I also screened like, you know, 30 minutes of my film a rough had at the time.
And so like never have done anything like that before.
Kind of a filmmaker's dream.
So the goal has always been with this project, to have as many people
trip down the rabbit hole as possible and for a selfish reason, like,
I want the transition from fiat to Bitcoin to be as smooth as it possibly can.
The more people have Bitcoin, the more decentralized the wealth is,
the more strongholds we're going to have
and the smoother the transition is going to be.
That's what I thought would be the most impactful thing.
Educate the masses on inflation.
Educate them on why bitcoin can't be printed
and why some of the things they've heard about it might be wrong.
What if the price of everything didn't go up
and weren't like it just stayed the same?
Like there is no more inflation? How does that sound?
Oh, that sounds like really great, actually.
You know, I think inflation is a scary thing.
It's probably one of those things in life that you don't want to think about.
And a lot of ways it's like death. It's like inevitable.
But you don't want to believe it's true, at least not for you.
Every money that's ever been printed always ends in like, disaster.
Absolute disaster.
And that's where we're heading.
shooter.
Welcome back to the Bitcoin Infinity Show.
Thank you for joining us.
You know Luke Knute it's always a good time.
Thank you for having me I appreciate your time too, man.
So good to have you back, man.
It's it's been a while.
When did we last see you?
What was a Madeira?
Yeah, Madeira. So.
Must have been March. So. Yeah.
Like nine months ago.
More than nine months ago.
Yeah. How did you like Madeira?
I mean, Madeira is beautiful.
I wish I had more time to spend there, especially, like,
you know, as a cinematographer, I wish I had more time to kind of
go around the island and see all the different beauties that it has to offer.
So other than that, it was amazing.
I also screened, like,
you know, 30 minutes of my film, a rough, rough cut at the time.
And so like, you know, I never done anything like that before
in a movie theater.
So it's kind of a filmmaker's dream.
So, yeah, Madeira was special for for many, many reasons.
And I'm sure you love it there too.
Yeah, yeah, we were super busy.
But we heard a lot already back then when when you showed those
30 minutes about the movie.
The the movie.
No more inflation.
If you don't know, and,
like everyone who saw that, it's like, dude, shooters.
Film is like, this is next level stuff.
Like, everyone seem to love it.
So, so when did you.
So tell us about the movie?
Tell us about, like, you know, how your last year's been and when did it premiere?
Like what?
How how did it come to be like, all the things.
Right.
So most people know by now, I made a ten minute film about El Salvador
about two years ago that I had published nine book.
Kelly retweeted it.
That kind of created some more attention, you know, from Bitcoiners
and like encouraging me to make a full length film.
So, two years ago, I started planning this film,
raising money, filming, traveling, editing all that stuff.
And so, yeah, it just published it November 21st.
So it's been about a month and,
yeah, I've been doing like, you know, going around now and doing the podcast
and promoting it a bit, but so far it's so it's been going good.
Lots of people have been watching it.
Lots of people been sharing it with like, you know, their loved ones and, you know,
it seems actually the most common thing I've heard is that the wives love it.
Like, I guess most Bitcoiners wives, you know, they're interested in Bitcoin
because their husband
there is interested in Bitcoin, but they're not that interested in bitcoin.
But apparently, you know, they, they stay engaged and they really love it.
And it helps actually like visually connect the dots
about a lot of things that, you know, they've been hearing about.
So anyway so far it's been really good.
It's doing exactly what I want it to do, which is,
you know, reach the average person, keep them engaged.
Explain the problem of inflation and the solution of Bitcoin
in a very simple and, you know, emotional human to human way.
So yeah, that's what I did.
I traveled the world, interviewed 44 people that, you know, share their stories
about living with different intensities of inflation
or how that money that's being printed that caused that inflation affects
war or food and health and foreign aid and Covid and bailouts.
And then same thing with Bitcoin interviewed people that have
personal stories about, you know, how it's helping them in El Salvador,
how they're using it to reduce, you know, pollution in North Dakota
off of flare gas, how it's bringing energy to people in Kenya,
you know, helping people escape their dictator countries.
So basically, the film is a collection of stories
that covers inflation and covers Bitcoin.
Now I, I just love the title.
Like, no, no more inflation. It's so spot on.
That's that's what Bitcoin is all about.
Like you fix the problem of inflation for everyone on earth.
Like it's it's it's so simple when you put it like that like it's
that it's what it's all about.
We're fixing inflation.
Like we're kind of reminds me of this.
Yeah.
That's my. Kind of. That's my my. Everything.
Exactly. No.
Yeah, yeah.
You're outfit is so great tonight.
So so tell us a little more about how the
how the film came to be and, like, yeah, yeah.
Where did this project start?
And like,
yeah.
I mean, yeah, the book killer thing, but, like, tell us about the journey rather.
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
So, like you're saying, no more inflation was the line
that I found stuck with most people that I spoke to,
whether it was a cashier for 10s or a friend of mine, you know,
they'd be like, what is this Bitcoin thing about?
I would say, okay, well, what if the price of everything didn't go up anymore?
Like it just stayed the same, like there is no more inflation?
How does that sound?
Oh, that sounds like really great, actually.
You know, I mean, anybody but like, a, college
educated economist will agree with you that that sounds great.
And so I realized that was kind of the best entry point in for Bitcoin.
So when I was planning this film
and I realized I was going to spend maybe a year or two making it, you know,
I thought, okay, well,
I want to make the thing that I think can have the biggest impact possible.
So I knew it had to be related to Bitcoin.
And then, yeah, like I was mentioning, inflation just seemed like it's
the best entry point.
And so you'll notice there's no mention of Bitcoin at all in the title of the film.
And if you watch the film that no more inflation.com,
you'll see there's no mention of Bitcoin for the first half of movie.
Because again, I want to draw people in with inflation.
I want to make them understand the problem of inflation
because in my opinion, it's the biggest problem in the world
for, you know,
not just because it's expensive for you to live,
but because also for the things that it pays for.
It funds the machine, that you don't like,
you know, and so, and so, yeah.
So I think, that's really what I wanted to set out to do.
That's what I thought
could be the most impactful thing educate the masses on inflation,
educate them on why bitcoin can't be printed,
and why some of the things they've heard about
it might be wrong,
like it's bad for the earth, it's only for criminals, it's too volatile.
You know, all these common things that someone will just
have popped in their brain, you know, whenever they hear Bitcoin.
And so,
so basically so yeah.
So I started again, like writing all of this and planning it,
you know, two years ago, October 2022, I started raising money in January.
I started filming in April and then April all through,
you know, the release, I was either, you know, picking up interviews or editing
and, so, yeah, I went to, you know what?
Imola. Jamaica, Argentina. Kenya.
Salvador, Latvia.
Dubai, Italy.
Man, I'm probably missing a few there and a handful of states in the US too.
And, yeah, it was a great experience, man.
Two years.
I mean, imagine, like any artist to say, hey, you have two years to create
the best thing you possibly can go,
you know, so absolute dream.
I met so many people, you know, I really am proud of what I created.
I feel like it met the vision that I had for it. And,
And so, yeah, now I'm really content.
And now it's the second half of the battle,
which is actually, you know, getting it out to the masses.
So that's kind of the journey in a nutshell.
Yeah.
So, so like open the tab now
watch the movie right after you watch this.
Like no more inflation.com.
It's great.
I mean and
you're such a good, content creator man.
And like, such a good filmmaker, like, I've, like, every single thing
I've seen that you've done, it's like it's stunning.
You really know your craft.
