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state. Holy cow reality is Stranger
Than Fiction World. Economic forum, is it time to
put laser eyes on Klaus Schwab? Let us know down in the
comments. But a world economic Forum that
a total 180 and they came out with you know, one of their
propaganda videos or mean videos and basically said, hey, you
know, you could actually use I'm mining you could actually use
you know, flared, gas, the third gas, and you could turn that
into Bitcoin and it uses that energy.
And normally that flared, gas would go out into the atmosphere
is just a total 180. I remember like five years ago
where they were saying the complete exact opposite.
So that's a good news. Another news Michael sailor
tweet and so we're going to talk about today.
Argentina needs Bitcoin well yeah, Argentina needs Bitcoin,
104 percent inflation but It's not that simple.
We're going to get into the IMF. I'm going to talk about the IMF.
I went, I went a little bit ham, this over the weekend, tweeting
out about the IMF because it really, really upset me.
You know, one of the things, one of the one of their statements.
So the one of the mission statements and IMF website says
prosperity for all I don't believe that's like sincere II
don't believe at this point you can't make in good faith.
You can't make an argument that the IMF is a net benefit, for
Humanity, can't make that statement, right?
Literally the opposite of what they recommended was the right
move and we're going to highlight that today.
And I'm also shout out to Alex gladstein, because he's really
been at the Vanguard of this and he's in, he know, he's written
amazing articles and he just recently, Only released a book
on Amazon, highly recommend you guys get it.
Basically highlighting the scam that is the IMF.
And these people have the audacity To tell a sovereign
country not to seek an alternative.
Who are these people? Hmm.
Anyways, before we start to show, I want to bring up a very
special guest and a co-worker of mine.
Rowdy from Swan media, how you doing, buddy?
What up? How's it going?
This guy is the genius. The writer behind the hard money
episodes which are absolutely popping off, bro.
So it's truly an honor to have you on the show today and of
course, my legendary co-host, always optimistic.
He did not. Send me a selfie this morning
with a smile and I And I was first to text him, I said you're
fired with the period. Well hey apparently there's a
running theme of firing Talking Heads right now so the Tucker
for tomorrow's Vlog but yeah, breaking news, it was fired, but
he stepped down from Fox News for anyone who doesn't No, he
has been the only Legacy Media talking head that has publicly
supported Bitcoin. He's had nine book, La, Michael
sailor Marty bent on his show. He's I think he's had nine
buchelli or and Max Keiser recently.
And it's just interesting that the people that publicly support
Bitcoin are also the people that you know somehow they end up in
the corporate media's. Crosshairs this is all
coincidences, I guess. Anyways guys that make let's
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My It stat out of this whole thing because it just highlights
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today during the news. During the number segment, we're
going to talk about the world, economic Forum, our friends, at
the world economic Forum, you know, the same people that tell
you, you owe nothing, be happy, eat bugs, shut up, you know, you
dirty peasant, you know, don't pay.
Just shut up, eat your bugs. You know, 15 minutes City, all
of that stuff. And you guys remember this
tweet, you know, it made quite quite a Ruckus when it went live
in 2017 and it's funny because it's like one.
Bitcoin was peaking at the time was like 20K was the top or
something like 19 or 20 K. And they tweeted this out says
in 2020, Bitcoin will consume more power than the world does
today. Well it looks like they did like
a whole 180 because they just released this video over the
weekend. Let's check it out and we'll
talk about it. One of the key problems were
focused on on emission reduction is called flaring.
Flaring happens either in the oil field or in landfills where
you have this waste stream of gas, that's associated with oil
production or you know happens from decomposition of landfill
Crusoe does is we actually build operate and manage these mobile
and modular data centers that we co-locate on location with these
waste sources of energy and then we use those those waste methane
streams to power. These mobile modular data
centers and so by doing that, not only do we create a massive
emission reduction from this previously wasted source of
energy, but we can also produce Ultra low-cost computing.
By harnessing this, this otherwise stranded form of
energy. Okay, I can't deal with the
fucking music. Holy shit who picked out music
but I was like ding, ding, ding anyways.
Um, holy cow, holy cow. What was that 180 Chris.
Ooh, by the way, Chris, ooh, they also acquired Great
American mining. So they're definitely a major
player in the flared using flared, gas and turning that
into Bitcoin, their major player in the US.
And if my memory serves me correctly, Lee.
They're also the company that ConocoPhillips used to mine
Bitcoin as well, right? I just find it very interesting,
right? This is a complete 180 from The
Narrative that the world economic Forum was, you know,
saying for the last couple of years now, right?
