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Tom Emmer's Anti-CBDC Bill Passes House Committee | EP 830 · Simply Bitcoin

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  It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
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  It's going up for everyone. You're against Bitcoin.
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  You're against freedom. Good morning, everybody.
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  What's up? It is Friday, September 22nd.
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  I'm your boy Opti and as you can tell I'm hosting the show today,
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  but the show don't stop and very interesting stuff that we didn't
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  cover throughout the week. Apparently.
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  Tom Emmers has been spearheading this anti CBBC bill and it
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  passed in the House committee and we've been talking
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  constantly about the ideas of CBDC's the dangers and I was
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  going to say the pros, but there is no pros to this.
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  This is absolutely nefarious stuff coming out from every
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  country in the world and everyone wants to roll out a
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  CBDC. Well, as I've been saying, there
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  may be still some good people out there.
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  I know we don't like politicians, but there may be
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  some that understands how dangerous a CBDC will be.
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  And they are saying the quiet parts out loud.
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  And I and I do have some contention.
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  We will kind of talk about this during the news and the bill
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  will now have to advance to the House of Representatives.
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  But at least the signal is getting out there and it's
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  constantly getting out there and we're constantly talking about
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  the fact that a CBDC should never happen in the US.
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  It is literally anti American and I'm just glad that more
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  people are noticing this. And it's not just simply Bitcoin
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  that is telling you this. It's not just bitcoiners that
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  are talking about the dangers of CBDC's.
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  Remember what CBDC's really stand for.
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  It is not central bank digital currencies, it is central bank
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  digital control. Remember the meme?
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  And anytime they talk about a CBDC system, remember what it
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  really is about. It is about controlling your
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  behavior, controlling your transactions in a world where
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  they are censoring content creators.
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  Independent content creators where you can't talk about the
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  truth, you think they will let you transact freely if a CBDC
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  system gets rolled out. Don't be naive guys.
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  This is the last thing we should want.
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  This is the last thing that should ever get rolled out in
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  America, and we know that they're trying to do this
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  everywhere around the world. We've seen that a few different
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  CBDC pilots have been rolled out.
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  We've seen, especially like in Nigeria that the citizens do not
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  want it, but we even have the memes from like Elon Musk about
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  making Twitter be the we chat of the West.
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  I don't know, it all sounds dystopian to me if you if you're
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  talking to just a humble bitcoiner.
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  But anyways, I do have some good videos here and we will be
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  talking about sovereignty in all its forms, whether that's health
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  and education on today's show and rather in life in general.
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  So I think we have set this show up perfectly where I'm going to
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  give you guys some context of why we Bitcoin.
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  Then we'll talk about the news and then we have a guest here
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  today that I think you guys are going to really enjoy.
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  But of course I am not alone. But anyways, welcome to simply
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  We got them all and we will be your guide through the
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  separation of money and state. And of course, I'm back with one
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  of your guys's favorite off the bench, Simply Bitcoin Co hosts
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  Mike Hobart. Mike, how you doing today?
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  What up nerds? I hope you guys are having a
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  have a Good Friday. I just got my Friday started off
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  with a workout and. I am still soaked in my own
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  filth, so I'm just rolling in this raw man.
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  I'm ready to go. Wow.
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  OK, let's, we'll gloss over that.
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  OK. Anyways, our guest today is
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  Scott from Free Market Kids. I really, really love what
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  you're doing. It.
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  I think it's one of the most important things to be doing is
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  not only educating everyone out there, but educating the
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  children so they don't have to deal with the Fiat masses.
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  Anyway, Scott, how you doing this morning?
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  And maybe just TLDR people, what is free market kids?
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  Uhoh, Scott, are you there? He was just with us technical
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  difficulties. Let's see.
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  All right. Anyways, we will get him back
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  in. Apparently we are having some
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  issues, but you guys know how we do this.
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  We do this live. He will pop back in.
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  I'm sure we will have him. We were literally just talking
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  to him a minute ago. All right.
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  Anyways, guys, so let's get into the show and we will
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  troubleshoot live. Let's get into the conversation.
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  Can you hear us? Maybe not.
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  OK, all right. Anyways, let's get into the
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  numbers and we will figure it out.
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  Mike, if you have the private chat, will you?
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  Will you try to coordinate with Scott and see what's going on on
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  his end? Anyways, guys, you already know
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  of 808,865. The current Bitcoin price is
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  $26,630 per Bitcoin, which means the Moscow time, aka how much
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  the Fiat dollar is worth in Bitcoin, aka how much Bitcoin
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  you can buy for a single dollar is currently at 3755 Sats.
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  Are we gonna go bits on you guys today?
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  375 bits? I don't know.
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  Throw tomatoes all you want. Anyways, the total percentage
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  issued of Bitcoin that will ever be in circulation is at 92.82%.
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  That means 92% of all bitcoiners that will ever be released ever
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  be created are currently circulating.
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  The current market cap of Bitcoin and Fiat terms is $519.3
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  billion. The realized monetary inflation
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  taking Fiat currencies to school as we always say is 1.75%.
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  The Bitcoin versus gold market cap is currently at 4.02%.
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  Not even 5% of gold market cap and gold market cap is what,
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  around $10 trillion guys and you guys are bearish out there.
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  I can't believe it. Anyways, the total lightning
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  capacity, total public lightning capacity is 4823.15 BTC.
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  The hash rate the last 90 days is at 386.3 exit hashes and the
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  pending fees. Wow is at 9.23 BTC.
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  I've seen that the men pool has been pretty blocked up.
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  Interesting, interesting stuff. Let's see.
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  OK, not sure if our guest is in the chat yet, but anyways, we'll
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  keep it moving. We'll keep it moving.
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  First and foremost, I I said we're going to be talking about
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  sovereignty and we've been talking about Rand Paul or Ron
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  Paul on this show all week and basically how we're all just
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  like young Ron Paul Light, you know where, But we wouldn't be
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  here if it wasn't for legends like Ron Paul himself.
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  And I got two videos here. First, I wanted to play this Ron
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  Paul video because I I don't know when this video came out,
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  but it looks old and obviously Ron Paul has been talking about
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  this for a while and it's something we say on the show
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  that the things Ron Paul has been talking about were or
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  couldn't be a reality until there was Bitcoin.
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  And I'm connecting this with a video that I just saw a little
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  snippet from Jack Mahler's podcast.
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  He's just having great conversations, breaking breaking
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  the echo chambers and not just talking to bitcoiners, but
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  adjacent communities as well. And so before I play these, I
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  want you to keep in mind what we're doing here as Bitcoiners.
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  We are obviously taking back the power from the money printer,
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  but in a very real aspect, giving you guys back the power
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  if you choose, if you choose to opt into Bitcoin instead of
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  complaining. I know a lot of people like to
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  complain out there, but we have the solutions today guys.
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  It is obviously Bitcoin. Anyways, let's jump into this
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  video and then we will get into this conversation.
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  There is no other power greater than the power over money.
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  The power to create and contract the money supply.
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  The power to control the purchasing power of your money.
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  Throughout history this has proven to be the most sought
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  after monopolistic power of man. It has become more sophisticated
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  over the decades and over the centuries, more sophisticated
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  now and more international in scope than ever before.
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  So I see the issue of power and the control over money as being
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  something that we cannot ignore, we must address.
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  I believe closely associated with this is the issue of
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  morality as well, by what moral right we have to create
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  purchase. Passing power out of thin air,
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  Whether it's done by the creation of credit or Federal
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  Reserve notes, or whether it's the creation of SDR's in an
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  international scope, by what right do they do this?
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  Is it any more moral to dilute the value your purchasing power,
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  the money you hold in your wallet, than it is for the
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  farmer to dilute the milk supply with water?
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  I would say there's an issue of morality here just as strong as
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  the issue of power. Dude, Ron Paul just killing it.
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  Absolutely destroying. And I really like that metaphor
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  of is there anymore, you know, difference between diluting the
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  money supply and diluting your milk?
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  I'm sure if some, if your farmers sold you watered down
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  milk, people would be up in arms.
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  And yet, for some reason, people do not understand the mechanisms
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  of the Fiat world that are literally diluting your
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  purchasing power. What?
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  What could be worse than literally making you poorer
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  every single day? Or rather, you know, 2% poorer
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  every single year? I think.
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  What what's the current inflation rate?
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  I think it's like 3 point something.
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  I I think they're moving it up to like 4%.
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  Anyways, I wanted to play that because I think it's great
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  context and and I mean Mike and I can have definitely have these
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  conversations about about the moral obligations of money or
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  what's what's the book, you know the the ethics of money
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  production. Obviously it is unethical to
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  print purchasing power out of thin air, but we're not here to
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  just complain. We're not here just to whine.
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  We are here to double down on what are the solutions out
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  there. Because we have been talking
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  about the problems, not just us here at simply Bitcoin, but any
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  freedom minded individual for a long time has been talking about
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  the problem. We know what the problem is
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  guys. It is the money.
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  It is so simple. Take back your money and you can
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  take back your life. And on that note, I saw this
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  clip of Jack Mahler's and I and I just thought it it's a perfect
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  way to bow tie this conversation.
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  So Jack Mahler's quotes here and he goes.
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  I'm convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world
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  can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.
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  And this is what we talk about all the time.
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  And I love the tweet here. Own hard money.
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  Own your sovereignty. Own the outcomes of your life
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  guys. Take back your life.
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  This is what Bitcoin allows for you.
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  This is what being a freedom minded individual and hopefully
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  we can get Scott in here as well.
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  This is what the separation of money and state is.
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  This is what the separation of the education and state is as
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  well. Because I think you're
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  fundamentally taught to not know why money works.
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  And also, as I say all the time, you know, we we know what Claus
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  Schwab wants from us. He wants us to own nothing and
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  be happy. And on that same vein, they want
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  you deaf, dumb and blind. And what easier way to do that
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  than to educate the children and basically brainwash them into
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  the Fiat system which we all are a part of.
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  This is why it's so hard to unplug your friends and family
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  is because we have been brainwashed into being perfect
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  Fiat slaves. Anyways, let's get into this
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  little clip, guys, because it really connects everything we're
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  going to be talking about on today's show.
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  Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, for me it's more the
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  man like this has been so empowering for me of like owning
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  something like Bitcoin and. Doing an animal based diet gave
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  me the confidence that I can control my own outcomes because
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  you do feel like growing up in at least I keep referencing my
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  own generation. You feel victim to.
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  I don't know how I'm going to get a house.
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  I don't know if I'm ever going to be able to sleep.
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  I don't know if I was born with depression.
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  And this gave me that little bit of confidence and proof that
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  like, no, no, I don't give a Biden whoever gets selected or
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  what they do with the dollar like.
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  Progress starts with me owning my own shit.
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  And that's my message to my generation is don't be a bitch
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  you. You own the outcomes of your own
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  life. No, I'm ticking these kids like,
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  oh, it's not fair. It's plenty fair.
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  You get to be alive. That's plenty fair.
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  That's plenty fair. Own harder money that acts in
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  your own best interest and. Be responsible about what you
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  put in your body. That's plenty fair.
