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If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts.
So it's all acting like safe haven.
I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency, Bitcoin wins.
In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.
I mean, that's part of the bull case for Bitcoin.
If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.
It's too late. We're on air. We're going.
Are you still control effing semen in this study?
I'm just fucking around.
Sorry.
We were just going over a study.
We'll talk about it later.
Welcome back to Rabbit Hole Recap.
Starting this one.
Did you see the RFK Jr. sex tapes?
Not sex tapes.
It was sex messages.
From Luzzi, that reporter?
I thought that was all he is.
Did he send it to a reporter?
She did?
What is he saying?
Let's see what he's saying.
You sicko.
He said, this is what he said.
I mean to squeeze your cheeks to force open your mouth.
I'll hold your nose as you look up at me to encourage you to swallow.
Don't spill a drop.
I'm a river.
You are my canyon.
I mean to flow through you.
I mean to subdue and tame you.
Jesus.
Who does that?
Wow.
your open mouth awaiting my harvest
drink from me love
oh my gosh
can I get a booty pic with your panties on
god there's some sick people out there man
what the hell RFK
I mean and forget that part
like it's a married reporter
who sends that to a married reporter
just from like a logic
survival point of view.
He's also married as well.
I'm aware.
He's married to
Cheryl Hines.
What's her name?
Cheryl, yeah.
I don't know. What do you think it is?
Do you think it's part of the Kennedy family?
There's just
nothing really gets you excited anymore
being from
such a prestigious lineage
that you have to
squeeze the cheeks.
Are we live on Nostra?
I think so.
Let me see.
Yeah, what does...
We're not live on Nostra.
I have to add...
Okay, now it should be.
Okay, well, the Nostra crew
is missing out massively
on some important
Bitcoin conversation here.
They could catch the recording.
are there any good people left?
Any upstanding men of character?
Or are all the great men of history morally flawed to this degree?
To be clear, I was broadcasting to Noster, but just not from our end pub.
It was just from no end pub.
So this is going out into the nothingness of Noster, but I fixed it.
All right, we're on Noster.
See Muni, oh snap, we're live.
Yeah, I had a ride or a ride freak send that to me.
He's like, you need to cover this.
You need to cover this on RHI.
What else did he say?
Was that the only text?
What did he say?
Let me see.
RFK Jr. text.
Harvesting skunk semen.
Can I get a booty pic with your panties on and one without them on?
Can I also get three different pics of your boobs, any position?
also can i get just a normal pic of your p word let's see from the front and my god damn man
there's some weird people i can't even read it on it just you just sent her a freaking checklist
yeah it's like he it's like he's prompting claude or something like that
what the fuck man who are you i had so much hope too so hopeful how naive
how naive maybe that's why nothing's getting done in there they've just been holding these
texts over so okay we know you're a sick demented fuck you're gonna let pfizer do it what they need
to do and you're gonna shut up now that they're out there maybe who knows he just goes mask off
everybody knows I'm a degenerate
I can't believe he sent her a fucking checklist
I mean you know the history of him right
and his infidelity
and the rumors of what that infidelity led to
his first wife
can you enlighten us
I mean it's very morbid
I mean the rumors the story goes
that he was
lustful after women outside of his marriage
to the point where it was so egregious
that his first wife hung herself in their garage.
What was the...
Was it the other Kennedy with the bridge?
That drove off?
Yeah, he drove off a bridge
and someone died in the car or something.
Yeah, in Connecticut.
It was one of the Kennedys.
Which Kennedy was that?
I don't know the name off the top of my head.
That was the senator in Massachusetts, right?
Either Massachusetts or Connecticut.
Do you think that's why they named the John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge,
so that when I search Kennedy Bridge, it doesn't come up?
Yeah, here it was.
The Chappaquiddick incident occurred in Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts,
sometime around the 19th.
No, Ted Kennedy. That was Ted Kennedy.
Yeah, Ted Kennedy.
He accidentally drove off a narrow bridge, causing it to overturn and pouch a pond.
Mary Jo Kopechny died inside the car.
Kennedy's man. Weird group of people.
Yeah.
I wasn't expecting...
Oh, shit. So minor.
So minor zap. 38,021 sats.
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So here's 38K plus 21.
I appreciate you both.
Let's go.
Thank you, sir.
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VPN
yeah
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we didn't get
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I think I had
them change
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towards the end
that's why
if you're an
advertiser out
there
just don't
put the
discount amount
in the
code
makes it harder.
Can we reach out to him and tell him to just add
RHR as well? I did.
So try RHR too.
I had a
friend stay
at our house for Thanksgiving
and
they said that
they just go to random websites
and just put RHR in.
You should all do that.
Every website.
That makes
them think, why are they putting RHR in?
should we be using these guys?
Should we be supporting them? You should.
Yeah.
So,
great men do things.
This is a, look out for a TFTC
episode on
Saturday morning. I recorded
a reason I'm bringing it up. I'm leaving a
legacy. I recorded it with Johan Kurtz.
Inheritance,
charity, and thousand-year families.
Bring it back to the Kennedys.
It's like, in our modern
times.
The great families, the great
entrepreneurs, the
wealthy individuals of our
time. Oh, Mandibles.
You said
building a legacy.
This is a first edition.
This is a first edition
too. He just released this book
a couple weeks ago.
Go pick it up.
Easy read. Very easy read.
Very inspiring read.
intellectually stimulating.
How can we bring back good societies?
We need good aristocrats.
We need good wealthy families
who know how to support the localities,
their dominion, if you will.
The rich of today
don't seem to believe
that there's a duty for them
to make their communities stronger.
Well, I mean, that caught me off guard,
but I mean, on that note,
I already have it on the list.
It was supposed to be for the tail end,
but what's your opinion on
Michael Dell and his wife giving all the
poor children $250 each. Does that count?
No. No, it's a refutation of the concept in this book.
Michael Dell, which I'm sure, I'm not going to shit on the Dells.
Or the Odells for that matter.
I think they do a lot in Austin and in Texas.
Dell, obviously, is an iconic Austin company.
I think focusing on your local community.
They've probably done that too, right?
Yeah, they definitely have. $250 per child going into the America Fund,
which the government is already providing starting July of next year The government it the trump accounts trump account it a savings account for children born after january 1st 2025
every get every kid gets a thousand dollars straight from the printer
so they get to be born a cantillionaire and then uh the dells provided the dells the dells provided
an extra $250 for
10 million kids
specifically born in zip codes
that are on the poorer side.
The poorest zip codes.
I thought
it was kind of a cool initiative.
I mean, there's worse charities.
There's a lot of worse
charities than that.
So the idea is that you load up
these savings accounts. They can't touch
them until they're 18.
The rule of compounding
returns kicks in in that
$1250 turns into something like $70,000 or something.
I think the parents manage them.
Do they?
I don't think the government manages them.
I think the parents manage them.
They're like trust accounts.
The parents can't withdraw from them,
but they're in charge of them.
Yeah.
And then the other pieces of parents can give tax-free,
anyone can give tax-free into them up to $5,000 a year.
Yeah.
I don't know.
it's a decent enough concept.
Yeah.
I think it's a good effort.
Good effort.
But,
but specifically,
I mean,
I think,
you know,
I was only half joking when I said,
you know,
they get to be born cantillionaires.
Like I think like we kind of have to get our affairs in order before we
start putting a thousand dollars into people's accounts.
