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So dude, were you following Maxi Madness on Nostre?

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Yeah.

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Sorry, sorry.

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I saw the one comment.

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You lost because I didn't zap.

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Yeah, I lost because you didn't zap for me.

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The finals was Rev Hoddle versus, who's awesome.

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I'm glad he won.

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But let me see.

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And he was against this woman, Noah.

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What's her name?

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Let me get it right.

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Noah Grumman, who I guess is.

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So to your point about deep fakes, I was convinced until like two days ago that the bugle guys made her up, that she's not a real person.

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which i'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure yeah i mean she's saying the maxi madness theme song and stuff

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i'm i was i was pretty sure she was a fake person created by the bugle boys now they could be

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trolling me they could be trolling me but i am now convinced that she's a real person

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and we may or may not she might perform at our vegas event

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which I insist on, because otherwise I'm not going to believe she's real.

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There's no way she's going to perform the Maxi Madness theme song

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at our RHR pub key event.

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Oh, no, this is, they're trolling you, brother.

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You don't think she's real?

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I mean, they're notorious.

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Like, they were doing AI-generated music like four years ago.

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I know, I know, I know.

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I know, I'm aware.

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No way.

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I'm aware.

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I think she might be real.

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I think she might be real.

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But this is my point.

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It's like, there's no way to know unless you meet her in person.

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There's no way to know if she's a real person.

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Look at this.

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They're going to hire some actors in Vegas to make you like,

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this is going to be a multi-layer troll on you.

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I mean, maybe.

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Hand up, you know, I don't.

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The whole point I bring it up is who the hell knows

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like what is true and what's not.

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Pull up this.

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this was the

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this is the one that just

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threw me for a fucking loop

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this is the battle for eternal glory

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to decide the one who is

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worthy

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apparently not Odell

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we'll put everything on the line

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in order to take a fight

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only one will take home the crown

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apparently not Odell

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can you feel the madness all around

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love

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who will be the champion

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Sorry, Odell.

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She looks real.

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Logan, you gotta turn the audio on.

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We can't hear any audio, but...

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I can't even hear it myself.

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I gotta figure it with me.

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Okay, fair enough.

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It doesn't matter, but she looks really real in this, right?

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Yeah.

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And she calls me out by name.

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And they told me she's hopefully going to be at the Vegas event to perform.

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They asked me if she could perform at the Vegas event.

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Speaking of which, the Vegas event.

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Thomas, apparently, are they doing the spaces right now?

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Girl next.

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Beagle Boys and the Pub Key team may be doing the next.

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Yeah, see Kieran?

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Kieran's saying she streams on Zapstream, Raffle.

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And then Joker has said she's a singer in a real band.

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Search Scarlett.

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Does the band exist?

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Have you met the band?

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folks welcome back to the bugle weekly and uh i'm excited because i think we're gonna get

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back to some semblance of normalcy uh maxi madness is over and you know maxi madness

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for the organizers like it i know a lot of the participants and just people around it they feel

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like it hijacks their lives but when you're the organizer it's like taking a macro dose of acid

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you know and you're just along for the ride you're along for the duration of the ride there's no

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turning back at that point it's in your system you just gotta ride the wave try to enjoy it uh

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you have no control over where the trip takes you uh but yeah we're on the comedown now and we're

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feeling that the hangover affects a little bit you know i think in in both of our cases we're

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feeling the afterglow now everybody else seems like they're kind of hung over from maxi madness

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some people are talking about how uh nostr is dead like lohav was posted about how nostr is dead now

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that maxi madness is over uh people on twitter are crashing out they're they're writing out all

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of their grievances with maxi madness and um i don't know it's it's funny i mean the you know

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the popular debate on Nostra right now is whether or not Noah Grumman is a real person or not.

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I think Twitter just kind of assumes she's not.

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It's just, it's funny.

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I mean, we live in this, you know, wild world where individuals are not willing to do any sort of due diligence or research on anything.

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and uh they'll just kind of write off one of the greatest performers in the world

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as a um as a bot but then they'll they'll take all these pleb bots seriously like the real person

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people and argue with them and get mad uh we're just you know in a funny funny funny place right

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now but uh ron how you feeling how's the afterglow treating you i'm tired maxi madness it takes a lot

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out of you it takes this it's it's consuming and it's it's interesting to watch the crash outs

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because you know it's almost ironic for me to say don't overthink or don't take maxi madness too

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seriously after putting so much time and effort into it for two or three weeks leading up to it

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and then the event itself but any you got the rise and fall of timothy bitcoins you have aaron red

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wing defeating ross albricht in the first round like just absolutely setting the tone for the

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insanity and the madness that was to come you have casey ordnall's taking it all i mean bitcoin maxi's

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letting HODLNAW lose so early in the tournament

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and then letting Casey Ordinals win

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and then somehow blaming it on the bugle

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as if we had anything to do with this.

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The bugle does not tip the scales,

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does not participate in botting

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or scanning the vote totals.

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It's simply democracy.

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So crashing out of it's so rude,

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but it's, yeah, I'm just recovering.

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I'm resting, trying to get my energy back up.

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But one of the interesting things that we learned,

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and we talked about this on Spaces a little bit,

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but I don't know if we talked about this on the show yet,

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is that the absolute, the hiss, poor performance by the Nazis

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in Nazi Madness is just, it is very obvious a death knell for BIP-110.

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And not only that, the Maxi Madness only runs for one week.

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And in one week, the Maxi Madness prediction markets got over 1.2 Bitcoin.

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And then, you know, in several months, the BIP110 prediction market was just posted about, cried about, coked about on a daily basis on the timeline.

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It's still not even up to one Bitcoin yet.

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So Maxi Madness in one week eclipsed the entire BIP 110 market And that not just that this is no longer a subjective opinion this is no longer editorialization of the matter it is literally the market telling you that that uh maxi madness

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is bigger than bip 110 and that is that's it's really pathetic if you ask me

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it is pathetic you know some people were uh upset petitioning saying that we we didn't include

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real maxis in this tournament which i i found very laughable i think we did a really good job

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of curating some of the the greatest maxis of all time in this tournament at least at you know their

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performance over the last year and what they were essentially complaining about is that they wanted

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more plebslot maximalists not bitcoin maximalists and um it's just there's a lot of individuals with

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very like skewed views of reality that is,

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that I think Maxi madness exposed quite a bit in the,

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the prediction markets exposed.

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you know,

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we've been talking about prediction markets on this show pretty much since

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the inception.

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it's something I think we're both,

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excited and passionate about because,

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they were talked about by the early cypherpunks and, um, you know, they've been talked about for

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a long time as like this free market Oracle of, uh, information and, you know, being a journalist,

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like you care about the truth. You like, you know, there, there's some people like Tomer,

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you know, Tomer thinks that the keys to life are like, you know, love and peace and happiness and

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harmony, you know, which are all nice.

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Like I value those things too.

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But like, if you don't have the truth mixed in with those things, you're, you're really

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missing something that's important.

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The truth matters.

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Reality matters, believe it or not.

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And, um, we, you know, there, there's been a lot of loss of trust in credentials.

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There's been a lot of loss of trust in institutions like the institution of journalism, because that's what happens when, you know, the CIA captures something is they just they break everybody's trust.

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It's like you're the job of the CIA is literally to tell lies.

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That's the job of being a spy.

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And so when you allow the liars to take over the information channels,

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like people are going to obviously lose distrust,

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but that doesn't mean that journalism inherently is bad.

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It just means that spook journalism is bad.

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And there's nuance to this.

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And I think prediction markets are interesting in this world that we live in

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as being able to determine our culture.

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The platists say they value the truth and maybe they do to a certain extent, but the platists only value the truth until it starts encroaching on their plunge slop journalism or their plunge slop empire that they're trying to build.

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And that's the problem.

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That's where the incentives are worked.

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If you only value truth until the point that it threatens you, the truth threatens you, then you don't value truth.

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And, you know, this is one of the problems with Tomer, his girlfriend DJ Valerie Love.

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It's all about peace and love and pledge slop until something threatens their little, you know, pledge slop that kind of chamber.

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and the the truth drowns out these echo chambers and it makes them it exposes them

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as like the wizard of oz behind the curtain making it making this this show this this charade uh

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this uh you know like the plato's cave with the shadows cast on the wall once you expose that

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and a lot of people start asking questions um it really upsets them and prediction markets do this

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prediction markets you know anybody can make a prediction anybody can have a thesis or a you know

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a base case as people like to say in the uh in the space here but

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if you're not willing to put your money where your blood slop is um that is a red flag

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and it's a problem this and this is why i think pledges are so terrified of prediction markets

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absolutely and this is also why some pledges are so bad at prediction markets there's a lot

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of polymarket pledges out there who see a prediction market and they think here's my

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chance to stack more sats because i listen to podcasts i know more than everybody else

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but you know this is this is why we're gonna get into these crash outs right and like why are they

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crashing out it's because the platys don't understand and we talked about this don't

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understand the rules of the game that they are playing and this is the same thing that happens

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in maxi madness the plans crash out because they don't understand what maxi madness is

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and they think maxi madness should have an outcome that is that it is satisfying to their little

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pleb feelings and that's not how maxi madness works and this is in this this leads to crash out

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absolutely i mean the the prediction markets and the plebs being on the prediction markets i think

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is a is a massive opportunity for growth because it allows them to put their plebs

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slop that they've been consuming to the test and like for them to be be real consequences like

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one of the consistent problems for the plebs is they have short memories and you know they walk

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away from bitcoin podcast just you know asking themselves how it made them feel at the end of

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the day like did it did it make them feel good did it make them feel smart did it make them feel

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better like hey you know i just listened to tom luongo spot off spot off about complete and utter

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bullshit on Marty's podcast, but like it makes me feel like I'm smarter.

