1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,160 There's so much to unpack here. You have to almost dive into the human psyche and understand human 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:10,580 behavior on so many levels to try to figure out what the right answer is. They've never thought 3 00:00:10,580 --> 00:00:14,080 about it because I didn't start thinking about this until Bitcoin, until I went down this rabbit 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:19,000 hole. And I was as patriotic a person as you could possibly be up until just a few years ago. 5 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:23,080 We're just not taught that in school. Most people don't have a lot of understanding or learning when 6 00:00:23,080 --> 00:00:26,680 it comes to that. And I think that to me is the thing that's not talked about enough in Bitcoin. 7 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:29,620 You know, the famous quote, people should never fear their governments. 8 00:00:29,860 --> 00:00:32,200 It's the governments that should be petrified of their people. 9 00:00:32,380 --> 00:00:35,700 But the people need to understand that they hold that power. 10 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:37,440 It's not like gone. 11 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:43,620 Hey, everyone. 12 00:00:43,780 --> 00:00:45,840 Welcome to another episode of Bitcoin Banter. 13 00:00:45,940 --> 00:00:48,060 We have a special edition here today. 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,340 I've got Brandon Gentile and Tony with me. 15 00:00:50,900 --> 00:00:52,560 Brandon, so this is all your fault, man. 16 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:53,680 You reached out to me. 17 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,400 You said, dude, we got to talk about this particular topic. 18 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:58,640 And you were chatting with Tony. 19 00:00:58,780 --> 00:01:00,440 I think you had him on your podcast recently. 20 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:08,560 I think what we need to discuss here is really what blocks people from going all in on Bitcoin, 21 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,940 what blocks people from taking the steps once they sort of learn about Bitcoin 22 00:01:12,940 --> 00:01:15,680 toward self-custody, toward self-sovereignty. 23 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:20,060 And the way you framed it was it's like that six inches between your ears 24 00:01:20,060 --> 00:01:21,860 that people really struggle with. 25 00:01:21,980 --> 00:01:24,620 They're looking for government permission. 26 00:01:24,620 --> 00:01:28,380 They're looking for someone to take responsibility for them. 27 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,680 Why don't you sort of explain what it was that prompted you to reach out to me? 28 00:01:32,780 --> 00:01:34,640 And then I want Tony to respond to that. 29 00:01:34,660 --> 00:01:35,640 And let's just jump right in. 30 00:01:36,580 --> 00:01:37,380 Yeah, beautiful. 31 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:37,820 Thank you. 32 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:38,540 Thank you, boys. 33 00:01:39,060 --> 00:01:40,900 This is something that I've been thinking about for a while. 34 00:01:41,460 --> 00:01:45,100 My, you know, 15 years ago, I mean, you guys, you know, kind of know my story. 35 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:48,580 Some people have seen me before or my channel, I guess, maybe have seen my story. 36 00:01:48,580 --> 00:01:55,760 But, you know, being a professional athlete, you know, a lot of it is, you know, visualization, personal development, you know, the mental game. 37 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,960 Right. I mean, you see athletes and even it could be entertainers or actors. 38 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,200 We're kind of talking about entertainment offline here beforehand. 39 00:02:01,300 --> 00:02:05,180 But, you know, a lot of that is visualization and a lot of that is mental. 40 00:02:05,420 --> 00:02:07,660 And money is psychological. 41 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 You know, money is mental at the end of the day. 42 00:02:10,020 --> 00:02:13,480 Right. We use seashells before humanity as money. 43 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:16,440 And so does money have to have certain properties? 44 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:46,420 Yes. However, if the collective conscience believes the dollar has value today, when we know that really there's nothing behind it, it's just a piece of paper, then guess what? Someone accepts it. You go to the store and they accept it. And away we go. It's a con game. It's a confidence game, a mental game. And this is this can be good and bad. And where we were kind of talking about this is that it's, you know, so I got into a lot of this 15 years ago, the Jim Rohn, the Bob Proctors of the world and, you know, the Tony Robbins and some of the people that people might know, I guess. But this this mental aspect where 45 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,940 I've talked to many people, I'm sure you guys have, of they get it. 46 00:02:51,020 --> 00:02:56,980 Like technically they get Bitcoin or, you know, the actual physical parts of Bitcoin, 47 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:57,700 what's going on. 48 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,700 Like they'll get a lot of people will get Bitcoin, but then they'll say, yeah, but, 49 00:03:01,700 --> 00:03:06,880 you know, yeah, but the government won't let us do this or yeah, but, you know, I can't 50 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:08,980 do it here or I'm too late. 51 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:09,840 I get what you're saying. 52 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,160 This is perfect, but like I'm too late to it. 53 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:16,720 And really like so many of the objections you hear have to do with this mental state 54 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:17,820 people find themselves in. 55 00:03:17,940 --> 00:03:21,200 And so we can kind of unpack some of those things and these different objections we hear 56 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,100 that really are just this psychological block that people have. 57 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:28,500 But one of the big things too, I think, is that people, again, along with not being able 58 00:03:28,500 --> 00:03:33,120 to critically think government run schools for the last 150 years here in America, there's 59 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:34,560 only one right answer in life. 60 00:03:34,820 --> 00:03:40,680 It's, it's not, it's also not being or thinking and believing that you're worthy of this, of, 61 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:45,140 wealth and in the wealth, not in the sense of like, oh, I can purchase a Lamborghini, but wealth 62 00:03:45,140 --> 00:03:49,280 in your time, right? Your time freedom, which is what wealth is. It's the things you value with your 63 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:53,420 time and energy. And that's what Bitcoin is. It's the perfect encapsulation of your time and energy 64 00:03:53,420 --> 00:03:57,900 on earth because we all have finite time and Bitcoin is finite. It's the only two assets that 65 00:03:57,900 --> 00:04:03,140 I know of time and Bitcoin that are finite or that we at least have that are finite in this world. 