Welcome back to this edition of the Bugle Weekly Headlines.
This past week was dominated by the PodConf Super Bowl.
Influencers from all over the world gathered in Las Vegas to discuss compliance, NGU,
Bitcoin treasury companies, and stablecoins.
Bugle Weekly PodConf correspondent Buster Cherry joins me with those headlines and more.
Thanks, Kaylee.
Happy Monday and good morning.
The PodConf Super Bowl was indeed a spectacle to witness as all the biggest names in Bitcoin
descended on Las Vegas. While walking around the conference surveying many of the attendees,
many women expressed their discomfort due to a large number of men walking around with erections
due to Dennis Porter being present at the event. I personally had to awkwardly hide my erection,
as Dennis had just walked by moments before. The conference was dominated by many strange stunts.
Justin's son gave Ross a banana, a Just Stop Ordinals protester was arrested before being
able to throw tomato soup on the ordinal section, and many people posed with the infamous Greenpeace
skull sculpture for pictures. Much of the controversy around the event did not come from
people at the event, though, and instead from many people like Matthew Cratter and Pledator on
Twitter. I'm glad I didn't get to attend Buster. I sure would have been upset to have seen men
walking around with erections because of Dennis Porter instead of me. Orange cells sure behave
strangely when it comes to sex. Did you see any strange sexual behavior at the event? Yes, Kaylee,
unfortunately I did. While talking to event security, they expressed concern that participants
would act inappropriately during Lynn Alden's keynote due to her being hot. Fortunately,
nothing out of the ordinary happened besides a couple of lackluster Lynn Alden is hot chants.
One attendee was seen carried out of the main stage area, though, as he was caught masturbating
during Michael Saylor's speaking slot. If there's one thing that's certain at these events,
nothing seems to get these middle-aged men hornier than a gay fed talking on stage.
Generally, though, the participants seemed to be well-behaved at the conference.
Outside of it, though, was a completely different story.
I'm sure the intelligence agencies got a lot of compromising evidence on many Bitcoiners outside of the conference.
We'll leave that one alone for now, though.
Thanks for your reporting, Buster.
Before we go, here's some final headlines for the week.
Maggie Morris and Ginger B. Stiffen's flight was delayed leaving Vegas
after Elizabeth Warren let out a bolus of hot air grounding flights leaving the city.
Brad Garlinghouse was confused to learn this week that money cannot always buy politicians.
The Bugle had their first live event called Satirize the System, which was a smashing success.
And Eric Kasin delivered a non-compliant rant at the conference, which David Bailey is citing as the reason why the price of Bitcoin has dropped despite all the bullish announcements at the conference.
My name is Kaylee Welch.
And my name is Buster Cherry. Thank you for listening to this week's Bugle News Headlines.
welcome to this edition of the weekly this is richard greaser i have not yet recovered from
the podcom super bowl it was a long weekend las vegas las vegas is very wild place
jack cruise won't even set foot in it because of all the emf so i think that's part of it
uh i i happen to smoke more cigarettes than normal out there believe it or not
and it was a good time it was a good time smoking cigarettes with a bunch of people i
smoked cigarettes with just about everybody i came in contact with uh a lot of people wanted
to smoke cigarettes with me just for the sake of doing it.
And I think we're making progress.
The Bitcoin community is learning the importance of 4HPW,
learning the importance of cigarettes.
We were there holding it down.
How are you feeling, Rod?
Have you recovered yet?
I'm slowly recovering.
But yeah, looking back on Vegas, had a great time.
It was a great meeting.
so many members of the intellectual Silk Road and listeners to the Bugle.
There was a lot of people who I was hoping to meet out there who I didn't get a chance
to meet and talk to.
So if that was one of you, we'll make sure we cross paths next time.
But I also learned a lot.
And I learned that Vegas, while being a very degenerate place, there's a lot of criticisms
I've heard people or read people, their take about Vegas, and it's hard to disagree with them.
But Vegas is the essence of being, whether you are just of human existence, at least from American perspective.
It was nice to be there and to smoke inside and smoke inside with boomers who were gambling away their Social Security checks.
And that is basically what life in America has really boiled down to for a lot of people.
Just smoking cigarettes and gambling away your future.
Gambling away your Social Security checks.
And I think that like Las Vegas, people went to Bitcoin 2025 and they realized that we can do better.
We can be better people.
We can be more healthy.
We can do better than gambling away our Social Security and just living for that lifestyle.
And we can also do better as Bitcoiners and have a better conference.
It was mostly about paper Bitcoin.
It was mostly about shitcoinery.
It was just, it could have been better.
There was nothing wrong with it.
It shouldn't be illegal, but we can do better and we should strive to do better.
And it really pains me to say this, but the one thing I did in Vegas that I thought had
a much more optimistic and much more, you know, just they at least had some standards
of what it meant to be a Bitcoiner.
And that was the Spamming Vegas event.
You know, they didn't talk about paper Bitcoin.
They didn't worship the government at Spamming Vegas.
They built with Bitcoin.
They spent Bitcoin.
And it would have been nice if the Bitcoin conference just had a little bit more integrity.
It would just be nice if the Bitcoin conference had as much integrity as inscribing Vegas.
And I think that that's not asking too much.