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So I can go repeat the pleb slop that I heard Tom Luongo say to my family and their heads

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are going to spin because they're going to have no idea what I'm talking about.

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I'm going to feel like smart and sophisticated.

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But, you know, they if they then take that misinformation or just poor information and

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embed on it and are wrong consistently over and over, they might learn the lesson that

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they shouldn't listen to tom luongo on his opinions on things that he's not um the best but like what

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you're seeing happening right now is uh there's a contingency of plebs that are trying to become

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influencers you know and for years you know why did the plebs start calling themselves plebs and

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start bragging about being plebs because they were proud of not being influencers and so you know for

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years and years they criticized the influencers they made fun of them and um you know they're

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coming to this hard realization of how hard it is to be an influencer like it takes a lot of work to

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be an influencer and it's hard to be in the public spotlight at the center of the you know the ring

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of the circus with all the plebs standing around like judging you for your circus performance and um

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it's you know I

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have hope for you know these plebs

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trying to become influencers that

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you know they'll learn some

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lessons and they'll grow and they'll get better at it

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but right now we're at this very

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strange

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transition point

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where they're being plebs

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like fully

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and they influencing very very poorly and it very comical to read the slop in the garbage that they spewing right now

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That's the irony, right?

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The crash out, part of the crash outs is because plebs, their entire culture, their entire identity is anti-influencer.

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But they've never been more grumpy about the lack of influence that they have.

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It's like if you want to be a retarded pleb, that is, you know, that is a choice.

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That is an identity choice.

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It's not illegal.

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There's nothing illegal about being a pleb.

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But understand who you are.

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Get through the cognitive dissonance because plebs are not influential.

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Nobody is influenced by a pleb.

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A pleb is an anti-influencer.

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Nobody looks at a pleb and says, I want what they have.

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I want to be like them.

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They think, wow, I'm glad I'm not them.

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So it should not be surprising if you are a plan and people are like, I don't want to do anything to do with what these guys are doing.

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From an outside looking in, these guys are retarded.

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And I don't want to be retarded.

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And if you want to embrace that, there's some people who embrace that and they're not at all grumpy about the lack of influence they have.

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um like Peter Bob Peter Bob has no influence and he doesn't care he he is just he's just

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riling people up um but there's a lot of pledges who they they really freak out about having zero

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influence but that is that is that comes with the territory it's it's like Clutter he gets so mad

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about people marketing on his social marketing platform that's the whole reason Twitter exists

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is to market your brand, market your company, market yourself, whatever it is.

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So when Plunderer gets grumpy, crashes out about people doing that,

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it's like the whole purpose of this platform is marketing.

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The whole purpose of being a Plunderer is to not have any influence.

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It's kind of like getting mad at people for driving on the highway.

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Yeah, like getting mad at traffic, right?

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Why are all these people driving on this road?

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Well, that's what roads are for, my friend.

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The roads are coming in and out of the city just like what you're doing on the road.

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Well, you're a part of this bigger system.

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And to get upset about it is just, you know, I mean, don't get me wrong.

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Traffic is frustrating.

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But having enough self-awareness to realize that you are the traffic is, you know, this is another part of the plebs.

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they don't understand that the the whole reason that plaids emerged as a community or whatever

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is to be trafficked they were just one could traffic trinkets to them other companies could

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traffic the plaids to make it seem like this brand or this this movement was a larger thing

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than it really was and so to be plebs get so upset about the scammers and influencers who are

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taking advantage of the plebs that is the point of a pleb is to be trafficked if you are a pleb

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you are there you are part of the trafficked it's pretty funny to watch i'm having a good time with

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it i mean it's just it's uh it's uh there's nothing funnier than reality like i i just don't

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really understand why why comedy even exists at this point when you can just uh report the news

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and it's just about the funniest shit you've ever seen um but uh yeah it's it's been entertaining

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to watch uh the the crash outs for from maxi madness for the most part some some of the crash

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outs have been a little bit disappointing but uh noster there were some crash outs but it was

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fairly tame it was just like you know the competition got heated because there was a

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lot of money on the predicts market so you know people were passionate about you know the results

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in the polls and uh that's okay um now the twitter one the twitter crash outs have been very funny

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because they don't think that casey and aaron are maximalists and uh i think what what we

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really saw happen this year was a shift in the Overton window that has some people very grumpy

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and uncomfortable. And instead of, this is like, you know, like watching the libs when,

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um, lose their shit when Trump got, uh, selected, uh, the first time in 2016.

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instead of asking why this happened they just lost their minds um and we're reading and we're

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seeing the same exact behavior on uh on twitter you know from like a lot of these guys so i think

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it's an important question to ask why did this happen rod why did casey and aaron win

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the plebs crashing out they're saying that karen casey are not maximalists

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again this goes back to the plebs not even understanding the own terminology that they use

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they think that that being a maximalist is the equivalent or is like saying that they that you're

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a retarded pleb no that's not what maximalism is about being bitcoin only like being bitcoin

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that's the only thing you care about so anything you build on that's the only thing you buy or trade

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that's the only thing you podcast about has nothing to do with being a retarded pleb

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or eating steak every day or you know being a taco pleb or whatever pleb universe you're in it's

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about bitcoin and aaron and casey are bitcoin maximals they've always they've always been

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bitcoin maximals maybe in early 2020 or something aaron you know when she was first getting into it

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she you know like nifty maybe she was mining some chia or something but uh if that most of the

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pledges who were crashing out were also doing that in 2020 and 2021 so like that doesn't really count

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like in the in the contemporary era so it's like again these plebs are retarded they don't even

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know the own words that they're using so you go back what was the question you originally asked

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because well the question is why did aaron and casey win maxi madness this year instead of uh

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They won because they are hot, because they were happy to be there, because they understood the rules of Maxi Madness, and they played the rules of Maxi Madness very well.

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I mean, probably played it as good as anybody other than Teddy Bitcoins.

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Now, Teddy Bitcoins absolutely ran through Maxi Madness.

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And like, I don't think we're ever going to see it's like the 1996 Chicago Bulls, just completely unmatched.

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But there's no competition that could ever come close to what Teddy Bitcoins did.

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But outside of Teddy Bitcoins, nobody's played this game better than Aaron and Casey did because they knew the rules.

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They understood the rules.

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They understood the tournament that they were a part of.

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And they played it very, very well.

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And they just outclassed everybody they faced.

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They outclassed the plebs by a wide margin.

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And that's why they won.

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And if the plebs weren't a hold of not to win, they should have voted for him.

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They should have rallied to support him.

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They should have lobbied and campaigned for him.

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Because that's all Aaron and Casey did.

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They didn't use bots.

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They simply took it seriously and left it all in the court And that how you win There is no secret sauce to this There no how do I you have to know the underground or black market bot websites

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No, that's not how you win Maxi Madness.

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You just have to play the game.

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And the planets don't.

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The planets can't play the game because they don't know what the rules are.

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And they don't, like you said earlier, they don't even take five minutes to research anything.

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They just, if they cannot map their plebsalot mental models to a new phenomenon instantly, they just crash out.

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They don't even try to understand.

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Yeah, I mean, one of the consistent questions I've asked a lot of these grumpy plebs is, why didn't you vote harder?

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You know, we saw this almost universally across the board is, you know, they're heroes.

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They didn't want to show up and compete.

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and you know whether you like it or not maxi madness is a incredible reflection of bitcoin

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culture in the bitcoin ecosystem and um i think we do a really good job of that of selecting a

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lot of individuals that are very active that you know have accomplished a lot that are interesting

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that are intelligent um and just like a wide variety of people and they they all go up against

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each other you know and compete and people vote for them and you know if anything so i mean this

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was funny last year because what was maxi madness last year it was signaling that

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swan didn't matter anymore

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cory and brady were crashing out constantly in my dms the whole maxi madness

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after cory refused to compete in round one and got knocked out because their arch nemesis teddy

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bitcoins was winning and you know my response was you could compete if you want to be a

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a part of Bitcoin culture, you can't just sit there and rest on your credentials and

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cry when other people beat you, you know, at the game that's being played.

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And I think this year with Casey and Aaron winning, it was, um, my takeaway from it is

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that it's just not that compelling to cry and be grumpy all the time.

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that's just not that's not what gets voters excited for you that's not what gets right

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the Democrats lost in 2024 all they want to do is crash out and cry about Trump this Trump is a

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Nazi Trump is racist Trump is a convicted felon Trump is this Trump is that Trump fails their

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purity test okay we get it a politician failed your purity test and so you're going to cry about

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it but the politician who competed wanted to compete and came out and had something to say

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had something to offer to the voters more than just hey i'm gonna cry about this with you let's

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cry about this together people that people don't people don't wake up in the morning and say

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i got it i got my checklist of things i have to do today i have to go to work i have to go to the

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gym, I have to sit in traffic, I have to call my mother-in-law, I have to have an argument with my

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neighbor Dale, and then I have to go to the polls to vote for the politician who's crying about the

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same shit I'm crying about. No, they're going to the polls to vote for somebody who's gone for

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something for free. It doesn't matter what that is. Casey came out, he looked hot, he smiled,

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and he said, listen, if you vote for me, I'm going to turn on the turbo flag. And people said,

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Free turbo flag.

