
• 58:52
  access to some social services? Exclusion from booking flights
• 58:55
  or high speed train tickets? Less access to credit,
• 58:59
  restricted access to public services in ineligibility for
• 59:04
  government jobs, No access to private school.
• 59:07
  Public shaming exposure either online or TV screens in public
• 59:12
  spaces of the names, photos, ID numbers of blacklisted citizens,
• 59:18
  phone dial tones mandated by authorities that inform people
• 59:22
  that they're that they are calling a dishonest debiter.
• 59:27
  I mean, bro, so how do you, you know, how do you like recover
• 59:31
  this? Well, you commit a a heroic act,
• 59:35
  having a good financial credits, credit history, helping the
• 59:38
  poor. OK, doesn't sound bad.
• 59:40
  You're like Nicholas. What are you talking about?
• 59:42
  Praising the government on social media?
• 59:44
  Could you imagine what we just went through during the
• 59:47
  pandemic? They would hurt you because I'm
• 59:52
  the opposite of praising the government on social media.
• 59:55
  It says posing anti government message on social media and then
• 59:58
  you say, Nico, you're a conspiracy theorist.
• 1:00:01
  This would never happen in the West.
• 1:00:02
  Do you remember the truckers protest?
• 1:00:04
  Do you remember how they shut down the bank accounts of people
• 1:00:09
  protesting the government closures?
• 1:00:11
  Do you guys remember that? Now, like, imagine what the
• 1:00:15
  CBDC, they wouldn't even have to call the bank and tell the bank,
• 1:00:19
  hey, close this guy's account. They would just do and shut it
• 1:00:22
  off themselves. Next one, spreading rumors on
• 1:00:26
  the Internet. You know what a rumor would be?
• 1:00:29
  Remember what Janet Yellen said? There's going to be no inflation
• 1:00:32
  and how Bitcoin Twitter was like, hey, you know there's
• 1:00:35
  going to be inflation because it's a record amount of money
• 1:00:37
  printing. And they're like, that's
• 1:00:38
  misinformation. So who determines what a rumor
• 1:00:41
  is or not? Right?
• 1:00:43
  It's of course the politicians are going to pick and choose
• 1:00:45
  what's convenient to them. Insincere apologies for
• 1:00:48
  committing crime, committing crime.
• 1:00:50
  So struggle sessions, essentially participating in
• 1:00:54
  anything deemed to be a cult. So we're all fucked as
• 1:00:57
  Bitcoiners there. And then the lowest credit
• 1:01:00
  score, you know, is it lowest? Sorry, social credit score is
• 1:01:03
  600. And then cheating in online
• 1:01:04
  games. So what are the the other
• 1:01:07
  things? Engaging in charity work, taking
• 1:01:09
  care of elderly family members, you know, not visiting aging
• 1:01:12
  parents illegally protesting against authorities again, like
• 1:01:16
  what if it's, you know, like what?
• 1:01:19
  Like what type of like, what about the pro?
• 1:01:21
  What are we protesting? Right?
• 1:01:23
  That's a really good, you know, question, right?
• 1:01:26
  And then what do the high scores lead to?
• 1:01:29
  Tax breaks, jumping the queue for public housing, fast track
• 1:01:32
  promotion at work, shorter wait times, cheaper public transport,
• 1:01:36
  free gym facilities, easier access to cash loans and
• 1:01:41
  consumer credit. So do you guys understand how
• 1:01:44
  this is a total slavery system and how this would literally
• 1:01:48
  incentivize society to be absolute government Cox because
• 1:01:54
  you get all these benefits and if you kind of break the party
• 1:01:58
  line, you're literally shamed in public.
• 1:02:01
  You get at you, you lose access to to travel, right?
• 1:02:06
  Like they put a dunce cap on your head.
• 1:02:09
  Like this is what I mean by slavery.
• 1:02:11
  I don't mean actual like chains and slavery like that is like
• 1:02:16
  the previous version of slavery. I'm talking about digital
• 1:02:19
  dystopia. You'll own nothing and be happy.