I wonder, do you think that they put the conference in Vegas just for the sake of failing all the purity tests?
Like just being in that city, period, means that you've already failed all the purity tests.
Yeah, it's Sin City.
And we are all sinners in the eyes of the Lord, and we are all shitcoiners in the eyes of Satoshi.
And being in Vegas really just drove home that point.
If you were excited to go to Las Vegas for the Bitcoin conference, you were already a failure of purity tests.
The only people who could actually pass purity tests, they stay at home.
They take no part in Vegas.
And they just criticize it from the sidelines and they never, ever make anything, sell anything, produce anything or build anything for the network, for the community, for the industry.
Because they know that they would fail the purity test.
And so they are so pure that they refuse to participate.
They refuse to spend.
They refuse to build.
And they refuse to just be all participants in this industry or this community.
That makes sense.
Yeah, because if you spend Bitcoin, you fail Saylor's Purity Test.
The easiest one to not fail is Saylor's Purity Test.
And some people still do it.
It's an interesting strategy.
Yeah, if you don't have any skin in the game, there's no way to fail the Purity Test at all.
Yeah. I mean, if you come into Bitcoin the right way and you DCA through Swan Bitcoin, they don't have a sell button.
You withdraw into cold storage.
You've never learned how to sell.
You've never learned how to spend your Bitcoin.
You're just buying it, having zero temptation to sell and pulling it straight into your cold card or your hardware wallet.
You don't even consolidate your UTXOs because that is still a risk of failing a purity test if you spend your Bitcoin to consolidate your UTXOs.
If you don't do it right, you fail the purity test right there.
So it's so easy.
It's just so easy to diligently just buy a savings plan through a company like Swan and never sell your Bitcoin.
Yet so many people continue to fail and they continue to get cocky.
Very interesting.
Well, yeah, I mean, the Podcom Super Bowl.
Did you fail any purity tests in Vegas?
What's that?
Did you fail any purity tests during this trip in Vegas?
I know I sure did, but, you know, I don't want to dox your purity test failures if you did.
Well, I think going to the conference, just period, is a failure of the purity test.
So I failed that.
We went to Inscribing Vegas That was a failure in purity test We didn spit in Peter Schiff face Trace Mayer spoke at her event That was a failing of a purity test
Caleb Long was also a failure of a purity test.
Why was that?
I've never heard that one.
Because she's trying to open a stablecoin bank.
Well, I didn't realize that doing stuff with stablecoins is against the purity test.
It seems like most of these guys issuing the purity tests are pretty big fans of the stablecoins.
that's surprising there there's definitely a a schism an autism schism about stable coins
in the in the purity test uh space but you're right a lot of people do not consider that
especially especially if you use tether on tron especially if you worked with uh peter thiel in
the past you're probably gonna like stable coins you're gonna like stable coins kyc
any sort of data collection mechanism that makes it easier for the deep state to collect information
on people using credit cards on your website for your bitcoin course yeah yeah stuff like that i
mean that that's going to be an interesting one to watch is is when the uh the um bitcoin course
offers started accepting stable coins yeah vegas was interesting i i had a pretty good time i had
a good time hanging out uh with the beagle writers good time hanging out with you good
time hanging out with maggie morris good time hanging out with ginger b stiffen oh hey ginger
b stiffen is hot by the way i think everybody saw ginger b stiffen this weekend maybe they didn't
know it was her but they knew that they saw pretty hot chick with a pretty hot ass i mean
with all due respect to ginger yeah i think you're being strictly professional uh on that one or i
hope so you can comment on uh your co-workers ass and and be strictly professional but you have
to do it in kind of a classy classy way right you know right ginger works on that ass um hard
every day at the gym you can tell it's a proof of work it's never it's never wrong to acknowledge
proof of work you can see it in her writing when you're reading her articles you're like wow yeah
ginger works on that ass um it was great to meet maggie maggie morris crypto crypto epstein
she was great uh she tagged along with us uh all over vegas she was i mean she was calling out feds
she was telling she was calling people out on their bullshit she was calling people out on their
their style and attire um you may have heard her scream embrace the game theory multiple times
throughout the conference uh she got dennis porter's attention she definitely you know i
thought dennis porter was a pretty progressive you know type of guy but he did not seem to like
maggie morris when she was being too loud during the bitcoin podcast segment of his interview but
i don't know it was a great time to be with everybody we saw a lot more who else did we
hang out with fundamentals uh ghost of shadrack shadrack i mean og bitcoin bugle non-kyc cigarette
smoker definitely like enjoyed hanging out with shad um hung out with a lot of people hung out
with all the people that showed up to our event hung out with a lot of you know bugle fans and
that was a good time and uh great to see evan kalupas he's a really enjoyed hanging out with
Adam, Adam Semecha was dressed.
I mean, he was dressed immaculately.
Orange tie, the blue blocker glasses.
I mean, this guy could not be more of a consummate professional.
And man, let me tell you, he has, he's working on,
he's collaborating big time with Steak and Shake.
I mean, Adam is, and he expressed this to us in person.