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  Without that, there's no president that's going to fix
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  your goddamn problems. I think it's cool to think about
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  people reclaiming their sovereignty.
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  Sovereignty is a word that gets used a lot in in the Bitcoin
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  communities. And it's like, look, you you can
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  reclaim your health sovereignty, Just like you can reclaim your
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  sovereignty over your money, you can reclaim your health
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  sovereignty. That's that's what I'm all
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  about. That's right.
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  You have the ability to affect these things.
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  You're not power. The the ending is I think maybe
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  the most powerful aspect, like you are not powerless.
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  And I think this is something that many people feel out there.
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  I know I've had these conversations with friends and
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  even when you bring up Bitcoin as the solution there, they'll
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  they'll ask you like what like is this even going to change
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  anything And it really goes back to let me see if I if I can
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  bring Scott back in. Scott, you might need to pop in
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  on Chrome or something I. Hit Yeah, I'm loading up Chrome
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  right now. You're here though.
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  Let's go. OK, we got a list of.
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  Audio I can hear like I can like.
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  It's really like it's locking up left and right.
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  OK. Well, maybe if if the.
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  Back in there to Chrome right now.
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  OK, no worries. If the video doesn't come on,
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  how about just click on the on the right the the couple of
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  buttons here, the three three buttons, and you can just put
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  the like, drop your camera and it'll just put like a little
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  fill in for the avatar, but we'll know the whole.
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  The whole thing that I'm using, it's on Safari.
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  I can't even get to that now because you have a private chat
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  window. So let's.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, Safari. All right, just pop in on Chrome
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  and we'll get you back in. All right, give me two minutes.
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  I'll be right. No worries, BRB.
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  All right, Mike, you know why I picked these two videos
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  together? Not only did I know it would be
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  a great context for the news today, but this is something you
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  and I talk about constantly, whether we're on air or off air.
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  And it's this idea of you are not powerless out there.
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  Yes, you know, there there may be contention on what foods to
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  be eating. We're not going to go down that
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  route. The whole route is, guys, take
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  back your sovereignty. It starts with taking back your
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  money, taking back your labor, taking back your health and
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  unplugging from this victim mentality.
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  And This is why I I constantly bring this up on the show about
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  we know what the problem is, but very few people know what the
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  solutions are. And you can see it in,
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  especially in our culture. We're we're both millennials.
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  You can see it in our generation.
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  Everyone is complaining, everyone's whining about the
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  problem and they always lead down into the wrong solutions.
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  When we always say the same thing, it goes back to the
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  money, guys. You need to take back your
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  sovereignty, whether that's in your health, in your fitness, in
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  your wealth, in your mind. But you are not powerless.
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  And this is all why I wanted to bring these two clips together.
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  Because Ron Paul has been saying this for a long time, and I
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  don't think the future that Ron Paul wanted could have been a
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  reality without Bitcoin. And This is why we stand on the
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  shoulders of giants. You have the power today.
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  You just need to opt into Bitcoin, saving Bitcoin.
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  Take back your health, take back your wealth and you will be OK
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  and you'll make the great resat transition.
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  Anyways, Mike, what's your thoughts on this?
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  Well, cuz like the the the other, like the one of the
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  biggest things are probably one of my favorite things to talk
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  about when it comes to taking back sovereignty, whether it's
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  health, wealth, or any like psychological mindfulness,
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  spiritualness. I I get a lot of like
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  conversations or questions like in DM's or just in like
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  day-to-day life. It's like well, like which which
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  do I choose? And I've said it before on here
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  and I'm going to say it again, it's like you you just pick one
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  like the the the benefit one of those like kind of like hidden
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  benefits or Silver Linings to Bitcoin, is that like that
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  sovereignty is more of like a day by day.
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  Day by day as you DCA kind of thing, right?
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  Like because you you won't actually be able to experience
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  that, the full effect of that sovereignty until you've been
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  around for a couple cycles. So the benefit is like, as far
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  as like gaining the sovereignty through Bitcoin is taking the
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  time to go down the rabbit hole and understanding how it
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  operates. So you really, truly understand
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  where you're putting your wealth and your value and then just
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  letting that kind of like do its thing in the background.
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  You don't. Just don't sell it, just keep
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  holding it. Keep accumulating it and then
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  chase down the other sovereign aspects of life, right?
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  Like begin, begin, like pick. This is where I suggest just
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  picking one. Maybe your health isn't perfect.
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  Maybe maybe your philosophy isn't perfect.
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  Maybe your spirituality isn't perfect.
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  Or like any of these aren't where you want them to be.
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  I recommend not starting all of them at once, because then then
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  you kind of like. Then you fall down, follow prey
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  to like the kind of a DD failures of just like bouncing
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  around between all of them. And then you never actually like
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  get meaningful penetration into any one of them.
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  Like you just become like a a Jack of all trades but a master
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  of none. But the you can you can get into
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  a different level of success if you if you were to say like you
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  want to become more spiritual and become more sovereign in
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  that sense, you chase that down. For an extended period of time,
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  do your 10,000 hours and then move on to the next thing and
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  then cuz like, yeah, like that. Like like we say it all the time
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  off. You like like Bitcoin can only
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  go so far as the rest of us, right?
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  Like because if we're not all sovereign at the same time and
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  not trying to improve our sovereignty.
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  Separate from like Bitcoin itself, then it's like what good
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  is it? Because then then we're not like
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  then we're not effectuating like actual change in policy or
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  legislation or communities because like when you guys make
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  these improvements on yourself, you have very meaningful market
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  impacts on the people that are like closest around you, right?
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  And this is where OPTI and I again, like we constantly talk
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  about. It's like just make yourself.
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  Like make yourself like the marketing branding vehicle for
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  Bitcoin. Like live the the life of an
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  individual that you admire. Make yourself the the change you
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  want to see and then pull people in the vacuum of power that's
• 20:40
  created behind you. That's that's the biggest
• 20:43
  message. Wow, hold on Mike.
• 20:49
  We were even having this conversation before the show of
• 20:51
  of like breaking the echo chamber and and not necessarily
• 20:55
  falling into the cult aspects of this.
• 20:57
  Because what's one of the big Bitcoin tenets of like verify,
• 21:00
  don't trust. And part of that is like living
• 21:04
  a good life, most people are going to look at you.
• 21:07
  And whether you like it or not, they will judge Bitcoin based on
• 21:10
  the life that you are living. Hence why it's so important to
• 21:12
  get fit. You know, be smart, know what
• 21:15
  you're talking about, live a good life.
• 21:17
  And that is the best marketing for Bitcoin Anyway.
• 21:19
  Scott, I think. Yeah, jump in, Mike.
• 21:21
  I was going to say one more thing, Scott.
• 21:23
  Awesome that we finally got you. Yeah, yeah.
• 21:26
  That was embarrassing. Yeah.
• 21:27
  That's all. Yeah, you're good, man.
• 21:29
  But there's there's one thing I wanted to add to that.
• 21:31
  OPT is that there are going to be people in the Bitcoin
• 21:35
  community that don't necessarily embody every aspect of the
• 21:39
  Bitcoin ethos. And they will try to tell you
• 21:41
  how to live your life. And you need to flip on the bird
• 21:44
  and tell them they can jog on because you're going to live
• 21:47
  your life. If you're going to be sovereign,
• 21:49
  you have to live it according to your stipulations.
• 21:52
  Yeah. I had to that job, yeah.
• 21:54
  I apologize. I've completely thrown your
• 21:56
  whole the whole game off here. So what I heard before though,
• 21:59
  you were getting into the education piece and you know
• 22:02
  the. The government wants to control
• 22:04
  your money. You're going down CDBC land and
• 22:06
  it's you have Bitcoin. They want to control the
• 22:09
  narrative and then you've got Noster to help with that.
• 22:12
  They're they're coming after your your kids as well.
• 22:14
  So that's I didn't do an intro yet, but that's where my wife
• 22:17
  and I really been focuses on education and talk.
• 22:20
  About Free market Kids Real quick T LD artists.
• 22:22
  Okay, I I'll do that too. So free market kids, My wife and
• 22:27
  I home school for over 20 years and we focus on trying to make
• 22:30
  the. Basically money, literacy, fun.
• 22:33
  So we have games and other things that we do in that regard
• 22:36
  and we try to reach out, especially to homeschoolers.
• 22:39
  But the thing that got me with what what Mike was saying there
• 22:41
  is my personal journey with Bitcoin took me to Austrian
• 22:44
  economics and then lower time preference.
• 22:46
  And then I started to do things myself for my own, my own
• 22:50
  health. And like two things came to
• 22:52
  mind. Number one, absolutely you got
• 22:53
  to do it one thing at a time on that you can't do.
• 22:56
  You can't do everything at once. It's tying all that back to the
• 23:00
  kids. The thing that I would want to
• 23:01
  add to the conversation is they're watching you, right?
• 23:04
  From an education standpoint, your kids are watching you.
• 23:06
  And if you're like in a if you're in an airplane and the
• 23:10
  oxygen mask come down, they always tell you put your oxygen
• 23:13
  mask on 1st so you can help others.
• 23:16
  It's awfully hard to teach your kids if you don't have your own
• 23:18
  stuff straight. So taking taking charge of your
• 23:21
  health one step at a time, whatever that step is for you.
• 23:25
  Just commit to it. I just want to add on to where,
• 23:27
  you know Mike was. Yeah.
• 23:28
  And and optie, I apologize for throwing your whole game off
• 23:31
  here today, so. No worries.
• 23:32
  No it happens and and we do get trolled out sometimes they're
• 23:36
  like oh you didn't prepare your guesses like no guys we usually
• 23:39
  do we sat here for a moment to get everything going and then
• 23:43
  you know when you go live everything happens.
• 23:45
  That's why the sessions meme of like we do this live.
• 23:47
  Anyways uh, couldn't agree more and and it's just it's such an
• 23:51
  important aspects of of being a Bitcoin and and to something
• 23:54
  Mike said. But I forget who said it.
• 23:56
  There was like a meme the other day going around.
• 23:58
  It said something on the lines of like, bitcoins are right
• 24:00
  about money, but they're probably wrong about everything
• 24:04
  else. It just like, obviously it's a
• 24:07
  meme. It's kind of a joke.
• 24:08
  And it just kind of goes back to as a bitcoiner.
• 24:12
  We've said it before on the show, You know Bitcoin is F you
• 24:14
  money for a reason and you don't have to believe everything that.
• 24:18
  Every other bitcoiners believe like just believe in hard money
• 24:22
  and then live the life that you want to live.
• 24:23
  This is the point of having freedom money in the 1st place.
• 24:26
  This is the point of having censorship resistant money in
• 24:29
  the 1st place. It's hey, we don't all have to
• 24:31
  agree on every aspect of our lives, but as long as we can
• 24:34
  agree on what 99% of the problem here, which is the money, then I
• 24:39
  think the world will fundamentally reach towards a
• 24:43
  better future. And that's, I think, what we're
• 24:45
  all here to do is we see the problem in the world.
• 24:48
  It's obviously starting with the money.