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I'm voting for the free turbo flag.

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What did anybody else offer?

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They offered nothing more except for plebslop conspiracy theories, plebslop pity parties.

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People are not going to go vote after nearly getting into a fatal confrontation with their neighbor Dale over the, you know, who's mowing the lawn on a frequent enough basis.

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um no it's it's they don't know how to sell their own culture because and i think deep down they

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don't even believe in their own culture what is there to believe in in pleb slop culture there's

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nothing to believe in none of those people are happy nobody in the pleb slop pity party is happy

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they're all miserable they're all pissed off they're all they all hate each other and they

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They hate everybody else, and they can't even sell why anybody should care about them.

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All they can do is cry about the fact that nobody does care about them.

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Yeah, I mean, one of the ways that you could have, or, you know, in the node region, for example,

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the Nazis could have countered a lot of these other people is they could have just been out there and said,

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hey we're actually going to get bit 110 activated you know vote for us show us your support you know

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show your support for bit 110 and then you'll win your bets on predix like that could have totally

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countered the uh the narrative around the turbo flag but yeah it's funny because they they truly

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are miserable people because they all they do is fuck a bitch they all they do they're they're so

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hyper-focused with just like bitching about what everybody else is doing and being the um

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the plebs lot police and um and there's very little about cordevs having sex they're bitching

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about casey and aaron being hot which means they think that they're probably having sex

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casey's an incel just like the plebs and they don't even take time to realize that yeah but i

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mean it's just it's pretty astounding because like you know i've never really um like i think

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inscriptions are like funny um and relatively uninteresting you know because like i've talked

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to these people like when we went to spamming vegas which was a great experience like i did

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I love Aaron and Casey.

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Like I just,

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I think they're some of the best Bitcoin podcasters in existence right now.

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They're,

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they're very,

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you know,

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engaging and interesting to listen to.

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They're very intelligent.

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They're,

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they're great orators.

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Like they're,

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they're just very entertaining to listen to,

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you know,

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their banter back and forth.

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And I think a lot of people can just learn from their communication strategies

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by listening to their podcasts.

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even if you don't like, you know, the ideas that they present or who they are.

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I think they're the best at the game right now.

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But like, you know, I've talked to these Ordinals people and we live on very different planets.

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You know, I was walking around spamming Vegas, you know, I was thinking about doing an inscription set

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and I just didn't get around to it because I had other things to do.

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I've never inscribed anything other than, you know, using like the opera term bond to say Linden Alden is hot or whatever.

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But like, I was thinking about, you know, doing this Ordel's inscription collection of all the propaganda posters from the, you know, Corv versus Knots article I did a long time ago.

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And I was talking to one of the guys there, and he was telling me about his wallet that he built, which was kind of unusual to talk to somebody at a conference talking about something that they were actually building.

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But that seemed to be most of the people at the Ordinals Conference.

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They were building something or another.

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And he was kind of baffled that I wasn't uploading or trying to inscribe pictures of animals like that.

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He was just very confused by that, which just kind of shows that we live in very different perspectives and worlds.

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A lot of those people are a lot more fun to hang out with, even if they're a bunch of wackadoos.

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There's no fads there.

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There's no fads in that community.

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Oh, I'm sure there's plenty of fads.

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I didn't see any.

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When I was hanging out at the quote-unquote maximalists, where all the Bitcoin-only plebs were hanging out, it was absolutely full of feds, like obvious feds, politicians, feds.

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You go into spamming, they, because I didn't see any feds.

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Maybe there was one or two there.

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I don't know.

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You're talking about the out-of-the-closet feds.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I mean, it's anecdotal.

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Right down the street from each other, one expo hall was, I mean, there was more feds in some of these rooms, in some of these stages.

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At the Bitcoin conference last year, then there was Plex.

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And when you went to the ordinals, it was all, it was, there was no feds in sight.

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At least visible.

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and I mean there was at the Venetian there was more make America great there were more MAGA hats

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than than Bitcoin hats and that's that's just a snapshot but it's it's it tells you

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it's a sample size of that community and there was no politicians of standing Vegas

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there's no Republicans or Democrats very few libertarians that's probably why it was so fun

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um and like you talk about the devil money podcasts i'm not really good at podcasting

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and talking about things about bitcoin they're also relevant to like contemporary popular

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and some of these other like more popular subcultures the planet podcast like it's

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there is little it's so it's it's a one it's a one dog show it's like they've got nothing other

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than bitching and complaining about, you know, Bitcoin culture.

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Yeah, the podcast is bitching about something else,

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is bitching about how the world's broken,

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or is bitching about, or just, you know,

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repeating the same old taglines of use this, you know, KYC exchange

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and, you know, withdraw to this hardware wallet.

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And that's about, like, the extent of the analysis that you get,

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you know, maybe some, like, macro slop once in a while.

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and it's just it it's it's boring and it's it's uninteresting like casey and aaron won because

437
00:36:19,196 --> 00:36:25,776
they're not boring and they are interesting at the end of the day is my my interpretation of it

438
00:36:25,776 --> 00:36:31,856
and you could even make the interpretation that casey and aaron did not win as much as the plans

439
00:36:31,856 --> 00:36:40,816
simply lost it was massy madness was huddle not or any of anybody else on that board that you

440
00:36:40,816 --> 00:36:47,016
wanted to root for instead of them it was theirs to win uh and instead of winning it they just

441
00:36:47,016 --> 00:36:54,536
fumbled the bag i mean i i agree with that but i do think it's important to give casey and her

442
00:36:54,536 --> 00:36:56,336
some credit because they

443
00:36:56,336 --> 00:36:58,996
it wasn't just more than

444
00:36:58,996 --> 00:37:00,936
you know the plebs losing

445
00:37:00,936 --> 00:37:03,176
you know they really are

446
00:37:03,176 --> 00:37:07,176
the pinnacle of Bitcoin

447
00:37:07,176 --> 00:37:09,176
culture right now in a lot of

448
00:37:09,176 --> 00:37:10,296
ways in my opinion

449
00:37:10,296 --> 00:37:11,576
and

450
00:37:11,576 --> 00:37:15,036
you know whether you like them or not

451
00:37:15,036 --> 00:37:16,956
they are interesting

452
00:37:16,956 --> 00:37:19,016
they are engaging they're entertaining

453
00:37:19,016 --> 00:37:19,996
they're funny

454
00:37:19,996 --> 00:37:22,016
Aaron's hot

455
00:37:22,016 --> 00:37:24,796
Casey's really smart

456
00:37:24,796 --> 00:37:27,176
Casey's hot too

457
00:37:27,176 --> 00:37:27,616
I mean

458
00:37:27,616 --> 00:37:29,676
don't take that away from him

459
00:37:29,676 --> 00:37:31,116
Casey's hotter

460
00:37:31,116 --> 00:37:31,996
and in better shape

461
00:37:31,996 --> 00:37:32,336
than

462
00:37:32,336 --> 00:37:34,516
99% of the plebs

463
00:37:34,516 --> 00:37:35,216
you will ever meet

464
00:37:35,216 --> 00:37:37,956
I mean which

465
00:37:37,956 --> 00:37:39,116
which fucking

466
00:37:39,116 --> 00:37:40,596
you know

467
00:37:40,596 --> 00:37:41,636
pleb hero

468
00:37:41,636 --> 00:37:42,736
in the tournament

469
00:37:42,736 --> 00:37:44,716
had a really hot woman

470
00:37:44,716 --> 00:37:45,796
uh

471
00:37:45,796 --> 00:37:48,316
saying that she was

472
00:37:48,316 --> 00:37:49,216
gonna post nudes

473
00:37:49,216 --> 00:37:50,216
if they won

474
00:37:50,216 --> 00:37:52,996
exactly

475
00:37:52,996 --> 00:37:55,016
none of them

476
00:37:55,016 --> 00:37:56,496
but um

477
00:37:56,496 --> 00:37:58,776
there are important things in Maxi Manus

478
00:37:58,776 --> 00:38:00,096
going on in the world right now

479
00:38:00,096 --> 00:38:01,816
you know

480
00:38:01,816 --> 00:38:04,756
I disagree but we can talk about other

481
00:38:04,756 --> 00:38:06,356
things it's a

482
00:38:06,356 --> 00:38:08,596
just to kind of cap up this

483
00:38:08,596 --> 00:38:11,056
conversation I think there's a lot

484
00:38:11,056 --> 00:38:12,796
that people can

485
00:38:12,796 --> 00:38:13,376
learn from

486
00:38:13,376 --> 00:38:16,736
and you know one of the things that

487
00:38:16,736 --> 00:38:18,816
was refreshing to the tournament

488
00:38:18,816 --> 00:38:23,616
was watching the Noster ecosystem respond

489
00:38:23,616 --> 00:38:28,576
and getting to see a lot of the discussion in the group chats.

490
00:38:29,376 --> 00:38:33,516
Rev Hoddle, that might have been the highlight of his entire life

491
00:38:33,516 --> 00:38:34,756
was this week.

492
00:38:34,936 --> 00:38:36,076
He was having a blast.

493
00:38:36,296 --> 00:38:37,316
He was having a good time.

494
00:38:37,956 --> 00:38:40,896
He was committed to taking home the W.

495
00:38:41,856 --> 00:38:42,696
He took it home.