• 1:02:21
  10 minute cities. You've had your one stake for
• 1:02:25
  the month. You can't have any more stakes
• 1:02:27
  for the rest of the year. That is what I mean by digital
• 1:02:30
  slavery and central bank. Digital currencies are going to
• 1:02:34
  enable that and Bitcoin is going to starve that completely so
• 1:02:38
  that no central planner, no politician could ever have that
• 1:02:43
  ability, that power over people's lives again.
• 1:02:48
  And that's why we're so vehemently against central bank
• 1:02:51
  digital currencies. And that's why we're so pro
• 1:02:54
  Bitcoin because it takes away power from the state.
• 1:02:59
  It gives it back to the individual and therefore it
• 1:03:01
  changes the balance of power, right?
• 1:03:04
  The balance of the power is like off very fucking screwed right
• 1:03:07
  now because they have a monopoly on violence and they have the
• 1:03:10
  ability to create money out of thin air, right?
• 1:03:13
  So anyways, that's my take. Opti, what's your take on this?
• 1:03:17
  Mine's going to be very short after hearing after hearing that
• 1:03:20
  list, Oh man, I, I, I'm, I'm giddy right now.
• 1:03:24
  This is the best episode ever. After hearing that list, I'm
• 1:03:26
  like, literally it was like a checklist.
• 1:03:28
  Like, Yep, got that one. Yep, got that one.
• 1:03:31
  Yep, got that one. Like, yeah, hell yeah, I got
• 1:03:33
  that one too. And like, I put in the chat
• 1:03:36
  basically, I'm sorry, guys, if you're listening to this, you'd
• 1:03:38
  be at the bottom gulag with us. So if you're here today, you're
• 1:03:42
  already on the list. And yeah, it's literally and,
• 1:03:45
  and, and also not to steal what Evan was going to say, but he
• 1:03:48
  dropped in the in our private chat here and he's like, it's
• 1:03:50
  really Bitcoin versus slavery. And I'm not going to be a slave.
• 1:03:53
  Like that's what it's all about. Anyways.
• 1:03:54
  I'm going to pass it to Evan. What's your thoughts on this?
• 1:03:57
  Yeah. I mean, I don't have much to say
• 1:03:58
  in it either except for what you just said.
• 1:04:01
  Like at some point I realized it really is Bitcoin versus slavery
• 1:04:04
  and the financial system. To me, I don't look at it as a
• 1:04:08
  political problem. I look at it as a systemic
• 1:04:10
  problem and the financial system in the political system are
• 1:04:13
  dependent on the Fiat dollar because there is nothing backing
• 1:04:17
  it. It has to keep printing.
• 1:04:19
  Every Fiat currency has to keep printing.
• 1:04:22
  And if they print too hot, then they have tons of inflation and
• 1:04:25
  then they lose people and society starts to fall apart.
• 1:04:28
  So to me, I see CBDC as this, this next thing that they're
• 1:04:32
  trying to use, which is like financial repression, which a
• 1:04:35
  lot of people in Bitcoin talk about too, to try and control
• 1:04:39
  the flow of money and control people's behaviors so that maybe
• 1:04:42
  they don't talk about the inflation, if inflation is
• 1:04:45
  running hot, because that'll Ding their score.
• 1:04:47
  And that's what we have to remember here is who's making
• 1:04:50
  these rules? These rules aren't, you know,
• 1:04:52
  the 10 commandments coming down and, and being written into a
• 1:04:56
  system. They're made by humans and those
• 1:04:58
  humans are within a system that is designed to fall apart.
• 1:05:03
  So the rules are not going to be always good things.
• 1:05:09
  You know, you might look at some of those things and be like, oh,
• 1:05:11
  we want less people to drunk drive, so we should have people
• 1:05:15
  lose credit score for drunk driving.
• 1:05:17
  Yeah, maybe that's a good idea. But the rest of those rules and
• 1:05:21
  the system built around it means those rules are going to hide
• 1:05:26
  tons of horrible rules that will destroy people and destroy
• 1:05:31
  society and end up in slavery. Because it has to the Fiat
• 1:05:35
  dollar has to the Fiat currencies, they have to go down
• 1:05:39
  in value. They have to print more.
• 1:05:40
  And this is just another way to try and plug a hole in the boat,
• 1:05:44
  but it's going down. Amen to that.
