Latest / Simply Bitcoin / Dave Portnoy Is Finally BITCOIN ONLY | EP 1022

Transcript

Dave Portnoy Is Finally BITCOIN ONLY | EP 1022 · Simply Bitcoin

• 0:02
  It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
• 0:06
  It's. Going up forever you're.
• 0:15
  Against Bitcoin, you're against freedom.
• 0:23
  Good morning Bitcoiners and soon to be bitcoiners welcome to
• 0:27
  simply Bitcoin. We got a master class today on
• 0:31
  the journey of becoming a bitcoiner.
• 0:34
  As you guys can tell from the the headline shouts out the Dave
• 0:36
  Portnoy. He's finally come around to
• 0:39
  being Bitcoin only and of course here at simply Bitcoin, we love
• 0:42
  highlighting examples of this because it constantly shows that
• 0:46
  not everyone jumps into the quote UN quote crypto space and
• 0:49
  becomes a bitcoiner outright. And to Dave Portnoy's, you know,
• 0:54
  credence to to his power out there, He documented the whole
• 0:58
  thing. He literally documented the
• 1:00
  whole process of getting wrecked of, you know, trying to trade
• 1:03
  and time the market. And now he's finally come out
• 1:06
  and officially said that the only thing that matters is
• 1:09
  Bitcoin. And I absolutely love this.
• 1:11
  That's as someone that basically has made every mistake in the
• 1:14
  book. I, I literally I'm surprised
• 1:15
  that I'm here today. I, I swear to you, I probably
• 1:18
  made more mistakes than you have in regards to how do safely
• 1:21
  become Bitcoin only. I am still just surprised that I
• 1:25
  got to the center of the Tootsie pop.
• 1:27
  But as we say here on the show all the time, you know, there is
• 1:30
  a cost of tuition here, like there is a price to pay usually
• 1:33
  for most people to get to the Bitcoin only bottom of the
• 1:37
  rabbit hole, which is why you guys show up here.
• 1:40
  And literally this is one of the reasons why I am so obsessed and
• 1:46
  in love with what we do here at simply Bitcoin.
• 1:48
  Because my whole goal as a Bitcoin content creator was to
• 1:52
  ensure that more people understand why it is Bitcoin
• 1:56
  only, why they should avoid all the altcoins.
• 1:59
  My sole goal of showing up every single day here is to make sure
• 2:03
  that people don't make the mistakes that I've made that my
• 2:06
  friends have made. So as I say all the time, you
• 2:09
  know, you, you can be wise and listen to people with experience
• 2:12
  that's been around for a long time, or you can make all the
• 2:16
  mistakes for yourself and lose money along the way.
• 2:18
  Hey, you don't have to listen to me if you don't want to.
• 2:21
  I'm OK with this. You know, I'm a, I'm a
• 2:23
  libertarian at heart. It is your life.
• 2:26
  It is your choice with your money.
• 2:28
  But I'm telling you, the simple path is simply Bitcoin.
• 2:31
  And This is why we call our channel simply Bitcoin because
• 2:34
  we truly believe that the only thing that matters in the whole
• 2:37
  crypto space, and you guys know, it's the first couple of
• 2:39
  minutes. So I, I can't say the real word
• 2:42
  here is Bitcoin is the only thing that matters.
• 2:45
  There's Bitcoin and there's everything else.
• 2:47
  So we do have Dave Portnoy's journey on becoming a Bitcoiner.
• 2:52
  And if you don't know, Dave Portnoy, he is at presidente at
• 2:56
  Barstool Sports, one of the, I would say one of the biggest
• 2:59
  media vampires right now currently in, you know, for lack
• 3:03
  of better terms, normie mainstream media.
• 3:05
  And he also has his name, you know, Davey Day Trader.
• 3:11
  Oh, wait, yeah, Davey day trader.
• 3:13
  He streams all the time. He posted his trades constantly.
• 3:17
  Well, he's finally felt the pain of losing money in all coins and
• 3:22
  became a Bitcoin. And you just love to see it.
• 3:23
  On that same note, since we're talking about Dave Porno, he has
• 3:28
  also talked about putting Barstool Sports on a Bitcoin
• 3:31
  standard or adding Bitcoin to the balance sheet, AKA following
• 3:35
  the Michael Saylor micro strategy strategy.
• 3:38
  And we got a clip coming out of safety in podcast with Thomas
• 3:42
  Massie. And it's two things that we
• 3:44
  constantly hit on on simply Bitcoin is one, it is Bitcoin
• 3:48
  only. It's the only thing that matters
• 3:50
  is you need to be saving in Bitcoin.
• 3:51
  Ignore the noise, you know, go outside, touch grass, just
• 3:54
  saving Bitcoin and make your life better.
• 3:56
  It's literally that simple. But a lot of people like to make
• 3:59
  things complicated. And two, there is fundamental
• 4:02
  questions that you need to ask yourself, or rather you need to
• 4:06
  ask your friends and family. And it's the simple question of
• 4:10
  explaining to your friends and family what money is.
• 4:15
  And Thomas Massie literally did a clip with safety and Amos.
• 4:18
  I haven't seen the whole podcast, but I'm sure it's gold,
• 4:21
  especially with safety. And and he literally said, look,
• 4:25
  I read the Beck Bitcoin standard.
• 4:27
  It opened my eyes to my fundamental misunderstanding of
• 4:30
  what money is. And this is the power of not
• 4:33
  only Bitcoin only education, but asking poignant questions to
• 4:37
  your friends and family, very simple questions.
• 4:39
  What is money? And from there, most people will
• 4:43
  eventually get down to the rabbit hole.
• 4:44
  You don't necessarily need to do the whole Bitcoin rants on
• 4:47
  everyone. I know we love to do it, but you
• 4:49
  just ask certain questions, you know, plant the seeds into the
• 4:52
  minds of your friends and family and this is how they start to
• 4:55
  become Bitcoiners. So we're playing with two themes
• 4:58
  that we constantly talk about on Simply Bitcoin.
• 5:01
  One, always ask, what is money? This is what it's all about.
• 5:04
  It's all about saving in the best money period, defunding
• 5:07
  your labor, your wealth, your time from the Fiat system,
• 5:11
  literally a money that's designed to steal from you onto
• 5:14
  a monetary network that cannot be the base, that cannot steal
• 5:18
  from you, that has literally no power of taking away your life
• 5:23
  force, which is Bitcoin. And This is why we are simply
• 5:26
  Bitcoin, because it is Bitcoin only.
• 5:28
  This is the rabbit hole. Everything else is noise.
• 5:30
  So simplify your life guys. Just saving Bitcoin.
• 5:32
  Anyways, as you can tell, it's your boy Opti.
• 5:35
  I'm still doing hosting duties while Niko's away at Bitcoin
• 5:39
  Rodeo. It's literally streaming right
• 5:41
  now. I did have to kind of you know,
• 5:43
  give him some some feedback because the stream I saw the the
• 5:47
  audio wasn't working. So hey, we're not in control of
• 5:49
  this one, so don't blame us. But Nico will be back on
• 5:53
  Thursday. But I'm not alone here.
• 5:55
  I do have my Co host. So we got a deep bench over at
• 5:58
  simply Bitcoin. So we got Brandon genteel.
• 6:01
  He's in a fellow content creator works with Bitcoin trading
• 6:04
  cards. You guys can search him on
• 6:06
  YouTube. Brandon genteel or playable
• 6:08
  characters. I absolutely love Brandon I I
• 6:11
  consider him a close friend at this point.
• 6:12
  We've been in the trenches for a long time.
• 6:15
  Really stand up guy actually also ex NHL player as well.
• 6:20
  You know, won the Canada versus miners.
• 6:23
  OK whatever. Dominated at the Bitcoin hockey
• 6:28
  tournament beating the Canadians holding the the title for
• 6:33
  Bitcoin. Americans love to see it
• 6:35
  anyways. Sorry Adam.
• 6:36
  Yeah, yeah. Sorry, Adam.
• 6:39
  Hey, just glad to be part of the 3% with all of you psychopath.
• 6:42
  That's that's what we're here for and cannot wait to talk
• 6:45
  about that today. This is the way.
• 6:47
  This is the way. OK, well, we also have a very
• 6:51
  special guest today. We have George McHale, vice
• 6:55
  president of operations at Bitcoin magazine, also an
• 6:58
  author, you know, co-author and thank God for Bitcoin, but he
• 7:01
  just dropped a new book, which I absolutely love the title.
• 7:05
  I'm not your bruh. 21 keys to sound parenting.
• 7:09
  So hey, look, I'm not a parent yet, but I'm here to to soak in
• 7:14
  the wisdom for when I do have little optis running around.
• 7:17
  But you know, I think there's gonna be a great conversation
• 7:19
  because it's something we talk about here constantly on the
• 7:21
  show. It's not just about sound money.
• 7:23
  It's about building the relationships, reuniting the
• 7:26
  nuclear family, and of course, getting yourself fit.
• 7:28
  So these are all the themes we talk about here at Simply
• 7:31
  Bitcoin. It's a lifestyle, man.
• 7:32
  Simply Bitcoin might be turning into a lifestyle show at this
• 7:35
  point. But anyways, George, how you
• 7:37
  doing today? I am doing well.
• 7:38
  Thanks for thanks for having me. It's good to be here.
• 7:40
  Let's go. Love the energy and yeah, you're
• 7:42
  absolutely right. We got to we got to stop talking
• 7:44
  so much about all just like the basics about Bitcoin.
• 7:47
  We all know there's 21 million. We all know there's like yo
• 7:49
  culture, like what are we doing? What's the long term vision?
• 7:52
  How are we? How are we changing the world
• 7:54
  actually in our day-to-day lives?
• 7:55
  So excited to have this conversation.
• 7:57
  Yeah, man. I mean, George, I think you hit
• 7:59
  the nail on the head. And This is why we rebranded one
• 8:02
  of our segments, our blocks to culture because we've understood
• 8:06
  that, yes, Bitcoin is the best money in the world, But what
• 8:10
  really is like the defining psychological change moving
• 8:14
  forward is how Bitcoin will impact culture.
• 8:17
  And all of us are a part of this.
• 8:18
  And of course, parenting is a part of this.
• 8:20
  I know, man, I grew up on television and like kool-aid and
• 8:24
  Tang and like, you know, lunchables and stuff.
• 8:27
  I, I went to a public school. Like I, I definitely need these
• 8:31
  tips on how I will be a better parent.
• 8:34
  So this is great. This is great.
• 8:35
  I mean, so like my conviction really is that raising
• 8:38
  Bitcoiners when being intentional with your parenting
• 8:41
  is probably the lowest time preference activity that we
• 8:44
  could partake in as Bitcoins. If you think about it like if
• 8:46
  we're really playing a long game here and we know that this isn't
• 8:49
  about getting rich quick, it's not about we're not going to win
• 8:52
  tomorrow, but like how can we actually have the Longview for a
• 8:56
  generation or two? And, and so I, I really think
• 8:59
  as, as more Bitcoiners have kids, you know, you're starting,
• 9:01
  you're starting to see a lot more pregnant bitcoiners, a lot
• 9:03
  more Bitcoiners starting families, which is amazing.
• 9:07
  You know, I really felt like this book would be hopefully
• 9:09
  helpful. You know, I got, I got two
• 9:10
  teenage kids and I feel like we've, we've done a few things,
• 9:13
  right. We haven't done everything
• 9:14
  perfectly, but had enough friends of ours and people
• 9:18
  interacting with them encouraged me to be like, Yo, you need to
• 9:20
  write down, you know, what you did, what you taught them,
• 9:24
  because they could be really helpful.
• 9:25
  So that's that's where this book came from.
• 9:27
  Love it, man. Yeah.
• 9:28
  You know, Nico's a new father, you know, Shouts out to Sophie.
• 9:31
  A brand new mother was just hanging out with them.
• 9:33
  It was adorable seeing them interact, the little baby Nico
• 9:36
  and little baby Sophie out there.
• 9:38
  And, man, yeah, I was getting all the feels watching them.
• 9:41
  So this is definitely how we make Bitcoin adoption happen is
• 9:46
  by not just watching number go up, but literally making bit
• 9:49
  corners. What?
• 9:49
  Making Bitcoin number or bit corner number go up?
• 9:52
  But really, you reminded me of something that I used to play
• 9:56
  lacrosse in high school. And lacrosse comes out of the
• 9:58
  Native American culture and as a Bitcoiner, having low time
• 10:03
  preference thinking, not only in your wealth and your business,
• 10:06
  but in your family. It reminds me of the classic
• 10:08
  quote that comes out of Native American culture of like seven
• 10:11
  generation thinking. And I think that's what a lot of
• 10:13
  us Bitcoiners are starting to realize is like, look, it's not
• 10:16
  just about me. You know, me shouts, actually
• 10:19
  shouts out the young Nick at Bitcoin Magazine.
• 10:21
  He he coined one of my favorite terms.
• 10:23
  It's like you don't stack stats for your first name, You stack
• 10:26
  stats for your last name. And that's what it's all about.
• 10:28
  It's not just about you. It's not just about your
• 10:30
  children. It's about hopefully ushering in
• 10:33
  these stats for your children's children's children's children
• 10:35
  and making sure that the world gets on a better money standard.
• 10:39
  Anyways, enough ranting. We got a whole show for you
• 10:42
  guys, but you already know the deal.