496
00:38:42,696 --> 00:38:44,056
Noah was having fun.

497
00:38:45,856 --> 00:38:47,316
Even Grumpy Odell.

498
00:38:48,816 --> 00:38:51,716
got to see a couple smiles on his face.

499
00:38:51,796 --> 00:38:54,396
So he was having fun throughout the maxi madness.

500
00:38:54,396 --> 00:38:55,096
And,

501
00:38:55,096 --> 00:38:55,456
uh,

502
00:38:57,316 --> 00:38:57,976
it's just,

503
00:38:58,096 --> 00:39:00,736
it's not entirely that the,

504
00:39:00,856 --> 00:39:02,116
the,

505
00:39:02,236 --> 00:39:05,116
the whole kind of like 2021,

506
00:39:05,116 --> 00:39:06,396
uh,

507
00:39:07,396 --> 00:39:10,696
perspective around Bitcoin is,

508
00:39:10,876 --> 00:39:11,136
uh,

509
00:39:11,776 --> 00:39:12,436
is grumpy.

510
00:39:12,536 --> 00:39:13,136
It's just a,

511
00:39:13,196 --> 00:39:13,536
the,

512
00:39:13,536 --> 00:39:14,956
the predominant ones on,

513
00:39:15,036 --> 00:39:17,436
on Twitter seem to be that way.

514
00:39:17,536 --> 00:39:18,096
And,

515
00:39:18,176 --> 00:39:18,496
uh,

516
00:39:18,816 --> 00:39:23,276
You know, there are a couple people that have retired to Nostra that seem to be having fun.

517
00:39:23,436 --> 00:39:25,116
And so it's a very different game.

518
00:39:25,896 --> 00:39:28,416
There's a lot of grumpy people on Nostra too, though.

519
00:39:29,436 --> 00:39:32,116
There's a lot of people crashing out and being grumpy on Nostra.

520
00:39:32,276 --> 00:39:35,356
I wouldn't say that everybody was having fun on Nostra.

521
00:39:37,756 --> 00:39:39,016
I mean, there weren't that many.

522
00:39:39,196 --> 00:39:40,276
I mean, there was a couple.

523
00:39:41,416 --> 00:39:43,756
You know, some of them, like, need creations.

524
00:39:43,756 --> 00:39:48,716
Like, the only reason why he was on Nostra is because he's taking Lent off of Twitter.

525
00:39:48,816 --> 00:39:58,336
um which in my opinion using nostor is essentially cheating on lent um so i i think god's pretty

526
00:39:58,336 --> 00:40:08,156
disappointed with the need creations um but uh i don't know i mean did you did you really see a

527
00:40:08,156 --> 00:40:13,316
bunch of grumpy people i only saw a handful i saw way more grumpy people than i saw happy people

528
00:40:13,316 --> 00:40:19,156
when i walked in it was just like what's this maxi madness this is the most annoying scammy

529
00:40:19,156 --> 00:40:25,436
thing i've ever seen in my life and you know i saw some people having fun i saw some i absolutely

530
00:40:25,436 --> 00:40:29,836
there's a lot of people having fun but it was i when i when i walked in i was like well what are

531
00:40:29,836 --> 00:40:37,056
these guys crashing out about um and they just i mean maxi madness if you're on x if you're on

532
00:40:37,056 --> 00:40:42,876
twitter you probably at this point have seen it coming but this was the first year that it was on

533
00:40:42,876 --> 00:40:49,696
these guys had no idea what was coming and it really it was really i think overwhelming for

534
00:40:49,696 --> 00:40:54,256
some people they were they were definitely crashing out i saw a lot of people crashing out about it

535
00:40:54,256 --> 00:41:00,076
well i understand how it could be a little bit overstimulating for people that are used to

536
00:41:00,076 --> 00:41:05,296
scrolling through the timeline and not seeing really much of anything but like uh right it was

537
00:41:05,296 --> 00:41:19,356
Yeah, a lot of new posts, a lot of people having a good time, doing more than just saying good morning to each other and not seeing any new posts for 24 hours.

538
00:41:19,796 --> 00:41:22,616
But, yeah, it was a lot.

539
00:41:22,616 --> 00:41:46,974
I mean a huge part of the way that I think a lot of us interact with these social platforms is using group chats as well as kind of like an extension to interface with them of people sharing posts you know discussing you know what they seeing shaping a broader perspective outside of the algorithm and uh i saw so many people having fun

540
00:41:46,974 --> 00:41:52,214
in the group chats i i got so many messages you know for people that were telling me that they

541
00:41:52,214 --> 00:41:59,014
signed up to predix and like what their their bets looked like and um you know what good friend of the

542
00:41:59,014 --> 00:42:06,274
show um told me that they won like 120 sats or something like that and felt really accomplished

543
00:42:06,274 --> 00:42:12,414
with themselves you know for betting on rev hodl like it's just it was generational wealth yeah

544
00:42:12,414 --> 00:42:20,414
generational wealth and uh just i mean it was mostly it was mostly the meshed at all guys it's

545
00:42:20,414 --> 00:42:26,874
mostly the you know the the people that were real good friends of uh rev hodl that are you know just

546
00:42:26,874 --> 00:42:33,454
true pioneers i mean they're they're definitely like i don't really consider michael dunsworth

547
00:42:33,454 --> 00:42:40,014
a person you know at this point because he it's like he's got some he's got the equivalent of trump

548
00:42:40,014 --> 00:42:44,814
derangement syndrome so i guess i don't really count his crash out as a real crash out because

549
00:42:44,814 --> 00:42:49,874
it's just like you know when somebody tells you that americans want to be australians

550
00:42:49,874 --> 00:42:58,654
you're you're not a real person at that point you have just you you detached detached from reality

551
00:42:58,654 --> 00:43:06,994
objectively an npc objectively an npc like they're so maybe that's why i just didn't really

552
00:43:06,994 --> 00:43:15,774
think much of uh the crash outs uh because it was uh i don't know i saw a lot of positivity

553
00:43:15,774 --> 00:43:21,974
i saw a lot of people having fun it was just minus like you know a couple goofballs that

554
00:43:21,974 --> 00:43:27,334
there's like one guy that lost his predicts bet and uh he was a little bit grumpy but

555
00:43:27,334 --> 00:43:38,794
yeah i don't know it's like uh all right well guys i gotta say

556
00:43:38,794 --> 00:43:44,334
I'm glad that Maximo Madness is over.

557
00:43:44,514 --> 00:43:45,794
That was a...

558
00:43:47,414 --> 00:43:50,434
I think we're probably going to do like one more episode discussing it.

559
00:43:50,574 --> 00:43:53,494
We're going to interview Rev Hoddle, the winner.

560
00:43:55,954 --> 00:43:59,154
But I think we're moving on to other things.

561
00:44:00,874 --> 00:44:05,774
The next big thing on our horizon is going to be Las Vegas.

562
00:44:06,774 --> 00:44:08,274
Are you ready for Vegas?

563
00:44:08,274 --> 00:44:14,574
Are you ready for the Sodom and Gomorrah of the Podcom Super Bowl?

564
00:44:15,814 --> 00:44:16,114
Rod?

565
00:44:17,954 --> 00:44:18,514
Fine.

566
00:44:19,794 --> 00:44:21,374
As ready as I'll ever be.

567
00:44:21,514 --> 00:44:23,574
You can never be ready for...

568
00:44:23,574 --> 00:44:25,274
It's going to be a...

569
00:44:26,094 --> 00:44:27,834
A plus-lop panacea.

570
00:44:28,354 --> 00:44:32,274
I think the only way that this could be crazier would be as for...

571
00:44:33,454 --> 00:44:37,274
You know, if Bitcoin was at $100,000, but it is going to be...

572
00:44:38,274 --> 00:44:43,314
out of this world i think but i'm looking forward to it i'm looking forward to the

573
00:44:43,314 --> 00:44:48,314
you know doing something with pop key doing something matt and marie it's going to be fun

574
00:44:48,314 --> 00:44:53,414
there'll be more details about that but stay tuned but if you're going to be there just make sure you

575
00:44:53,414 --> 00:44:59,114
get your tickets yeah i'm excited to hanging out with a lot of the friends of the show not

576
00:44:59,114 --> 00:45:06,434
everybody's going to be there uh this year but uh there's going to be some some good ones that

577
00:45:06,434 --> 00:45:07,854
I'm looking forward to hanging out with,

578
00:45:07,854 --> 00:45:08,274
uh,

579
00:45:10,674 --> 00:45:12,054
could be hanging out with Avi,

580
00:45:12,534 --> 00:45:12,954
Burra,

581
00:45:13,114 --> 00:45:14,634
and open mic and Noah,

582
00:45:14,994 --> 00:45:15,534
you know,

583
00:45:15,554 --> 00:45:17,094
at the Noster event that we got,

584
00:45:17,894 --> 00:45:18,134
I,

585
00:45:18,274 --> 00:45:20,134
I'm looking forward to,

586
00:45:20,134 --> 00:45:23,174
to twisting Marty's knobs a little bit in person.

587
00:45:23,314 --> 00:45:25,734
It's like one of my favorite things to do is,

588
00:45:25,894 --> 00:45:26,094
uh,

589
00:45:26,794 --> 00:45:29,334
I can't wait to talk about AI and silver with Marty.

590
00:45:31,614 --> 00:45:32,794
He wants those things.

591
00:45:34,114 --> 00:45:34,734
He's just,

592
00:45:34,834 --> 00:45:35,674
he's funny.