But,
uh,
on the private side,
like getting,
if you're a billionaire and you want to support like the next generation,
I like the Dell initiative specifically.
I think that makes a lot of sense.
Yeah.
Is it going to be like Scott's kids though?
What?
Like LeBron tried to do it too.
See, that was an example of trying to help your local.
Like LeBron said he would pay for the private high school
of all those kids born in Cleveland in one year.
Apparently very few of them made it past eighth grade.
if I recall.
I mean, I don't know that specific situation.
Anyway, we don't have to dive deep down this.
What's Scott's Tots? Is that what you're referring to?
Scott's Tots, yes.
What's that?
It was an episode of The Office
where Michael Scott
agreed to pay
I forget if it was college or high school tuition
like a decade before these kids
and then they actually tried to keep him to his word.
If I remember.
You just didn't have the money to do it?
No, apparently pushing paper is not the way to do it.
Scott's tots.
Yeah, the Trump accounts, I think it's...
yeah what's
I guess it's a net positive
I'll say it's a net positive I guess
what the Trump accounts
yeah
I mean I like the idea of
like we have all this social security
stuff like that should all be
like indexed
to the S and P it's woefully underperforming.
Yeah.
It's insane.
I like the idea that if the government is going to be involved in savings,
which I question if that should even be the case,
then it should be basically indexed to equities because then it's incentive
aligned and the economy is like set up for the mag seven right now.
So, um, giving a bunch of kids mag seven exposure seems like a net benefit if they're going to do something.
Um, I mean, if you want to put the Bitcoiner hat on, uh, what if they printed money and gave a million sats to every child born this year?
That's kind of cool.
That would be sweet.
It saves you.
I can reframe it.
Yeah.
Kind of.
That would be way cooler than the SBR.
I think so, though.
Yeah, I've been thinking about this a lot since I've read this book.
Talked with Johan.
Johan.
How do we do this?
How do we build strong communities, strong societies?
It looks like the Dells are putting an effort forward.
The Trump accounts are an effort towards that.
But we believe that Bitcoin is probably a better way to do it.
And as we transition, let's check out Clark Moody's dashboard.
The current price of Bitcoin is $91,340.
One cuck buck is going to get you $1,095.
We're sitting at a $182 trillion market cap.
We are at block height, $926,441.
Which means we are currently 919 blocks away from the next difficulty adjustment
estimated to be on December 11th, 2025,
which is seven days from now, next Thursday.
Looks like we'll have difficulty adjustment
on RHR Day next week,
if we record on Thursday, maybe Friday next week.
Looking like a downward adjustment of 1.7%.
Blocks have been coming in at 10 minutes and 10 seconds
on average, if you recall.
Last week's episode was looking like an upwards adjustment,
I believe of a half percent, if I remember.
not significantly lower
hash prices of course at an all time low
but I would also
pay attention to the polar vortex
here in the United States
beginning to seep down
happened earlier this year
beginning of January
happened many years
when the weather gets very hot and very cold
there's a lot of demand for electricity
on the grid
and so miners participating in demand response
turn off and deliver that energy, that electricity
back to residential consumers.
So that may be affecting hash rate right now.
And then off-grid, polar vortex creeping down into the Bakken.
And I know from experience, if it gets cold enough,
some of those natural gas pipelines can freeze.
So if you have a bunch of off-grid miners on a well pad
using stranded gas, it could be affected by this weather as well
if you're not maintaining your pipes correctly.
to be aware.
I feel like
the term polar vortex
is like a new term.
Yeah, it's got popularized the last few years.
Yeah, it's getting really cold.
That's apparently
I will say, I asked
Maple when was the first time
the term polar vortex was used
and they said 1853.
So
maybe I'm just wrong.
I think it's been repopularized
in recent years
I think I saw like
Illinois, Wisconsin
Minnesota, it's going to drop down to like
negative 40 before the wind chill
by the end of this week
it's pretty cold, I'll never forget
2013 I believe
when you had the snowpocalypse
in Chicago
it got to negative 40 degrees, it's pretty cold
it's not fun being outside when it's that cold
Back to the dashboard.
There's currently 4,010 transactions in Clark's mempool.
If we go to wiz's mempool at mempool.space,
we'll see they have 54,678 transactions.
If you have a low-priority transaction,
don't even set a 1 sat per vbyte transaction.
0.7 sat per vbyte will get you in.
The mempools are relatively up here.
And these are the stats of the day.
You're looking at the YouTube comment.
Yeah.
It's important to have fun.
It is.
You got to have fun.
You got one life.
You got to laugh.
You got to live.
You got to enjoy the day.
And on that note, let's turn to a relatively somber story.
which is about our friends at Samurai Wallet,
Keon and Bill Rodriguez.
Earlier this week, the team over at Bitcoin Policy Institute,
specifically Zach Shapiro,
wrote a note basically making the case
for a pardon of the Samurai developers,
stating that it would restore legal clarity
and protect non-custodial code.
So it's very important work from Zach and the team at BPI.
They're actually having charitable giving,
day today. So if you want to support Bitcoin policy
done the right way, Matt is a bit biased. I am unbiased.
I think Bitcoin Policy Institute is an incredible
organization to support. Why am I biased? You sit on the board.
That's true, but I don't get paid.
I will say that
I would really like to see these guys pardoned.
Just a reminder, they pled guilty to running an unlicensed money transmitter business, but the wallet was self-custody and not a money transmitter.
They specifically did it because basically it was a coerced guilty plea because they were facing up to 25 years for conspiracy of money laundering.
but FinCEN
themselves agree that they're not a money
transmitter so
it'd be good to
it's important I think to
set the record straight
and see them freed so it's
a big priority for Bitcoin Policy Institute
I will say that
I would take it a step further and say that's critically
important I mean if this precedent
is allowed to stand
it's just imagine
particularly if in
however many years, maybe who knows, less than two years, a year from now.
During midterms, if
Democrats take over the Senate and the House, and then in 2028, they take over the White House too.
This could be used to
abuse open source developers. And not only from the left, obviously,
these guys were at trial. Obviously, there's an overhang from
the Biden administration. But with that being said,
this is trump's doj the sdny and it seems like these judges and prosecutors completely
ignored the blanche memo which was published in the beginning of the year saying hey we're not
going to go after these cases and they really leaned into this one and if you haven't listened
to it already i'd go listen to uh kian's appearance in the pod 256 show where it really goes into the
details of the case, what he saw inside.
And I think one of the points he made that really stuck out to me was, I mean, because
we have been talking about this for the last two years, and it seemed like they were steadfast
and dead set on really fighting this.
But Kion admitted at some point in the trial, they realized that the prosecution and the
judge were totally hell-bent on throwing them in prison for the rest of their lives.
And they had to come to the hard decision and say, all right, let's just plea out.
So we're not behind a cage for the rest of our lives.
It's fucked up and it's bad for America.
Let's make it right.
What is the second Lincoln you have in here?
This one's Bitcoin veterans making a case for pardoning the samurai devs.
Yeah.
So our good friend, Average Gary.
Has a post on Noster, an open letter to the senators of the United States
why developer protections are essential for safeguarding constitutional rights
and national security in cyberspace.
Shout out to the Bitcoin letter and shout out to you, Gary.
I think I saw you in the chat earlier.
And then what's the website?
I think it's billandkeon.com.
No, maybe.
Billandkeon.org.
Is it KeonandBill.com? Nope.
