1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,760 And we are live for the first time in a long time. 2 00:00:08,860 --> 00:00:13,180 Welcome to episode 36 of To the Unknown Pod, a TGFB podcast. 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:14,680 My name is Jordan Bush. 4 00:00:14,820 --> 00:00:18,580 I am the executive director of TGFB Media, which exists to help Christians understand 5 00:00:18,580 --> 00:00:21,260 and use Bitcoin for the glory of God and the good of people everywhere. 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:24,940 I am joined by a single solitary island boy today. 7 00:00:25,740 --> 00:00:28,860 We'll get a little bit more information on where the other two are, 8 00:00:28,860 --> 00:00:34,660 including one that will just blow your minds uh but uh in the in the case of Oshawa but Ryan go 9 00:00:34,660 --> 00:00:41,960 ahead introduce yourself man yeah I'm Ryan Finley uh father of six I'm an entrepreneur and uh yeah 10 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:48,560 doing helping my my kids start their various businesses and uh yeah it's good to be here 11 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:54,720 Ryan uh I am thrilled to have you you are one of the people who is uh one of the most encouraging 12 00:00:54,720 --> 00:01:00,980 people in my life, uh, just both by just talking to you and just the example, uh, as, as a father 13 00:01:00,980 --> 00:01:05,640 of kids who are a little bit older than ours, uh, really appreciate you. I'm also appreciating you 14 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:12,720 because right behind your, uh, your left shoulder, I see a copy of the orange umbrella, our brand new 15 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:17,120 kids book that just came out. Uh, there's, there's a few copies out in the wild for those of you who, 16 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:23,200 who have ordered them and still have not received yours, just know that they're on their way. Uh, 17 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:29,840 We basically have, we fulfilled about 300 orders that were the initial Kickstarter orders, 18 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:32,060 but we ended up not having enough books. 19 00:01:32,380 --> 00:01:34,380 So there were two people, can you believe this? 20 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:40,220 There were two people who ordered 21 copies each to either give away or just to huddle. 21 00:01:40,340 --> 00:01:41,000 I don't know what they're doing. 22 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,040 And so we ended up having to postpone some of those. 23 00:01:44,140 --> 00:01:48,280 And so those shipments are going to be fulfilled within the next week and a half 24 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:54,580 because the shipment of 1,400 books that we have that was supposed to be here probably by now, 25 00:01:55,020 --> 00:02:01,120 basically we got stuck in a port in California and is not going to be here for another week and a half. 26 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:05,460 So if you have not gotten yours, by all means, it's coming. 27 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:07,540 Please don't freak out. 28 00:02:08,060 --> 00:02:09,660 We're doing our best to get them to you. 29 00:02:10,140 --> 00:02:15,320 If you did not order a copy of the Orange Umbrella, let's see here. 30 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:16,300 Let me go to my share. 31 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:23,000 if you do not order a copy you can pre-order your copy right now uh let's see it is this one right 32 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:31,420 here if you go to tgfb.com slash t-o-u uh for the orange umbrella you can it'll take you right to 33 00:02:31,420 --> 00:02:36,380 this page where you can order either paperback or hardcover um i do not have a copy of the the 34 00:02:36,380 --> 00:02:42,700 paperback i do have a copy of the hardcover here it is right here it's beautiful uh with the dust 35 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:49,200 jacket, super high quality. We did our, we did our best sewn bindings. We just did, did as best we 36 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:55,440 could. Really good quality paper, beautiful illustrations. We also have a paperback version, 37 00:02:55,480 --> 00:03:00,220 as I mentioned, that's also, you know, really high quality paper and the like. I don't, like I said, 38 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:07,260 I don't have a copy of that. We also did though, make a coloring book. And so you can go to tgfb.com 39 00:03:07,260 --> 00:03:13,720 slash TOU coloring and find that. And so basically it's just the book without color. 40 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,680 And so you can color your own version. If you didn't like the colors we chose, you can color 41 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,940 your own. It's got all of the text from the books in there. Um, so go ahead, go grab your copies, 42 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:29,300 support TGFB by doing that. Uh, we would greatly appreciate it. Another way that you can support 43 00:03:29,300 --> 00:03:35,040 TGFB would be by doing, and if you're going to be, if you're going to be, uh, or interested in 44 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:43,240 being in Texas in April of this year. We are going to be doing our first TGFB conference in a year 45 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:49,020 and a half, basically two years. It's going to be TGFB 26 in April in Fort Worth, the day before 46 00:03:49,020 --> 00:03:54,220 BitBlock Boom. We're partnering informally with them. The event is going to be called The Foolish 47 00:03:54,220 --> 00:03:58,620 Things of the World, Wisdom, Wealth, and Generational Ministry. We're going to be talking 48 00:03:58,620 --> 00:04:04,000 about Bitcoin and just the different ways. Bitcoin is going to be one of the primary things we're 49 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,200 talking about, but we're going to be talking about this issue of we're in this moment of a lot of 50 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:15,420 generational transfer, upheaval, confusion, just about how to think about things like inheritance, 51 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:21,660 how to think about things, you know, just about the relationship between wealth and, you know, 52 00:04:21,700 --> 00:04:27,880 parents giving down wealth to their kids. How should we think about this type of thing? And so 53 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:32,960 we want to dedicate some time to thinking and talking about those things and the role that 54 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:40,580 Bitcoin has to play as part of it. So if you go to that, go to this page, tgfb.com slash conference, 55 00:04:41,060 --> 00:04:45,280 you can go down here. Basically, this is just kind of like an overview of who TGFB is, what we're 56 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:50,060 doing, give you previous speakers, past speakers, who they've been. You'll notice a bunch of 57 00:04:50,060 --> 00:04:54,240 well-known people from the Bitcoin space. And then if you go ahead and you click buy tickets, 58 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:59,240 it'll take you to a ZapRite page. We are grateful for our friends over at ZapRite, Parker Lewis, 59 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:07,200 