593
00:45:35,754 --> 00:45:36,234
Like he,

594
00:45:36,234 --> 00:45:44,374
He's a plab that found himself becoming one of the biggest Bitcoin podcasters who is a millennial that wants to be a Gen Xer.

595
00:45:45,874 --> 00:45:49,794
He's got identity crises top to bottom.

596
00:45:50,014 --> 00:45:50,974
He's so confused.

597
00:45:54,394 --> 00:45:59,114
It's just these lax bros are so funny.

598
00:46:00,254 --> 00:46:02,234
Did you ever play lacrosse growing up?

599
00:46:03,574 --> 00:46:03,814
No.

600
00:46:03,814 --> 00:46:07,694
Now, I was a humble clap growing up.

601
00:46:07,774 --> 00:46:09,674
I was not a rich elitist.

602
00:46:09,934 --> 00:46:14,114
That's like lacrosse is for kids who grew up with the silver spin in their mouth.

603
00:46:14,414 --> 00:46:16,274
And that's maybe why Marty likes silver so much.

604
00:46:16,354 --> 00:46:18,454
He grew up with the silver spin in his mouth.

605
00:46:20,054 --> 00:46:20,954
That makes sense.

606
00:46:21,754 --> 00:46:27,414
It's the kids that grew up with Sperry's on their feet, wearing Virginia vines.

607
00:46:28,434 --> 00:46:29,674
We all know Marty was that way.

608
00:46:29,674 --> 00:46:38,494
uh yeah we got it like uh i think that's pretty much it for us in vegas i mean there's a couple

609
00:46:38,494 --> 00:46:43,934
events that we're going to be going to probably be going to some parties it's just uh head us up

610
00:46:43,934 --> 00:46:50,134
if you're going and you want to get together with us i might do a smoking meetup my my keynote speech

611
00:46:50,134 --> 00:46:56,674
is going to be in the the parking lot smoking area uh really grateful for bitcoin magazine for

612
00:46:56,674 --> 00:47:05,194
giving me a keynote slot um might as well have like a smoky meetup before or after out there

613
00:47:05,194 --> 00:47:12,754
uh yeah we get closer to the event we'll have more idea of what's going on what days we'll be

614
00:47:12,754 --> 00:47:18,674
enticed you'll be able to figure out find us figure it out you know or if you're like shadrack

615
00:47:18,674 --> 00:47:26,534
we'll find you and you'll somehow already have swag that we haven't even created yet you already

616
00:47:26,534 --> 00:47:32,154
wearing it that was still one of the funniest situations ever like fine shadrach found us

617
00:47:32,154 --> 00:47:36,754
i don't know how he did it that was pretty wild

618
00:47:36,754 --> 00:47:41,674
shadrach offered you a cigarette before you even had a chance to introduce yourself

619
00:47:41,674 --> 00:47:46,854
well he walked up to me with a hat that said credential journalist on it like he

620
00:47:46,854 --> 00:47:55,854
i mean if he could figure out who we are without having ever met either of us uh i guess that does

621
00:47:55,854 --> 00:48:01,074
make him a good candidate for credential journalist it was pretty wild but it was literally anybody

622
00:48:01,074 --> 00:48:09,174
else i would have suspected him as a fed but shadrack is he's not he's not a fed shadrack is

623
00:48:09,174 --> 00:48:14,254
is the best yeah we had a fun night with him that night that was uh

624
00:48:14,854 --> 00:48:21,574
yeah we took shadrack to the uh the triple a week memes bitcoin fight club event the underground

625
00:48:21,574 --> 00:48:23,854
and pick up Fight Club where Neat Creations

626
00:48:23,854 --> 00:48:25,654
got his ass kicked by somebody from town.

627
00:48:26,454 --> 00:48:27,074
It was crazy.

628
00:48:29,114 --> 00:48:30,534
I don't think you're supposed to talk about it,

629
00:48:31,434 --> 00:48:31,914
the outcome.

630
00:48:32,554 --> 00:48:35,914
It's like one of the rules of TM Fight Club,

631
00:48:35,914 --> 00:48:41,274
but we met Mars there.

632
00:48:43,174 --> 00:48:44,934
Neat Creations did a good job.

633
00:48:45,334 --> 00:48:48,074
I wouldn't say he stood his ground.

634
00:48:48,074 --> 00:48:55,074
You know, it's like for those who have never fought in a ring before, just got to give props where props are due.

635
00:48:57,234 --> 00:48:58,254
Let's put it this way.

636
00:48:59,314 --> 00:49:02,654
Neat Creations is the only plan on my timeline that I see on a regular basis.

637
00:49:02,774 --> 00:49:05,794
I would have gotten that octagon and fought, and he did it.

638
00:49:07,354 --> 00:49:12,274
Everybody else talks shit and then, you know, blocks or mutes when people say, hey, sign the waiver.

639
00:49:13,794 --> 00:49:16,454
Yeah, you don't see Shinobi out there.

640
00:49:16,454 --> 00:49:18,634
fighting in the

641
00:49:18,634 --> 00:49:21,454
I wonder

642
00:49:21,454 --> 00:49:23,154
yeah I wonder if they're going to do another one

643
00:49:23,154 --> 00:49:24,234
or not but

644
00:49:24,234 --> 00:49:30,994
I don't know I'm pretty excited

645
00:49:30,994 --> 00:49:33,274
I'm

646
00:49:33,274 --> 00:49:35,114
very excited like the Ponkov

647
00:49:35,114 --> 00:49:37,054
Super Bowl is just so much fun

648
00:49:37,054 --> 00:49:39,394
it has always been the highlight

649
00:49:39,394 --> 00:49:42,794
like last year

650
00:49:42,794 --> 00:49:45,454
spamming Vegas hanging out with Aaron

651
00:49:45,454 --> 00:49:47,814
running around with fundamentals

652
00:49:47,814 --> 00:49:52,234
yeah there was a lot of things

653
00:49:52,234 --> 00:49:53,674
that were pretty entertaining last year

654
00:49:53,674 --> 00:50:06,012
smoking cigarettes listening to the Satoshi rakamoto they were actually pretty good i i i

655
00:50:06,012 --> 00:50:11,272
figured that satoshi rakamoto would just be pure unadulterated plebslot music but like it was

656
00:50:11,272 --> 00:50:16,432
they had some pretty talented musicians in it and uh i was impressed like uh

657
00:50:17,212 --> 00:50:23,392
nico's wife sophie is a very talented singer from simply bitcoin

658
00:50:23,392 --> 00:50:34,012
she blew me away she's got she's the most talented person at simply bitcoin for sure i agree um

659
00:50:34,012 --> 00:50:39,932
but yeah so you know the war is going on there you know people are still kind of discussing

660
00:50:39,932 --> 00:50:44,912
whether they think bb's dead or not if uh it is confirmed that bb's dead do you think the war

661
00:50:44,912 --> 00:50:49,072
stops like trump doesn't have to worry about getting killed anymore or what do you think

662
00:50:49,072 --> 00:51:00,832
BB's talking about like in annexing all of South Lebanon and like they're like extending their for their defense posture or whatever.

663
00:51:00,952 --> 00:51:01,792
Get ready to invade.

664
00:51:02,512 --> 00:51:04,412
I don't see any Navy.

665
00:51:05,032 --> 00:51:09,192
Maybe I've just been busy with Vaxie Madness, but I don't see too many people talking about BB being dead anymore.

666
00:51:09,372 --> 00:51:14,672
And he sounds like he's leading an invasion of the IGF into South Lebanon.

667
00:51:16,352 --> 00:51:17,232
And personally.

668
00:51:17,232 --> 00:51:17,632
Yeah.

669
00:51:19,072 --> 00:51:26,712
he's going like fully lindsey graham front lines peter todd style that's that's a yeah that's

670
00:51:26,712 --> 00:51:31,652
possible um i don't know if he's gonna be on the front front lines and he might be like behind

671
00:51:31,652 --> 00:51:37,052
he might he's gonna be using some israeli plebs as cannon fodder because that's what plebs are

672
00:51:37,052 --> 00:51:43,932
for so as long as they have some plebs as clean cannon fodder they're gonna use them um but you

673
00:51:43,932 --> 00:51:49,212
know if they're on a cannon fodder it could be bb on the front lines i mean having six fingers

674
00:51:49,212 --> 00:51:56,232
is a huge benefit to being on the front lines because you have your trigger finger plus more

675
00:51:56,232 --> 00:52:01,352
you have extra grip for aim uh you could you could you could you can also smoke a cigarette

676
00:52:01,352 --> 00:52:08,772
more easily if you have six fingers so yeah you know i would watch out you do not want i mean if

677
00:52:08,772 --> 00:52:14,772
If you know anything about Bibi, like he's not, he may be old now, but motherfucker is a war hero.

678
00:52:15,232 --> 00:52:25,752
Him and Ehud Barak, one of the other former prime ministers, those dudes have killed a lot of Muslim plebs.

679
00:52:26,352 --> 00:52:28,372
And they're not, let me tell you.