• 1:05:46
  Amen to that. All right, everybody, before we
• 1:05:47
  move on to the culture. Wait, wait, Nico, I do want to
• 1:05:50
  acknowledge something in the chat right now.
• 1:05:52
  Apparently the chat YouTube chat comments aren't coming to
• 1:05:55
  Restream anymore, so I I don't know what's going on.
• 1:05:58
  But yeah, that just happened, so we'll have to figure out what to
• 1:06:02
  do with the meme review. Anyways.
• 1:06:03
  Go, Nico. Anyways, I do wanna give a very
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  All right. Here we go.
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  Evan, I got your website here, but let's just let's let's go
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  back for the people that aren't familiar with what you're
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  working on and for the new people that entered the the show
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  late. What is Ride Passage?
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  And then we'll get into the philosophy of it and all that
• 1:08:35
  good stuff. Yeah, so actually before we get
• 1:08:39
  into rite of passage, I want to get into the the origin of it.
• 1:08:42
  So I did a tour across the US on a motorcycle in 2022 and I went
• 1:08:46
  to 30 Bitcoin meet ups and rode like 12,000 miles across the US
• 1:08:51
  mostly on state highways. And that taught me a very
• 1:08:56
  important lessons. One is that Bitcoiners get along
• 1:08:59
  like people who call themselves Bitcoiners and really understand
• 1:09:02
  what that means and and are out of the shit coin orbit.
• 1:09:06
  They understand each other on a deeper level and even though
• 1:09:10
  they might label each other differently on top of that, like
• 1:09:13
  Democrat, Republican, lawyer, construction worker, they get
• 1:09:16
  along really well. So I noticed that on the tour.
• 1:09:19
  And I also had noticed that there's a really strong growth
• 1:09:23
  mindset among Bitcoiners that's lacking everywhere else, that
• 1:09:27
  Bitcoiners are very pragmatic about the future and they want
• 1:09:30
  to build and grow. And a lot of them are starved
• 1:09:34
  for connection with other Bitcoiners and for projects to
• 1:09:38
  work on to build. And so I came up with this idea
• 1:09:41
  of why don't we take the, to me, the ultimate Freedom Machine and
• 1:09:46
  motorcycle, put a bunch of Bitcoiners on motorcycles and go
• 1:09:49
  for a ride. And so I did the first rite of
• 1:09:53
  passage last year in Thailand with six people.
• 1:09:55
  Texas Slim came out, the creator of the SAT symbol came out and a
• 1:10:00
  couple other great Bitcoiners and we just did a ride around
• 1:10:03
  Thailand. It was about a week.
• 1:10:05
  And I showed them basically places and people and
• 1:10:09
  experiences that were formative in my journey and coming to
• 1:10:13
  Thailand and things that I discovered and the ways that it
• 1:10:16
  changed me as a person and helped me grow.
• 1:10:18
  I came here as a nine to five slave.
• 1:10:21
  And now I'm running this motorcycle Tour Company and
• 1:10:25
  doing all these interesting things that I never thought I
• 1:10:28
  was going to be doing two years ago.
• 1:10:30
  And being here was a massive part of that.
• 1:10:33
  And going through the the process of leaving the US,
• 1:10:37
  coming here, I knew nobody. I didn't have a place to stay
• 1:10:40
  when I first got here. And I built everything from the
• 1:10:42
  ground up and all the learnings of that and all the the crazy
• 1:10:46
  things that I discovered along the way, especially riding a
• 1:10:48
  motorcycle. I wanted to package all that up
• 1:10:51
  into eight days and try to show it to people.
• 1:10:53
  So I did that one last year and now we're doing another one this
• 1:10:57
  year. I'm also playing with a format
• 1:11:00
  in the US that traces some of the route I did on the Bitcoin
• 1:11:03
  tour in 2022 in the Midwest, which really surprised me.
• 1:11:07
  I grew up in the Midwest. I never thought I would be
• 1:11:09
  excited to return to it. And when I came to the Midwest,
• 1:11:12
  I realized there is a ton of energy there and it's all around
• 1:11:16
  Bitcoin and Bitcoin meetups. There's so much optimism,
• 1:11:19
  there's so much growth, and it's really a place that I think most
• 1:11:23
  people in the global community doesn't pay much attention to
• 1:11:26
  with their There's so much happening in the Midwest.