Will Cole and those guys and you can pay either in bitcoin or in sats for your tickets if you get your early bird ticket right here 60 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:12,440 You can you can do that now. You can also get your early bird ticket in merch bundle 61 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:16,420 Some of you got your got your hats at our vegas barbecue 62 00:05:16,420 --> 00:05:22,260 We're gonna get the same brand of hats super high quality hat with tgfb logo on it. It'll be texas related 63 00:05:22,260 --> 00:05:24,700 It'll be good. You're gonna like it. So go ahead and you can go 64 00:05:24,700 --> 00:05:31,560 stab those. You can also see, look, the price, you're like, oh man, $70 for, what is it, $75 65 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:40,440 for a hat and shirt? Yes, this is the world we live in with fiat. And so we want to usher the 66 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:43,900 end of that world as soon as possible. We move into Bitcoin and then things will get cheaper over 67 00:05:43,900 --> 00:05:49,460 time instead of more expensive. So again, we would love to see you there. We'd love to just spend some 68 00:05:49,460 --> 00:05:54,500 more time with you. We'd love to provide also a place for you to invite your friends, people 69 00:05:54,500 --> 00:06:00,760 who are in your church, your pastoral leaders and that kind of thing, budget leaders to kind of talk 70 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:05,780 through the issues surrounding Bitcoin. There's going to be a lot of very practical stuff in the 71 00:06:05,780 --> 00:06:10,160 latter half of the day at this event. So we'd love to see you there as well. Get some more info here. 72 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:17,600 So that's basically most of the shilling that we're going to do for now. So you can not worry 73 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:22,360 about that. The last thing I'll mention before we get into today's episode is that, as we mentioned, 74 00:06:22,700 --> 00:06:28,320 TGFB is basically, we're going to be operating as a nonprofit. We're going to be coming underneath 75 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:33,500 the umbrella of Brilliance Labs for the next two years. And in order to do that, we are raising 76 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:42,280 two years worth of expenses to be able to do that. So we've raised about 20% of what we need for 77 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:47,360 right now. And so we would greatly appreciate just basically working to raise over the next 78 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:53,540 about month to raise more of that, to cover the rest of those expenses. So if you are in a position 79 00:06:53,540 --> 00:06:59,660 where you've benefited from TGFB and are either looking to dodge, you know, not dodge, but looking 80 00:06:59,660 --> 00:07:06,300 to spend, pay less taxes to Uncle Sam, or if you just basically said, hey, I really want to help 81 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:11,480 more people learn about Bitcoin and why these things matter, why they don't matter, you know, 82 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:17,060 answer some of the objections that people have. And you want to help TGFB do that, help, 83 00:07:17,060 --> 00:07:21,800 you know, me continue to do that would, would greatly appreciate that. So, um, you can go to 84 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:28,460 brilliance labs.org slash TGFB and find the giving link. If you do it before tomorrow at midnight, 85 00:07:28,460 --> 00:07:34,780 you can get a tax deductible donations. You can donate in Bitcoin there. Um, either if you're, 86 00:07:34,860 --> 00:07:39,180 if you want to do that with your name attached, you can get a tax deductible donation. If you want 87 00:07:39,180 --> 00:07:44,140 to do that anonymously, you can't get a, uh, you're not able to get a tax deductible donation, 88 00:07:44,140 --> 00:07:50,660 but you can still do that over there for our hardcore cypherpunks who just want to do things 89 00:07:50,660 --> 00:07:56,000 because they want to support people in the Bitcoin space. We're happy to facilitate that as well. So 90 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,280 grateful for you guys. Now, with all of the shilling, my word, what was that? 10 minutes 91 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:05,020 of shilling. What is the world? Eight minutes. Okay, good. Only eight. Now that we get all that 92 00:08:05,020 --> 00:08:10,260 out of the way, Ryan, it has been a few weeks. It's the last time we sat down and recorded a 93 00:08:10,260 --> 00:08:15,220 podcast. I've been traveling. We were getting the book done, the book shipped, had a whole bunch of 94 00:08:15,220 --> 00:08:20,380 other stuff. There's this, we celebrated the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Lots of stuff 95 00:08:20,380 --> 00:08:25,080 going on. Ryan, what in the world have you been doing over the last few weeks? Why have you 96 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:30,380 abandoned our beloved podcast audience? I have good excuses. Where are yours? Let's say it. 97 00:08:31,660 --> 00:08:38,220 It's been partially intentional just to unplug a little bit. Yeah, I don't know who, I think I saw 98 00:08:38,220 --> 00:08:40,280 a few posts from a couple guys I respect 99 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,140 that were just like, hey, I'll see you guys next 100 00:08:42,140 --> 00:08:44,300 year. You tend to see 101 00:08:44,300 --> 00:08:46,240 it when December comes around. 102 00:08:46,940 --> 00:08:47,760 I was like, okay. 103 00:08:48,180 --> 00:08:50,140 This year, there's 104 00:08:50,140 --> 00:08:50,980 a couple things. 105 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:54,120 The Bitcoin has just been 106 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,180 going sideways, chopping, and that's 107 00:08:56,180 --> 00:08:57,180 always slightly depressing. 108 00:08:58,540 --> 00:09:00,320 Just like everyone's 109 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:02,060 questioning if the sky is 110 00:09:02,060 --> 00:09:02,380 falling. 111 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,260 But then also, we were talking 112 00:09:06,260 --> 00:09:11,820 about a minute ago you know life has enough of its challenges and things going on and um 113 00:09:11,820 --> 00:09:17,520 that we that we are we always are dealing with anyways but like as soon as you go online 114 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:26,600 there is the this temptation to absorb some of the 500 online uh not just the conspiracies but 115 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:33,520 just all the all the controversies controversies and just uh it's just a lot of stressful stuff a 116 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:39,340 lot of fights that are going on in every camp and every it's politically and just our country and 117 00:09:39,340 --> 00:09:49,060 um and then intertribal stuff both in bitcoin and um and the christian world um it could just be 118 00:09:49,060 --> 00:09:53,940 like and you can't you're like oh i'm not gonna take it on it's like i'm not taking on any stress 119 00:09:53,940 --> 00:09:58,340 at work i won't bring it home and it's like yeah you bring it home yeah like it's slowly just kind 120 00:09:58,340 --> 00:10:04,880 of like and you and you really don't realize it until you unplug and so like the last month or so 121 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:09,780 i've been working with my uh my third son abraham just we've been he's been getting into the 122 00:10:09,780 --> 00:10:13,780 appliance trade so i've just been teaching him a lot of things and then also just relearning myself 123 00:10:13,780 --> 00:10:20,340 so we've just been like waking up and working on a lot of appliances every day and it's just been 124 00:10:20,340 --> 00:10:30,858 really good um i just haven been online much and yeah yeah i great I highly recommend it You look good You look healthy 125 00:10:33,938 --> 00:10:35,458 No, but it has been. 126 00:10:35,558 --> 00:10:38,958 It's just, yeah, sometimes it's good to just go out and work hard 127 00:10:38,958 --> 00:10:43,778 and be too busy to pay attention to all the controversies. 