Complete, you know, turn complete change of narrative,
right? So I find that fascinating.
I really do and then I tweeted this out this morning, right?
You know, if you can't beat them, join them.
Is this one of those things? I don't know.
Is it time to put laser ours laser eyes on Klaus Schwab?
I don't know. Let us know.
I don't still don't trust them. There's something about it.
I still, I like steak Klaus. I like steak.
Anyways, Rodney what's your take on this and then we'll move on
to Opti. Well, does your distrust of
Klaus Schwab have anything to do with that black space suit?
He wears from the future, or whatever.
I mean, he looks like a demon. Yeah, I so I mean the, the gas
Boring stuff. So I'm I come from Texas.
And, you know, the fact that you could take these containers out,
previously, stranded sources of energy is amazing and not only
getting the gas to a pipeline. But even if you were to generate
electricity, you know, you still need high voltage, power lines,
to get those population centers. So it's really a great thing.
You know, that they're able to do that aside from that.
You know, in the first world in America were sort of concerned
with balancing the grid and having a buyer.
Last Resort for some of this energy but in other parts of the
world, it is actually Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining is kind of
augmenting and incentivizing growth of grid.
So like in Africa you have microgrids in America, we have
three main grids or copying one, the sort of, in Texas
Independent one. But, you know, eat it.
Incentivizes people to actually go into these remote Villages
and provide infrastructure and provide the infrastructure for
them to have electricity at a very low cost.
So, you know, for more on that, you can see our hard money
Africa package. But yeah.
We think a lot about energy in the Nexus between that and
money. So yeah. 100% in, in like
Bitcoin, Bitcoin and energy are like, one in one.
Right? It's money.
Tied to energy via proof-of-work, it's anchored to
reality. I think that's what makes
Bitcoin unique and and all of a sudden did the Africa.
Thing is very interesting Rowdy because, you know, all of a
sudden, these isolated energy Pockets that Normally have no
value, because they're way too far, from a city center,
whatever. Bitcoin miners, could go there,
right? And all of a sudden that gives
that energy value, which brings prosperity to otherwise,
isolated or poverty-stricken areas in Africa, right?
Which is in my opinion again, Bitcoin is hope it's another
example of Bitcoin is Hope and I think Jack Dorsey is very
bullish on that, which is why I think he invested in a start-up
in Africa, that was doing just that 100, 100 percent.
And, and not only that but like for All the, you know,
environmental Fudd, stirs largely, all of that is
Renewables, you know? And and hydro specifically, you
know, you have a lot of like small-scale rivers and streams
that you could run a small operation on and and people are
starting to now. But you know, the big energy
companies aren't going to go in there and look at a small stream
and see the benefit to them. And so they're not going to
build a project but you know, if you have these companies now
that are that are mining Bitcoin and they can go in and they can
build a Hydro Dam, all of a sudden you're providing jobs for
the local economy. Me you're providing electricity
that for the people who live there and it's all on renewable.
So win, win, win win, win win exactly.
Bitcoin stays winning Opti, what's your take on this
brother? Well first and foremost, I'm
going to Echo, basically, what everyone was saying in the chat?
You know, first and foremost. My tinfoil hat.
Radar is triggering now. It's like I don't know how I
feel now that the world economic forum is indirectly endorsing
Bitcoin mining. Now, I was hoping that they
would push this out and fight us more.
You know, it seems one of those like I forget the metaphor, but
like, once you're touched by their fingers, it's like, oh now
we're all dirty because of their association with us, but I don't
know if we played the whole video, but I really liked in
that video. If you guys should definitely go
watch the whole thing. They never once said Bitcoin
mining, they just said, like, data centers, you know, we're
just we're you know we're just cleaning up the environment with
data centers and I think that's again.
One of the things that Nico always points out the omission
of Saying the b word I think is one of the biggest towels here.
They obviously don't want to endorse Bitcoin mining, but we
have the facts on our side. It is factually proven that
Bitcoin mining will improve planet Earth that it does help
the energy grids. And as much mental gymnastics as
they want to do like the facts are the facts and and we know
that this is true, we know that Bitcoin miners are actually
helping the, you know, the planet more than any
environmentalist out there, more than any environmental.
Lestrade can try to, I don't know what I was going to say
greenwash, but that's probably not the right word here.
But yeah, I mean, hey, it is a huge 180 and now they are
endorsing Bitcoin but I really like Nephi.
Did you see the remakes that Walker from crypto couple made?
