1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,800 Why do we have to listen to 40 hours of Bitcoin? 2 00:00:03,980 --> 00:00:06,160 I mean, I only have so much time in a week. 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:07,180 I do a lot of things. 4 00:00:07,260 --> 00:00:08,060 I do a lot of reading. 5 00:00:08,180 --> 00:00:09,160 I do a lot of writing. 6 00:00:10,780 --> 00:00:19,920 I mean, how could one possibly commit themselves that much to one single topic and have a fulfilled life? 7 00:00:21,100 --> 00:00:22,660 I ask that as a philosopher, actually. 8 00:00:23,020 --> 00:00:25,540 I mean, Lynn Alden is everything, if you will. 9 00:00:25,540 --> 00:00:31,220 She's a stellar human being, hot, the whole nine. 10 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,960 I mean, the greatest macro analyst, an amazing venture capitalist. 11 00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:38,800 We're just, you know, we're lucky to have her in the space. 12 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,340 I think before Bitcoin, men were more visual. 13 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:52,200 But after Bitcoin, men get off by hearing the voice of other men say sweet nothings into their ears about this beautiful orange currency. 14 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:52,420 Right. 15 00:00:52,420 --> 00:00:56,820 this is one of the powerful things that dennis porter is off of the world 16 00:00:56,820 --> 00:00:59,040 is men no longer need viagra 17 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:08,820 so that was another question that fits right in is how did these guys at orgies get these just 18 00:01:08,820 --> 00:01:15,520 unrelenting boners before dennis porter i'm talking viagra like medicine songs not having 19 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:22,400 well i mean i would say so saturn requires hard work i mean you guys know very well how hard it 20 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,200 to be Bitcoin podcasters. 21 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:25,580 And I think a lot of people underestimate 22 00:01:25,580 --> 00:01:26,780 the work that it takes. 23 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:29,360 So I think you're absolutely right. 24 00:01:29,460 --> 00:01:33,600 There's this structural push towards sovereignty 25 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,260 and maybe individual expression 26 00:01:36,260 --> 00:01:38,000 would be another form that that could take. 27 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:39,800 And so to me, it makes sense 28 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:41,320 that people would start getting, 29 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:42,900 you know, if they're really passionate about Bitcoin, 30 00:01:42,980 --> 00:01:44,500 they'd be like, how can I help the revolution? 31 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:47,280 Like, let me get on and have a podcast with my friend. 32 00:01:48,060 --> 00:01:49,800 But the warning there is like, 33 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:51,500 it's going to take a lot of work. 34 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:54,300 You know, you have to like every week or every other week or whatever. 35 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,820 You got to sit down, you got to record, you got to edit the episode, you got to promote the episode. 36 00:01:58,020 --> 00:02:00,520 Like it's a try being an influencer for a day. 37 00:02:00,620 --> 00:02:01,080 You know what I mean? 38 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:05,680 Well, what you do is you start with an emotional trigger, something upsetting. 39 00:02:06,380 --> 00:02:14,620 You tell them that people doing things that you may not like on Bitcoin is what's causing the price to go down. 40 00:02:14,620 --> 00:02:17,980 And then you offer them, you know, light at the end of the tunnel. 41 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:21,280 Here's a solution to make the price go back up. 42 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:27,320 when you're a new and you're new to bitcoin and you've just started listening to bitcoin podcasts 43 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:35,980 the only way that you can even begin to discern which idea or which you know way of using bitcoin 44 00:02:35,980 --> 00:02:42,260 is the best is by whose memes are dunking on whose that's all you know it's like well this 45 00:02:42,260 --> 00:02:48,860 meme is constantly ratioing this person and their stupid memes their pod conf memes so they must be 46 00:02:48,860 --> 00:02:55,240 wrong i'm gonna go be non-compliant for a little while until i can figure it out welcome to the 47 00:02:55,240 --> 00:03:06,840 weekly and wow has it been a crazy year folks i think i don't know rod what do you think has it 48 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:16,600 was it a crazy year were your expectations on par with how crazy it's been or did it exceed your 49 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:24,220 expectations. If you go back and listen to our predictions about a year ago, 50 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:32,540 most of the December episodes, early January episodes of this podcast, 2024, 2025, 51 00:03:32,540 --> 00:03:40,980 we were predicting a massive year, a big year, a bullish year, a bull market Bitcoin podcast 52 00:03:40,980 --> 00:03:42,540 is what we're transforming into. 53 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:45,320 And we knew it was going to be huge. 54 00:03:45,420 --> 00:03:48,540 We knew that the fourth turning was right around the corner 55 00:03:48,540 --> 00:03:53,400 and that Bitcoin was going to be critical 56 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,540 in underwriting the institutions of the future. 57 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,260 Little did we know, you know, it's like the meme 58 00:04:02,260 --> 00:04:04,880 where it's like an entrepreneur's journey 59 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,680 is it starts this linear line to the top. 60 00:04:08,020 --> 00:04:10,340 In reality, it's full of peaks and valleys 61 00:04:10,340 --> 00:04:13,560 and cliffs and obstacles to overcome. 62 00:04:14,220 --> 00:04:19,800 So we're not going as clearly, as straight, as linearly to the top as we expected. 63 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:21,900 But it was still a big year. 64 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:25,420 It was the sloppiest year in recorded history. 65 00:04:26,380 --> 00:04:33,200 I just don't think anybody was prepared for how sloppy 2025 would be. 66 00:04:35,380 --> 00:04:37,760 It was definitely the year of plebswap. 67 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:46,020 and I think people are frustrated by that which is understandable but I don't know why they're 68 00:04:46,020 --> 00:04:53,100 frustrated by us just reporting that it was the year of plebs law because it was very very clear 69 00:04:53,100 --> 00:05:01,460 I think where our predictions were wrong or at least my predictions were wrong is I I had 70 00:05:01,460 --> 00:05:10,520 hope for a lot more substance but oh yeah i i mean i shouldn't have been surprised donald trump 71 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:16,100 is the plebs law president he is the king of american plebs law 72 00:05:16,100 --> 00:05:26,660 and part of it is people have been used to listen like whether you were a fox news dad 73 00:05:26,660 --> 00:05:38,060 or a fox news uncle where you were an msnbc mom msnbc on and his msnbc uncle um or you know a cnn 74 00:05:38,060 --> 00:05:46,960 grandma or they used to watch the daily show whoever that is gen x losers um or or the newer 75 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:52,620 time 15 matter you knew you had an outlet to go to find journalists who would glaze you and people 76 00:05:52,620 --> 00:05:58,100 love being glazed by the news love being glazed by their favorite podcasters their favorite 77 00:05:58,100 --> 00:06:06,280 journalists and that's it stopped people are no longer being glazed by the journalists 78 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:13,220 and we stopped and people were we were just reflecting reality as news reporters 79 00:06:13,220 --> 00:06:22,600 duty is to do without that glaze and people it can't handle it they they they hate being told 80 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:35,440 the truth absolutely yeah it's it's difficult to look into the next year and feel very optimistic 81 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:39,880 i think it's just something that's interesting when you have the end of the year 82 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:47,160 and the start of the new year be right at the beginning of the coldest stretch of winter 83 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,640 is just interesting from a psychological standpoint 84 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,100 of it being cold. 85 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,880 Like we're in the middle of paper Bitcoin winter right now. 86 00:06:57,140 --> 00:06:58,760 You're looking into 2026. 87 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:00,680 It looks like there's going to be no chance 88 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:02,080 of paper Bitcoin summer. 