128 00:10:44,338 --> 00:10:44,478 Yeah. 129 00:10:44,998 --> 00:10:47,418 You guys spent some good time with family for Christmas? 130 00:10:47,978 --> 00:10:48,258 Yeah. 131 00:10:48,258 --> 00:10:49,558 Yeah, we didn't. 132 00:10:49,558 --> 00:10:55,818 we didn't travel until after christmas we had christmas here yeah we had uh all my siblings 133 00:10:55,818 --> 00:11:01,358 together that was really that was awesome um that doesn't happen very often it's cool because we 134 00:11:01,358 --> 00:11:05,258 anyways i think that might have been like the first time the last five years so we were all 135 00:11:05,258 --> 00:11:11,918 together so uh we've been going through chesterton's winter fire book we had a book i did 136 00:11:11,918 --> 00:11:17,678 yeah the book too dude it's so good um one of his things like the guy loved christmas more than 137 00:11:17,678 --> 00:11:24,578 anybody and he was a huge advocate for uh families getting together and being bored especially like 138 00:11:24,578 --> 00:11:29,838 encouraging your kids to be bored uh because when kids are bored they tend to invent new games 139 00:11:29,838 --> 00:11:34,458 right i don't know if you read that sound trick well we played some of the games that he that he 140 00:11:34,458 --> 00:11:40,038 recommends in the book with our family like our extended family it was so much fun just like hours 141 00:11:40,038 --> 00:11:41,698 and hours of just like 142 00:11:41,698 --> 00:11:43,938 gut-busting laughing and 143 00:11:43,938 --> 00:11:45,838 yeah 144 00:11:45,838 --> 00:11:46,478 so 145 00:11:46,478 --> 00:11:49,258 yeah just not watching 146 00:11:49,258 --> 00:11:50,978 much just 147 00:11:50,978 --> 00:11:52,298 playing 148 00:11:52,298 --> 00:11:55,658 Did you bake it all? 149 00:11:55,758 --> 00:11:56,398 Did you cook it all? 150 00:11:56,698 --> 00:11:58,298 Or did you leave this to the professionals? 151 00:12:01,538 --> 00:12:03,218 I did not personally 152 00:12:03,218 --> 00:12:05,858 bake any of the things 153 00:12:05,858 --> 00:12:07,958 What a masajerness we have on the podcast 154 00:12:07,958 --> 00:12:09,938 today. My goodness. Unbelievable. 155 00:12:10,038 --> 00:12:19,218 unbelievable abraham has been turning it into a tradition he did a big five pound prime rib 156 00:12:19,218 --> 00:12:26,778 oh okay christmas day so that was his big base and then my mom made a big huge ham so that 157 00:12:26,778 --> 00:12:33,458 that knocked christmas day out okay anyways we had a we did uh my mother-in-law made a big ham 158 00:12:33,458 --> 00:12:39,758 and then we had like a boston butt a smoked boston butt it was never it's a it's pork 159 00:12:39,758 --> 00:12:41,978 It's a big, it was delicious. 160 00:12:43,318 --> 00:12:49,258 But then we have one of our traditions is that I make cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning. 161 00:12:49,798 --> 00:12:52,498 And they were primo. 162 00:12:52,858 --> 00:12:53,958 They were great ones. 163 00:12:55,038 --> 00:12:55,418 Nice. 164 00:12:55,558 --> 00:12:55,798 All right. 165 00:12:56,138 --> 00:12:56,998 So let's see here. 166 00:12:57,118 --> 00:13:02,098 So getting into, man, Chesterton, that's Christmas well spent. 167 00:13:02,478 --> 00:13:06,198 We also read some, we did, I guess, when was it? 168 00:13:06,238 --> 00:13:09,258 It must have been, I guess it was like three days before Christmas. 169 00:13:09,258 --> 00:13:16,558 We went to a friend's house for lunch after church and we did, we read some. 170 00:13:16,958 --> 00:13:23,218 So find you some friends with whom when you're hanging out, somebody will just spontaneously 171 00:13:23,218 --> 00:13:24,558 start reading poetry. 172 00:13:25,478 --> 00:13:28,738 It's just, again, you don't need to have a whole bunch of those friends. 173 00:13:28,998 --> 00:13:33,238 If you got a couple of them, they just make the atmosphere so much better. 174 00:13:33,778 --> 00:13:37,818 And so we have these family friends and that's what we do. 175 00:13:37,818 --> 00:13:44,278 One of the things when we go over to their house, I guess more than half the times we've gone over there, we're just like, hey, we're all just sitting around. 176 00:13:44,338 --> 00:13:45,758 There's probably 15, 20 of us sitting around. 177 00:13:46,298 --> 00:13:47,598 And someone's like, hey, I read this poem. 178 00:13:47,698 --> 00:13:48,418 I want to read it. 179 00:13:48,458 --> 00:13:49,418 And so somebody's like, okay, sweet. 180 00:13:49,978 --> 00:13:53,258 And so we were reading poetry by this guy named Malcolm Gite. 181 00:13:54,418 --> 00:13:59,278 He looks like a character from a Lord of the Rings, one of the Lord of the Rings series. 182 00:14:00,458 --> 00:14:01,938 He's a wild looking guy. 183 00:14:01,938 --> 00:14:08,718 but he's written a ton of poetry and he's written poetry about written poetry and books about 184 00:14:08,718 --> 00:14:13,938 about Christmas and so when he's I can't remember what what the name of it is but we were reading 185 00:14:13,938 --> 00:14:18,518 from that and so we read one of the one of the poems that he's written just just a really great 186 00:14:18,518 --> 00:14:23,478 time great time with friends great time with family trying to think yeah beyond that there 187 00:14:23,478 --> 00:14:27,358 hasn't really been a ton of I mean there's been some cool announcements and stuff like that on the 188 00:14:27,358 --> 00:14:30,498 on the Bitcoin front. But I mean, we just have been, to your, to your point, 189 00:14:30,578 --> 00:14:35,018 we just been kind of chopping back and forth between, you know, 80, 190 00:14:35,298 --> 00:14:37,198 85 and 90 K 87. 191 00:14:37,198 --> 00:14:41,518 It seems like we're perma stuck on 87 for the last like five days last week. 192 00:14:42,878 --> 00:14:44,458 To almost a staggering degree. 193 00:14:44,998 --> 00:14:46,518 I think right now is, 194 00:14:46,598 --> 00:14:51,818 is the perfect example of why so many people haven't gotten into Bitcoin still 195 00:14:51,818 --> 00:14:55,598 like this is literally exactly why you're like, why I just want, 196 00:14:55,598 --> 00:14:58,378 how aren't there more people in this space? 197 00:14:58,498 --> 00:15:01,778 And it's like, because this has happened so many times 198 00:15:01,778 --> 00:15:04,818 over the last 15 years, then everyone always forgets. 199 00:15:04,838 --> 00:15:08,078 And it's like, it hasn't always been an easy ride. 200 00:15:08,078 --> 00:15:11,118 Like these times just chew people up and spit them out. 201 00:15:11,578 --> 00:15:11,658 Yeah. 202 00:15:12,598 --> 00:15:14,678 You know, I always, I, of course, 203 00:15:15,978 --> 00:15:18,298 orange-pilled a couple 204 00:15:18,298 --> 00:15:21,698 and they finally were able to get in at 104 205 00:15:21,698 --> 00:15:24,078 promptly 206 00:15:24,078 --> 00:15:26,618 diaphombed right after 207 00:15:26,618 --> 00:15:28,378 and I'm just like, oh 208 00:15:28,378 --> 00:15:30,418 yeah, that's like 209 00:15:30,418 --> 00:15:32,618 the reward of me taking my 210 00:15:32,618 --> 00:15:34,798 time to help 211 00:15:34,798 --> 00:15:36,698 them out, understand how 212 00:15:36,698 --> 00:15:38,298 to lose their money very quickly. 