• 1:11:28
  So we're going to do another tour that goes to the Midwest,
• 1:11:31
  goes to a lot of farm stays, regenerative ranches, Bitcoin
• 1:11:35
  meetups, mining farms, that kind of thing.
• 1:11:38
  And then I have a third format in Thailand that is like an
• 1:11:41
  entrepreneurship ride where we work on businesses while we're
• 1:11:44
  riding. It's like half business have
• 1:11:46
  adventure. So yeah, I'm just playing with
• 1:11:48
  riding around on motorcycles, meeting up with Bitcoiners and
• 1:11:52
  and trying to have great adventures together because I
• 1:11:55
  think this is what's going to bond Bitcoiners and help us get
• 1:12:00
  out of Fiat and onto a Bitcoin standard.
• 1:12:03
  Love it, love it. And and I want to expand on that
• 1:12:06
  because I was asking you before the show that we wanted to talk
• 1:12:10
  about what you're working on and you like very clearly were like,
• 1:12:14
  this isn't about just riding on a motorcycle, Like this isn't
• 1:12:16
  just about travel. It's about what you've learned
• 1:12:19
  throughout that process. So maybe, you know, add a little
• 1:12:22
  more for the context for the people out there, Like what have
• 1:12:25
  you learned by being on a motorcycle with two ton death
• 1:12:28
  traps around you and and how that has that changed you as a
• 1:12:30
  person? Was the mullet there before you
• 1:12:33
  you took the motorcycle ride? So the mullet I grew during the
• 1:12:38
  the 2022 perfect. Yeah, it, it grew out of that.
• 1:12:42
  It grew out of like, I want to be unemployable now I want to do
• 1:12:45
  whatever the fuck I want. And having mullet is part of
• 1:12:47
  that. But yeah, the, the vision of the
• 1:12:51
  rite of passage, the reason that it's motorcycles is there's a
• 1:12:56
  very specific reason I started with motorcycles.
• 1:12:58
  I started with Bitcoiners and doing motorcycles and Bitcoiners
• 1:13:04
  together because to me, there's big parallels between the
• 1:13:08
  motorcycle and Bitcoin. Both give you an intense amount
• 1:13:13
  of freedom. So with with Bitcoin, no one can
• 1:13:16
  stop you, right? You can walk across borders with
• 1:13:18
  a billion dollars in your head and that's that's an incredible
• 1:13:24
  ability that we've never had riding a motorcycle.
• 1:13:28
  You are in the environment and it it's the iron horse for a
• 1:13:32
  reason. We have horses, but the
• 1:13:34
  motorcycle was a leap ahead of that.
• 1:13:36
  Now you are in the environment and you can fly faster than 100
• 1:13:39
  miles an hour. And that feeling, that rush,
• 1:13:44
  that adrenaline, the focus that's created from putting your
• 1:13:47
  body in that situation is like nothing else I've ever
• 1:13:51
  experienced in my life. So there's the freedom aspect,
• 1:13:54
  but that freedom has a cost. It comes with massive amount of
• 1:13:58
  responsibility and right, we know this with Bitcoin.
• 1:14:01
  If you don't know how to take care of that and store it
• 1:14:04
  properly, you're not doing your research and really
• 1:14:06
  understanding how to use it and store it and watch over it and
• 1:14:11
  protect it for the next generation.
• 1:14:13
  You're very quickly going to lose it.
• 1:14:15
  If you trust someone else to do it, you're going to lose it.
• 1:14:17
  Same with a motorcycle. You have to really know how to
• 1:14:21
  handle the bike because if you don't know, you very quickly get
• 1:14:24
  into deep water with it and hurt yourself really badly.
• 1:14:28
  And that's why I I picked motorcycles because it's, it has
• 1:14:32
  this heavy feeling of responsibility, but also this
• 1:14:35
  incredible freedom and exhilaration that you get from
• 1:14:38
  riding a motorcycle. But I don't think it has to stop
• 1:14:41
  there. To me, the rite of passage is
• 1:14:43
  more about creating opportunities and adventures
• 1:14:46
  that one bond people through those adventures, through
• 1:14:50
  challenging themselves, through the different perspectives that
• 1:14:54
  travel gives you. And also for creating this what
• 1:14:58
  I consider sovereignty in the mind.