• 24:50
  And now as as good human, we want to better the world for our
• 24:55
  children, for our great, great, great, great, great
• 24:58
  grandchildren and of course for ourselves in the future, for our
• 25:00
  future selves. And there's nothing wrong with
• 25:03
  this. I think this is what most
• 25:05
  healthy individuals want to do. Anyways, we got a lot of talk
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• 26:16
  So guys, all right, so I have this new story over here, guys.
• 26:20
  And as you can see here, this is a tweet from Tom Emmer.
• 26:24
  And this happened September 20th, so two days ago.
• 26:28
  This is on a Wednesday. I think we we definitely have
• 26:31
  covered the whole bill the anti CBDC bill.
• 26:34
  We played some clips about Tom Emmer on the show but as you can
• 26:38
  see on Wednesday September 20th here's a tweet from Tom Emmer
• 26:42
  and it goes. The first anti CBDC bill in the
• 26:44
  United States passed out of the financial service committee
• 26:47
  today, a historical step in defending against an ever
• 26:51
  expanding government surveillance state.
• 26:53
  And the reason I want to start with this tweet, guys, is I I
• 26:56
  really want to play this video here of Tom Emmer speaking and
• 26:59
  I'm, I'm pretty. Sure.
• 27:00
  We played this on the show and you know I like to play stuff in
• 27:03
  the numbers to to give you context, but again we are
• 27:07
  talking about anti CBDC bills and that it passed.
• 27:11
  And I think it's very powerful to hear it from Tom Emmer
• 27:13
  himself, whether you think he is just a politician that is
• 27:17
  pontificating. Maybe besides the point.
• 27:19
  He is saying what we've been saying here on Simply Bitcoin
• 27:23
  for a long time and I think that over time more people are going
• 27:27
  to wake up to this exact thinking that.
• 27:31
  CBDC in America is literally anti American and anyone that is
• 27:35
  embracing it, they are actively fighting against your best
• 27:39
  interest. And I don't know about you and I
• 27:41
  was going to sit in this beginning, but it was within the
• 27:43
  first two minutes. And you know we we try not to
• 27:45
  get nuked on YouTube, but it is a very, very clear call to a CC,
• 27:53
  CCP style China CBDC system. And I don't know about you, but
• 27:57
  I am absolutely sick and tired of hearing.
• 28:01
  U.S. politicians embrace China as the golden egg to achieve in
• 28:07
  the United States. It's absolutely disgusting.
• 28:09
  Anyways, let's listen to Tom Emmer himself and then we'll
• 28:12
  kind of go into some of the news a little bit and and even, you
• 28:16
  know, maybe maybe get a little cynical.
• 28:20
  I don't know you know me sometimes I'm pessimistic field.
• 28:22
  But let's get into this video. Extremely proud to have this
• 28:25
  legislation that frankly I've been working on for three years
• 28:28
  at least. The CBDC Anti Surveillance State
• 28:33
  Act included in your markup today.
• 28:36
  It's the first anti central bank digital currency legislative
• 28:40
  effort introduced in the United States and for the past two
• 28:43
  Congresses, and we worked with my colleagues and with
• 28:47
  stakeholder groups to update, improve and grow support for
• 28:52
  this bill. Today, this bill has the support
• 28:55
  of 60 members of Congress and groups ranging from the
• 28:59
  Independent Community Bankers Association and American Bankers
• 29:02
  Association to Club for Growth, Heritage Action and the
• 29:06
  Blockchain Association. We've come a long way.
• 29:09
  This bill is simple. It halts the efforts of this
• 29:12
  administrative state under President Biden from issuing a
• 29:15
  financial surveillance tool that will undermine the American way
• 29:20
  of life. Unlike decentralized crypto
• 29:23
  currencies, a central bank digital currency is a digital
• 29:27
  form of sovereign currency that is designed and issued by a
• 29:31
  government and transacts on a digital Ledger that is
• 29:35
  controlled by that government. In short, a central bank digital
• 29:39
  currency is a government controlled, programmable money.
• 29:44
  That, if not designed to emulate cash, could give the federal
• 29:48
  government the ability to surveil and restrict Americans
• 29:52
  transactions. This is not just alarming, it's
• 29:55
  downright on American we've already seen examples of
• 29:59
  governments weaponizing their financial system against their
• 30:02
  citizens. In China, the Communist Party is
• 30:05
  using a central bank digital currency to track the spending
• 30:08
  habits of its citizens. The data is being used to create
• 30:11
  a social credit system that rewards or punishes people based
• 30:15
  on their behavior closer to home in the Western Hemisphere.
• 30:18
  In Canada, the Trudeau administration froze the bank
• 30:22
  accounts of individuals involved in the 2022 trucker protests
• 30:26
  that might work. In Canada, that doesn't work.
• 30:28
  Here. This appetite for financial
• 30:31
  surveillance may be gaining A stronghold, unfortunately, right
• 30:34
  here at home. The White House issued an
• 30:37
  executive order place an urgency on central bank digital currency
• 30:41
  research and development, and the agency reports to that
• 30:45
  executive order have made it clear that the Biden
• 30:47
  administration is not only itching to create a CBDC, but
• 30:51
  they are willing to trade Americans right to financial
• 30:55
  privacy for a surveillance style central bank digital currency.
• 31:00
  We're not going to let this happen.
• 31:02
  My bill ensures the United States digital currency policy
• 31:05
  is the in the hands of the American people, not the
• 31:08
  administrative state, so that it reflects our American values of
• 31:12
  privacy, individual sovereignty and free market competitiveness.
• 31:17
  American values, American values.
• 31:20
  This is what the future global digital economy needs.
• 31:24
  If not open, permissionless and private like cash.
• 31:29
  Just like cash, a central bank digital currency is nothing more
• 31:33
  than a CCP style surveillance tool that can be weaponized to
• 31:38
  to oppress the American way of life.
• 31:41
  If China embraces it, you know it's something worth standing
• 31:45
  against in this country. I'd like to welcome all.
• 31:48
  OK guys let's let's move forward because obviously he's been
• 31:53
  saying what we've been saying all the time and some someone in
• 31:56
  the Chad's like wait is he reading the script from one of
• 31:58
  off these rants guys, I think. It is becoming very, very
• 32:03
  obvious to most people that a CBDC is absolutely not only
• 32:07
  dangerous, but anti American and any politician that is embracing
• 32:12
  one of these in America, you can just know that they are either
• 32:14
  on the one hand bought and paid for or on the other just
• 32:17
  absolutely incompetent and in that sense dangerous.
• 32:21
  Anyways, I got this watcher guru.
• 32:23
  Article over here. Just kind of to recap because
• 32:26
  there's a there's a very good quote here.
• 32:28
  So House Committee passes bill to ban the Fed from creating
• 32:31
  AC/DC. As we covered, the House
• 32:34
  Financial Service Committee approved a bill to prevent the
• 32:36
  Fed from creating U.S. central bank digital currency ACBDC, aka
• 32:40
  a central Bank digital control mechanism.
• 32:42
  The bill will now advance to the House of Representatives.
• 32:44
  US Congressman Tom Emmer introduced a new bill to ban the
• 32:48
  Fed from creating a CBDC in the future.
• 32:50
  The bill bans any CBDC pilot programs before they're
• 32:52
  proposed. In addition, it prohibits the
• 32:55
  Fed from introducing a retail digital currency that could be
• 32:58
  used for citizen surveillance. Emmer spoke strongly about the
• 33:02
  CBDC being an issue of privacy, individual sovereignty, and free
• 33:07
  market competitiveness. The new potential bill requires
• 33:10
  any progress on a government backed digital token to be
• 33:13
  empowered by Congress. The bill's approval in the House
• 33:15
  is unpredictable, however, its future.
• 33:18
  In the Senate is more doubtful as its majority is run by
• 33:21
  Democrats who may not push ahead with a Republican introduced
• 33:24
  bill. The House committee's
• 33:26
  counterpart is the Senate Banking Committee which is led
• 33:28
  by Democrats and the panel's top Democrat is representative of
• 33:32
  Maxine Waters and she had the following stance on the bill and
• 33:35
  crypto legislation. And again, need I remind you
• 33:39
  about about my stance on anyone that is actively pushing AC/DC?
• 33:44
  Well, how about this quote guys? This is Maxine Waters again, and
• 33:48
  she goes in regards to a CBDC It will keep the United States
• 33:51
  behind. Other countries include, yeah,
• 33:54
  including China as they race forward to develop a global
• 33:57
  standard for central bank digital currency.
• 34:00
  Again, let me repeat this. She's saying that the bill will
• 34:03
  keep the US behind other countries, including China, as
• 34:06
  they race forward to develop a global standard for ACBDC, She
• 34:10
  adds. The bill would stifle that
• 34:12
  research and prevent us from moving forward, even if it means
• 34:15
  that the dollar loses its status as the world.
• 34:17
  Reserve currency. And even if it means that U.S.
• 34:19
  citizens lose out on a faster, cheaper and simpler payments, of
• 34:23
  course it is always fast and cheap digital payments that they
• 34:27
  talk about. Anyways, I I got over here just
• 34:29
  to kind of look at it. Here's the bill and let's just
• 34:33
  look at Section 2. Prohibit prohibition on Federal
• 34:36
  Reserve Banks relating to certain products or services for
• 34:40
  individuals and prohibition on directly issuing a central bank
• 34:43
  digital currency. And it really makes you wonder
• 34:46
  cuz we've been, you can see here, sorry guys you got the
• 34:49
  bill, sorry, sorry, sorry you you can see guys and and we
• 34:54
  covered this before. Look at this all sounds good.
• 34:57
  And I see everyone talking in the, in the group chat, the
• 35:00
  YouTube chat, that this is just security theater or rather
• 35:04
  political theater out there because as Narwhal Taka said,
• 35:08
  you know, Tom Emmer realized that they can get to his money.
• 35:11
  Hence why he's probably afraid of AC/DC system.
• 35:15
  But let's not forget about the fact that Fed Now is already
• 35:19
  been launched and it is currently being built on.
• 35:23
  So of course this hasn't fully passed, it is only past the
• 35:27
  first stages of it becoming an actual bill.
• 35:30
  But we know that the Fed now has been launched in July and it
• 35:35
  really makes you think like. Are they talking out of both
• 35:39
  sides of their mouth? Of course there is a difference
• 35:42
  between politicians and the Federal Reserve in general.
• 35:44
  But here's an article that was dropped September 17, 2023.
• 35:47
  Fed Now is launched as blockchain innovation delivers
• 35:50
  next Gen. instant payments. Yeah, whatever.
• 35:54
  Anyways, here we got I think the signal of this whole article and
• 35:57
  this was on Forbes, but I I'm using archive because there was
• 36:02
  a paywall. And I'm not paying for it
• 36:04
  anyways. So though Fed Now doesn't use
• 36:06
  blockchain technology, its goal is similar to ongoing
• 36:09
  innovations in the blockchain space, enabling instant
• 36:12
  peer-to-peer transfers and low cost payments.