• 10:44
  We got to pay the bills here at simply Bitcoin.
• 10:46
  So first and foremost, shouts out to Bitcoin.
• 10:49
  Well, the best place to stack Bitcoin literally self custody
• 10:52
  by default, which means you need to have a Bitcoin wallet before
• 10:57
  you can actually buy Bitcoin on this platform.
• 11:00
  Yes, there is a little friction to this, but that just means
• 11:03
  that they are an exchange that never holds your Bitcoin.
• 11:06
  They're on the mission to enable independence.
• 11:09
  They just came to the US about six months ago.
• 11:12
  It's, in my opinion, might be one of the best working
• 11:15
  exchanges in Canada and I'm not Canadian, so you guys can verify
• 11:18
  this for yourself, but they got a 1% spread and Bitcoin only.
• 11:21
  Obviously, we only endorse Bitcoin only companies here and
• 11:24
  again, it's non custodial by default.
• 11:27
  You need to have a Bitcoin wallet if you are going to buy
• 11:31
  Bitcoin. As they say, future proof your
• 11:33
  money. And you already know, guys, we
• 11:35
  love to share the wealth a little bit here.
• 11:37
  So hold on. I I got signed out over here,
• 11:39
  but go to your dashboard and Bitcoin well hit the my rewards
• 11:45
  over here on the left hit redeem and get some Bitcoin wishing
• 11:50
  well. So guys, get your wallets now
• 11:53
  I'm I'm since I'm hosting today, I can't steal the sats.
• 11:56
  Hopefully it's not a million sats today, but scan the QR
• 11:59
  code. You get some sats right now you
• 12:01
  will need a lightning wallet. We give back to our community.
• 12:04
  One day it will be 1,000,000 sats and I will take it.
• 12:07
  You will have to fight me for the million sats, but today is
• 12:09
  not the day. So love you guys.
• 12:12
  Shouts out to everyone that is scanning those sets.
• 12:14
  Shouts out to the Bitcoin Well team for giving you guys some
• 12:17
  free sets on that. Now let's get into the show,
• 12:20
  because we got a lot to talk about Bitcoin numbers.
• 12:25
  Is your Bitcoin and cold storage really secure?
• 12:27
  Is your seed phrase really secure?
• 12:30
  Stamp seeds Do It Yourself Kit has everything you need to
• 12:34
  hammer your seed words into commercial grade titanium plates
• 12:38
  instead of just writing them on paper.
• 12:41
  Don't store your generational wealth on paper.
• 12:44
  Papers prone to water damage, fire damage.
• 12:47
  You want to put your generational wealth on one of
• 12:49
  the strongest metals on planet earth.
• 12:51
  Titanium. Your words are actually stamped
• 12:54
  into this metal plate with this hammer and these letter stamps.
• 12:57
  And once your words are in, they aren't going anywhere.
• 13:00
  No risk of the plate breaking apart and pieces falling
• 13:04
  everywhere. Titanium stamp seeds will
• 13:06
  survive nearly triple the heat produced by a house fire.
• 13:09
  They're also crush proof, waterproof, non corrosive, and
• 13:12
  time proof. All things that paper is not,
• 13:14
  allowing you to huddle your Bitcoin with Peace of Mind for
• 13:18
  the long haul. Stamp your seed on Stamp seed
• 13:21
  all. Right, guys, if you're a
• 13:23
  regular, you already know the deal.
• 13:24
  Scan the QR code. Do not leave your seed phrase on
• 13:27
  a piece of paper in your sock drawer.
• 13:28
  Because as we're gonna be talking about today, how you
• 13:31
  going to explain to your grandchildren when they ask you,
• 13:33
  Grandpa Paul, where is my generational wealth?
• 13:35
  And you're like, my dog ate my seed phrase.
• 13:39
  I actually wrote down your seed phrase with a pencil on paper
• 13:42
  and I lost it all. That's not going to feel good.
• 13:45
  Anyways, we're over here on Clark Moody's dashboard, one of
• 13:49
  the best dashboards in the game in my opinion.
• 13:51
  Gotta go over some numbers here. So of course the Bitcoin price
• 13:54
  currently today as of now allegedly is $61,820 per
• 13:58
  Bitcoin. The stats per dollar, AKA how
• 14:01
  much Bitcoin you can buy for a single dollar, AKA how much the
• 14:03
  dollar is worth. And Bitcoin is currently at
• 14:05
  1618. Stats per dollar, in my opinion
• 14:10
  might be the most important number here is the block height.
• 14:12
  We are currently at 850,407. The total percentage of Bitcoin
• 14:17
  that will ever be issued. Again, I repeat, the total
• 14:19
  percentage of Bitcoin that will ever be issued is currently at
• 14:22
  93.9%. Wow, man, it's almost all gone.
• 14:26
  Guys, what's going to happen for the next 100 years?
• 14:29
  You're fighting for a small portion of all the Bitcoin.
• 14:31
  The realized monetary inflation, taking Fiat currencies to
• 14:34
  school. It's currently at 1.55%.
• 14:36
  The market cap in Fiat terms is $1.22 trillion.
• 14:40
  The total public lightning capacity is 4937.25 BTC.
• 14:46
  And then these are my new numbers.
• 14:47
  I kind of like these new numbers, so you guys should yell
• 14:49
  at Nico about adding some different numbers on there.
• 14:51
  But the day since all time high, 110 days, and everyone's acting
• 14:54
  like it's all over, pack it up. It's been a good run.
• 14:58
  Bitcoins dead and all that good stuff.
• 15:00
  And the decline from all them high is -16.2%.
• 15:03
  Like, everyone's acting like it's completely over here in
• 15:06
  Bitcoin land. And most of us are just like,
• 15:09
  man, whatever. This is just a walk in the park.
• 15:11
  It is what it is. Like yeah, we want to see number
• 15:13
  go up, but hey, it's only been 110 days since we see all time
• 15:17
  high. We could go another 110.
• 15:20
  Please know please know I'm a familia.
• 15:22
  All right. And the current fee prize median
• 15:25
  fee is eight sets. So I think I have no guess some
• 15:29
  point this week. And I was telling you guys about
• 15:31
  consolidating the UTXOS. I've seen you guys in the chat
• 15:34
  talking about consolidation. So when I got a free day, we can
• 15:37
  go over some consolidation practices, why we should do
• 15:40
  that. But hey, today might be a good
• 15:42
  day to consolidate them fees guys.
• 15:44
  All right, so like I was telling you guys, and I actually shout
• 15:51
  out to the Twitter team because you guys know how much Nikko
• 15:53
  loves to say the Overton window has been obliterated.
• 15:56
  You know, it's Tuesday, but drink every time we say Overton
• 15:59
  window here on the show, it's a it's a game here because Nikko
• 16:02
  says it like 12 * a show, but it's right nonetheless.
• 16:07
  And this goes to what we say all the time here on the show is if
• 16:11
  you ask people certain questions, especially what is
• 16:14
  money and why are we being forced to use a money that is
• 16:17
  designed to steal from us? You'll start to implant the
• 16:20
  ideas of freedom, implant the ideas, or rather incept the
• 16:24
  ideas of why they need Bitcoin. And I think this clip sums it up
• 16:28
  perfectly. Or as you will see in the news,
• 16:31
  you could go the you know, the day porno route where you just
• 16:34
  lose a lot of money and then you come back around and like, maybe
• 16:36
  I should understand what Bitcoin is.
• 16:38
  Or you know, like I like to say, you can learn from our mistakes.
• 16:41
  You can listen to the wisdom of Bitcoiners and get set straight
• 16:45
  right when you get into the Bitcoin space or you know, hey,
• 16:48
  pay the cost of tuition. But Thomas Massey,
• 16:50
  representative, US representative out there, as you
• 16:52
  can see right here, he just put, or at least I think he just
• 16:57
  committed a bill to end the Fed. He's out here, he's got an
• 17:00
  orange peeled. He's a bitcoiner.
• 17:03
  And it all started from reading Safe Dean's, the Bitcoin
• 17:06
  Standard, which I think all of us Bitcoiners not only
• 17:09
  recommend, but fundamentally change the way we view what
• 17:12
  we're doing here as a bitcoiner. Again, it's all about the money.
• 17:16
  It will always be about the money fix the money fix the
• 17:19
  world. Well, let's listen to Thomas
• 17:21
  Massie and how he became a bitcoiner and how the Bitcoin
• 17:24
  standard opened his eyes again. AUS representative not
• 17:28
  understanding what money is absolutely incredible.
• 17:31
  So we say this all the time. All you guys that hang out with
• 17:34
  us in the chat. You know, the the OG Simply
• 17:37
  Bitcoin crew, the new Simply Bitcoin crew.
• 17:40
  A lot of you guys know more about not just money, but the
• 17:43
  financial, traditional financial system at large more than
• 17:47
  literal sitting politician. But to Thomas Massey's credit,
• 17:53
  hey, he's learning, he's figuring it out.
• 17:55
  So not everyone is as wise as as Bitcoiners.
• 17:58
  But if you read the Bitcoin standard, you'll be set off
• 18:00
  good. To understand why it's Bitcoin
• 18:03
  and why Bitcoin only, Let's listen to this clip.
• 18:06
  So what got you interested in Bitcoin in the 1st place to look
• 18:10
  into the book? Or was it the the monetary
• 18:12
  aspect that you were interested in?
• 18:14
  Well, actually I have a friend who kept insisting that I read
• 18:17
  your book and, and I said, OK, well, I can't face my friend
• 18:23
  again until I've read this book because he keeps asking me that.
• 18:26
  So I listen to your book and you know, I wasn't, he kept telling
• 18:32
  me you should start at like chapter 10 or something.
• 18:35
  I don't know. He was like, you know, the first
• 18:37
  part you already know. So just skip all that.
• 18:41
  And I refuse to skip it all. And I'm glad I did refuse to
• 18:44
  skip it all because the beginning part is, is really
• 18:49
  good, the whole review about what money is.
• 18:53
  And I think unless you understand that you shouldn't be
• 18:56
  reading the last few chapters of the book.
• 18:58
  And even though I felt like I had a pretty good concept of
• 19:02
  what money is, it was it was good to have some formal
• 19:06
  framework around my thoughts. And that's what your book
• 19:09
  provides in the beginning. Really appreciate that.
• 19:13
  Absolutely incredible. The my first thought though,
• 19:15
  guys, I'm not going to lie, is, you know, we we always hear a
• 19:19
  joke about shaming your non bitcoiner friends and how
• 19:22
  powerful it is to making them become bitcoiners.
• 19:25
  Eventually they will figure it out.
• 19:27
  But I absolutely love hearing compass Massey say this.
• 19:30
  He's like, look, my friend, you know, he was kind of he he was
• 19:33
  kind of throwing me under the bus.
• 19:34
  He's like, you've heard about Bitcoin, read this book,
• 19:38
  understand why we Bitcoin and they're like, look, you don't
• 19:41
  even have to read about the money.
• 19:42
  You know what money, But it's very interesting that when you
• 19:46
  really get down to the brass tracks, a lot of people really
• 19:49
  don't know what money is. We interact with it daily.
• 19:52
  You know, as as the Bitcoin memes go, it is 1/2 of every
• 19:55
  transaction. I think a lot of people take
• 19:58
  what money is as a given where you know, we use it, we've grown
• 20:02
  up with money. We think money is just so you
• 20:05
  know, this paper like it's just, it's such an easy, easy idea.
• 20:08
  It's like, I know what money is. I use it every single day.
• 20:10
  But when you understand the properties of what makes a good
• 20:13
  money, that's when you start to go down the Bitcoin rabbit hole
• 20:17
  and you become an obsessed Bitcoin and you realize I need
• 20:20
  to stack as much Bitcoin as possible because there are
• 20:22
  properties of money. That make some money better than
• 20:25
  other monies of course there's store value, there's means of
• 20:28
  exchange there's unit of account there's the you know the
• 20:31
  creation of the money should the government be the only ones
• 20:35
  allowed to create money or should you be using a money that
• 20:37
  is hard to create like these fundamental questions.
• 20:40
  I know for a fact I did not even ask myself until I found out
• 20:44
  about Bitcoin. But once you ask these questions
• 20:47
  and you realize I, I don't want to say the correct answers, but
• 20:51
  the correct answers, you realize that all roads lead to Bitcoin.
• 20:55
  Which is exactly why I wanted to play this clip before we were
• 20:59
  watching Dave Portnoy's journey into becoming a Bitcoiner.
• 21:02
  Because this is not just about speculation.
• 21:05
  It's not just about games. Yes, we all love number go up
• 21:08
  and yes, we all love freedom go up, but it all starts with the
• 21:11
  money. Everyone on planet earth, all 8
• 21:14
  billion of them, and it might be more than 8 billion at this
• 21:16
  point have the same fundamental problem.
• 21:20
  We all have broken money. We all are using bad money and
• 21:23
  that is the status quo. And that's why we're in the
• 21:25
  position we are currently on planet earth with all of the
• 21:28
  crazy Fiat stuff happening in the culture and it fixes with
• 21:33
  Bitcoin. Fix the money, fix the world.
• 21:35
  Everything is downstream from Bitcoin.
• 21:37
  Everything will get Co opted by Bitcoin.