That little, little video from from Riga, two years ago.
Like, it's it's amazing.
Like, No. So.
So go check out go check out the website.
This guy knows what he's doing.
Yeah.
And the cool thing is, I made the website to like all that stuff.
I made all that, integrated was app, right?
And WooCommerce.
So you can pay 999 to to stream the film.
You get access to it for seven days or three, login.
So you can share the password that you get with people.
You get an 8.21% discount if you pay on lightning.
And, you know, it's it's it's awesome
for so many reasons because, yeah, I, you know,
everyone always tells me that they appreciate my work
and I appreciate you saying that
because other people need to hear that sometimes to actually go and watch.
But, you know, all around this is such a Bitcoin project again, like
when you pay to stream the film right now that money is coming straight to me.
There's no platform in the middle, there's no nothing like that, you know,
and probably in the future, I mean, the goal is to get it on Netflix
or somewhere that has a really, really, really mass reach.
And so but for now, like, you can literally directly,
you know, give your money to me and appreciation for the film.
And so, yeah, no more inflation.com.
I think the website's beautiful.
The trailers there are so, so great.
And there's so many really good people in the film.
I mean, from bitcoiners to non bitcoiners
know Graham Hancock in there talking about foreign aid.
He wrote a book about it
in 1989 that Alex Gladstone took a lot of inspiration from.
I didn't know until I read Gladstone's Hidden Repression book.
Robert Malone's in there, who was more known for,
developing the mRNA technology and speaking out during Covid.
But he's like,
really fascinated with hyperinflation
and like, totalitarian regimes and how those things go together.
And so he speaks on that.
You got toward a mr., a rockstar death, you know, Texas Slam, Alex Glass,
you got a bunch of people in there.
It's, it's. Yeah.
So definitely check it out.
Yeah, definitely.
What did you say?
8.21% discount?
Sure. Did.
I thought you would appreciate that. I yeah.
I, I didn't just change it for the show.
You know, it's been like that, so.
Fantastic. Fantastic.
Oh, I love it.
Yeah.
You mentioned zap, right?
There.
How does that work?
Okay, tell us more about that, please.
You pay zap, right?
$25 a month and then zap, right?
Lets you connect a bunch of different services.
So, for example, I can have my own lightning node running, but,
you know, I didn't go through all of that.
What I have is I have my zap right connected to my strike.
So technically, you know, there's some custodian there.
It could be more sovereign, but super easy, like,
connect it to my strike in, like, five seconds. Right.
And then all of a sudden, now when, when I check out,
you know, I can select the lightning or the Bitcoin options
in terms of credit cards because it all the website takes cards to zap, right.
Connects to stripe, stripe which is more of a Fiat rail.
Right.
And so basically, yeah, I set up a stripe account,
I set up a strike account and then zap, right.
Lets me connected those within a few seconds.
Zap. Right.
Like has a plugin for WordPress that connects to WooCommerce.
So now in my WooCommerce dashboard, zap right, is a check out, a payment option.
So I just have to toggle that on and then zap, right.
Takes the rest take takes it from there.
So literally took me like ten minutes to integrate it.
And in my opinion, it's it's like the smoothest checkout process of any
like website in my opinion.
I have given them feedback.
I think they can do a few things to make sure
the user doesn't have to scroll at all during the checkout process.
Currently, the user has to do just a little bit of scrolling,
but other than that, it's literally like tap, tap, tap and you're done, man.
So zap writes an awesome, awesome tool.
I think anybody any Bitcoiners out there,
especially if you want to accept fiat and bitcoin in like a same rail,
like the same checkout process and make it super easy.
It's been super easy for me.
And the guys have also been like,
you know, very encouraging and giving me good energy about the film too.
So I like those guys a lot.
Yeah, no, I think I think the
reason Knute, asked about this was that, like, we have our own kind of,
the website and set up and everything, but we we haven't, we looked at zap, right?
But we couldn't tell, if on the Fiat side, they did euros.
And we're based in in Europe and everything, I think maybe we'll have to,
to look into it, but, but it it it does everything right.
It's, it's fiat.
So credit cards and and bitcoin. Right.
So people can, can pay you in the way that's convenient for them, right?
Yeah.
Like Apple Pay, Google pay Cash App pay like it's all right there.
So anybody who's going to pay with a card it's like couldn't be easier.
So yeah, in my opinion those guys and again they charge you 25 bucks a month.
Right. There's no percentage or anything like that.
So it's like totally worth it to me.
And how about strike
how does that
work in in what countries does it work like.
Because. Right.
It doesn't work in every country yet, right?
Yeah. Exactly. I'm not sure.
I thought they were working like many, many, many countries.
I thought they had rolled out some global thing.
So I'm not sure exactly which countries it works with, but, you know, it's
just like any other custodial wallet, right?
So when a payment comes through and lightning.
I got a notification on my strike that the SATs have hit my account.
And then, you know, once it hits, a million SATs, then I move it on chain.
Okay. Minute by minute.
More like, which countries have you tried it out
in, and where did it fail and where did it work?
000I see I think as the receiver it works period.
Because zap.
Right is generating like a lightning invoice.
So zap right generates a lightning invoice.
Obviously if you have a lightning wallet you're going to pay that.
And so I think it's only, you know, really there's only restricted
if you're trying to create an account and be a receiver on strike.
Right.
Like I could go to Madera and somebody who is in a restricted area
who technically can't use strike can still scan my lightning invoice and pay me.
Right. So,
yeah, that's how that works.
Yeah.
Again, I think I think,
the the intricacies of this, this practicality stuff is like
we just share a common, common interest here.
But it's it's it's awesome that people can can go directly and support
you directly.
I mean, this is this is value for value.
I mean, like you're setting a price for your thing
and people have to pay that and everything, but it is direct to you.
There's no there's no middleman.
It's it's awesome. And,
I want to,
my first question is like the top billing,
your advertising is Graham Hancock, which which last time we,
we talked about our shared interest for a lot of his work.
How how was it, talking to him and, making that connection?
Yeah.
You know, I think in
the past, I've been nervous for different interviews.
Not necessarily like they're famous people,
but they're just important interviews, you know?
And I know that I need to get this one.
And so,
I've kind of gone through, you know, failures and successes in that.
And what I took away was to just be present, you know,
prepare the questions, know where you want
the conversation to go,
know what kind of messages you're looking for on this person,
and then just be present and listen, really listen to what they're saying.
And so yeah, with Graham, it was like fortunately like
everything was super smooth.
You know, the thing with him is like
getting him was such a long shot.
I didn't have any connection to him whatsoever, you know.
And I just knew he was going to be in a particular place for a conference.
And I just hung out for days, dude.
Like literally just days, man.
I just hung out and like, you know, and, you know, got his contact information
after talking him for a few seconds and then,
the same thing, when I did the interview,
there was like, we were going to do it at this time, but he ended up, like,
signing books for, like four hours, dude, like fucking four hours.
And then he looked tired, you know?
And I was like, well, I don't want to push him.
And then he, like, disappeared for like two hours.
And then he calls me and he's like, hey, man, sorry about that.
It got kind of crazy, you know, but I'm here, you know, and I'm ready for you.
Come on over here. You know?
So basically it was like the whole time was just me, like, just chilling
and, like, you know,
I think that can
that can create some anxiety and that can make you feel like a fuck man.
Like, you know, I really gotta nail this thing,
but fortunately, I was super calm or super grateful
for the experience and it went really well.
We just had like like anyone else I interview,
I always just try to have a natural conversation, like, you know,
you don't even need to prepare like, you should know
all of these things already that you're going to be discussing.