• 36:14
  Again, low cost payments and. What peer to peers guys.
• 36:19
  Anyways, reports of the Fed now laying the groundwork for a
• 36:21
  potential central bank digital currency in the US have been
• 36:24
  denied. But it may be too early to
• 36:26
  conclude as there's merits to a possible Fed now and digital
• 36:30
  dollar overlap in the future. And again, looking at more stuff
• 36:33
  that has been popping off in the last couple of days, we got 14
• 36:37
  hours ago, maybe like 16 hours ago now CGI to support instant
• 36:40
  payments for Fed now. So they're obviously still
• 36:43
  actively working on a Fed now, even though that they're passing
• 36:46
  well, obviously again. They're two different groups
• 36:50
  here working. We have, we have Tom Emmer and
• 36:52
  his crew talking about banning a CBDC, trying to ban the Fed from
• 36:56
  doing a CBDC, and the Fed is basically like, who's going to
• 36:59
  stop me anyways? Fed Now is a new Instant Again
• 37:01
  instant payment infrastructure developed by the Federal
• 37:03
  Reserve. It allows financial institutions
• 37:05
  of every size across the US to provide safe and efficient
• 37:08
  instant payment services. The first release of the Fed Now
• 37:11
  service provides baseline functionality that will support
• 37:14
  market needs for a range of use cases.
• 37:16
  These include those growing in demand such as account to
• 37:18
  account transfers and bill pay. You see that 15 hours account to
• 37:23
  account no longer peer-to-peer that I guess they're they're
• 37:26
  moving on the framing anyways. Key global payments provider CG
• 37:29
  I's all payment solution has been certified to support
• 37:32
  transaction activity for financial institutions that make
• 37:35
  payments on Fed Now. And here's a quote from Ken
• 37:38
  Montgomery, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
• 37:39
  He says we are excited that early adopters across the
• 37:42
  country are making strides in their operational readiness for
• 37:45
  transacting through the. Service since we launched in
• 37:48
  July, completing certification is a key milestone for
• 37:52
  participating organizations to validate their ability to
• 37:55
  deliver instant payment services.
• 37:58
  So again, while it sounds good, I I say it all the time.
• 38:02
  You know Boomer writes something on piece of paper and expects us
• 38:05
  to follow it and listen it. It really just sounds like I'm
• 38:08
  like a lot more bureaucracy out there.
• 38:11
  Like they're they're trying to make it seem like, you know,
• 38:13
  this is. The anti CBDC bill is good for
• 38:17
  good for you guys, you know, trust us, we don't, we don't
• 38:20
  need a CBDC and there on the other hand they are still
• 38:22
  actively building a CBDC. So it really makes you wonder
• 38:25
  and I'm kind of maybe I'm being pessimistic fields here on the
• 38:28
  show, but I am just, I'm just so burnt by politicians that I
• 38:32
  don't know what to think. All I know is opt out of this
• 38:35
  stuff. Saving Bitcoin and they cannot
• 38:38
  even touch you And so I don't know, man.
• 38:40
  I I guess maybe I'm going a little cynical here, Mike and
• 38:45
  Scott but what's your thoughts on this anti CBDC bill?
• 38:48
  Is it matter? Is this noise?
• 38:50
  Is this is something we're just gonna have to route around in
• 38:53
  general anyways? So, so first of all, hats off to
• 38:56
  you. I I love the fact that you're
• 38:59
  like on this information war, like to help get things out
• 39:03
  there and I think you do an amazing job to find these
• 39:05
  things. And to me, this is, this is a
• 39:07
  game. This is a long, long term game
• 39:10
  and people are going to tune out because it sounds like noise,
• 39:14
  but we need people like you and others to they can find it.
• 39:17
  And then we need people who listen to this, to then
• 39:20
  whatever's in your Dunbar circle or whatever it is, whatever your
• 39:23
  influence is, you need to take action and do something with
• 39:27
  that. If we all yell at each other
• 39:28
  over chats or podcasts or whatever, and I mean we're we're
• 39:32
  coming at it for free market kids trying to reach the the
• 39:35
  kids. They have to be taught this.
• 39:37
  No one else is going to teach them this if if the parents
• 39:40
  don't reach out and do it you can't you can't trust the
• 39:42
  teachers to do it. So as painful as it is to listen
• 39:46
  to all these bureaucrats and and they're back in and forth this
• 39:51
  is a longterm game and and we've got to we got to continue to to
• 39:54
  grudge through and and have some grit to get through all that
• 39:58
  stuff and then figure out how do you how do you turn that around.
• 40:01
  If I took that to my kids, they'd be like they'd look at me
• 40:04
  like I'm crazy. But they need to know that
• 40:06
  there's a battle going on. And so from my standpoint, yeah,
• 40:10
  I mean I'm not going to comment on whether you're negative,
• 40:12
  positive, like dealing with the the government stuff.
• 40:15
  Not it's not my cup of tea. But man, you got to you, you got
• 40:19
  to take action with it, take a clip of that and share it with
• 40:22
  somebody else. Don't just listen to it.
• 40:24
  To me when I hear you say that, I'm like, what am I going to do
• 40:27
  with that information now that Opti shared that.
• 40:29
  So that's my take. I really, really appreciate that
• 40:34
  not only the kind words but just the pragmatic thinking behind
• 40:38
  this because you know, we we do come out here and we are kind of
• 40:41
  talking heads and we do cover the BS coming out from the
• 40:44
  corporate press every single day.
• 40:46
  But it's really about taking action and and maybe just us
• 40:50
  inspiring you to act in a way that you can combat this stuff.
• 40:55
  Maybe that's all we can do and try to educate people, but we
• 40:58
  are actively. Have taken our wealth out of the
• 41:01
  system we are. We're basically not only as a
• 41:03
  company on the Bitcoin standard, but personally we're all on the
• 41:06
  Bitcoin standard. And I say it every single day.
• 41:08
  You know, take as much of your wealth out as possible from the
• 41:11
  system because you are literally financing this stuff.
• 41:13
  Whether you agree with it or not, you are a part of the
• 41:16
  problem. You are literally tactically
• 41:19
  agreeing to all this stuff if you use the Fiat system, if you
• 41:23
  use the dollar. And we know what the problem is
• 41:25
  guys. Just.
• 41:27
  It's very simple solution. It is talking about Bitcoin.
• 41:29
  It is saving the Bitcoin, is downloading Bitcoin wallets.
• 41:32
  It's making sure your friends and family are downloading
• 41:34
  Bitcoin wallets and we take away their power.
• 41:36
  Anyways, Mike, I'm ranting. What's your thoughts on this?
• 41:40
  I I obviously I'm going to be the sober one because I can't
• 41:44
  help but not. But I definitely agree with both
• 41:48
  of you. I think that it is a lot of
• 41:52
  bureaucracy because like one of the things that people have to
• 41:54
  consider or keep in mind is that.
• 41:57
  Say we succeed in this initial iteration.
• 42:03
  Politics is constantly changing. Presidents are changing out
• 42:05
  every couple of years. What's to say that they don't
• 42:08
  try it again next year or with the next president or the next
• 42:11
  year after that? Like, they're not going to give
• 42:12
  up? Because this is like the biggest
• 42:14
  power honey pot when it comes to government and national control.
• 42:21
  And I have to agree with Scott in the sense of like, we just
• 42:25
  have to like. This is like we're probably
• 42:28
  witnessing one of the greatest power wars of the that the
• 42:33
  planet has ever experienced. It's happening right in front of
• 42:36
  our eyes, but people just aren't paying attention to it because
• 42:40
  somehow we touch money like every minute of the day.
• 42:43
  But people don't think it's important to talk about.
• 42:46
  I understand. And then there's also the the
• 42:50
  reality that I I just like the. First of all, the chat has been
• 42:54
  freaking lit today. I I freaking love these nerds.
• 42:59
  But when we have to also consider that the CBD, the CBDC
• 43:05
  stuff, like I was just kind of alluding to with the politics,
• 43:08
  it's never going away. Like there it's it's it's such a
• 43:11
  powerful honey pot that probably every level of human
• 43:16
  organization, whether it's government or the PTA or a
• 43:21
  corporate entity. Or a nonprofit is going to have
• 43:24
  that honey pot of just like, oh maybe we should just create our
• 43:27
  own currency and then fund like expansion that way.
• 43:32
  So it like it's it's it's a it's a human fallacy or fallibility
• 43:36
  that is not going to go away. Guys like we like if we if this
• 43:40
  bill succeeds, the the fight's not over like the like this.
• 43:44
  This is something that bitcoiners and everybody have to
• 43:48
  accept, whether it's health. Whether it's physical health,
• 43:51
  psychological health, spiritual health, financial health,
• 43:55
  freedom, you're never done fighting.
• 43:58
  Yeah, ever. That's right, I mean.
• 44:01
  First and foremost, I I think we have to remember and everyone in
• 44:04
  the chats saying it as well as, you know, like money's already
• 44:06
  digital guys Like we basically, for all intents and purposes
• 44:08
  already have like a CBDC system. Everything's already digital.
• 44:12
  The dollar's already digital. Now they just want surgical
• 44:15
  control of the money and like Mike is saying, you know?
• 44:20
  They are always going to reach towards this tyrannical,
• 44:26
  psychopathic control of humans because they fundamentally think
• 44:29
  that they have a right to control your behavior and so
• 44:32
  they will never stop. They will constantly, constantly
• 44:35
  try to roll something out like this unless that power is taken
• 44:38
  away from them, which is literally everyone opting out of
• 44:41
  the dollar And and on a different, different kind of
• 44:44
  note, I was rewatching the Atlas Shrug movie The other day.
• 44:47
  I was trying to unplug, you know it's still still is a bitcoiner
• 44:49
  I like. And only unplugged for so much I
• 44:51
  was watching Atlas shark movie and I.
• 44:53
  Really watched it yesterday. Yeah, it's great.
• 44:55
  It's absolutely great. And I and I just restarted to
• 44:58
  read Atlas Shark. Hopefully I can make it past the
• 45:00
  1st 100 pages again. Anyways, it's huge, but it
• 45:06
  really makes me think of just like the, you know, the whole
• 45:10
  theme of that story of like striking and opting out of this
• 45:13
  madness. But you know, combining the John
• 45:16
  Galts of the world and the Dagny Taggerties, it's like look.
• 45:20
  Strike from the Fiat system, but then build in the Bitcoin
• 45:24
  system. Build within the Bitcoin
• 45:27
  ecosystem. And This is why I started the
• 45:29
  show with that video from Ron Paul is like only acknowledging
• 45:34
  the problems is only half the solution.
• 45:36
  The second-half of the solution is building something that
• 45:39
  cannot be destroyed, that cannot ever be taken away from you,
• 45:43
  which is what we say all the time.
• 45:45
  Saving in Bitcoin, building on the Bitcoin system.
• 45:48
  And Mike, you reminded me of I, I think it's Ben Franklin,
• 45:50
  right, the quote where he says it's about freedom.
• 45:55
  He's like you will always have to stay vigilant and if you're
• 45:57
  not vigilant then freedom will be lost in a generation or two
• 46:00
  or something. It was probably that, wasn't it,
• 46:02
  Something like, what did you vote on?