BillandKeon.org.
BillandKeon.org
if you want to support their families
on the petition, read more about the case.
That's your homepage.
Share it far and wide.
The petition is up to
3,320 signatures,
which, I'm not going to lie, is pretty
embarrassing. There should be way more signatures on this.
By the way,
I agreed By the way I asked why they don accept Bitcoin donations And it because the courts ruled that they not allowed to use Bitcoin as part of their Ever
Or at least like right now, they're not allowed to use Bitcoin.
So the families are waiting until they actually get jailed before they start accepting Bitcoin donations because they don't want to potentially complicate everything.
Yeah.
And I think that's this month, right?
I think it's in less than 30 days, yeah.
It's fucking insane, dude.
All right, praying for you guys.
Anybody from the administration, if you're listening to this,
or anybody close to the administration,
somebody who has the ear of somebody in the administration,
put a word in.
Put a word in.
Say this isn't right.
This won't stand.
And when you see some of the pardons that Trump's making this week,
like some overt scammers,
it's a bit disheartening that this isn't being prioritized right now.
Especially.
It's very, very much pay to play.
Especially for the Bitcoin capital of the world.
You know, can't have this.
Speaking of the Bitcoin capital of the world,
the biggest Bitcoin treasury company in the world is stacking dollars.
Did you like my title?
Did you?
I didn't even read the title yet.
I retweeted it and everything, but it was just like a blind retweet.
What is the title?
Stacking dollars?
I even quote tweeted it.
Yeah, we're stacking dollars right now.
So is MicroStrategy.
Again, they announced the establishment of a $1.44 billion USD reserve.
Basically hitting the ATM to raise cash.
And with the explicit purpose of using that cash to pay out dividends of their preferred offerings,
I believe over the course of the next two or three years, 24 months.
strategic dollar reserve yeah i think it's 21 months
it says with the goal obviously 24 months or more of its dividends
the more dividends they owe uh than the less months that reserve fits for right yeah
um
what do you think
sound strategy
I'm looking for
some people saying
they're shooting from the hip on the go here
what do we think
this is the best
this is the best commentary on it
did you see this
let's see put in the chat no we can pull it up
sailors buying dollars and you're bearish
i think um i mean i think it was probably a sound decision uh whether like i think the concerns over
him being able to pay the dividends were unwarranted considering they have 650 000 bitcoin
and i don't understand who the strategy investors are that believe that bitcoin's going to zero like
i feel like if you think bitcoin's going to zero you're just not going to hold strategy um but uh
it did you know it presumably there's presumably a group of investors that it makes
feel better about it.
I think it would be fucking ironic
if...
Or hilarious. It'd be hilarious if that was
the bottom.
Funnier things
have happened in this space.
But yeah, he sold common stock
to buy... He sold
more common stock to buy $1.5 billion
worth of dollars.
Hey, wouldn't he do that on Monday?
It was $1.5 billion, right?
Did I get that correct?
$1.44, yeah.
I thought the funniest part was that he also bought
130 Bitcoin at the same time.
He's like, well, we can't just buy dollars.
So we'll stack an additional...
The price is up more than 10% since that announcement,
the price of MSTR.
Yeah, but the price of Bitcoin is up.
So it's really hard to...
The price of Bitcoin is not up 10%, is it?
When did he make the announcement?
On Monday.
December 1.
We were at like 85K, right?
Yeah, we were at 86.
We're at 91.
Not quite, but close enough.
And also, strategy was selling harder than Bitcoin was at that point.
Yeah.
So I think the market probably appreciated it.
once again I think it's not
the most insane thing
I will say the insane thing is the presentation
he gave alongside of it was like pretty
a spaceship is a little cringe
Michael
like the chat GBT spaceship
like who sees that
and is like I'm just going to ape in my retirement
there are some people
out there
they probably frequent Comic Con as well too
say hey we get our
StarCraft
did you see this logan you know what i'm talking about
this thing he's definitely seen it logan pull this up
it's like okay you know you like wonder why you don't get into the s&p 500 it's like shit like this
it's all you have to do it's all you have to do
I'm going to buy the preferreds instead of treasuries
once I look at this slide.
Would the Treasury Department or the Department of Treasury
ever be so forward-looking, so creative
on something like this?
Look at it. It's very phallic, too. It's like a fat chode.
It's going to break through the fiat system and infiltrate.
we were talking about spears last week
there was a spear at the tip of that
it's going to pierce through the fiat bubble
and infiltrate with Bitcoin
we have good friends at Strategy
we love all you
we're having some fun here
we're palling around, Michael
speaking of palling around
we love palling around with you freaks
in the Noster live chat
Ben Justman, 21,000 sat
zap. Thank you 1031 for
investing in Oshie so we can do Bitcoin
rewards. You're welcome.
Shout out to Michael
Michael Atwood
at Oshie. Dude grinds.
Yeah, if you want Bitcoin rewards to your business,
Oshie is a great option.
And Michael's just legendary.
If you buy some of the earth using code RHR for 15%
off, you will get Oshie rewards too.
There you go.
Doug.
21,000 sats. Happy Zapmas, fellas.
Shout out to the latest edition of StackchainMag.
Shout out for the latest edition of StackchainMag.
Salute. Hands up.
Do you think this guy in the YouTube chat is telling the truth?
I was the single largest individual shareholder
in that retarded, irresponsibly long master X group. Ask me anything.
okay my question
how can we believe you
that's the first question
my second question is you said was
man bit
21,012 sats palindrome
zap ltm
oh itm in the morning
we got we got a little no agenda
crossover here
tip of the hat
that's it for zaps right now
we'll get back to the list
we'll wait for
the massive
MSTR holder
in the YouTube chat
to prove
to make us confident
that this
claim is true
we'll move on to Vanguard
enabling crypto ETFs
big thing
Vanguard
very famously
said they would never
ever
never
ever
here they are
bent and knee
clear
To be clear, they're not launching any of their own ETFs.
That's the line they're holding.
They're saying, well, actually, we said we're not going to release products about this.
But apparently, some of the customers that hold part of the trillions of dollars of assets that they manage said,
hey, you guys got to offer this or we're going somewhere else.
This wasn't stated publicly.
I'm just assuming this is how it went down.
Vanguard bent the knee earlier this week.
They also fired the CEO.
and they brought a new CEO that did this.
Yeah, I think there's an ex-BlackRock guy there, actually.
Convenient.
Yeah.
If you stand in the way of Bitcoin, you're going to get fired.
There's a lesson in there.
There is.
11 trillion.
Over 11 trillion in assets they manage.
That's insane.
I can't even comprehend.
That's more than the amount of Bitcoin that exists.
you can store
11 trillion dollars in Bitcoin
but we're going to pump like a motherfucker
if we try and do that
50 million
water balloon
and I think
it did have an impact on price this week
or could have had an impact
if you look at the flows
from
what a timeline
did you see
there was also news from Bank of America
I forgot to put in the list
but that they officially recommend clients put up to 4% of their portfolio in Bitcoin and crypto.
Yes.
I do think it's hilarious, like the up to.
It's like a dollar store, you know.
It's like 99 cents or more.
At least 1%, up to 4%.
Make sure you get allocated.
Did they say at least 1%?
I think so, yeah.
Oh, that's better if they said at least 1%.
They recommend 1% to 4%.
4%. So I would imagine one is at least
1%. I do think
it's funny that
last week it was like the big banks want to kill
Bitcoin and then this week it's like the big banks
are saving us.