213 00:15:39,298 --> 00:15:40,638 Way to go, 214 00:15:40,858 --> 00:15:41,118 Ryan. 215 00:15:42,038 --> 00:15:44,138 Bring the sheep in for the slaughter. 216 00:15:44,778 --> 00:15:46,718 I'll still do it. I'm not going to 217 00:15:46,718 --> 00:15:48,738 stop. I've had so many 218 00:15:48,738 --> 00:15:50,018 painful things like that where 219 00:15:50,018 --> 00:15:58,898 you finally succeed and yeah i have a buddy 40 40 right afterwards you're just like oh aren't you 220 00:15:58,898 --> 00:16:05,658 thankful you're right it's the price of admission the lord chastens those whom he loves 221 00:16:05,658 --> 00:16:13,598 it really is like i almost i mean i almost do feel like it is just a mark of maturity it's just 222 00:16:13,598 --> 00:16:19,778 like yeah this is this is how it works man like you know nothing in life is that's worth having 223 00:16:19,778 --> 00:16:26,978 is just going to be easy. And, you know, it's just to act like, oh, you know, there's certain 224 00:16:26,978 --> 00:16:31,818 points when you're ready to buy Bitcoin and it's frequently at a point when you think it's going 225 00:16:31,818 --> 00:16:35,958 to run away from you. Like that's just, that's just what, how it has to happen. And so then what 226 00:16:35,958 --> 00:16:40,898 it means is you're going to have to deal with, you know, when things aren't as drastic and dire 227 00:16:40,898 --> 00:16:44,778 as you thought they were, uh, you're going to have to deal with Bitcoin dropping back down and 228 00:16:44,778 --> 00:16:50,218 settling and so it's great it's a greed killer greed killer thank you lord for purging greed 229 00:16:50,218 --> 00:16:55,978 from our hearts and minds uh so we can look forward to that um and shout out you listen 230 00:16:55,978 --> 00:17:03,018 yeah i was also a shout out to not distracting us from the purpose of and the real uh reason we 231 00:17:03,018 --> 00:17:08,958 celebrate christmas absolutely all about jesus like distraction bitcoin is not even in the 232 00:17:08,958 --> 00:17:14,778 100 percent 100 percent uh i just want to give a shout out in in the chat here i get i don't know 233 00:17:14,778 --> 00:17:22,778 which uh this is on youtube we got torah pot torah potl see here he says living torah potl uh ordered 234 00:17:22,778 --> 00:17:27,038 some copies of the orange umbrella i shipped them shipped them to him uh grateful for your brother 235 00:17:27,038 --> 00:17:33,158 who's this guy some some son of some random guy is also here in the in the thing uh elijah 236 00:17:33,158 --> 00:17:33,678 They're watering. 237 00:17:34,478 --> 00:17:34,938 What's up? 238 00:17:34,998 --> 00:17:35,678 What's up, Elijah? 239 00:17:36,358 --> 00:17:37,738 Edit photos, man. 240 00:17:37,858 --> 00:17:39,018 What are we doing here? 241 00:17:39,358 --> 00:17:40,078 Edit video. 242 00:17:42,198 --> 00:17:43,538 So grateful for you guys. 243 00:17:43,858 --> 00:17:46,318 And again, if you're appreciating this, benefiting from this, 244 00:17:46,438 --> 00:17:49,758 then throw a like, a share, a subscribe if you're on YouTube. 245 00:17:50,898 --> 00:17:51,918 Share these things. 246 00:17:53,018 --> 00:17:56,998 Elijah's been doing yeoman's work for us, sharing some of the clips. 247 00:17:57,758 --> 00:18:00,958 We're getting some pretty good traction on some of these little YouTube shorts. 248 00:18:00,958 --> 00:18:04,518 So hopefully we'll get these videos out to more and more people. 249 00:18:05,558 --> 00:18:10,138 Beyond that, let's see, what else have you been thinking about finding interesting the 250 00:18:10,138 --> 00:18:10,598 last few days? 251 00:18:10,698 --> 00:18:11,758 Actually, let me do one thing. 252 00:18:12,018 --> 00:18:16,838 You mentioned, I meant to share this and then I forgot because you were saying something 253 00:18:16,838 --> 00:18:18,018 that was so darn interesting, right? 254 00:18:18,798 --> 00:18:22,418 I'm going to share the screen and go to here. 255 00:18:23,178 --> 00:18:27,338 You mentioned there's a number of things you can take from this graphic, but this is something 256 00:18:27,338 --> 00:18:34,758 I saw earlier today from Alan Watts Bitcoin, whoever this guy is. He basically talked about, 257 00:18:34,858 --> 00:18:41,398 this is the 2025 news cycle and just the peaks. And you can see just how like every day, basically, 258 00:18:41,638 --> 00:18:44,918 or every few days you get like a story that, you know, zooms up on popularity. 259 00:18:46,018 --> 00:18:50,378 There's a few of them where you get repeated. Okay. You've got Gaza, you know, comes through 260 00:18:50,378 --> 00:18:56,618 here a few times. You've got Lebanon or Israel and Iran. That was like a, you know, good chunk 261 00:18:56,618 --> 00:19:02,438 of the year, kind of steady increase and peaked off. The one that's super interesting, I initially 262 00:19:02,438 --> 00:19:06,838 thought it was Sidney Sweeney. It was not, even though actually Sidney Sweeney actually is pretty 263 00:19:06,838 --> 00:19:12,078 much throughout the year, but inflation was really big the whole year. But if you, the thing that I 264 00:19:12,078 --> 00:19:18,618 took away from this is you watch this every day that goes by, there's something else. And so 265 00:19:18,618 --> 00:19:24,158 there's something else that is being driven either through reality or through, you know, pushing 266 00:19:24,158 --> 00:19:26,218 through algorithms, whatever it is, there's something that's being 267 00:19:26,218 --> 00:19:27,778 pushed to fix your 268 00:19:27,778 --> 00:19:30,318 mind, fix your attention on those things 269 00:19:30,318 --> 00:19:32,258 as though they were the most important 270 00:19:32,258 --> 00:19:34,318 things in the world. Can you zoom in a little bit? It'd be kind of interesting 271 00:19:34,318 --> 00:19:36,118 to like... Yeah, which ones do you want me to zoom in on? 272 00:19:36,338 --> 00:19:38,218 Or I mean, just maybe even... Just any 273 00:19:38,218 --> 00:19:39,318 of them? Okay. 274 00:19:40,438 --> 00:19:41,058 Yeah, so we got 275 00:19:41,058 --> 00:19:43,738 Palisades fired to begin the year. 276 00:19:45,198 --> 00:19:46,058 Greenland, when Trump 277 00:19:46,058 --> 00:19:48,318 was talking about trying to buy Greenland. 278 00:19:49,978 --> 00:19:50,378 We got 279 00:19:50,378 --> 00:19:51,358 Elon, of course. 280 00:19:52,378 --> 00:19:53,818 DEI, DC plane crash. 281 00:19:54,158 --> 00:19:56,758 Zelensky. 282 00:19:56,938 --> 00:19:58,618 Yeah, you just got all these things. 283 00:20:01,638 --> 00:20:02,498 Biden Dome, 284 00:20:02,598 --> 00:20:03,478 big, beautiful bill. 285 00:20:04,018 --> 00:20:05,258 A lot of, I mean, just, yeah. 286 00:20:05,498 --> 00:20:07,638 The Coldplay concert, 287 00:20:07,878 --> 00:20:09,798 I mean, you had that whole thing. 288 00:20:10,038 --> 00:20:11,758 Epstein. I can't believe he's 289 00:20:11,758 --> 00:20:13,458 not on there more. 290 00:20:15,658 --> 00:20:17,918 So I'd say, so inflation would be 291 00:20:17,918 --> 00:20:19,978 easily the most legitimate 292 00:20:19,978 --> 00:20:21,798 of... Yeah, it's the thing 293 00:20:21,798 --> 00:20:23,758 that's the most constant, like throughout the year. 294 00:20:24,158 --> 00:20:29,018 and hilariously, I think Sidney Sweeney actually is number two. 295 00:20:31,118 --> 00:20:34,398 Heaven help us. Have mercy on us, Lord. What in the world? 296 00:20:35,618 --> 00:20:36,398 Yeah, no kings. 297 00:20:36,978 --> 00:20:38,858 Inflated bread and circuses. 