66 00:04:03,140 --> 00:04:08,500 So it's this perfect pair, yet there's this block like the math is there, you know, two plus two 67 00:04:08,500 --> 00:04:11,820 equals four, you know, so it's like there's 21 million, you know, like people can go through, 68 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:15,080 do the homework. And so there's a lot of people that haven't done the homework. I get it there. 69 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,260 They'll get it. Eventually they'll kind of do their homework at some point, but there's a lot 70 00:04:18,260 --> 00:04:20,900 of people that have done their homework. Kind of what I was alluding to a minute ago where 71 00:04:20,900 --> 00:04:24,560 they could, they've done it. They see it, they get it. They've even admitted it. They're like, 72 00:04:24,580 --> 00:04:29,180 yeah, this is great. This would be, but you know, but the government, you know, so it's this, 73 00:04:29,180 --> 00:04:34,000 this weird world where people don't believe they're worthy of having their own time and energy. 74 00:04:34,140 --> 00:04:37,980 Like we have to have a leader. I've got to have some man or woman telling me what to do. 75 00:04:37,980 --> 00:04:43,020 you know memorizing what's going on in school all the bell rings and now i get to do this well the 76 00:04:43,020 --> 00:04:47,560 president told me i can do this or we're going to do that and you know you see it all the way back 77 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:51,620 you know thousands of years ago you know give me a king and i want a king i can't lead myself for 78 00:04:51,620 --> 00:04:55,780 some reason so this is just this thing i've been thinking about for a long time i i just believe 79 00:04:55,780 --> 00:05:01,480 it's not talked about nearly enough in bitcoin circles because we we tend to fight as bitcoiners 80 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,780 a lot of us are visionary right the the personality types are in bitcoin now the early adopters 81 00:05:05,780 --> 00:05:11,280 and then we're trying to like yell at people that don't think like that which is totally fine 82 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:15,300 but we have to start I think changing almost the way we're thinking about the way we're talking to 83 00:05:15,300 --> 00:05:19,600 people and the way we are handling that because there's just these clear blocks mentally that 84 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:25,420 people have that need to be eroded and some of that comes over time of pain right you know like 85 00:05:25,420 --> 00:05:29,340 we a lot of us know Tony's story right you experience this pain in life and all of a sudden 86 00:05:29,340 --> 00:05:33,840 yeah there's no choice I have to or just time takes care of that some of the education or 87 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:39,240 whatever it is. But that that I think is going to be sped up by those of us who can start talking 88 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:43,940 differently to people and meeting them where they are in the sense of, hey, this is this is a mental 89 00:05:43,940 --> 00:05:48,020 thing in life. It's a psychological engine that we're dealing with. And we're just not taught 90 00:05:48,020 --> 00:05:52,320 that in school. Most people don't have a lot of understanding or learning when it comes to that. 91 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,260 And I think that to me is the thing that's not talked about enough in Bitcoin in that sense. 92 00:05:56,260 --> 00:06:04,720 tony this is a theme i think you've hit on if not directly uh i mean on and off since i've known you 93 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,600 and i think brandon probably teed you up really well how would you expand upon this idea 94 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:14,360 man this is a uh this is a this is a massive topic in and of itself i mean there's so much 95 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:20,100 to unpack here because you know it's sort of like you have to almost dive into the human psyche and 96 00:06:20,100 --> 00:06:25,820 understand human behavior on so many levels to try to figure out you know what the right answer 97 00:06:25,820 --> 00:06:30,200 is. And there isn't just one, right? I mean, human beings are complicated individuals. 98 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:36,320 But the common denominator in a lot of them, at least in my experience, is that I think most 99 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:43,480 people self-sabotage, right? I mean, you've been living in a lie for so long that, you know, 100 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:49,260 you just like block your brain from accepting that anything could be radically different, right? 101 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:55,500 And one of the biggest elements in this is the fact that money must be government or central 102 00:06:55,500 --> 00:07:01,700 bank issued. Like the mere thought of something different from that, people automatically shut 103 00:07:01,700 --> 00:07:05,680 down, right? Like even if you provide all the scientific proof in the universe to them, 104 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:12,020 they just shut down for whatever inexplicable reason, that's it. The other thing is that 105 00:07:12,020 --> 00:07:16,280 depending on the age of the individual or where they are in life, you know, certain, 106 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,200 you know, circumstances may, you know, force them to be like this. Like, for example, 107 00:07:21,100 --> 00:07:25,120 if I've known people that I've been like wheelers and dealers their whole life, you know, you lie 108 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,600 here, you scam here, you twist this, you twist that, and that's how they make their living. 