89 00:07:04,060 --> 00:07:06,840 The bull market, you had the bullish news. 90 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,040 You had the Simply Bitcoin guys losing their minds. 91 00:07:10,180 --> 00:07:11,140 Niko's freaking out. 92 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:12,420 The institutions are here. 93 00:07:13,180 --> 00:07:14,080 Super bullish. 94 00:07:15,340 --> 00:07:17,100 Price doesn't act bullishly. 95 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,360 you've got 96 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:23,420 an ecosystem 97 00:07:23,420 --> 00:07:25,660 and a group 98 00:07:25,660 --> 00:07:27,420 of individuals that used to 99 00:07:27,420 --> 00:07:29,100 just love to get super excited 100 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:30,580 posting memes about 101 00:07:30,580 --> 00:07:33,440 have fun staying poor and 102 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:35,540 making fun of no coiners and how 103 00:07:35,540 --> 00:07:37,460 rich they're going to get and their Lambos 104 00:07:37,460 --> 00:07:38,840 and their girlfriends that they're 105 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,360 going to get when the price hits this certain point 106 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,400 you had the 107 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:44,300 100k party 108 00:07:44,300 --> 00:07:47,080 and this 109 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:52,120 All these guys, what they want to do is they just want to argue about CSAN. 110 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:55,420 They're grumpy about Paper Bitcoin Summer. 111 00:07:57,260 --> 00:08:00,920 What was the 100K party? 112 00:08:01,220 --> 00:08:01,780 What was that? 113 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:09,420 It was a bunch of influencers glazing themselves, glazing each other, getting glazed on the yacht. 114 00:08:10,620 --> 00:08:11,640 We had won. 115 00:08:11,740 --> 00:08:12,760 Bitcoin had already won. 116 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:31,744 time time for a big city party but instead of astral glide it glaze We glazing each other And Donald Trump he takes office All the HR ladies are getting fired All the DEI woke policies are 117 00:08:31,744 --> 00:08:40,384 getting ripped out. Elon Musk pierces into the federal government with a Trojan horse full of 118 00:08:40,384 --> 00:08:46,704 broccoli haircuts and they just descend inside the bureaucracy with their little with their ai tools 119 00:08:46,704 --> 00:08:52,244 and the broccoli haircuts are just slashing boomer budgets left and right finding money laundering 120 00:08:52,244 --> 00:08:57,364 bitcoin put it in a strategic reserve they're going to take all the savings that the broccoli 121 00:08:57,364 --> 00:09:01,304 haircuts have found in the pentagon and they're going to put it in the strategic reserve they 122 00:09:01,304 --> 00:09:08,864 free ross everything was going bitcoin's way and then the price kind of started to fall apart and 123 00:09:08,864 --> 00:09:14,664 tariff started to come into the conversation and people were like dude dude you promised us 124 00:09:14,664 --> 00:09:22,864 it was gonna go glazing glazing into glory with bitcoin in 2025 and no it didn't go like i said 125 00:09:22,864 --> 00:09:31,464 the way we thought and the first the first sign of the slop and the just nonsense that was to come 126 00:09:31,464 --> 00:09:33,184 was Maxi Madness. 127 00:09:34,044 --> 00:09:35,204 Absolutely everybody. 128 00:09:35,764 --> 00:09:38,584 If you had a poly market, a predicts market 129 00:09:38,584 --> 00:09:41,784 for who was going to win Maxi Madness in March, 130 00:09:42,204 --> 00:09:44,204 early March, 2025, 131 00:09:45,104 --> 00:09:46,924 every club would have put his vote, 132 00:09:47,504 --> 00:09:48,384 his saps on yellow. 133 00:09:48,844 --> 00:09:49,964 Everybody expected yellow. 134 00:09:50,204 --> 00:09:51,844 They thought maybe Saylor was coming in, 135 00:09:52,044 --> 00:09:54,784 maybe Dennis Porter, Mike Shinobi, 136 00:09:54,924 --> 00:09:56,164 maybe it might be their year. 137 00:09:56,964 --> 00:10:00,224 But no, everybody knew at the end of the day, 138 00:10:00,224 --> 00:10:04,964 this was yellow's tournament to lose he won last year he beat chiacomo 139 00:10:04,964 --> 00:10:13,804 absolutely coasted and then what happened petty bitcoins started slaying heroes all the way 140 00:10:13,804 --> 00:10:20,724 through the memer's bracket petty bitcoins defeated the hottest of all in all in the final four 141 00:10:20,724 --> 00:10:29,864 and the petty bitcoins took out yellow on his on his path to the finals everybody was shocked 142 00:10:29,864 --> 00:10:42,144 And at the end, the votes coming in for Maxi Madness for Teddy Bitcoins versus Joe were in the hundreds of thousands, kicking up by the thousands, by the second in the final minute of that poll. 143 00:10:42,464 --> 00:10:45,884 And then tens of thousands of votes came in for Teddy Bitcoins. 144 00:10:46,784 --> 00:10:52,184 His fans woke up and they absolutely showed up. 145 00:10:52,464 --> 00:10:55,184 And Teddy Bitcoins went all the way to the final. 146 00:10:55,184 --> 00:11:02,164 Michael Saylor, the pioneer of AI slop and AI generated images. 147 00:11:03,724 --> 00:11:04,744 Count AI muscles. 148 00:11:05,644 --> 00:11:08,284 He was the first to do AI muscles, not BTC sessions. 149 00:11:09,644 --> 00:11:11,124 And Teddy Bitcoins beat Saylor. 150 00:11:11,924 --> 00:11:15,604 And people were absolutely grumpy. 151 00:11:15,724 --> 00:11:19,304 I've never seen Bitcoin Twitter as grumpy as I did. 152 00:11:19,304 --> 00:11:25,204 as I saw when Teddy Bitcoins eat Michael Saylor and Lynn Alden 153 00:11:25,204 --> 00:11:26,504 in yellow and Nasty Madness. 154 00:11:26,984 --> 00:11:27,504 It happened. 155 00:11:28,444 --> 00:11:35,844 And the sun came out and shone bright for paper Bitcoin summer briefly. 156 00:11:36,844 --> 00:11:41,244 But other than that, there was no, every club's been grumpy 157 00:11:41,244 --> 00:11:43,144 since Teddy Bitcoins won Nasty Madness. 158 00:11:43,224 --> 00:11:44,124 Every single one of them. 159 00:11:45,644 --> 00:11:46,504 Yeah, it was wild. 160 00:11:46,504 --> 00:11:55,664 that was that was really telling how the year was going to go that event it was just going to be a 161 00:11:55,664 --> 00:12:02,284 year of things not going the pleb's way i don't think it was hardly anything went the pleb's way 162 00:12:02,284 --> 00:12:10,484 this year at all it was it was the first maxi madness of hyper bitcoinization right like it was 163 00:12:10,484 --> 00:12:16,264 the biggest maxi man that every everything everything was big in 2025 everybody was 164 00:12:16,264 --> 00:12:23,564 prepared everybody had created incredible logos for their paper bitcoin for their conferences 165 00:12:23,564 --> 00:12:31,824 for their their their influencer tournaments the stake the stage was set for bitcoin bitcoin 166 00:12:31,824 --> 00:12:38,744 podcasters call everybody the influencers the podcasters the podcasters were ascending to the 167 00:12:38,744 --> 00:12:43,464 rise in the bureaucracy and the government all over the world podcasters were taking over and 168 00:12:43,464 --> 00:12:50,604 maxi madness was like our olympics like who's who's going to take it home and 169 00:12:50,604 --> 00:12:58,244 the first big event everybody was looking forward to they were excited to vote for yellow they're 170 00:12:58,244 --> 00:13:02,764 excited to vote for dr adam back they're excited to vote for lynn alden they're excited to vote for 171 00:13:02,764 --> 00:13:09,904 johnson they're excited to vote for tomer they're excited to vote for green candle all these guys 172 00:13:09,904 --> 00:13:21,624 and it just it turned out exactly how it needed to turn out but it it was not the outcome people 173 00:13:21,624 --> 00:13:29,644 wanted to see people were starting to see what it what had become of everything it was the first 174 00:13:29,644 --> 00:13:32,384 where it was the first opportunity to see how the year was going to unfold, 175 00:13:32,484 --> 00:13:35,664 and they did not like the foreshadowing. 176 00:13:38,364 --> 00:13:38,804 No. 177 00:13:39,124 --> 00:13:42,864 I think the plebs had this expectation in their head 178 00:13:42,864 --> 00:13:45,784 that the price was going to get the God candle 179 00:13:45,784 --> 00:13:51,004 and that they were going to return home to their hometowns 180 00:13:51,004 --> 00:13:54,784 as hometown heroes, and they'd be walking in the grocery store, 181 00:13:54,964 --> 00:13:56,404 and everybody would turn around and be like, 182 00:13:56,404 --> 00:13:58,344 wow, that guy listened to Bitcoin podcasts, 183 00:13:58,344 --> 00:14:01,484 and everybody would stop and start clapping for them 184 00:14:01,484 --> 00:14:06,164 as they got out of their Bentley with their shirt fur driving it for them. 185 00:14:06,824 --> 00:14:10,344 And what happened instead is, you know, they get to the end of the year 186 00:14:10,344 --> 00:14:14,244 and they can maybe or maybe not afford a Christmas presents 187 00:14:14,244 --> 00:14:16,684 for their family after taxes. 188 00:14:17,544 --> 00:14:27,024 And, yeah, it really was foreshadowing for the year that it was just, yeah. 189 00:14:28,024 --> 00:14:33,524 Teddy Bitcoins was the dark horse that came in and rained on everybody's parade. 