You shouldn't be discussing anything you don't really know deep down in your soul.
And so, yeah, it was it was a dream come true, man.
And, you know, I think he he also is an artist in a certain way.
You know, he was a journalist and a writer and, I think he looks at me
a younger man and kind of sees himself and,
you know, so I think he likes giving back to people like that and helping.
And so, yeah, it wasn't awesome.
I never, ever, ever thought I would interview Graham Hancock for anything.
So it's, it's pretty cool, man.
It's it was a cool experience.
And like, if people watch the film, you'll see towards the end there's like a
sequence of shots of me, like hugging different interviewees.
And so and that alone is so cool, you know, just to be like, man,
thank you so much.
Or like, you know, hug the guy, like, so awesome.
So yeah, it was it was a dream.
I didn't even know I had come true, man. Pretty awesome.
Yeah.
We often have have similar experiences here.
Doing the show.
I mean, I mean, it's been in this longer but but you know, we've, we've
Bitcoin has taken us a lot of great places
and, and, gotten us in front of a lot of great people.
And for, for you that that sounds like an absolute dream.
Did you, did you stay on topic as in, like, inflation and economics
and and this and that, or did you, cover any of his more interesting subjects?
Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, we definitely we did both of those things.
And so again, he's not necessarily a Bitcoin or he's open minded.
So he is open to it.
He actually was asking me a lot of questions about it.
But you know, I didn't approach him like, hey, I'm making a film about inflation
and bitcoin and foreign aid. You know, you want to be in it.
It wasn't just like, hey, I'm making a film about foreign aid,
you know, like, that's what the film is about.
And, and in his segment, it is about that.
And so, that that's how I think I was able to get some of
these people involved was like, look, I don't need you to talk about Bitcoin.
I don't need you to talk about inflation.
I just need you to talk about foreign aid.
And then of course, though, like, you know,
in keeping the conversation casual and natural,
when his brain goes to, you know, archeology or bureaucracy
or war or psychedelics, and I go with him for a bit, right?
Like, okay, let him develop that and then I can bring it back.
So, yeah, if you go to no more inflation.com
and you watch the trailer and you click on the title,
that'll take you to my YouTube channel, there's a,
21 probably it's a 21
minute interview, extended interview with Graham,
where we go through like his history, a lot of people don't even know
he wrote a book about foreign aid. Right.
But he actually started as a journalist working in Africa, working
on, like, the wealth gap between the, you know, the developing countries.
And, and it was his work over there, actually, that introduced him
to Ethiopia's claim
for the lost Ark of the covenant, and then that put him on the path of archeology.
So his first big book was about foreign aid.
And then after that, it was just like, oh, you know, ancient civilizations
and psychedelics and stuff.
So he details that history a bit and he talks about, you know, just
bureaucracy and general war, psychedelics and a bunch of other stuff.
So, yeah,
if you're a Graham Hancock fan, definitely go check out that interview there.
You'll you'll really like it.
Now you got it.
I actually had no idea you had the extended interview up.
I'll be watching it.
Not tonight, tomorrow or something like that, but,
Yeah, man, that's that's fantastic.
And, well, do you know if he's if he's seen the finished product?
Like, I assume you do,
at least let him know that it was it was out and everything.
Right?
Yeah. I mean, that's a whole nother hurdle, right?
It was like actually coming to the point of like,
hey, look, this is the whole scope of the project,
and I just want to make sure you're cool with it. Right.
That happened a while ago.
But yes, he saw a 20 minute cut, like a refined version of what I show.
What I showed him. Madeira.
He gave some good feedback, and then I don't know if he's seen the all
the final cut.
He's seen, like, the almost final cut.
So, Yeah, he he seemed really happy with it.
You know, he could relate with it because, you know,
he knows that when he was younger, he was able to afford
a house and start having a family at 30 years old on his income.
And now he's just seeing his kids who are like, you know, getting into their 40s,
finally able to do it and like, barely,
like just barely, you know, so, I mean, he can relate with it too. And,
yeah, you know, he's
expressed interest in helping me, you know, get the film out there.
And so, I'm just being patient, you know, that's kind of one of those things
where you just you're just patient and you wait.
And so, either way, though, you know,
yeah, I'm super grateful for his time and like, like, you know, as you get older,
I think you have less energy and you have less time.
And he's a busy guy, and he must have literally been
working on season two of Ancient Apocalypse because,
you know, he just finished it recently.
So if he squeezed me in, like, it's so cool, man.
But yeah, he has seen it.
He seems to enjoy it.
And I think it's just a matter of, you know, inflation isn't going anywhere
and Bitcoin isn't going anywhere, right?
So I think there's some price, Bitcoin price,
USD price that like Graham Hancock is going to be messaging me again.
Right.
Like hey, I just saw bitcoins at $150,000.
Thought about you.
We need to talk about this. You know.
So that's one of the great things I guess I'm doing.
Something in Bitcoin is like Bitcoin and especially the price for normies
that becomes like a your cheerleader, right?
It becomes your marketer forever.
So, it's pretty cool.
Yeah.
I'm, rooting for you on that one.
That, he, he gets back in contact and wants to talk more.
But so, so, I'm, I'm also interested sort of in the two parts of the film, like
how did you build up the, the inflation case basically because,
you know, for, for us Bitcoiners, it's it's pretty self-evident
at this point, you know, that inflation is a problem.
And even even normies like they, they see it's happening.
Right.
But but how did you tell the story about what's going on.
Right.
So I think inflation is a scary thing.
It's probably one of those things in life that you don't want to think about.
You know, it's like a lot in a lot of ways, it's like death.
It's like inevitable.
But you don't want to believe it's true.
At least not for you. Like, you know, like I'm not going to die.
Never going to die.
And so the way I presented it was just kind of like
if the average person actually thought about it,
what would be their logical sequence of questions.
Right.
And so the first question that the film really poses is like,
like if this doesn't stop,
what how does like, what does life look like next?
Right.
And so the film starts in like Western countries with single digit inflation.
So you hear from Yoni Apple Berg and he's talking about life in Sweden
and said money from Canada and Monica Bora from, you know, the US and,
and it's what we all feel in the Western countries, right.
Hard to afford a family, hard to afford a house.
Food's starting to get kind of expensive.
Like, really now just starting to barely make ends meet.
Okay, but what next?
Like, if this thing doesn't stop, right? Like what?
What happens?
And so we go into Jamaica where there's double
digit inflation, where you're skipping meals, right?
There's there's more, health issues, like less
hope in general because it's like, you know, this thing's not going away.
Right? So let me go.
Triple digit inflation in Argentina, quadruple digit in Venezuela.
And like, you know, the Weimar Republic. And
and so
the next question is, okay, well shit, things get really bad.
But like, why is this actually happening?
You know, what is causing the inflation.
And it's obviously just as simple as money printing.
So it covers that and the gold standard a bit.
And it also covers like, well if it's just money printing,
why are they printing it like this is the same.
Like these questions like this is what I was hearing from normal people.
Literally. Right?
I'm like, yeah, because they're getting it.
You know, they're deciding where to spend it.
Like they're actually the ones receiving it.
And so the film goes into where this money is spent
and the majority of spent in war, health, which also relates to food,
foreign aid, like there's so much debt, right, like that that,
developing countries and all countries but developing countries have
and then of course, bailouts. And so,
that's kind of how I present inflation.
Like, this is what it looks like
as it gets worse, money printing is why it's happening.
This is where that money is being spent.
And every money that's ever been printed
always ends in like, disaster, absolute disaster.