• 46:04
  Somebody asked him. And he said like someone like
• 46:07
  got the democracy, if we can keep it.
• 46:09
  Or something. Yeah, yeah, Republic.
• 46:10
  If we can keep it. Exactly.
• 46:12
  There you go yeah. By the way hats off to you for
• 46:14
  read and I Rand I I I read her I read that was like a decade
• 46:19
  before Bitcoin came out and I mean you're I think you're dead
• 46:22
  on like take action like you're do you really want your great
• 46:26
  grandkids or whatever look back and say yeah we sat in the
• 46:30
  sideline and took too long to take action Why the hell did
• 46:33
  they not stand up against what was obviously going on.
• 46:36
  And that's not what I want. I mean, I this is we got to do
• 46:41
  something. Do your own part, whatever it
• 46:42
  is. So hold the phone.
• 46:45
  Hold the phone, Opti. Because now I want to Scott.
• 46:48
  Now you need to go read another Iron Rand book that's much
• 46:51
  smaller but just as impactful called the virtue of
• 46:54
  Selfishness. Everybody that's watching this
• 46:56
  needs to read the virtue of Selfishness by by Iron Rand is
• 47:00
  much smaller than that was shrugged and it touches back on
• 47:03
  what Scott was talking about earlier with regards to like the
• 47:06
  kids learn from the parents by observing and just they're just
• 47:08
  sponges right. But like.
• 47:10
  We need to get back to, like, understanding and exceptionally
• 47:14
  accepting and conceptualizing that there is a level of
• 47:18
  selfishness that is necessary in order to actually perpetuate the
• 47:22
  good aspects of life and society that we're all looking for.
• 47:25
  Because it, and this goes back to bitcoiners like you have to
• 47:28
  be selfish enough with your time and your energy and your effort
• 47:31
  to get surpluses in your income so that you can stack sets.
• 47:37
  And be able to benefit from the rest of the world flooding into
• 47:40
  Bitcoin later on. Because we are early, like you
• 47:43
  have to do that if you're not working, if you're not being
• 47:47
  selfish enough with your time, effort and energy to dedicate
• 47:50
  all of your efforts to like making surpluses and being able
• 47:53
  to stack as much Bitcoin as you can, then you're not going to be
• 47:57
  a part of that revolution, right?
• 47:59
  You you like it's impossible. Because if you don't have the
• 48:01
  surplus, how are you going to how you going to stack Bitcoin?
• 48:03
  Because you're going to have to sell it eventually, right?
• 48:06
  Like people, like everybody, needs to embody this.
• 48:09
  There is a specific level of selfishness that is required in
• 48:13
  order to actually get back, get society and get America and get
• 48:16
  the world back to operations that we know we need.
• 48:19
  That's awesome. That's awesome.
• 48:21
  I would, I would double down on that and say do it without
• 48:24
  guilt, right? Everybody wants stuff.
• 48:26
  So you're either going to go out and want stuff and feel guilty
• 48:29
  about or you're going to go out and want it and feel good about
• 48:33
  it and well, like and just you had a quote on that, right?
• 48:36
  What's that? Yeah, just to provide for your
• 48:38
  kids, even like you have to be selfish to look after your kids.
• 48:42
  Yeah, it's it's it's to me, this goes back to like your, if you
• 48:45
  go into the public education system, sorry to keep going back
• 48:48
  to education, but they're going to change.
• 48:49
  They're going to spend the most time with your kids and they're
• 48:51
  going to set up the framework and they're going to set up this
• 48:53
  framework that says you need to comply and you need to feel
• 48:56
  guilty about everything, right. And then you go back and Opti, I
• 49:00
  think you played it earlier in the week.
• 49:02
  If not I saw it on Twitter somewhere that it was an
• 49:04
  interview with Ryan Ran talking about being selfish and man did
• 49:09
  she just lay it out. If someone asked her like who's
• 49:11
  going to build the roads and like she just answered it was
• 49:14
  great. I'm like like our kids need to
• 49:16
  know like hey it's good that you want stuff.
• 49:19
  What are you going to do about it?
• 49:20
  Like don't like the framework of this.
• 49:23
  There's like metal layers of this thing that I could talk on
• 49:25
  for hours, but I think you're you guys are both hitting on
• 49:28
  something really, really big there that man, I know we don't
• 49:32
  have hours to go into it, but man, you guys are nailing it
• 49:35
  with that. We we can, we can finish this
• 49:37
  conversation in spaces. But before I before I go on
• 49:40
  though, guys, I completely forgot to plug Bitcoin Nashville
• 49:44
  2024. We're going to be hanging out in
• 49:46
  Nashville. We're taking over Nashville.
• 49:48
  I hope you guys make it to the conference.
• 49:51
  And we're telling you now, I know it's what, 4-5, six months
• 49:55
  away or whatever, but get your ticket now because you guys
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  always complain about the price going up.
• 50:00
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• 50:43
  All right, Scott. Well, the floor is yours, my
• 50:45
  friend. This is the point where you can
• 50:47
  rant. So I guess I'll just tee you up.
• 50:49
  First and foremost, what is free market kids and what are you
• 50:52
  trying to achieve? So free market Kids is all about
• 50:55
  trying to give the best chance for success for for the future
• 50:58
  generations. My wife and I have 4 kids.
• 51:01
  We actually met in Business School and we got Rugged Hard
• 51:06
  and we went to Yale Business School.
• 51:09
  We got out. We thought we were smart.
• 51:10
  We're let's raise our kids, we're going to teach them about
• 51:13
  everything from finance to everything.
• 51:15
  And then we made every Fiat mistake you can make along the
• 51:19
  way in terms of debt and other things.
• 51:21
  And we just looked at each other and we're like if this can
• 51:24
  happen to us and we were supposedly went to, you know a
• 51:27
  good brand school and we're getting rugged on this, like how
• 51:31
  do we protect the kids? And that's that's part of the
• 51:33
  genesis for free market kids. The other thing is I just happen
• 51:35
  to like games. I'm kind of a geek that way.
• 51:38
  So for me, the way that I even got my wife into Bitcoin, I was
• 51:41
  trying to explain to her how transactions work with like
• 51:44
  Mahjon tiles and things. You Fast forward a number of
• 51:47
  iterations and you have the the thing that's on the screen
• 51:49
  huddle up. This has been pretty popular.
• 51:52
  Took me a couple years of study to put it together.
• 51:54
  But essentially everything in this game is based on Bitcoin
• 51:57
  mechanics. So we have other games we're
• 51:59
  going to bring out, we have other, we have books and things
• 52:02
  like that as well. Couple different versions you'll
• 52:04
  see on there as you're as you scrolling through.
• 52:06
  One is the the standard one that has cardboard like you you get
• 52:10
  in a retail store that's on the the far right, it just says
• 52:12
  school edition and we're right now we have 21% off the the
• 52:17
  commemorative edition for next year.
• 52:19
  So every year we're going to come out with a limited
• 52:21
  collector collection edition of something.
• 52:24
  So next year obviously is the having super pumped about that
• 52:28
  and this is this is one of those things you can 45 minutes get
• 52:31
  some fellowship with your your friends or your family and and
• 52:35
  get away from screen time and and start to the conversation.
• 52:39
  So every time we have an event we always tell people bring
• 52:43
  somebody who doesn't know Bitcoin yet bring your
• 52:45
  significant other that doesn't know Bitcoin.
• 52:48
  We we run the the Louisville meet up here and one time we met
• 52:53
  in the park we're like bring your kids and let them run
• 52:56
  around or if they want to play then you know you know whatever.
• 52:59
  But the point is you that in person time especially after
• 53:03
  COVID to me it's it's huge and so here's an opportunity that
• 53:08
  you can start to break down these barriers a bridge to
• 53:10
  people who don't know Bitcoin yet if you happen to know
• 53:13
  Bitcoin that's great you can talk smack to each other and bet
• 53:16
  some sats on the on the game. So super pumped.
• 53:19
  We got things in the in the works for Lightning game and
• 53:21
  other things down the road. And then the the big thing that
• 53:25
  I was, I was really hoping to talk about today.
• 53:28
  So recently we were at a TAB comf panel on homeschooling.
• 53:33
  And what we've noticed is there's a huge difference
• 53:36
  between what happens that the other article you have right
• 53:40
  there. We went during this year, we
• 53:42
  went to a couple homeschooling conferences and said all these
• 53:46
  are our people like they're they're bitcoiners.
• 53:48
  Like everything about them is like Bitcoin and it was like
• 53:52
  pushing a rock up a hill. We go to a Bitcoin meet up and
• 53:56
  we say the words hey you should self custody, your education or
• 54:00
  separation of education state or decentralized education and down
• 54:06
  to to the family. Like there are so many things
• 54:11
  that that overlap and there was like this hunger with people are
• 54:13
  asking for advice on homeschooling and so so this I'm
• 54:19
  going to make this the first time publicly to talk about it.
• 54:22
  We just started a Bitcoin homeschool podcast now we have
• 54:26
  our first recording up struggling with a little bit.
• 54:28
  We got it on Apple. I'm trying to it's not on Google
• 54:31
  yet it's on Fountain. So we're we're trying to get it
• 54:34
  out there. But if you go to
• 54:35
  bitcoinhomeschoolers.com you can check it out let us know what
• 54:39
  you want to hear. But right now our point of view
• 54:43
  the whole free market kids point of view is we've got two decades
• 54:47
  of experience homeschooling. We love Bitcoin.
• 54:51
  We're not programmers, we're not influencers that can do like the
• 54:54
  podcasting thing like like what you're you're doing with with
• 54:58
  simply you know we're not going to be able to take on the talk
• 55:01
  on the investment side. What do we know?
• 55:02
  Well, we know about what it was like to to basically take
• 55:06
  control of the education for for our kids.
• 55:09
  And so we're trying to do is this is our way of trying to
• 55:13
  serve the Bitcoin community with what we know.
• 55:15
  And so we're super pumped about it and we're hoping to get a lot
• 55:19
  of feedback from people and what they want to hear, get some
• 55:21
  guests on there. But that's an overview of free
• 55:24
  market kids. Love it?
• 55:26
  Okay. One question someone asks is Hot
• 55:30
  Love Game going to be available in the UK?
• 55:33
  It's technically available now. What we're struggling with is
• 55:37
  you got a lot of supply chain frictions and they put on stupid
• 55:40
  import duties and we're, I need to figure out the distribution
• 55:44
  model physically. So the second thing we're
• 55:46
  working on is working on, we're trying to find a partner to help
• 55:49
  get a digital version to try to spread it out there.
• 55:53
  And we've got a couple. So if you know somebody in
• 55:55
  another country that's already familiar with the distribution
• 55:58
  model there and we can figure out between game publishers and
• 56:01
  distributors how we can lower that price 100%.
• 56:04
  Right now if you order on our site, usually it'll go like DHL.
• 56:09
  It's expensive as hell and I hate it.
• 56:12
  So we're trying to, we're trying to work it, work it through.