190 00:14:33,984 --> 00:14:34,884 You said it. 191 00:14:34,964 --> 00:14:38,124 What were we talking about last December? 192 00:14:39,504 --> 00:14:42,484 2025, like everything they said, hyper-Bitcoinization, all this. 193 00:14:42,864 --> 00:14:45,224 But at the end of the day, it was supposed to be the year 194 00:14:45,224 --> 00:14:47,704 where everybody could afford their taxes again. 195 00:14:48,164 --> 00:14:49,844 Everybody's going to be able to afford their taxes, 196 00:14:49,844 --> 00:14:54,424 and people who could afford their taxes were about to, 197 00:14:54,744 --> 00:14:56,104 it was about to be their time. 198 00:14:56,104 --> 00:15:03,384 They're about to get the benefits, the profits, the earnings. 199 00:15:03,844 --> 00:15:07,964 The taxpayers had earned a lot and they've been getting very little for it. 200 00:15:08,044 --> 00:15:09,124 It was about to be their year. 201 00:15:09,844 --> 00:15:14,544 And that just turned out to be, you know, more like a to-be-continued. 202 00:15:14,864 --> 00:15:16,384 It's definitely not here yet. 203 00:15:19,284 --> 00:15:19,804 Absolutely. 204 00:15:21,224 --> 00:15:23,224 Well, Key 2 is pretty interesting. 205 00:15:24,084 --> 00:15:25,324 There's a lot that went on there. 206 00:15:25,324 --> 00:15:30,264 There's the Vegas conference, which last year was the stable coin conference. 207 00:15:30,444 --> 00:15:36,804 That was the major topic of that event of the PodConf Super Bowl. 208 00:15:36,944 --> 00:15:40,184 You had the Israel versus Iran war going on. 209 00:15:40,864 --> 00:15:45,264 You had the, I debated Mike Brock. 210 00:15:45,524 --> 00:15:46,924 That was a pretty big event. 211 00:15:48,584 --> 00:15:52,944 I'm trying to think, is there anything other else that was notable for Q2? 212 00:15:52,944 --> 00:16:00,364 I think for Q2, the defining moment is what you mentioned. 213 00:16:00,524 --> 00:16:03,384 It was your debate with Mike Brock. 214 00:16:03,524 --> 00:16:08,784 Does that really put the podcast in the spotlight big time? 215 00:16:09,004 --> 00:16:13,084 I mean, the Vaseline Madness was a spotlight for the Bugle. 216 00:16:14,104 --> 00:16:15,444 Not necessarily. 217 00:16:15,784 --> 00:16:17,184 I think it was a big win. 218 00:16:17,604 --> 00:16:20,904 I think a lot of smart people think it was a big win, big year. 219 00:16:20,904 --> 00:16:26,324 but that spotlight I don't know people were not ready for what happened with Teddy bitcoins 220 00:16:26,324 --> 00:16:34,764 but we were in spotlight again with that debate because Mike Brock is an executive he worked very 221 00:16:34,764 --> 00:16:46,588 closely with Jack Dorsey he was a he would go on podcast talk about being a libertarian and how Bitcoin was this tool And he was building it in the cash app 222 00:16:46,728 --> 00:16:49,688 like one of the first companies to really embrace Bitcoin. 223 00:16:50,328 --> 00:16:53,308 Mike Brock is a heavyweight of Bitcoin. 224 00:16:53,308 --> 00:16:56,748 And he is a sophisticated philosopher. 225 00:16:58,028 --> 00:16:59,508 You dismantled him. 226 00:16:59,508 --> 00:17:06,108 You send him with his tails between his blades back to substack, back to his echo chamber. 227 00:17:08,328 --> 00:17:13,128 So reflecting on that, how would you, how do you see that in hindsight? 228 00:17:13,128 --> 00:17:22,428 Because that was very much a tipping point for you and for the podcast with that debate. 229 00:17:23,668 --> 00:17:27,788 Yeah, I think it was an interesting moment. 230 00:17:27,788 --> 00:17:42,808 I mean, it's just, there's these times where like, you know, that as a Bitcoin podcaster, as a Bitcoin podcast listener, as a Atlas shrugged reader, as a cigarette smoker, that you're so far ahead of other people. 231 00:17:42,808 --> 00:17:49,928 but up until the point where you actually have some sort of toe-to-toe competition 232 00:17:49,928 --> 00:17:54,068 like i did with with mike brock with the sophisticated philosopher 233 00:17:54,068 --> 00:18:01,308 it's just it it makes it so much clearer when you have that type of competition to just see 234 00:18:01,308 --> 00:18:07,288 how much further ahead you are than these guys that are suffering from trump derangement syndrome 235 00:18:07,288 --> 00:18:11,948 that are lost in outer space 236 00:18:11,948 --> 00:18:17,208 that identify with the villains of an Ayn Rand novel. 237 00:18:19,568 --> 00:18:20,768 Yeah, I don't know. 238 00:18:21,108 --> 00:18:22,068 It was a fun moment. 239 00:18:22,068 --> 00:18:25,428 This is a lot of plebs. 240 00:18:26,728 --> 00:18:29,228 And we'll definitely get into Matthew Cratter 241 00:18:29,228 --> 00:18:32,048 and Bitcoin University here later in the show. 242 00:18:32,048 --> 00:18:44,248 But a lot of them, their ideas, their predictions, their philosophy, their game theory, their ability to think for first principles. 243 00:18:44,528 --> 00:18:47,768 It is put on display. 244 00:18:48,008 --> 00:18:48,608 It's sheltered. 245 00:18:49,448 --> 00:18:55,728 It's protected from outside criticism, outside attack, outside questioning, anything like that. 246 00:18:55,728 --> 00:19:05,668 um and it's like it's like people who do uh kung fu or they train martial arts with steven seagal 247 00:19:05,668 --> 00:19:12,528 and steven seagal when steven seagal is on the mat with with his uh with his students he barely 248 00:19:12,528 --> 00:19:18,068 has to exert air he's flipping these guys up and down their head dismantling them with full without 249 00:19:18,068 --> 00:19:24,308 breaking a sweat uh but you you go against you put one of those students against the jiu-jitsu 250 00:19:24,308 --> 00:19:29,768 black belt and it's over within a matter of seconds because jiu-jitsu practitioners work 251 00:19:29,768 --> 00:19:35,708 every day or it doesn't matter how sore they are no matter how sick they feel uh they are 252 00:19:35,708 --> 00:19:41,448 testing their ideas against people stronger than them from all different backgrounds 253 00:19:41,448 --> 00:19:48,448 in their learning and it's like matthew cratter is the type of guy who's not going to the mat to 254 00:19:48,448 --> 00:19:56,548 role with uh black belts in the you know mean gangers black belt plaits black belt cypher punks 255 00:19:56,548 --> 00:20:03,688 uh it's he's sticking to his classroom is his border off classroom and he's he's basically 256 00:20:03,688 --> 00:20:10,928 just beating up plaits without anybody coming in to to challenge him who's his own weight class 257 00:20:10,928 --> 00:20:19,248 yeah yeah mike brock's kind of it's been interesting following mike brock because i 258 00:20:19,248 --> 00:20:24,648 didn't i didn't follow much of his sub stack stuff before but i watched a few conversations 259 00:20:24,648 --> 00:20:33,748 he's had since and uh he seems to exclusively curate people in his life that will glaze him 260 00:20:33,748 --> 00:20:45,848 he seems to live in this echo chamber of only selectively allowing people in 261 00:20:45,848 --> 00:20:55,168 that will glaze him which which gives him this unrealistic expectation or understanding of 262 00:20:55,168 --> 00:21:00,528 of where he's at where in his mind he is the world's premier most sophisticated philosopher 263 00:21:00,528 --> 00:21:10,668 and the people speaking with him agree with that now i think as journalists we live in a very 264 00:21:10,668 --> 00:21:19,928 different environment than that we are out there on the battlegrounds constantly getting shit hurled 265 00:21:19,928 --> 00:21:26,728 at us and uh dishing it back it's a very adversarial environment that we're operating in 266 00:21:26,728 --> 00:21:32,888 constantly so you constantly get feedback as to what 267 00:21:32,888 --> 00:21:40,008 i don't know you just get feedback in general besides people just telling you that you're the 268 00:21:40,008 --> 00:21:48,428 smartest uh most sophisticated philosopher in the world you get angry plebs you get angry uh 269 00:21:49,308 --> 00:21:55,328 um bitcoin developers you get angry uh sophisticated philosophers you get angry 270 00:21:55,328 --> 00:22:01,508 you know just a slew of angry people constantly coming after you that you got to analyze their 271 00:22:01,508 --> 00:22:07,628 responses which i think is just a it's a good position to be in uh because it 272 00:22:07,628 --> 00:22:14,868 it's being in that adversarial environment like in that that like if you're a black belt 273 00:22:14,868 --> 00:22:21,788 jiu-jitsu practitioner and you're out there and you're only uh training with white belts 274 00:22:21,788 --> 00:22:26,568 you think you're going to be the best in the world and what's actually going to happen is 275 00:22:26,568 --> 00:22:33,328 your skill sets going to degrade whereas in many ways we're we're black belts dealing with 276 00:22:33,328 --> 00:22:41,948 black belts of journalism dealing with black belts of all sorts of other you know practitioners of 277 00:22:41,948 --> 00:22:49,528 different skill sets that were challenging on a regular basis and uh i think that's part of the 278 00:22:49,528 --> 00:22:56,488 reason why you know individuals like matthew cratter just are so alarmed by us because they 279 00:22:56,488 --> 00:23:03,428 they want to protect their like matthew cratter is that black belt and bitcoin university is 280 00:23:03,428 --> 00:23:08,908 exclusively full of white belts he doesn't allow anybody in that isn't a white belt 281 00:23:08,908 --> 00:23:15,888 because he is afraid he's he's the presser the professor that's you know afraid that a student's 282 00:23:15,888 --> 00:23:21,608 going to make him look stupid and challenge him that's why he expelled stew from bitcoin university 283 00:23:21,608 --> 00:23:30,328 uh yeah i think cratter is afraid of the plebs ultimately and so he tries to shield himself 284 00:23:30,328 --> 00:23:38,968 from any pleb who's stronger smarter or might challenge him and he's just that's cratter 285 00:23:38,968 --> 00:23:46,548 he's cultivating a community of compliant plots but compliant to bitcoin university's ideology 286 00:23:46,548 --> 00:23:55,488 and there's going to be a lot more of that because mike brock ran into i think a similar problem that 287 00:23:55,488 --> 00:24:01,868 a lot of people have they they they they discover bitcoin and they think that they found a cheat 288 00:24:01,868 --> 00:24:08,808 code so they can now play life the game of life on easy mode you know they they they're just they 289 00:24:08,808 --> 00:24:14,628 You're going to go through like a Mario just dunking on the plans, like Mario jumping on the little mushrooms, 290 00:24:14,808 --> 00:24:19,308 just bopping them on the heads, and they go, is this going to be that easy? 291 00:24:19,308 --> 00:24:26,928 And then they're going to go and they're going to find the Fiat Bowser who's holding some hot babe who is just, 292 00:24:27,188 --> 00:24:28,368 all she cares about is money. 