• 21:39
  It will all funnel into Bitcoin. And This is why our show is
• 21:43
  simply Bitcoin, because it is such a powerful force right now
• 21:45
  in the world. Not only will it change the
• 21:47
  culture, but it's gonna change the economy on planet Earth.
• 21:51
  And if you're here today, you are the resistant.
• 21:54
  All you have to do is stack sats, save in Bitcoin, take it
• 21:58
  in the cold storage and continue to tell other people why they
• 22:01
  need to save in Bitcoin. Anyways, I'm going to pass it
• 22:05
  over to George because I saw you head nodding.
• 22:06
  So let's let's, let's, let's keep this going.
• 22:09
  Yeah, man, my thoughts on this. I mean, watching that clip just
• 22:11
  reminds me how epic that book is.
• 22:14
  That was the book that, you know, kind of orange peeled me.
• 22:16
  And so many people obviously have that story.
• 22:18
  And just to see a sitting congressman be like, yeah, this
• 22:22
  book kind of changed my life. And knowing how much influence
• 22:25
  he has, it's just a reminder that, yeah, that that book is
• 22:27
  probably not going anywhere anytime soon, for one.
• 22:30
  But yeah, I agree with everything that you just said.
• 22:31
  I mean, I think the the more people we can get this message
• 22:33
  in front of, the better. I, I think lately I've been
• 22:37
  thinking a lot about how to do that in a way that's sort of
• 22:39
  more natural, like not, not, I don't love the term orange
• 22:43
  peeling. I know, but I also don't have a
• 22:45
  like a alternate word. So I, you know, I don't like to
• 22:47
  like bad mouth orange peeling because it's really all we got.
• 22:50
  But it just the reason I don't like it a lot is because it
• 22:52
  sounds kind of like, like you're forcing people like, Hey, take
• 22:54
  this pill. I prefer kind of more like, you
• 22:56
  know, especially in recent years, I prefer less of, Hey,
• 23:00
  you need to buy Bitcoin or like bringing it up at every like
• 23:02
  social, social party. I feel like my journey recently
• 23:07
  has been more focused on working with who's already here and sort
• 23:11
  of fortifying the, the army that we have and, and equipping them
• 23:17
  because the people that are not here yet are, they're going to
• 23:20
  figure it out. That's kind of what I've come
• 23:21
  to. I think.
• 23:22
  I think when I first got into Bitcoin, I was like orange bell
• 23:24
  of the world, tell everybody, you know, And, and lately I'm
• 23:27
  like, how do we become just like stronger and more, I guess, like
• 23:31
  attractive in a lot of ways, not like physically attractive.
• 23:34
  We're already physically attractive.
• 23:35
  I just mean like more like make people curious, you know, what's
• 23:39
  going on with those Bitcoiners, man, I want to be like them, you
• 23:42
  know, in any setting that we're in.
• 23:44
  And so I think, I think that's kind of where the culture is, is
• 23:49
  headed is, is people are just going to be more drawn to us.
• 23:52
  And I'm starting to see this a lot at Bitcoin magazine.
• 23:55
  You know, we're having more and more conversations with
• 23:57
  mainstream brands, non endemic brands, you know, companies that
• 24:00
  are outside of the the sort of Bitcoin crypto ecosystem are
• 24:04
  increasingly interested in having conversations with us,
• 24:06
  wanting to do partnerships with us.
• 24:08
  Obviously more and more politicians in an election year
• 24:11
  wanting to come to the conference.
• 24:12
  And, and you know, I think we have more politicians speaking
• 24:14
  this year at between 2024 than than we've ever had and and more
• 24:17
  fummeling in at the last minute. So stay tuned, stay tuned as we
• 24:20
  make more announcements for that.
• 24:21
  But yeah, I just it feels like we are at an inflection point.
• 24:26
  We are, we are kind of coming up on the on the start of a bull
• 24:28
  market, I guess middle of the bull market, depending on how
• 24:31
  you how you view it and everything is about to change.
• 24:34
  So you'd love to see it. Yeah, I couldn't agree more,
• 24:37
  first and foremost, So I, I really do believe that like the
• 24:39
  Bitcoin standard is going to become like one of the standard
• 24:44
  101 level books in all economics courses moving forward once they
• 24:49
  realize that they're they're really giving their students bad
• 24:51
  information. But that's the time will tell.
• 24:54
  To your last point, I, I totally agree with you 100%.
• 24:57
  We constantly talk about it on this show of, you know, breaking
• 25:00
  the echo chamber. We get yelled at all the time
• 25:03
  because we're still on YouTube and we're like, look, guys,
• 25:05
  we're trying to go. Other people are like, what's
• 25:07
  the point of only talking to Bitcoiners?
• 25:10
  Like, yes, we want to get everyone up to speed on Bitcoin
• 25:13
  and and of course we want to solidify our ranks, but we
• 25:17
  really want to educate more people on understanding why they
• 25:19
  should think Bitcoin is important, how it will change
• 25:22
  their lives. And you know, so we try to
• 25:24
  balance both. We're like, we know our audience
• 25:27
  is savage Bitcoiners, but we also want to reach out.
• 25:31
  And I wouldn't say necessarily just get into the mainstream,
• 25:34
  but ensure that our message gets heard in the mainstream
• 25:39
  conversation. And we're seeing that happen
• 25:40
  now. All of last year I was talking
• 25:42
  about the idea that we are crossing into the Rubicon, into
• 25:45
  mainstream consciousness. And I think now it's becoming
• 25:48
  like very obvious, you know, they're, it's literally a
• 25:51
  presidential topic now. Everyone has to have an opinion
• 25:54
  on Bitcoin. And I think once the price, you
• 25:57
  know, I, everyone's kind of saying like once the price
• 25:59
  breaks 6 figures, we'll probably start to see that retail FOMO
• 26:02
  like pop out again like we did in 2017.
• 26:05
  And it really feels like this, this time might be different.
• 26:08
  Who who knows? But it does feel like this time
• 26:11
  might be different. Definitely.
• 26:12
  Yeah, you. Can keep going, George.
• 26:15
  Yeah, 111 thing on that point, 'cause you're absolutely right.
• 26:17
  We can't neglect the, the, the people who aren't here yet.
• 26:20
  There's, there's got to be outreach.
• 26:21
  There's got to be sort of evangelism for lack of a better
• 26:24
  term. And you know, I'm using that.
• 26:27
  I used to be a, a pastor at a church.
• 26:29
  I used to be an executive pastor at a, at a large evangelical
• 26:31
  church way back, way back. And one of the things we used to
• 26:34
  talk about in preaching was this, this term called shotgun
• 26:37
  preaching where you'd be like, all right, in your audience at
• 26:40
  any given point, you have people who are already convinced,
• 26:43
  people who are already sort of saved or Christian or whatever.
• 26:45
  And then you have people who are coming for the very first time,
• 26:46
  never heard of the gospel or anything like that.
• 26:49
  And your job as a preacher is this, this method of shotgun
• 26:52
  preaching where you're hitting everyone, you're hitting all
• 26:54
  those people at the same time with one, with one fire.
• 26:56
  So as you're as you're preaching, you have to consider
• 26:58
  your entire audience and who's who's out there listening.
• 27:01
  And in many ways, I think this is what the Bitcoin standard
• 27:03
  does really well is is it it does kind of appeal to a broad
• 27:07
  set of audience. And this is what you guys do
• 27:09
  actually really well to your to your point is you are hitting
• 27:12
  the people who are already here. You kind of have your, your,
• 27:14
  your, your base, the people in the chat who have a lot of
• 27:18
  energy and are excited to be here.
• 27:19
  And then you have people who, you know, simply Bitcoin, even
• 27:22
  just that that name sounds like, oh, OK, I don't know anything
• 27:24
  about Bitcoin. Maybe I'll check this out.
• 27:25
  This would be a good place to start.
• 27:27
  So yeah, I, I definitely think as Bitcoiners, we have to keep
• 27:29
  our eye on, on, on both in order to be strategic.
• 27:31
  But I guess I was speaking more to like my own personal kind of
• 27:35
  like day-to-day conversations. Like I used to just have the
• 27:38
  energy of like any social setting I'm in, you're going to
• 27:41
  hear about it. And I'm just kind of eased up on
• 27:43
  that lately. I'm I to, to your point, I'm
• 27:46
  kind of the same way, you know, like I talk about Bitcoin
• 27:49
  constantly every single day. So in in normal life, sometimes
• 27:53
  I I like I what I tell the audience is what I do all the
• 27:56
  time is I try to incept these ideas without ever really saying
• 27:59
  the B word, because I know people already have their mind
• 28:02
  made-up about Bitcoin. But if you can talk about and
• 28:05
  relate with certain terms and ideas that we talk about
• 28:07
  constantly, like what we're going to talk about in the
• 28:09
  culture with you, George, you know, like how got a parent
• 28:11
  better, like a different topics that are surrounding Bitcoin, or
• 28:16
  rather that Bitcoiners love to talk about.
• 28:18
  Like these are also good ways to get people into the Bitcoin
• 28:21
  ecosystem. And then, of course, you know,
• 28:23
  number go up will do its thing. So we don't really need to try
• 28:25
  too hard. But I I agree.
• 28:28
  Sometimes I I just don't even talk about Bitcoin.
• 28:31
  I'm like, I'm burnt out. I don't want to talk about
• 28:33
  Bitcoin right now. So like, how's the game, bro?
• 28:35
  How did you catch the game? Not every time, but
• 28:39
  occasionally, guys. So hold your tomato.
• 28:41
  Hold your tomatoes. All right, Brandon, what's your
• 28:43
  thoughts on the Thomas Massey clip?
• 28:46
  Yeah, I mean, you guys bought up so many incredible points and
• 28:48
  it's it's wild to see where we've come in 20 years.
• 28:51
  You know, I'm 37 when I was, you know, in in high school
• 28:55
  basically. I remember the 2000 election.
• 28:57
  Actually, I was in 8th grade and all the way the next 10 years,
• 28:59
  all that whole decade, I was very political.
• 29:02
  And if you would have told me where we're going to be in
• 29:03
  society now, I never in a million years would have
• 29:06
  believed you. I just from the, the red Pilling
• 29:09
  that's gone on, I guess, and just people waking up.
• 29:12
  I, we were so lost just 20 years ago.
• 29:14
  And the, the fact that social media has really given us the
• 29:16
  ability to speed up the learning and for the ills of social
• 29:20
  media. We hear so much nihilism about
• 29:22
  it. We hear so much, you know, black
• 29:24
  Pilling because of social media, and I know we're going to talk a
• 29:27
  little bit about, you know, kids and things like that, obviously,
• 29:29
  and into being a part of the real low time preference, which
• 29:32
  is raising children, the real foundation, the family and and
• 29:35
  the kids, the foundation of, of country.
• 29:37
  But to, to see where we have come is mind blowing.
• 29:40
  And, and because I remember those times like there were
• 29:42
  yesterday and we are so lost, you know, and, and we still have
• 29:45
  a lot of work to do. But you know, if someone was
• 29:47
  saying in in the chat, you know, Lambos Tuttle twins, you know,
• 29:50
  you got to track people, you know, and meet them where they
• 29:52
  are. You have to track people from
• 29:53
  all ways in society, you know, books, you know, the politicians
• 29:56
  reading it no matter what it is. And some some politicians like
• 29:59
  Lambos, right, that so you you just don't know.
• 30:01
  But you have to, you know, we're still Americans at heart here,
• 30:03
  at least at least in America. That's why, you know, I guess I
• 30:06
  think it was Churchill said, you know what, Americans get it
• 30:08
  right after they if it's exhausted everything else.
• 30:11
  And we're just trying to minimize all of us here are
• 30:13
  trying to minimize that collateral damage in between
• 30:15
  here and and figuring it out and and, you know, everyone adopting
• 30:19
  and I think that's what's so important.
• 30:21
  And as our boy Nolan Bowerley always says, he money is a
• 30:25
  psychological engine. The economy is a psychological
• 30:27
  engine. Inflation is a cycle, you know,
• 30:29
  is psychological. And we have to keep pressing,
• 30:32
  whether it's, you know, through the Tuttle twins, through
• 30:35
  hopefully government run schools.
• 30:36
  I don't know that, you know, don't hold your breath.
• 30:38
  But the things we're doing it simply here, Bitcoin trading
• 30:41
  cards, what we're doing there, you know, the the podcast, what
• 30:44
  George is doing with Bitcoin magazine that the education has
• 30:46
  to continue because Bitcoin is still a human system.
• 30:49
  And Thomas Massey is a great example of the politicians
• 30:51
  waking up. They need Bitcoin and they are
• 30:53
  starting to wake up. People are waking up to those
• 30:55
  problems, but we have to keep pushing.
• 30:56
  We have to keep the education going because Bitcoin's the
• 30:59
  human system, you know, it can run for 1000 years on its own,
• 31:02
  but people still have to adopt it.
• 31:03
  And if people have strayed away, and I know that sailors with his
• 31:06
  big thing is, is people straying away from Bitcoin.
• 31:09
  People don't understand the importance of sound money.
• 31:12
  Basically, like you said, Opti, if Bitcoin give me a four letter
• 31:14
  word, it's don't don't call Bitcoin right.
• 31:16
  Just talk about the properties, whatever you need to do.
• 31:18
  But if people don't understand that importance and don't grasp
• 31:21
  that, then it won't matter. No one will use Bitcoin.