He's really working hard to make Maxi Madness next year.
who wants to be podconf approved and i'm telling you if anybody is is right in the blueprint for
how to go from midwest you know a little small midwest meetup party type guy to a maxi madness
podconf participant top you know top 16 seed it's adam simeca absolutely just crushing it right now
you know good to see tatum it's great to see tatum tatum and i i heard rumors that tatum recorded a
another episode of his podcast so he's back on the podcast train after we had just talked to him last
week and his first guest american fucking huddle this guy this guy gets the top podcast interviews
in his sleep see that was probably a mistake on his part to have huddle as his first guest you
One of the things we were coaching him on is how having somebody on your podcast can be like a first date.
And when we were talking to him, it sounded like he was interested in finding a girlfriend.
But based on that, it didn't really seem like it.
I know Crypto Mags really wanted to go on his podcast.
She's pretty hot.
and yeah i actually ran into uh tatum and crypto mags walking together out of the venetian
on thursday uh you know through those one of those long hallways and gave those guys a high five
um yeah crypto mags was hot and let me tell you she looked great walking next to tatum tatum's like
he was so tall he's so handsome with his with his uh his bulletproof vest man just crushing it
Absolutely.
One of the notable people that we didn't see was Green Candle.
Did you notice that?
We didn't ever see him.
That's true.
And one of his buddies from Tampa, a guy with a really, really beautiful mullet,
wore a Tampa Bitcoin meetup jersey everywhere I saw him.
He said that Brandon from Green Candle probably should have participated in the midget wrestling.
he would have been a really fierce competitor in that uh in that ring so i don't know what that was
supposed to mean but yeah man wish we could have met you and hung out with you brandon i saw that
you hung out with tj miller though so that was a pretty dope interview interesting um yeah i think
our event went pretty well uh i was happy with it i was happy with all the the people that showed up
and uh it's great to um just meet with a lot of people in person and a lot of these people
have been communicating online with for a while uh getting the chance to there's something special
about smoking cigarettes with people in the flesh it's a shambles shambles got to meet shambles he's
as autistic as i ever imagined as well yeah tell me about shambles what's his deal shambles uh i
I think he knows fundamentals of some of those guys through pub key and,
uh, shambles has been, he's been a fan of ours, uh,
of the podcast for a while now. Um, and I heard,
I heard that he was in the stands and I think they,
I think they brought him on in the stage for,
it was either trivia or to get beat up by one of the midget wrestlers,
like beat over the head with like a trash can. Um, but I, I didn't,
I wasn't sure which one was shambles, but then I met him on the way out.
And, you know, he said, he just said, Hey, it was just like,
kind of like the same interaction I had with a lot of guys for these,
just like, Hey, I'm so-and-so from Twitter or so-and-so from Noster.
And it's like, Oh, it's great to put in a name to a face.
Um, and see, and see those guys. So it was cool. We got,
we also saw Ben Justman. Ben Justman was, you know, when he walks in,
it's like a celebrity,
especially when he walks in with Skylar with the cool Bitcoin American flag hats.
those guys look like they're it looks like they're like part of barstool and they're coming in to like
throw the party yeah it was cool seeing ben uh yeah i was pretty impressed with uh maggie's
commitment to journalism throughout the week uh i was impressed with your commitment to journalism
throughout the week we were all running around without any sleep we were all tired we were all
just running off coffee and cigarettes the whole time.
The thing that people have to understand about these events
is you're at PodComp Super Bowl.
There's a lot going on at PodComp Super Bowl.
There's not a lot of time.
It only happens once a year.
So you got to really try to get as much in.
You're not going to have the opportunity to get
all of Bitcoin's biggest influencers in one place at one time.
I think at any other event throughout the year.
And so you just got to go, go, go the whole time.
There's no time for rest.
There's no time to not have a cigarette in your mouth.
And I think we accomplished a lot We accomplished quite a bit But there been there been a lot of controversy it it been interesting to to look at the controversy on twitter i know we talked
about it a little bit earlier about these these individuals that uh you know keep themselves pure
by not participating uh what are your thoughts on the on the controversy i'm surprised by it
for sure not surprised i'm certainly not surprised every year you've got the you know the the critics
who they refuse to go like it was this year was a really easy uh easy one to stay away from and
easy one to be a critic of you could just say like you said like dr jack cruise and some of these
others they're like feet you know vegas is the most fiat city vegas is the most degenerate city
i would never go to such a place the electromagnetic protection uh is terrible in a city like vegas it
it burn your thyroid out and make you more susceptible to a tallow gut. You know, there's
all sorts, you know, there's all sorts of temptations. And I think, and listen, this is
maybe a little bit of a hot take, but I'm going to wind this back a little bit. I said at the
beginning that I learned a lot of things while I was in Vegas. One of the things I learned really
had nothing to do with Vegas until I thought about it a little more deeply. But I was looking
through the timeline on Friday and all the controversy was about Glenn Greenwald. And so
I looked up what the controversy was about and I found out there was a video that somebody had released about Glenn Greenwald and he had actually retweeted himself and then explained later.
But it was this video. Glenn Greenwald is he's mostly naked except for a schoolgirl skirt and a little like bib with a Palestinian flag on it.
And he's on his knees.
And for the beginning, it looks like he's with perhaps like a Brazilian sex worker and there's drugs involved.
And he's worshipping this giant black man, this giant black foot.
He's just worshipping it and smooching it and kissing the toes.