293 00:24:29,768 --> 00:24:34,928 And once you have enough Bitcoin, she's going to realize, like, dude, I want to go with the hero. 294 00:24:35,368 --> 00:24:36,948 Just keep this game on easy money. 295 00:24:36,948 --> 00:24:40,708 And they think that that's what it's going to be. 296 00:24:40,708 --> 00:24:46,608 And they think that they're going to go through life once they've discovered Bitcoin and everybody's 297 00:24:46,608 --> 00:24:48,448 going to be glazing them, glazing their memes. 298 00:24:48,448 --> 00:24:50,328 They're going to have to because they're right. 299 00:24:50,328 --> 00:24:54,168 Your friends and family have to admit that you're right. 300 00:24:54,168 --> 00:25:06,972 And they find this they realize it not true And if their ideas cannot handle an adversary in an environment that their memes they feel entitled to have their memes glazed and when they don get it they wonder why 301 00:25:06,972 --> 00:25:15,132 and they start to lash lash out and instead of using the feedback the high entropy feedback like 302 00:25:15,132 --> 00:25:19,392 in jujitsu when you are facing that pressure somebody's trying to choke you out or break your 303 00:25:19,392 --> 00:25:24,892 arm or put you in a omelette and you have to figure out how to how to navigate that negative 304 00:25:24,892 --> 00:25:31,812 feedback that harsh feedback into to achieving your goals and they can't do that they they 305 00:25:31,812 --> 00:25:40,072 like i said they go into the do the dojo they go into the dojo and have and they go to the dojo to 306 00:25:40,072 --> 00:25:48,412 get glazed not to have an adversarial interaction well you see you see this happen all the time 307 00:25:48,412 --> 00:25:54,152 where you you've got these individuals that they set up these dojos they they don't actually have 308 00:25:54,152 --> 00:25:58,312 the proper credentials to be instructing their students the only people that show up are the ones 309 00:25:58,312 --> 00:26:04,232 that are glazing them and all of a sudden a black belt from another dojo shows up and they're like 310 00:26:04,232 --> 00:26:12,012 you're you're a faker and uh i don't remember when this specifically happened but it might have been 311 00:26:12,012 --> 00:26:20,632 q2 around that time or getting into q3 paper bitcoin summer when you showed up to matthew 312 00:26:20,632 --> 00:26:29,872 cratters dojo and you pointed out that he charged 790 courses and he had a meltdown right it's 313 00:26:29,872 --> 00:26:39,412 it's on his website i mean if you go to bitcoin university dot if you are searching for an 314 00:26:39,412 --> 00:26:43,892 institution of higher learning that that meets your values and is aligned with your incentives 315 00:26:43,892 --> 00:26:47,592 and you go to, you know, BitcoinUniversity.com 316 00:26:47,592 --> 00:26:50,172 and you want to enroll in courses, 317 00:26:50,332 --> 00:26:53,672 you want to see this, you know, curriculum, 318 00:26:54,472 --> 00:26:55,812 you want to learn about Bitcoin. 319 00:26:56,772 --> 00:27:02,372 And it says $790, payable with credit card. 320 00:27:03,892 --> 00:27:05,492 So we reported that. 321 00:27:05,572 --> 00:27:08,852 We've said, hey, if you're looking for an alternative, 322 00:27:09,112 --> 00:27:10,532 we know that college is a shit coin. 323 00:27:10,532 --> 00:27:16,332 the university, ideally universities have definitely proven this year to be a shit coin. 324 00:27:17,952 --> 00:27:23,652 They're a big coin university. It's an alternative. $790 is definitely cheaper than $50,000 a year 325 00:27:23,652 --> 00:27:31,652 at Harvard. And he blew up on us. And like, could maybe some of his, some of the pledges who followed 326 00:27:31,652 --> 00:27:37,572 him said that he doesn't like advertisement. He doesn't like people to advertise what he's doing. 327 00:27:37,572 --> 00:27:43,212 He doesn't like people who market or advertise and get the word out about what he's doing because he's humble. 328 00:27:43,472 --> 00:27:45,892 He just wants to help pledge, learn about Bitcoin. 329 00:27:46,052 --> 00:27:47,652 He doesn't want praise and adoration. 330 00:27:47,872 --> 00:27:48,712 He doesn't want free marketing. 331 00:27:50,292 --> 00:27:52,912 But that was the best explanation we got. 332 00:27:53,012 --> 00:27:54,412 We don't understand why he was so angry. 333 00:27:56,812 --> 00:27:57,252 Absolutely. 334 00:27:57,252 --> 00:28:12,852 Yeah, I mean, it was, I mean, I think he knew that if he lets you in his dojo to spar, he would look completely inept in front of all of us students. 335 00:28:13,512 --> 00:28:24,532 And that the only way for him to do it was to block you and to block the bugle and to label us as bad actors. 336 00:28:24,532 --> 00:28:33,192 like he i think he was fairly self-aware in that regard of knowing that is the only way to deal with 337 00:28:33,192 --> 00:28:38,712 journal journalists of our caliber and bitcoin podcasters of our caliber because 338 00:28:38,712 --> 00:28:48,232 i'm still blocked by mike brock by the way i think he realized that too that in that scenario 339 00:28:48,232 --> 00:28:51,452 when I went into his dojo and I hammered him, 340 00:28:52,112 --> 00:28:55,532 he had to pretend like it didn't, it never even happened. 341 00:28:55,652 --> 00:28:57,732 Like he never ended up publishing that video. 342 00:29:00,512 --> 00:29:02,212 He never references it. 343 00:29:02,412 --> 00:29:05,692 He kind of exists like it never happened. 344 00:29:06,212 --> 00:29:08,772 And I don't know. 345 00:29:10,232 --> 00:29:14,052 Well, yeah, that is the last refuge, right? 346 00:29:14,052 --> 00:29:18,012 Like if you do something embarrassing and it makes the news, 347 00:29:18,232 --> 00:29:23,532 you you just have to shut your mouth and hope that nobody reads a newspaper 348 00:29:23,532 --> 00:29:33,732 and the bugle is a smaller organization so it's less likely that uh people especially in 349 00:29:33,732 --> 00:29:39,672 los angeles like it is uh in the circles that he runs in are going to read the bugle and and see 350 00:29:39,672 --> 00:29:46,432 how embarrassing his uh he you know is his sparring match with some credential journalists 351 00:29:46,432 --> 00:29:52,432 of our caliber uh you know he's gonna hope that they don't see he has learned not to 352 00:29:52,432 --> 00:30:00,612 not to uh raise attention to the journalism written about him by us because you know he 353 00:30:00,612 --> 00:30:07,652 realizes the truth to it absolutely he doesn't want to call attention he doesn't want to call 354 00:30:07,652 --> 00:30:12,132 attention to the truth that is what matthew crowder is constantly trying to avoid he doesn't 355 00:30:12,132 --> 00:30:18,972 want to call attention to the truth he wants to uh he wants to just scare the plebs absolutely 356 00:30:18,972 --> 00:30:26,032 well q3 was pretty interesting uh it was really the kickoff of paper 357 00:30:26,032 --> 00:30:29,812 paper bitcoin summer you you had a great paper bitcoin summer 358 00:30:29,812 --> 00:30:38,632 why do you the paper bitcoin summer was great if you what's the term right like if you knew 359 00:30:38,632 --> 00:30:44,332 the good old days if you knew in the good old days when they were happening you could stop and enjoy 360 00:30:44,332 --> 00:30:49,612 them it's like i knew right away that paper bitcoin summer was too good to be true but nobody else 361 00:30:49,612 --> 00:30:55,472 knew that so there was still a lot of parties a lot of optimism and i decided to join them i decided 362 00:30:55,472 --> 00:31:01,932 to join paper bitcoin summer and have a good time because i knew uh it was it was definitely 363 00:31:01,932 --> 00:31:07,912 too good to be true wasn't gonna last but you know that's why i didn't buy any paper bitcoin 364 00:31:07,912 --> 00:31:13,232 i have what you contrary to popular belief you don't even have to own bitcoin to be a part of 365 00:31:13,232 --> 00:31:17,892 bitcoin community to be a part of bitcoin twitter i mean swan didn't have any bitcoin they would 366 00:31:17,892 --> 00:31:23,332 take they would take your fiat and keep it and then give give you somebody else's bitcoin it's 367 00:31:23,332 --> 00:31:27,332 kind of like an otcd that's the operation there but they were