And that's where we're heading.
And so that perfectly segues us into Bitcoin where, you know we think okay
fine.
If inflation if this inflation thing is simply due to money printing,
then what if we had a money that couldn't be printed.
And so the film, the same characters that we're explaining life
and how difficult it is with inflation in these different countries
and how it's impacting all of these different areas
in our life, like war and health and so on.
They opine on what life might be like if there was no inflation.
So like a regular lady in Jamaica is like, hey,
I go to the store and a milk, milk is a dollar today
and it's a dollar tomorrow and it's a dollar next year.
Wow, that's a mazing.
It's like,
I don't know if that's actually a real sounds like a utopian world, right.
And it's just it's so crazy that that is actually a crazy thought
that milk would stay the same price, you know?
And the film, of course, doesn't even touch on deflation.
I feel like that's just too mind blowing.
Like people would be like, okay, now you're talking about fucking magic
and wizards and shit. You know what I mean?
So no more inflation, I think was the line for now.
So anyway, that's how we segue into Bitcoin, and the film
briefly describes why Bitcoin can't be printed.
And then it knocks out the common things that I would hear from people.
But like okay, well doesn't it use a lot of energy.
Why is it doing that isn't that bad for the earth?
I heard criminals are using it.
Oh man. But like, it always goes up and down.
Up and down, up and down like a. I don't know if I can feel comfortable.
And so really, that's how the whole film is presented, is like
the most common sequence of questions that I've heard from people.
And then literally just, yeah, going and finding stories to, to tell that.
So yeah, that's kind of how I presented it, man. Mr..
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You know, this reminds me of one of the first things like
this is pre bitcoin, stuff like that I found on, on YouTube something,
and even before like the site guys movies
if you remember those where, where where a guy perfectly describes the problem.
But then the solution is commie utopia and it doesn't really work you know.
But but but even before that, there was a little series called
a little Movie called money.
Is that where he explains fractional reserve banking?
The guy explains, fractional reserve banking.
And it's so, and that's like,
I think that played a huge part in why I found Bitcoin.
I was primed for it because I had seen that thing.
And it's it's so simple,
like fractional reserve banking started with,
you know,
gold was used as money, but it was hard and heavy to carry around.
It wasn't very easily divisible, and verifiable and all that.
So instead you took your gold and you stored it in a vault somewhere.
So the guy who owned the vault gave you a receipt?
You. Yeah. I owe you this much gold.
And then people realized they they could trade the receipts
instead of trading the actual gold,
because the receipts didn't wait as much as the gold.
So that's the portability thing.
So that's how fear begins.
People trading receipts for gold so they could redeem the gold
by giving the receipt back until the the banker
realized that he could give out more receipts than he actually had,
gold in the vault because the the risk that everyone would,
withdraw their gold at the same time was extremely low.
So he could do this.
It could print more bills than he actually had gold in it
in its vaults, which, of course made the banker extremely rich.
And he could promise like, interest and stuff on this, like,
which he created out of thin air.
So, so he was getting getting the customers
in on the scheme without them knowing that they were in on the scheme
because he could pay them interest, because the interest wasn't really there.
It was just conjured out the thing there.
So this is how the monetary bill comes into being.
And of course, when you had
competing monies under competing,
bankers,
every once in a while there was a bank run
and everyone decided that, oh, holy shit, this guy is probably up to no good.
What if we all withdraw our gold at the same time
and then, the guy had to flee because he got, like,
lynch mob with pitchforks and torches after him
because they realized that he'd been fucking people over for a long time.
And this happened,
on many occasions in many countries over and over again
until the invention of the central bank, which is actually
which is basically an institution that saves the asshole
from the people who just want their money back.
But but at the end of the day,
all inflation is theft.
There is no way around that.
If you can't redeem the receipt for the gold that you put into the bank
you were being stolen from, and there's there's no middle ground whatsoever.
If if this banker prints
a single dollar more than he has in his vaults, then it's fraud.
And every bank in the world does.
It's, It's just mind blowing.
We're all being fucked over because we're being stolen from at all times.
And Bitcoin is the remedy because you can print more of it.
It's even better than gold.
Because gold, if the gold price goes up, people will find more gold.
With Bitcoin, it doesn't matter because you have the difficulty.
Adjustment algorithm and yep.
Have you seen that later.
The latest meme around that was so great.
It's like a Venn diagram on, I think I saw it on Twitter.
There's like, people who
oppose Bitcoin and people who understand the difficulty adjustment algorithm.
And in the intersection, there's a very thin intersection.
It's like no one I've ever met.
Like,
because if you understand the difficulty adjustment algorithm,
you cannot be against Bitcoin like you cannot.
There is no way of understanding this thing
and having arguments against Bitcoin.
It just doesn't work.
If you understand the difficulty adjustment,
algorithm, you understand
why Bitcoin is the remedy to inflation because you understand.
You understand everything divided by 21 million, right?
You understand that this is unstoppable.
You understand why you can print more of it.
And it's just for the first time in history,
we have something that is tamper proof and that is asshole proof.
And we've never had that in money.
It's always been abused.
And which
means that like 5000 years of history is
it is like,
there's so much misinformation in it because the winner writes history, right?
And the winner always had a
a certain percentage of ass
holiness that took them where they went, like, like
because they were founded, funded like all wars
were funded and prolonged by inflation to one to to some extent,
like the the First World War is called the Great War.
At the time, it arguably never ended.
It's a war between the governments of the world and their populations,
and it's still ongoing because they're still stealing from us.
They're still the assholes.
They're still just fucking stealing our stuff through this
evil scheme that never ends.
And we've been living in it for so many generations now that it took
like a genius, like Satoshi Nakamoto to like, finally
pop that stupid bubble that everyone's been
living in forever and ever, like most of the world still believes in it.
It's just a handful of bitcoiners here and there that actually get it
and that actually are trying to get out of it.
But at the end of the day, it's all theft.
We're all just being abused.
Who? Rape victims, for fuck's sake.
Yeah.
And of rent. What do you think?
Yeah.
I mean, the crazy thing is it's also like being gaslit at the same time,
because what most people, I mean, now, they're more aware of it, but they weren't
even aware that they're being stolen from it.
It's just like prices go up. It's natural.
It's like gravity.
It's like, you know, the waves and even the people that work at the banks, right.
Like these mortgage brokers and people that deal and, you know,
paperwork for debt, like, a lot, a lot of them don't
even connect the dots that they're the ones contributing to inflation.
So the abusers, many of them, most of them
probably are actually aware of what they're doing.
It's like a beautiful scam.
It's it's a beautiful, beautiful scam.
It's the best scam ever, man.
And, I think the first iteration of Fiat was like,
paper was in China and like the 1600s or something like that.
And this dude had a kingdom where, like,
if you ever brought any goods in from out of the kingdom, you had to go
take it to him and he would give you the paper value of it in exchange.
So he amassed like,
you know, all of this beautiful jewelry and all these assets and everything.
And again, like the people didn't understand what was happening.
So yeah, it is theft.
And again, it's a gaslighting too, because then, of course,
like anybody who's being stolen from consistently and more and more over
time, you're going to be upset, you're going to be irritated.
Your life is probably going to be more difficult to be kept together,
and that's going to cause a bunch of other issues, like, in my opinion,
the way I see it, it's a very simple storyline.
The government prints money to go to war.
They know it's going to cause inflation,
so then they start making food cheaper, which causes more health problems.
Oh shit, there's still in dollars inflation.
We need to have cheap goods.