Well now they've
washed everybody away.
All the
upstarts
taking on the incumbents
and now the incumbents are saying, no, wait, hey,
this is our game.
You get pushed to the sideline, you get shoved in the
locker. This is our game. We're getting these fees.
They knocked the Bitcoin price all the way down to 4X higher
than it was when the ETFs launched.
What was the price when the ETFs launched? Like 30K or something. So 3X.
Somewhere around there.
Remember when people said the ETFs were priced in?
Yeah. Joe Weisenthal, I remember. Nick Carter, I remember.
People I remember.
There's no way they're priced in.
Actually, I don't know if Nick or Joe said they weren't priced in.
Joe just says everything's priced in.
Yeah.
But there were a lot of people at that point that were saying it was priced in.
21,479 sat from Drew.
Cattle bike.
Be like Marty and Matt, not missing a week of RHR.
Don't miss your local meetup.
Next Northwest Arkansas Bitcoin meetup on December 18th at Fossil Cove in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Thank you, Drew Cattlebike.
Sui generis John.
21,012 sat palindrome zap.
Timeshare is a scam.
I don't know why it took you this long to figure that out, brother.
Or why you feel...
Is he trying to make us pronounce something again?
Timeshare is a scam.
no
super cycle
cattle bike
cattle bike that might be my favorite
of all these cattle bikes great
bull run bull run freaks
full cycle that's what that means
we haven't really I mean
you want to pull up the
gold versus bitcoin
price and gold chart
is like, this is the most depressing
fucking chart.
Well, go to
Tor Demester's account
and pull up his
Bitcoin price and gold TA that he's been doing.
Lupita cycle.
Go do these things.
Sui Ginerif John.
We haven't...
It's not even a bull
cycle if you price it in fucking gold.
Worst bull
cycle ever.
proof that this guy
was the largest shareholder
and irresponsible
master X community
is that he had more shares
than Josh Mandel.
Not enough for me, brother.
Who's Josh Mandel?
He was the guy
who was calling for
he was worse than me.
Oh, is he the one
who predicted 4 Yeah Or whatever You know what I bet the house on that Josh Thank you You don have the house Gotta start the stack fresh
So this is Bitcoin priced in gold.
Tourer's been doing some TA.
Wow, there's a lot
on this fucking chart.
Yeah.
Stample stack sat-streaks.
Log scale. It's important to us, log scale.
What do you think? We've
reached a critical low, I believe.
Logan, I can't read the tweet. Will you read it
I can't read shit.
So many lines.
Bitcoin gold TA, rule of thumb,
horizontal lines have more authority than diagonal lines.
So while breach of diagonal support is a setback,
it needn't be the end of this bull market.
Wait, did he draw a second diagonal line
after we went under the first one?
Probably.
That's what he did.
I see two diagonal lines.
It's called, what do they call it?
They call it, um...
Love you, Terry.
A zone?
Hmm.
We're in the zone?
Is that what you said?
The gold zone?
It's a channel.
Double BART is the only technical analysis I need.
We got an inverse double BART this week.
I mean, that chart looks pretty bad.
Not a big chart guy, but I'm not angry.
I'm just disappointed.
you know what you won't be disappointed and i know you like this
because you put it on the list cool to see big key private pickup so uh i thought this was awesome
this is a novel innovation and it's like a
and it's like they sneakily announced that you can pay in bitcoin now because i
think for a while there you couldn't pay in bitcoin
no that's true too i just assumed that you should be able to pay in bitcoin but
But you're right.
You weren't able to.
Yeah.
So for those who are unaware,
BitKey announced this week that you can now buy a BitKey
without giving up your home address.
Shipped to thousands of pickup points across the country
in the United States, FedEx, Walgreens, Kroger, Dollar General, and more.
You pay with Bitcoin, pick up privately, stay in control.
So use a fake email, pay in Bitcoin, and use a fake name.
What would your fake name be?
Satoshi Nakamoto.
yeah that would be great
the person at Best Buy is like oh my god
oh my god he's coming
I used
John Smith as a fake name once
and my wife was like you
fucking uncreative bastard
Art Dingleberry
that's one of my favorites
what was the movie when we were kids
what was it he
he was gonna do Muhammad because it was the most
popular name, but then he did
his fake name.
Super bad.
McLovin!
McLovin, yeah.
McLovin, make sure you put
name McLovin when you buy a big deal.
Why'd you pick McLovin?
Well, I'm going to pick Muhammad, but it was the most popular name in the world.
What?
I still think
I still think that
the coolest
aspect is that you can just go to Best Buy and buy one.
Ledger has that going for them too.
Yeah, paying cash.
Actually, even if you're paying cash, I'm not sure if you saw this.
Which is nice that you can just go to a Best Buy and buy one.
I think that's...
Hopefully we see more of that. I mean, if you're in New York,
the best way to get a BitKey is to drive to New Jersey Best Buy and buy one.
Yeah.
Logan, pull this up.
Speaking of this, you've got a Best Buy, but you've been saying this for years.
If you want to preserve your privacy, pick something up in person or pay in Bitcoin,
send it to a P.O. Box, the fake name.
The paying cash in person, that's coming into question now.
We've got a 90-second video.
Hit it, Logan.
Hey, how does Walmart know what I'm buying in cash?
I got an email from them this afternoon that says,
hey, can you rate this product that you purchased recently?
And I did purchase that product recently from Walmart.
I bought it in cash, right?
I walked to the electronics section
and bought a USB charging cable with cash
and then walked out.
And I know that the first, you've already started typing.
It's the Walmart app on your phone, you moron.
That is a fair assumption.
I do not have the Walmart app on my phone.
I've never had the Walmart app on my phone.
And further, I did not have my phone with me on this trip.
Here's how I know I didn't have my phone with me on this trip.
I remember specifically talking to the employee in the back of the electronics section
and trying to explain specifically which USB connector I was looking for.
And I couldn't explain it well, and so I tried to pull my phone out to show the gentleman what I was looking for,
and I didn't have my phone on me.
And so I had to continue my game of terrible charades
and torture this poor guy until he finally was like,
well, look, here's what we've got.
And then I was able to find what I needed.
But the point being, my phone was not on my person.
I don't think I even had my headphones on my person.
I didn't have any electronic devices on me.
So how does Walmart know what I purchased in cash?
Sorry.
I shouldn't be laughing.
I mean, it's kind of dystopian.
It's very dystopian, so I shouldn't be laughing.
But that guy has negative aura.
I know.
Chances the Best Buy worker was a Somali,
and it was like, I had no idea what you're saying, brother.
Walmart.
Walmart, bro.
Walmart.
I'm kidding.
It was a low blow on my part.
But, I mean, it is negative aura.
But if it's a show, who knows?
Maybe he's just trying to get to it.
Do you think he put in his phone number when he purchased it?
Because he didn't cover that piece.
Like to get his cash back or whatever, you know, the rewards.
Maybe, maybe.
If he didn't though, what's going on at Walmart?
What kind of tech did he have?
I just think it's interesting that he went down the hole of,
I wasn't carrying my headphones with me,
but he just didn't cover the fact of whether or not he gave them his,
because that's the scam of the rewards, right?
When they have you put your phone number in,
that's to track all your purchases.
and then they give you back like no money.
I want to apologize to my mother because I put her number in everywhere I go
because she's signed up for all this.