getting fiat you don't have like a 368 00:31:27,332 --> 00:31:34,052 what was his name um uh who was the guy that crashed out super hard last cycle he's on clubhouse 369 00:31:34,052 --> 00:31:43,432 he's got like he's like the old guy uh the old jewish cranky guy bitcoin tina bitcoin tina right 370 00:31:43,432 --> 00:31:48,472 bitcoin tina didn't know bitcoin he's had he crashed out because he had uh gbtc a lot of people 371 00:31:48,472 --> 00:31:56,012 who had gbtc ended up crashing out um you don't you know you don't have to buy paper bitcoin to 372 00:31:56,012 --> 00:32:00,952 get in to the parties to get into the fun to get in on the means to get in on the action 373 00:32:00,952 --> 00:32:06,972 so I had a great time I just enjoyed it for what it is I didn't put my put my money into any stupid 374 00:32:06,972 --> 00:32:13,612 stocks so I had a good time and if you did that mostly you had a good time too but some people 375 00:32:13,612 --> 00:32:18,992 they didn't they didn't they they were Peter Kallatsy never wanted paper bitcoin summer to end 376 00:32:18,992 --> 00:32:24,472 yeah I didn't go to any of the parties 377 00:32:24,472 --> 00:32:33,952 uh yeah you were grumpy for paper bitcoin summer i remember that i wasn't that grumpy i i i just 378 00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:39,552 live vicariously this summer i was a little bit grumpy but i wasn't that grumpy i just i i live 379 00:32:39,552 --> 00:32:44,212 vicariously through you i watch you having fun going through the going to the parties and i had 380 00:32:44,212 --> 00:32:50,772 fun watching you have fun and you can do that too you can do that too there's a lot of people 381 00:32:50,772 --> 00:32:52,932 who enjoyed the April Bitcoin Summer vicariously. 382 00:32:54,892 --> 00:32:57,452 I did enjoy, I mean, 383 00:32:57,532 --> 00:32:59,672 I was kind of on the opposite end of the spectrum 384 00:32:59,672 --> 00:33:03,112 where I really enjoyed watching 385 00:33:03,112 --> 00:33:05,912 a lot of plebs and podcasters 386 00:33:05,912 --> 00:33:07,992 get really grumpy about Bitcoin Summer, 387 00:33:08,292 --> 00:33:09,112 paper Bitcoin Summer. 388 00:33:10,372 --> 00:33:14,612 And they were a lot grumpier than I was. 389 00:33:14,972 --> 00:33:16,412 And that just made me chuckle. 390 00:33:16,972 --> 00:33:19,292 I had a lot of chuckles seeing how grumpy they were 391 00:33:19,292 --> 00:33:19,992 because they were grumpy. 392 00:33:20,016 --> 00:33:26,336 You know, I think we both, like you said, we both knew it was too good to be true that it wasn't going to last very long. 393 00:33:27,476 --> 00:33:32,556 I think I at least was impressed with how short the summer was. 394 00:33:32,936 --> 00:33:34,896 I thought it was going to last a little bit longer. 395 00:33:37,836 --> 00:33:40,236 But, yeah, I don't know. 396 00:33:40,236 --> 00:33:44,316 It was just funny to see the emotions on all sides. 397 00:33:44,316 --> 00:33:53,956 well a lot of people invested a lot of money and a lot of energy a lot of their reputations 398 00:33:53,956 --> 00:34:02,316 in paper bitcoin summer and they some of them knew what they were getting into some of them didn't 399 00:34:02,316 --> 00:34:08,936 some you know everybody had a different reason for coming to paper bitcoin summer 400 00:34:08,936 --> 00:34:13,956 but you know what i mean it's people spend a lot of money and it didn't work out right 401 00:34:13,956 --> 00:34:20,936 But that is, see, that is part of where truce comes in. 402 00:34:21,036 --> 00:34:25,936 Because everybody likes to talk about, they like to glaze paper Bitcoin. 403 00:34:26,376 --> 00:34:28,476 Everybody was glazing paper Bitcoin. 404 00:34:28,836 --> 00:34:36,236 All the opportunities to buy paper Bitcoin companies, to buy with leverage, 405 00:34:36,396 --> 00:34:41,596 to get outperform Bitcoin, to be more interesting than Bitcoin, 406 00:34:41,596 --> 00:34:43,716 to be better than Bitcoin. 407 00:34:43,716 --> 00:34:55,916 People loved to glaze paper Bitcoin, but they didn't love to talk about the risk and how big the risk was and what the risk was and what the rules of the game were. 408 00:34:56,416 --> 00:35:00,476 How would these paper Bitcoin companies be treated by debt markets, by credit markets? 409 00:35:00,676 --> 00:35:04,796 You know, fundamentals, he's trying to talk about this a little bit. 410 00:35:04,876 --> 00:35:10,576 He's a little autistic and he sometimes has trouble explaining himself. 411 00:35:10,576 --> 00:35:17,056 But I think people are starting to listen that Fundamentals has very good instincts about risk. 412 00:35:17,496 --> 00:35:21,256 And he would, but very few people were willing to talk about paper Bitcoin's risks. 413 00:35:21,996 --> 00:35:28,036 And people got caught, glazed and confused with paper Bitcoin's summer. 414 00:35:29,576 --> 00:35:31,396 Ended short, ended abruptly. 415 00:35:32,336 --> 00:35:40,036 And they were like looking back and they're like, Jesus, I was absolutely, I was blacked out on glaze. 416 00:35:40,036 --> 00:35:45,296 I was glazed out and I just couldn't see what, you know, I couldn't see. 417 00:35:45,456 --> 00:35:48,656 Now I have glazed goggles on. 418 00:35:49,436 --> 00:35:52,036 And it's all really was, I think. 419 00:35:52,076 --> 00:35:54,896 I think it was just a sloppy glaze. 420 00:35:56,516 --> 00:35:57,396 That was a wonderful time. 421 00:36:00,096 --> 00:36:05,936 I'm really sad at the prospect of not having another paper Bitcoin summer this upcoming year. 422 00:36:05,996 --> 00:36:06,796 But we'll see. 423 00:36:07,136 --> 00:36:07,816 It might come back. 424 00:36:07,816 --> 00:36:14,636 well it's it will come back because it may not come back in exactly the the same 425 00:36:14,636 --> 00:36:23,216 shape or form as paper bitcoin summer but there is no doubt in my mind that plebs had not stopped 426 00:36:23,216 --> 00:36:28,496 i've not for there will not forget again how to glaze in moderation plebs cannot glaze in 427 00:36:28,496 --> 00:36:35,876 moderation they always overdo it and in paper bitcoin will be glazed hard again just like gbtc 428 00:36:35,876 --> 00:36:44,096 was you know a few years ago yeah we'll see if teddy bitcoins wins uh the next maxi madness 429 00:36:44,096 --> 00:36:49,996 because i think that will be a huge indicator for how uh paper bitcoin summer will go but uh 430 00:36:49,996 --> 00:36:53,996 yeah there were some other things big things that happened q3 431 00:36:53,996 --> 00:37:04,256 it ended with the podcaster getting shot charlie kirk getting shot there was uh the peak of the 432 00:37:04,256 --> 00:37:12,576 I think it's fair to say that the Nazi node wars have peaked, 433 00:37:12,916 --> 00:37:15,136 and it's all downhill from here for them. 434 00:37:17,616 --> 00:37:19,956 But it was the peak of the CSAM debate, 435 00:37:20,616 --> 00:37:26,236 and the term plebslop really started to go mainstream and catch on. 436 00:37:27,136 --> 00:37:31,116 Those were the big defining moments of Q3 from my perspective. 437 00:37:34,256 --> 00:37:35,816 Yeah, yeah, the Charlie Kirk. 438 00:37:38,096 --> 00:37:43,456 Every podcaster remembers where he was today the moment they found out 439 00:37:43,456 --> 00:37:46,016 that Charlie Kirk had been shot. 440 00:37:47,536 --> 00:37:51,636 And every podcast listener, the same. 441 00:37:52,496 --> 00:37:59,116 There was a lot of, you know, that feeling that this acceleration 442 00:37:59,116 --> 00:38:01,876 was building up towards something, this forth-turning energy 443 00:38:01,876 --> 00:38:02,956 was building up towards something. 444 00:38:02,956 --> 00:38:09,956 when Charlie Kirk got shot it felt like the the pressure had been building to this moment and then 445 00:38:09,956 --> 00:38:15,976 the release valve was going to be action and we didn't know if it was going to be righteous action 446 00:38:15,976 --> 00:38:21,776 if it was going to be violent sloppy action we didn't know what would this action was going to 447 00:38:21,776 --> 00:38:29,776 be but it felt like I mean the the FBI the church the justice department is led by a podcaster 448 00:38:29,776 --> 00:38:36,376 a podcaster is investigating the assassination of a podcaster we thought this was going to go 449 00:38:36,376 --> 00:38:44,556 a certain way our predictions i think broadly were not very accurate at least our time for 450 00:38:44,556 --> 00:38:52,216 references weren't because we did not realize how sloppy it was going to be this moment was going to 451 00:38:52,216 --> 00:39:02,916 unleash the triol but most importantly slop especially the kind of ugly vicious 452 00:39:02,916 --> 00:39:11,296 knee-jerk antagonistic type of slop that came and that's what really it really 453 00:39:11,296 --> 00:39:17,056 doiled into you and it the ccm kind of came after this you're a pedophile if you don't run 454 00:39:17,056 --> 00:39:23,796 knots and this filter uh this filter scheme that we've got like we're saving bitcoin you're a 455 00:39:23,796 --> 00:39:29,896 pedophile you're a you're putting child you're enabling child pornographers or that charlie 456 00:39:29,896 --> 00:39:35,776 kirk deserved it or this is racist or these people deserve to be assassinated or every single 457 00:39:35,776 --> 00:39:43,056 immigrant needs to be loaded into a catapult and fired into the gulf of america okay it the 458 00:39:43,056 --> 00:39:50,216 patriotic slop just that came from it and what has so far been the development 459 00:39:50,216 --> 00:40:00,996 of turning point usa in the wake of charlie turk's death his wife erica is turning his estate and his 460 00:40:00,996 --> 00:40:12,916 legacy into club slot she's turning into wwf righteous gemstones um usa e2 bomber epstein 461 00:40:12,916 --> 00:40:21,436 diddy party pleb slot and that's disappointing because a podcaster he was to people were 462 00:40:21,436 --> 00:40:26,896 comparing it to martin luther king or george floyd and just like george floyd is like as he 463 00:40:26,896 --> 00:40:33,196 became pleb slot absolutely or is becoming or is becoming pleb slot so it's like that was kind of 464 00:40:33,196 --> 00:40:40,596 the marty event because right right before charlie got shot just i think it was a week before that 465 00:40:40,596 --> 00:40:43,136 is when Dennis Porter stopped making announcements. 