• 1:15:01
  The the older I get, the more I think everything in life is
• 1:15:04
  mental. And if you truly can can think
• 1:15:08
  through it, you can conquer it. But most people stop before they
• 1:15:11
  ever test the limit because they stop themselves.
• 1:15:15
  And through these rite of passages, I want to create
• 1:15:18
  moments where I break your brain, where the way that you
• 1:15:21
  saw the world or the way that you saw yourself fundamentally
• 1:15:25
  changed through some activity. So like last year we did Muay
• 1:15:28
  Thai and a lot of older guys are doing Muay Thai fighting with a
• 1:15:31
  Muay Thai fighter and training with him.
• 1:15:33
  Like I want people to go through these experiences where they
• 1:15:36
  look back and they're like, I have no idea I would be doing
• 1:15:40
  that at any point in my life. You know, we we crossed a
• 1:15:44
  border, for instance, probably shouldn't say that on a.
• 1:15:47
  On a. We went into Myanmar because I
• 1:15:51
  wanted to show people that borders aren't real.
• 1:15:54
  Like the borders that exist on a map are reinforced by your
• 1:15:59
  mental image of those borders and your respect for those
• 1:16:02
  borders. But there are people that live
• 1:16:04
  in that border area who literally do not respect those
• 1:16:07
  borders. They do not respect the the
• 1:16:10
  states that have drawn those borders.
• 1:16:12
  So they just ignore them. And the states don't have enough
• 1:16:15
  of a of a incentive to crack down on that.
• 1:16:20
  Yeah, they have a money printer. And so it's, it's things like
• 1:16:24
  that that I, I want to expose people to because it, it changes
• 1:16:28
  the way that you see yourself, the way that you see the world
• 1:16:31
  and helps people grow. So that's really what the rite
• 1:16:34
  of passage is about. 100% like from outer space, you don't see
• 1:16:37
  borders, right? It's it's a human construct and
• 1:16:42
  you know it literally it's a creation of the nation state.
• 1:16:45
  Like it's it's like it's not real, right?
• 1:16:48
  And you know, this is this is what Bitcoin in the separation
• 1:16:53
  of money and states so important because all of that will go
• 1:16:56
  away. Literally it will just go away,
• 1:16:58
  like go right. So, yeah, but that's incredibly
• 1:17:04
  inspiring. It it's so awesome to Evan
• 1:17:06
  because the farther away you are from countries that don't have
• 1:17:11
  strong money printers, you know, these artificial constructs,
• 1:17:17
  right? They they just go away.
• 1:17:20
  And what you get in its place is humanity, like the actual human
• 1:17:24
  condition being lived by the majority of the population.
• 1:17:28
  And then just like not caring. It's like, like, yeah, there's a
• 1:17:31
  border on a map, but I got to cross the border, you know, to
• 1:17:35
  get the water because the river's on the other side so I
• 1:17:38
  can bring it back to my village. And, you know, my, my village is
• 1:17:41
  going to have water, right? So it's like these are just
• 1:17:43
  artificial constructs created by, you know, the, the modern
• 1:17:47
  day nation state, which in essence is really just a system
• 1:17:52
  to extract wealth from the populace to fund wars.
• 1:17:57
  I can't, you know, describe it in any other way, right?
• 1:18:01
  So man, that that's so that's absolutely inspiring.
• 1:18:04
  And, and, and you know, when, when I was at Swan, I was able
• 1:18:07
  to produce or, you know, be a part of a lot of the, in the
• 1:18:12
  release of the video series that you did, Captain Sid.
• 1:18:17
  So highly suggest you guys watching that as well, 'cause
• 1:18:21
  that kind of document, video documents a lot of your
• 1:18:24
  journeys. I think it was across America, I
• 1:18:26
  believe. Yeah, yeah, that was, there was
• 1:18:29
  a three-part series on Swan's YouTube channel.
• 1:18:32
  I can drop the links later in the chat, but I started in Miami
• 1:18:35
  at Bitcoin 2022 and I ended up in San Francisco and took a very
• 1:18:39
  windy route to get there. It's about 3 months of riding
• 1:18:41
  almost every day on a motorcycle and going to a lot of meetups.