So we need to go to these other countries and then like, you know, loan them
money to produce the things that we want over here.
Oh fuck. That causes more inflation.
Then you have a bubble, you know, and then you bail out and then you bail out.
It's like like literally the root of all of it to me is just seems like war.
It's like just you want to go to war, you want to go to war,
you want to spend all this money and it's going to cause inflation
and you know, it's going to cause inflation.
And so all of this is you pulling all these levers
and pulling all these Band-Aids
and all these things, thinking that you can run the whole world.
You can decide for the whole world and make it a better place
where it's like, okay, no, we can,
you know, we can print and we can have inflation
and we can figure out how to make this shit work for everybody.
Like, it just doesn't work, man.
So yeah, it's it's theft.
Of course it's theft.
It's theft of like, everything you have.
It's like your mind, you know, like most people again,
if you ask the average person,
you know, how would you feel if there was no more inflation?
You know, man, they would feel a ten times better.
No, I mean.
I love these simple questions like that.
That's how you put like that's how you point out that the emperor
is still naked by asking the very the simplest questions you can have.
Like what one we're, proud of having puts in the book is the question, like,
if you if you practice doing something, do you usually get better or worse
at doing that thing
that that's the question we ask, like, and and of course, the answer is
you get better at doing the things otherwise.
Like like that's why you practice in the first place, right?
Yeah.
So so why aren't oil prices falling forever?
That's the follow up question
because that's
like people produce and transport and goods and services.
That's what we do.
We practice doing that by doing it, and then we get better at doing it.
And we get even better
when we trade with one another and form these networks and stuff. So.
So why isn't everything getting cheaper?
It should, it should. Right.
And if you measure in bitcoin it is getting cheaper.
So that is that reality is already here.
It was here all along.
It's just that we didn't have a way of measuring,
property.
So like we've always lived in this
idiotic scheme.
That is when once you see it is so it's so damn hard to unsee.
Like people steal from us by pretending
that a number is higher than it actually is.
And they use that to fund the fucking mass murder.
It's just brutal. And it's so sick.
And the lie is so big, so that everyone like the I think that has
a large role in why people can't see it, because it's like two.
It's two. Horrible.
Yeah.
That's what I mean.
I mean, you see the breaking the brand of the film,
the red in the black is very like horror movie again.
Like when I was thinking, what kind of movie is this?
At least the first half, man. It's a horror movie.
It is like
the things that are doing, man, and things that aren't even included in the film.
I saw this film about foreign aid in Jamaica, about how they were
importing powdered milk, at a subsidized rate.
And so people stopped buying real milk in Jamaica.
And so the dairy farmers out there literally went out of business
and they had to send their cows for slaughter.
You know, used to having this cow as an asset, this, this thing,
maybe it maybe even like a part of you feel like part of your family.
It provides for you, you know, and then no one wants the milk anymore.
So you got to send it to make fucking hamburgers.
Like.
And that's just animals, right?
Not to mention all the wars and all the humans and like, like
so yeah, it's a fucking horror movie, man.
Money printing is, it's causes the most suffering in the world
for sure, hands down.
Yeah.
I saw an interview with Jordan Peele the other day, and,
where he, he's asked the question were like,
what's the difference between a horror movie and a comedy?
Because he went from comedy to horror, right?
And like, the only difference is the music,
like, it's the soundtrack, just change to the soundtrack.
And he's,
Yeah.
And I'm not suggesting you should turn no more inflation into a comedy
because it's not a comedy.
It's actually happening.
So, like, so it is horror.
So I hope Bitcoin is the
well, maybe not comedy, but maybe rom com bromance.
Com I don't know. Yeah.
No I like the funny thing is I love comedy man.
But for whatever reason like I always gravitated towards
more like emotional stories.
I feel like that's what grabbed people more.
And so yeah, definitely
once we get into the Bitcoin side of things, it's much more hopeful.
I mean, not in so many ways.
The film is told through like a narrator.
It's like kind of my story of like, you know, young man in the US
life's getting more and more difficult.
You know, like having, being able to afford
a house and kids, it seems like further and further away.
And so that's kind of the journey that encapsulate this whole film.
And so as we're going through the Bitcoin stuff
and as we reached the end of it, you know, and it's true for me too.
Like you know Bitcoin for me has shown me that there is a way to have a family
and to have a house.
If, if, you know, if I want to buy a house, you know, it depends.
See how fast bitcoin keeps going up. Maybe I'll just keep renting.
But at the time, you know, it was like literally like
if someone doesn't have bitcoin, if they're not
saving their money in bitcoin and they want to buy a house,
it's never going to happen.
Like it's never ever going to happen.
And so, you know, and by by the end of the film, you know,
that's what the narrator's journey is,
you know, he's going through like, you know,
I see this as being a possibility, and it really is true.
Like my journey talking to all these people about inflation
made it more clear in my brain, and about Bitcoin made it more clear in my brain.
And they all all these stories help me, you know,
see have more hope for the future.
Fortunately for me, I learned about all of these money
printing and inflation and spending problems
while I was learning about Bitcoin.
But fuck man, like if I only knew the problems and and there was no solution.
Like I wouldn't want to have kids. Why?
For what man? Like fuck dude.
Like they're going to be breaking rocks, man.
Like shit, you know, like and so anyway, Bitcoin
really gave me that hope of like,
not only is it possible for me to have that,
but there's actually a world that I can put my kids into
where they could actually excel and maybe make the world a better place,
you know? So,
yeah, there's definitely a yin and yang in the film.
The first half is definitely dark.
You know, that was the idea is to draw out as many people into the deep waters,
make them fully understand the weight of the problem.
And this is going to be another one of my sayings.
By the way,
the value of a solution is equal to the size of the problem it fixes, right?
So when people,
when people understand how big of a problem inflation
is, they will understand everything divided by 21 million.
Right.
So yeah, that that's something that stuck in my brain.
Dude, that is such a good that it's such a good saying.
What did you say the value of the solution is equal to the the size of the problem.
It fixes.
That's it a hole.
If you're on a desert and you're fucking about to die, it's a pretty big problem.
You know, a bottle of water is, very valuable.
That's what life.
One life.
That's what if water six is a pretty.
Big fucking problem. That's pretty valuable.
You probably give everything you have, probably give you a foot, you know.
A bit of an ego problem, but still, a problem is okay.
So would you say that no more inflation
is a holiday movie or like a Christmas movie?
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
I gotta put some Santa scenes in there.
No, but seriously, I think it sounds like a Christmas movie.
It starts out with like, hey, everything sucks.
But then again, everything doesn't suck because we have bitcoin.
Merry Christmas. Like happy solstice Luke.
Yeah.
This is I mean.
It's it's tricky because at the end of the day,
I think what all of this boils down to is personal responsibility.
And it's a fucking that's a deep, difficult topic for a lot of people.
All of these things are difficult topics, you know, like inflation,
like you really want to think about that, especially with Trump and Vivek and Elon.
They're supposed to be cutting stuff, right?
But if they get in there and things
keep going up in price, what are you going to do?
Right? What how is your life going to change?
How are you going to manage it?
No one's thinking about that dude like no one is, because I think it's too scary.
And the same thing, the film.
Anyway, I think it is a good holiday film.
I think you should watch it with your family,
because they should be aware of all these things.
And I think it will deepen your Bitcoin conversations like really, really quickly.
But it does end in personal responsibility that at the end of the day,
this is about you doing your own research and making decisions for yourself.
You know, that's the only way we get out of this thing.
And that's how you know, you want to fight back.
You want to join in this fight.