466 00:40:43,696 --> 00:40:48,656 Dennis Porter almost, it's like he sensed what was coming 467 00:40:48,656 --> 00:40:52,896 and stepped out of the limelight for his own protection. 468 00:40:54,156 --> 00:40:55,776 He stopped making announcements. 469 00:40:56,716 --> 00:40:59,156 And then Charlie was shot and then everything's devolved 470 00:40:59,156 --> 00:40:59,916 and the plugs will happen. 471 00:41:00,336 --> 00:41:02,656 We've been in an announcement recession. 472 00:41:03,876 --> 00:41:06,216 Yeah, it was almost like there was an implosion. 473 00:41:06,216 --> 00:41:08,676 I feel like 474 00:41:08,676 --> 00:41:11,436 Q3 was 475 00:41:11,436 --> 00:41:13,456 in many ways 476 00:41:13,456 --> 00:41:15,376 it was like a controlled demolition 477 00:41:15,376 --> 00:41:18,276 of a lot of ways 478 00:41:18,276 --> 00:41:20,576 and PLEPSLOP was the 479 00:41:20,576 --> 00:41:23,856 the orchestration of this demolition 480 00:41:23,856 --> 00:41:24,416 of like 481 00:41:24,416 --> 00:41:27,416 Erica Kirk is 482 00:41:27,416 --> 00:41:30,056 PLEPSLOP controlled demolition 483 00:41:30,056 --> 00:41:31,096 at Turning Point USA 484 00:41:31,096 --> 00:41:44,394 you got CSAM being the control the Pledsoe Lov control demolition of the spam wars You got Dennis Porter announcement slowdown 485 00:41:45,674 --> 00:41:48,154 I don't remember when his last announcement was. 486 00:41:48,154 --> 00:41:53,394 It was the California guy, which I think happened a little bit after that. 487 00:41:53,694 --> 00:41:57,274 But Dennis Porter announcement, slowdown, 488 00:41:57,354 --> 00:42:02,294 was the demolition of the Bitcoin price in the bull market. 489 00:42:02,294 --> 00:42:14,394 You got the Epstein list being the pleb slop demolition of the excitement around the pleb slop presidency. 490 00:42:15,314 --> 00:42:16,434 It just. 491 00:42:17,414 --> 00:42:18,294 It's. 492 00:42:19,974 --> 00:42:22,294 The glaze got unsustainable. 493 00:42:23,194 --> 00:42:24,514 There's there. 494 00:42:24,654 --> 00:42:29,214 It's impossible to glaze the amount of slop coming our way. 495 00:42:29,214 --> 00:42:32,054 We cannot sugarcoat the truth anymore. 496 00:42:32,294 --> 00:42:36,974 because it's coming at us too fast, too high definition, 497 00:42:37,254 --> 00:42:39,394 from too many perspectives, from too many angles. 498 00:42:40,074 --> 00:42:43,614 It's one of the things I tweeted after Charlie Kirk got shot, 499 00:42:44,454 --> 00:42:48,554 because that was the week after that girl in Charlotte, 500 00:42:48,914 --> 00:42:53,234 that hotline girl got stabbed to the neck by that dude that should have been in prison. 501 00:42:54,814 --> 00:42:58,034 And it was, you couldn't stop, 502 00:42:58,034 --> 00:43:03,574 you couldn't avoid seeing an image of somebody getting stabbed in the neck or shot in the neck 503 00:43:03,574 --> 00:43:11,414 on on any timeline that week or that two weeks and it was i tweeted like you might as well watch 504 00:43:11,414 --> 00:43:16,134 the video you might as well look at it because you can't avoid the truth anymore the truth is 505 00:43:16,134 --> 00:43:22,034 common and it's if i would add to that it's like the truth can is no longer going to be glazed the 506 00:43:22,034 --> 00:43:30,414 revolution will not be glazed and that's kind of where it is like we he's became unsustainable and 507 00:43:30,414 --> 00:43:38,094 now we have no way to rose tinted glasses we use to view reality there's no escape we cannot go to 508 00:43:38,094 --> 00:43:43,674 any single outlet television channel newspaper and get glazed like we used to 509 00:43:43,674 --> 00:43:54,714 yeah Q3 was really that inflection point in the fort turning I think this it was really the that was 510 00:43:54,714 --> 00:44:02,974 the quarter that's going to define the future of the of the fort turning just the entire 511 00:44:02,974 --> 00:44:11,534 what's the word the entire atmosphere of what it's going to be like what it's going to feel like 512 00:44:11,534 --> 00:44:16,714 political discourse, the way that people communicate with each other, 513 00:44:17,714 --> 00:44:22,954 general violence, just the economic chaos, 514 00:44:23,214 --> 00:44:26,614 the way that information flow works, 515 00:44:28,154 --> 00:44:31,194 the types of topics that people will podcast about, 516 00:44:31,194 --> 00:44:33,694 the way that podcasters will argue with each other, 517 00:44:34,694 --> 00:44:39,174 the way that institutions are just going to collapse 518 00:44:39,174 --> 00:44:42,154 and faith and trust in them, 519 00:44:43,094 --> 00:44:46,274 the way that excitement will just fizzle out, 520 00:44:47,274 --> 00:44:49,094 people will turn on each other. 521 00:44:50,814 --> 00:44:51,834 Q3 was wild. 522 00:44:54,694 --> 00:44:58,214 Q3, that's, I mean, 523 00:44:58,994 --> 00:45:06,394 he had Core V30 that activated on, what, 524 00:45:06,394 --> 00:45:12,554 October 30th or October it was Halloween basically we had the spooky spooky spaces 525 00:45:12,554 --> 00:45:24,094 the death of Bitcoin and lo and behold it was absolutely it obviously we know that core v30 is 526 00:45:24,094 --> 00:45:31,494 not the most likely explanation for why the Bitcoin price crashed from all-time highs in 527 00:45:31,494 --> 00:45:36,914 October and has been on a downward bear market tilt ever since. 528 00:45:37,434 --> 00:45:37,914 However, 529 00:45:39,474 --> 00:45:42,874 lots of pledge sloppers love that explanation. 530 00:45:43,034 --> 00:45:43,594 I'd love to share. 531 00:45:43,694 --> 00:45:45,094 Adam Semeckis got the highest IQ. 532 00:45:45,354 --> 00:45:46,334 He sees a correlation. 533 00:45:47,014 --> 00:45:48,334 So it's at least we're talking about, 534 00:45:48,474 --> 00:45:52,754 but I'd say maybe, 535 00:45:52,794 --> 00:46:01,434 maybe the better angle on it is that the accumulation of our decisions 536 00:46:01,434 --> 00:46:06,734 of our consensus more broadly in the Bitcoin community 537 00:46:06,734 --> 00:46:12,334 and the broader general society has come to fruition, 538 00:46:12,594 --> 00:46:17,814 and Bitcoin's price can't keep going higher if we can't glaze the truth. 539 00:46:17,994 --> 00:46:24,034 We have to find a better way to glaze the truth or to tell the truth. 540 00:46:24,414 --> 00:46:26,174 Otherwise, Bitcoin cannot sustain. 541 00:46:27,714 --> 00:46:28,054 Absolutely. 542 00:46:28,054 --> 00:46:31,494 Well, we're at the end of Q4. 543 00:46:32,874 --> 00:46:39,994 Q4 has been just dealing with the aftermath of Q3 pretty much, 544 00:46:40,334 --> 00:46:44,214 and it seems like it's setting up for just the beginning of next year. 545 00:46:45,654 --> 00:46:51,194 I think the defining moment of this quarter was Dennis Porter's disappearance. 546 00:46:51,694 --> 00:46:57,354 He has not—I think we're getting close to 30 days at this point of no tweets, 547 00:46:57,354 --> 00:46:58,234 no announcements. 548 00:46:59,054 --> 00:47:00,154 Price dipping. 549 00:47:01,454 --> 00:47:04,594 People are questioning whether we're in the bear market or not. 550 00:47:05,754 --> 00:47:10,274 You got the samurai developers going to prison. 551 00:47:11,754 --> 00:47:17,294 You got the quantum people slopping about quantum FUD everywhere. 552 00:47:18,954 --> 00:47:20,194 It's cold. 553 00:47:20,334 --> 00:47:21,454 It's cold outside. 554 00:47:22,454 --> 00:47:26,214 We're definitely in a cultural winter. 555 00:47:27,354 --> 00:47:37,594 if not a price winner but yeah a few weeks ago we were optimistic that uh we're going to be at 100k 556 00:47:37,594 --> 00:47:41,594 right around now we thought we're going to get another 100k party 557 00:47:41,594 --> 00:47:47,734 on michael saylor's yaw i mean today we were talking about trying to revive vides capital 558 00:47:47,734 --> 00:47:53,494 or at least have somebody advice capital make sure that uh tatum had a good suit a good tuxedo 559 00:47:53,494 --> 00:47:56,454 to wear the Sailor's next 100K party 560 00:47:56,454 --> 00:48:00,034 because there's a good chance he's going to run into Aubrey Strobel there. 561 00:48:01,374 --> 00:48:04,574 Didn't want to wear his wrinkly old church clothes to the 100K party. 562 00:48:04,874 --> 00:48:13,554 But it's, again, our optimism is not meeting reality. 563 00:48:15,674 --> 00:48:20,094 Is it pointless to be optimistic, I guess is my question. 