298 00:20:39,318 --> 00:20:40,278 Yep, exactly. 299 00:20:41,918 --> 00:20:46,058 But yeah, I mean, it is just one of these things where there's so much money 300 00:20:46,058 --> 00:20:59,256 and just attention spent on trying to buy your attention trying to get you to focus on things either for commercial reasons or for outrage reasons you know so that people so that you can be controlled 301 00:21:00,376 --> 00:21:04,996 And I definitely think it is a good thing to unplug. 302 00:21:05,716 --> 00:21:09,936 I'm in a point where I just, I desperately need to unplug for like a week or so. 303 00:21:10,356 --> 00:21:12,816 Yeah, we haven't been doing the podcast as much and that's been part of that. 304 00:21:12,816 --> 00:21:19,036 um, it's been trying to get other things. I mentioned the book and just trying to button 305 00:21:19,036 --> 00:21:23,296 up things here at the end of the year. Um, yeah, just, it's been something that's been, 306 00:21:23,296 --> 00:21:29,056 it's been super busy, been very busy. Um, the Lord's been kind. The Lord keeps opening up 307 00:21:29,056 --> 00:21:33,256 opportunities, some of which we're going to talk more about, uh, in the beginning of the year. 308 00:21:33,336 --> 00:21:38,796 Uh, the Lord's been doing a lot of really cool things and opening up some cool, uh, some cool, 309 00:21:38,796 --> 00:21:44,216 opportunities for TGFP. And so we'll, we'll talk more about that, but yeah, it is just one of these 310 00:21:44,216 --> 00:21:51,956 things where, yeah, there's, you can just be occupied if you're, you can be driven if you're, 311 00:21:51,956 --> 00:21:59,036 if you're not consciously just cutting things out yourself. And I, I just, it's convicting. 312 00:21:59,196 --> 00:22:04,916 And so I'm glad to, glad to have, you know, you bringing it to mind and have your example and 313 00:22:04,916 --> 00:22:05,676 and pulling the plug. 314 00:22:05,836 --> 00:22:10,116 So hopefully that's encouraging to some of you as well as we go in here. 315 00:22:10,236 --> 00:22:12,456 I don't know if you, are you a big new year's resolutions guy, Ryan? 316 00:22:13,916 --> 00:22:16,096 Not, not really. 317 00:22:17,236 --> 00:22:17,636 Yeah. 318 00:22:21,636 --> 00:22:21,996 Yeah. 319 00:22:22,316 --> 00:22:23,136 Not, not really. 320 00:22:24,036 --> 00:22:29,096 I mean, I think it is good to going into the new year just to, I mean, 321 00:22:29,096 --> 00:22:30,876 we should, I think, you know, I think we should be taking, 322 00:22:30,876 --> 00:22:36,316 just looking at how we're doing 323 00:22:36,316 --> 00:22:38,056 like more than once a year. 324 00:22:38,816 --> 00:22:38,956 Yeah. 325 00:22:39,456 --> 00:22:40,336 You know, it's like going in 326 00:22:40,336 --> 00:22:41,396 for an annual checkup. 327 00:22:41,496 --> 00:22:42,616 I was like, I don't know. 328 00:22:42,816 --> 00:22:43,636 Like that's, yeah, 329 00:22:43,816 --> 00:22:45,416 that's a pretty big interval 330 00:22:45,416 --> 00:22:47,896 because the reality is, 331 00:22:47,976 --> 00:22:50,196 you know, it's anything 332 00:22:50,196 --> 00:22:51,196 that you just like get, 333 00:22:51,336 --> 00:22:52,596 you work up the willpower 334 00:22:52,596 --> 00:22:54,116 to try to change your life, 335 00:22:54,176 --> 00:22:55,236 you know, once a year. 336 00:22:55,296 --> 00:22:55,916 I mean, that's not, 337 00:22:55,916 --> 00:22:57,056 that's not going to do it. 338 00:22:57,596 --> 00:22:57,816 Like, yeah. 339 00:22:59,276 --> 00:22:59,676 But. 340 00:23:00,876 --> 00:23:05,776 it is, it is good to reflect back, um, you know, 341 00:23:05,776 --> 00:23:09,836 on different things that, um, probably do it with my wife, 342 00:23:09,876 --> 00:23:13,596 just reflecting back on our lives this last year and what went well, 343 00:23:13,736 --> 00:23:19,396 what's, what's been encouraging, uh, where we need to, you know, 344 00:23:19,396 --> 00:23:20,656 just with raising our kids, 345 00:23:20,696 --> 00:23:25,816 where we need to double down on certain areas and work on, um, yeah, 346 00:23:25,816 --> 00:23:35,216 just improving yeah things spiritually and in our home and um and other areas as well so but 347 00:23:35,216 --> 00:23:45,316 yeah yeah what about you yeah i mean it's it's not something that i've i mean again i think about it 348 00:23:45,316 --> 00:23:49,856 you know just kind of like just by virtue of other people talking about new year's resolutions or just 349 00:23:49,856 --> 00:23:55,076 even the concept being raised like i i do think about it um the our i was having a conversation 350 00:23:55,076 --> 00:24:01,316 with our pastor and he again mentioned that he basically every three months does his him and his 351 00:24:01,316 --> 00:24:05,856 wife sit down and kind of plot out the next whether it's the travel schedule whether it's 352 00:24:05,856 --> 00:24:09,836 just other you know whether it's birthdays whether you know whatever it is like they kind of plot 353 00:24:09,836 --> 00:24:17,476 you know three three months at a time um and yeah it's one of the things where i don't feel like i 354 00:24:17,476 --> 00:24:23,436 i do that super well i don't feel like i you know i we we plan and like at a yearly you know basis 355 00:24:23,436 --> 00:24:28,976 and you know for like TGFB I'm kind of always I do like a you know yearly thing kind of look at 356 00:24:28,976 --> 00:24:35,776 the year and plan things out um but yeah but like and obviously I'm like reconsidering things 357 00:24:35,776 --> 00:24:40,556 throughout the year we make changes and whatever but in terms of just on a family level I feel like 358 00:24:40,556 --> 00:24:47,516 it's it's something where I definitely have like room to grow um you know yeah it's there's just I 359 00:24:47,516 --> 00:24:52,036 mean are there who are who are the people in your life who you you go to and you know for like to 360 00:24:52,036 --> 00:24:57,016 have those kinds of conversations or people who are like a few steps ahead of you, you know, 361 00:24:57,036 --> 00:25:00,536 whether it's family things, whether it's business things. I remember you talking about like having 362 00:25:00,536 --> 00:25:06,596 business mentors in the beginning, uh, but like, are there, are there families or other men or 363 00:25:06,596 --> 00:25:11,876 books or something you've read in terms of like leading your family that you've found helpful 364 00:25:11,876 --> 00:25:19,816 people who are a few steps ahead of you? Yeah. We have like, we had some, it, it, it goes in 365 00:25:19,816 --> 00:25:28,036 seasons depending on where you're at um this most recent season it's been more um more books uh 366 00:25:28,036 --> 00:25:36,436 that have been you know super encouraging just with the season of life we're in um especially 367 00:25:36,436 --> 00:25:42,696 me as i've been like considering how the my boy is preparing them to launch um 368 00:25:42,696 --> 00:25:54,836 yeah if you do have people you know near you with uh similar like standards and hopes for um 369 00:25:54,836 --> 00:26:01,096 other children are going to be raised i think it's incredible if you can if you can meet you know um 370 00:26:01,096 --> 00:26:08,596 but yeah all that to say long answer is short is yeah it's been more books recently but and so what 371 00:26:08,596 --> 00:26:12,476 are what do you mind me asking who are some of the people you've benefited from uh but yeah 372 00:26:12,476 --> 00:26:14,676 Michael Foster's been one. 373 00:26:14,776 --> 00:26:14,916 Okay. 374 00:26:15,016 --> 00:26:16,176 Like he's been, 375 00:26:16,176 --> 00:26:17,516 yeah, 376 00:26:17,516 --> 00:26:18,236 super encouraging. 377 00:26:19,016 --> 00:26:19,936 C.R. Wiley. 378 00:26:20,676 --> 00:26:20,916 Mm-hmm. 379 00:26:24,476 --> 00:26:25,556 Rich Lusk 380 00:26:25,556 --> 00:26:26,596 out there. 