And then he bends over and he gets fucked in the ass by this large Brazilian man.
And I so I learned that Glenn Greenwald was gay by watching that video.
And I watched it a few other times and I studied it and I realized that this video was not, wasn't, wasn't the gayest thing I've ever seen.
Like it pleditor and Matthew Cratter and these other critics, they're gayer than Glenn Greenwald.
Um, and I think that there's a lot of like these purity test enforcers.
and if you if you really look into them and you listen to their voice on their video podcasts
about bitcoin or you just follow their their content you can tell that at least from my
perspective there's they just seem like latent homosexuals they sound like they're gay they just
have these really weird quirks and they're obsessed with purity like like these closeted
these closeted gay feds and whether or not they're really working for the federal government they just
seem like gay feds and they seem like they don't want to go to Vegas. There's too much temptation.
They don't want to be outed. They don't want to get caught having sex with other gay feds.
And it's just too much of a temptation for them. So it's, it's smarter for them to sit back
and, and, and be critical from the outside looking in. But that cattiness, that really, that, that
signature gay uh symbol that cattiness that they have really comes out when they're jealous they
want to be there having butt sex with other gay feds but they can't because it's too dangerous
there's too much surveillance there's just too much of a chance they would get caught
in a situation like that like glenn greenwald did um and so they stay away so i think that i think
it's just gay men get very very jealous and very catty and i think that's what we're seeing it's
like a latent homosexuality of these gay feds who it's almost like to have this fiat shit coin
conference is like the trade-off to repel all the gay feds who would normally encircle and ensnare
the bitcoin conference they ran free and wild in miami you know it was a little bit different in
nashville because they had to blend in with the cowboys but in vegas it was just it was almost
like a force field repelling them out of there why do you think they're afraid to to come out
as being gay is there too much homophobia in bitcoin uh do we need more gay pride in bitcoin
or is it just they're intimidated by the like the hyper um heterosexual energy that they really
put off i think it's a combination i think some of them really exploit the traditional conservative
family values that a lot of bitcoiners like adam simeca he's like i will come to vegas but i will
not bring my family here i don't want my my kids to be exposed to a place like fremont street um
and i wish it could it would be in a city that i could bring my family to which is understandable
um so i think they don't want to get out in that sense but i think yeah i think being
it's very easy for them to criticize sailor from afar but i think if you put somebody like matthew
cratter who you know i mean he used to work with peter teal at the gay libertarian hedge fund like
do you think he's the only non-gay libertarian at this hedge fund i don't know maybe he was i have
no proof i'm just speculating uh but you put like cratter or pleditor or somebody in the same room
with sailors the man they criticize soviet millie on twitter and i think that that gay energy is
going to suck them in it's almost gonna be like a magnet and it's just going to be impossible for
them not to to come on sexually to such a powerful gay fed that um if they were in there in person
with them david bailey same way i don't think i don't david bailey doesn't seem gay to me but he
seems like he's very very very tolerant to gay advances well i think david's uh perspective on
gay advances is he'll he'll entertain them as long as it brings ngu you know what i mean but
he doesn't come off to me as uh homosexual at all he's one of the more heterosexual people i've ever
seen and i can imagine it's probably intimidating to a lot of these people exactly um so it's yeah
it's just a very weird energy i think it's very difficult to maintain the aura of the narrative
that you've created for yourself online in a place like Las Vegas.
I think it's easier in Nashville.
And I think it's even easier in places like Miami.
But I think there's just, there's something about Vegas
that everybody's just, you just have to be too cautious there.
Yeah.
Well, that's some interesting theories.
I don't know if I have a ton of strong opinions on it,
but those are definitely some interesting theories.
Listener, bear with us.
We're, I don't know.
I'm pretty tired.
i have not recovered uh from the event do you know any good ways to deal with emfs
and how to detox from them i have i've told people um that you know i think it's important to wear
uh what are those called those like fair like they're faraday jeans so you wear faraday jeans
And it keeps like your, if you've got a Bitcoin wallet or a graphene OS phone in your pocket, it keeps you from being susceptible to, you know, EMF weapons or, you know, weaponized EMF energy.
It also protects your testicles and your balls from that kind of stuff in case people are trying to, you know, just trying to sterilize you and steal your Bitcoin at the same time.
um a lot of people went down to vegas they brought a lot of towel i mean tallow is a natural
emf protector kind of like sunscreen for your skin and hair but protection from emf energy
however it was so hot in vegas and it was like such a dry heat that the tallow just
dripped right down your face and it melted right off you i mean somebody said they saw
you know uh seagulls dipping steak and shake fries in uh in tatum's you know the the towel
dripping down tatum's face when he's walking down fremont street one day so it was tough it was it's
tough to protect yourself out there very interesting that that might explain why so many people look so
greasy around the yeah yeah exactly it wasn't just it wasn't just uh ordinals the inscription uh
event like everybody looked greasy that greasy hair but that was their tallow melting
um but i think you know listen at the end of the day you if you don't want to get a sunburn
don't eat a bunch of seed oils and then go walking in your bathing suit through saudi arabia
if you don't want to get uh emf damage don't go to a place like las vegas dr jack cruz he's just
like an abstinence first approach here uh he's already fried his his um you know his thyroid
enough being in the hospital in Central America.