He did a remix of that video and I'll lie really did was like put
the Bitcoin logo on the bottom. And then every time they said,
like data centers is just like Bitcoin, like Bitcoin fixes this
Bitcoin fixes this. And it's just like, It's the
perfect little addition to it because again the omission of
them actually sang Bitcoin, I think is one of the biggest
towels are they? I know they're trying to make it
palatable for for the, for the Normie out there and calling it
data centers. Which I mean I think that I
don't so I don't think I don't want to fall into the framing
but like I don't think it's palpable.
I just think like just as you know whether it's the future of
money report that was released by the US Treasury.
Basically omitting that Bitcoin could be seen as the future of
money in the eyes of the US government.
That's Not the case. And then what they do though is
that they omit inflation and all of those reports.
And I think that they omit inflation because I don't think
that they have a good argument against it, right?
We always say on the show, like if we get the masses asking, a
very simple question. You know, why are we using, why
are we being forced to use a money that steals from us?
I think that puts them in a very, very hard spot.
Like I just don't, I don't know how, I don't know how they could
defend that but anyways, everybody, let's get to the
news. Talk about Argentina.
A lot of things are going down over there.
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Alright let's talk about Argentina.
So Bloomberg article headline, Argentina inflation accelerates
more than more than expected to 104 percent.
So. Okay, you know, they look when
we talk about the US government printing and basically having
this privilege of being able to print because it has the world
Reserve currency status. Right?
Without the world Reserve currency status.
The US government would not be able Print the way it does and
it can't survive without printing.
Currently, there's a trillion, there's a trillion dollar
deficit, spend every single year, meaning the US government
spends a trillion dollar more than it collects in taxes, in
the way that they get away with that is because they have access
to a money printer. Other countries.
Wish they had the same thing. Unfortunately, no, no country
really holds Argentine pesos why would they write?
So what happens when the government prints a ridiculous
amount Amount of money. You have crazy, crazy inflation.
And that is the case for most of the global South.
I might add, they don't have the privilege that Us in the
developed world have, right? We're governments can get a
little crazy with the money printer and there was and the
consequences of that are not too crazy.
I love the way that Jeff poo. Jeff Booth puts it right where
the inflation rate isn't too high where people don't really
notice that they're being stolen from her, the vat, the mass
majority of people. So let's get into some of the
details. So inflation.
Jumps in Argentina, more than expected as a seasonal, as
seasonal factors collided with the impact of historic, drought
and government overspending, to feel the highest monthly price
hikes in two decades, inflation accelerated to 7.7% in March,
more than the median expectation, of seven percent
among economists, surveyed by Bloomberg, from a year ago,
Prices rose 104 percent, the highest annual level since 1991
according to government data published Friday.
Here's a quote. Now, what's really interesting
about this is hold on a second, quote policy changes to fix the
inflation problem. We'll have to be more drastic
than the longer it holds about. 100 percent.
There is little, the government could do ahead of the October
election, a rate hike at the next Central Bank meeting would
keep real rates positive as agreed with the IMF.
But wouldn't have a practical near-term impact on inflation.
Why are they bringing up on the IMF?
It's like isn't Argentina, sovereign country, like what is
going on here? And then let's talk about the
bailout, right? Because this was kind of like,
you know, one of those things or the, you know, the IMF would
would bails out these countries supposedly and parts of these
bailouts, you know, is so these, these countries restructure
their finances so that these types of things don't happen,
but in that clause, Check this out Argentina's IMF bailout deal
includes a wild Clause that rips cryptocurrencies and check out
the date of this article March 18. 20 22 goes on to say
Argentinian Senators just approved a 45 billion dollar
bailout deal with the with the IMF on Thursday that will help
the country. Avoid an imminent default on its
debts, but that's not the unusual part of the agreement,
the deal, which was approved in 1856. 213 vote, includes a wild
provision that will force the government.
Point of prisoner Alberto, Fernandez to take a tough anti
cryptocurrency stance. And it goes on to say, quote to
discourage the use of cryptocurrencies, with a view to
preventing money laundering, informality, and
disintermediation, and order to quote, to further Safeguard
Financial stability. Well, how the fuck did that work
out IMF that didn't work out very well.
Well, let's check out this other article dropped around, you
know, not very, not the exact time, but shakal.
Take a look at The date, 26 January, 2020, to IMF urges El
Salvador to remove Bitcoin as legal tender.
It goes on to say in September. I'll Salvador became the first
country to allow consumers to use a cryptocurrency and all
transactions alongside the US dollar, the decision led to
large-scale protest over fears, it would bring instability and
inflation to the impoverished. Latin American country.
Did the exact fucking opposite. And that bailout from Argentina
by the IMF would that do anyways.
And then we're going to like look at the results, right?