109 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:33,780 You can't do that on a Bitcoin standard anymore. Like this is their trick. This is like their 110 00:07:33,780 --> 00:07:40,560 ticket to living, to paying their expenses, to making their own savings, right? Bitcoin changes 111 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,480 all of this because, you know, now it's a completely different chessboard and these tips 112 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:49,420 and tricks don't work anymore. So there's that. That's like one type of individual. The other type 113 00:07:49,420 --> 00:07:54,280 of individual is just someone who's always been struggling to make ends meet. Finally, they figure 114 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:58,680 something out or they get this one job that they're, you know, more or less happy with. It's 115 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:03,980 giving them a steady income and they don't want to rock the boat anymore. So whatever you tell them, 116 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:09,120 it's a massive risk for them to step to the side and try something new. They won't do it. 117 00:08:09,860 --> 00:08:13,140 The others that have accumulated like a lot of high net worth individuals, 118 00:08:14,060 --> 00:08:18,800 that's where ego comes in, right? Like they think, okay, well, look, I'm a multimillionaire or more. 119 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:24,360 trust me i know what i'm doing don't come to me with your mickey mouse internet money stuff 120 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:31,020 i've made it this far i'm like 60 plus years old i've got all this money trust me i'm good i don't 121 00:08:31,020 --> 00:08:37,280 need to figure anything out so they don't until they experience what i went through and they wake 122 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:42,540 up something breaks and then you know all this millions and billions are just gone and then 123 00:08:42,540 --> 00:08:48,460 they're shell-shocked into thinking okay shit now what do i do right i'm guilty of you know that 124 00:08:48,460 --> 00:08:54,860 category because you know this was me in 2019 so i'm describing myself back then because i can still 125 00:08:54,860 --> 00:09:01,020 see it in like tons of folks that we interact with so you've got this cocktail of individual 126 00:09:01,020 --> 00:09:08,160 behavior that is you know very hard to the pinpoint and everybody needs to come to this unlearning 127 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:13,760 you know in their own way like for example in my closest closest inner circle 128 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,380 I forbid them from touching fiat. 129 00:09:17,380 --> 00:09:18,840 So that's one way people might think, 130 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,540 ah, but that's like, you know, too tough. 131 00:09:21,540 --> 00:09:24,260 But you know, sometimes that works. 132 00:09:24,260 --> 00:09:25,980 Other people have another approach. 133 00:09:25,980 --> 00:09:40,476 And so eventually something is going to change your mind whether it you know it gonna come naturally or you to you know have something beat you down in order to force you to change But that human element you know 134 00:09:40,516 --> 00:09:47,396 this is the uncontrollable factor that I think stalls people from, you know, moving ahead into 135 00:09:47,396 --> 00:09:52,396 something that has clearly been proven to be in their best interest. This is why, you know, 136 00:09:52,396 --> 00:09:58,836 after 17 years, and despite its finite supply of 21 million, in a world of 8.3 billion, 137 00:09:59,176 --> 00:10:01,256 we're still dealing with Bitcoin volatility. 138 00:10:01,696 --> 00:10:05,476 Like you think like common sense that would have been gone like, you know, 12 years ago. 139 00:10:05,476 --> 00:10:09,976 But yet here we are, same stupid reasons, same stupid behavior. 140 00:10:10,616 --> 00:10:14,296 And, you know, the whole thing keeps on repeating themselves. 141 00:10:14,836 --> 00:10:18,176 But the silver lining is that, you know, you keep establishing higher lows. 142 00:10:18,176 --> 00:10:38,936 And of course, you know, at its simplest common denominator, that price attracts those that understand nothing and don't want to do thinking and don't want to bother. Right. So they look at that price, they get excited. They change something in their behavior until eventually, hopefully they get to the point where they understand what, you know, people like us have been trying to put out for such a long time. 143 00:10:38,936 --> 00:10:46,336 I couldn't agree with either of you more. I think what's really challenging, I think for most people 144 00:10:46,336 --> 00:10:50,696 is, and Tony, you alluded to this, we grow up in this environment where we think this is the 145 00:10:50,696 --> 00:10:56,016 way things are. And we look at what our neighbors are doing. We look at what societal norms are. 146 00:10:56,876 --> 00:11:06,536 And while I would say that there is value to social cohesion, we all generally abide by 147 00:11:06,536 --> 00:11:11,176 common sets of values. And I mean, I think that's why there are a lot of people looking at like, 148 00:11:11,296 --> 00:11:15,256 you know, the immigration and they're like, we have, you know, just competing values in this 149 00:11:15,256 --> 00:11:18,996 little town and it just doesn't work. So like, I understand like the practical, 150 00:11:19,616 --> 00:11:25,936 but if, if you step back and you just say, what are the rights that I have, that I have been given 151 00:11:25,936 --> 00:11:31,356 as a human being, the right to, you know, defend myself, the right to speak freely, 152 00:11:31,356 --> 00:11:37,516 the right to my property, to the value produced by my labor when I mix it with nature. 153 00:11:38,636 --> 00:11:41,896 I think we've lost sight of just like the basics. 154 00:11:42,536 --> 00:11:46,776 And everything I just described is something, and this is, I kind of tend to go through, 155 00:11:47,036 --> 00:11:51,136 I look at the world through the lens of the topic, which I'm studying at any particular 156 00:11:51,136 --> 00:11:51,736 point in time. 157 00:11:51,796 --> 00:11:55,476 So I've been reading John Locke and the history of the U.S. founding. 158 00:11:55,476 --> 00:12:02,176 and all of those things are spelled out very plainly by great thinkers of the past that no 159 00:12:02,176 --> 00:12:07,076 one has been educated on and certainly no one has internalized you know when i say no one i mean the 160 00:12:07,076 --> 00:12:14,016 majority of people have not internalized and so they think that i can say what i want because 161 00:12:14,016 --> 00:12:18,296 government says i have a first amendment right they think they can defend themselves because 162 00:12:18,296 --> 00:12:23,356 government says they have a second amendment right and and that's not that's not at all the 163 00:12:23,356 --> 00:12:27,676 case. They have a right to say what they want because they're human. They have a right to 164 00:12:27,676 --> 00:12:33,256 defend themselves because they're human. And until we break free of those, that thinking that Tony 165 00:12:33,256 --> 00:12:38,276 talks about with, you know, like government has to be the one who produces and distributes money 166 00:12:38,276 --> 00:12:43,336 until we can break free of those chains, we're going to live in whatever the confines are that 167 00:12:43,336 --> 00:12:48,896 government has constructed for us. And right now it's one of tyranny and oppression. And, um, 168 00:12:48,896 --> 00:12:55,636 And so it's no wonder, I think, that people struggle to break themselves of the mindset that I can just do things. 169 00:12:55,636 --> 00:12:57,196 I can just hold my own wealth. 170 00:12:57,196 --> 00:13:07,196 I can take ownership because even the smallest government people among us tend to say, well, yeah, but how would how would poor people take care of themselves? 171 00:13:07,276 --> 00:13:09,116 And it's like, I would love to take care. 172 00:13:09,236 --> 00:13:13,236 I would love to be a participant in helping take care of someone who is unable to take care of themselves. 