1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,300 What do people can do to improve their individual physical and mental self-sovereignty beyond Bitcoin and self-custody, which we'll talk about? 2 00:00:09,660 --> 00:00:10,380 What do you mean? 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:15,220 Self-sovereignty goes, I think, beyond just stacking sats probably. 4 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:27,580 In a situation in Lebanon, you know, maybe there were people around you, not the many, but the few who somehow through some sort of form of luck or skill came through this financial collapse. 5 00:00:27,580 --> 00:00:36,860 Maybe a few of them were because they were in this commodity business, they did well or this service or they were in this gang or they had Bitcoin or something else. 6 00:00:37,020 --> 00:00:46,120 But you still have to kind of live in the physical environment and have, like you were saying, mental health to come back or rise from these things. 7 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:50,060 Yeah, man, this is it. It was it was, you know, human support. 8 00:00:50,060 --> 00:00:51,900 You know, everybody had to support one another. 9 00:00:51,900 --> 00:01:04,640 Just when somebody thought they were going to break down and give up, you'd have others rally and try to comfort them and lift them up and boost them, try to distract their attention from all these dark thoughts and what have you. 10 00:01:05,140 --> 00:01:06,900 But it's very difficult. 11 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:14,900 I mean, there are a lot of folks that I grew up with that I knew that are unfortunately not here anymore because of everything that unfolded. 12 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,620 I don't talk about this too much because there's no point of it. 13 00:01:19,620 --> 00:01:22,980 It's too dark and it's not going to make much of a difference. 14 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,800 Just, you know, bringing back all these dark memories. 15 00:01:27,500 --> 00:01:29,380 But, you know, people learned many skills. 16 00:01:29,540 --> 00:01:30,500 I learned many skills. 17 00:01:30,660 --> 00:01:32,180 I learned how to cut hair. 18 00:01:32,420 --> 00:01:34,240 You know, I learned a little bit of plumbing. 19 00:01:34,740 --> 00:01:39,200 I learned how to change tires, you know, like become a bit of a mechanic. 20 00:01:39,460 --> 00:01:42,340 Like there's a lot of things that you think you will never do. 21 00:01:42,460 --> 00:01:43,200 I'm a tech guy. 22 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:53,140 Like I had no business changing tires or learning how to fix a car engine or, you know, turning such tools into different, you know, different utility factors. 23 00:01:53,280 --> 00:02:02,240 Right. But you learn all of these things because, you know, it's survival tactics, like how to turn a wrench into a weapon type of thing, you know, like how to use that for that. 24 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:10,060 people had to adapt like we had to become chameleons in everyday life in order to survive 25 00:02:10,060 --> 00:02:16,500 because you never knew when the next threat was going to come and in those first months there was 26 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:23,940 no bitcoin anywhere like nobody nobody knew this thing even existed it was find me cash in order 27 00:02:23,940 --> 00:02:30,240 to trade it for a piece of bread or some fruits and vegetables to feed my kids it was like imminent 28 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,240 It's like, I need to eat by 6 p.m. 29 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,240 Let's figure something out to get something 30 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,240 and then we'll split it amongst everybody that's here. 31 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:51,421 That really how everybody was rallying together And so nine months of of hell and then you know when i discovered you know when 32 00:02:51,421 --> 00:02:56,641 i one day i just sat down in front of the computer again and just decided just to disconnect and i 33 00:02:56,641 --> 00:03:02,281 came across that video i don't know man like i think my my past my past career just you know 34 00:03:02,281 --> 00:03:07,821 came back to me and it's just you know i just felt alive for like those 30 seconds 35 00:03:07,821 --> 00:03:14,641 And I had to watch that video many times because, you know, like in my mental state, I couldn't trust like if I was being delusional. 36 00:03:14,641 --> 00:03:18,901 Right. Because I was so desperate that anything sounded like good news. 37 00:03:19,181 --> 00:03:23,481 And so this is why, you know, I sat down, watched it several times. 