You don't have to fight anymore.
You just take responsibility for your life.
That's how you fight now.
So anyway, it's a lot of really difficult topics to throw at somebody
during the holidays,
and they're probably getting drunk and trying to forget everything, you know?
But, I don't know, maybe it does segue into a good,
you know, New Year's resolution of I will take more responsibility for my life.
I will understand what this problem of inflation is better,
and I will try to position myself the best I possibly can for whatever
inflation might be coming.
Like there's your fucking New Year's resolution, man.
Empty the gyms. Just think about that.
You know, you just created the perfect ad for the bitcoin Bitcoin
the inverse of clown world because that was like the Tldr on our book.
It really was.
Don't you think so?
Look,
yeah, I absolutely agree when you're saying that I'm just like,
man, we're so aligned.
Like and I love that part because it's like,
we're coming at this like making our own projects
and and doing this all at kind of the same time.
And, I mean, I don't know when your film was exactly finished, but, I mean, we
we finished writing this book back in, I guess May, but
but like final edits in like June, July and stuff and released in August
and you're releasing in November and everything.
So clearly we've got like some of
the same ideas are kicking around and in our brains, but we're working on
completely different things, but basically coming to the exact same conclusion.
I love it, man.
Ever since the first time we we talked, I know we're all
like super aligned and on this mission and I just love it.
And I mean,
you're you're a
master filmmaker and we're doing our best with these books and stuff.
And I really hope that, between all of this,
our listeners, your viewers, yeah, take up the
the challenge and, that this really does something good on you, man.
This is this is really awesome to hear.
Yeah.
Thanks, man.
Again, I, I think, that's why I'm confident in the film.
Because I feel like.
And like your book, too.
I haven't had a chance to read that one yet.
But I think it encapsulates and probably your book does too.
Like a lot of the things that we talk about and that we feel
and that we know as bitcoiners going down the rabbit hole.
And so I think that's why other Bitcoiners are going to resonate with it,
and you're going to want to share it because it's like,
look, I've been trying to tell you that, you know,
this Bitcoin thing isn't bad for energy.
You know, watch this.
You know, look at these dudes
fucking extracting methane
and propane and all kinds of other shit from these flares.
And you see the fucking flare stack.
Like instead of a flame being this high, it's like this high,
you know, you see these people in Africa
what it means to actually bring electricity to them.
So again, I think like we are all on the same.
Yeah, we are all seeing these things.
The difficult part is actually getting that the average person like at least
interested to take that responsibility to dive down the rabbit hole.
But yeah,
I and I agree like man, like everybody I think does what they can do best.
Like for me I just film is what I've been doing.
And you know, when I thought about
how can I contribute to the Bitcoin space, that's just what I know how to do.
You know, and you guys are doing what you guys need to do too.
Like we're all important.
We all need to be doing these things.
And, yeah, it's awesome to know we're all men fundamentally
kind of on the same page.
And we're pushing through this thing together. It's it's awesome.
Makes me really me.
Like the people like you and us like you and me and everyone else that,
in my opinion, like you,
you probably couldn't stop yourself from writing and working on Bitcoin
if you want it to, you know, become infected.
So people say like Bitcoin hasn't won yet because we still need to do things.
And I'm like, well, yeah, but we're fucking infected, man.
And it keeps infecting people.
And go ahead and try and stop if you wanted to like you know.
So that's what I find the most bullish and you know,
and anyway, I know it takes dedication for you guys to do the book and,
and also for the show discipline those things or, you know, persistence.
Those things are not easy. So I commend you guys.
And yeah, thank you for doing what you do to men like you guys.
You guys inspiring me too. You know.
Oh thank you man.
Means a lot coming from you.
I mean, this is more than coincidences.
It's like a mind meld, like a global mind meld on the Bitcoin is, well,
like all the true people, they really come to the same conclusion sooner or later.
And the funny thing is, we get there
via very different paths.
Like we all have our own little path, but we end up in the same place
and that is like that. We're
we all benefit if we help one another
and everything is fucking dandy in Bitcoin lab.
So what's your favorite holiday movie?
Oh, holiday movie.
The Grinch is good with Jim Carrey. That's a good one.
That's a good one. What about you?
Yeah, I'm this because I'm I'm
I'm going to cut out Die Hard two and Home Alone to.
I'm not going to watch those two this year.
I'm going to watch no more inflation instead.
But I'm still watching Gremlins two because it's the best fucking sequel ever.
But but I would say that Die Hard is probably my favorite, holiday movie.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Home alone's always good.
But yeah, the Grinch man. I don't know Jim Carrey.
Just so good now. Yeah, the Grinch is good too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but Gremlins one and two, if you haven't seen them,
I should definitely check them out.
I've seen the first one.
I don't think I've seen the the second, the second one.
It's like all the fourth wall breaking like,
three decades before Deadpool.
I know, and it's it's hilarious.
Awesome.
I'm definitely gonna check that one out, man.
You know, our listeners are going to be confused
because this will be out in like the middle of January.
But we're. Recording this.
You're you're allowed to watch Gremlins two in January. Two.
And definitely no more inflation.
Absolutely.
I'd like to to come back to one point that you mentioned a while back,
in kind of your explanation of how you built this all up.
You mentioned saying that you explain how money
printing is the cause of inflation, but
I'm, I'm curious to how you did it basically because because online
talking to other people who are,
economically more economically literate than, than necessarily others,
but they still don't they still don't understand inflation.
They think it it comes from,
well, greedy corporations is the is I think the,
the real, kind of airhead take here.
But but other other stuff like you, you know, it doesn't come from, from money
printing that that growth in the economy needs the inflation and,
denying that it comes from, from, from the printing of money, basically.
So how do you explain it in a, in a way that would convince people
who have such misconceptions about inflation?
I'm curious how you did that.
Right.
So, first of all, I was focusing on the average person,
and I felt that the average person wasn't that,
you know, they don't have that understanding of inflation.
They have no understanding of inflation.
So I wanted to be careful not to go and fight on,
you know, their whole crowd for no reason, you know what I mean?
And, again, like I was mentioning earlier, 99% of people, you ask 99.99.
Well, if their life would be better with no more inflation, I'd say absolutely
sign me up. Right.
But it's that 0.01% that's college educated that was told
you need prices to go up so that prices don't go down,
because prices going down is really bad, right?
That's really what it all rests on. So,
you know, hopefully the film,
beats out somebody that feels that way and we can discuss it on a podcast.
But really, when I come across people like that, I like to go back to
Newt's point about things should be getting more efficient.
Right.
And and my favorite example is an Apple.
Like at some point an apple cost one penny, right?
Okay.
Now it costs almost a dollar.
Certainly we've gotten better
at planting and harvesting and transporting, right.
Like you don't denying that, right?
We're certainly better at that. Right? Okay.
So why is it a dollar right now.
You know. And there really is no other answer.
There is no other variable in the equation other than the money that you're using,
the measuring stick that you're using to price that in.
So it has to be more money being created, you know,
and those type of people also they'll say like, oh,
you know, but
even if money can't be printed and like, you know, there's a wheat shortage
or some disaster, then bread will go up two times the price and that's inflation.
Like, okay, that's not inflation.
You can call that inflation if you want.
I'm going to call that inflation.
That's just the price.
It's just supply and demand period. Right.
So I don't even entertain that definition.
We're living in a fucking day and age where anybody can just change
the definition of shit or define things however they want.
That's how I'm defining it.
Inflation is the increase of dollars,
the increase of the monetary units period.
That's anyways.
Yeah.
So again, but I wasn't really that wasn't my target audience.