• 31:23
  It can run in, in in the corner by itself, but that doesn't
• 31:25
  matter if no one's using it. So I think this is to me, the
• 31:27
  masses of the world and all these people coming to it.
• 31:30
  Like George said, the people are coming to the conference is such
• 31:33
  a stark change and difference from what look things looked
• 31:35
  like 20 years ago when people are just hook, line and sinker,
• 31:37
  just following the, the mainstream narrative.
• 31:39
  And you can thank social media and our peer-to-peer communities
• 31:41
  for for helping usher in truth and, and, and trying to track
• 31:44
  down truth. Love it, bread and love it.
• 31:47
  And I mean, I think you were the one that reminded me of the
• 31:51
  Plato quote. You know, you may not care about
• 31:54
  politics, but politics cares about you.
• 31:56
  And then further, like if you don't care about politics, you
• 31:59
  will be ruled by your inferiors. And I think as much as
• 32:02
  Bitcoiners don't like politics and politicians and we have a a
• 32:05
  inherent distrust to politicians, I think this is a
• 32:08
  good development seeing, you know, sitting congressman and
• 32:11
  and politicians and presidential candidates talk about Bitcoin
• 32:15
  because not only will that blow up the echo chamber, you know,
• 32:19
  blow up the Overton window here, but it starts to spread the
• 32:23
  conversation around Bitcoin. Anyway, before I keep going on,
• 32:26
  I did notice that our boy Vague gave us a super chat.
• 32:29
  So shout out to Vague and he goes super chat for $5 USD.
• 32:34
  I took a tequila shot every time you said Overton window and now
• 32:37
  I have permanent liver damage. Thanks, Opti.
• 32:39
  You're so welcome, Bake, really appreciate it.
• 32:41
  Shout out to you guys. All right, on that note, again,
• 32:44
  we got to pay the bills here. So first or actually 2nd, and we
• 32:47
  have George here. If you're going to Nashville
• 32:51
  2024, which you should be, can't wait to get there.
• 32:54
  As you guys know, we're going to take over the live desk for a
• 32:57
  significant portion of time. We're super excited for that.
• 33:00
  But before the conference goes live on July 25th, you need to
• 33:04
  go to the pleb party. I have friends that are
• 33:06
  literally only going, I know George, you're here and you're
• 33:09
  part of the Bitcoin map, but I have friends that are literally
• 33:11
  only going for the pleb parties. And yeah, it's all the
• 33:14
  Bitcoiners out there now. Like you go to the conference
• 33:17
  not just to get the vibe, but a lot of times you just go to the
• 33:20
  conference to meet your friends. And Anders is one of the best
• 33:23
  party throwers in Bitcoin. So make sure you get 2 Bitcoin
• 33:26
  Nashville. And if you're in Nashville and
• 33:29
  you wanna hang out with all of your favorite Bitcoiners, you're
• 33:31
  the friends you made on the Internet.
• 33:33
  You go to the play party July 25th.
• 33:35
  I believe there is still 12 tickets at the $212.00 price
• 33:39
  point. They are going up.
• 33:41
  So get your tickets. You don't want to be in
• 33:42
  Nashville wondering where your friends are on July 25th before
• 33:47
  the conference and then we get the party at the conference
• 33:50
  after it. All right guys, let's get into
• 33:52
  the news cuz we got a master class here by Dave Portnoy.
• 33:54
  I think you guys are going to really like this one.
• 33:56
  This one's a little painful, but it's also it's, it's great, man.
• 34:00
  It, it's a perfect documentation of the Bitcoin journey.
• 34:05
  Here we go. The Daily News.
• 34:12
  I want to give a shout out to our sponsor Foundation Devices.
• 34:15
  It's self custody done right. They built a premium grade
• 34:19
  hardware wallet called Passport right here in the US.
• 34:22
  It's fully open source and verifiable.
• 34:25
  It's the most intuitive Bitcoin wallet designed with the UX
• 34:28
  reminiscent of a simple feature phone, so you will know how to
• 34:32
  navigate it and use it the moment you pick it up.
• 34:35
  Get your Bitcoin off exchanges and into your into your own
• 34:38
  hands in just a few minutes. Experience the Peace of Mind
• 34:41
  that comes with taking ownership of your own keys.
• 34:43
  After a massive sell out during Bitcoin Miami 2023, the passport
• 34:48
  is back in stock at foundationdevices.com.
• 34:51
  Bitcoin only open source, verifiable completely air gap
• 34:55
  security model, gorgeous design craft premium grade materials.
• 34:59
  If you're thinking about getting your Bitcoin off exchange
• 35:01
  changes, this is the one for you.
• 35:03
  Check out the passport link in the show notes below to learn
• 35:07
  more. Again, you're an OG here.
• 35:10
  You know the deal. Scan the QR code and I, I really
• 35:13
  need to yell at Nico because don't think about taking your
• 35:16
  Bitcoin off in exchange. Take your Bitcoin off in
• 35:18
  exchange. And the passport by Foundation
• 35:21
  might be one of the easiest ways to do that once you pair it with
• 35:24
  the Envoy app. Anyways, you guys know me when
• 35:27
  Nico's away and it's not Friday. I speak through memes.
• 35:31
  I literally only speak through memes.
• 35:32
  Life is memes. Memes is life.
• 35:34
  It's memes all the way down. This is the best way to
• 35:37
  communicate, especially with, you know, public school students
• 35:40
  like myself that have goldfish type memories and the zoomers
• 35:44
  below us speaking memes. This is the way.
• 35:46
  Anyways, I think this is a perfect culmination, a good
• 35:50
  summary of what you are about to see, and this is just a classic
• 35:54
  screenshot of Piero Shard and he just goes timeless.
• 35:57
  Piero Shard, one of the OG Bitcoiners out there, one of the
• 36:00
  OG neemers. To give him credit here, he
• 36:02
  basically made all the memes with Bitstein out there.
• 36:06
  Here is, I guess, a perfect summation of what you're going
• 36:11
  to see right now. And this is what we're talking
• 36:12
  about on this whole show. This is the theme of today's
• 36:15
  show is in this tweet right here by Piero Shawnee goes.
• 36:18
  Most people learn about Bitcoin because they want to stop
• 36:21
  suffering the consequences of not learning about Bitcoin.
• 36:24
  That's it. There is no magic to it.
• 36:26
  And I for myself can say this is 100% right.
• 36:30
  I this is literally how I got into Bitcoin.
• 36:32
  I didn't know Bitcoin was the solution until I fell down the
• 36:36
  Bitcoin rabbit hole. And like I said earlier, I've
• 36:38
  made all the mistakes and somehow I've survived, which,
• 36:41
  hey, you don't have to listen to me, but I'm telling you, I got
• 36:43
  the scars. All my friends have the scars.
• 36:45
  Everyone in the chat has the scars.
• 36:47
  Brandon and George have the scars.
• 36:49
  Like only Pierre Rochard and Bitstein are probably and like
• 36:52
  five other people are the only ones that never got the scars.
• 36:55
  They're like, we're Austrian economists, of course we
• 36:57
  understood Bitcoin inherently. It's like, I wish I was like
• 37:00
  you, bro, but this is all there is.
• 37:01
  There's no magic to IT. People are suffering right now
• 37:04
  because of the Fiat culture, because of the Fiat monetary
• 37:07
  system and they're looking for solutions and the Fiat system
• 37:10
  has turned us all into speculators.
• 37:13
  So for those that don't know, you know who's Dave Portnoy?
• 37:16
  Why are we even talking about Dave Portnoy again?
• 37:18
  I already hear you guys yelling at me like the people that OG
• 37:21
  simply Bitcoin group like I don't care about billionaires
• 37:23
  and millionaires getting into Bitcoin.
• 37:25
  Yeah, you may not, but the average person out there, the
• 37:28
  normie, they still look to people influential people like
• 37:32
  the Dave Portnoy of the world, especially he's got a his
• 37:34
  day-to-day trader persona is like huge on rumble right now.
• 37:37
  Like people are literally listening to Dave Portnoy's
• 37:40
  trading tips, watching him trade live, and he's finally, finally
• 37:45
  gotten to the target, you know, the center of the bullseye,
• 37:48
  which is Bitcoin only. So let's do a little context
• 37:51
  here. So Dave Portnoy, he's at
• 37:53
  President day of Barstool Sports, as you can say see here,
• 37:56
  you know, Boston based sports mag into A50, a $550 million
• 38:02
  business empire. He's basically one of the
• 38:04
  biggest media guys right now in mainstream, not only sports but
• 38:08
  culture. And This is why we always say
• 38:11
  that everything is downstream stream from culture.
• 38:14
  Like This is why we want to not only inject the Bitcoin memes
• 38:19
  into culture, but basically buy the incentives of Bitcoin, turn
• 38:24
  them all into bitcoins and Co opt the culture.
• 38:26
  So, you know, doing a little research and people always love
• 38:30
  net worths here. You know, when someone has a big
• 38:32
  net worth, they think that their opinion holds more value.
• 38:36
  Yeah. This is why they don't listen to
• 38:37
  Youtubers on on, you know, Bitcoin Youtubers because it's
• 38:41
  like, who are these guys? I don't know who they are.
• 38:43
  Well, you know, as of mid 2024, Portnoy's wealth is estimated
• 38:47
  around $150 million. He hasn't fully thrown that $150
• 38:50
  million into Bitcoin, nor do I think he has to, but he's had
• 38:55
  some, some, some very interesting, interesting
• 38:59
  examples here on his Bitcoin journey.
• 39:02
  And I'm literally going to just give it to him in his own words
• 39:04
  because it's absolutely amazing. He, he knows how to do media.
• 39:08
  He's entertaining. I, I, I, I truly respect Dave
• 39:12
  Portnoy when it comes to the media empire he's built.
• 39:15
  Yes, we were giving him his, you know, his knuckles in regards to
• 39:19
  his Bitcoin journey. You know, he took his lumps.
• 39:22
  But hey, he's learned his ways. But just let's watch this.
• 39:25
  I did put this at 1.25. It might go a little long, but I
• 39:29
  couldn't said it better than Dave Portnoy himself said it on
• 39:32
  his Bitcoin journey. And I'm sure a lot of you
• 39:35
  people, if you're not listening to the bit corners out there,
• 39:37
  you're probably going to go down the same path.
• 39:39
  So, you know, maybe listen up here and you can avoid the
• 39:42
  heartache, you can avoid losing your own money and listen to
• 39:46
  people that done this. Let's listen to This is actually
• 39:48
  hilarious. OK, time for uh, Davey Diamond
• 39:51
  hands an update on my journey in Bitcoin crypto.
• 39:54
  I think it started like five years ago.
• 39:56
  I made a video. I'm like, I don't fucking
• 39:57
  understand Bitcoin at all. People mining it from the
• 39:59
  clouds, everyone's getting rich. I see douchebags with bees on
• 40:01
  their license plates. Like what the fuck's this guy?
• 40:03
  Where's all his money coming from?
• 40:04
  I didn't get it. I got to talk Bitcoin real
• 40:06
  quick. I don't even know what a Bitcoin
• 40:07
  is. 20. 17 coins on the ground on the Internet.
• 40:09
  I literally don't know what that means.
• 40:10
  What is Bitcoin? Because I made this ramp and it
• 40:12
  turns out the Winklevosses were like staying in the same town as
• 40:15
  me in the Hamptons and they owe them like, I don't know, 10% or
• 40:18
  something crazy. They own Bitcoin or something.
• 40:20
  And they're like, hey, we'll come to your house, Dave, your
• 40:22
  apartment, your hotel room and will teach you about Bitcoin.
• 40:24
  So they came over, there's six foot two and there's fucking two
• 40:27
  of them. I'm 65220 and there's two.
• 40:29
  Of me and they walked me through buying Bitcoin.
• 40:31
  I bought, I think like half a million of it every time, maybe
• 40:34
  more at 11,000. And they're talking and they're
• 40:36
  talking and they try to explain why it matters like, well, Elon
• 40:39
  Musk is going to go outer space and he's going to mine gold from
• 40:42
  outer space. Gold will rain plentiful down on
• 40:44
  Earth, making gold useless, and Bitcoin will be the only thing
• 40:47
  that matters. So there's billions of dollars
• 40:48
  of gold floating on asteroids around this planet, and Elon's
• 40:51
  going to get up there and start mining gold.
• 40:52
  And then it's going to thank you hear.
• 40:53
  This fall from the sky. And be as plentiful as sand.
• 40:57
  I don't know if you're serious. No people.
• 40:58
  No, we're totally. Serious.
• 40:59
  Yeah. So like, these fucking guys are
• 41:01
  fucking COO, COO. So they leave my apartment.
• 41:04
  I buy it for 11,000. I hold on to it for, I don't
• 41:06
  know, a day or two. But I'm like these fucking guys
• 41:08
  and I sell it and I'm like, I don't get it.
• 41:10
  I don't know what the fuck they just said, but I don't buy that.
• 41:12
  I'm not going to invest in something I don't know about.
• 41:15
  It goes Bitcoin from 11,000 to like, I don't know, 4050 sixty
• 41:18
  thousand like in the blink of an eye.
• 41:20
  So I'm I'm I'm purple. I want to puke.
• 41:22
  I'm like you fucking idiot, Dave, like you fucking idiot.
• 41:25
  That fucking explanation for the Winklevosses fucks with my mind.