What?
You just put your mother's phone numbers?
Is that what you said?
Yeah.
They're onto you, bro.
They're onto my mom, not me.
Big brain.
Yeah, maybe they're using facial identification.
I mean, I wouldn't put it past them.
They're an evil Fiat Corp.
Yeah, they'll do these things.
I mean, the ad tech side is where we see a lot of the really predatory surveillance happening right now.
I mean, that's probably like the cutting edge of it, right?
I mean, what's the most famous...
There's like a famous story from like the early days of ad tech where...
It has to do a porn.
It all starts with porn.
I think JSR told...
Get your mind out of the gutter.
JSR was the one who...
Logan.
JSR was the one who...
I'm going to fly down to Austin and smash that soundboard.
Wait, Logan, click the button one more time.
I want to talk about porn.
It was like the early days of Target ad tech.
and a girl went into Target, bought a pregnancy test,
and they emailed her dad discounts for pregnant mothers.
Yeah.
And there was a big privacy case around it.
But now it's super normalized.
Now people just accept it.
It's pretty fucked up.
It's like a common occurrence now
where you'll be having a conversation
with a group of friends around the kitchen table
or something.
And this happens
and then you'll go on Instagram
and get served an ad about something
that you're talking about.
It's just taken for granted.
People are like, yeah, they're listening to us.
There's nothing we can do.
I do think a lot of times in that case,
it's not a hot mic and it's people searching
on your Wi-Fi for what you're talking about.
I mean, the chat GPT phenomenon is a perfect example of this.
Like, you don't even have to spy on people.
They just put all their deepest, darkest opinions and thoughts into a completely surveilled app that's harvesting everything they say.
But I will say freaks.
Our kid juniors on there are like, now turn around and show me your boobs.
Phrase this in a more romantic way.
I need these pictures.
I need to have a high probability
I was having a conversation with Marty's wife once
and she said Marty had a bunch of the guys over
and she walked into the room and all their phones were in the microwave
you gotta be
safe better safe than sorry
that's a good life hack
just throw the phones in the microwave for a good time
don't turn on the microwave
don't turn it on
it will explode
it's a very
very safe spot
if you don't want to be heard
some interference running in the microwave
I don't know if that's true
I just assume it is
what?
putting your phones in the microwave makes it impossible
I mean it's definitely soundproof
I mean you could probably
put it in the freezer
the freezer would work
probably not good for the battery though
all right it might be it might be good for the battery you think so i don't know
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I was having a stroke there for a second.
I had to struggle through that last part.
Very interesting, though.
Huge.
Yeah, it's gone.
People's Bank of China,
it's been so normalized.
Bitcoiners are the best memers in the world.
The central banks are just like, yeah, fiat currencies are a thing.
Like 10 years ago, fiat currencies was not in the vernacular of...
Yeah, fiat was just a car brand.
Yeah.
Anyway, huge shout out to Zach and Island.
That was their 100th newsletter.
Consistency.
Solid proof of work at HRF.
You guys know we love it around here.
What is this?
RHR 386.
If you take out the stimulus episodes,
we've probably done at least
375 weeks in a row.
How many years is that?
375
divided by 52.
Carry the 3.
It's like 7 years
almost.
380 divided by 52.
7.3 years.
I'm tired boss
that's been our most common
text in the P
personal chat these days
I'm tired boss
just kidding
I'm not
we're gonna win
I'm a bit tired
it's fine
we can admit that we're tired
I'm going to keep going
I'm feeling energized after this episode
I feel really energized
huge shout out to RFK
to energize us
you know I'm
really against
philandering
and
lust
and all that but you know what
if it's not me
doing it, some other horny politician doing it
you can laugh at it a little bit
Like we said earlier, you got to laugh.
Claude prompting your mistress to send the tip pics is funny.
I think it was like pre-Claude.
This was like 2020.
It was during the presidential election.
Yeah, so it was like 2023.
No, I think it was during the last presidential election.
Oh, maybe not.
I don't know.
I didn't look too far into it.
I actually have things to do.
Don't hold me to it.
This was one of the most perplexing things you put on the list in a long time,
because I went and read half the thing.
But you have it in here on the list as real estate is a shitcoin,
and then you link to a sub stack that goes into a pretty lengthy...
How fucked up is this? Did you read this?
I am dispute. It's not even a dispute anymore in British Columbia, Canada.
I read like half of it.
It's really long.
This is insane.
Yeah.
Did you actually read it or did you have AI summarize it for you?
No, I read it.
I read it.
I mean, do you want, you put it on the list?
I'll let you do it, but I can do my best here to rehash what happened.
Courts have basically upended property rights in British Columbia.
Canada used to be a first world country with property rights.
And now if you thought you own land in British Columbia, there's like 15 different native tribes that actually are vying for the title of your land.
And Americans don't realize we have 30 year fixed rate mortgages, but that's a rarity in the world.
That's actually a government welfare program for the middle class in America.
In Canada, it's actually usually five year adjustable rate mortgages.
so people have mortgages on their house
now the title is in question and the banks won't
re... This is a step before
government agents raiding your house to kick you out of your home
but the Cowichan
Nation which is made up of a bunch of tribes
it's a bunch of tribes
So there's one case that was over 786 acres in this part of southern British Columbia.
They won their case, and I only read the first half.
It was the second half going to the sets of precedent for any of these tribes.
They're basically saying you're living on stolen land, and we need it back.
And the other fucked up part about this is that the court didn't make the landowners or the homeowners on this land aware that this case was going on so that they could file a claim.
ownership while it was going on.
The landowner is only finding out now after the case.
They weren't even afforded the opportunity to
assert their rights over their property.
Yeah.
Look at this map.
Look how fucked up this is.
yeah i don't pretend to understand the full repercussions but the big how did you find this
story uh jeff booth posted on master former bc resident um look at this map
it's like all of bc is contested basically holy crap i mean it's clearly not all of it but it's
A shit ton of it.
And so like right next to it is Alberta,
which is like the Texas of Canada.
They supposedly made treaties with the native,
you know,
tribes after like hundreds of years of war,
you know,
back in the day.
So Alberta is not in question,
but BC is on the left.
And there's like,
my understanding is there's like 30 different cases going on right now about
this shit.
You know,
people who have lived in their homes for 30 years,
40 years can't get a mortgage because of it.
Can't get a mortgage renewal because of it.
And then presumably we'll lose their homes because they can't afford to own
their home outright.
And they couldn't sell it either.
Yeah.
Cause the title's in question,
right?
Like the,
the true ownership succession is in question.
Wow.
We have a Yeaser in the chat saying Canada feels on the verge of
being cooked. I'm sorry to inform you, brother.
Canva is already cooked.
Yeah, I mean, I don't understand what's going on
over there because revolutions have been fought for
much less than this.
That's insane.
Are you inciting a revolution, sir?
No, I'm just citing
history.
No, it is true. I mean, we
have. I mean,
all over the place.
People are just like...
That map is insane.
I mean, if you look at the immigration number,
I mean, obviously immigration is a big topic of discussion
here in the United States,
but if you look at the charts in Canada, it's even worse.
I sent it to one of our friends in Alberta, the article.
He's like, fortunately, we don't have to deal with that,
but we have to deal with the other Indians.
oh
the immigration
chart's insane
yeah
it's all fucked
before we continue you want to read
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we'll see if anybody got in
in the last minute here.
Oh, somebody did get in.