Right.
I feel like my target audience was more the average person who doesn't really have
that misunderstanding yet.
So thankfully I don't have to try to explain all of that.
But when I come across somebody like an economist, it's
harder for them to argue against, you know what I just said?
But they will somehow they'll know the pretzel logic.
They'll bend their I don't know, man.
It's crazy.
We were
we were talking earlier today about basically all the non Austrian
schools of economics and, and like,
Paul Krugman apparently got into economics because basically
he thought he could predict the future through economics.
And I mean, and I mean that fairly literally like it.
It says so in the on his Wikipedia page that the reason that he got into
economics was he was inspired by, Isaac Asimov, who had,
a science fiction book that
that had a science that could accurately predict the future.
And economics was was sort of like that.
And I think all the economists, other than
the Austrians, basically are trying to do something like this.
They're making their models, they're trying to put the world
into a particular bubble, and then they're like, well,
this is how it should play out. These are the predictions.
It should all just work.
But they're ignoring reality, basically.
And there's just such a blind spot
on inflation in general.
Like the the the biggest.
Mind blow for me.
I mean, if you can believe it, I still I still get like
just just new bits of
like wow this everything divided by 21 million thing.
It's actually pretty damn cool.
It's it's like it actually works as a, as as an equation of, you.
Put all of the world's.
Economic units onto one side and all of the stuff onto the other.
Well, as we get better economic growth literally means deflation.
If you have a fixed denominator. It's just like that.
That came from our chat with Jeff Booth recently.
If you haven't seen that one, that honestly, that was probably
our best episode of the show ever because he was just totally on fire.
But, I don't know what my point was here exactly, except it's just like it's
once you figure it out, you can't figure it out.
You don't crawl backwards out the rabbit hole.
Basically, like once you see it, it's just so damn obvious.
And I think the only variable is whether people decide
that it's the most important thing in their life.
Basically, if you make that decision, you basically are,
you become a Bitcoin maxi, like 100%.
You put as much energy as possible.
Well, while surviving and all this into Bitcoin.
And if you don't decide
this is the most important thing in your life for whatever reason,
then then maybe, maybe you don't do that, but you still see the world
through a different lens.
I don't know what.
What do you think of of that,
brain fart there?
Yeah, I think,
you're right.
I think the problem is so big, it's like you can't see it.
You know what I mean?
Again, I think it's like gravity.
Like, imagine if, like, you know, you stepped off a building, right?
And you fell off the building, and.
But, like, that wasn't actually reality.
Actually, what was happening is you had, like, ropes, tabs tied around your legs.
And any time you stepped off the building, the rope to pull you down to the ground.
Right. And and that's inflation.
It's just like, that's just what happens in life.
You know, prices go up. Life gets more difficult.
Like I, you know, if I can step off the roof
and I fucking fall down, you know, but it's like,
no, you find Bitcoin and you realize those rocks aren't real.
Like like those are someone is attaching those to you and pulling you down.
Right?
Then all of a sudden like, oh, I can step off the roof and I can fly like, whoa.
Like, you know, like I think it just again, it's
and it's like an invisible rope, right?
You can't even really see it.
So I think that's what's happening is it just is treated like an, like
a law of nature, you know, and it's just not questioned what's so ever
and that's why the problem is just,
it's you're just so inside of it that you can't see it.
And yes, of course, like, if you're gambling,
if you think another coin has the chance of beating bitcoin,
I mean, I don't know what that is, but otherwise
if you're just gambling on coins, you're not taking responsibility, right?
You're not tricking the problem seriously.
You're not like thinking, okay, well, I need to save as much as I can,
like a fucking squirrel
or like a grasshopper or whatever, you know, for whatever's coming next.
Like.
Yeah, you just don't get it.
And once you do, things make sense, right?
And like, I think this is probably what the economists worry about is like,
you have a good money and you're going to want to hold on to it.
You're not.
You're only going to want to spend it
on the things that you really, really, really need.
But that's not a fucking bad thing.
Like, you shouldn't spend it on stupid things that you don't really need, right?
You should spend it on good food and, you know, energy shelter
like these things make sense.
You know, I would much rather spend double my money on my food,
but it being double nutrients twice as nutrient, you know what I mean?
So I think like looking to the future, that's the craziest thing.
I think you really, when you start to wrap your head around,
is what the world is going to look like and like we're going to shed
so many unnecessary industries and like things and materials,
and we're going to focus more on the things that are actually important,
because those are the things that Bitcoiners
actually will give their Bitcoin for, you know, food, shelter, energy,
you know, memories together.
And so like if you look at that Y Mart chart,
you know, have you seen the price of gold during the like 1990 1994.
Oh yeah.
I don't want to buy any food in this period.
I want to grow my own food and have my own food in this fucking period,
because some of those days when you got to eat
that shit, it might cost you a lot of fucking SATs, man, you know?
And so, anyways, I think once we get past that volatility, we're going to stabilize
in a more natural world where we value things that are better for our health.
But that path
and I don't know what that path is going to look like, I want to just be able
to spend as need to spend as little of my SATs as possible
to survive and ideally, strengthen myself up
to a point where I can help others survive, sell them food, whatever.
You know, like, you know, there's a reason why the farmers get
the finger pointed at them when the fucking money is collapsing.
You know, it's because they got this shit that you really, really, really need
and they know they can charge you for it.
And then the government says, look at those greedy fucking assholes, you know?
And then, you get screwed.
So, yeah,
there's my Brandt brain fart.
I don't even know how those connected together.
Now that I know I love it.
And the funny thing is, like,
I can't wait for, for example, Greta Thunberg to to figure out
that Bitcoin is actually the thing
that was going to solve all of her climate change problems all along.
Like for like it's first of all, it's just going to make people
it's going to fix the overconsumption problems.
Resource allocation is going to get fixed.
And maybe they'll still find out that,
the climate change movement is a bit of a scam.
But anyway.
That's that's a whole other conversation.
But, yeah, I just I just can't wait until like, the, the
the leftist railing against climate change basically figure out that that Bitcoin
who are saying that Bitcoin is like this, this environmental disaster,
find out that it's, the solution all along anyway, that's.
No, it's. All I got there. It's absolutely the solution.
Like because, because the, the
the the the opposite of
it, it
the opposite of,
of quality is equality and not inequality.
Like,
you can only you.
Mix that up. It's.
Yeah.
Mix it up now.
Yeah.
You know, the opposite. Of equality is not.
Equality. It's quality. It's quality.
The opposite of equality is quality.
And like the, the, the environmental problem is, is overconsumption.
If there is an environmental problem, it's just that
and you can't fix anything within this system that the
that has inflationary money, it's impossible.
And it's like back to these basic questions like what
what is every everything in the world.
Its price is derived from supply and demand.
And supply is subjective.
Demand is subjective.
And with Bitcoin you have an absolutely
there's an absolute limit to the supply side.
So what you end up with is inevitably everything divided by 21 million.
There's no way around that.
And that is going to outperform everything else.
And then it doesn't matter if Bitcoin uses as much energy as a country.
You know shut down country X, then it's not needed anymore.
Like that's
I mean I, I can't think of it any way other way than that.
I can frame it in any other way.
Yeah. Norway's pretty useless.
Yeah.
If they. Really cared about the.
Climate. And.
They would demand the government
require a bitcoin miner on every fucking flare stack.
You know, like, I think the methane that those,
that those flares emit are like
much more damaging than all of the like the CO2 and everything like that.
So if they really care, like they can just, you know, use a solution like that.