Why risk it further going to Vegas Yeah Well today is the first day We recording June 1st first day of Compliance Pride Month Big month
Compliance was a big theme at the conference, as it always is.
There were a lot of compliance professionals.
I actually met the, I think that he said he was the head of compliance at Block,
came to satirize the system.
So he would have known Mike Brock that would have worked with him at Block.
Highly likely.
Mike Brock was apparently in Vegas at the conference.
We did not have the privilege of running into him.
He was probably, people have the whale passes, general passes.
I think he had the very sophisticated person pass.
So he was probably hanging out with other very sophisticated people.
um you know one of the other issues in the controversy i think we before we go
to another topic that we should address here i want to get your thoughts on this is
people like dieter and pleditor they were very quick to criticize ross's speech ross albrecht
so obviously this was ross albrecht's first conference that he's been free they talked about
freeing ross at last year's conference and this time now he is free so the you know it came to
fruition uh it was really nice to see him there see him talk about freedom but uh you know people
like dieter and pleditor and others are calling him a shit coiner and he hasn't even announced
a shit coin they just they're just saying that he has big shit coiner energy and i think that
there must be a conversation to be had around that because it's it's very it's some people
are very shocked that somebody would have such a critical opinion about ross yeah i don't i mean i
i've heard this criticism of him before and it seems like it's kind of centered around his speech
he mentioned uh something about being interested in all of these cryptocurrency technologies um
having not gotten the uh i don't think he's gotten the the purity test training yet uh he missed out
on that for the last few years but i think part of the reason why he's kind of agnostic or or
interested in these technologies is because some of the biggest supporters of him predominantly
financially were the shit coiners people like roger veer when he was in prison um and it's it's
kind of hard you know when you're in prison you know you're being influenced by the people that
are supporting you trying to get you out you're kind of in a desperate situation and uh you know
there's a narrative on how you shouldn't spend your bitcoin uh being presented in bitcoin so you
shouldn't spend your bitcoin on uh promoting ross so you know i think if there's any reason why he's
still interested in bitcoin is probably because of you know david bailey have been promoting him
so much with his uh quote-unquote shitcoin conference um right people some people are
surprised and i think this i think this may sum up some of the controversy as well it's the people
who are on the front lines of the battle against the state and separating money from state and
actually fighting that battle instead of just LARPing about it online. When one of those people
gets hurt or gets pinched by the state, they end up in jail, they end up getting caught.
When they are eventually freed, they're going to remember the people who fought the hardest,
the people who were standing next to them fighting the state and trying to
separate money from state and the people who fought next to them and didn't
leave them behind when the state, uh, was able to, you know,
ensnare them or encircle them and take away their freedom. Um,
and people get surprised when people that fought these hard battles together
and stuck together and didn't leave each other behind when they,
when they have each other's backs and controversial moments. Um,
And they wonder why they don't instead abandon the people who fought with them and fought for them to choose their purity test group, group chat on Twitter.
And I think it's fairly obvious that the people who are actually in the arena fighting and battling the state are going to always stick together, even if they fail each other's purity tests.
because you don't have time for purity.
If you're really battling the state and you're not just a LARP,
you don't have time for purity tests.
And just having a purity test means you're probably not actually doing anything
of any impact of doing anything meaningful to advance your cause
and fight the state at all.
Yeah, it's kind of like an interesting thing where, you know,
if you're in the profession of trying to persuade people,
which i i'm personally not uh but like i think a lot of these guys they they care about public
perception that's why they're arguing so hard on twitter uh and are always being karens and
people's responses but uh you know if you care about public perception it's hard to win people
over to your side when you're yelling at them for not being pure enough and it kind of yeah
There's no purity test in foxholes.
And nobody wants to try to live up to the purity test standards of people who don't have their back.
People who will never support, you know, if things go wrong, these people will never support you.
They will abandon you and isolate you and attack you at the earliest convenience.
You don't want to fight the state with people like Pleditor and Matthew Cratter because they, A, aren't fighting the state, and B, they would throw you under the bus to the state in a heartbeat to marginally benefit themselves and make sure that their follower count on X or whatever platform goes up.
and charge you money for it.
These people will never, ever help you with anything.
They will only serve to make you like the exit liquidity
to increase their reputation the moment they have the chance.
That's why they're spooks.
That's what spooks do.
They may not be on the payroll of the CIA or the FBI,
but the outcome of interacting with them
or doing anything invested with them,
time or energy is the same it's the same as is partnering with spooks so especially the fact
that they're so they're so critical of how their narrative and framing and perspective is uh
reflected back at them from uh the industry it's all very interesting yeah i'm glad those guys don't
go to the conference it would be really gay if they did yeah honestly yeah i would say that the
only thing that could possibly make the bitcoin conference worse than it already is is if people
like pleditor came that would make it worse if matthew cratter pleditor and some of these other
guys um came to the bitcoin conference it would be worse that's the only way it could be worse
yeah i was really happy i brought my special underwear with me so i didn't get a boner when
When I saw Dennis Porter, I was, uh, I wore that too, but it didn't work.
It did not work.
I still got a boner.
Yeah.
I mean, one of the complaints that I heard from a lot of women running around the conference
was that, uh, they felt uncomfortable because Dennis was there.