381 00:26:26,676 --> 00:26:26,836 Yeah. 382 00:26:28,256 --> 00:26:29,176 Out in Birmingham. 383 00:26:29,636 --> 00:26:29,936 Yeah, 384 00:26:30,036 --> 00:26:30,636 out in Birmingham. 385 00:26:31,256 --> 00:26:31,496 Man. 386 00:26:33,936 --> 00:26:34,416 Yeah, 387 00:26:34,516 --> 00:26:34,916 some of the, 388 00:26:34,916 --> 00:26:36,636 some of the Cannon Plus stuff. 389 00:26:37,716 --> 00:26:38,416 Doug Wilson, 390 00:26:38,736 --> 00:26:39,056 you know, 391 00:26:39,116 --> 00:26:40,256 some of the Doug Wilson stuff. 392 00:26:40,256 --> 00:26:42,656 John Moody's been 393 00:26:42,656 --> 00:26:43,976 he's one of these guys 394 00:26:43,976 --> 00:26:44,896 it's like 395 00:26:44,896 --> 00:26:47,016 super encouraging 396 00:26:47,016 --> 00:26:47,496 he's been 397 00:26:47,496 --> 00:26:47,936 yeah 398 00:26:47,936 --> 00:26:49,396 he's been spitting fire 399 00:26:49,396 --> 00:26:50,176 yeah 400 00:26:50,176 --> 00:26:52,396 yeah John's a regenerative 401 00:26:52,396 --> 00:26:53,236 agriculturist 402 00:26:53,236 --> 00:26:54,616 like he's 403 00:26:54,616 --> 00:26:56,096 just kind of lives on 404 00:26:56,096 --> 00:26:56,796 lives on land 405 00:26:56,796 --> 00:26:58,076 and just thinks about 406 00:26:58,076 --> 00:26:59,636 family and 407 00:26:59,636 --> 00:27:01,096 you know agriculture 408 00:27:01,096 --> 00:27:02,896 and just overall health 409 00:27:02,896 --> 00:27:03,196 and 410 00:27:03,196 --> 00:27:04,336 he does 411 00:27:04,336 --> 00:27:05,116 what do you call it 412 00:27:05,116 --> 00:27:06,156 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu 413 00:27:06,156 --> 00:27:06,616 and 414 00:27:06,616 --> 00:27:07,816 I think 415 00:27:07,816 --> 00:27:08,516 I think it's Jiu Jitsu 416 00:27:08,516 --> 00:27:09,936 yeah 417 00:27:09,936 --> 00:27:15,176 something like that no it's really i i use a basketball now they literally catch fire and 418 00:27:15,176 --> 00:27:20,376 they're just like they're hitting a nerve they're yeah they're speaking to where a lot of people are 419 00:27:20,376 --> 00:27:25,096 at and it's and they just keep hitting and i don't know if they're getting probably getting feedback 420 00:27:25,096 --> 00:27:31,116 from you know people closer to them but they just keep i'm like oh man they keep nailing it so yeah 421 00:27:31,116 --> 00:27:39,316 it's exactly yeah people like that um i didn't prepare this but yeah i'm trying i didn't write 422 00:27:39,316 --> 00:27:46,516 down i'm trying to think of all the other resources but yeah just oh a collection of those guys yeah 423 00:27:46,516 --> 00:27:52,376 yeah is there i mean does your in terms of like your boys and like with you know preparing them 424 00:27:52,376 --> 00:27:57,796 to launch is has the end of the year is there are there things i mean you guys talking through taxes 425 00:27:57,796 --> 00:28:02,756 are you guys like what does the end of the year look like for you guys outside of you know obviously 426 00:28:02,756 --> 00:28:08,996 christmas and those kind of things yeah i mean we actually yeah we have been talking about some of 427 00:28:08,996 --> 00:28:17,396 stuff um it's just there's just been yeah there's a lot of different um 428 00:28:17,396 --> 00:28:25,056 i'm trying to think yeah just a lot of big life decisions we've been talking about recently and 429 00:28:25,056 --> 00:28:31,256 um and then we talk about all the time i mean i like honestly it's been a blessing we've 430 00:28:31,256 --> 00:28:38,116 we've got to we have a pretty close relationship and uh um we still try even though they're out 431 00:28:38,116 --> 00:28:39,216 they have their own place. 432 00:28:39,296 --> 00:28:40,996 We try to have a lot of family devotions still 433 00:28:40,996 --> 00:28:42,096 because they're so close by. 434 00:28:42,616 --> 00:28:44,756 The Upstand kind of leads itself 435 00:28:44,756 --> 00:28:46,916 into having, you know, 436 00:28:46,976 --> 00:28:48,816 deeper conversations about all sorts of things. 437 00:28:51,016 --> 00:28:51,976 Nothing super, 438 00:28:52,156 --> 00:28:53,576 nothing super in particular. 439 00:28:55,176 --> 00:28:57,236 But, yeah. 440 00:28:58,276 --> 00:28:59,436 It's been fun, yeah. 441 00:29:00,176 --> 00:29:01,296 I know you guys hang out, 442 00:29:01,536 --> 00:29:03,476 like obviously your sons live right down the street 443 00:29:03,476 --> 00:29:03,936 and you guys, 444 00:29:04,196 --> 00:29:06,956 are you guys still doing dinner together every night? 445 00:29:07,316 --> 00:29:07,596 Yeah. 446 00:29:08,116 --> 00:29:11,976 I remember, so Ryan, I can't remember if it was on the pod or off. 447 00:29:12,036 --> 00:29:12,636 I think it was off. 448 00:29:13,316 --> 00:29:15,956 You're like, yeah, my boys just, you know, just moved down the street. 449 00:29:16,476 --> 00:29:18,936 They still have been home every night for dinner for a week. 450 00:29:19,876 --> 00:29:21,536 And so I just think it's. 451 00:29:21,636 --> 00:29:21,876 Yeah. 452 00:29:22,456 --> 00:29:24,056 No, it's been, it's been awesome. 453 00:29:24,476 --> 00:29:29,696 You know, like I say, yeah, they still have young siblings, 454 00:29:29,856 --> 00:29:31,336 especially the younger sisters at home. 455 00:29:31,336 --> 00:29:33,016 And it's just good. 456 00:29:33,276 --> 00:29:35,196 It's good for them to still be in their eyes. 457 00:29:35,196 --> 00:29:39,176 and we all enjoy hanging out and it's good to fellowship. 458 00:29:39,556 --> 00:29:42,396 And they haven't found spouses yet, 459 00:29:42,476 --> 00:29:46,976 so they still are very, very appreciative of their mother's cooking. 460 00:29:48,636 --> 00:29:54,196 And so, yeah, it won't always be like this. 461 00:29:54,516 --> 00:29:59,316 So we're grateful that we're still in a season where we can do this. 462 00:29:59,316 --> 00:30:01,296 And they do. 463 00:30:01,496 --> 00:30:03,436 They've been pushing themselves. 464 00:30:03,436 --> 00:30:07,196 they've been showing hospitality and hosting friends 465 00:30:07,196 --> 00:30:10,576 and they'll have barbecue nights where they grill burgers 466 00:30:10,576 --> 00:30:13,516 and cook their own dinner, you know, cooking their own dinner for friends. 467 00:30:13,956 --> 00:30:14,436 Cool. 468 00:30:14,696 --> 00:30:17,216 So, yeah, that's been neat. 469 00:30:17,996 --> 00:30:18,576 That's great. 470 00:30:18,916 --> 00:30:20,196 But, yeah. 471 00:30:20,896 --> 00:30:23,256 So, oh, here, we have a question. 472 00:30:23,836 --> 00:30:25,676 I'm sure you came prepared to talk about this today. 473 00:30:26,396 --> 00:30:28,976 So, thoughts on Knott's versus Core? 474 00:30:29,176 --> 00:30:32,216 Oh, man, this is one of these things, man. 475 00:30:32,216 --> 00:30:33,576 Will, appreciate the question. 476 00:30:33,916 --> 00:30:35,136 You can take that one. 477 00:30:35,716 --> 00:30:37,876 Yeah, well, I'm not going to take it full bore. 478 00:30:37,876 --> 00:30:47,216 But this is one of these things where, one of the conversations where it has been a hornet's nest in the Bitcoin community. 479 00:30:48,096 --> 00:30:51,696 Tim, again, we are not programmers nor sons of programmers. 