• 41:28
  I just like I got to get out. I don't understand it and then I
• 41:30
  got out and it went ballistic and now I'm sitting here like a
• 41:32
  fool. I get it.
• 41:33
  I wish I was in. Is that what you want me to say?
• 41:34
  I wish I was in 6X when I bought it and I tried safe Room, that
• 41:37
  crypto, that trash, lose 4050 grand in there only because
• 41:40
  that's the most I could put in. They're fucking scam artists.
• 41:43
  People think I was in and I wasn't.
• 41:44
  I got taken for a ride even though I knew it was a scam.
• 41:46
  I'm like, you know what? Bitcoin started going down.
• 41:49
  It was around like 32,000. I'm like, I believe in Bitcoin.
• 41:52
  I'm starting to read up. No more about Bitcoin.
• 41:54
  I'm on the Bitcoin panel. I'm diamond hands.
• 41:56
  I'm going to buy a million to a Bitcoin.
• 41:58
  I'm never going to sell it. I'm going to hold on to it
• 42:00
  forever. I do it on Gemini because I
• 42:02
  still have the Gemini set up from the Winklevosses because
• 42:05
  that's their platform. That's their exchange from when
• 42:07
  they came to my house in the Hamptons.
• 42:09
  Enter SPF. That fucking looney tune fuck.
• 42:12
  And what, FTX goes bankrupt? Guy's a fraud and he crashes
• 42:17
  all, you know, people losing their Bitcoin and everyone's
• 42:19
  emailing me being like Gemini's next.
• 42:20
  The Winklevosses are next. Well, I start getting scared, so
• 42:24
  I go into my account. I just test it.
• 42:25
  Can I still like cash out a little if I had to?
• 42:28
  I can, no problem. Kudos to the Winklevosses.
• 42:31
  Their platform exchange held up. So I leave it.
• 42:33
  Leave it in there because I'm diamond hands and now there's
• 42:36
  all this buzz about Bitcoin again.
• 42:37
  I'm wearing the shirt you got the, the ETFs launching today.
• 42:41
  Like let me go into my account and see where I'm at because I
• 42:43
  know it's at like 42. I bought it at 32,000 a million
• 42:46
  bucks. It went down to 20.
• 42:48
  That's where I got nervous because of of exchanges
• 42:51
  crashing. I didn't want to get my money
• 42:52
  caught. I'm a fucking idiot.
• 42:56
  What I did is I transferred all my Bitcoin into cash.
• 42:59
  I didn't take it out. I was just leaving it in there.
• 43:02
  I thought it was in Bitcoin. No, I turned it all into cash so
• 43:06
  and this is at 20 so I have like 400 grand in account I put like
• 43:09
  1.11 point 2,000,000 into and I haven't gone any of the way back
• 43:13
  up to 43. Brother everything I do with
• 43:16
  Bitcoin I get fucked in my baby blue eyeballs.
• 43:20
  What am I supposed to do now? Buy it at 44?
• 43:22
  I bought at 32. I fucking cashed out at 20 by
• 43:25
  accident and I didn't mean to cash out.
• 43:27
  I wouldn't have left the money just sitting there like a
• 43:28
  fucking Dick face. I cannot win with Bitcoin.
• 43:32
  Somebody owes me Bitcoin. Oh man, I don't.
• 43:36
  Want to play too much? This is your life, but I'm.
• 43:38
  Sorry, I, I think a lot of us big corners have very similar
• 43:41
  journeys in regard to, to that conversation.
• 43:45
  You just heard from Dave Portnoy and, and again, I see some
• 43:48
  people in the chat like love him or hate him, he's absolutely
• 43:51
  entertaining. This guy is hilarious on the
• 43:54
  Internet. You know, he's he knows what
• 43:56
  he's doing when in regards to how do you garner popular
• 43:59
  attention. And again, so like, love him or
• 44:03
  hate him, actually, I pulled up the wrong one.
• 44:04
  I do want to show his numbers here.
• 44:06
  So I found Barstool Sports, you know, their partnership, their
• 44:09
  advertising numbers and you can see, you know, the preeminent
• 44:12
  next generation media brand delivering authentic content
• 44:14
  24/7 to a hyper engaged audience, which is why I think
• 44:18
  it's so important to be talking about Dave Portnoy.
• 44:20
  Again, people don't seem to like him.
• 44:22
  You know, they call him an idiot or whatever.
• 44:23
  And hey, guy's got money, he's got attention and now he's
• 44:27
  talking about Bitcoin. So I went down on the website
• 44:30
  and you can see his his numbers here.
• 44:32
  So social media followers, 198,000,000 plus social
• 44:38
  accounts, 1.7000 accounts, monthly video views, 4.8 billion
• 44:44
  views on all of his media platforms.
• 44:47
  And so guys, he's got an incredible reach here and he's
• 44:50
  finally coming to the point of being Bitcoin only.
• 44:53
  And we saw this come out last week, which he's still kind of
• 44:58
  playing into the same ideology, the same thinking that got him
• 45:01
  wrecked in the 1st place. We talk about it here constantly
• 45:03
  on the show. Time in the market beats timing
• 45:05
  in the market. But Dave Portnoy is even
• 45:08
  catching on to thinking about doing the micro strategy
• 45:11
  strategy and putting Barstool Sports on the balance sheet.
• 45:15
  But he's like, I'm waiting for a dip needed to hit the 40K range.
• 45:18
  And I think Bitcoin was dumping at that point.
• 45:20
  So it was like it, it was probably around where it is
• 45:23
  today, might have touched the 50K range and he's like.
• 45:34
  We lose apty uh. Oh yeah, I wasn't sure we might
• 45:38
  have. Did we get rugged?
• 45:43
  I'm still here. I don't know chat chat.
• 45:46
  Let us know, Let us know. It might just be.
• 45:54
  We're getting up. All right.
• 45:56
  Well, we're still here. Well, I, I don't know your
• 45:58
  thoughts though, George. My, my thought is that First off
• 46:02
  that he, he keeps wearing a shitty Michigan hat, so we got
• 46:05
  to take that off instead. So, so I was telling George and
• 46:09
  Opti before the show, I'm a Michigan guy.
• 46:11
  I'm a Michigan State guy though, so I played hockey at Michigan
• 46:13
  State. So, yeah, we got to take that
• 46:16
  hat off on, but it just makes me think of turning the, you know,
• 46:21
  thinking of your turn, like Doctor Jeff Ross always says
• 46:24
  putting your, your wealth it really in terms of Bitcoin,
• 46:26
  right? And, and thinking of it in those
• 46:28
  terms. And I think that's the most
• 46:30
  important thing that we can do truly.
• 46:32
  Because like you look at like a Dave Portnoy and he, you know, I
• 46:35
  say he's got $100 million net worth.
• 46:36
  How much of that's actually liquid, right?
• 46:38
  Just just say he's got $100 million in cash and he puts 10%
• 46:41
  in, which is kind of a lot in a sense where like people are
• 46:44
  dipping their toes in the water. He might be more convicted, but
• 46:47
  this is going to be a play out with most billionaires and most
• 46:49
  people in general as most people in the chatter kind of saying
• 46:52
  like, hey, it's a journey of of a Bitcoiner.
• 46:55
  But it's when you look at it and he put someone has liquid 100
• 46:58
  million and at $100,000 price of Bitcoin, say, say it's in a
• 47:03
  couple months and someone's like, you know what, I'm going
• 47:04
  10% in that's 100 Bitcoin. That's it.
• 47:07
  It's not like they're not getting 15,000 Bitcoin or
• 47:10
  200,000 Bitcoin like this is and this is just going to keep
• 47:13
  speeding up. And I think that's the thing
• 47:14
  that's so wild to me where you keep getting at the price.
• 47:17
  You learn his journey is unbelievable when it comes to
• 47:20
  really seeing what's actually happening and the math that
• 47:22
  keeps playing out the the Pierre Richard, one of the O GS
• 47:25
  obviously of of being there to sit there and keep saying, Hey,
• 47:28
  I told you so I told you so. So that that's kind of anything
• 47:31
  other than the shitty Michigan hat.
• 47:33
  That's kind of my thoughts with the montage.
• 47:35
  What are your thoughts? So I've been, I've been
• 47:38
  following him for, for a while, like a lot of people.
• 47:40
  And actually it, it took me a while to realize how big he was.
• 47:43
  I think the realization hit me around the having.
• 47:45
  So we, we, we were trying to get him for the having live stream
• 47:48
  that we hosted a Bitcoin magazine.
• 47:50
  And you know, I've been kind of telling my family like, Oh yeah,
• 47:53
  we're working on getting Dave Portnoy.
• 47:54
  He's going to be a guest and like thinking like, oh, of
• 47:56
  course they know who he is. It's a big name.
• 47:58
  And I'll just kind of give you these blank stares like, I don't
• 48:01
  know what the hell you're talking about.
• 48:02
  Who's Dave Portnoy? And we, so we ended up finally
• 48:04
  getting it and I was all excited about it.
• 48:07
  A couple weeks go by, one of my kids said something like, Yo,
• 48:11
  check out the, this, this clip I saw on Barstool.
• 48:14
  And I was like, what do you know about Barstool?
• 48:16
  I was like, I've been talking about Dave Portnoy for the last
• 48:18
  month. And you all looked at me like I
• 48:19
  was an idiot. But it turns out like they,
• 48:22
  they, I mean, they're very familiar with Barstool.
• 48:23
  They're very familiar with the media platform.
• 48:25
  They're like, oh, Dave Portnoy is the, is the, the like, he
• 48:28
  started the thing and they're like, you had him on your show.
• 48:30
  You had the president of. So then it became a big deal,
• 48:33
  like, Oh my goodness. But he really is like, you know,
• 48:38
  going out for the next generation in a way that I don't
• 48:41
  I think is very under appreciated in in this day and
• 48:44
  age where, you know, most of the media is taking place on these
• 48:47
  social social media platforms. He's actually building his own
• 48:49
  independent media company. That's that is going to reach
• 48:53
  looks like in the chat. OP, you can't get back in to the
• 48:55
  stream. So.
• 48:59
  That's amazing. That's amazing.
• 49:01
  And you guys are, yeah, I mean, keep rolling with that, that
• 49:05
  thought too. But you're he's coming this year
• 49:06
  as as well, right? Oh, great question.
• 49:09
  As far as I know, I mean, I know he's, he's kind of, I don't know
• 49:13
  if he's based in Nashville, but I know he's got a bar out there.
• 49:16
  So I, I, I think I'm sure he'll, he'll probably at least stop by.
• 49:19
  Yeah, I mean, at this point, holy cow.
• 49:20
  And you, you would have to, but it's at what point do you, I,
• 49:24
  you'd be to, to be totally honest.
• 49:26
  And this is like, this is such like a Bitcoin or thought, but
• 49:29
  I've been saying lately, it's like my wife and you know,
• 49:31
  really it's just my wife. It's just like, what, at what
• 49:34
  point do you start really questioning the person who
• 49:36
  doesn't get Bitcoin? Like, you know, because at some
• 49:38
  point, like it's been out, like, you know, 10 years ago, you, you
• 49:41
  can't do that because it's just such little information.
• 49:43
  There's no one talking about it except Pierre and you know,
• 49:46
  fifty other people on Earth. You know, at some point though,
• 49:48
  it's, it's becoming so mainstream.
• 49:50
  You got presidential candidates in the US talking about it.
• 49:52
  And at what point do you start questioning that person?
• 49:55
  It's, and Biko is not an IQ test, it's just a humility test.
• 49:57
  And it's like, what point do you start?
• 49:58
  Like you know, I, I don't know if I can trust you 'cause you
• 50:01
  just, you don't get it. Like you, you haven't humbled
• 50:03
  yourself to a point where I can be friends with you.
• 50:05
  Almost like that to me is like. I've been starting to have these
• 50:08
  thoughts lately. Right.
• 50:09
  Yeah, no. And so it's good to see him kind
• 50:12
  of make that switch and kind of ride there on his own.
• 50:14
  And dude, the the Winklevoss conversation was such a train
• 50:17
  wreck. It was like they said all like
• 50:19
  the worst things possible. They had one shot and they just
• 50:21
  completely blew it. So it's good to see him kind of
• 50:24
  back on track. Actually.
• 50:25
  Shout out to Kraken, who I think is having a big impact on him
• 50:28
  kind of behind the scenes. They've become a major sponsor
• 50:30
  of the show and I think those guys are really dropping
• 50:33
  dropping knowledge on him. So yeah.
• 50:36
  Oh, there he is. Holy cow, I was.
• 50:39
  I was going to say, hey, George, let's talk about your book here
• 50:41
  in a minute. Yeah, yeah, dude.
• 50:42
  Well, dude, I don't know what happened.
• 50:44
  Restream just rug pulled me. It got locked up on my end.
• 50:48
  All right, all right, but keep it going guys.
• 50:50
  And then actually, actually, I haven't played the video.
• 50:53
  Let me let me pull up this video at this point now, since I don't
• 50:57
  know what's going on on the back end here for Restream.
• 50:59
  But let's get to the point of today, which is this video right
• 51:04
  here where Dave Pointnot finally comes to the conclusion of
• 51:09
  Bitcoin only. And I saw in the chat Brandon,
• 51:11
  appreciate it. You can tell he's got some media
• 51:13
  skills just keeping it flowing. But here we go.