• 56:15
  We've had people buy it in Australia and Germany and in the
• 56:18
  UK, like we've had people buy it all over.
• 56:20
  But unfortunately right now, yeah, you got to pay a price for
• 56:24
  all the import duties and stuff. It's.
• 56:26
  I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, we.
• 56:29
  We've had similar requests to ship some of our merch to like
• 56:33
  Canada and other areas and we're like, dude, we're trying to
• 56:36
  figure it out. The shipping cost might be too
• 56:38
  high. They don't want us to ship you
• 56:40
  stuff guys. It's it's incredible.
• 56:42
  Anyways, Scott, let's jump back to kind of a topic.
• 56:45
  I don't know if you said this exactly on the show yet, but you
• 56:48
  did say it in the beginning before we were talking about and
• 56:51
  it's something I kind of talk about all the time.
• 56:53
  I am a public school student myself, so you know I am not
• 56:57
  denigrating anyone here when I say this.
• 56:59
  But I remember safety and said something on the lines of like
• 57:03
  the American public education system is set up in such a way
• 57:07
  to basically make you a just a good factory worker.
• 57:11
  And they they don't instill you obviously with the mechanisms of
• 57:16
  money because as I say all the time they want you deaf, dumb
• 57:18
  and blind. And I really like the meme you
• 57:20
  were saying of separating not only money from state but
• 57:23
  separating education in state. And so maybe for the people out
• 57:27
  there that. Have children and maybe are
• 57:30
  working there 9:00 to 5:00. What would you say to them say
• 57:33
  that, that I always hear in regards to homeschooling, like I
• 57:36
  don't have enough time to be to homeschool my children.
• 57:40
  Yeah, yeah, there's there's a lot there.
• 57:42
  First of all, there's a lot of FUD out there about what
• 57:45
  homeschooling is and isn't. And let me just tell you that
• 57:47
  the IT is an asymmetric upside type of thing.
• 57:51
  You can let your kids excel in ways that are just amazing and
• 57:54
  you can avoid a lot of the the the indoctrination that that
• 57:57
  that goes on there. Kids are resilient if you have
• 57:59
  to send them back to public school like it's a low, low risk
• 58:02
  opportunity. But let's say you're you're a
• 58:04
  couple and you need both incomes to to get by and that's in the
• 58:09
  reality is that's a lot of families right now and not
• 58:12
  everybody is able to get by on on one income.
• 58:16
  So what I would say to you was a couple things, #1 there's a huge
• 58:20
  community of support, right? You, there are a lot of
• 58:22
  resources out there. There are a lot of people you
• 58:24
  can talk to. And #2, you just need to be
• 58:28
  committed. Like take the step and say we're
• 58:30
  going to we're going to teach our kids about the history of
• 58:33
  money, or we're going to teach our kids about Bitcoin, or we're
• 58:36
  going to teach our kids about how to think critically.
• 58:39
  So what you were just mentioning just a second ago where you just
• 58:42
  want factory workers that comply, I will tell you, our
• 58:46
  four kids, they are very polite. They first of all, all the
• 58:50
  thought about not being able to socially adjust.
• 58:52
  That's not true at all. Homeschooling kids can talk to
• 58:54
  adults, I think better than most of the the kids in high school
• 58:58
  today, in public school. And they push back on us, but in
• 59:02
  a respectful way and they can think critically through things.
• 59:07
  And I that is a skill where we don't.
• 59:09
  I do not believe that's what you're really encouraging if
• 59:12
  you're if you're looking at a kid in public school and they're
• 59:14
  more concerned about why a boy doesn't want to sit still in a
• 59:18
  in a seat, like, I mean just think about it.
• 59:21
  Like of course they don't want to sit still.
• 59:23
  They're a kid you're you're trying to like get them to
• 59:27
  comply with everything. The ability to think critically
• 59:30
  is a huge, huge advantage and you don't have to have them
• 59:35
  homeschooled to do that. When you're when you're at home,
• 59:37
  are you having dinner together? Are you watching TV or are you
• 59:40
  doing some kind of game where you have to interact with each
• 59:43
  other, like a weekly game night or something?
• 59:46
  They're just because you're you have to do public school with
• 59:48
  both, with with both parents. They're still your kids.
• 59:53
  You still get to, you still get to make a decision about how
• 59:56
  you're going to spend your precious time with them, and
• 59:59
  then as soon as you can get them out, my recommendation is to to
• 1:00:03
  take that into your own hands and then you can really, you can
• 1:00:07
  really accelerate it, but you have a huge support community.
• 1:00:11
  Take the first step, then. And have the courage to see it
• 1:00:15
  through. And what will happen is you will
• 1:00:16
  see that you have capabilities you didn't even know you had.
• 1:00:20
  And then you'll get your confidence.
• 1:00:22
  You don't start with the confidence that you're going to
• 1:00:24
  know what to do. You're going to commit to what's
• 1:00:26
  right. And then as you you, you grow.
• 1:00:29
  You're going to grow a lot. As you try to teach your kids,
• 1:00:32
  your confidence will come after the fact.
• 1:00:34
  So I don't know if I answered exactly your question or not.
• 1:00:37
  I feel like I'm kind of answering like like a ton of
• 1:00:39
  things there at once. But.
• 1:00:41
  Yeah, give me back in the lines off you.
• 1:00:44
  Tell me what you want me to focus on.
• 1:00:45
  I. I I just absolutely think
• 1:00:48
  because like look I've realized as a public school student just
• 1:00:53
  like how much I don't know. And and I said I've told this
• 1:00:56
  story all the time on the show. You know I I got a degree in
• 1:00:59
  philosophy and I fell in love with soccer teams because of 1
• 1:01:01
  quote. I know that I know nothing and
• 1:01:03
  just like staying humble and understanding, like, man, I have
• 1:01:06
  absolutely no clue what's going on in the world.
• 1:01:09
  And so this is just constantly just being curious and trying to
• 1:01:12
  figure out what's going on. And then on my next meme is the
• 1:01:15
  idea of like, man, I want, I want to build up an army of
• 1:01:19
  soldiers around me. Like I want I don't have kids
• 1:01:22
  yet. I don't even have a wife yet,
• 1:01:23
  but I'm trying to build an empire.
• 1:01:25
  And one of my friends, Joe Rogers, he always says the same
• 1:01:28
  thing over and over and over again.
• 1:01:29
  He's like, man, kids are so awesome.
• 1:01:31
  You literally get to propagate the memes and I like, and if you
• 1:01:34
  don't know what he means, it's like you can literally form your
• 1:01:37
  children into the memetic warfare that you want.
• 1:01:40
  Them to Do you get the program them into the awesome bitcoiner
• 1:01:43
  that you want to see? Yeah, that's awesome.
• 1:01:45
  Do you know that in in Germany you're not even allowed to home
• 1:01:49
  school is against the law. You think about, like, when the
• 1:01:51
  state wants control over your kids, Why?
• 1:01:53
  And it's exactly because they control the memes.
• 1:01:56
  And right now there's a, I forget the number, there's a
• 1:01:58
  California law that just passed legislation and it hasn't been
• 1:02:02
  signed by by the governor yet but it has to do with basically
• 1:02:06
  they can use whether or not you affirm gender for custody
• 1:02:09
  reasons. So now you can't even have an
• 1:02:11
  opinion on on that with your kids.
• 1:02:12
  Like to me the the public school thing that the scary part is
• 1:02:18
  they want to control the memes for your kids and they want to
• 1:02:21
  separate them from their parents and and that's that is just
• 1:02:26
  dangerous dangerous territory So whatever your situation is I
• 1:02:32
  would just encourage you to build that relationship with
• 1:02:35
  your your your children and and then if you you start to see
• 1:02:39
  signs of of that take action do do do something get them out of
• 1:02:43
  whatever that is because once that in those formative years
• 1:02:46
  once that's there man I don't care how many memes you throw at
• 1:02:50
  them if you've if you've lost their their the frame the the
• 1:02:53
  framework man that is that's that that's really sad and then
• 1:02:58
  then the government wins in that case.
• 1:03:01
  Yeah. It's it's it's no surprise that
• 1:03:04
  we are actively seeing the attack on children and and then
• 1:03:08
  not only that but the separation of the nuclear family is because
• 1:03:13
  if you don't have a strong family unit then it becomes a
• 1:03:17
  lot easier to brainwash that child with with whatever means
• 1:03:20
  the state wants. And and I think this is the
• 1:03:22
  importance of the separation of not only money in state, but
• 1:03:25
  education in state. And you know, Scott, kudos to
• 1:03:29
  you. I'm sure we can have this
• 1:03:29
  conversation for forever, but we are on the time limit.
• 1:03:32
  So hopefully you can pop in on the spaces afterwards and we can
• 1:03:35
  continue this conversation. All right, sweet.
• 1:03:37
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  anyways. Get a kaboomracks.com if you
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  want some a six. Let's get in review guys.
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  This is the only reason you show up to the show the Daily Meme
• 1:04:47
  Review. All right, hold on, guys.
• 1:04:53
  I I forgot that this one's a video.
• 1:04:54
  Let me see if I can get this one.
• 1:04:57
  No, actually, whatever. You don't need the audio.
• 1:04:59
  You you'll get the picture. All right, guys, this is the
• 1:05:02
  meme review where you guys send us on on Twitter.
• 1:05:06
  Simply Bitcoin TV on Twitter. Tag me.
• 1:05:09
  Tag your favorite meme. Tag your memes.
• 1:05:11
  It doesn't matter. Just give me memes and it makes
• 1:05:14
  my job easier when you tag me and memes, guys.
• 1:05:16
  Or tag my personal account optimist fields.
• 1:05:19
  And of course you can also drop them in our telegram group.
• 1:05:22
  We are like what, 20 people? 30 people away from 1000 people
• 1:05:25
  in our telegram group? Great conversation shouts out
• 1:05:28
  the Darth coin holding it down our mod over there.
• 1:05:31
  And guys, I need the tweets in the telegram and it's not enough
• 1:05:35
  it just to put the memes in there, but I I do have a few of
• 1:05:37
  them in here. Anyways, as you can see guys,
• 1:05:40
  this video that's been playing this person's not even a
• 1:05:43
  bitcoiner. Who is this?
• 1:05:46
  Some. Some kind of CFA.
• 1:05:50
  Uh, yeah, seen on Bloomberg. Whatever, whatever.
• 1:05:52
  It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who posted
• 1:05:55
  this. The tweet is the meme here and
• 1:05:57
  she goes. Jerome Powell.
• 1:05:59
  The economy is running smoothly and then the economy.
• 1:06:02
  It's a Tesla with one of the like, wheel low jacks or what
• 1:06:05
  are they called, you know, when they're trying to make sure you
• 1:06:07
  don't drive your car? Look at it.
• 1:06:09
  It's like skirting over at the economy is not running smoothly.
• 1:06:13
  It's almost like the economy is not working exactly as designed.
• 1:06:16
  Or rather, maybe. Is.