173 00:13:13,236 --> 00:13:18,176 I just don't want it going through a government bureaucracy where 50% of the value of what I 174 00:13:18,176 --> 00:13:22,696 contribute is stripped away and sent off to a bunch of people I don't care about just to get 175 00:13:22,696 --> 00:13:27,276 the other 50% to people who I do care about helping. Let me just give that to them directly 176 00:13:27,276 --> 00:13:32,676 so they can take 100%. So many of the problems that we face today, I think would be alleviated 177 00:13:32,676 --> 00:13:38,756 or completely resolved if, if participants in the free market could just do what they wanted to do. 178 00:13:38,756 --> 00:13:42,916 and it's an uphill battle educating people, 179 00:13:43,076 --> 00:13:43,896 not just on Bitcoin, 180 00:13:44,196 --> 00:13:44,836 because to your point, 181 00:13:44,916 --> 00:13:46,396 some people get Bitcoin, Brandon, 182 00:13:46,496 --> 00:13:49,176 they understand the technology 183 00:13:49,176 --> 00:13:51,956 or they understand the macroeconomic case for it, 184 00:13:51,956 --> 00:13:54,336 but they don't understand why they're deserving 185 00:13:54,336 --> 00:13:56,416 of this optionality to begin with. 186 00:13:56,816 --> 00:13:57,976 So I don't know if either of you have anything 187 00:13:57,976 --> 00:13:59,116 to comment on that 188 00:13:59,116 --> 00:14:01,196 or to expand upon your previous thoughts. 189 00:14:01,596 --> 00:14:03,256 Yeah, it's because people have forgotten 190 00:14:03,256 --> 00:14:05,056 that they're worthy, right? 191 00:14:05,176 --> 00:14:07,896 Like, I mean, a lot of people associate their worthiness 192 00:14:07,896 --> 00:14:10,076 with the permission of someone else, 193 00:14:10,216 --> 00:14:11,396 you know, in this specific case, 194 00:14:11,436 --> 00:14:13,316 like of a government or what have you. 195 00:14:13,716 --> 00:14:15,216 It's like, if the government says it's okay, 196 00:14:15,276 --> 00:14:16,276 then I'm doing the right thing. 197 00:14:16,356 --> 00:14:17,456 If the government says I'm not, 198 00:14:17,656 --> 00:14:18,416 this is no good, 199 00:14:18,496 --> 00:14:20,636 then I'm not a good citizen. 200 00:14:21,076 --> 00:14:23,776 And people have like genuinely believed that 201 00:14:23,776 --> 00:14:25,356 and ingrained that in their DNA 202 00:14:25,356 --> 00:14:26,536 and are just, you know, 203 00:14:27,056 --> 00:14:28,316 that's why, you know, 204 00:14:28,356 --> 00:14:29,856 they're called the sheep, right? 205 00:14:30,236 --> 00:14:32,776 In society, you have different echelons 206 00:14:32,776 --> 00:14:33,756 of human beings. 207 00:14:34,176 --> 00:14:35,276 You've got the ones, you know, 208 00:14:35,556 --> 00:14:37,576 at the base that just live life, 209 00:14:37,576 --> 00:14:40,276 do what they're told, never really go anywhere. 210 00:14:40,436 --> 00:14:42,516 Like the worker ants, right? 211 00:14:42,556 --> 00:14:45,116 Like they do their one trick pony thing and that's it. 212 00:14:45,476 --> 00:14:48,136 And then the higher you go up the echelon of life, 213 00:14:48,196 --> 00:14:49,836 it's those people that, you know, 214 00:14:49,916 --> 00:14:52,696 like go against the masses. 215 00:14:52,936 --> 00:14:53,876 They do their own thing. 216 00:14:54,016 --> 00:14:55,916 They push, they struggle, they work out. 217 00:14:56,096 --> 00:15:00,256 They just do what other people tell them you cannot do. 218 00:15:00,356 --> 00:15:03,036 They just defy gravity and do it anyhow and prove them wrong. 219 00:15:03,496 --> 00:15:04,956 These are the people, you know, 220 00:15:04,956 --> 00:15:09,116 like the go-getters that, you know, want to live life on their terms. 221 00:15:09,216 --> 00:15:10,816 Like most people live life here. 222 00:15:11,536 --> 00:15:15,156 The successful people want to live life here, right? 223 00:15:15,276 --> 00:15:16,816 There's a difference between the two. 224 00:15:17,416 --> 00:15:21,256 And so to get up here, no one's going to give you that ticket. 225 00:15:21,356 --> 00:15:23,296 You have to go out and take it yourself. 226 00:15:23,996 --> 00:15:31,256 And so Bitcoin sort of like forces you to reprogram everything you've known your entire life with something new. 227 00:15:31,256 --> 00:15:36,376 and if you're the type of influence like but mommy told me this or daddy told me this and this is how 228 00:15:36,376 --> 00:15:41,296 we know my grandmother has always done her things and this is how our family has always lived and 229 00:15:41,296 --> 00:15:47,196 everything's been okay for them like who am i now to come and sort of like disrupt all of this and 230 00:15:47,196 --> 00:15:53,976 so again you self-sabotage yourself i use myself again as an example here because when everything 231 00:15:53,976 --> 00:15:59,336 blew up in my life i wasn't the only one every single member of my family got got nuked as well 232 00:15:59,336 --> 00:16:07,696 but who's the only one doing what i'm doing there's only one it's me and despite all of this 233 00:16:07,696 --> 00:16:18,896 yeah but so what what does that tell you right that there is something inherently built into people 234 00:16:18,896 --> 00:16:25,936 that you know some people are programmed for greatness other people are programmed to 235 00:16:25,936 --> 00:16:31,076 cease and exist at some point. I don't know. I mean, yeah, it sounds a bit dark and drastic to 236 00:16:31,076 --> 00:16:35,616 say this, but I can't find any other way to explain this because even though you show the proof, 237 00:16:35,616 --> 00:16:43,516 the scientific evidence, and you explain all the steps, yeah, but, you know, this is an internal 238 00:16:43,516 --> 00:16:49,476 thing. This is like a lack of self-worthiness, lack of self-confidence, lack of many things, 239 00:16:49,516 --> 00:16:54,176 you know, that we can't specifically pinpoint right now. But this is essentially what I genuinely 240 00:16:54,176 --> 00:17:01,656 believe hinders folks from greatness. And, you know, the more people, you know, go the distance, 241 00:17:01,736 --> 00:17:07,236 so to speak, in order to force themselves out of this stupid comfort zone, well, then these people 242 00:17:07,236 --> 00:17:12,036 are going to make it to, you know, a place in life that, you know, they've never known before. 243 00:17:12,216 --> 00:17:17,176 Like this whole Bitcoin thing, none of us know where it's going, right? I mean, we have an idea 244 00:17:17,176 --> 00:17:21,536 of where it's headed, but, you know, can we compare it to anything we've known before? 245 00:17:22,496 --> 00:17:23,136 Of course not. 246 00:17:23,196 --> 00:17:23,916 It's never existed. 247 00:17:24,596 --> 00:17:30,396 But scientifically, mathematically, you know, all the facts that we know about Bitcoin, 248 00:17:30,396 --> 00:17:38,356 we can pretty much, you know, comprehend what type of like a renaissance world this is going to create. 249 00:17:38,756 --> 00:17:40,616 And this is why we do what we do. 250 00:17:40,696 --> 00:17:43,456 But people have to get there, you know, on their own merit. 251 00:17:43,616 --> 00:17:44,976 And it's going to take pain. 252 00:17:45,176 --> 00:17:47,136 I don't see any other way. 253 00:17:47,816 --> 00:17:49,596 Very few people listen to reason. 