And so all the men were running around with boners.
It was just felt kind of weird.
Yeah.
They said they didn't, they knew that the men were not trying to be aggressive, but it's
Just once they saw Dennis Porter and caught boners, everything got uncomfortable.
It was nobody's fault but Dennis's.
But, you know, Dennis is working hard.
If I was a mildly attractive woman and I saw a man running around with a boner and it wasn't because of me, I'd probably be offended too.
Right.
I heard one.
I was kind of overhearing some conversations between other people in the expo hall.
And there was like a man and a woman.
it could have been husband and wife boyfriend girlfriend i don't know but they were arguing
and she was telling him like that she didn't want a dennis porter boner she wanted a love boner she
wanted her husband to have a boner because he loved her and thought she was attractive not
because she saw dennis porter and i think i could probably i think i could probably empathize with
that you know you want your you want your partner to be in love with you not just erect because they
saw dennis porter totally this is the reason why they're calling ross a shit coiners because he
justin sun gave him a banana yeah i mean would you take a banana from justin sun if he offered
you a banana well it's a six million dollar banana that's the that's the thing that's a
six million dollar banana with duct tape on it but you know just i'd probably refuse it
personally. I don't want to, I don't want a dirty, stinky banana in my hotel room going rotten. It
would, it would be terrible. No, I don't want that. I mean, if I brought that home, my, my,
my wife would look at me and call me a retard and she'd be right. I wouldn't take the banana.
There's no way. I don't think why. I don't think Ross's wife is, I think he's probably got another
six months before she's allowed to call him a retard again. Yeah. Probably got to give him a
year she's just so happy he's home she's probably just like yeah you got to keep the banana in the
garage like we're not exactly the house yeah keep the banana in the garage or keep it in your man
cave at the basement upstairs we're not we're not you know i decorated you don't have a good taste
yet what a funny funny situation what the funny reason to be upset um well there's another thing
is everybody is people want to be the people who to get credit for calling ross being a shit coiner
when he finally inevitably does it so dieter and these guys be like i see i called this i said it
before he even got out that he would become a shit coiner and they just want to be right
that's really all it is you know who i met it was fun meeting uh asahana gold oh yeah how was that
it was good it was funny uh i you know i wanted to size him up because i wanted to i wanted to
see how he would uh how i thought he would do in a fight against shinobi and i think it'd be a
pretty fair fight i think shinobi's got a little bit of reach and weight on him but he seems pretty
scrappy he seemed you made a good point though that shinobi has been training and watching anime
and samurai movies so he's like shinobi's not coming into this fight just you know flailing
arms and like no technique shinobi's coming in with nunchuck size he's gonna have those like
throwing ninja throwing stars asahana gold is gonna have to get in close and do like a wrestler
takedown and and kind of keep shinobi from being able to use his reach and his samurai training
from watching anime to be able to take him down i wouldn't want to fight shinobi because you know
you try to hit him and he just naruto runs around circles around you in the ring like i yeah like
people don't understand how fast shinobi is i've been told by people at the chicago bit devs
that he doesn't even own a car he just naruto runs around the city and that's how he gets uh
from place to place i've heard he doesn't even go on airplanes like he just runs yeah i've heard
that i've heard that in the summertime shinobi will run neruto run down the uh the the lake
michigan like beach and like the the wind that he creates from his speed is so bad like that's
what cools down the beach goers and kind of gives waves to the uh to the people kind of out in the
water it's like it's it's almost like he's a public good like chicago needs shinobi to naruto run
in the summer down the beach i didn't ask asahana if he's got any you know secret skill sets like
that uh he he is a pretty talented artist but i i just don't know how that transfers into you know
the fighting arena you know what i mean um hell yeah uh well somebody who i ran into which was
really a pleasure as well um was the canadian dennis porter uh brad mills i i walked up to i
walked up to brad and he was talking to brecky and brecky was just about to sell his giant bitcoin
rock uh that he carved he's really good sculpture by the way um and and i told brad i said hey
canada needs you right now you need to be orange pill on the politicians are what are you doing
here in las vegas and he gave me a big hug and we took a selfie together but uh yeah brad mills
is great and brad mills told us he wants to be on the podcast and he gave me his phone number so i'm
going to text him every single day and ask him to be on this podcast until he comes on great
well that'd be an interesting interview yeah i mean it was all it was an interesting week
To be honest, I'm glad it's over.
I'm tired.
I need some rest.
I'm glad it is over.
It was quite the spectacle to witness.
It always is.
It's always the Podcom Super Bowl.
It's the biggest spectacle.
It's a freak show.
You know what?
Bitcoin ever gets boring, it's done.
It's over.
It's cooked.
It's captured.
If Bitcoin ossifies and becomes boring, if the culture ossifies or the protocol ossifies, it is toast.
It is captured.
As long as Bitcoin remains retarded, as long as Bitcoin remains a freak show, as long as the Bitcoin conference remains an absolute goon spectacle, Bitcoin has already, you know, Bitcoin will continue to already have won.
The minute that stops, it's over.
So I hope that the next Bitcoin conference is more autistic, more retarded, and more of a spectacle than this year was because that means it is still healthy and strong.
I think we're committed to making more of a spectacle next year.
The nice thing, the next PodComp Super Bowl is going to be in Vegas.