We've got at least two now.
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an incredible Thanksgiving. Actually, we already talked about it.
We recorded it last Friday.
Coming in, number one,
Stimmy 21,000
12 sats palindrome.
We already talked about it. The title of
the last episode that you just read was called
Happy Thanksgiving. Anyway, continue. Sorry.
Stimmy.
I was assuming we did it on Thursday.
It was Thanksgiving. I forgot.
Ask if you are in the bottom.
President John F. Kennedy.
Very fitting person to quote.
The patriarch of the Kennedy family.
Patriarch?
Patriarch? Consider king.
That's true.
Dude, if cell phones existed when JFK was alive, imagine the text he would have sent.
Marilyn, get over here.
I need you to spread those cheeks for me.
Mike Clear, 21,000 cents.
Grateful for the three of you.
Keep it up.
Logan, getting some flowers from our friend Mike Clear.
Logan, how does it feel?
Wonderful.
Thank you.
It's good.
you should feel wonderful
I feel pretty and witty and gay
that's a good one for the soundboard
yeah you should
somebody clip that
get a soundboard
and Logan whenever I
ask you to hit that button
in the future you have to
contractually
those were the top boost
from our Thanksgiving episode
thank you guys
thank you Jimmy
Thank you, Mike. Clear.
Contractually.
Let's go to Primal. No zaps.
So we'll go on with
the list.
Do you like how good
this list is? Real estate is a shitcoin.
Now gold is a shitcoin.
Can we play this video?
Play the video.
Thank you.
It's pretty heavy.
I have a nice box here.
What is that?
It has some, I think it's Kyrgyz language.
I took it back from Kyrgyzstan.
He has a certificate.
I got this from a very important person from Kyrgyzstan
very recently, just completely by luck.
So we take it out, it's pretty heavy.
Put this down.
You can see it says Kyrgyzstan, 1,000 grams,
Define gold, 99.9.9, and a serial number.
Try it.
Yes, yes, heavy.
Is it real gold or no?
Well, I don't know, I mean, you know, I mean.
Is this what you're trying to, I mean.
Let's see how it looks.
Well, you know, the color is a little,
this is pure gold, my bracelet is pure gold.
Thank you, thank you for coming.
Iconic.
I can see people nitpicking in the comments of that,
trying to community note us.
Why?
Community note evidence.
This is intentionally misleading.
Shift distinctly says, I don't know,
and proceeds to begin comparing the color of his gold bracelet,
the first of many authenticity checks that would be done.
Wait, is that really community note?
No, it's some person trying to...
First of all, I have no love for CZ, but I think that was an epic.
He was debating Peter Schiff, notorious gold bug and Bitcoin denier.
And he pulled out a gold bar there for the audio freaks.
And Schiff didn't know if it was real or not.
And that is one of the core issues of gold.
It really difficult time consuming and expensive to verify large amounts of gold specifically Yeah And I thought his delivery I thought CZ delivery was fantastic Like Schiff didn understand what was happening It like I found somebody in Turkestan
It's like, oh, I'm tired of Peter Schiff.
Get that clown out of my face.
How many goddamn times do we have to make fun of Peter Schiff
for being a Bitcoin bear?
I will say, I've said in the past, huge shout out to his dad,
who was a, um, tax dodging chief and anti-tax influencer who died in jail doing what he believed
in. Yeah. Um, I, uh, yeah, I mean, look, I mean, from a practical point of view, like try and buy
large amounts of physical gold without getting fake gold. Like, how do you do that? I don't know.
like what is is there a btc sessions video and how i'm supposed to do that
like let's just say hypothetically hypothetically i i looked at tur's charts and i was like oh my
god he drew a second diagonal line i need to convert my bitcoin into gold how do i even do
that do i go to costco and buy one bar at a time i think you have to yeah yeah i don't know i don't
much easier to verify bitcoin
much easier
what do we got here also i didn't verify it but someone said
um shift's bracelet is like the top end of the legal limit of what you can travel with
gold wise that's another issue with gold like how do you travel with it
very very heavy next up on the list we have i mean not only very heavy like imagine going
through customs with like six gold bars on you you're fucking sweating bullets it's the only
gold i travel with is that many yeah use code rh try it try it can we get a many code
if you own a small business out there,
just implement RHR codes.
Yeah.
Implement RHR codes.
Send us a zap.
Let us know.
Let's make it the most prolific code.
In the world.
I want to walk into Walmart,
put code RHR,
and then wonder why they're tracking my purchases.
All right.
Here's a story out of Italy.
shared by our friend Alex Gladstein.
Italy has the three largest gold reserves in the world.
Central Bank of Politicians are scrapping over
who actually owns it.
Wild story on the front page of the Financial Times.
Let's read it.
Italian rights bid to claim gold reserves
in name of the people stir sell-off fears.
Lawmakers from Georgia Malone's right-wing coalition
are pushing to have Italy's gold reserves declared the property of the Italian people.
A move critics fear will pave the way for government sell-off of the metal.
Italy has the third largest gold reserves in the world after the U.S. and Germany,
with about 2,452 tons, according to the Bank of Italy data.
Following the recent blistering rise in global prices,
the gold has a market value of about 285 billion euro.
The Bank of Italy says it owns the gold as part of the country's official foreign exchange reserves.
Those stocks boost confidence in the stability of Italy's financial system, which has very little confidence in Italy,
and are a safeguard for the Bank of Italy in fulfilling its public functions, the central bank says.
But lawmakers from Maloney's Brothers of Italy party are pushing to add a provision to the budget law
that would proclaim the gold reserves managed and held by the Bank of Italy belong to the Italian people.
That gold is the fruit of the labor of our people, said Senator Lucio Milan, chief whip of the Brothers of Italy.
The question of who owns Italy's gold reserves has been a preoccupation of Italy's right-wing parties for more than a decade.
Brothers of Italy has pushed several times for a law to clarify the gold held by the central bank as a property of the state.
Maloney lamented in a speech to parliament in 2014, long before she became prime minister, the expropriations of the monetary sovereignty of the Italian people.
in 2019 the european central bank warned that transferring gold reserves to the bank of italy
to the state would circumvent the prohibition of monetary financing and flout eu treaties
ecb said this week that it has been consulted by the italian authorities on the draft amendment and
was considering the matter the new debate has alarmed some economists who warned such a change
could enable an elected italian government to sell off gold to pay down debt or raise funds for
social services. Mollat insisted
Rome had no intention of selling
reallocating, relocating,
excuse me, Italy's reserves, but he said
recognizing public ownership
was a matter of principle. In Italy,
the ownership of every piece of real estate,
every car, every boat is recorded,
he told the Financial Times.
Shouldn't the same be done for an asset
worth almost 300 billion euro?
I think I'm on the side
of the brothers of Italy.
number one brothers of Italy like if you're talking about like a political party name
yeah that's good we should have brothers of America well we should have like the
the brothers of the revolution or something like that the brothers
oh I like that brothers we need a brothers of the revolution party
men only is it is it funny that uh a woman
is at the head of the brothers of Italy party right now Georgie
It fits the timeline.
It does.
So I have a couple of takeaways here.
First of all, number third gold holder.
I did not realize that.
I feel like China's got way more gold than 2,500 tons.
Technically, everyone says China lies about it,
but officially China has like 2,300 tons.
I looked it up.
And then number two is Germany.