254 00:17:49,596 --> 00:17:55,856 you know like i know that my closest closest inner circle listen to reason um but most people 255 00:17:55,856 --> 00:18:00,036 don't listen they're like whatever man let me figure it out and you know god willing everything 256 00:18:00,036 --> 00:18:05,636 will work out all right cool god willing is why you got screwed in the first place and you know 257 00:18:05,636 --> 00:18:10,716 you still didn't do anything about it so keep waiting keep waiting and hopefully you know some 258 00:18:10,716 --> 00:18:17,756 miracle will sprinkle on your head and fix your situation tony you you nailed you nailed that i 259 00:18:17,756 --> 00:18:35,016 I mean, even like some of the smartest people in my life who I'm close to, I could walk them through step by step Bitcoin, how I've come to conclusions about other things based on, you know, the rabbit holes, the tributaries of the Bitcoin River. 260 00:18:35,796 --> 00:18:41,996 And they'll say, well, yeah, but the New York Times told me, the Wall Street Journal told me, Fox told me. 261 00:18:42,076 --> 00:18:44,136 And I'm like, I don't care what any of them said. 262 00:18:44,316 --> 00:18:46,376 And they're like, well, they have an expert who was talking. 263 00:18:46,376 --> 00:18:51,336 And I'm like, that expert was educated in the same fiat indoctrination camps that all 264 00:18:51,336 --> 00:18:53,516 of the other experts were indoctrinated in. 265 00:18:53,716 --> 00:18:56,516 Like, it's completely irrelevant what they think to me. 266 00:18:56,656 --> 00:18:59,996 It's not that they're like, they're a node on my network of knowledge. 267 00:18:59,996 --> 00:19:01,356 I'll listen to what they have to say. 268 00:19:01,416 --> 00:19:16,733 I weigh it against evidence from other places And then I make a decision It not that I just ignore the experts It that I take them with a grain of salt because I know where they were educated And I know the incentives that play in you know closed room meetings And I understand all of that now 269 00:19:16,993 --> 00:19:20,133 And you don't have to be real conspiratorial to get there. You just follow the money. I mean, 270 00:19:20,133 --> 00:19:25,093 it's pretty straightforward. Brandon, so if you have anything to comment on what Tony was just 271 00:19:25,093 --> 00:19:29,633 talking about, awesome. The other thing I want to do, though, is I want to actually address head 272 00:19:29,633 --> 00:19:34,013 on some of these questions well what if government bans bitcoin or what if government says you know 273 00:19:34,013 --> 00:19:39,553 here's how you have to use bitcoin like how do we overcome that hurdle with people so you can you 274 00:19:39,553 --> 00:19:44,513 can address that first or comment on tony's response um yeah i'll let i'll let tony answer 275 00:19:44,513 --> 00:19:48,693 that in a minute actually because he's you know obviously way better than i am at explaining some 276 00:19:48,693 --> 00:19:54,473 of those things so that what i wanted to kind of just tie a bow on is the um it's like the the 277 00:19:54,473 --> 00:19:59,873 zeitgeist right i mean tony uh you you guys both nailed it i mean both of you and the the zeitgeist 278 00:19:59,873 --> 00:20:04,053 you have of this feeling this is where you like the simulation theory right like the you know we're 279 00:20:04,053 --> 00:20:07,813 in the matrix we're in we're in a simulation and it's like this collective unconscious you know 280 00:20:07,813 --> 00:20:12,113 unconscious or really our collective consciousness where like people are just going around like tony 281 00:20:12,113 --> 00:20:16,513 said like the herd there's like this herd mentality where you know like he's at god willing like 282 00:20:16,513 --> 00:20:21,693 the irony is god gives us free will people say god willing like hey things are some things out 283 00:20:21,693 --> 00:20:25,313 of my control, obviously in life, obviously that's true for all of us, but like, you also have free 284 00:20:25,313 --> 00:20:30,093 will. You can do the homework. You can change your mind. Like God gives you that ability to actually 285 00:20:30,093 --> 00:20:35,293 go and do said thing. And it, you, the simulation theory is like, you see people like looking around 286 00:20:35,293 --> 00:20:39,293 and it's just like, they're, they're just trapped in this, this matrix when people aren't, 287 00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:42,013 they're not doing anything. They're just, they're following what everyone else is doing, 288 00:20:42,013 --> 00:20:48,053 what the teacher said, like, like you guys all just said. So I want to, to my, my trusty common 289 00:20:48,053 --> 00:20:52,613 sense. And so it got some props. And then the Declaration of Independence, going back to your 290 00:20:52,613 --> 00:20:56,313 John Locke thing, we've lost so much of that. Again, going back to government-run schooling, 291 00:20:56,413 --> 00:21:00,713 all this, we don't get taught these things anymore. And the documents themselves are 292 00:21:00,713 --> 00:21:05,873 incredible. And we've just completely lost it. So the beginning of common sense, we have Thomas 293 00:21:05,873 --> 00:21:10,133 Paine's letter to the American people basically saying, hey, this is why we're going to war. 294 00:21:10,493 --> 00:21:14,673 Like this is, we've tried everything else. We've tried talking to the king and this ain't working. 295 00:21:14,673 --> 00:21:18,413 So it's time to go to war. We're time to grab our musket. And this is the very first 296 00:21:18,413 --> 00:21:23,073 little paragraph, which is unbelievable. He says, perhaps the sentiments contained in the following 297 00:21:23,073 --> 00:21:29,853 pages are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor. A long habit of not 298 00:21:29,853 --> 00:21:36,373 thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. Wild, absolutely wild, 299 00:21:36,553 --> 00:21:42,753 and raises the first a formidable outcry in defense of custom or tradition. But the tumult 300 00:21:42,753 --> 00:21:49,173 soon subsides time makes more converts than reason so exactly i mean like what you do what 301 00:21:49,173 --> 00:21:52,873 tony just said a minute ago like we can reason and you michael like we can reason people and do 302 00:21:52,873 --> 00:21:56,373 all this stuff but it's like the pain that's needed and it's like people like being broken 303 00:21:56,373 --> 00:22:00,913 out of this like goo and this you know just like in the matrix of the movie like you're in that goo 304 00:22:00,913 --> 00:22:05,473 and trap and then it going to a fast forwarding a little bit here now to the declaration of 305 00:22:05,473 --> 00:22:09,533 independence which is maybe one of my favorite documents of all time we hold these truths to be 306 00:22:09,533 --> 00:22:12,453 self-led and all men are created equal they are endowed by their creator certain unable 307 00:22:12,453 --> 00:22:16,713 and uniliable rights, like you just mentioned, Michael Medigo, life, liberty, and pursuit of 308 00:22:16,713 --> 00:22:20,993 happiness, that to secure these rights, and this is the important part that I think people always 309 00:22:20,993 --> 00:22:26,993 forget, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men. Governments are instituted 310 00:22:26,993 --> 00:22:31,413 among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, not the other way around. 