So it goes on to say, when I was Salvador, introduced a virtual
currency, as legal, tender the government, released a new
digital wallet app, giving away $30 is a chivo wallet.
It presented the measures a way to boost Economic Development
and jobs, but El Salvador has been divided by the move.
That's not true. 9 will Kelly has a 90% approval rating
anyways. So take a look at the, the dates
of the articles there. They're very important and the
narrative in the structure and the framing by the Legacy
corporate media, right? So January 22, the basically
saying oh this is a move. The I messes like this is a
danger to financial stability what El Salvador is doing its
absolutely Reckless at the same time here.
Here's a bailout, you know, don't worry about it.
This is gonna be fine. But you have to include a clause
that has 2D incentivize the adoption of Bitcoin within the
country. Now, what were the results of
that? Well, the Argentinian decision
was an absolute clusterfuck for the people of Argentina, dealing
with 104 percent inflation. The government is hostile
towards it because that was part of the bailout agreement and now
let's take a look at the results.
Coming out of El Salvador record GDP growth and not to mention
record. Low crime rate right here is the
estimated, hasta homicides per 100,000 inhabitants and here it
goes, back all the way to 2010. It reached a high of 103 and
Recently reported last year, it was 7.8.
So, it looks like the country that did not listen to the IMF
and now adopted an alternative to the IMF system.
Has Prosperity has peace. And the country that listen to
the IM f--, took the bailout deal.
Is dealing with record inflation.
Who the fuck are these people? Here's a tweet by Michael
sailor. If you live in Argentina right
now, you need Bitcoin. Here's a tweet by bow-tied, Mara
urgent. The Argentine Central Bank has
suspended operations for today and Monday foreign payments have
been suspended. There are no more dollar.
It seems more about the measure here.
Looks like the central bank was effectively already dipping into
customer US dollar deposits at local banks.
This was last month and it only got worse than Then that's
right. You want to escape the
inflation? Yeah.
Well we'll dip into your to your currencies to and you want to
know, you will dip into your savings.
Why? And you want to know why the IMF
included that? That clause in the bailout
package will Christine Lagarde. Opt, he's ex-girlfriend said it
best. If there's an escape valve,
people will use it. And that's what this is.
I don't think the IMF really wants prosperity for all if you
were to believe they're Logan, I think the IMF just wants people
to use their system. That's what they're really
concerned about the IMF concerns is concerned about the IMF.
No one else is not really concerned about this.
This, you know, this framing about, oh, we want, what's best
for developing countries? Well, look a developing country
seeked an alternative that was outside your grasp of control.
You freaked out. Look what what the results of
that decision were prosperity and peace for El Salvador and
the people that listen to you and took your claws destruction
and poverty. Like, it's absolutely
ridiculous. Here is a tweet by turned to mr.
Apparently, Argentina Central Bank ran out of dollars and
started stealing local banks. Customer USD deposits to fill
the hole. Now, that's no longer working.
So they're announcing a bank holiday.
Classic bail in, right? I'm going to end it there or my
head's going to explode, but this is fucking nuts, right?
Central banks don't have your best interest at heart.
The IMF doesn't have your best interest at heart and your tell
is their hostility towards Bitcoin.
The tell is their hostility towards individuals seeking an
alternative and their reaction to it.
They don't care about look at what the results were of El
Salvador. You don't hear them talking
about it. And anymore a lot, right?
The Argentinean government took the bailout money accepted, the
Clause fast forward a year, later hundred 4% inflation.
How did that work out for the Argentinian?
People are Central bank's really for their people or a central
bank's really for central banks and the government is State
money really? For the people of that state or
is it really for the government? That runs that state and these
are very important questions to ask but because I really believe
and I don't know if you see it. Rowdy to me, it's clear as day,
you have two opposing things don't let El Salvador Financial
instability. They've made Bitcoin as legal
tender. This is going to cause inflation
the exact fucking opposite thing happened.
Take out bailout deal but you must be incentivize the adoption
of Bitcoin because that's going to lead to financial
instability. The Exact fucking opposite
happen. Who is behind the IMF?
That is some evil fucking shit. That's my take on that.
Some evil people behind there bro. 100% if you if you look at
night but Kelly makes a great case.
Not only is he an epic Twitter troll against the IMF and but I
believe he's made the case in front of the UN General form.
Not only sort of pointing out how outdated and outmoded the
fact of the, you know, all those representatives from all over
the world at the fly. New York, we have zoom and
everything, but it just, he just, he's embracing the
technology and the way things are going and you have in a
places like Argentina who are making deals with the incumbent
power structures, like the IMF, and what you get is 104 percent
inflation. But what's most egregious is not
only, are they, is their currency completely jacked up
because it's a Cadre of people making decisions in a
centralized way and they're Miss managing it, but it got so bad.