680
00:52:29,592 --> 00:52:38,612
Yeah, I mean, I guess what's so different about the war in Israel is, you know, when you're sitting in Tel Aviv,

681
00:52:38,612 --> 00:52:43,372
that's essentially like the front lines right just because of proximity because the country's so small

682
00:52:43,372 --> 00:52:51,412
like you you're getting hit by hypersonic missiles on your flank while you're trying to fight

683
00:52:51,412 --> 00:52:56,992
a hezbollah in front of you and you haven't even left your front your front porch

684
00:52:56,992 --> 00:53:04,652
like donald trump's hanging out in mar-a-lago that's very different than uh you know being in

685
00:53:04,652 --> 00:53:10,312
tel aviv on the ground and uh so props to mike huckabee he's been on the uh the front lines of

686
00:53:10,312 --> 00:53:17,192
the the war this whole time because it's a lot more uh brave than a lot of uh yeah i don't know

687
00:53:17,192 --> 00:53:22,472
politicians i don't know if mike huckabee's lost weight because he's been fighting war or if he's

688
00:53:22,472 --> 00:53:28,832
on ozempic but mike huckabee is looking like mike brock these days he's looking quite thin quite fit

689
00:53:28,832 --> 00:53:35,872
oh did i did i tell you that i got to chat with mike brock last week

690
00:53:35,872 --> 00:53:40,452
and twitter spaces look you told me i don't know if you told the listeners

691
00:53:40,452 --> 00:53:49,432
you have like a 20 minute recording of me uh talking to mike brock a little bit and uh it was

692
00:53:49,432 --> 00:53:56,992
you know a pretty entertaining discussion as usual it was just you know mike um doing the

693
00:53:56,992 --> 00:54:04,372
typical glazing himself like his his new uh evolution of crash out is he likes to uh use

694
00:54:04,372 --> 00:54:12,412
a british accent sometimes and uh it's just how did he how did he respond to you calling him a

695
00:54:12,412 --> 00:54:20,052
subjectivist philosopher i i wasn't the one that called him that that was uh another guy uh i forgot

696
00:54:20,052 --> 00:54:26,652
what his name is like hash browns or something like that uh i think that's a great that's a great

697
00:54:26,652 --> 00:54:32,252
framing as soon as this as soon as we're done recording i'm about to hop in spaces hash browns

698
00:54:32,252 --> 00:54:36,332
is uh is how it's in the sunday swerve i'm gonna go talk to those guys

699
00:54:36,332 --> 00:54:43,912
i i think that's a great framing of either you're an objectivist or you're subjectivist

700
00:54:43,912 --> 00:54:49,232
it's like it's true it's the it's a philosopher binary

701
00:54:49,232 --> 00:54:58,432
it's like either you're uh you're a maxi or you're a spammer or shit coiner right like there there's no

702
00:54:58,432 --> 00:55:05,592
nuance to it it's very black or white i mean that's going to be you know mike was

703
00:55:05,592 --> 00:55:12,592
the the first thing in the space you know mike was pumping himself up about how he's planning on

704
00:55:12,592 --> 00:55:14,312
demolishing Curtis Yarvin

705
00:55:14,312 --> 00:55:17,052
in that debate and I gotta say

706
00:55:17,052 --> 00:55:18,992
is that

707
00:55:18,992 --> 00:55:19,652
gonna be

708
00:55:19,652 --> 00:55:21,732
fun to watch

709
00:55:21,732 --> 00:55:23,612
Mike Barack

710
00:55:23,612 --> 00:55:25,972
has the potential

711
00:55:25,972 --> 00:55:28,912
to save our democracy

712
00:55:28,912 --> 00:55:30,692
by demolishing Curtis Yarvin

713
00:55:30,692 --> 00:55:32,912
like everything

714
00:55:32,912 --> 00:55:34,472
is on his shoulders

715
00:55:34,472 --> 00:55:35,672
right now

716
00:55:35,672 --> 00:55:38,472
he was bragging about how

717
00:55:38,472 --> 00:55:39,292
he's not

718
00:55:39,292 --> 00:55:42,352
he was bragging about how he's not gonna do

719
00:55:42,352 --> 00:55:43,412
any debate prep

720
00:55:43,412 --> 00:55:46,312
that he's ready for it, that he was born

721
00:55:46,312 --> 00:55:48,352
ready for it, that he doesn't

722
00:55:48,352 --> 00:55:49,532
feel like he needs to

723
00:55:49,532 --> 00:55:53,252
it's just

724
00:55:53,252 --> 00:55:55,512
it's going to be

725
00:55:55,512 --> 00:55:58,172
I mean I've never, I don't think

726
00:55:58,172 --> 00:56:00,352
I have ever in my

727
00:56:00,352 --> 00:56:01,832
entire life been excited

728
00:56:01,832 --> 00:56:04,312
about conference programming

729
00:56:04,312 --> 00:56:05,352
at Bitcoin

730
00:56:05,352 --> 00:56:08,152
at the Slop Super Bowl

731
00:56:08,152 --> 00:56:10,512
but, or PodConf Super Bowl

732
00:56:10,512 --> 00:56:10,892
but

733
00:56:12,352 --> 00:56:16,772
That one is going to be ground shaking.

734
00:56:18,252 --> 00:56:19,472
It's like, you know.

735
00:56:20,052 --> 00:56:21,672
Yeah, I want to miss that one for sure.

736
00:56:22,092 --> 00:56:24,972
It's, it's going to determine.

737
00:56:25,732 --> 00:56:27,512
Today is terming the midterms, actually.

738
00:56:28,372 --> 00:56:34,232
So if you want, if you want an alpha to vote in the prediction markets for who's going to win the midterms.

739
00:56:35,452 --> 00:56:38,432
Just watch to see the wins between Mike Brock and Curtis Yarvin.

740
00:56:38,432 --> 00:56:46,212
so like for people that don't know who curtis yarvin is uh he's essentially like peter thiel

741
00:56:46,212 --> 00:56:56,132
jd vance's favorite podcaster and um i think that's why he used to be on twitter as menchus

742
00:56:56,132 --> 00:57:04,412
mold bug and he was a twitter troll very very offensive all right you know adjacent uh maybe

743
00:57:04,412 --> 00:57:11,412
a monarchist for sure uh he's been on peter mccormick's podcast a few times uh he's recently

744
00:57:11,412 --> 00:57:16,752
he's posted pictures has been hanging out with alex soros which is kind of a troll but kind of

745
00:57:16,752 --> 00:57:25,452
funny but yeah he is the he's the monarchist like he's not a he's not a credentialed philosopher

746
00:57:25,452 --> 00:57:36,432
like mike brock is but he is a a very talented sophist um and he he has the ears and the

747
00:57:36,432 --> 00:57:42,572
attention of some very prominent figures on the right and he's he's he's a sophisticated

748
00:57:42,572 --> 00:57:48,472
he's a sophisticated philosopher like mike even if he's not credentialed um but he has been the

749
00:57:48,472 --> 00:57:56,912
alter he's been mike brock's nemesis his op his rival whether he knows it or not for for years now

750
00:57:56,912 --> 00:58:05,512
and i he's coming into this i hope he doesn't fade mike brock but because mike brock's not is

751
00:58:05,512 --> 00:58:14,392
not fading curtis well mike brock is fading curtis actually that's what he was uh saying

752
00:58:14,392 --> 00:58:30,550
in the Twitter spaces but you know Oof Well he made that mistake with you and it did not turn out well you know it just i don know it it gonna be you know fascinating to watch i uh

753
00:58:30,550 --> 00:58:37,490
i'm wondering if mike brock beats curtis yarvin in this debate like does that mean that he

754
00:58:37,490 --> 00:58:42,330
you know individuals like peter thiel will want mike brock to be their

755
00:58:42,330 --> 00:58:50,330
resonant philosopher in the future well like bill mike brock now does mike brock live every

756
00:58:50,330 --> 00:58:59,570
every weekday at 4 p.m um eastern or i don't know he does it at 4 p.m sometimes um and if

757
00:58:59,570 --> 00:59:04,770
mike brock wins he might might brought by then the afternoon might be sponsored by valentier

758
00:59:04,770 --> 00:59:13,230
you know the last thing i'll say on this topic but i i had a funny exchange with mike where um

759
00:59:13,230 --> 00:59:18,430
you know i asked him his thoughts on the epstein list and then he proceeded to brag about how he

760
00:59:18,430 --> 00:59:23,590
has more friends on the epstein list than any of us in that twitter space uh that was his immediate

761
00:59:23,590 --> 00:59:28,890
reaction but um you know the reason why i asked him was because i tried to bring it up during the

762
00:59:28,890 --> 00:59:36,370
debate and uh he wrote me off but you know since then he's been very uh vocal about discussing

763
00:59:36,370 --> 00:59:44,490
the epstein list and i you know he was expressing his extreme shock with how serious and pervasive

764
00:59:44,490 --> 00:59:51,030
it was and i explained to him mike if you'd been listening to 40 hours of bitcoin podcast years ago

765
00:59:51,030 --> 00:59:52,970
you would have known about all this shit recently.

766
00:59:55,310 --> 01:00:00,070
And he didn't really appreciate that.

767
01:00:00,070 --> 01:00:04,630
He disagreed with that, even though we all know it's true.

768
01:00:04,830 --> 01:00:08,330
Because we all knew about the Epstein list a long, long time ago.

769
01:00:12,390 --> 01:00:16,410
And I learned that he drives a McLaren.

770
01:00:17,190 --> 01:00:19,690
Or, well, he doesn't drive it, but he has a McLaren.

771
01:00:21,030 --> 01:00:23,050
That was, uh, he doesn't drive it.

772
01:00:24,450 --> 01:00:26,730
He said he hasn't driven it for a long time.

773
01:00:26,730 --> 01:00:33,230
Cause he like a McLaren is not really like a daily driver.