But yeah, you're right.
The consumerism obviously would and like,
what's consumption in war?
It's like blowing shit up, you know, and then you got to rebuild that shit too.
It's like it's, consumption is a crazy fucking thing. And.
Yeah, like you're saying, like,
you take money, the money variable out of a trade with Bitcoin, right?
It's purely supply
and demand with Bitcoin with fiat, it's supply and demand divided
by all the fucking money in the world
basically, you know, and yeah go ahead.
No, no I was not going to interrupt you
but but while I'm at it, I might as well like see
the, the,
the price signal is what
prevents, resource misallocation.
If you have correct prices and resources, don't get mis allocated.
And this is why, socialism fails.
It's because it's not because of an incentive problem.
It's because of a pricing signal problem.
If the prices are wrong so that you prioritize
the wrong things, resources get mis allocated.
This is the root of any environmental problem.
It's the misallocation of resources.
And if we want to and what's the correct allocation?
It's what people want.
Like what all people want and how much energy
and effort they put in to get that thing that they want.
So what other metric can you measure something like that by?
Like, otherwise it's just some asshole imposing his will on everyone else.
Right?
That's why I was gonna say it's like Luke's thing
about, like, the guy playing God, thinking that you can.
You know what the future is supposed to be or
or what's best for everybody, and you just can't do it,
you know, like an octopus has brains all over its tentacles.
It'd be like, okay, octopus,
you're not going to use those brains on your tentacles anymore.
We just got one right here, and we're going to know.
We know better than what you could fucking possibly know.
All the way at the end of the tentacles,
doing your own thing like, no, we can decide better than you right now.
Let the fucking octopus have its brains and its tentacles, you know, like,
let us be our own brains.
Let us determine what's best for us on the ground right here.
Don't try to look from fucking 30,000ft.
Because, dude, people are so detached.
Like the trad fi people that I see getting into Bitcoin.
They're like, yeah, inflation's bad. But you know, it's not that bad.
I still see people out there spending like the shopping mall
still got people in it.
I'm like,
dude, are you so disconnected that you really don't know what's going on here?
And they really don't, you know?
So you couple.
That with this God like desire or not
think you have this power to know what's supposed to happen
and you take away all the brains on the fucking octopus.
It's fucking retarded.
Yeah, a thought just struck me.
The octopi masturbate.
And if so, how,
do they use their brain or older brains that there's a.
This is a brain fart? Yes.
I mean, they're aliens, so whatever they do, they do it better than us.
Math.
I mean, eight arms, brains everywhere.
Like it sounds like.
It sounds like they have a good time to me.
Yeah, yeah, it seems like they can, like, stimulate and and,
understand the stimulation better than anything in the world.
Fucking aliens, man.
Yeah.
Sure. Hey,
I think I think we've I think we are super excited now, and I hope
everyone listening to this and watching this is excited to go check out your film.
No more inflation.
And, yeah.
Like, hey,
what what, what's next for you?
What what's what's coming up on the horizon?
Like, you're,
you're you still, like, just working on getting this thing out as far as possible,
or is there something else coming up or, what's next for you?
Yeah, it's just really getting this thing out there as much as possible.
So really, the focus right now is just to get as many people to watch it, you know?
So if you haven't watched it, you know, watch it, if you've watched it, share it
with somebody, you never know what door that's going to open, what person
they know, what connection that's going to make at the end of the day,
the goal has always been with this project to have as many people
trip down the rabbit hole as possible and for a selfish reason, like,
I want the transition from Fiat to bitcoin to be as smooth as it possibly can.
And I know that the stronger the more people have Bitcoin,
the more decentralized the wealth is, the more strongholds we're going to have
and the smoother the transition is going to be.
So this was me being infected by Bitcoin, asking myself what can I do
and putting it out there to, you know, make my contribution and make it known.
And so again,
I'm just going to beat the drum because everybody knows
you can make something that's great.
But if nobody knows about it then like, you know,
it's it's, you know, you need it to get seen.
So I feel like half the battle is done, you know,
I'm open to any ideas that anyone has to show it to more people
that people in other countries have been doing screenings.
Cool with that.
I want to do it in colleges.
I want to like, you know, again,
that's the only thing needs to happen.
More people need to see this and it's going to open the right door.
And then, you know, you'll see me on Joe Rogan, you'll see it on HBO,
you'll see it on Netflix, something like that.
And, you know, I really believe if this message gets out there, you know,
this orange pill of this is what inflation is, this is what it looks like.
This is what it's paying for. This is how it ends.
This is why it's happening. This is why Bitcoin fixes it.
This is why maybe the energy shit you heard is wrong.
The crime stuff, the volatility and ultimately
you need to take responsibility.
I think if 200 million people get that message, we might actually like,
like actually have an impact, you know, in the world like quickly.
Otherwise bitcoin will continue
to do its thing and people will get in at the price that they deserve.
But anyway, this is me, you know, again, just filling,
fulfilling that obligation, I guess that Bitcoin
kind of implanted in me of like, hey, do something like this is important.
You should do something.
And so yeah, we'll just see where this, this takes me.
And we'll go from there.
Who knows? Who knows what's going to come next.
But, I'm absolutely grateful for the journey I've already had.
I mean, honestly, you guys too, man, like all the time we spend together.
And can you have a cameo in the film, too?
And just like a little B-roll shot of you,
so it's, Yeah, it really the journey was the best part about this.
So no matter what happens, man, like, man, it's just it's a dream come true.
So anyway, no more inflation.com.
Go check it out.
And, I did I, I honestly really do appreciate you guys, man a lot.
Really. It means a lot to me.
Thank you.
Right back at you, dude.
And, Yeah. Make this, make this a tradition.
Watch it every holiday season.
I'd say, it's worth, rewatching for sure.
Shooter.
Anywhere else you want to send our listeners, then?
Bitcoin.
Well, then no more inflation Xcom yeah.
Twitter X at Bitcoin shooter and that's it.
And make
sure to shoot shoot or some sets and see the movie.
There you go. Yeah.
Perfect dude.
Great to have you here.
This has been the Bitcoin infinity.
What what.
No I'm not going to do your part Luke. You have to do it.
Well yeah I know we're changing it anyway so it doesn't even matter.
But hey man, I just echoing what Kanoute said.
Really appreciate you.
Glad we could, have you on.
I hope this gives you a signal boost.
And honestly, we have we have one place where we maybe
can can do another signal boost of, of of the film.
We are on the organizational team
for BTC Hell in Helsinki this August.
There is a movie theater in the conference venue we would love to screen.
No more information during the conference if you like.
Sounds good.
Yeah.
Awesome and would love to have a conference.
Of course. Even more importantly.
That's that was a lot think.
And yeah, we'll see how it goes man.
You know I got to catch up on some of this fiat work there.
And the project was really great.
But you know, now it's like going to conferences had a purpose.
And now it's kind of like, I want to go to see everybody and have a good time.
It's just I gotta balance the the opportunity risk.
And, you know, really
the next mission is starting a family and the real challenge begins.
So, that's going to be my main focus.
But, yeah, of course, man.
Love for you guys to screen it. Yeah. My blessing.
And yeah, if I can make it out there, I'll definitely be there.
Fantastic.
And hope, hope it's not too long before we see you in person.
If it's if it's not there.
But are you going to Colombia?
El Salvador anytime soon, by the way?
I won't be there playing catch up, man.
Life's catching up with me. Yeah.
Well, we'll see you when we see you.
Great having you on. Anyway.
And all the best yet. Thanks, guys.
Thanks, shooter. Till next time.