• 51:16
  Here's what you've all been waiting for.
• 51:17
  Dave Pointnot finally gets to the point of understanding why
• 51:20
  Bitcoin only. Will Steve will do its crypto
• 51:23
  hero be another run? I didn't know you had that.
• 51:27
  I The only crypto anybody should be involved in is spelled B.
• 51:33
  Wow, am I out again? No, we can hear you.
• 51:37
  OK. The video dropped by.
• 51:39
  You're still there all. Right, let's see.
• 51:41
  Let's see this. I don't know what's going on
• 51:43
  today. Yeah, I'm getting wrecked.
• 51:45
  So hero, be another BOIN. I've learned that the hard way.
• 51:48
  If you want to try to make quick bucks, do not cry to me.
• 51:51
  If you get rug pulled in any crypto like I did with Safe
• 51:55
  Moon, you have to know you're probably getting rug pulled
• 51:58
  going in. It's all a Ponzi scheme.
• 52:00
  Only Bitcoin. There we go.
• 52:02
  That's the whole point of today's show.
• 52:05
  He's gotten to the bottom of the rabbit hole, or rather the
• 52:08
  beginning of the bottom of the rabbit hole.
• 52:10
  It is Bitcoin only. This is the only way to do this
• 52:12
  guys. Do not get rug pulled by shit
• 52:14
  coin scams. Avoid all the headaches.
• 52:17
  Hey, you can do what Dave Portnoy did, spend a lot of
• 52:21
  money as you saw, or you just start stacking sets, become
• 52:26
  Bitcoin only and live a better life.
• 52:29
  It's literally that simple. Anyways, Brandon, at this point,
• 52:32
  maybe I'll let you take it, continue the conversation, maybe
• 52:35
  plug George take on this. I I missed what, like 3 minutes?
• 52:39
  5 minutes or something? Yeah, I don't know what you
• 52:42
  could hear Opti and George. I mean, you can obviously keep
• 52:44
  going on what you were saying, but we are basically just saying
• 52:46
  that, you know, Doctor Jeff always talks about putting your
• 52:49
  net worth into in Bitcoin terms, right?
• 52:51
  And people have this weird and someone just said, you know,
• 52:53
  Bitcoin and Buddha said, you know, it's the hero's journey.
• 52:56
  And it is, right? We all have our hero's journey.
• 52:57
  And this is Dave's hero journey. He just documented it, which is
• 53:00
  actually very smart to actually do it because then you can see
• 53:03
  the progression helps other people see this easier.
• 53:05
  And think of how many normies are out there.
• 53:06
  Like you just showed the accounts earlier that can
• 53:08
  actually do that. So George, I don't know if you
• 53:10
  remember exactly what you were talking about.
• 53:12
  I'd love you to finish that thought.
• 53:14
  I mean, I, I was kind of just saying that it's been good to
• 53:17
  watch kind of Dave's process publicly go from being kind of
• 53:21
  coached up by the Winklevoss, which again, was a complete
• 53:23
  disaster, to, to now where like it seems like he's getting some,
• 53:27
  some better talking points. And I was giving some credit to
• 53:31
  the Kraken people. I know that they they've been
• 53:32
  spending a lot of time with him. They sponsored his show.
• 53:35
  And so I think part of that shift has been conversations
• 53:39
  taking place behind the scenes. So, so nice work with with
• 53:42
  Kraken. But yeah, dude, how critical for
• 53:46
  him. Who has such a large audience,
• 53:48
  especially people in the next generation who right now are
• 53:51
  enamored with what Solana meme coins and you know, every, every
• 53:55
  ship went under the sun right now being kind of pitched to
• 53:56
  them. For someone like him who's so
• 53:58
  influential with their cohort to say, you know, just focus on
• 54:02
  Bitcoin, I think is really, really critical.
• 54:05
  And I'm glad we're kind of highlighting it here because
• 54:08
  sometimes that's all you need. You need someone who you're
• 54:10
  listening to who's very influential just to say, you
• 54:12
  know, just like block out all the noise.
• 54:14
  Just focus right here. If you want to gamble on other
• 54:16
  stuff, there's plenty of opportunities to do that.
• 54:18
  But really you should just be focused on Bitcoin.
• 54:22
  I mean, I think that's a really big deal.
• 54:24
  That's one of our key talking points.
• 54:25
  And we got one of the most influential media personalities
• 54:28
  on planet Earth to say that to his audience.
• 54:31
  So that's a W for us. Yeah, totally.
• 54:33
  And actually, there's one point that I wanted to say before I
• 54:36
  had to scramble to get back on is to what you were saying
• 54:39
  earlier, George of like, yes, I know a lot of us bit corners.
• 54:43
  We probably once you go down the rabbit hole, you you start, you
• 54:47
  sound like the Winklevale. You're saying all kinds of crazy
• 54:49
  shit and you're like you're you're literally like, what's it
• 54:52
  Charlie Day from it's always sunny?
• 54:53
  Like connecting all these dots and they're like, you literally
• 54:56
  sound like a crazy person. Like, what are you even talking
• 54:59
  about right now? And maybe, you know, as the
• 55:02
  saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
• 55:05
  It may have started with good intentions, but a lot of times
• 55:09
  you simplify, get to the point of the message so that people
• 55:13
  understand why they need to Bitcoin or else you might be
• 55:16
  hurting the person you're trying to help.
• 55:17
  As we saw with Dave Portnoy and that hilarious montage there was
• 55:22
  like, dude, I don't know what they were saying to me.
• 55:24
  I got absolutely wrecked. Someone owes me some Bitcoin
• 55:27
  because I should be in this market a lot longer.
• 55:30
  It's why we try to keep it simple here all the time on the
• 55:32
  show. Simply Bitcoin just stack sats
• 55:35
  taken in the cold storage time in the market beats time in the
• 55:37
  market. You know, set up ADCA whatever
• 55:39
  you whatever works for you, but the only thing you need to know
• 55:42
  is just continue to save in Bitcoin and go live your life.
• 55:46
  And that's the easiest way to win in Bitcoin.
• 55:49
  You know, you don't have to take it from us Youtubers here.
• 55:52
  You can talk to your friends that are Bitcoiners and everyone
• 55:54
  gets to the same point. You just need to hold Bitcoin.
• 55:58
  Everything else is gambling. Hey, if you want to gamble, by
• 56:01
  all means do what you want to do, but just know that you're
• 56:04
  gambling and I don't like gambling.
• 56:06
  This is why I'm a bit corner. I just want to save in something
• 56:09
  that is secure, AKA bit corner. All right, well, we took we took
• 56:12
  way longer than we needed to here, but again, we got to plug
• 56:15
  our boys over at orange pill app stack friends who stack sats.
• 56:19
  As you can tell, bit corners are going to be extremely
• 56:21
  influential not only in the the following year, but I would say
• 56:25
  in the next following decade and the decade that follows that he
• 56:29
  who holds the Bitcoin has the influence.
• 56:32
  As you know, Max Kaiser always says so get on the Orange Pearl
• 56:35
  app connect with other bitcoiners.
• 56:37
  The best part about being a Bitcoiners, not just talking to
• 56:40
  Bitcoiners on the Internet, it is creating these connections in
• 56:45
  meet space in real life, making sure you have a community around
• 56:47
  you have like minded individuals.
• 56:49
  This is how you usher in a Bitcoin standard.
• 56:52
  OK, let's get into the culture because I I really do want to
• 56:55
  talk about how to parent better, even though I'm not a parent
• 56:58
  yet. So at least we have Brandon here
• 57:00
  who's also a parent. So there's going to be a good
• 57:01
  conversation. The daily culture, of course.
• 57:13
  Kaboom Racks, the best place to buy, sell and host your ASICS,
• 57:20
  your mining equipment. If you need to buy some new
• 57:21
  stuff, get in touch with the Kaboom Racks guys.
• 57:23
  If you wanna sell some old ASICS, they'll buy them from
• 57:26
  you. But as I always say, I think
• 57:29
  they might have one of the best team to ask about Bitcoin mining
• 57:35
  if you're on the fence. If you're wondering whether I
• 57:37
  should just stack sats or whether I should, you know, set
• 57:40
  up a whole mining rig in my in my garage that my wife's going
• 57:43
  to be mad about, get in touch with the boys at kaboom racks
• 57:46
  and they will hold your hand. They'll answer all your
• 57:48
  questions. And they do have a special offer
• 57:50
  right now, the bit main Ant miner S19K Pro 120 Tera hash
• 57:54
  instant hosting. Once your payment goes through,
• 57:58
  you're hosting, you're hashing instantly and you can start to,
• 58:02
  you know, get them KYC free sets.
• 58:05
  How much what more can you ask for?
• 58:06
  Anyways, let's get to George over here.
• 58:09
  So George, I got your your website up here.
• 58:13
  My my wife made this. Isn't it beautiful?
• 58:15
  It's beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
• 58:17
  So you did Co write Thank God for Bitcoin.
• 58:20
  We've talked about thank God for Bitcoin on this show before.
• 58:23
  So not only are you AVP of operations at Bitcoin magazine
• 58:26
  and doing all that crazy stuff, he's got time to write and you
• 58:29
  just dropped a new book. It is if I let me check this,
• 58:32
  it's pre-ordered, right or is it?
• 58:34
  No, it's officially out on on Amazon.
• 58:37
  It is on Amazon. You can pre-order it for I think
• 58:40
  like $9 cheaper on Bitcoin Magazine's store and they start
• 58:44
  shipping from our warehouse in Tennessee this week.
• 58:46
  So either, either way, what's great about Amazon is obviously
• 58:51
  if you're a Prime member, you get it like tomorrow.
• 58:54
  Oh yeah, I mean, hey, everyone can hate on Bezos all they want,
• 58:57
  but I love Amazon. I I try to order everything on
• 59:00
  Amazon, like packaging everything into into cheaper
• 59:03
  shipping. Sounds great to me.
• 59:04
  All right, so how did you get the title?
• 59:07
  I'm not your bruh. 21 kids of sound parenting.
• 59:10
  Where? Where did this start from?
• 59:11
  What was the genesis of this book?
• 59:14
  Yeah, so the genesis of the book really was Bitcoin 2022.
• 59:17
  I would say I brought my my son Kingston with me to Bitcoin
• 59:20
  20/22. He got to meet a lot of my Co
• 59:22
  workers, a lot of Bitcoiners and I had a lot of people come up to
• 59:27
  me and be like, yo, what did you do with this kid?
• 59:29
  Like what? How did you?
• 59:30
  He's amazing, which was obviously very humbling.
• 59:33
  And, you know, I was very proud of him to the point, though,
• 59:36
  where a couple of people pulled me aside is like, you need to
• 59:38
  write a book. Like I want to, I want to know
• 59:39
  what your playbook was. I want to know what you did.
• 59:41
  And obviously, you know, I love writing and I've, I've been
• 59:44
  wanting to write down some of my thoughts around parenting for a
• 59:46
  while. But I think some of the
• 59:47
  conversations of Bitcoin 2022 made me feel like I had like
• 59:51
  the, I guess authority or like permission to, to, to write a
• 59:55
  book 'cause it's, you know, you, you have to make some
• 59:57
  assertions. You have to be like, you know, I
• 1:00:00
  have some authority. I kind of know what I'm talking
• 1:00:01
  about without being like arrogant or cocky or whatever.
• 1:00:04
  And so having people tell you like, yo, well, this actually
• 1:00:07
  would be really helpful for me. I think it's kind of what it
• 1:00:09
  took. So that was kind of how the idea
• 1:00:12
  of, of writing a parenting book kind of started.
• 1:00:14
  So I have a 16 year old son, Kingston.
• 1:00:16
  I have a 14 year old daughter, Saxon.
• 1:00:18
  And they're incredible kids. And, you know, we, we have been
• 1:00:21
  very intentional. You know, I became a parent at
• 1:00:22
  22 and. When we had Kingston, he was
• 1:00:27
  not, let's say planned. He was, he knows this is OK.
• 1:00:31
  He's not finding out like for the first time we accidentally
• 1:00:34
  had him. You know, we got married super
• 1:00:36
  young and we were on more of like a five year plan and
• 1:00:40
  Kingston had other plans and he came about 11 months after we
• 1:00:44
  got married. So we kind of had to figure
• 1:00:46
  things out really quickly and wanted to be very intentional
• 1:00:49
  with our parenting. And so we, we actually created
• 1:00:53
  a, a parenting plan. We read all the books and you
• 1:00:57
  know what? We're, what we're really trying
• 1:00:58
  to do. My, my wife contributed to, to
• 1:01:00
  this book and fact checked me and we did a lot of the editing.
• 1:01:03
  It was kind of like a family project, which was really cool.
• 1:01:05
  My daughter actually designed the cover.
• 1:01:08
  And so it was really fun to work on.
• 1:01:10
  But the, the title, I'm not sure, bro.
• 1:01:13
  So a couple things. One, it's, it's the message of
• 1:01:16
  the book ultimately, like it really just comes down to, you
• 1:01:19
  know, we, we live in a world where it is common for parents
• 1:01:23
  to want to be their kids friend. And the encouragement here is
• 1:01:27
  like, that's that ain't it, man. If you're a parent, you are
• 1:01:30
  supposed to be a parent and it requires some intentionality.
• 1:01:32
  There's a difference between having kids, right?