774
01:00:34,910 --> 01:00:37,610
It's like something you take out to the track.

775
01:00:37,690 --> 01:00:45,530
He said he hasn't had time to go to the track because, uh, he's too busy, you know, podcasting in order to save our democracy.

776
01:00:46,330 --> 01:00:48,970
Um, writing a lot of essays for sure.

777
01:00:48,970 --> 01:00:57,970
I mean, that's some sacrifice, if I've ever heard of sacrifice, not driving your McLaren to podcast and save our democracy.

778
01:01:00,710 --> 01:01:12,670
Well, folks, I guess one of the final topics I wanted to talk about is just, you know, Bitcoin's role in protecting our American financial privilege.

779
01:01:12,670 --> 01:01:22,350
And, you know, I was talking with this interesting guy, you know, that I've sort of made friends with on Twitter in the last couple of years.

780
01:01:22,430 --> 01:01:23,370
His name is Bam.

781
01:01:24,350 --> 01:01:25,990
He's a Syrian guy.

782
01:01:26,110 --> 01:01:30,070
He has the biggest Arabic speaking Bitcoin publication in the world.

783
01:01:31,010 --> 01:01:31,950
Very intelligent guy.

784
01:01:32,850 --> 01:01:41,190
And, you know, one of the things that he was talking about is about how American culture drives Bitcoin culture.

785
01:01:41,190 --> 01:01:47,330
and um you know one of the things i explained to him on the on the twitter space is there the

786
01:01:47,330 --> 01:01:49,710
reason why is because as americans we

787
01:01:49,710 --> 01:01:57,930
we truly value our financial privilege other people around the world you know they don't

788
01:01:57,930 --> 01:02:03,170
really value it you would you know there's lots of people that are talking about like nigerian

789
01:02:03,170 --> 01:02:07,870
bitcoin adoption you know these countries that have extreme hyperinflation where it should be

790
01:02:07,870 --> 01:02:12,150
pretty obvious that they should be using Bitcoin, but you know, they don't really do it.

791
01:02:15,810 --> 01:02:19,530
They just don't value their financial privilege very much.

792
01:02:19,610 --> 01:02:22,690
Like it's just not something that's very important to them because they've never experienced

793
01:02:22,690 --> 01:02:23,190
it before.

794
01:02:23,190 --> 01:02:27,410
But here in the United States, we value our financial privilege.

795
01:02:27,590 --> 01:02:34,670
And I think that's why Donald Trump continues to say nice things about Bitcoin, even though

796
01:02:34,670 --> 01:02:36,830
he keeps on doing things that make the price go down.

797
01:02:37,870 --> 01:02:49,170
Yeah, yeah. It's, you know, Bitcoin was invented by Jeffrey Epstein to protect Western financial privilege.

798
01:02:49,170 --> 01:03:03,750
And I think just because we disagree with some of Jeffrey Epstein's political opinions doesn't mean that we should fade this generational opportunity to protect our Western privilege.

799
01:03:03,750 --> 01:03:11,050
I mean, Western financial privilege is built on Bitcoin and trafficking.

800
01:03:11,830 --> 01:03:21,210
And you can't, just because you disagree with it doesn't mean that some of those things doesn't mean you will let your privilege slip through your fingers.

801
01:03:23,590 --> 01:03:26,410
I don't think that Jeffrey Epstein created Bitcoin.

802
01:03:26,590 --> 01:03:31,730
I don't appreciate you citing Aaron Day as a legitimate source on this podcast, Ron.

803
01:03:31,730 --> 01:03:34,310
we all know that it's Peter Todd

804
01:03:34,310 --> 01:03:36,570
well Peter Todd

805
01:03:36,570 --> 01:03:38,870
wrote C++ I think for sure

806
01:03:38,870 --> 01:03:41,030
but he was

807
01:03:41,030 --> 01:03:43,050
you know Peter Todd when he wrote C++

808
01:03:43,050 --> 01:03:45,110
he was like 14-15 years old

809
01:03:45,110 --> 01:03:46,850
who is he doing it for

810
01:03:46,850 --> 01:03:48,470
he was being trafficked by

811
01:03:48,470 --> 01:03:49,350
Jeffrey Epstein

812
01:03:49,350 --> 01:03:52,890
alright well that's a roundabout

813
01:03:52,890 --> 01:03:54,450
way to look at it I don't know

814
01:03:54,450 --> 01:03:56,490
alright well

815
01:03:56,490 --> 01:03:57,590
we'll just leave this one

816
01:03:57,590 --> 01:04:00,090
I'm just saying

817
01:04:00,090 --> 01:04:05,770
You know, just this, listen, this is, there's no, there's no fact-based evidence for this.

818
01:04:06,230 --> 01:04:07,910
This is pure plebslop speculation.

819
01:04:08,430 --> 01:04:12,950
I'm just saying you have to be prepared for that to be true and you still can't sell your

820
01:04:12,950 --> 01:04:13,990
Bitcoin just because of that.

821
01:04:15,570 --> 01:04:21,170
I'm going to have to have Rudy Dazzleworth come after you if you keep on performing this

822
01:04:21,170 --> 01:04:23,510
plebslop journalism.

823
01:04:24,410 --> 01:04:27,250
You're going to, you're going to win a plebslop Pulitzer, Rod.

824
01:04:27,250 --> 01:04:34,810
i'll put it in my trophy case well you got any other things you want to discuss before we go to

825
01:04:34,810 --> 01:04:42,050
the filing booth now let's get to the booths just kind of say i think the last episode that we did

826
01:04:42,050 --> 01:04:47,070
was um around the two-year anniversary of this show so we've been around for two years folks

827
01:04:47,070 --> 01:04:53,390
it's been an incredible journey it's been fun thank you for uh joining the ride with us i didn't read

828
01:04:53,390 --> 01:04:59,930
our subscribers last week which i'll make sure to do this week because uh found it wasn't working

829
01:04:59,930 --> 01:05:05,610
but just it hasn't changed in like seven months i think you could just record that and just play

830
01:05:05,610 --> 01:05:14,070
the recording over and over each week well i like to re-record to keep it fresh um but yeah it's uh

831
01:05:14,070 --> 01:05:22,950
it just takes a second but first boost late stage huddle 6,000 six sats maxi madness is greater than

832
01:05:22,950 --> 01:05:33,270
sports ball madness uh yeah you know i'm in like a group chat with my family they keep on talking

833
01:05:33,270 --> 01:05:37,530
about the sports ball madness and i have no idea what's going on have you been watching it at all

834
01:05:37,530 --> 01:05:43,210
what's going on with the fiat madness oh yeah it's great i love marsh madness marsh madness is great

835
01:05:43,210 --> 01:05:51,790
uh some really good teams the going to the final four if you're a big 10 fan it's about to be

836
01:05:51,790 --> 01:05:54,190
with like possibly three Big Ten teams.

837
01:05:54,570 --> 01:05:57,150
So big year for them.

838
01:05:59,130 --> 01:05:59,930
Who's in it?

839
01:06:00,010 --> 01:06:02,710
I assume, I keep on seeing these texts about Arizona.

840
01:06:02,710 --> 01:06:08,490
Illinois, Arizona, Michigan is walloping Tennessee right now.

841
01:06:09,190 --> 01:06:15,150
So this should be them and then the winner of Duke versus UConn.

842
01:06:16,290 --> 01:06:17,710
What round are they on?

843
01:06:18,530 --> 01:06:19,930
This is in the Elite Eight.

844
01:06:19,930 --> 01:06:26,290
so okay yeah there's one game left after this michigan tennessee game and it'll be uh

845
01:06:26,290 --> 01:06:34,930
duke versus uconn and then the final four will be illinois yeah arizona michigan and duke or uconn

846
01:06:34,930 --> 01:06:39,990
huh surprised the universe

847
01:06:40,008 --> 01:06:44,948
City of Phoenix online isn't represented in the Elite Eight.

848
01:06:45,068 --> 01:06:47,668
They were pretty good at basketball when you went there, right?

849
01:06:50,248 --> 01:06:51,268
Oh, yeah, they were incredible.

850
01:06:52,228 --> 01:06:55,308
Absolutely dominated the local YMCA teams.

851
01:06:56,868 --> 01:06:59,048
Bitcoin University definitely wasn't invited.

852
01:06:59,048 --> 01:07:03,928
Do you think Bitcoin University could even get invited to the NIT?

853
01:07:06,448 --> 01:07:07,448
No chance there.

854
01:07:07,508 --> 01:07:08,608
I'd get invited to anything.

855
01:07:10,008 --> 01:07:14,308
Yeah, 5,000 saps from Sasha Hodder.

856
01:07:15,468 --> 01:07:18,128
Congrats on a great Maxi Madness.

857
01:07:18,208 --> 01:07:18,948
Thank you, Sasha.

858
01:07:19,828 --> 01:07:23,928
Listen, the way Sasha's a bump and comer,

859
01:07:24,548 --> 01:07:28,728
I would look for Sasha in the Hot Bracket region next year

860
01:07:28,728 --> 01:07:31,428
as a potential new blend.