480 00:30:51,696 --> 00:30:58,876 uh but but like i the more that i when i hear the when i hear the conversation around the debate 481 00:30:58,876 --> 00:31:04,796 i i just think the thing that i see and we've talked about this on the podcast before is i i 482 00:31:04,796 --> 00:31:10,696 see a lot of people who uh are aware of their own strengths but they're not necessarily aware of their 483 00:31:10,696 --> 00:31:29,074 own weaknesses of of how they see the world and and so i just i i think that a lot of I tend to be more uh I on the not side in terms of thinking that they are are have their uh they correctly are diagnosing some 484 00:31:29,074 --> 00:31:37,314 of the problem. Uh, and I don't think the, the core side really is. Yeah. I think they significantly 485 00:31:37,314 --> 00:31:45,894 underestimated the extent to which the non-technical side of Bitcoin both exists and 486 00:31:45,894 --> 00:31:51,654 plays a humongous role in what happens, which has been borne out by the fact that this thing is 487 00:31:51,654 --> 00:31:57,194 still going months later. And so I think that it's something that for a lot of people, 488 00:31:58,294 --> 00:32:05,174 I just think there's a lot that can be learned. Hopefully they've learned a lot. I don't know 489 00:32:05,174 --> 00:32:06,334 that they actually have. 490 00:32:06,394 --> 00:32:08,174 There seems just to be a lot of disagreement, 491 00:32:08,314 --> 00:32:12,054 a lot of conversation about people not understanding things. 492 00:32:12,054 --> 00:32:16,054 And so that kind of lack of or failure of dialogue 493 00:32:16,054 --> 00:32:19,034 is not the most encouraging or helpful thing. 494 00:32:19,934 --> 00:32:22,934 But yeah, I just feel like we're not going to be 495 00:32:22,934 --> 00:32:25,414 like the experts on this topic. 496 00:32:26,494 --> 00:32:29,114 But again, we'll appreciate you asking. 497 00:32:30,534 --> 00:32:32,334 Caleb, let's see, we got Caleb in the chat. 498 00:32:32,434 --> 00:32:34,294 We never address people in the chat, but here we are. 499 00:32:34,294 --> 00:32:35,954 Caleb is a buddy of mine 500 00:32:35,954 --> 00:32:37,294 We go to church together 501 00:32:37,294 --> 00:32:37,934 He basically said 502 00:32:37,934 --> 00:32:38,754 Starting from the video 503 00:32:38,754 --> 00:32:39,714 Beginning of the vid right now 504 00:32:39,714 --> 00:32:40,314 Merry Christmas 505 00:32:40,314 --> 00:32:41,114 And Happy New Year 506 00:32:41,114 --> 00:32:41,734 Happy New Year 507 00:32:41,734 --> 00:32:42,174 Caleb 508 00:32:42,174 --> 00:32:44,174 Beautiful wife and kids 509 00:32:44,174 --> 00:32:44,934 Here we go 510 00:32:44,934 --> 00:32:45,774 He also said 511 00:32:45,774 --> 00:32:47,314 My kids love the orange umbrella 512 00:32:47,314 --> 00:32:47,914 Let's go 513 00:32:47,914 --> 00:32:49,414 He got one of the first copies 514 00:32:49,414 --> 00:32:51,454 And then he said 515 00:32:51,454 --> 00:32:53,114 Breaking out the coloring book soon 516 00:32:53,114 --> 00:32:55,414 So go get your copies 517 00:32:55,414 --> 00:32:56,214 Caleb 518 00:32:56,214 --> 00:32:57,454 Thanks for the support brother 519 00:32:57,454 --> 00:32:59,274 We are going to be 520 00:32:59,274 --> 00:33:00,114 Again we're going to be 521 00:33:00,114 --> 00:33:00,774 Coming back 522 00:33:00,774 --> 00:33:01,594 What we got here 523 00:33:01,594 --> 00:33:03,174 We got your coloring book 524 00:33:03,174 --> 00:33:03,814 Let's go 525 00:33:03,814 --> 00:33:05,074 So flip through that. 526 00:33:05,174 --> 00:33:06,234 Show the fine people at home. 527 00:33:06,334 --> 00:33:07,294 What do we got going on there? 528 00:33:08,954 --> 00:33:11,034 Yeah, these are, this is Karis. 529 00:33:11,494 --> 00:33:14,614 We met her from a friend of her brother's. 530 00:33:15,474 --> 00:33:17,974 And yeah, we met, we actually have a, 531 00:33:18,074 --> 00:33:19,414 ooh, actually, if you go to the very back, 532 00:33:19,474 --> 00:33:20,634 we get a sneak preview, 533 00:33:21,354 --> 00:33:24,594 sneak preview of the new cover of Thank God for Bitcoin, 534 00:33:24,774 --> 00:33:26,634 which should be published, I believe, next week. 535 00:33:28,674 --> 00:33:30,814 You'll see, there's the, that's the regular book. 536 00:33:30,814 --> 00:33:32,214 If you go to the next page, I think. 537 00:33:32,594 --> 00:33:33,134 There you go, yeah. 538 00:33:33,134 --> 00:33:34,614 So there's our other books. 539 00:33:35,294 --> 00:33:38,254 On the left is the new copy, the new cover of Thank God for Bitcoin. 540 00:33:38,394 --> 00:33:40,114 So we are pumped for that. 541 00:33:40,114 --> 00:33:43,954 Five-year anniversary, over 25,000 copies sold. 542 00:33:44,874 --> 00:33:47,954 So we're going to just want to do an updated version. 543 00:33:48,114 --> 00:33:48,994 It's got a new forward. 544 00:33:49,274 --> 00:33:51,294 We got a forward written by Robert Bortons, 545 00:33:51,414 --> 00:33:53,114 who's the head of Costco Conversations, 546 00:33:53,734 --> 00:33:57,214 one of the largest homeschool curriculum manufacturers, 547 00:33:57,914 --> 00:33:59,574 producers in the world. 548 00:33:59,654 --> 00:34:02,394 So we are grateful to have his participation. 549 00:34:03,134 --> 00:34:07,654 But yeah, again, if you guys have other questions, we're happy to take them. 550 00:34:07,754 --> 00:34:13,314 Feel free to throw them in the chat, throw them in, comment on the different posts in various places. 551 00:34:13,794 --> 00:34:14,554 Do you have anything else? 552 00:34:14,634 --> 00:34:17,234 I feel like somebody, or is this from you? 553 00:34:17,314 --> 00:34:17,694 Let's see. 554 00:34:19,334 --> 00:34:19,614 Nope. 555 00:34:20,354 --> 00:34:20,874 Somebody else. 556 00:34:20,894 --> 00:34:22,034 I guess those are the ones we already looked at. 557 00:34:22,494 --> 00:34:22,934 Let's see. 558 00:34:22,974 --> 00:34:23,614 How long have we been going here? 559 00:34:23,694 --> 00:34:24,274 34 minutes. 560 00:34:24,394 --> 00:34:26,354 Ryan, this doesn't have to be a full-blown episode. 561 00:34:26,474 --> 00:34:28,754 Anything else you want to add here? 562 00:34:29,554 --> 00:34:30,214 End of the year. 563 00:34:30,214 --> 00:34:32,694 Speak now, forever hold your peace for 2025. 564 00:34:33,134 --> 00:34:44,074 I guess let's do this. Here's what I love to do. You're like not this or year in review, but like when you look back on this year, what are the things that you've learned? What are the things that you you're taking away and that you're going to take with you into 2026? 565 00:34:44,074 --> 00:34:48,294 you know i think was something you said like 566 00:34:48,294 --> 00:34:55,914 if there's one thing that i would encourage families to do or individuals to do especially 567 00:34:55,914 --> 00:35:01,554 if your dad would be to do like year-end like family reviews i wish i would have done those 568 00:35:01,554 --> 00:35:07,854 i wish i would have done those more often so like their whole resolution to eat better and all that 569 00:35:07,854 --> 00:35:12,074 kind of stuff it's all down like i you know it's not in the big scheme of things it's not very 570 00:35:12,074 --> 00:35:21,474 important compared to like how well your family's doing and so uh if you did one thing which was 571 00:35:21,474 --> 00:35:25,914 just literally sit down and like and talk with your wife and like make a list of the things that 572 00:35:25,914 --> 00:35:31,514 you think are going well and then the things that need to be shored up on with your relationship with 573 00:35:31,514 --> 00:35:38,254 your wife but then also your kids um if that can cause the things that need work to get attention 574 00:35:38,254 --> 00:35:43,654 sooner and not like four years later or five years later or you know when it becomes bigger 575 00:35:43,654 --> 00:35:47,614 like man that they're like that pays off massively. 576 00:35:47,874 --> 00:35:48,874 Keep going short accounts. 577 00:35:49,394 --> 00:35:50,214 Yeah 100%. 578 00:35:51,094 --> 00:35:58,034 Yeah because there's things I wish you know I have regrets of not addressing things earlier 579 00:35:58,034 --> 00:36:02,774 and just not we're not dealing with just weaknesses of mine earlier. 580 00:36:03,594 --> 00:36:03,694 Yep. 581 00:36:03,694 --> 00:36:09,614 But part of that's just like, it's like doing this self-examination. 