38 00:03:23,481 --> 00:03:25,321 And then, you know, then it just clicked. 39 00:03:25,701 --> 00:03:30,361 And that's when, you know, the whole the whole rabbit hole unfolded. 40 00:03:30,361 --> 00:03:40,681 But, you know, starting your life on a Bitcoin standard when everybody around you has no idea what that is and has no interest in learning about anything except where the next meal is coming from. 41 00:03:40,981 --> 00:03:46,921 That is, you know, like trying to run up Mount Everest, you know, when you've had no training whatsoever. 42 00:03:46,921 --> 00:04:02,241 So it's but, you know, I'm living proof that even under the most seemingly impossible conditions, when there's a strong enough will, bit by bit, you can lift yourself up and you can rebuild your life. 43 00:04:02,741 --> 00:04:05,701 And once you do, you become a completely different human being. 44 00:04:05,901 --> 00:04:08,441 I mean, like Tony 1.0 before the collapse. 45 00:04:08,621 --> 00:04:12,541 It's not the same person sitting in front of you here having this conversation. 46 00:04:12,801 --> 00:04:16,761 I was very successful in the past, like Fiat successful, very successful. 47 00:04:16,761 --> 00:04:18,701 I ran three companies, extremely successful. 48 00:04:18,941 --> 00:04:20,141 I was essentially retired. 49 00:04:20,421 --> 00:04:24,241 So I was living the life of someone who's not worried about money. 50 00:04:24,641 --> 00:04:32,201 And then you go from that to what I just described, flatlined, homeless, having to figure things that I've never done before out. 51 00:04:32,941 --> 00:04:36,181 And so now money means nothing to me. 52 00:04:36,641 --> 00:04:36,781 Right. 53 00:04:36,821 --> 00:04:40,281 Like now when I discovered all of this, I'm completely desensitized to money. 54 00:04:40,561 --> 00:04:42,261 I don't give a shit about money at all. 55 00:04:43,201 --> 00:04:46,161 Even with the work that I do now, I don't do it to get rich. 56 00:04:46,761 --> 00:04:54,881 I have a sense of purpose now that goes way above and beyond any form of currency that you can possibly offer me. 57 00:04:55,161 --> 00:04:58,741 My mission here, my currency is the separation of money and state. 58 00:04:59,121 --> 00:05:01,441 I know who's responsible for these attacks. 59 00:05:01,641 --> 00:05:04,261 I know who's responsible for the evil in this world. 60 00:05:04,661 --> 00:05:10,881 And I'm going to do whatever I can in order to put an end to it, if I can. 61 00:05:10,881 --> 00:05:35,302 And the way I going to do this is by arming as many people as possible with the knowledge and intellect to protect themselves and opt out of the very system that is causing all of this Right We can go to war with these people This is an octopus that has grown far and wide beyond anybody capabilities like physical capabilities 62 00:05:35,302 --> 00:05:39,242 So the only way to defeat it is to render it irrelevant. 63 00:05:39,242 --> 00:05:41,402 And the only way I know how to do this 64 00:05:41,402 --> 00:05:44,962 is by like refusing to use its product. 65 00:05:44,962 --> 00:05:48,162 You opt out of the dollar, you opt out of the fiat currency, 66 00:05:48,162 --> 00:05:52,062 you pretend it doesn't exist now that we have a viable option 67 00:05:52,062 --> 00:05:59,022 that allows us to do this. So as of 2009, that entire world became optional as far as I'm 68 00:05:59,022 --> 00:06:03,882 concerned. You don't have to live in it. Of course, it's a bit of a workout depending on where you are 69 00:06:03,882 --> 00:06:09,542 to get to this level of conviction, but it is possible. And I and millions of other people are 70 00:06:09,542 --> 00:06:15,942 living proof of it. And once you live in that new future, nothing phases you anymore. You know, 71 00:06:15,962 --> 00:06:21,842 like you develop the sense of a fearlessness because now you know that they can't confiscate 72 00:06:21,842 --> 00:06:25,802 you, they can't shut you down, they can't debase you, you don't give a shit about what they're 73 00:06:25,802 --> 00:06:30,762 doing. Whatever they say, whatever they babble about, whatever they try to regulate, it doesn't 74 00:06:30,762 --> 00:06:38,422 matter. You are no longer living in that world when you understand Bitcoin truly for its essence 75 00:06:38,422 --> 00:06:45,582 and you just decide to walk forward, right? So there's a lot to unpack here, but really like I'm 76 00:06:45,582 --> 00:06:52,622 trying to sum up the transition between someone who has done really well in a fiat world, 77 00:06:53,602 --> 00:07:00,722 collapsed through reasons that have nothing to do with his failure, and then rebuilt himself 78 00:07:00,722 --> 00:07:07,482 in a way that that past can no longer affect them. Yeah, I'm really trying to process all that, 79 00:07:07,482 --> 00:07:13,542 you know, the ride and the journey of being very successful in the way everyone