And so we kind of scoped it out.
We know what's going on.
We know where the things are.
And I think it's going to be even better next year.
I'm looking forward to it.
But yeah, anyways, I want to go through the booths and then I want to go to sleep.
Preach We sold some t at the event That was cool uh but if you want to get beagle t go to orange label uh yeah first boost late stage hodl 10 sass says
apparently i forgot to boost the last episode i'm such an idiot i can't wait to see how big fake and
gay the conference is i hope your live event is big real and awesome it's proof i'm an idiot
because i won't be there to smoke cigs with you i had a zin this past weekend and felt
it felt real fake and gay well yeah zins are pretty fake and gay uh you know one of the things
i'm pretty committed to late stage hodl is uh getting around more doing more events not just
around the conference around the country so we've been brainstorming ideas on that uh i'd like to do
a couple events uh before the end of the year we'll we'll see if we can pull it off or not
because it's we got a lot going on in this operation there's a lot of moving pieces
uh a lot of things to be doing um and unfortunately traveling to these events takes away from our
ability to you know be able to do all those things all the time but uh there will be opportunities
to smoke cigarettes with this in the future uh the conference wasn't as gay and fake as it could
have been uh because matthew cratter wasn't there um but uh our event was pretty pretty awesome it
was a good time i think it was the only the only event in bitcoin that had an emphasis on smoking
cigarettes ever the first no yeah yeah absolutely it was and everybody was pumped about it they
wanted to smoke cigs i bummed out a lot of cigarettes but one of the nice things is a lot
people brought their own and uh that just showed general commitment to their own personal success
and and well-being and that was cool to see oh yeah the next one is uh 7777 stats from open mic
from toonster uh bugle mile high club riding high post vegas listening to the podcast on the way
home from vegas yeah uh i i remember running into open mic but i don't think we had much time to
talk did you have much time to talk with him yeah i talked with open mic for a little bit and uh
that was really cool that was that was one of the highlights of of the trip was my brief interaction
uh with him unfortunately it was right before the event started so i was a little bit overwhelmed
with uh all the stuff going on all the people there uh so i didn't get as much time to talk
to him as as i would have liked to but um i hope to spend a lot of time with open mic in the future
really really really cool dude uh really enjoyed meeting him looking forward to talking to him more
in the future cool dude like what he's building like what he's about i i heard the nas vegas event
was really good so i heard he he put on a really good uh event and that's awesome to hear well thank
you for the boost mike uh jason c 2100 says dear rod and dick i'm gen x and need to confess that i've
become very attracted to bitcoin treasury companies i can't help myself and it's eating into my 40 hpw
and sat stack please send advice after your stay in vegas after you slay in vegas oh which we did
we slayed them um listen jason you're not alone there's a lot of people especially boomers so
you're maybe you're like uh one of those old souls you should you have the boomer soul instead of
that gen x soul but you're very attracted to bitcoin treasure listen it's it's talk to
fundamentals about it. Fundamentals had a great video. He was featured on Simply Bitcoin,
Beyond Bitcoin with Oceans a few weeks ago. And he talks about this. He talks about how
he doesn't think, it doesn't impress fundamentals. He doesn't think it's that clever. He thinks it's
a good use of money and capital by a corporation, but he just doesn't think it's that clever.
And I think once you listen to fundamentals talk about how unimpressed he is with Bitcoin
treasury companies i think you'll be like oh shit like that's not nearly as cool as i thought and
now i have something to say when people try to talk about treasury companies right like it's not
that it's not that clever and once you once you can talk to somebody else and say why you think
it's boring and you kind of ruin their uh new excitement about a new bitcoin treasury company
then you'll you'll feel confident in doing so i think you just need to have the confidence to say
you think it's gay that's some interesting advice i i would just encourage you to go read ayn rand
go read atlas shrugged that'll that'll probably uh make you less interested uh
in the phenomenon it's just a trend and i can understand yeah following the trends can seem
excited exciting it can seem like you know your your experience on like i i would like to hear
more about what the attraction is like what what gets you all excited about it is it being a part
of the trend is it um just i think i think a good summary now that you put it in that perspective
is that Bitcoin treasury companies are just broccoli haircuts for boomers.
It's just a broccoli haircut for a boomer. You know, like they think it makes them cool.
They going to show up and be like yo fam no cap Bitcoin treasury companies just dropped And I just bought a bunch of shares it up 20 27 in the past six hours i a genius and once that once that trend kind of dies out it you just people
just look back on it like we're gonna look back on broccoli haircuts and be like what was that
idiot thinking yeah yeah whatever the boomers are doing you don't want to be doing it you know what
i mean you want to be doing the opposite of what the boomers do that's it unless unless you're like
just a very like nihilistic person that just like doesn't care about creating a better future for
your children uh then you can follow what the boomers are doing uh but if you don't really care
about yourself you care about the future and you don't want to just be a complete loser like
avoid what the avoid what the boomers are doing yeah boomers boomers are the ones going to the
the nude beaches and buying Bitcoin treasury companies,
destroying the real estate market, uh,
gambling away their social security at the, at the casino.
Just don't just do the opposite of what they do.
Follow millennials like Dennis Porter, uh, like Bitcoin podcasters.