861
01:07:31,528 --> 01:07:34,028
There's going to be a lot of retired Maxis,

862
01:07:34,628 --> 01:07:36,708
retired for Maxi Madness next year, I think,

863
01:07:36,708 --> 01:07:42,708
him to make room for some some fresh blood like sasha so thank you for the uh thank you for the

864
01:07:42,708 --> 01:07:54,388
thank you for the booze sasha thank you for the booze next booze 4242 sat says plebina pleb

865
01:07:54,388 --> 01:08:01,948
eat anon do you think the iranians are giant steppenwolf fans uh yeah i assume that they're

866
01:08:01,948 --> 01:08:06,568
probably listening to magic carpet ride when they're flying around chasing uh you know the

867
01:08:06,568 --> 01:08:15,808
fighter jets absolutely next based over mike 3333 sats maxi madness equals a zap bull market

868
01:08:15,808 --> 01:08:25,468
yes we got 200 or 2.8 million sats boosted in maxi madness this year that was incredible

869
01:08:25,468 --> 01:08:46,246
thanks for everybody who participated definitely a zap bull markets sign that what is trending Yeah it uh I think we set the all record you know for like a single user getting zaps on that platform at one time in a week like at one point just in one end

870
01:08:46,246 --> 01:08:52,046
of the polls that the final between odell and rev hodl there was a million sats on that single poll

871
01:08:52,046 --> 01:09:02,266
uh there was a wide range in values on all of the the different polls uh you know it's just

872
01:09:02,266 --> 01:09:06,466
kind of funny to watch like you know some people there was only like

873
01:09:06,466 --> 01:09:11,226
i mean there'd be like 20 votes on it or something but it'd be like

874
01:09:11,226 --> 01:09:20,606
2 000 sats to like 100 sats or something like that but um i mean it was just crazy is 1.2

875
01:09:20,606 --> 01:09:22,806
Bitcoin traded on the predicts markets.

876
01:09:23,686 --> 01:09:26,166
Like people are willing to throw around their Bitcoin.

877
01:09:27,946 --> 01:09:31,186
It's just about finding creative ways to extract it.

878
01:09:32,566 --> 01:09:35,946
We're always looking for new ways to extract Bitcoin from you guys.

879
01:09:37,406 --> 01:09:38,386
Thank you for the boost.

880
01:09:38,506 --> 01:09:38,846
Open mic.

881
01:09:41,126 --> 01:09:41,646
Nope.

882
01:09:42,206 --> 01:09:45,186
757 cents is awesome job with Maxi madness.

883
01:09:45,386 --> 01:09:47,206
The crash outs were a hundred.

884
01:09:48,346 --> 01:09:48,866
Yeah,

885
01:09:48,886 --> 01:09:50,026
they're pretty entertaining.

886
01:09:50,026 --> 01:09:51,686
I mean, they're going to keep on coming in.

887
01:09:52,166 --> 01:09:54,786
They're slow rolling the crash outs right now.

888
01:09:56,606 --> 01:09:59,046
Five iron 21 sats from June Satoshi.

889
01:09:59,266 --> 01:10:00,586
Thank you for your time.

890
01:10:02,546 --> 01:10:03,166
No, thank you.

891
01:10:04,346 --> 01:10:07,026
Silas Thornbrook had a fun week.

892
01:10:07,126 --> 01:10:09,066
I saw Silas posted everywhere.

893
01:10:09,226 --> 01:10:10,406
121 sats.

894
01:10:10,966 --> 01:10:13,466
Bugle Max in with a bunch of bugle emojis.

895
01:10:13,466 --> 01:10:22,086
higher and trying to answer pies by ship emojis including steak and uh mushrooms and flexing and

896
01:10:22,086 --> 01:10:38,164
glad to see pies is back in the in the booths uh on a weekly basis glad to see pies is not deported pies didn crash out because of Maxi Madness as far as I could tell Nostra Gang 100 cents LFG

897
01:10:39,784 --> 01:10:40,924
What's that stand for?

898
01:10:42,024 --> 01:10:42,864
Let's fucking go.

899
01:10:43,464 --> 01:10:45,424
Life Fun Games.

900
01:10:48,024 --> 01:10:49,384
All right, let's fucking go.

901
01:10:49,584 --> 01:10:50,944
Yeah, Nostra Gang.

902
01:10:52,144 --> 01:10:52,504
Thank you.

903
01:10:54,364 --> 01:10:55,904
DGC on board, 100 cents.

904
01:10:55,924 --> 01:10:58,304
That's loving the crash outs.

905
01:10:58,684 --> 01:10:59,904
I'm glad people are loving it.

906
01:11:00,024 --> 01:11:02,864
The crash outs are the best part for some people.

907
01:11:03,984 --> 01:11:05,604
And I can't disagree.

908
01:11:07,424 --> 01:11:13,644
You know, my grandmother told me never to chuckle at other people's misery.

909
01:11:14,624 --> 01:11:20,944
But what can you do when people are crashing out on the internet but chuckle at their misery?

910
01:11:22,144 --> 01:11:23,364
I'm sorry, Grandma.

911
01:11:23,864 --> 01:11:24,804
Can't help it.

912
01:11:25,924 --> 01:11:29,704
Folks, wait, we got one more.

913
01:11:31,424 --> 01:11:41,364
Z-U-Y-O-X-I-40-H-P-W-100-C-S-S-Maxi-Madness this year is about bad UX and being responsible.

914
01:11:43,404 --> 01:11:44,084
Absolutely.

915
01:11:44,804 --> 01:11:45,944
A Nostra for sure.

916
01:11:47,424 --> 01:11:47,904
Absolutely.

917
01:11:47,904 --> 01:11:52,384
Well, you got anything before we close this one up, Rob?

918
01:11:53,844 --> 01:11:55,424
Yeah, like you haven't crashed out already.

919
01:11:55,924 --> 01:11:57,544
Do wherever you can and not to crash out.

920
01:12:25,924 --> 01:12:31,702
You can join or you can crash out Work harder if you wanna chase that crowd

921
01:12:31,702 --> 01:12:33,762
Games change, you don't write the rules

922
01:12:33,762 --> 01:12:36,622
Journalists making you look like stupid fools

923
01:12:36,622 --> 01:12:38,182
Cry harder, maybe don't hear

924
01:12:38,182 --> 01:12:40,622
Whining won't make your dreams appear

925
01:12:40,622 --> 01:12:43,382
Revolutionists, time to win

926
01:12:43,382 --> 01:12:45,882
Evolution grow, thicker skin

927
01:12:45,882 --> 01:12:47,682
Relegated to being a joke

928
01:12:47,682 --> 01:12:50,122
Decimated, filled with coke

929
01:12:50,122 --> 01:12:53,102
Why don't you act like you actually want to win?

930
01:12:53,202 --> 01:12:56,182
Humility in your bio, but can't see you're a has-been

931
01:12:56,182 --> 01:12:58,042
You can join or you can crash out

932
01:12:58,042 --> 01:13:01,062
Try harder if you wanna chase that cloud

933
01:13:01,062 --> 01:13:03,142
Games change, you don't break the rules

934
01:13:03,142 --> 01:13:06,002
Journalists making you look like stupid fools

935
01:13:06,002 --> 01:13:07,642
You're a critic, but you're in the past

936
01:13:07,642 --> 01:13:10,362
Forgotten because all you spew is trash

937
01:13:10,362 --> 01:13:12,722
Crumbling when you get a little pushback

938
01:13:12,722 --> 01:13:15,262
Exposed for trying to fight facts

939
01:13:15,262 --> 01:13:17,062
Echo chamber full of plebs

940
01:13:17,062 --> 01:13:20,062
Glazing in mediocrity, following your steps

941
01:13:20,062 --> 01:13:22,442
You're the tallest midget in the room

942
01:13:22,442 --> 01:13:25,222
But your failure to grow will be a doom

943
01:13:25,222 --> 01:13:27,342
You can join or you can crash out

944
01:13:27,342 --> 01:13:29,522
Try, try, try harder if you wanna chase

945
01:13:29,522 --> 01:13:31,082
That clout, games change

946
01:13:31,082 --> 01:13:32,422
You don't write the rules

947
01:13:32,422 --> 01:13:35,282
Journalists making you look like stupid fools

948
01:13:35,282 --> 01:13:37,362
Rest on your credentials at your own risk

949
01:13:37,362 --> 01:13:39,542
Bitching about arbitrary data on your disc

950
01:13:39,542 --> 01:13:42,562
You don't win by being a loser, bitch

951
01:13:42,562 --> 01:13:44,722
I'm a fucking hot podcast producer

952
01:13:44,722 --> 01:13:46,882
I see you out there and you got no clothes

953
01:13:46,882 --> 01:13:49,342
Influenza is naked and everyone knows

954
01:13:49,342 --> 01:13:51,782
Pleb slot pity party isn't fun

955
01:13:51,782 --> 01:13:54,482
Hiding, looking for where you run

956
01:13:54,482 --> 01:13:56,582
You can join or you can crash out

957
01:13:56,582 --> 01:13:58,742
Try harder if you wanna chase

958
01:13:58,742 --> 01:14:00,302
That cloud game's changed

959
01:14:00,302 --> 01:14:01,662
You don't break the rules

960
01:14:01,662 --> 01:14:04,722
Journalists making you look like stupid fools

961
01:14:04,722 --> 01:14:07,582
You can join in if you want

962
01:14:07,582 --> 01:14:10,622
Or sit on the sidelines and crash out

963
01:14:10,622 --> 01:14:13,102
I don't give a shit what you do

964
01:14:13,102 --> 01:14:15,822
But you'll have more fun

965
01:14:15,822 --> 01:14:18,822
If you join in

966
01:14:18,822 --> 01:14:19,322
you