311 00:22:31,913 --> 00:22:36,513 And this was the white paper moment, right? This is the original white paper, like the whoa, 312 00:22:36,693 --> 00:22:41,053 like breaking people out of that shell for the first time in human history, deriving their powers 313 00:22:41,053 --> 00:22:44,433 from the consent of the government that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of 314 00:22:44,433 --> 00:22:48,213 these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute new government. 315 00:22:48,913 --> 00:22:52,533 Wild, absolutely wild. So this is, but then you have the white paper now, right? Like this next 316 00:22:52,533 --> 00:22:57,493 evolution of the nation state continually kind of like collapsing in on itself and on itself. 317 00:22:57,673 --> 00:23:02,533 And so anyway, I wanted to mention those, you know, I leave it to Tony to kind of talk about 318 00:23:02,533 --> 00:23:06,573 this next objection, but I think those are so incredibly important. We've just completely 319 00:23:06,573 --> 00:23:10,333 lost the plot and that doesn't just apply to Americans. I mean, that's every human being on 320 00:23:10,333 --> 00:23:13,813 earth, that's there for all to see, just like the white paper is there for all people to see, 321 00:23:13,913 --> 00:23:22,453 to use, and to go forward with. Yeah, and that's, there's a very obvious reason why in government 322 00:23:22,453 --> 00:23:27,673 run schools, you learn the Declaration of Independence, because if they start to creep 323 00:23:27,673 --> 00:23:31,613 outside of, you know, just, hey, here's what you're allowed to do. Here are a few rules that, 324 00:23:31,733 --> 00:23:35,933 you know, you kind of have to follow, confines you have to live within. If you start to understand 325 00:23:35,933 --> 00:23:41,053 what the intention was of the founding fathers, you realize very quickly that secession is on the 326 00:23:41,053 --> 00:23:46,213 table. You understand that, you know, a revolution is on the table that that you have granted 327 00:23:46,213 --> 00:23:51,013 permission to the government to protect your rights, not to govern you, not to be in charge 328 00:23:51,013 --> 00:23:55,993 of you, not to rule your life. And and that's I think what I just said, I think most people be 329 00:23:55,993 --> 00:24:00,353 like, oh, yeah, they've never thought about it. The average person because I didn't start thinking 330 00:24:00,353 --> 00:24:05,413 about this until Bitcoin, until I went down this rabbit hole and I was as patriotic a person as you 331 00:24:05,413 --> 00:24:10,513 could possibly be up until just a few years ago. So Tony, let's address, um, like the, 332 00:24:10,573 --> 00:24:15,453 at the end of the day, we can, we can philosophize about all of this stuff. 333 00:24:15,453 --> 00:24:20,713 There are still a lot of people who will listen to this and say, okay, yeah, I hear you. Great. 334 00:24:20,833 --> 00:24:25,873 We have God given rights. Awesome. We should be able to live life on our own terms. But 335 00:24:25,873 --> 00:24:31,733 what if the government bans Bitcoin? What if they tell me I can't run a node? What if they tell me 336 00:24:31,733 --> 00:24:36,433 I can't self-custody. Tony, what is your response to those sorts of objections? 337 00:24:37,273 --> 00:24:42,553 It comes down to what I said earlier. It's self-sabotage, and a lot of it is denominated 338 00:24:42,553 --> 00:24:47,853 on fear. People don't believe in themselves. People don't believe in their own research or 339 00:24:47,853 --> 00:24:52,913 their own thought process, and their definitions of a lot of things in this world is completely 340 00:24:52,913 --> 00:24:58,993 wrong. The fact that you think you need somebody else's permission to exist, that is red flag 341 00:24:58,993 --> 00:25:05,533 number one. A government is not God, right? Like they don't dictate what you say, how you breathe, 342 00:25:05,633 --> 00:25:13,993 how you live your life. They are here to provide you a service that you supposedly pay for with 343 00:25:13,993 --> 00:25:21,933 your hard-earned money in taxes, right? But people have forgotten this and have conveniently given up 344 00:25:21,933 --> 00:25:28,353 so much of their freedoms and their privacy over time that the people in charge are 345 00:25:28,993 --> 00:25:31,553 You know, I've accepted it as a given now. 346 00:25:31,973 --> 00:25:34,413 And that's where you have the abuse of power. 347 00:25:34,853 --> 00:25:41,193 So now they believe that, well, okay, if these idiots, you know, are okay with everything we're doing, then let's keep doing it. 348 00:25:41,533 --> 00:25:43,913 Like, why end the abuse? 349 00:25:44,253 --> 00:25:46,093 It's like, again, goes back to the example of the bully. 350 00:25:46,533 --> 00:25:50,073 Somebody bullies you and you just sit there and take it. 351 00:25:51,033 --> 00:25:51,533 What do you think? 352 00:25:51,593 --> 00:25:54,613 They're just going to magically one day wake up with a nice heart and leave you alone? 353 00:25:54,913 --> 00:25:55,113 No. 354 00:25:55,113 --> 00:26:01,273 the bullying will get you know worse and worse and worse until you put an end to it and until 355 00:26:01,273 --> 00:26:06,773 people realize that they can put an end to the abuse in their life and that their miserable 356 00:26:06,773 --> 00:26:15,633 situations are the direct results of the decisions of bad people nothing will change for them right 357 00:26:15,633 --> 00:26:23,793 so for me the definition of government in the sense that i've been taught i don't think about 358 00:26:23,793 --> 00:26:31,333 it as much, like at all anymore. What we have today, in my view, is not a government. We have a mob, 359 00:26:31,333 --> 00:26:39,293 a global mafia of criminals that are colluding together in order to push a narrative, right? 360 00:26:39,513 --> 00:26:44,213 And these folks, these parasites have been accustomed to stealing and siphoning time of 361 00:26:44,213 --> 00:26:51,393 energy, a time and energy of 8 billion people over such a long time that it's such a huge octopus now 362 00:26:51,393 --> 00:26:54,153 that it's almost like it seems impossible to get rid of them. 363 00:26:54,813 --> 00:26:57,593 And because they hold a monopoly on violence and guns, 364 00:26:58,373 --> 00:26:59,773 a lot of people are scared. 365 00:27:00,173 --> 00:27:03,133 I mean, justifiably so, like who wants to be shot or killed, right? 366 00:27:03,473 --> 00:27:11,633 But it doesn't mean that you automatically accept yourself as a loser, 367 00:27:11,793 --> 00:27:14,273 as a slave because of that fact, right? 368 00:27:14,613 --> 00:27:16,853 The power has always been with the people. 369 00:27:17,213 --> 00:27:20,353 You know, the famous quote, people should never fear their governments. 370 00:27:20,353 --> 00:27:23,093 It's the governments that should be petrified of their people. 371 00:27:23,653 --> 00:27:27,773 But the people need to understand that they hold that fucking power. 372 00:27:28,053 --> 00:27:29,613 It's not like gone. 373 00:27:30,893 --> 00:27:34,193 You don't need government's permission to live your life. 374 00:27:34,593 --> 00:27:41,793 Governments exist to serve you as long as they respect neutral laws. 375 00:27:42,193 --> 00:27:43,273 Again, that's another thing. 376 00:27:44,293 --> 00:27:46,153 Justice system, is it fair? 377 00:27:46,813 --> 00:27:50,233 These days, it's been proven that it's a complete farce. 378 00:27:50,353 --> 00:27:51,893 It's a two-tier justice system. 