• 1:06:18
  I don't know. It seems to be working for some
• 1:06:19
  people. Anyways, let's go to this next
• 1:06:21
  meme, guys. This one from Darth Coin.
• 1:06:25
  All right, let me zoom in a little bit.
• 1:06:27
  All right, so we did the story. I think it was two days ago,
• 1:06:31
  Robert. Or maybe, yeah, two days ago,
• 1:06:33
  Robert. Kiyosaki.
• 1:06:34
  And I think the day before I did a culture where I was reading
• 1:06:38
  one of Darth Coins guides go check out Darth coin substack
• 1:06:42
  and yesterday on the meme review someone or Doctor Surgeon 9000
• 1:06:47
  goes meme review score Kiyosaki reading printed out Darth coin
• 1:06:50
  guides. And so there's a screenshot of
• 1:06:52
  the meme review. And then we got down here at the
• 1:06:55
  bottom, it got Darth Coin and it goes Rich Darth and then poor
• 1:07:00
  dad as Robert Kiyosaki. And it's going, did you read
• 1:07:03
  Darth Coin Bitcoin Guide? Guys, if you haven't you should
• 1:07:06
  Darth coin dot sub stack or go hang out with them in our
• 1:07:10
  telegram group. He's in there.
• 1:07:11
  He's lively. He's modern.
• 1:07:13
  The chat and I again, guys, sometimes I just kind of connect
• 1:07:18
  these dots and I just put memes here and I think this is a
• 1:07:21
  perfect meme for the conversation we've had with
• 1:07:24
  Scott and and even in the beginning in the numbers guys
• 1:07:26
  and this is Made X shouts out to made X one of the I might pin
• 1:07:30
  one of the best Bitcoin artists out there.
• 1:07:32
  There's a lot of you guys, but Made X has.
• 1:07:34
  It's got a way with the work. So AKA at Spaceball on Twitter
• 1:07:38
  and we got I don't know, statue of a what's the what's the sea
• 1:07:43
  God Poseidon. Yeah.
• 1:07:45
  It looks like Poseidon in the background.
• 1:07:47
  And it goes become the greatest man your bloodline has ever
• 1:07:50
  seen. This is the way.
• 1:07:53
  And if it's not you maybe educate your child so they
• 1:07:56
  become the greatest in your bloodline.
• 1:07:58
  OK, this next one was that. It could be Zeus too.
• 1:08:02
  It could be Zeus. Yeah, it might be Zeus.
• 1:08:03
  I don't know. Anyways, this next meme is by
• 1:08:06
  Greg Zoj One and I think this is like a Pimple cream which I
• 1:08:10
  probably should get. And we got a girl here and he
• 1:08:13
  goes pimples 0 holding up I don't know some Pimple cream
• 1:08:17
  Blackheads 0. And then we got a picture of
• 1:08:20
  Bitcoin SV Bitcoin Cash and rip on it goes active users zero.
• 1:08:24
  Who is using these shit coin chains?
• 1:08:27
  I. Absolutely incredible.
• 1:08:28
  OK, this next one is by Marcus Connor, NH on Twitter.
• 1:08:32
  And he made a GIF and he goes, I made new art for the Bitcoin
• 1:08:34
  crab market and it's the Bitcoin Lego crabbing across the pier.
• 1:08:39
  How long are we going to be in a crab market?
• 1:08:42
  Are we going ever? We going down?
• 1:08:44
  It's like literally the Bitcoin meme of like poking at the
• 1:08:46
  state. Like do something like, just
• 1:08:48
  stop going sideways, stop crabbing on us.
• 1:08:51
  I don't know Crab market equals crabby bitcoiners.
• 1:08:54
  Who would have saw that coming? OK, this next meme is by Rd.
• 1:08:57
  under score BTC and I love this one.
• 1:09:00
  This is why you need to run a node and he goes my node says no
• 1:09:04
  GIF available on tenor and GIF search and you can see here is a
• 1:09:08
  new GIF by Rd. BTC and it just says my Bitcoin
• 1:09:11
  node says no. If you don't like all the shit
• 1:09:15
  these shit corners are trying to put on Bitcoin, run a node and
• 1:09:19
  do not change. The software don't run their
• 1:09:22
  fucking code. Just run a Bitcoin node, guys.
• 1:09:25
  Like, all right. As you can tell, I get a little
• 1:09:29
  triggered on that one. Fucking run the node.
• 1:09:31
  Run the code. It's software.
• 1:09:33
  Run the software. OK, this next one, this one's a
• 1:09:36
  little charty, guys. This one might be a little think
• 1:09:39
  boy over here, but we got a tweet here from Simply Bitcoin
• 1:09:42
  Shuts out Ruston and he goes. Just in in the world of money,
• 1:09:46
  Bitcoin is the north star. Others aim to compete against
• 1:09:49
  the ideal constant, one where the supply will remain constant
• 1:09:52
  and is trustless. From April 2024, Bitcoin is
• 1:09:55
  going to be the hardest asset in the world and we got a chart
• 1:09:59
  here and you can see it goes annual rate of currency supply
• 1:10:02
  chains 2011 to 2022 Bitcoin versus reserve currencies and as
• 1:10:07
  you can see here on the left side, Bitcoin.
• 1:10:09
  Is only getting smaller and. Smaller the me.
• 1:10:13
  The meme here is the oh Bitcoins.
• 1:10:15
  Volatile. It's like, look at this.
• 1:10:17
  Supply volatility. Get out of here, dude.
• 1:10:20
  Dude, it's almost like Bitcoin is the hardest asset in the
• 1:10:24
  world. I mean, like, look at this crazy
• 1:10:26
  stuff. What's the dollar is?
• 1:10:29
  I don't know. It's looking super.
• 1:10:31
  Can you repeat that off to you? I don't think I've heard that
• 1:10:33
  before. What?
• 1:10:33
  Did you? What did I say?
• 1:10:34
  I don't know what it is like something.
• 1:10:37
  I don't. Know hardest?
• 1:10:38
  Hardest. Money.
• 1:10:38
  It's almost like it's the best money ever created and you guys
• 1:10:42
  are still bearish on it. This is a I'm gonna tangent
• 1:10:45
  right now since I have Mike on the show.
• 1:10:47
  It's almost like bitcoiners are very bad at marketing.
• 1:10:50
  When we have literally the best money in the world, how can we
• 1:10:53
  not sell this to people? That's not possible after you.
• 1:10:56
  Oh my goodness. Best Marketers in.
• 1:10:58
  Brain Wow triggered Opti triggered in the chat.
• 1:11:01
  Opti triggered in the chat. OK guys, drop your meme review
• 1:11:03
  score in the chat and I will cover it live.
• 1:11:07
  Mine is Oh yeah, this is what I'm gonna do.
• 1:11:09
  I have this matchbox. Oh my God.
• 1:11:12
  ASMR matches. OK, all right.
• 1:11:16
  Mike, what's your meme review score?
• 1:11:18
  Mine. My score is going to be one of
• 1:11:20
  the five books that I've been working on reading for the last
• 1:11:23
  couple of weeks, and that is a start with Why by Simon Sinek.
• 1:11:26
  No, you guys. Good book.
• 1:11:29
  I should all read that book. Love it.
• 1:11:31
  OK Uh, Scott, you kind of previewed this, so I'm excited
• 1:11:35
  for this ME Review score. What is your me review score,
• 1:11:38
  Sir? Yeah, to mind is going to be a
• 1:11:41
  proof of work apparel shirt and I have to demo this and it's
• 1:11:45
  going to be a little bit weird. I'm not going to be able to like
• 1:11:48
  jump on a treadmill So you can you can decide if this is sweat
• 1:11:52
  or water. But this is honest, I have to
• 1:11:53
  step back in the mic for a second to demo it.
• 1:11:55
  Hold on a second. Wet tshirt concepts.
• 1:11:59
  Wet tshirts, hopefully. Don't fry the headphones.
• 1:12:04
  Just don't fry the headphones, Scott.
• 1:12:06
  What? What's that?
• 1:12:07
  Don't spray the headphones. Yeah, don't fry the headphones.
• 1:12:10
  Yeah, my wife would kill me if I did.
• 1:12:11
  Hold on. Just take the cap off and just
• 1:12:15
  dump that. I might might have to do that.
• 1:12:18
  Do it. Just dump it.
• 1:12:20
  You see anything coming through yet?
• 1:12:22
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's coming through.
• 1:12:24
  This is weird all right, I acknowledge it, but it's
• 1:12:28
  supposed to say. This is gonna become.
• 1:12:30
  This is gonna become its own meme.
• 1:12:32
  It might. There we go.
• 1:12:34
  I think it says proof of work. It's on mirror mode.
• 1:12:38
  Yeah, I can't tell. Yeah.
• 1:12:40
  Now. Yeah, It's coming through.
• 1:12:41
  It's coming through. We can see it.
• 1:12:42
  All right. So also say proof of work.
• 1:12:45
  I don't know how I got it wet enough, but the idea is supposed
• 1:12:49
  to say proof of work. It does say proof of work.
• 1:12:52
  Trust me. I've gotten the song of this
• 1:12:53
  thing is awesome. We got two versions.
• 1:12:55
  We got one that says running Bitcoin that pops up after you
• 1:12:58
  you start sweating. And then we got the one that
• 1:13:00
  I'm. I'm trying to demo that.
• 1:13:02
  The picture that that Opti is showing, there's a hell of a lot
• 1:13:04
  better than what I just did. But so my meme score is a Proof
• 1:13:10
  of Work apparel shirt. Let's go.
• 1:13:14
  Love it. Your meme score for today was a
• 1:13:18
  wet tshirt contest on Simply Bitcoin.
• 1:13:20
  Absolutely love it. Great score.
• 1:13:25
  Great score, Scott. Good thing this is the end of
• 1:13:27
  the show so you don't have to sit there in a wet shirt.
• 1:13:29
  And on that note guys, we are also plugging our merch here or
• 1:13:33
  Wine would yell at me. Scan the QR code, go support the
• 1:13:37
  show. Support Scott as well.
• 1:13:38
  Guys, this is about, you know, giving you guys stuff that you
• 1:13:41
  want and so that we can keep doing what we're doing.
• 1:13:44
  You know, education is is a uphill battle in regards to
• 1:13:48
  showing up every single day and having the fun.
• 1:13:51
  So This is why we're trying to give you guys some merge, give
• 1:13:54
  you guys some some value in return and not just give you
• 1:13:58
  guys a show, but try to get paid, you know let's we're going
• 1:14:01
  to double down on the iron ran selfishness gene today.
• 1:14:05
  Pay us. No, no, no.
• 1:14:06
  I'm just joking. All right, me review scores over
• 1:14:08
  here. Let's see.
• 1:14:10
  I have a few I sneakers. Not here.
• 1:14:14
  So maybe I will hit the the horn after every single one.
• 1:14:17
  Actually, not now, you guys tell me if you like that.
• 1:14:19
  If you like the horn after every single one over here.
• 1:14:23
  Or is it obnoxious? I don't know.
• 1:14:24
  I kind of like being obnoxious sometimes.