And I believe all of German's gold is in the U S and they probably don't have
it either. Cause who even knows that there's gold there.
And then number, yeah.
And then number one is us and who knows how much gold we have because Elon
got a black eye as soon as he said we were going to audit Fort Knox.
So that's the first takeaway. It's pretty crazy. Cause like,
I enjoy Italy. I think it's a great place to visit, but.
Love to go. I've never been.
it's like truly a poorly run government with the trash economy.
So it's amazing that they have the third largest official gold reserves.
The second piece that's interesting is if they,
they have 59 million people live in Italy.
So I asked Maple,
try maple.ai private and secure.ai asked Maple.
If each of those 59 people,
59 million people got an equal amount of the gold reserves,
it'd be 41.6 grams of gold each.
That's at least, what is it, 21 troy ounces?
21 grams in a troy ounce?
Is that what it was?
We got corrected.
What?
That'd be like two ounces of gold,
like five grand a pop in Italy.
That goes a long way.
I just asked Maple.
You want to know the dollar amount?
Yes.
uh
$5,600
worth of gold
I don't know but 41 grams
sounds way better than $5,600
yeah
that's what they should have done for the Trump
accounts I mean I think we're probably a little bit
too early to give them all
a million sats they should just give them all
10 grams of gold
they're aping these children into stocks
at all time highs here I don't know if it's
every child gets one share of nvidia why don't we have like a dot-com explosion 20 years to
reclaim the all-time eyes well that's the whole point right it's like it's a bail it's uh
i didn't say it earlier but it's like you're just creating consistent buy pressure on their
equities well that's the innovation right the innovation is you prop up the stock market while
saying it's for the children, which is
truly innovative.
They're aiming
these kids in at all-time highs.
They're not even waiting
for blood in the streets.
God, it's so crazy.
What else do we have here? Was that it?
Was that in the list?
Oh, no. This is
sweet. Polyglobe.
This is
this is really where you begin to see the shape of prediction markets coming
to.
I think this is,
I mean,
war is bad.
Uh,
but ever since I was a young man excited about prediction markets,
like this is the cypher cypher punk.
This is why they exist again.
War is bad,
but this is why these prediction markets exist.
So for those who are not watching,
listening and have no idea what we're talking about polyglobe just got another massive upgrade
so polyglobe um it's basically a map that's plugged into polymarket and i think this is for
predictions around the russia ukraine war so it's for people that want to monitor the situation
yeah deep state lives ukraine war map is now draped directly onto the globe live in sync with
polymarket, shaded control zones, shifting front lines,
Russian slash Belarusian unit icons,
and direction of attack arrows all sitting under your market
and OSINT in near real time.
These Ukraine geomarkers confuse people constantly.
Is it city limits?
The oblasts?
Enter, burst, capture all of.
Now when you hover over market we draw the exact area of operation and resolves on and spell out the rule in plain English No more rule debates So essentially long story short as I reading the suite it not going to provide anybody value
They've got a map, an interactive map with a bunch of polymarket prediction markets on it.
Yeah, it's a real-time map of the front lines.
And then each data point relates to a polymarket prediction market that in real time is saying which side is winning, whether Ukraine is winning or Russia is winning.
And then presumably, I know we've hashed over this a bunch of times, but we probably have a dozen new viewers who are listening to the show because you guys shared it with your friends and family over Thanksgiving.
Thank you guys for doing that.
presumably like a poor Russian or a poor Ukrainian fighter right as they take the front line opens up their phone logs into Polymarket and makes a degen long bet on their own side so that the rest of the world knows what happened.
Yeah, well, and on that note, we can assume that that may end up being the case because we're beginning to see cases of that outside of this war zone, particularly as it pertains to Google and the products that they're releasing.
Apparently, there's a Google insider who has officially been exposed on Polymarket.
This dude just profited a million dollars in a single day betting on the Google search markets.
Google accidentally pushed the results early, then removed them, but not before it revealed.
He went 22 for 23 on his bets and ballooned to $3.9 million in open positions.
This isn't a lucky streak.
He previously made $150,000 predicting the early release of Gemini 3.0 before results were out.
At this point, it's obvious. He's a Google insider making polymarket for quick money. It's one of the wildest things I've seen on this platform. And Haiju, Zhong Haiju, who wrote this suite, should not be wild to you. This is what these markets are.
Exactly. This is the whole point. This is the whole point. The whole point is you get better data because you incentivize people through greed to leak information that other people don't know yet. That is the whole point. It is literally working as designed.
Wild. The wild part is that people think it's wild. We're still very early.
I mean, this is literally the raison d'etre of prediction markets.
This is why Cypherpunk's been talking about them for so long.
I mean, you realize that because people are still amazed by this aspect,
it means we're probably still a year away from the FUD of assassination markets.
They haven't even hit that part in their journey yet.
Yeah, it's coming.
Yeah, it is.
I always think it's interesting, like the people,
people dwell on the assassination markets use case.
So like, you know,
people betting on whether or not someone's getting assassinated,
but actually the reverse is also true.
It also creates a global distributed assassination insurance market.
Because if you bet on yourself getting assassinated,
then you provide a distributed incentive for people to make sure you aren't assassinated.
So you could just be like you're a celebrity or walking down the street
and just some random stranger is taking a bullet for you so his family wins like $2 million.
Yeah.
I hope you freaks would put some money behind us getting assassinated so that we're protected.
Please don't.
But it is interesting.
It is interesting.
It's interesting, like, that basic concept that if you want to influence something happening using prediction markets, you actually bet on the inverse.
If you want Trump to get rid of daylight savings time, you bet on him not getting rid of daylight savings time so that he bets on the opposite side and gets rid of daylight savings time.
Yeah. And that may not seem clear in the beginning, as not everybody has adopted these prediction markets.
But as adoption increases, these incentives become stronger.
I like this. I like this comment, YouTube.
Our drones are overhead. Men, lie still and pretend you're dead.
I'm about to tell you.
Some brave new world freaks.
I'm seeing comments on Nostra about my accents.
I'm sorry. I bombarded you with a bunch of accents on this episode.
Not very well done.
I like the Nostra comment.
Hot take from Odell. War is bad.
it's a very hot take you know
war is bad
it's not great it's definitely not great
that's for sure
I got nothing else we can pull up the Jessica
I got before we do that
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It's too complicated.
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May I suggest,
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You're asking people to give up
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At least you could do a set of a hat.
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I like that.
You like that? There we go.
It's all of it together.
I don't know what happened.
We don't have to touch on Jessica Rose's stuff.
You don't have to pull it up, Logan,
but apparently COVID-19 vaccine
fragments of it are being found
in sperm that's being donated to
sperm banks.
Was this sperm bank stuff?
It was sperm bank stuff, yeah.
Other stuff.
I mean, this is fucked up.
You want to go into it, you can't just leave us hanging with that.
I mean, yeah, Jessica Rose has been on TFTC,
immunologist. She did the
study, peer-reviewed study,
that found that SV40 fragments
were in Pfizer's COVID vaccine.
SV40, for those who are unaware,
is like a cancer accelerant,
so it would explain a lot of the turbo cancers
that we're seeing.
She posted on Twitter earlier today
another research paper basically looking at placenta
and sperm fragments to see if the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine,
mRNA vaccines were
lingering in those places
and it found that they are.
She quoted the paper, it says,
we also detected vaccine mRNA in the sperm
of all three vaccinated donors
who produce sperm.