Not only were they, do they have capital, Controls where you're
not allowed to buy US dollars in Argentina / to preserve your
purchasing power. So you had to do that on the
black market illegally but now they're bailing in and they're
just taking customer deposits straight from the bank.
I mean it's I'm getting angry on their behalf.
Just I'm getting heated just thinking about it.
Yeah it's egregious and I and at some point, people are going to
wake up and they're going to start asking these questions and
figuring out that there is an escape valve.
And that the people who tell you to eat bugs are not your friend.
Yeah, and they don't have your best interest at heart 100% And
I just want to let you know, maybe I want to rub it in their
face but I think it's well deserved nine bouquet was right?
He wrote this, don't drink the elites Kool-Aid, September 30th
2022 and he was 100%, right? And here is the part of the
article that really stuck with me.
And it says, with that, of course, they also own the
Army's, the loans, the money supply, the credit ratings, The
Narrative, the Of the factories, the food supply that control
international trade and international law, but their
most powerful weapon is the control of the truth and they're
willing to fight. Lice mere destroy sensor,
confiscate print, and do whatever it takes to maintain
and increase their control over the truth and everything.
And everyone so fast forward a year later.
After the IMF called out said that name, El Salvador's
decision was a threat to the financial stability of El
Salvador. The exact same thing happened in
El Salvador and and when the IMF bailed out Argentina to
supposedly, you know, secure the country financially, what
happened? The exact fucking opposite,
right? And then take this paragraph
that I just read from, don't drink tea, Luke Kool-Aid and it
was published in in Bitcoin magazine.
Embrace that take that in, connect the dots and it became
paints a very, very, very clear picture.
It's our job to highlight the hypocrisy, in the
misrepresentations in the lives of these people.
And nine bouquet Lee, nailed it in this paragraph.
Anyways, Rowdy, totally agree and it's worth noting.
I mean obviously you know, quotes around the word truth
because the it's their version of the truth, right?
It's effectively, you know, 1984 the ministry of Truth.
We're here to tell you what the truth is.
Exactly. Exactly.
It's like and and I'll say this, right?
The, you know, we've pointed out the fact of this idea, this I
call it this this This psychological concept called
projection. I think when they say that
Bitcoin is a threat to financial stability.
I think they're projecting onto US what it is.
They know they do themselves. And I've noticed that more and
more and more, and more and more, and they love those
buzzwords money. Laundering terrorism, Financial
stability and they use it. Like, it's like a battle drum.
It's like baba, baba, baba, baba, baba, baba, baba, baba,
anyways, Opti, what's your take on this brother?
Well, I'm glad that you brought up Abu Kelly's article because I
was going to bring it up. Well and it really reminds you
also of the book confessions of an economic Hitman like this,
this isn't a new thing. It just it's just coming from a
president versus, you know, a confession from an economic
Hitman and we know that this is the case, like this isn't
conspiracy theories. This isn't us looking into stuff
like we know the blueprint it's exactly what the IMF is doing.
This is institutionalized theft on a nation state level and now
we have the receipts, you know, Bitcoin exposes all.
All incentives and we have the IMF, literally kicking Argentina
into a hyperinflationary state and then saying, oh, we're here
to protect you. Well, like look, I'm a very
simple-minded person if a plus b equals c then we know exactly
what is going on here and it's, it's really insane to me.
That people think that the IMF and the world bank's are out
there doing good. And that, like, oh, we're here
to protect you guys and it's like, now it's very obvious.
We have a lot of A lot, a lot of points pointing to the complete
opposite that the IMF is not out here, helping if Argentina at
least was on a Bitcoin standard, then, I think things would be
different. Government wouldn't be able to
print. That's the thing, the government
wouldn't be able to print. Exactly, that's the thing.
You take that away from them and then the only way for the
government to raise funds is via direct taxation meaning.
They can't get too crazy on that either because then the people
will revolt and vote out. Those said, Paul's actually,
they're completely changes the dynamic.
Hammock here, right? But yeah I think you know if
you're if you're in Argentina and maybe this is a stretch too
far but I'm going to say it. Anyways, if you want to protest
what's actually going on the most effective way of protesting
is to opt out of the system entirely.
We say this on simply all the time, it's not Red vs.
Blue. Of course, that's a u.s.
Centric view, you know, Democrat versus Republican.
It's green versus orange, right? It's the orange party.
It's the party of Bitcoin. And then it's the party of State
money. Fiat right?