• 1:14:26
  All right. Anyways, anyways, I'm ranting to
• 1:14:27
  myself. All right, first score is by Tom
• 1:14:30
  Redeye and he goes. I give those memes 21 soft shell
• 1:14:33
  crabs. Yes, crabby.
• 1:14:36
  Crabby. Market hit the horns, dude.
• 1:14:37
  Fuck it. All right, all right, we're
• 1:14:39
  gonna hit the horns. 21 S shale crabs Okay the P man, man.
• 1:14:44
  I give these memes Maxine Waters.
• 1:14:46
  Incoming old folks home with a view of the Bitcoin City.
• 1:14:51
  OK, this next one is Elaine Lowell.
• 1:14:53
  And it goes score Home school becomes the number one school.
• 1:14:56
  Smart kids secure our Bitcoin future.
• 1:14:59
  Critical thinking is cool. Let's go.
• 1:15:02
  OK, let's see. Can I read these?
• 1:15:05
  Yeah. Meme Score by BTC Is Truth.
• 1:15:08
  An army of many opties propagating the memes on the
• 1:15:11
  front lines of the information war, stacking stats while
• 1:15:13
  awakening the masses. Let's go.
• 1:15:16
  This is what I'm talking about. OK, next one is by Dr. Serge
• 1:15:20
  9000 to Go's meme review score. Scott teaching hoto.
• 1:15:24
  Up to grandparents, playing with grandchildren at home.
• 1:15:27
  Oh, nice. Let's go.
• 1:15:29
  Hold on. OK, I am trying to make sure
• 1:15:33
  that I don't read anything bad here, but I think we're good.
• 1:15:36
  Mick Levin mean score up the cracks and hijacked mainstream
• 1:15:40
  news networks of the entire world and screams at people to
• 1:15:42
  adopt Bitcoin. Go.
• 1:15:46
  OK, Opti's physically armed army of memers, aka my children
• 1:15:50
  score. Addicting my Babu to Bitcoin
• 1:15:53
  games to earn stats. Makes child live.
• 1:15:58
  Oh, man. OK.
• 1:16:00
  Ah, this one I guess is all right.
• 1:16:01
  John Pleb score a dead Bluebird. OK, OK, all right, A little
• 1:16:07
  dark. But anyway.
• 1:16:08
  Satellites Jenks. I give these memes one coin to
• 1:16:11
  rule them all. Let's go.
• 1:16:14
  A few more. A few more R can save 12222.
• 1:16:20
  Score 21 pairs of Nico's blue blockers.
• 1:16:23
  But are they all different colored?
• 1:16:24
  That's the. That's the important one.
• 1:16:26
  Apparently people love the blue blockers.
• 1:16:28
  OK, rave elevator. The I score the memes.
• 1:16:30
  The movie Children of Men I watched again yesterday.
• 1:16:34
  OK, Let's see. OK.
• 1:16:37
  I don't think I can read that one.
• 1:16:38
  Canada. OK.
• 1:16:39
  OK. OK, Let's see.
• 1:16:43
  Last. Last one.
• 1:16:44
  No. One more.
• 1:16:44
  No. Yeah, last, last.
• 1:16:47
  One UTXO, I give the memes a shirt soaked in boot.
• 1:16:51
  What? Budanellic acid, I don't.
• 1:16:54
  I don't even know. I don't know what that answer it
• 1:16:56
  is. I have literally no clue what
• 1:16:59
  that means. I might have read something bad.
• 1:17:01
  Anyways, there's a few more in there, but I can't read those
• 1:17:05
  guys. You guys are you guys are
• 1:17:06
  savages. OK, OK.
• 1:17:09
  Anyways, we love you guys. Appreciate you guys.
• 1:17:13
  Great show, Mike. You guys know Mike.
• 1:17:17
  He's on the show constantly with me.
• 1:17:19
  Mike. What What are you working on?
• 1:17:21
  What can you plug? What do you want to?
• 1:17:23
  What do you want to tell the people last words?
• 1:17:26
  The a couple things I can plug are I have an article that
• 1:17:30
  Shinobi is working through right now.
• 1:17:32
  For those of you guys that don't know, Shinobi took on a position
• 1:17:35
  at Bitcoin Magazine as an editor.
• 1:17:38
  I don't know if it's higher than that Shinobi.
• 1:17:40
  If you have a higher position than that, I apologize, but I
• 1:17:43
  also don't care. But so, So he's working through
• 1:17:47
  an article that I put together that's relatively long.
• 1:17:49
  It's like 3200 words. So you have to give him time to
• 1:17:51
  work through it. But it's talking about the
• 1:17:53
  expansion of infrastructure, energy generation infrastructure
• 1:17:57
  and Power Distribution infrastructure within a national
• 1:18:01
  economy and the value that that has and how much it's not being
• 1:18:05
  like not being considered in GDP numbers or anything.
• 1:18:09
  And then the importance of Bitcoin mining to propagating
• 1:18:12
  that infrastructure expansion. To be able to actually increase
• 1:18:15
  GDP output so you guys can look for that.
• 1:18:18
  It sounds super boring. I promise you will probably
• 1:18:21
  enjoy it. And then we're also working on
• 1:18:25
  the backside of getting merged up and running for Bitcoin
• 1:18:30
  veterans. So Scott, I'm gonna be hitting
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  you up to figure out what you used for those shirts, because.
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  You guys know I like to work out and I want to be able to wrap
• 1:18:40
  that kind of shit, so I'm going to buy some of.
• 1:18:42
  Those shirts for you. But then you can get them now
• 1:18:44
  they're these are available right now on our website and we
• 1:18:47
  we're coming out with some more designs and if if you want to
• 1:18:49
  team together and maybe we do something for Bitcoin vets or
• 1:18:53
  something or simply let's let's come up with some fun stuff we
• 1:18:56
  can talk later, yeah. Yep, I love it.
• 1:18:59
  Love it. Actually I'm trying to look for
• 1:19:01
  a comment in here, but it might be too high.
• 1:19:04
  It was by Big Sean Harris and I think it's fitting, he said.
• 1:19:07
  Mike is the the ultimate think boy nerd.
• 1:19:10
  So what up, nerd? Where I wear that badge with
• 1:19:16
  pride. Yeah, my call everybody nerds,
• 1:19:18
  but I love being a. Yeah, Mike was telling me about
• 1:19:20
  that article before the show, and I'm like, dude, I literally
• 1:19:23
  don't even think I know what you just said.
• 1:19:25
  But I'm glad Scott understood it.
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  OK, anyways, no, I don't understand stuff.
• 1:19:30
  I go to bit, I go to bit devs all the times and I don't
• 1:19:32
  understand anything that they're saying.
• 1:19:34
  I just kind of hope every once in a while like a word to will
• 1:19:36
  sink in so it's the same thing. I'll read his article and I'm
• 1:19:39
  like maybe one or two things will get in.
• 1:19:41
  It's like that one, that one meme of the like little Chinese
• 1:19:44
  kid who's just like reading the books just like, all right Mike,
• 1:19:49
  hang out in spaces and what, We'll continue this
• 1:19:52
  conversation. Anyway, Scott, really appreciate
• 1:19:54
  you coming on. You you as well come hang out
• 1:19:56
  with us in spaces and let's keep this combo going because I'm
• 1:20:00
  sure we can have this. We could probably talk about
• 1:20:02
  this for a long, long time. But on that note, Scott, what
• 1:20:06
  what do you want to plug? What's?
• 1:20:07
  What are you working on next? I'm working on a Lightning game.
• 1:20:11
  I'm working on finishing up the final touches on that 2024
• 1:20:15
  Deluxe edition. That's the one we mentioned
• 1:20:17
  earlier. 21% off obviously working on the the, the new
• 1:20:22
  podcast and what I really love to do and I wanted to do this
• 1:20:25
  with you guys down in Miami is I'd like to challenge you guys
• 1:20:28
  to a game of huddle up. So but let's let's that's that
• 1:20:33
  would be fantastic and you can you get up get some some other
• 1:20:37
  folks together let's go, let's go someplace and let's let's
• 1:20:40
  have a couple whatever your favorite beverage are and let's
• 1:20:44
  play huddle up. I tried to get you guys in
• 1:20:46
  Miami. You guys are too busy with
• 1:20:48
  touching tips and other things and I was like and I was like
• 1:20:51
  okay, you know what, I'll get them later, you know.
• 1:20:54
  But that would be really cool, yeah.
• 1:20:56
  So if people could support check out our the the new podcast, let
• 1:20:59
  us know what you what you want to hear for homeschooling.
• 1:21:04
  If you could check out our games, that's we're basically
• 1:21:05
  supporting ourself through those there and then If you guys can
• 1:21:10
  give the Simply crew a really hard time to accept the
• 1:21:14
  challenge to play huddle up, I would really appreciate that.
• 1:21:18
  That'd be all. Awesome.
• 1:21:20
  Yes, Put on the peer pressure guys.
• 1:21:23
  Scott, really appreciate you coming on.
• 1:21:25
  Great show, great signal. Well, we'll bring you back on
• 1:21:28
  another time and maybe we'll just go super hard on on just
• 1:21:31
  homeschooling and stuff again and but definitely join us, join
• 1:21:35
  us on ON Spaces right now. Request and we'll bring you up
• 1:21:37
  and let's continue this conversation for everyone.
• 1:21:40
  Give me 5 minutes to take a quick break, I'll be right on.
• 1:21:42
  No worries. No worries.
• 1:21:43
  Appreciate you. Thank you.
• 1:21:45
  Appreciate you, Scott. Anyways, guys, what is show?
• 1:21:49
  What a marathon? What is Sprint?
• 1:21:51
  We love you. Like, share, subscribe if you
• 1:21:54
  think we added value to your life.
• 1:21:56
  If you just think we're entertaining, you want to hang
• 1:21:57
  out with us? Come back on Monday.
• 1:21:59
  We'll be back with another show. Nico will be back.
• 1:22:02
  Maybe he will give you the surprise on Monday.
• 1:22:05
  I don't know. We'll see what's going on.
• 1:22:07
  I did see. He's checking up on us guys.
• 1:22:10
  The house is on fire. Anyways, we love you.
• 1:22:12
  Have a good weekend. Get outside.
• 1:22:14
  Touch some grass. Get a workout in, Eat some good
• 1:22:16
  food. Call your mother.
• 1:22:19
  And make sure you are maintaining your relationships,
• 1:22:22
  guys. We are building the Bitcoin
• 1:22:24
  economy one block at a time. We will see you in the Citadels.
• 1:22:29
  Peace out guys. What's up everyone?
• 1:22:41
  We are in spaces. Of course, you already know the
• 1:22:43
  deal. This is a Bitcoin space.
• 1:22:45
  Buy bitcoins for bitcoins, Come up here, Let's have a
• 1:22:48
  conversation. Scott said he'll be in here.
• 1:22:50
  I I I feel bad that we kind of had to cut him off on this
• 1:22:53
  conversation because I I know we could have gone for so long in
• 1:22:57
  regards to homeschooling and all that good stuff, but we will
• 1:23:00
  continue this in Twitter Spaces.