sort of 80 00:07:13,542 --> 00:07:18,182 sort of denominates or sort of categorize i mean we can call it the fiat world but that's 81 00:07:18,182 --> 00:07:21,382 everyone else's world for the most part i mean bitcoin adoption yeah very low 82 00:07:22,502 --> 00:07:30,742 of course and and i can't imagine a fall from grace even of not my own fault i'd still have 83 00:07:30,742 --> 00:07:35,702 really you know the weight of my world of the world on my shoulders and uh my pride would 84 00:07:35,702 --> 00:07:41,942 probably be wounded and i get sort of the idea of like money means nothing now because we're in this 85 00:07:41,942 --> 00:07:47,222 weird economy or being that traditional world but it just it can screw with people and through 86 00:07:47,222 --> 00:07:52,762 no fault of your own you're in this position and now you but then you find bitcoin i i i'm but i 87 00:07:52,762 --> 00:07:58,222 got to go from finding bitcoin on a video it sounds like to the mission and conviction you 88 00:07:58,222 --> 00:08:03,002 have now i mean i kind of want to hear more about that journey but i can only imagine also i'm sorry 89 00:08:03,002 --> 00:08:22,664 sorry to interrupt but like i can only imagine then my family being like wow we were whatever you want to call it let call it rich Now we poor And now we on our way back to stabilization again And dad this is kind of crazy what you talking about We just want to be back to normal Like now you talking about not even going back to normal when we get upright 90 00:08:22,664 --> 00:08:27,984 You're talking about taking on the world and this new mission and Bitcoin standard. And what does 91 00:08:27,984 --> 00:08:34,344 that mean? You know, and were they on board? Yeah, it's really interesting. Man, there's no normal 92 00:08:34,344 --> 00:08:42,124 anymore when your life collapses in such a way. If you survive it, there's no way you remain the 93 00:08:42,124 --> 00:08:48,564 same human being. You know, like there's a saying that when you die, you are free, right? So back 94 00:08:48,564 --> 00:08:57,884 then I died. And when that happened, I became free, free of all the lies and the bullshit that 95 00:08:57,884 --> 00:09:03,144 I've been fed since the day I was born. This is something that to this day, too many people 96 00:09:03,144 --> 00:09:08,764 don't comprehend. They don't understand what money is. They don't understand who's behind 97 00:09:08,764 --> 00:09:15,424 the money that they're slaving for. They don't understand that they're being exploited on a 98 00:09:15,424 --> 00:09:19,404 daily basis, no matter where you are in this world, if you're using that product. 99 00:09:20,104 --> 00:09:27,224 Like for them, like this sounds like crazy talk because their turn hasn't come yet, right? I mean, 100 00:09:27,224 --> 00:09:31,244 a lot of people complain, high prices, you know, too much taxes, blah, blah, all that shit. 101 00:09:31,244 --> 00:09:40,244 but that belongs to a club that has created this system specifically for the exploitation 102 00:09:40,244 --> 00:09:46,624 of everyone that uses it it's not by fluke that things are expensive that you know everybody knows 103 00:09:46,624 --> 00:09:52,244 what the word inflation means now all of a sudden it's like 20 years ago nobody even knew that word 104 00:09:52,244 --> 00:09:55,884 right now everybody everybody talks about it because it's like inflation inflation inflation 105 00:09:55,884 --> 00:09:58,204 because now they can't buy anything, right? 106 00:09:58,364 --> 00:10:01,784 So pain causes you to learn things very, very quickly. 107 00:10:02,444 --> 00:10:04,524 And so once you understand 108 00:10:04,524 --> 00:10:08,664 who is fueling this world of pain and evil, 109 00:10:08,944 --> 00:10:10,344 that rabbit hole becomes endless. 110 00:10:10,944 --> 00:10:12,644 I was never a historian. 111 00:10:13,724 --> 00:10:16,664 After my collapse, I started reading things 112 00:10:16,664 --> 00:10:18,704 that you can't possibly, you know, 113 00:10:18,764 --> 00:10:20,044 pay me to read previously. 114 00:10:20,284 --> 00:10:22,284 The wars, why they happened. 115 00:10:22,564 --> 00:10:24,764 Now all the pieces start to fit together, right? 116 00:10:24,764 --> 00:10:30,044 like how is a war possible well it's possible when it's a business a profitable business 117 00:10:30,044 --> 00:10:36,564 how is it funded a money printer who controls that bloody money printer aha well now we know 118 00:10:36,564 --> 00:10:42,704 where the origins are now connect the dots everywhere else right and so once you go down 119 00:10:42,704 --> 00:10:48,684 that rabbit hole and you absorb all that information and you factually prove it as a human being 120 00:10:48,684 --> 00:10:53,704 Why would you willingly keep yourself in that world, right? 121 00:10:53,904 --> 00:10:56,244 When you know you have an option.