And which they want to turn into Central Bank, digital
currencies. That's the future ahead of us,
but this is, this is crazy. So you know what?
Well, Michael Seiler said I'm going to Echo it Argentina.
The people of Argentina. You guys need Bitcoin.
Bitcoin fixes. Yeah, way to go.
Before we go on one of our own members, wanna kiss.
Simply Bitcoin. Fam is currently in Argentina
and the second king. Yeah, the stories he's telling
me. I was on the phone with him like
an hour. I think it was last week and he
was kind of giving me an update on everything going on and he's
just like Blown Away by the amount of inflation.
Since he's been down there. It just like he's been taking
pictures of just like wads of money that he has to use to to
pay for everyday things, even though things are extremely
cheap. And I basically asked him, I'm
like, yeah, like what's the, what's the one hurdle that you
think is stopping people from adopting Bitcoin, and it's like,
it's just an education thing. Like, they don't have much
money, they're living paycheck to paycheck, and they don't have
the Financial literacy that that all you guys have out there like
it really is amazing that content like ours.
Everyone else spreading content. Like this is really the mm.
Most important thing we can be doing is trying to educate
people show them that the system is broken.
And that we do have a solution to this very specific problem
like Bitcoin, literally fixes this and no amount of propaganda
from these institutions can hide the truth for very, very much
longer. Like the mental gymnastics that
they have to partake. To show that Bitcoin isn't a
superior way to save, you know, that it's going into overdrive
and we we just got to continue to beat that drum and educate.
And what do we always say? Win the hearts and minds of the
masses and like, this is the importance of what we do, daily.
What you guys do? Spreading memes, you know what
Rowdy does over at hard money? Like, this is the most important
thing we can be doing is spreading this signal far and
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Well, you know, sometimes I don't realize that that IQs up
very good but I'm glad that that was the last thing I said,
talking into this culture segment because it really makes
his hit a little harder. Rowdy, you are a writer for the
hard money show in Natalie, Brunell and one of your videos,
it's starting to go viral, dude. And this is something that Nico
and I Not only are honored and humbled that.
This is our job. But we understand, especially
considering all the the cultural war is going on right now, the
importance of creating this type of media.
So I mean do you feel just as blessed as we do to put your hat
in the rink and and create this kind of content?
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I spent the bulk of my
career working in entertainment and promoting Entertainment
Properties, which is great. But, you know, if you if you
sort of Have that on the one hand and then you have a product
that can fix the world and solve.
So many of the world's problems is a no-brainer.
So, I am 100% happy to be putting my skills.
Behind Bitcoin and Bitcoin education.
Getting the word out there, orange filling people.
I do to my friends and family and I'm so happy to be doing it
professionally. Now, got a great team, Natalie,
obviously is an amazing Storyteller as well, and yeah,
just working on all this stuff. Not only do I find it, Applying
just from an educational standpoint myself.
As I continue my journey down the rabbit hole, but, you know,
kind of being able to present my findings to everybody out there
and get it out on the Internet is and hopefully do it in a fun
and entertainment entertaining way at the same time as the
goal. But yeah, I'm glad to see this
pop off and, you know, we rely heavily on so many smart people
out there from Sailor, who's featured in this video to, you
know, Sam Callaghan who Is on our Squad and Hurley who edits
these pieces, and he's amazing. But yeah, it's just an honor to
kind of like go through and do the research on these pieces and
then to get it out there and try to take, you know, explain my
take on how it is. It's great.
So whoever man, is it coming from your background?
Nico? And I always talked about this
on the show, basically, like highlighting the importance of
the independent content creators.
Do you think that the corporate corporate media is dying?
Is it, is it a dinosaur out there?
Class legs are how much longer do you think they can continue
to spread this kind of propaganda?
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's kind of like these
generational changes happen as people age out of, you know, the
population. It not not to get dark about it
but, you know. Yeah, I think I think mainstream
media and, you know, when I was a kid, it was like the big
three. There were three major networks,
right? And everybody just tuned in to
the news. And that was the water cooler
conversation. But now with the internet and
with YouTube and stuff, the democratization of being able to
tell stories and find good content, you know and and really
honing in on an itch. Like we do.
With Bitcoin is just a fascinating opportunity and it's
only getting more and more popular.
And, you know, I don't know, anybody, you know who gets their
news off the mainstream media in most mostly in my circles.
They're seeking it out themselves because they want to
find the truth. You know they want to find
empirical evidence. It reminds me of the pier
Richard. You know, he did, he took his
carbon monoxide or CO2 tester out there and it's like
empirically he's showing that you know, Bitcoin mining is zero
emissions and it's like people were saying, well, that's not
the truth and they're they're arguing that.