Like they kind of have a better,
better grasp on what the signal is in culture. Um, but man, yeah,
back on, back on the chain with Jason and fundamentals, the fish,
and Bitcoin podcast, kind of hybrid.
Go check that out.
Thank you, Jason C.
The next boost is from Blizza, the man, the legend.
I think if we look back, I think Blizza has boosted every single episode at this point.
He boosts us 1,010 sats.
The new regiment Rod is on really seems to be working and helping his voice sound less raspy.
Thank you, Blizza.
It has been a lot of work, and it has been a lot of practice,
and it's been inconsistent at times,
but I'm glad that the results are bearing fruit.
I agree.
I think it's a serious improvement for sure.
Well, thanks for the boost, Blizza.
Next one doesn't look like there's any comment.
500 stats from Turkey.
Thank you, Turkey.
I'll take the next one up to Bob John.
416 sets says uh i couldn't stand the previous voice changer thanks for smoking less cigs
well i didn't smoke less cigs i did not smoke less cigs i just i'm doing something about my
voice in fact i've smoked more cigs in the past week than i have probably in any previous week
in a long time but um glad you like the improvement i mean this is what happens when you're running
around in vegas and you're surrounded by all these stupid boomers you just get you gotta
to compensate for just all the negative energy that you're around by smoking more cigarettes you
know negative boomer energy and unmitigated emp energy it's just a lot of bad energies coming at
you smoking cigarettes just really helps with that um the last i think this is a lot no it's
not the last one but the next one is from btc on board uh l enhancer ctv 300 sats uh two thumbs up
and two lightning emojis thank you btc on board looks like these are going in different orders
uh next one i got is uh oh wait justin bianchi those are just those are that's just a uh
a double boost oh i see next one is larry yoshi finkamoto 100 says i'm a millennial who identifies
as a boomer um yeah that's a rough spot to be in dude i'm i'm not even gonna make fun of you for
that because it just seems like a really you know just like awful existence and i'm really sorry
that's happening to you yeah if there's anything that we can do to help you out of that funk maybe
we just recharge your node or restart your node maybe restart your bid axe try to get you back on
the right path let us know yeah if you need tech support for my wife need to learn how to use your
iphone um you need somebody to talk you off the cliff you know if you sat through a timeshare
presentation we're here for you yeah if you sold all your fold stock for a timeshare in uh deerfield
beach florida you know and you're feeling regret about that let us know we'll try to help you out
here the next one all right here we go i knew we were gonna have to get into this eventually
pie's got a little bit a little bit defensive uh and he's he's holding us accountable so pies hit
us with 100 sats don't be shitting on fish holding you even if i i held you accountable too that was
all you even as hip-hop head i followed fish years ago bumping tribe called quest on my on my boom
box eat mushrooms to smoke a weed shout out to fundamentals mushroom mushroom mushroom emoji
flex flex flex emoji thank you for holding me accountable pies pies hit us with the next uh two
uh boosts as well for 100 sats y'all need to come out to the east coast and smoke tobacco
mixed weed and blunts with us mushroom mushroom mushroom flex flex flex cigarette cigarette
cigarette emoji pies i don't want to speak too soon but i do want to tell you that we will be
coming out to the east coast relatively soon to be deterred to be announced we'll be doing some
shows and if you don't show up we're gonna kick your ass all right you gotta come out we're gonna
show up all all the fucking shadrach fundamentals me jason probably get rob hamilton involved we'll
probably get whoever we need to get involved and we're going to come we're going to kick your ass
if you don come party with us so remember that i holding you accountable last boost from pies 100 sats fucking retarded boomers there we go let end on a good no fuck the retarded boomers finger middle finger emoji mushroom mushroom mushroom flex flex
flex emoji thank you so much pies well yeah thank you everybody for the boost i am so excited
to go to sleep uh that was a long week recharge your podcast headphones
what's that time to recharge your headphones everybody's got to take some time to recharge
their podcast headphones yeah well you know what i've learned from doing the the podcast super bowl
over the years this following week you know is about scrolling twitter looking at what everybody's
mad about um you know when you go there there's not really a whole lot of time to sit and listen
to people talk on stage right same things that uh you already heard them all say on the podcast
You're going and you're talking to the podcasters there in person.
You're talking to the people making the news in person.
You're digging into the stories.
But if there's anything interesting, people on Twitter are probably mad about it.
And we'll curate it for you so you can go back and listen to them talk.
So thank you for that.
Yeah, apparently for me, getting back from the conference is about making Matthew Cratter cry.
There's a lot of people in my DMs this weekend demanding that I apologize for making Matthew Cratter cry.
But I refuse.
I think there's no crying in Bitcoin podcasts.
You can't take it.
Don't dish it.
But once again, if you came out to satirize the system, you saw us in Vegas, you smoked cigarettes.
Thank you, Barn Miner, for the precision screwdriver and the 40 hours per week Zippo and putting that to good use.
thank you to everybody came out thank you for mandrick for giving us the baklava
um thank you to ungovernable misfits for uh for supporting us and zeus wallet thank you to all
the podcasters and podcast listeners who showed up and uh we're doing some next one's going to be
even bigger and better so look out for that thank you everybody for tuning in to this edition of
weekly and we'll catch you on the next one.
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