564 00:48:20,094 --> 00:48:28,674 is going into 2026 is it cringe to be optimistic i think in a lot of ways yeah i mean it just kind 565 00:48:28,674 --> 00:48:33,734 of depends on what you're optimistic about i think there's a lot of things to be optimistic about but 566 00:48:33,734 --> 00:48:41,374 it's just i think a lot of people are not looking forward to another thanksgiving another christmas 567 00:48:41,374 --> 00:48:49,894 next year i hope having to having to face disappointed there you know family members 568 00:48:49,894 --> 00:48:54,474 saying i told you so they're not looking forward to maybe having another christmas where the 569 00:48:54,474 --> 00:48:59,894 pledge don't get christmas presents like people are tired they don't know if they can do it again 570 00:48:59,894 --> 00:49:07,034 and so they just don't have the energy to be bullish they're going into 2026 and they're like 571 00:49:07,034 --> 00:49:13,594 just even somebody talking about being bullish makes me grumpy i just don't have the energy 572 00:49:13,594 --> 00:49:20,594 anymore yeah i mean can you blame them can you blame them i mean i think it's a it's a good 573 00:49:20,594 --> 00:49:27,774 healthy uh experience for people because i i think that you know when when you build your 574 00:49:27,774 --> 00:49:35,234 your house on stand when you on sand when you build your worldview on top of plebslop when 575 00:49:35,234 --> 00:49:43,574 it gets dismantled by the storm i think it's a good healthy experience like the pain that 576 00:49:43,574 --> 00:49:51,074 people are experiencing right now is uh it's healthy because you should feel 577 00:49:51,074 --> 00:50:07,732 pain like when you build your life on top of what law you shouldn feel optimistic about the pleb slap narratives that have been dismantled by reality But does that mean that you not optimistic entirely 578 00:50:07,912 --> 00:50:08,352 I don't know. 579 00:50:08,592 --> 00:50:11,872 You're going to have to go through the soul searching yourself to figure that out. 580 00:50:11,992 --> 00:50:14,492 But no, I don't blame her. 581 00:50:15,112 --> 00:50:23,772 I think it's totally a healthy, good experience to not feel optimistic about, you know, whatever's in the future. 582 00:50:23,772 --> 00:50:33,852 But I would say, I would add to that, that I think at this point, you don't have, I mean, you don't have to like pleb slop. 583 00:50:34,292 --> 00:50:36,472 I don't think anybody really likes it. 584 00:50:37,432 --> 00:50:39,092 Some people do, but you don't have to. 585 00:50:39,552 --> 00:50:41,252 You don't have to embrace pleb slop. 586 00:50:42,052 --> 00:50:45,552 But most importantly, you don't have to be afraid of pleb slop. 587 00:50:45,752 --> 00:50:48,832 But you do have to respect it. 588 00:50:48,832 --> 00:50:55,432 because whether you like it or hate it love it or fear it it's reality pleb slop is here to stay 589 00:50:55,432 --> 00:51:04,792 and pleb slop is uh the plebs can slop longer than you can not crash out basically is the way 590 00:51:04,792 --> 00:51:10,612 to think about it um so just respect the pleb slop and if you respect it respecting pleb slop is like 591 00:51:10,612 --> 00:51:17,692 you know it's like respecting a big uh a big ratted dog you don't have to like dog you don't 592 00:51:17,692 --> 00:51:22,252 have to be afraid of the dog necessarily as long as you stay away from it and you respect it you 593 00:51:22,252 --> 00:51:25,832 have nothing to worry about you will be okay that's how you should feel about plebs love 594 00:51:25,832 --> 00:51:32,292 there sure are some people that absolutely love plebs love like neat neat creations 595 00:51:32,292 --> 00:51:35,772 osinel gold adam samaka those guys 596 00:51:35,772 --> 00:51:45,872 they love their plebs love and it's yeah i mean people people can definitely they can just they 597 00:51:45,872 --> 00:51:52,512 can be they can glaze themselves and be glazed over by club slop nobody wants nobody wants to 598 00:51:52,512 --> 00:51:57,152 end up in that situation those guys aren't those guys don't even love 599 00:51:57,152 --> 00:52:02,492 the club or club slop addictions i guess if you really thought about it 600 00:52:02,492 --> 00:52:08,812 all righty uh apologize about the cadence of the episodes it got completely turned around 601 00:52:08,812 --> 00:52:15,632 with the uh holidays but here are the fountain boost folks for the quantum coral has commenced 602 00:52:15,632 --> 00:52:18,012 this episode was published 603 00:52:18,012 --> 00:52:20,412 I think a week 604 00:52:20,412 --> 00:52:22,592 later than we intended to 605 00:52:22,592 --> 00:52:24,532 Kaylee's been 606 00:52:24,532 --> 00:52:26,512 running around with E. Cash Shaler 607 00:52:26,512 --> 00:52:28,612 and so she's a little bit 608 00:52:28,612 --> 00:52:29,792 distracted by that but 609 00:52:29,792 --> 00:52:33,952 thank you for the boost on this one guys 610 00:52:33,952 --> 00:52:36,452 late stage huddle says keep up the good work boys 611 00:52:36,452 --> 00:52:38,212 hope y'all had a Merry Christmas 612 00:52:38,212 --> 00:52:40,592 and are having a Happy New Year 613 00:52:40,592 --> 00:52:42,492 we sure did 614 00:52:42,492 --> 00:52:49,832 it's going to be an interesting year i mean it's uh you got the we didn't talk about this 615 00:52:49,832 --> 00:52:55,372 at all in the episode but you got all the the shit going down with venezuela the empire marches on 616 00:52:55,372 --> 00:53:03,912 and uh there's going to be a lot the bitcoin podcast about this year i guess that's you know 617 00:53:03,912 --> 00:53:10,472 one of the ways that you mitigate the volatility of the fourth turning is you become a podcaster so 618 00:53:10,472 --> 00:53:16,032 you have like a reason to deal with all the shit because you got stuff to talk about but yeah 619 00:53:16,032 --> 00:53:24,472 next boost enox 616 is hey guys merry christmas to you both hope you had a great one you definitely 620 00:53:24,472 --> 00:53:30,832 started this episode on high note but you nailed one thing the fodder narratives on x are constantly 621 00:53:30,832 --> 00:53:36,992 shifting and the plebs keep falling for the same stuff it's fine to debate and swap ideas but 622 00:53:36,992 --> 00:53:42,832 constantly fighting in the comments it's just getting exhausting it's also true that the people 623 00:53:42,832 --> 00:53:47,712 you mentioned are trying harder every day to say something even more outrageous just for engagement 624 00:53:47,712 --> 00:53:53,512 and they're getting paid for it honestly that's one of the reasons i'm tired getting tired of x 625 00:53:53,512 --> 00:54:00,752 while it's true i've met some great people online including you guys i've also run into some many 626 00:54:00,752 --> 00:54:08,152 crazies in my dms who just won't listen to reason that's why when it comes to bitcoin i'd rather 627 00:54:08,152 --> 00:54:14,992 just read article listen to podcasts and check out the core newsletter x just isn't the same anymore 628 00:54:14,992 --> 00:54:24,092 plus i don't have as much free time as i used to anyways i wish you all happy new year 2026 let's 629 00:54:24,092 --> 00:54:30,752 see what's in store 2026 is definitely looking like it's going to be a very interesting year 630 00:54:30,752 --> 00:54:34,332 yeah i mean you you see this like there's 631 00:54:34,332 --> 00:54:45,372 there's been a major drop off in activity in the in the bitcoin twitter ecosystem 632 00:54:45,372 --> 00:54:54,912 them and you know people oftentimes throw it up the price but it's just there's not a lot of stuff 633 00:54:54,912 --> 00:55:03,772 to get excited about on there and and people are grumpy and they're you know that the algorithm is 634 00:55:03,772 --> 00:55:10,352 just it like twitter seems to be the rage bait site that's what people are doing they're just 635 00:55:10,352 --> 00:55:20,632 rage baiting each other they're just dunking on each other and uh i understand why it's it's 636 00:55:20,632 --> 00:55:27,412 uninteresting i mean there's like a bear market across i think all the bitcoin adjacent social 637 00:55:27,412 --> 00:55:38,172 media groups in general the group chats are quieter and uh you know for a lot of people 638 00:55:38,172 --> 00:55:46,912 it just doesn't make sense to be participating in these platforms because they're the front lines of 639 00:55:46,912 --> 00:55:53,472 of the war in many ways of the fourth turning of all these different parties fighting against each 640 00:55:53,472 --> 00:55:59,892 other and jockeying for control and influence in the world and you go on there and you're just being 641 00:55:59,892 --> 00:56:05,852 subjected to psyop after psyop and like that really though there's only a few reasons to be 642 00:56:05,852 --> 00:56:14,452 participating in social media in my opinion one is networking two is selling something 643 00:56:14,452 --> 00:56:20,932 and three is trying to either propagate or counter narratives for a variety of reasons 644 00:56:20,932 --> 00:56:26,892 and a lot of people just do not understand that this is like the purpose of these platforms like 645 00:56:26,892 --> 00:56:30,672 if you're out there and you're trying to propagate or counter a narrative you're like you're going 646 00:56:30,672 --> 00:56:37,912 to be disadvantages kind of like playing uh at the casino in vegas you know that the house has 647 00:56:37,912 --> 00:56:44,032 the advantage over you i mean you can still win in some ways but you know you might you might just 648 00:56:44,032 --> 00:56:52,192 be feeding into the leviathan of information warfare unnecessarily or you know whatever but 649 00:56:52,192 --> 00:57:02,072 uh it's it's it's like it's somewhat as somebody that's creating content it's kind of 650 00:57:02,072 --> 00:57:09,532 i feel this pull like it's in my interest to try and get our listeners engaged on on the social 651 00:57:09,532 --> 00:57:14,872 media but like i just don't think it's that good for you and so i mean that's why like all these 652 00:57:14,872 --> 00:57:20,692 podcasters and podconf like they're they're always trying to to get people on social media to engage 653 00:57:20,692 --> 00:57:26,212 with them and engage with the content you know whatever but like i i think dropping out 654 00:57:26,212 --> 00:57:31,552 if it's just not doing anything for you if you're not feeling good why the fuck are you doing 655 00:57:31,552 --> 00:57:39,792 just hang out in the group chats or you know hang out hang out with people in person you just like 656 00:57:39,792 --> 00:57:46,092 you gotta do the things that that make you feel good like if it doesn't feel good just stop 657 00:57:46,092 --> 00:57:52,592 and don't feel bad about it but yeah uh enoch thank you for boosting appreciate 658 00:57:52,592 --> 00:58:01,512 you engaging with the podcast you too late stage hall uh jcc 2112 sat says 659 00:58:01,512 --> 00:58:08,672 outro music was real toe tapper uh we we've got the the plebslaw christmas album 660 00:58:08,672 --> 00:58:33,750 that was a lot of fun writing that with rod i forgot which christmas song we ended with but it was one of them Sasha 2100SAT says great show Well thank you Sasha User 222906681500SAT says I was married to quantum mechanics theoretician 661 00:58:34,010 --> 00:58:36,230 but she left me for a particle physicist. 