379 00:27:52,353 --> 00:27:53,833 There's a justice system for them, 380 00:27:54,373 --> 00:27:56,473 and then there's a justice system for everybody else. 381 00:27:57,413 --> 00:27:59,833 That is not a justice system that I respect. 382 00:28:00,353 --> 00:28:02,773 That is a bullshit system, right? 383 00:28:03,193 --> 00:28:05,193 So if it's going to be neutral, 384 00:28:05,433 --> 00:28:06,773 it has to be fair across the board. 385 00:28:06,773 --> 00:28:10,093 So even if you're at the top of the ladder, 386 00:28:10,753 --> 00:28:12,773 you break the law, you hang. 387 00:28:13,393 --> 00:28:14,753 No difference between you 388 00:28:14,753 --> 00:28:16,653 and someone who commits another crime. 389 00:28:17,073 --> 00:28:19,073 But as long as we don't have this, 390 00:28:19,073 --> 00:28:21,613 then there's no real justice system. 391 00:28:21,873 --> 00:28:24,073 And people have the right to protect themselves. 392 00:28:24,613 --> 00:28:27,173 In the United States, you guys have the right to bear arms, 393 00:28:27,293 --> 00:28:31,513 something that's absent from a lot of other countries, sadly. 394 00:28:32,233 --> 00:28:35,533 But people don't need to wait for that piece of paper 395 00:28:35,533 --> 00:28:49,869 to protect themselves Like if you live in a jurisdiction that makes gun ownership illegal go get yourself a gun Because what can an abusive government do to a population 396 00:28:49,869 --> 00:28:51,409 that can't protect itself? 397 00:28:52,189 --> 00:28:53,189 Anything it wants. 398 00:28:54,489 --> 00:28:57,049 So why would you assume that these are good people 399 00:28:57,049 --> 00:29:00,789 when you can clearly see evidence 400 00:29:00,789 --> 00:29:04,529 on the complete opposite side of that spectrum? 401 00:29:04,529 --> 00:29:09,169 and Bitcoin shines a light on all of this, right? 402 00:29:09,349 --> 00:29:11,029 Because then you finally understand 403 00:29:11,029 --> 00:29:12,509 that the root of all this evil, 404 00:29:12,669 --> 00:29:14,689 why it's all possible is because they control the money. 405 00:29:15,769 --> 00:29:18,469 He who controls the money controls your life. 406 00:29:19,609 --> 00:29:22,689 And so as long as you keep giving someone else that power, 407 00:29:23,789 --> 00:29:25,389 you demean yourself. 408 00:29:25,389 --> 00:29:28,329 You sort of like you give up before even trying. 409 00:29:29,269 --> 00:29:31,189 Your self-worth becomes zero. 410 00:29:32,289 --> 00:29:34,229 And so Bitcoin gives you the opportunity 411 00:29:34,229 --> 00:29:35,829 to flip that board. 412 00:29:36,529 --> 00:29:37,209 Like, you know what? 413 00:29:38,289 --> 00:29:39,129 Enough is enough. 414 00:29:39,769 --> 00:29:40,929 I am my own person. 415 00:29:41,309 --> 00:29:44,229 I will follow legitimate neutral laws. 416 00:29:44,429 --> 00:29:45,409 I'm a decent human being, 417 00:29:45,769 --> 00:29:47,669 contributing, providing value to this world. 418 00:29:48,169 --> 00:29:50,469 You will not abuse me anymore. 419 00:29:51,589 --> 00:29:54,669 That is the stance of Bitcoiners, 420 00:29:54,789 --> 00:29:55,689 true Bitcoiners, 421 00:29:56,109 --> 00:29:57,969 not the fiat Bitcoiners. 422 00:29:57,969 --> 00:29:59,289 I'm talking about those that believe 423 00:29:59,289 --> 00:30:01,449 in self-custody, sovereignty, freedom, 424 00:30:01,629 --> 00:30:02,809 you know, the real deal. 425 00:30:02,809 --> 00:30:14,489 and so you need more people to remember their self-worthiness and it takes time man i mean some 426 00:30:14,489 --> 00:30:19,889 people are just surrounded by toxicity whether it's from immediate family members whether it's 427 00:30:19,889 --> 00:30:27,369 from friends whether it's from neighborhoods their seek the seek for approval is is a bad drug 428 00:30:27,369 --> 00:30:29,949 and to wean yourself off of it. 429 00:30:30,729 --> 00:30:31,849 For some folks, it's easier. 430 00:30:32,009 --> 00:30:35,089 For the majority, it's a major challenge. 431 00:30:35,189 --> 00:30:36,369 That's why things are slow. 432 00:30:37,049 --> 00:30:40,109 But the window of time is not that big. 433 00:30:40,389 --> 00:30:44,349 Again, because this thing is like it landed from heaven, 434 00:30:44,449 --> 00:30:46,629 so to speak, Bitcoin, with a finite supply. 435 00:30:47,109 --> 00:30:48,269 So it's not going to sit around 436 00:30:48,269 --> 00:30:51,209 until 8.3 billion people finally get it. 437 00:30:52,049 --> 00:30:54,449 It's going to exist for those that are paying attention 438 00:30:54,449 --> 00:30:56,449 and then the other ones will benefit from it. 439 00:30:56,449 --> 00:31:04,809 but nowhere near as much as the pioneers that have enabled it to endure and last for so long 440 00:31:04,809 --> 00:31:07,849 in order to benefit the 8.3 billion people, right? 441 00:31:08,069 --> 00:31:10,569 So we are part of history here. 442 00:31:10,989 --> 00:31:12,809 A lot of Bitcoiners don't think of it that way. 443 00:31:12,929 --> 00:31:19,509 But for me, everybody that stands their ground and helps, you know, push forward Bitcoin adoption 444 00:31:19,509 --> 00:31:24,669 and train individuals to understand their self-worth, teach them their skills 445 00:31:24,669 --> 00:31:26,789 so that they can pass this knowledge along. 446 00:31:27,249 --> 00:31:30,109 You are building the foundations of history 447 00:31:30,109 --> 00:31:33,729 that people 100, 200 years from now are going to read about. 448 00:31:34,109 --> 00:31:35,289 Maybe they won't know your name, 449 00:31:35,729 --> 00:31:38,049 but they'll know that you were the reason 450 00:31:38,049 --> 00:31:41,549 why they have the lives that they have then and there 451 00:31:41,549 --> 00:31:45,069 where Bitcoin will become like a common everyday thing. 452 00:31:45,189 --> 00:31:46,569 It's not a big deal anymore. 453 00:31:46,689 --> 00:31:47,969 It becomes natural. 454 00:31:48,889 --> 00:31:50,489 So this is what I think. 455 00:31:51,949 --> 00:31:52,429 Correct. 456 00:31:52,769 --> 00:31:54,149 And the irony of this, Tony, 457 00:31:54,149 --> 00:31:58,509 is that I think to a lot of people, you would sound like a radical making some of those statements. 458 00:31:58,809 --> 00:32:03,909 The interesting thing is that those are statements that I can very easily hear, 459 00:32:04,209 --> 00:32:08,709 like our founding fathers, many of the respected leaders of history who, you know, 460 00:32:08,789 --> 00:32:15,249 overthrew tyrannical empires. Like those are the principles upon which important revolutions 461 00:32:15,249 --> 00:32:22,849 throughout time were built. When strong, good men stand up to authoritarianism and say, 462 00:32:22,849 --> 00:32:28,829 enough is enough. We're done with that. What they had to do to make that leap was to opt out in the 463 00:32:28,829 --> 00:32:33,289 ways you describe and to say, I don't care. It doesn't matter what you say. The, what you write 464 00:32:33,289 --> 00:32:37,929 down on a piece of paper is completely irrelevant to me. We're going to progress toward a better 465 00:32:37,929 --> 00:32:42,969 world, whether you like it or not. And, uh, and they just, and they just do things. And that's 466 00:32:42,969 --> 00:32:47,549 what it ultimately comes down to guys. We're, uh, we're close to the time here. So, uh, Brandon, 467 00:32:47,649 --> 00:32:51,349 why don't you give some closing thoughts, maybe any sort