• 1:18:45
  Very, very cool man. Love it.
• 1:18:46
  Okay First off I do wanna plug the dates for you Evan.
• 1:18:51
  But before I do that, I do wanna comment on I didn't even connect
• 1:18:55
  what you said about the motorcycle and sovereignty until
• 1:18:59
  you laid it out. And it was like, that's exactly
• 1:19:01
  what Bitcoin is like. There's no one here to protect
• 1:19:04
  you. And it, it really brought back
• 1:19:06
  to me, you know, Bitcoin changes you.
• 1:19:07
  You don't change Bitcoin. And it's like, man, perfect, a
• 1:19:11
  perfect parallel here. But we'll bring your website
• 1:19:13
  back up for the people out there, first and foremost,
• 1:19:16
  without, you know, getting too long winded here.
• 1:19:20
  And and let me let me full screen you because I just
• 1:19:23
  learned that I can only get one of these hats if I actually
• 1:19:25
  joined the tour. And my question was going to be
• 1:19:29
  can anyone join this tour and if people want to when is the dates
• 1:19:32
  and and what is it with the details?
• 1:19:35
  Yeah. So if you Scroll down here,
• 1:19:37
  you'll see there's two tours for Bitcoiners and there's a third
• 1:19:39
  one that's for entrepreneurs, which is also for Bitcoiners.
• 1:19:42
  But I'm looking for people who are running their own business
• 1:19:45
  because that's important to the the content that we're going to
• 1:19:47
  do on the trip. The Thailand Magical Thailand
• 1:19:51
  tour is November 4th through 13th, starts and ends in Chiang
• 1:19:56
  Mai, Thailand, where I'm living. The American Heartland tour
• 1:20:01
  starts and ends in Chicago and that's October 4th through 12th.
• 1:20:06
  And then the the last one, the Mastermind one that's more
• 1:20:09
  entrepreneurship focused, that one is also from Chiang Mai and
• 1:20:13
  there's three different dates for it.
• 1:20:14
  It's like late November, early December, Monday through Friday,
• 1:20:18
  Friday kind of rides. Love it bro, Appreciate it.
• 1:20:23
  All right, man. Well, here actually.
• 1:20:25
  Last final message for the audience.
• 1:20:28
  It could be about the rite of passage.
• 1:20:30
  It could be about Bitcoin. It could be about life.
• 1:20:32
  It could be about philosophy. What's the last message you want
• 1:20:35
  to leave with the audience? Oh boy.
• 1:20:38
  I would say travel, but don't be a tourist.
• 1:20:43
  A lot of people are tourists and they just, they go to places and
• 1:20:46
  they only see what they expected to see because they've planned
• 1:20:51
  it all out in a way that protects them from from the risk
• 1:20:55
  of travel. And the risk of travel is you
• 1:20:57
  might see something or experience something that
• 1:21:00
  changes you. But that's what the beauty of
• 1:21:03
  travel is. And that's what I tried to
• 1:21:04
  deliver on the rite of passage. But you can do it yourself.
• 1:21:09
  You can do it without me. I did it without a rite of
• 1:21:11
  passage. Just go really travel somewhere.
• 1:21:14
  Go talk to a local person, go off the beaten path, get lost.
• 1:21:19
  Really, the world is not as dangerous as a lot of Americans
• 1:21:22
  think. A lot of people that came on my
• 1:21:24
  tour out here, they thought, oh wow, someone told them I'm going
• 1:21:27
  to get shot in Thailand. I guarantee you, you are more
• 1:21:30
  likely to get shot in your grocery store anywhere in
• 1:21:33
  America than anywhere in this country.
• 1:21:36
  Guaranteed. Love it.
• 1:21:38
  Hey Nico, I know you're not trying to do the meme review,
• 1:21:40
  but this show's already not going to get views, so let's
• 1:21:43
  just let it go 7 minutes longer. We can't pull up the comments,
• 1:21:48
  brother. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:21:50
  Yeah, damn, that's kind of the. I guess you guys lucked out.
• 1:21:54
  OK, well let's figure it out on Monday.
• 1:21:56
  Part of the reason why I didn't want to do it anyways.