• 1:01:35
  Like anyone can pretty much have kids.
• 1:01:37
  It's like biological, it's like pretty, pretty straightforward,
• 1:01:39
  pretty pretty easy scientifically, but it takes a
• 1:01:43
  different level of intentionality and focus and
• 1:01:46
  commitment and hard work in order to actually be a parent.
• 1:01:50
  And so I am not sure bruh is a little bit of a critique on our,
• 1:01:54
  our present day culture. I hear, I hear, you know, kids,
• 1:01:57
  zoomer kids calling their parents bruh all the time.
• 1:02:00
  And it's like nails on a chalkboard to me.
• 1:02:03
  And I, I worry that we're kind of headed to a place where it's
• 1:02:06
  becoming normalized. It's becoming kind of socially
• 1:02:08
  acceptable. It's becoming like, haha, it's
• 1:02:10
  not funny. You call me bra.
• 1:02:11
  I remember seeing a that was like AT shirt around Mother's
• 1:02:15
  Day and it said, it said bra. And then underneath it, it said
• 1:02:20
  formerly known as mom. And you know, I giggled it at
• 1:02:23
  first like, oh, it's funny. But I got to thinking about it
• 1:02:25
  like, no, we can't, no, we can't conceive the ground.
• 1:02:28
  You're not formally known as mom.
• 1:02:29
  You're mom first and foremost. You're not bra.
• 1:02:32
  And so, yeah, I'm kind of trying to push back a little bit on the
• 1:02:37
  prevailing thought that kids are bra and trying to reassert
• 1:02:41
  parents in the rightful spot and the rightful place of authority
• 1:02:44
  in their children's lives. Love it, Absolutely love it.
• 1:02:47
  Yeah, one of the things actually, I do got a meme here,
• 1:02:49
  one of your memes. So I do wanna talk about this.
• 1:02:52
  It's not inherently a Bitcoin book, but I'm guessing it is a
• 1:02:55
  Bitcoin book as well. But a little story time.
• 1:02:57
  I, I had some friends growing up that they would call their
• 1:03:01
  parents by their first names and that always struck me and my mom
• 1:03:05
  weird. Like she's mom, she's always
• 1:03:07
  mom. Like if I call her by her first
• 1:03:08
  name, she's like, I am your mother, like don't call me by my
• 1:03:12
  first name. So I'm sure if I was in this
• 1:03:15
  generation, I called her bruh. Like she would lose, she would
• 1:03:18
  lose it on me like she's mom. So I I totally get it in it is
• 1:03:22
  context is something similar, but I do want to read this meme
• 1:03:26
  and and then you can elaborate more.
• 1:03:27
  George, I think this is a great meme and you just go, I don't
• 1:03:30
  make the rules. You know, 93% of sound parenting
• 1:03:33
  is working on yourself and becoming a better human.
• 1:03:35
  The other 7% is teaching your kids about Bitcoin.
• 1:03:38
  Absolutely love it. Yes, yeah.
• 1:03:40
  And, and that was kind of one of the things with this book that
• 1:03:42
  was important to me was to incorporate the ways in which we
• 1:03:47
  have taught our kids about Bitcoin and how how us becoming
• 1:03:50
  Bitcoiners has influenced our worldview and how it's
• 1:03:54
  influenced the way that we we teach our kids.
• 1:03:55
  So there is an entire chapter on Bitcoin.
• 1:03:58
  It's called a bright orange future.
• 1:04:00
  You know, the book was published by Bitcoin magazine books.
• 1:04:03
  It was really important for me to have this be a parenting book
• 1:04:06
  primarily focused on Bitcoiners. You know, as I mentioned at the
• 1:04:09
  top of the show, like there's a lot of us having kids now, which
• 1:04:11
  you love to see. I want to encourage more people
• 1:04:13
  to have kids and I want us to be intentional as a sort of
• 1:04:18
  broader, like culture and broader community that you know
• 1:04:23
  it. Again, it's not just about
• 1:04:24
  having kids. It's about like being thoughtful
• 1:04:27
  and and focusing on what you want to teach them.
• 1:04:30
  And so this mean this 93% of sound parenting is about working
• 1:04:34
  on yourself first and foremost. One of the major themes of the
• 1:04:36
  book is like starts with you pretty straightforward, very,
• 1:04:39
  very simple. Don't be a hypocrite.
• 1:04:41
  You know, don't tell your kids go clean your room and meanwhile
• 1:04:44
  your room is a is a disaster. And then also, you know, the
• 1:04:48
  other 7% teaching your kids about Bitcoin, that was actually
• 1:04:51
  a Facebook exchange. I wrote that 93% stat.
• 1:04:55
  You know, I was making up that 93% stat and someone commented
• 1:04:57
  on Facebook and the other 7% is probably teaching about Bitcoin,
• 1:05:00
  Huh? And I was like, that's
• 1:05:02
  hilarious. That's going in the book.
• 1:05:05
  So so shout out to my friend at high school I think, who
• 1:05:09
  commented on my Facebook. Love it, love it, love it.
• 1:05:11
  OK, well, I am going to pass the mic a little bit to Brandon,
• 1:05:15
  'cause I don't have kids and you guys are having a good
• 1:05:18
  conversation before the show about the, you know, the
• 1:05:21
  importance of homeschooling and stuff.
• 1:05:22
  So Brandon, I'll pass the mic over to you.
• 1:05:25
  What, what are you and George when I maybe I just pull myself
• 1:05:27
  off the screen at this point, but what's your thoughts on this
• 1:05:30
  and maybe your your general thoughts on on being a parent as
• 1:05:34
  well and and how to be a good parent?
• 1:05:36
  Yes, we have a great conversation before this.
• 1:05:38
  And it's, it makes me think, I love that you wrote this,
• 1:05:41
  George, because it's, I have a, a frameworks book that I've
• 1:05:44
  been, you know, basically just adding to, you know, a notes and
• 1:05:47
  the notes app for a while now for a few years.
• 1:05:49
  Like I should make this into a book, but it's really just about
• 1:05:52
  like all the frameworks I've used over my life to become
• 1:05:54
  successful and, you know, play sports at a high level, like all
• 1:05:57
  these different things in business, whatever, and just
• 1:05:59
  wanted to share them with my kids.
• 1:06:01
  So I love, I love that you wrote this and everyone should be
• 1:06:03
  writing this. The, the reason I had, I had the
• 1:06:05
  idea actually was because I was studying like years ago, the
• 1:06:08
  Vanderbilts and then like the Rockefellers and all these
• 1:06:11
  people. And I was studying, this is 1015
• 1:06:13
  years ago before I was in Bitcoin.
• 1:06:15
  And it was along the lines of just, you know, it was the Fiat
• 1:06:18
  side, but it was like, how do you pass down your wealth and
• 1:06:20
  like, what do you do? And all these things and the
• 1:06:22
  Vanderbilts, you know, they basically gave no road map and
• 1:06:25
  then they lost everything and the Rockefellers still have
• 1:06:28
  their wealth. So it was like it just got me
• 1:06:30
  thinking in the lot was done through their trust or like all
• 1:06:32
  these different things. And there was rules associated
• 1:06:34
  with if you want this money or currency wasn't I guess, well,
• 1:06:38
  not even money back then in a sense because it was backed by
• 1:06:40
  something. But we won't go down that road.
• 1:06:42
  But it was it was just very cool.
• 1:06:44
  It's like, Dang, like this is wild.
• 1:06:45
  Like they're actually like setting up trust in the states
• 1:06:48
  where you could pass this down and if you fulfilled certain
• 1:06:50
  objectives or or you know, you know, they taught them certain
• 1:06:53
  things, right. So anyway, that was I I love you
• 1:06:55
  wrote this because I feel like everyone, the moral stories,
• 1:06:57
  everyone should be doing this. And someone in the chat also
• 1:06:59
  said that I think it was vist knock said that being a good
• 1:07:03
  parent starts long before having kids.
• 1:07:04
  And it's so true. It's it, you know, and and you
• 1:07:07
  guys kind of mentioned this as well that it's it starts with
• 1:07:10
  who you are, you know, just genetically, are you taking care
• 1:07:12
  of your body? And after you talk about this
• 1:07:13
  all the time, right, Go touch some grass, get some sunlight,
• 1:07:15
  take care yourself, nutrition, all these things.
• 1:07:18
  And and you touched on too, George, where it's like you have
• 1:07:20
  to set yourself up literally genetically.
• 1:07:23
  And then also are you in personal development?
• 1:07:24
  Are you taking care? Are you getting, are you priming
• 1:07:26
  yourself and and readying yourself for bringing on new
• 1:07:29
  life into the world? So it's just we've completely
• 1:07:31
  lost this art. And this is where it goes back
• 1:07:33
  to what we were saying earlier with homeschooling.
• 1:07:35
  We just made the decision to homeschool recently and you
• 1:07:38
  homeschool your children. And it's, you know, you Doctor
• 1:07:42
  John Taylor Goto wrote these books, you know, one within 30
• 1:07:45
  years ago dumbing us down. And they're pretty, you know,
• 1:07:48
  fairly big in the homeschool community.
• 1:07:50
  But all bitcoiners should be reading these books because it
• 1:07:52
  made me think about things, you know, that, you know, it's like,
• 1:07:55
  wow, I, I'd never really thought of it to that level or to that
• 1:07:57
  extent and whether it was, you know, people going through
• 1:08:00
  school And, and that was a way for government to surveil.
• 1:08:02
  And all these things ironically started the last 150 years,
• 1:08:05
  really around the time that Karl Marx, you know, 1848 came out
• 1:08:08
  with the Communist Manifesto. And, and then you have all this,
• 1:08:11
  this maturation of the centralization of power and then
• 1:08:14
  trying to really start this where they're hurting kids into
• 1:08:18
  schooling and, and into one central place.
• 1:08:21
  And then where it's, you know, mass schooling or total
• 1:08:23
  schooling, total government schooling.
• 1:08:25
  And they call public schools and they, you know, so they try to
• 1:08:27
  like change the language as, as we've seen weaponizing language
• 1:08:30
  with all these other things. And so that to me, you start
• 1:08:33
  kind of going through this and you're just like, holy cow, this
• 1:08:35
  is absolutely wild. What's actually happening?
• 1:08:38
  Then you have homework, like homework.
• 1:08:39
  It was another way, as Gato puts it, to surveil you at home, You
• 1:08:44
  know, so we, oh, shoot, they're out of our hands now we're going
• 1:08:46
  to surveil them at home more. And it was basically to, and you
• 1:08:49
  start doing the calculations of how little you actually see your
• 1:08:51
  kids, if they're in, if they're in government schooling or, or
• 1:08:55
  any schooling, formalized compulsory schooling.
• 1:08:57
  And you're like, this leaves me like 9 hours a week to see my
• 1:09:00
  children. And that was the whole point.
• 1:09:01
  It's an agenda set up so that way parents nuclear family
• 1:09:04
  cannot rear their children. Like we can't raise strong kids,
• 1:09:08
  strong family, strong men, strong women.
• 1:09:10
  And, and we see the effects of that 100 years, 150 years later.
• 1:09:14
  And it's, it's coming to fruition.
• 1:09:15
  And with the Bitcoin is the ones that can be changing that
• 1:09:17
  starting with books like this that that George has written,
• 1:09:20
  it's, you have to start taking this back.
• 1:09:22
  So I absolutely love that you, you did this because this is
• 1:09:26
  what everyone should be. Every Bitcoiner needs to be
• 1:09:28
  writing a framework book. You don't need to publish it,
• 1:09:29
  but at least for your family, like, hey, this is what dad was
• 1:09:31
  thinking. This is what mom was thinking.
• 1:09:33
  This is why we're doing these things.
• 1:09:34
  And then the kids can see those things.
• 1:09:36
  And it's a whole different perspective that, you know,
• 1:09:38
  instead of outsourcing your, your parenting to the state or
• 1:09:41
  outsourcing your thinking, as you guys mentioned earlier, this
• 1:09:43
  is the, the change that that bitcoins are really making.
• 1:09:46
  And it's, it's the foundation of everything.
• 1:09:47
  And what George said earlier, like at the beginning of the
• 1:09:49
  show, which is the, the true low time preference.
• 1:09:52
  You see what all the time with kids where, or, or people that
• 1:09:55
  are rearing children and they're, you know, shipping them
• 1:09:58
  off here, shipping them off there.
• 1:09:59
  And there's all moments in time where you might have to do and
• 1:10:02
  make a decision here and there. But as a general state of things
• 1:10:05
  where you're outsourcing it to a, a babysitter, I was, or
• 1:10:08
  outsourcing it to a nanny or to daycare or to the state or
• 1:10:11
  whatever it is. And, and well, I just need some
• 1:10:13
  time alone. I just need this.
• 1:10:14
  I need I need my time. Well, that is the true low time
• 1:10:17
  preference. Are you going to take care of
• 1:10:19
  your children that God gave you and that you chose to, you know,
• 1:10:22
  to to to rear. What are you going to do with
• 1:10:25
  that? You know, are you going to make
• 1:10:25
  them assets or are you going to create more liabilities in
• 1:10:28
  society? So this is this is a genesis of
• 1:10:29
  it all right here. Love it, love it.
• 1:10:33
  Well said. Yo this this chat is Liz.
• 1:10:35
  Is it always like this? This.