582 00:36:10,154 --> 00:36:11,874 I'm skipping the physical again. 583 00:36:13,874 --> 00:36:14,994 I'm just not doing it. 584 00:36:15,074 --> 00:36:15,794 I'm going to ignore it. 585 00:36:16,214 --> 00:36:18,014 And it's like, eh, you're not going to ignore it. 586 00:36:18,194 --> 00:36:20,074 Like, it's going to come back. 587 00:36:20,394 --> 00:36:21,094 Yeah, exactly. 588 00:36:21,334 --> 00:36:26,654 So in that sense, like, that's, you know, in this season of reflection, 589 00:36:26,654 --> 00:36:30,594 I think that's definitely one thing I would encourage people to do, 590 00:36:31,294 --> 00:36:32,334 especially dads. 591 00:36:33,274 --> 00:36:33,434 Yeah. 592 00:36:33,434 --> 00:36:48,274 Yeah, we kind of did this involuntarily, did this a couple months ago and just had to both examine with some of our kids, just go through and address some things that we saw. 593 00:36:48,274 --> 00:37:06,614 And then also just, again, apologize for just letting certain things just, you know, go unaddressed, you know, for longer periods of time, either through just ignorance or just wrong priorities, just being focused on other things and just be like, just have an attitude of, ah, it's okay. 594 00:37:06,614 --> 00:37:35,814 You know, it's, it's obviously not the greatest, but it's not, it's not the worst either. And you can just get in that type of mindset and, and then it's just like mission creep or, you know, just you're drifting in certain areas. And so I think that that's, uh, I would, I would echo that sentiment, you know, just if there's things that you see, don't, don't just make excuses for them. Don't justify them. Don't, don't just say, Hey, you know, I'll deal with that later. Um, you know, just deal with things as they come. 595 00:37:35,814 --> 00:37:42,334 And, um, yeah, I mean, yeah, I would just encourage as well, just like praying together 596 00:37:42,334 --> 00:37:48,534 with your kids, um, you know, and just like asking your, just again, asking your kids, 597 00:37:48,634 --> 00:37:50,234 how are they doing just regularly? 598 00:37:50,234 --> 00:37:51,474 Something as simple as that. 599 00:37:52,074 --> 00:37:55,974 Um, I, again, it's just, it's so easy just to get so busy where you're just running around 600 00:37:55,974 --> 00:37:59,694 and you're only addressing, you're only correcting. 601 00:37:59,694 --> 00:38:03,594 Like if you're, if you're only, if your conversation is always corrective and there's not any, 602 00:38:03,594 --> 00:38:08,334 you know substance with outside of that it's just going to be easy to get to you know for you to be 603 00:38:08,334 --> 00:38:16,154 tuned out yeah it's the whole yeah just defensive and not not not offensive yeah like not pushing 604 00:38:16,154 --> 00:38:21,374 pushing things towards being more healthy where are you going yeah it's one thing to like again 605 00:38:21,374 --> 00:38:27,094 push away from the sides of the river with using your oar to keep yourself off the off the you know 606 00:38:27,094 --> 00:38:31,234 off the shore that's obviously important but if you're not paying attention to where you're going 607 00:38:31,234 --> 00:38:33,894 you could be going, you know, over a waterfall or something like that. 608 00:38:33,954 --> 00:38:36,634 Trying to maintain this metaphor in it. 609 00:38:36,734 --> 00:38:38,594 I feel like it was fine. 610 00:38:38,714 --> 00:38:40,274 I don't know if it was the greatest one, but it worked. 611 00:38:42,354 --> 00:38:43,754 Yeah, yeah, anyways. 612 00:38:44,694 --> 00:38:50,574 So, again, we teased letting you guys know where the other island boys are. 613 00:38:50,634 --> 00:38:51,974 To be fair, we don't know where Matt is. 614 00:38:52,034 --> 00:38:53,474 He's probably running around Hawaii somewhere. 615 00:38:54,514 --> 00:38:56,214 Matt's, he's doing a whole bunch of stuff. 616 00:38:56,634 --> 00:39:00,454 I think he had a worker that they had to line out with a whole bunch of things today. 617 00:39:00,454 --> 00:39:08,274 so got it okay well matt we miss you uh on top of that uh ashwa you may be wondering where in the 618 00:39:08,274 --> 00:39:14,914 world would ashwa be well ashwa ashwa texts us and tells us that hey guys i'm sorry i'm laying 619 00:39:14,914 --> 00:39:21,434 down some spoken word poetry uh with some friends of mine we have studio time and so that's where i 620 00:39:21,434 --> 00:39:28,174 am i'm not gonna be able to make it today it's like well well then ashwa spitting game uh incredible 621 00:39:28,174 --> 00:39:31,254 so hopefully we'll get some recordings of this 622 00:39:31,254 --> 00:39:33,274 later when Ashwa gets done 623 00:39:33,274 --> 00:39:35,014 and we will 624 00:39:35,014 --> 00:39:37,194 either with his permission or against 625 00:39:37,194 --> 00:39:39,194 his wishes we will share it with you fine folks 626 00:39:39,194 --> 00:39:41,214 at home so you can have that to look 627 00:39:41,214 --> 00:39:42,894 forward to in the new year if nothing else 628 00:39:42,894 --> 00:39:44,954 we're going to leave it there for today 629 00:39:44,954 --> 00:39:47,334 thank you again for a full year 630 00:39:47,334 --> 00:39:49,134 of a lot of different things 631 00:39:49,134 --> 00:39:50,294 we are grateful for you guys 632 00:39:50,294 --> 00:39:53,094 as we're coming up on the end of the year we mentioned 633 00:39:53,094 --> 00:39:55,014 last things 634 00:39:55,014 --> 00:39:57,134 if you are looking for ways 635 00:39:57,134 --> 00:40:03,274 to minimize the amount of money that you're giving over to a, well, we'll leave out some 636 00:40:03,274 --> 00:40:09,334 of the adjectives. If you want to just mitigate some of the tax liabilities that you owe to the 637 00:40:09,334 --> 00:40:15,534 government, if we can help you do that, we'd love to do that. You can donate at brilliancelabs.org 638 00:40:15,534 --> 00:40:22,774 slash TGFB. If you have other people who are in your life, who again, are looking to do the same, 639 00:40:22,774 --> 00:40:34,874 We would greatly appreciate you sharing that link, sharing that information so that we can continue, again, doing a lot of the things, whether it's the in-person events, the podcast, the book writing. 640 00:40:35,414 --> 00:40:38,014 We've got a number of really neat projects that are coming up. 641 00:40:38,314 --> 00:40:46,594 We'll probably announce, go through kind of like our calendar of what we're going to be doing in one of the first episodes of 2026. 642 00:40:48,274 --> 00:40:49,374 So we will do that. 643 00:40:49,374 --> 00:40:54,794 We also have more information about speakers in the weeks to come for the TGFB 26 conference. 644 00:40:55,194 --> 00:40:57,614 We've got some good folks in the pipeline. 645 00:40:58,154 --> 00:41:00,474 Some you'll know and some you might not. 646 00:41:00,574 --> 00:41:01,054 So we'll see. 647 00:41:01,614 --> 00:41:02,794 But we are grateful for you. 648 00:41:03,394 --> 00:41:07,454 This will, I think this probably will be the last episode of this year. 649 00:41:07,574 --> 00:41:09,514 I don't think I'll sneak one in tomorrow night. 650 00:41:09,614 --> 00:41:10,354 We're going to be pretty busy. 651 00:41:10,594 --> 00:41:11,694 But who knows? 652 00:41:11,774 --> 00:41:13,534 We might do a little sneak in there. 653 00:41:13,574 --> 00:41:13,894 We'll see. 654 00:41:14,494 --> 00:41:16,314 But we hope you guys have had a great day. 655 00:41:16,314 --> 00:41:20,814 Hope you're getting back into the work grind out there, loving and serving your neighbors, 656 00:41:20,974 --> 00:41:21,834 loving and serving the Lord. 657 00:41:22,334 --> 00:41:22,934 I will be grateful for you. 658 00:41:22,954 --> 00:41:26,034 We'll see you on the next episode of the TGFB podcast.