But literally, the truth is, is self-evident in some cases.
And so that's a lot of what we try to present on hard bunnies.
The truth, I'm glad you you had that cuz I was going to ask the
question. What do you think is the main
difference between Bitcoin media and mainstream media?
But I think you just answered that question.
Faster, follow-up. I have a follow-up.
Like, why? So it and Route.
A you grew up with this and you were you know you were you were
in the belly of the Beast so to speak.
It wasn't the the media wasn't always like this like Walter
guy. Like I literally have Walter
Cronkite his reporting on the Vietnam War, which like you can
make the argument that led to basically it being the Vietnam
War being a nun, defensible political position for the u.s.
government, right? So you know he was part of a
huge me. Organization.
I remember, you know, CNN in then in the 90s or, you know, in
the 2000s, right? Like this it seems like this is
a recent event where, or maybe it's the internet that really
highlighted that perhaps, we were being propagandize the
entire time, but I would like to believe that the corporate media
wasn't always like that. I feel like there was there was
journalistic standards before there was Integrity.
Why do you think that changed? I mean, I think it's about
incentives, right? Right.
It's like, you know, they at one point, the news programs on the
mainstream, you know, the big three channels, weren't the
revenue drivers, you know, it was the soap operas, and
literally, they, they're called that because they were really
just dramas to sell soap, but you had these journalistic
standards. Like, you're talking about with
Walter Cronkite and back in the day, you know, people who are
actually after the truth. And now I think there's just the
networks have been captured by, you know, red or blue, at least
in the states. That's a quick way to look at it
and you know people who have other agendas and you know if
you're in one, if you're on leaning to the left, you go to
one channel. If you lean to the right, you go
to another. But but I think you're
absolutely right. It's harder and harder to find
signal. That is not just completely the
Spin Zone essentially. Yeah. 100% Opti, just I want to
ask from your Vantage Point. Rowdy, wait, what do you think
like Bitcoin Media or media in general goes from here?
I mean, I'm happy to be sort of, I think on what is the Vanguard
of kind of Independent Media sources and and, you know, we
just sort of bootstrap this thing.
I mean, not, you know, we're sponsored and we have helped.
But I mean, you know, we are not, I come from companies like
Viacom and Turner and, you know, giant media conglomerates.
And so, to be in a place like this where, you know, truth is
valued above all. Paul, I feel like in a way It's
kind of like a re-emergence of what the news used to be when it
was on the big three. Aunt works, you know, really
just going after the integrity and trying trying to tell the
story as we see it without political bias without you.
No, preconceived notions going in without an agenda.
Essentially, I love it. We I mean Nico and I always talk
about here and this is a meme, I stole from Nico.
Where that what we're really doing here is we're after the
hearts and minds of the masses out there and I don't think we
have a better tool than Bitcoin on our side.
Like we we have the truth, we have the facts now it's becoming
more and more clear to me that like the importance of us making
content about you making content but all of her friends making
content. It's like we really are out here
for the hearts and mind to the masses because we have the But
people want a good story and this is why we show up every
day. This is why you do what you do
is to get that story out there in different ways.
So that people wake up to the truth of the matter.
It's like Bitcoin fixes the situation guys.
Very simple process and there's something very calming just sort
of on a personal note about having the conviction and
feeling like the facts are on my side and it's not just me.
I see it in, you know, lots of public facing bitcoiners who Are
maybe in public debates with other people, you see people
defending the Fiat system and they kind of they get worked up
and they get a little excited and it's like they're trying to
fit a round peg into a square hole, you know, and I think of
people like Elizabeth Warren or Christine Lagarde, who don't
have great answers to things. All she can come up with
something like in due course, it will happen in due course, and,
and, and their little bit on the defensive and it's like, you
know, there's just a certain calmness when you sort of, you
can See through all that and you're not trying to sell
anybody on anything. This is not, you know this is
not a any kind of grift but I feel like the power structures
that are in place whether it's because of overtime, all power
structures get corrupted or what?
I mean that's a whole philosophical.
You know discussion you could think about I think people are
just trying to sell you on this idea of Truth and I'm putting
that in air quotes like the Kelly did in his article when
they simply don't have the facts on their side, you know?
And so So in a way our job is that much easier because we're
not trying to convince somebody of something that isn't obvious
on the face of it. So, it's just really gratifying
and I find it personally, calming and centering sort of
having now, identified the problem and I'm standing on the
shoulder of tons of people who, you know, have come before me
and have told lots of stories and written lots of books and
articles and podcasts. And you know, I've been
consuming this media for about five years now and I just can't
get enough of it. And so Really.