• 1:10:37
  Is like watching this, this is great.
• 1:10:39
  I mean, and, and I think there's a lot of really good points
• 1:10:41
  being made. And I think one of the one of
• 1:10:42
  the things someone said is I tell these guys to stop giving
• 1:10:45
  us shit about not having girlfriends or something like
• 1:10:47
  that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:10:48
  I, I, I saw that one. I pulled it up.
• 1:10:50
  I so definitely, you know, don't want to, don't want to commit
• 1:10:54
  that, but I, I do think that someone else said like it's
• 1:10:57
  never too early to start. And I, I definitely agree.
• 1:11:00
  One of my, one of my zoomer Co workers was like, Oh, I'm so
• 1:11:02
  excited to read your read your book.
• 1:11:04
  And I'm like, bro, you don't even have a girlfriend yet.
• 1:11:05
  But but I love the energy of like, I'm going to be that
• 1:11:09
  proactive because you really can start.
• 1:11:10
  You can start thinking about not just having kids, but like what
• 1:11:13
  what it means and what it looks like to be a parent because that
• 1:11:17
  can be motivating into unto itself.
• 1:11:20
  And so I think that energy is great.
• 1:11:22
  I think we need more people thinking like that.
• 1:11:24
  So, so shout out to everybody in the chat who's like, you know,
• 1:11:26
  maybe maybe younger, not quite at a life stage where you're
• 1:11:31
  either either in a serious relationship or married or, or
• 1:11:33
  having kids, but you're already comfortable thinking about this.
• 1:11:37
  I think that's so mature and important and we we need more of
• 1:11:41
  it. And frankly, like that type of
• 1:11:42
  posture is going to be what attracts the right spouse.
• 1:11:47
  And so, yeah, being proactive never, never hurts.
• 1:11:50
  So that's, yeah. I just wanted to say that after
• 1:11:53
  reading some of those. OK, George, love it.
• 1:11:55
  OK, well, I will give you a, a final plug to wrap everything
• 1:12:00
  up, but I think I'd be amiss at my job if we didn't talk about
• 1:12:04
  the huge event coming up. It literally what, 20 days from
• 1:12:07
  now? 23 days from now?
• 1:12:09
  You are VP of operations at Bitcoin Magazine.
• 1:12:11
  So maybe I don't know if you can do any teasers, but let's give
• 1:12:15
  you a minute or two to talk about the Bitcoin conference in
• 1:12:18
  Nashville. This year.
• 1:12:19
  We're moving it to Nashville. We're super hyped to get on the
• 1:12:22
  news desk this year. It it's going to be an
• 1:12:24
  incredible time. So let's plug the conference
• 1:12:26
  real quick and then I'll give you the last two sets for the
• 1:12:28
  audience. Love it yes.
• 1:12:30
  So Bitcoin 2024 is coming to Nashville July 25th.
• 1:12:35
  If you don't have tickets, you should definitely grab them.
• 1:12:37
  Ticket prices are going to start going up every single week now
• 1:12:39
  so grab your ticket. It's going to be you know, I
• 1:12:44
  think every year we do this it gets more and more exciting and
• 1:12:47
  something different happens something monumental, something
• 1:12:50
  historic. I think this year might top it
• 1:12:53
  off on in a lot of ways, but especially just in the sense of
• 1:12:56
  like, you know, making history for what it's worth.
• 1:12:59
  And you know, I'm excited to be in Nashville.
• 1:13:01
  I think we were three years in a row.
• 1:13:03
  Miami was a great city to us. And but but we are the Bitcoin
• 1:13:06
  conference. We are not Bitcoin Miami.
• 1:13:08
  And we're excited to kind of take the show on the road and
• 1:13:11
  and be kind of at home where Bitcoin Magazine is
• 1:13:14
  headquartered in Nashville, TN Lots of great side events
• 1:13:18
  happening. And yeah, I'm excited for you
• 1:13:20
  guys to take over the the live desk for a little while.
• 1:13:22
  I think that's going to help us reach different, you know,
• 1:13:25
  audience members, people in this chat.
• 1:13:27
  Hopefully, if you're not going to make it to Nashville,
• 1:13:29
  hopefully you'll show up for the the chat and help keep that
• 1:13:32
  lively during the live stream as well.
• 1:13:34
  So I'm going to be there. Obviously a lot of the, the
• 1:13:38
  companies in the space, a lot of the top tier, you know, CEOs,
• 1:13:42
  C-Suite people, politicians, celebrities, who's who of the
• 1:13:46
  space will be there. We'll also have a lot of book
• 1:13:50
  signing. I'll be there to sign in my
• 1:13:51
  book. So come say hi.
• 1:13:52
  I'd love to meet you. Yeah, I think it's.
• 1:13:56
  Simply, yeah, I think it's simply just.
• 1:13:59
  It might be caps S, but simply. Yep, so.
• 1:14:03
  So you get a discount. If I remember it was 21%.
• 1:14:05
  I don't know if it's changed on US or whatever, but yeah, use
• 1:14:08
  the promo code simply. Yes.
• 1:14:10
  And then if you have kids, we have a kids camp this year.
• 1:14:13
  So bring your kids along, sign them up for the kids camp.
• 1:14:16
  Depending on how old they are, there's different levels of
• 1:14:17
  activities for them to participate in.
• 1:14:19
  But there's something for everyone this year.
• 1:14:21
  I mean, it's going to be hot. I'm not going to lie to you,
• 1:14:23
  Nashville in July, it's going to be hot.
• 1:14:25
  But we have a lot of activities to to keep you cool and lots of
• 1:14:28
  side events, great parties happening.
• 1:14:30
  So you're going to want to spend some good time in Nashville.
• 1:14:33
  I would probably plan to spend, you know, five days or so in the
• 1:14:36
  city if you haven't been. It's a just a great place to be
• 1:14:39
  in general. So when 10s of thousands of
• 1:14:42
  Bitcoiners descend on the city, it's going to be even better.
• 1:14:45
  Let's go. Well, I just looked at, I think
• 1:14:47
  we just booked our flight, so I'll be there Monday.
• 1:14:50
  I'll be there all week. I can't wait to see you in
• 1:14:52
  person, see the rest of the Bitcoin Mag team.
• 1:14:54
  All right, guys, let's give George final moment.
• 1:14:58
  What is your last two sats for the audience?
• 1:15:01
  It could be about life, it could be about parenting, it could be
• 1:15:03
  about Bitcoin. What's the final message you
• 1:15:05
  want to leave with the audience before you go today?
• 1:15:08
  Yeah, well, first of all, thanks so much for having me on.
• 1:15:10
  I've really enjoyed this conversation.
• 1:15:12
  My final thoughts, I mean, I got to plug the book.
• 1:15:15
  I'm really excited about this book, to be honest with you.
• 1:15:18
  It was a lot of fun to write. And you know, I'm at the stage
• 1:15:21
  now where people are pre ordering it and that's exciting.
• 1:15:25
  People are starting to talk about it, but really I want
• 1:15:27
  people to read it. I put a lot of thought into
• 1:15:30
  these words and you know, the parental strategy behind it has
• 1:15:33
  a lot of proof of work. And you know, if you're going to
• 1:15:35
  be at the conference, come say hi.
• 1:15:36
  I'll introduce you to my son Kingston.
• 1:15:38
  He's a great kid. You'll kind of see like where
• 1:15:42
  the inspiration kind of came from.
• 1:15:44
  He works at Strike now. He got a job there after meeting
• 1:15:47
  Jack Mallers at the at the conference and sort of
• 1:15:50
  impressing him and his team quite a bit.
• 1:15:52
  Jack was like, when you're ready, man, there's a job here
• 1:15:54
  for you. And sure enough, he, he lived up
• 1:15:56
  to his word. So but yeah, grab the book, read
• 1:16:00
  it, leave a review on Amazon. Let me know what you think.
• 1:16:02
  I really want to get this message of sound parenting out
• 1:16:04
  there, not just for the Bitcoin community, but even broader
• 1:16:07
  because I think it's important. Like I said, I think that we
• 1:16:10
  don't have a lot of tools in our tool belt to change the course
• 1:16:12
  of human history. But one of the tools in our tool
• 1:16:14
  belt we have is to raise exceptional children.
• 1:16:18
  Because if we raise exceptional children, then they will be the
• 1:16:21
  future leaders of the world. And so this might be the best
• 1:16:24
  weapon that we have to kind of reverse course as culture and
• 1:16:28
  society struggles a bit. If you haven't noticed, things
• 1:16:32
  are headed in a in a sketchy direction.
• 1:16:34
  So hopefully again, on a long enough time horizon, we as
• 1:16:37
  Bitcoiners can with intentionality correct that.
• 1:16:40
  So that's my message. Again, thanks for having me.
• 1:16:42
  This has been a lot of fun. Appreciate it George, great show
• 1:16:45
  guys. Again for the audio listeners
• 1:16:48
  for everyone in the chat. If you love this topic by
• 1:16:51
  George, you can get on Amazon, I'm not your brud 21 keys to
• 1:16:55
  sound parenting or go to the Bitcoin magazine website and you
• 1:16:58
  can pre-order it there. So George, really appreciate you
• 1:17:00
  coming on today. Dropped a lot, a lot of hot
• 1:17:03
  sauce. I don't know what happened with
• 1:17:04
  Restream, but hey, at least we, at least we made it happen.
• 1:17:07
  We figured it out. So appreciate it.
• 1:17:10
  I'll see you in what, three weeks?
• 1:17:11
  Man, I I can't wait to see you guys down in Nashville.
• 1:17:14
  Yeah, looking forward to it. Thanks guys.
• 1:17:15
  Let's go. All right, George, hang out
• 1:17:16
  behind the scenes while we wrap this one up.
• 1:17:18
  Brandon, really appreciate you. As you can tell he's a
• 1:17:22
  professional. He's able to, you know, we, we,
• 1:17:24
  we need to insert the session. Do we do this live meme right
• 1:17:28
  here? So appreciate you Brandon one
• 1:17:30
  more time. Will you plug your stuff for the
• 1:17:33
  audience, for people that want to hear your message as well?
• 1:17:35
  And where can they find you on the socials?
• 1:17:37
  I know. Thank you guys for having me.
• 1:17:39
  Come on, Someone wanted me to plug the cards, so here are some
• 1:17:41
  of the cards. I got a bunch of the foils
• 1:17:43
  around here somewhere. They're back here and stuff like
• 1:17:45
  that. But yeah, Bitcoin trading cards,
• 1:17:47
  Obviously what we do right along the lines, it's why I, you know,
• 1:17:50
  that's why I love George's book, the manner from my own heart.
• 1:17:53
  It's just, it's so beautiful to see this, this world, the
• 1:17:56
  Bitcoiners like we, we get it, You know, the Bitcoiners get it
• 1:17:59
  and the kids get it. And because we're teaching them
• 1:18:01
  and there is going to be no world except Bitcoin because
• 1:18:05
  they, they are seeing it and they get it.
• 1:18:07
  So that Gen. alpha generation, really anyone under 10 or 20 and
• 1:18:10
  under, that's going to be the orange belt generation.
• 1:18:12
  They know nothing else other than that.
• 1:18:13
  So I do a podcast, playable characters where interview
• 1:18:18
  people love to interview George at some point and interviewed
• 1:18:20
  Hofty and Nico over the last few years here.
• 1:18:23
  So that's what we do. I help Bitcoin trading cards
• 1:18:25
  out, obviously, and promoting sound money, freedom, liberty
• 1:18:30
  Bitcoin to to all people here. So appreciate you guys having me
• 1:18:33
  on and I look forward to doing it again.
• 1:18:35
  Awesome. Hey, Brandon, what's your
• 1:18:37
  Twitter handle? They're asking for your Twitter.
• 1:18:38
  Handle it is Brandon under score Gentilly.
• 1:18:42
  That's it. Should just be Brandon under
• 1:18:43
  score Gentilly. Let's go.
• 1:18:45
  All right, Well, appreciate it, Brandon.
• 1:18:47
  We'll hit you up from the bench whenever we need a Co house.
• 1:18:50
  But hey, you killed it today. Really appreciate it.
• 1:18:53
  All right, so you guys know we'll be back tomorrow, 12:15 PM
• 1:18:57
  Eastern Time. I do have another Co host,
• 1:19:00
  another person that you guys love on the show.
• 1:19:02
  He usually makes me look good. You know, we got the infamous
• 1:19:05
  Chris Alamo coming on the show tomorrow.
• 1:19:08
  Nika will be back Thursday. But on that note, guys like
• 1:19:11
  share, subscribe, all that good stuff.
• 1:19:12
  Make sure people are getting the Bitcoin signal.
• 1:19:15
  It's not just about the simply Bitcoin signal.
• 1:19:17
  It's about all the Bitcoin signal so that people understand
• 1:19:20
  why we Bitcoin, how bitcoins going to change the world and
• 1:19:23
  why Bitcoin is the better money. So on that note, guys, peace
• 1:19:27
  out. Thank you for dealing with the
• 1:19:29
  technical issues today. I'm, I'm going to have to get a
• 1:19:31
  call on restreaming. I know Nico's going to yell at
• 1:19:34
  me, but hey, it is what it is. We, we, we do this live.
• 1:19:36
  All right, peace out. It was brought to you by
• 1:19:41
  bitcoinwell.com on a mission to enable independence.