662 00:58:36,890 --> 00:58:40,010 But then he divorced her to date a nuclear scientist. 663 00:58:40,010 --> 00:58:42,330 but then she broke up with him to hook up with 664 00:58:42,330 --> 00:58:44,450 an astrophysics 665 00:58:44,450 --> 00:58:45,370 researcher 666 00:58:45,370 --> 00:58:48,710 sounds like a lot of autism 667 00:58:48,710 --> 00:58:49,190 to me 668 00:58:49,190 --> 00:59:00,330 I feel like you know 669 00:59:00,330 --> 00:59:02,870 people like that that are that educated 670 00:59:02,870 --> 00:59:06,710 are really hard to interact 671 00:59:06,710 --> 00:59:08,630 with because they just live in this world with so much 672 00:59:08,630 --> 00:59:09,790 context that 673 00:59:10,010 --> 00:59:19,530 it's like gods among mere mortals in some way and that's how bitcoin podcasters are hanging out with 674 00:59:19,530 --> 00:59:29,130 with on you know no coiners 40 hour per week listeners you're kind of like a astrophysicist 675 00:59:29,130 --> 00:59:39,850 but it i think it makes dating hard because the dating pool is so small you know when you're 676 00:59:39,850 --> 00:59:47,250 like a super educated i don't really know what the point of this message is but it just makes me 677 00:59:47,250 --> 00:59:52,970 think like when you're like a super educated individual that has an incredibly high iq 678 00:59:52,970 --> 00:59:57,130 the dating pool is pretty small 679 00:59:57,130 --> 01:00:04,890 i don't know whatever thank you for the boost that's an interesting boost i have no idea what 680 01:00:04,890 --> 01:00:11,530 you're talking about but sounds like an interesting dating line pelican six 1001 sat says nostr is 681 01:00:11,530 --> 01:00:24,310 the u.s dollar of social media um i mean that's pretty interesting that's a very very very 682 01:00:24,310 --> 01:00:32,750 interesting take and uh what's the bitcoin of social media then 683 01:00:32,750 --> 01:00:37,170 what's the tether of social media 684 01:00:37,170 --> 01:00:46,670 i'd like to spend more time on austere uh some people do it's a major stuff on there 685 01:00:46,670 --> 01:00:57,010 pies 121 sats salute emoji magnified glass steak mushroom strong arm thank you pies btc on board 686 01:00:57,010 --> 01:01:02,450 100 sats thumbs up thumbs up thumbs up btc on board 100 sats says quantum is fake and gave 687 01:01:02,450 --> 01:01:09,490 a vc scam until i can't confactor random three digit integer until then my younger kids are 688 01:01:09,490 --> 01:01:19,590 smarter yeah the quantum fun i don't know did that already die was it like a thing for like a week and 689 01:01:19,590 --> 01:01:25,190 is already dead uh the bt soundboard three thumbs up 690 01:01:25,190 --> 01:01:34,570 again for 100 cents but uh thank you guys for the fountain boost thank you for being a supporter 691 01:01:34,570 --> 01:01:44,550 of the bugle thank you to our subscribers uh been completely uh discombobulated with the holidays like 692 01:01:44,550 --> 01:01:50,310 i i'm excited to get back into 693 01:01:50,310 --> 01:01:57,450 more of a 694 01:01:57,450 --> 01:02:00,910 consistent 695 01:02:00,910 --> 01:02:03,230 content 696 01:02:03,230 --> 01:02:04,410 push 697 01:02:04,410 --> 01:02:07,250 get back on 698 01:02:07,250 --> 01:02:16,570 get back on 699 01:02:16,570 --> 01:02:18,670 a rhythm 700 01:02:18,670 --> 01:02:19,930 get back with the interview 701 01:02:19,930 --> 01:02:26,010 We're going to develop the rhythm again going into this upcoming year. 702 01:02:26,090 --> 01:02:27,830 I've been working on my Heroes series. 703 01:02:28,950 --> 01:02:34,070 I put a lot of thought into this next episode, which I will put out this week. 704 01:02:34,890 --> 01:02:40,350 And I've got more episodes in the pipeline ready to go. 705 01:02:40,430 --> 01:02:41,810 I've been working on my Heroes album. 706 01:02:42,030 --> 01:02:43,270 I'm excited about that. 707 01:02:43,270 --> 01:02:46,310 and uh you know we've been working on 708 01:02:46,310 --> 01:02:56,050 just creating more content like uh shows and music videos and all sorts of stuff and uh 709 01:02:56,050 --> 01:03:06,050 i'll be pushing out stuff exclusively or or in advance for our subscribers uh so if you're 710 01:03:06,050 --> 01:03:12,070 supporting us really really appreciate it guys happy new years thank you for being a listener 711 01:03:12,070 --> 01:03:14,410 of the show. We'll catch you up in the next one. 712 01:03:42,070 --> 01:03:45,830 what was safe, embark on the frontier. 713 01:03:45,830 --> 01:03:49,650 You tried to resist, but there was no going back. 714 01:03:49,970 --> 01:03:53,210 Your very existence had come under attack. 715 01:03:53,610 --> 01:04:01,190 Self-respect required you to grow, to leave everything behind that you had known. 716 01:04:01,750 --> 01:04:08,090 The journey will be long, but you will find you are strong. 717 01:04:08,090 --> 01:04:09,930 Dig deep inside 718 01:04:09,930 --> 01:04:13,470 Take what's coming and strive 719 01:04:13,470 --> 01:04:16,870 The world needs heroes 720 01:04:16,870 --> 01:04:19,270 To do what must be done 721 01:04:19,270 --> 01:04:20,790 So answer the call 722 01:04:20,790 --> 01:04:22,970 Because the brave don't run 723 01:04:22,970 --> 01:04:24,730 Stand your ground 724 01:04:24,730 --> 01:04:26,670 Fight for what's true 725 01:04:26,670 --> 01:04:28,490 Choose what's hard 726 01:04:28,490 --> 01:04:30,030 In pursuit of virtue 727 01:04:30,030 --> 01:04:32,430 It may seem like 728 01:04:32,430 --> 01:04:34,470 All hope is gone 729 01:04:34,470 --> 01:04:35,710 But you're still here 730 01:04:35,710 --> 01:04:37,910 So the fight isn't done 731 01:04:37,910 --> 01:04:45,210 So the fight isn't done 732 01:04:45,210 --> 01:05:03,270 You can't unsee what is before your eyes 733 01:05:03,270 --> 01:05:06,850 To go back to before would be your soul's demise 734 01:05:06,850 --> 01:05:09,950 I know you fear the cost of living in integrity 735 01:05:09,950 --> 01:05:14,710 But you have no other choice if you are to keep your sanity 736 01:05:14,710 --> 01:05:18,210 You may get tired but you'll never be alone 737 01:05:18,210 --> 01:05:21,830 Your courage will attract others and you'll find a home 738 01:05:21,830 --> 01:05:25,350 Together you will build the future that you desire 739 01:05:25,350 --> 01:05:29,270 And rely on each other when you need to be inspired 740 01:05:29,270 --> 01:05:33,190 The journey will be long 741 01:05:33,190 --> 01:05:36,690 But you will find you are strong 742 01:05:36,690 --> 01:05:38,390 Dig deep inside 743 01:05:38,390 --> 01:05:42,570 The bold don't hide 744 01:05:42,570 --> 01:05:47,870 The world needs heroes to do what must be done 745 01:05:47,870 --> 01:05:51,550 So answer the call because the brave don't run 746 01:05:51,550 --> 01:05:55,230 Stand your ground, fight for what's true 747 01:05:55,230 --> 01:05:58,690 Choose what's hard in pursuit of virtue 748 01:05:58,690 --> 01:06:03,090 It may seem like our hope is gone 749 01:06:03,090 --> 01:06:07,030 But you're still here, so the fight isn't done 750 01:06:07,030 --> 01:06:14,070 So the fight isn't done 751 01:06:14,070 --> 01:06:17,670 Done 752 01:06:17,670 --> 01:06:35,510 The battle for your heart may bring you close to breaking 753 01:06:35,510 --> 01:06:39,070 But if you keep fighting, victory will be yours for the taking 754 01:06:39,070 --> 01:06:39,990 When times are high 755 01:06:40,008 --> 01:06:42,808 It's a call to become your best 756 01:06:42,808 --> 01:06:46,668 If you are true to yourself, pride will be in your chest 757 01:06:46,668 --> 01:06:50,848 The journey will be long 758 01:06:50,848 --> 01:06:54,168 But you will find you are strong 759 01:06:54,168 --> 01:06:55,848 Dig deep inside 760 01:06:55,848 --> 01:06:59,728 The strong don't run or hide 761 01:06:59,728 --> 01:07:05,428 The world needs heroes to do what must be done 762 01:07:05,428 --> 01:07:09,108 So answer the call because the brave don't run 763 01:07:09,108 --> 01:07:12,808 Stand your ground, fight for what's true 764 01:07:12,808 --> 01:07:16,248 Choose what's hard in pursuit of virtue 765 01:07:16,248 --> 01:07:20,608 It may seem like our hope is gone 766 01:07:20,608 --> 01:07:24,608 But you're still here so the fight isn't done 767 01:07:24,608 --> 01:07:31,648 So the fight isn't done 768 01:07:39,108 --> 01:08:04,368 I'll see you next time.