• 1:22:00
  So I do also want to give a shout out to the Super chat,
• 1:22:04
  which we weren't able to pull up just cuz restream seems to be a
• 1:22:07
  little bit buggy today. So Will M gave us $5 take my
• 1:22:11
  Fiat and sell it for Bitcoin. Well, appreciate it, Will M,
• 1:22:14
  thank you. Thank you so much for supporting
• 1:22:16
  the show. I do want to give a very special
• 1:22:19
  shout out to our guest, Evan Evan, why?
• 1:22:21
  Why don't you tell everybody where they can find you on the
• 1:22:22
  interwebs? Yeah, so I go by Captain Sid
• 1:22:26
  SIDD with 2DS on Twitter, so you can find me there or you go to
• 1:22:30
  Ride of Passage dot live. Awesome.
• 1:22:34
  Well, I appreciate you joining us on this interesting episode.
• 1:22:38
  We usually don't do this type of stuff, but yeah, it was it was
• 1:22:42
  an interesting one. Now, Nico.
• 1:22:44
  Now Nico shows our coverage completely blunt, so we're going
• 1:22:47
  even harder in the paint. No, no, no.
• 1:22:50
  We're gonna. We're gonna, you know, we're
• 1:22:51
  gonna tone it back on Monday and you know, be you know, again,
• 1:22:56
  guys, our our mission, our purpose here at Simply Bitcoin
• 1:22:59
  is separation of money and state.
• 1:23:02
  And that's what we wholeheartedly, we
• 1:23:05
  wholeheartedly believe that it's going to make the world a better
• 1:23:09
  place. Fix the money, fix the world.
• 1:23:12
  That's what we are about. But unfortunately, during this
• 1:23:16
  rocky transitionary period, it's just things are heating up.
• 1:23:20
  But we'll get back to the optimism and the hope and you
• 1:23:24
  know, the the stuff that you guys enjoy and you guys enjoy
• 1:23:27
  tuning into, We'll get back to that type of content.
• 1:23:30
  Wait, you go. One last message, everyone in
• 1:23:33
  the chat is saying that we are purposely rug pulling the
• 1:23:37
  comments. Literally.
• 1:23:38
  It's literally just not working. The chat is the best part.
• 1:23:41
  The troll box is the best part of the show like that we love
• 1:23:44
  it. Give me all your hate and we
• 1:23:45
  turned into positive orange love here.
• 1:23:48
  Keep it coming, Keep it coming. What we'll do is, but we'll
• 1:23:50
  shorten the news on Monday, but then we'll extend the meme
• 1:23:55
  review, Elaine. So I see your comment.
• 1:23:58
  All right. But guys, thank you so much for
• 1:24:00
  tuning into today's episode. I know it was a little bit of a
• 1:24:03
  different one. We love you all.
• 1:24:05
  We appreciate you all. But get out and vote Bitcoin.
• 1:24:09
  Yeah, vote for Bitcoin and and whether that's RFK or Trump
• 1:24:15
  doesn't matter. No, no, no.
• 1:24:16
  Vote with your pocketbook. Stack Bitcoin.
• 1:24:19
  Vote Bitcoin. Vote with that.
• 1:24:20
  Actually, that is the most important vote that you can
• 1:24:22
  make. Actually, I'll be honest with
• 1:24:23
  you. So the most important vote you
• 1:24:25
  can make is taking Bitcoin into self custody after you bought
• 1:24:28
  it, you earned it, you mined it. When you can.
• 1:24:30
  Point it to self custody and that's the most important.
• 1:24:32
  I got to cut you off. I got you cut you off because we
• 1:24:34
  did get one last super chat. Shouts out to Senor Gringo Poppy
• 1:24:38
  for the $5 and he goes, this was the best episode.
• 1:24:42
  Thanks guys. I appreciate it.
• 1:24:44
  We'll. See you on Monday.
• 1:24:45
  Thank you so much and again, guys, we'll be back to the usual
• 1:24:48
  flow Monday. Love you all.
• 1:24:50
  I'm your host, Nico. This is my Co host Opti and as
• 1:24:53
  our guest for today, Evan AKA Captain Sid on Bitcoin Twitter.
• 1:24:57
  Love you all. Have an amazing weekend
• 1:24:59
  everybody, and we'll be back Monday for a brand new episode
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