of encouragement you want to give the 468 00:32:51,349 --> 00:32:57,029 listeners about what we've discussed here. Yeah, no, this is an incredible talk. And it's one that 469 00:32:57,029 --> 00:33:00,609 I think we're, well, I know we're all going to continue having and we need to do much more. And 470 00:33:00,609 --> 00:33:04,849 that's why we're talking about it now. And it's truly a one second decision to choose a money 471 00:33:04,849 --> 00:33:09,209 that doesn't steal from you, which starts reordering all these incentives in our life 472 00:33:09,209 --> 00:33:13,869 and starts to change the zeitgeist. And, you know, just look around and you'll know people by their 473 00:33:13,869 --> 00:33:18,769 actions, right? Acted non verba, deeds, not words. You will know people who is telling the truth, 474 00:33:18,769 --> 00:33:20,349 who is trying to rug pull you, 475 00:33:20,389 --> 00:33:23,609 who is not by their actions, by how, by what they do. 476 00:33:23,849 --> 00:33:26,189 And that will help break people out of this cage. 477 00:33:26,369 --> 00:33:29,689 And again, you can't have dishonest money 478 00:33:29,689 --> 00:33:31,009 and expect an honest society. 479 00:33:31,229 --> 00:33:32,989 You know, you can't have good fruit from a bad tree. 480 00:33:33,249 --> 00:33:34,809 And this is just this thing 481 00:33:34,809 --> 00:33:35,769 that people are gonna break out of. 482 00:33:35,809 --> 00:33:37,109 And like Tony said, it's gonna take a while. 483 00:33:37,369 --> 00:33:38,329 And you too, Michael, like this is, 484 00:33:38,569 --> 00:33:40,029 you guys have both mentioned this and it's so true. 485 00:33:40,089 --> 00:33:42,049 Like you're gonna have pain mixed with education. 486 00:33:42,209 --> 00:33:43,049 That's what we're doing here. 487 00:33:43,109 --> 00:33:45,309 Hopefully the education part to keep moving 488 00:33:45,309 --> 00:33:48,629 that Overton window over to shift context of one person, 489 00:33:48,629 --> 00:33:52,989 maybe. And then the next time, one more person. And then the amplification of that effect is 490 00:33:52,989 --> 00:33:59,409 incredibly just, it's, we can't even comprehend it, I guess, right? Over time, that amplification 491 00:33:59,409 --> 00:34:04,249 of that one right person that, you know, someone orange pills, and then boom, that person was the 492 00:34:04,249 --> 00:34:08,909 right person. They go orange pill, a hundred thousand people or a million people. So the thing 493 00:34:08,909 --> 00:34:13,189 I'll leave with is one of my favorite poems, which is kind of, again, this reason why we started 494 00:34:13,189 --> 00:34:17,549 talking about all this, just the thinking aspect and the psychological aspect. It's called Thinking 495 00:34:17,549 --> 00:34:19,229 by Walter Whittle. 496 00:34:19,829 --> 00:34:22,729 And it hung in my bed as a kid, actually. 497 00:34:22,829 --> 00:34:24,629 And the Detroit Red Wings, like I mentioned earlier, 498 00:34:24,809 --> 00:34:26,849 I think maybe offline, was my favorite team growing up. 499 00:34:26,889 --> 00:34:28,189 And they had it in their locker room growing up. 500 00:34:28,229 --> 00:34:29,709 And then I had it in my room growing up. 501 00:34:29,989 --> 00:34:32,229 But it's, if you think you are beaten, you are. 502 00:34:32,689 --> 00:34:34,549 If you think you dare not, you don't. 503 00:34:34,889 --> 00:34:37,309 If you'd like to win, but think you can't, 504 00:34:37,469 --> 00:34:38,949 it's almost a cinch that you won't. 505 00:34:39,309 --> 00:34:41,309 If you think you'll lose, you're lost. 506 00:34:41,649 --> 00:34:43,969 For out in the world, we find success begins 507 00:34:43,969 --> 00:34:44,949 with a fellow's will. 508 00:34:45,209 --> 00:34:46,729 It's all in the state of mind. 509 00:34:46,729 --> 00:34:53,529 if you think you're outclassed you are you wow i just messed my thing up you've got to be sure of 510 00:34:53,529 --> 00:34:59,549 yourself before you can ever win a prize life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster 511 00:34:59,549 --> 00:35:06,129 man but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can so appreciate you guys this 512 00:35:06,129 --> 00:35:11,169 is um this is it's great talk phenomenal stuff and i appreciate you guys grateful for you yeah 513 00:35:11,169 --> 00:35:15,169 thank you for coming on brandon tony anything you want to share before we hop off any encouragement 514 00:35:15,169 --> 00:35:20,649 for the listeners? Yeah, man. Bitcoin is the peaceful revolution, you know, but it reminds 515 00:35:20,649 --> 00:35:29,429 folks, you know, to not forget your self-worth, right? I mean, to add to the quotes you were 516 00:35:29,429 --> 00:35:34,789 mentioning here, Brandon, you know, there's one that always stands out to me, is that you can't 517 00:35:34,789 --> 00:35:39,849 call yourself peaceful if you're not capable of violence. If you're capable of violence, 518 00:35:39,849 --> 00:35:41,829 doesn't mean you're looking for trouble. 519 00:35:42,169 --> 00:35:44,709 It means that you put an end to the bullying. 520 00:35:45,689 --> 00:35:48,009 And until more people do this, 521 00:35:48,829 --> 00:35:51,189 you'll always be an easy target for a bully. 522 00:35:52,089 --> 00:35:55,889 So again, you know, like opt out of a system 523 00:35:55,889 --> 00:35:58,189 that was created to bully and steal from you. 524 00:35:58,529 --> 00:36:00,549 There is an option now as of 2009 525 00:36:00,549 --> 00:36:03,369 and all it requires is learning a few steps. 526 00:36:03,709 --> 00:36:04,089 Done deal. 527 00:36:05,209 --> 00:36:06,029 Well said. 528 00:36:06,189 --> 00:36:06,909 Hey, Brandon, real quick, 529 00:36:06,969 --> 00:36:08,289 why don't you tell people where they can find you 530 00:36:08,289 --> 00:36:09,069 before we hop off? 531 00:36:09,849 --> 00:36:22,549 Yeah, it's just Brandon underscore Gentile everywhere on YouTube, the podcast there, Twitter, I think Noster, Noster, the same thing. I think all the handles are just Brandon underscore Gentile. So thanks, boys. Appreciate it. 532 00:36:22,549 --> 00:36:23,609 Thanks for coming on, man. 533 00:36:23,649 --> 00:36:25,529 I appreciate you reaching out and glad we got to do this. 534 00:36:25,669 --> 00:36:26,989 We'll do it again sometime soon. 535 00:36:27,389 --> 00:36:28,949 For everyone listening, thank you for tuning in. 536 00:36:29,069 --> 00:36:29,869 Stick around for another minute. 537 00:36:29,969 --> 00:36:33,329 You can learn about the Bitcoin Way, how we can help you do some of the things we talked 538 00:36:33,329 --> 00:36:36,529 about, achieve self-sovereignty, take self-custody, all of that good stuff. 539 00:36:36,649 --> 00:36:37,589 Appreciate you being here. 540 00:36:38,129 --> 00:36:38,889 Gents, take care. 541 00:36:38,989 --> 00:36:40,309 We'll catch up again here very soon. 542 00:36:41,249 --> 00:36:41,789 Thanks, guys. 543 00:36:42,269 --> 00:36:42,589 Thanks, boys. 544 00:36:42,949 --> 00:36:43,149 Cheers. 545 00:36:43,569 --> 00:36:44,029 Hey there. 546 00:36:44,129 --> 00:36:45,789 Thank you for tuning into Bitcoin Banter. 547 00:36:45,949 --> 00:36:50,009 Wanted to take a quick minute to remind you to head on over to the bitcoinway.com slash 548 00:36:50,009 --> 00:36:55,469 podcast to schedule a free 30-minute consultation with a member of our team. 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