Interestingly, this contrasts with the presence
of the SARS-CoV-2 itself.
So, no actual COVID
but the mRNA is hanging
around your reproductive
organs The placenta how did she detect the placenta stuff I feel like that even more fucked up Because the placenta is what feeds the babies
Yeah.
I asked
Claude to explain it like I'm
five. He said, imagine the COVID vaccine
is like a little instruction note. That's the
mRNA wrapped in a tiny bubble,
the lipid nanoparticle. Scientists
thought the instruction note would dissolve
pretty quickly after your body read
it. This study is like a game of hide and seek. The researchers went looking for these instruction
notes in people's bodies way later than expected, and they found them hiding in blood, placentas,
and even sperm, sometimes 200 plus days after vaccination. That surprised them because the
notes were supposed to be gone much sooner. The grown-up breakdown, what they did, collected
samples from 34 people total, 22 pregnant women, four men from a fertility clinic with eight
samples and eight additional people use this super sensitive detection method called nested pcr
look for the vaccine mrna in blood placenta tissue sperm and seminal fluid and times it's a vaccine
if it's less than 100 days 88 of the people found there was mrna fragments found it 100 to 200 days
60% of people and more than 200 days after the last vaccination,
around 50% of people still had mRNA floating around.
So it was detected in most samples from vaccinated individuals,
including blood, placenta, tissue, sperm, seminal fluid, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah. So it's hanging around. Not what it was marketed.
These people are still roaming free.
They shut down the country, destroyed small businesses,
middle-class America, fear-monger the hell out of you,
put the country in a state of mass psychosis,
rolled out a vaccine, which props for props are due,
or I guess the opposite of props for props are due.
President Trump was the spearhead of Operation Warp Speed.
We've been told our whole lives that it takes at least a decade
to properly test vaccines, but for this one,
nine months was enough time.
They rolled it out, forced people to get it,
Uh, and that's killing a lot of people and lingering too.
So that is that.
Incredibly fucked up.
I, uh, when you first said they're still, they're still roaming free, I thought you meant the sperm donors and I was like completely taken off, taken it back.
I see someone said in the Nostra live chat, Sikro said, so would kids chopping their balls off reduce their likelihood of cancer if that's what the vaccines are affecting?
Funny story.
My lady and I, we have two male dogs and one female dog.
and the vet for the first male dog tried to encourage castration.
You know, that's what they do with dogs on the common in America.
They cut off their balls.
And his main argument for it would be that it reduces testicular cancer,
which is the most retarded argument.
So you just cut off their balls to reduce testicular cancer.
He said it with a straight face.
Anyway, we kept the balls.
Keep the balls.
Is he aggressive? Is he horny?
No.
I mean, yeah, he's a male. He can be horny.
That's the side of Marty.
In Europe, much of the world, they do not cut off dog balls.
If you walk around Paris or something, check out the dog balls.
Most of them have them.
I'll do that next time I'm in Europe.
You're sitting in a cafe.
You're tweeting about how it's a failed society.
Just look around.
Can I ask your dog stand up for me, please?
It's very visible.
You don't have to get on your knees.
It's very visible.
Is RFK Jr. the horniest person in America right now?
And you know what they do for the female dogs?
They literally take their ovaries.
They cut out their ovaries if you, quote-unquote, fix your female dog.
Yeah, that's a bit of an Orwellian.
It's pretty fucked up.
Orwellian framing there.
We're going to get your dog fixed.
By taking her ovaries.
By surgically removing her ovaries.
Yeah.
All right.
This was a fun one.
Yeah, dude, it's been 7.3 years.
You know, you got to...
We have to expand our horizons
about what we discussed.
Spice it up.
get into the
the Claude
prompted sexting
I couldn't even
read the whole thing
it was vulgar
yeah you stopped
reading it
my virgin ear
my virgin eyes
and ears
I couldn't articulate
it we know
there's kids
watching this show
yeah I just
want to say
on that note
by the way
look
I want the
freaks to have
as many babies
as possible
like let's
more babies
it's important
that we build
strong families
but if we're
going to do this thing for another 7.3 years.
This is an adults only show.
Just put in an earbud.
I'm not...
This is not
a kid's show.
We're just not going to make a kid's show.
It is what it is. You can listen to something else
if you want a kid's show.
The people
at Tuttle Twins have
taken that.
Go listen to Tuttle Twins.
The kids
don't need to listen to this one.
Go get an Angel subscription.
Watch Tuttle Twins.
They just dropped another episode with Safe
versus
Lord Maynard Canes. It looks like a good
one. My boys are excited to watch it.
That's for the kids.
RHR, it's for the adults.
Rated R.
Maybe PG-13.
Speaking of kids, I got one peeking in right now.
What are you looking at, sir?
Don't listen.
Daddy's still on his podcast.
That's so funny.
My oldest said he wants to be a podcaster when he grows up.
And I was like, no.
Did you tell?
Yeah.
My, oh man, this is bad.
My oldest, the other day, he's like,
he's big in a, like we let him watch a few things.
One of them is American Ninja Warrior.
And he's in the stage where he's like setting stuff around the house.
He's like, dad, take a video.
And I did it last night.
he's like will you post it to the internet for me i was like no god no we got a lot of work to do
here so i um that's hilarious no i uh have the old ones are really good the old american ninja
warriors yeah i was an mxc guy myself remember that oh uh what what does that stand for i forget
it was a Japanese one right
yeah that was the funniest thing ever
with the fake dubs
I think we've talked about this before
years past Carlos can confirm or deny
if we have
I should torrent those old ones
I don't think that's the best
probably not available otherwise
Guy LaDouche is the best sideline reporter of all time
Guy LaDouche here
Odell and Marty Bent
you all have a guide
for self-hosted Lightning address.
No, it's complicated.
Just download Zeus, right?
Yeah, I guess, but it only kind of works.
But yeah, it'll work decently.
It'll basically sit in a holding pattern
while you wait to open your app again
if you use the Zeus Lite wallet mode.
Hopefully we move to Bolt 12
and it'll be easier.
oh mxc is all on prime video that's good yeah but fuck amazon
um i feel like we've come full circle and
torrenting is the best option again yeah i mean the the whole unbundle re-bundle is happening
right now. It's chaos.
It's like happily pay for these things.
Just like don't make my life living hell
while I do it.
Yeah.
It's like we need somebody to aggregate all this and just
have like a one.
Did you see what Prime started doing?
Prime started adding ads
to their videos.
And
instead of saying we added ads to the
videos, it's like this video is brought
to you ad free by Samsung and then they
play the ad. Like who the fuck do you
think we are?
It's like, oh, thank you
so much, Samsung, for showing me this ad
so I don't have to see ads while I watch this show.
Yeah.
All right.
On that note, I'll go to
Yeah, go on.
I'm going to go put on MXC
on Prime Video. I'm kidding.
Okay. Love it.
You're going to say something. I interrupted you.
What were you going to say?
no i mean if you want to know kyc lightning address uh i know like you know spark isn't
the best thing in the world but while the satoshi uh will give you a lightning address
with no kyc and self-custody ish type of environment and you don't have to run a node
it works pretty well um you don't get great privacy out of it uh because of the way spark
functions, but supposedly they're going to improve it.
They said they were going to improve it.
Go try it.
Alright, interrupt you. Get it
out again.
Don't cut your dog's balls.
Stay humble, Stacks Eds.
Peace, love freaks.