I'm just I'm just trying to amplify voices out there that
came ahead of me and figured this whole thing out.
So and kudos to you guys for providing that platform, I
appreciate you having me on here for that our pleasure, bro.
It's our pleasure in any kind of you kind of hit on something
that me and my friend wind it gets talked about all the time.
It's idea of Bitcoins n and like it's hard to really explain like
the psychological, you know, Zen the just The calmness that you
get when you are on a Bitcoin standard like that's why Bitcoin
is Hope and and I'm just, I'm, I'm very happy that that I'm
seeing it not only in my friends but like Rowdy, you said the
same thing and I think we continuously see the same
phenomenon play out. It's like, yo once you get on a
Bitcoin standard, your whole philosophy, your whole worldview
changes and you can finally take a breath look out at the world
clearly and be like, oh okay, we can fix this.
There is a solution to this problem.
It is getting on the Bitcoin. Heard it is realizing what I
value and then continue to propagate that truth to more and
more people. And this is how we win 100%.
And it's only a matter of time, you know, like once upon a time
earlier on in my Bitcoin days, I was checking the price every
five seconds like a psychopath, you know?
And now I mean whole days go by and I've orange, build my wife
and she's telling me the price and I'm like, oh cool, you know,
she's like it's pumping or it's dipping, I'm like great, you
know, like Whatever, whatever it does.
One Bitcoin equals one Bitcoin. You know, it's true.
I say it all the time jokingly. I wouldn't be looking at the
price like, at all, if it wasn't for telling you guys, like
updated on, what's going on on Twitter, spaces, around the
show, like, the price is irrelevant until the world is on
a Bitcoin standard. It is unimaginably cheap as far
as I'm concerned. How did you guys go ahead?
I was telling a friend this weekend, you know.
He was like, well aren't you worried about the volatility?
And I'm like, Like it's a monetizing asset.
It has to be by definition, volatile, in order to gain the
gain in value. So volatility.
Yeah, its ups and downs but volatility is Vitality, as as
Leon quoted in our most recent hard money, which I thought was
great and I'm going to steal that and use it in my Bitcoin,
Arsenal weren't real Arsenal, I love that, I love that.
Anyways Opti, let's this was, this was a lot of fun.
Appreciate having Rowdy on today.
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This is an information War. Do not forget this, do not do
not take lightly what you guys are doing out there.
Propagating, the memes making the signal having conversations
with your friends and family, you know, in meatspace, these
are important things, guys. This is all we really have to do
is Wake more people up. Anyways, let's get into these
mean reviews. Just first one is by, By at
Denver BTC Maxie and we got a Chad big corner and it goes guys
it's a peer-to-peer electronic cash system permissionless and
deflationary and we got some melting Whoa, Jack's over here
and they go Ryan Reynolds. Just done a video, Deadpool 3
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You may need to clean Twitter. Some laser eyes closed.
What is right? We got one of Rusty here and you
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got Klaus Schwab right here in between the stranded energy and
the Bitcoin Miners and he's trying to get his grubby little
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So what's the attack Vector here?
It comes in to take credit for reducing emissions.
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Join rent-seeking. What is the angle here, guys?
Drop it in the chat. What is the angle anyways?
This next meme is by at pleb signal BTC and this is the joke
that I think all of us big Hunters noticed in that world
economic Forum video because say, what kind of data center it
is? Well, they're coming for him
partly because Bitcoin mining. Oh yeah, yeah, yes, it is
Bitcoin miners guys, just say it just say it just say, Okay, this
next one is a shot at the heart of coin.
Tagged Us in this after Friday's show and we got this the scene
from 1984 and it goes internet will be censored.
Hate speech is outlawed. And we got Big Brother telling
us what they want to do and this is cuz we were covering on this
on the Friday show and this next one.
I know Beauty on gives a shit a lot because we covered the memes
and we and we devote so much harm to the memes, but he did a
pretty good Meme here, whether whether he meant to, I think he
meant to anyways. We got we got a man.
Man in bed. Scared with the covers over him
and Beauty on goes, don't be this Bitcoin.
ER and you know, he takes a lot of flack.
But what I think he's saying, guys, is be proud to be a big
Corner. Spread the signal, tell people
that there's the solution, we have the freedom tools out there
and I don't think I know there's a time and a place for guerrilla
warfare and hiding and running and doing that kind of battle.
But I think it is also very important for us to be vocal to
be out front too. Do people we have the solutions?
And you know not hiding behind your keyboards every single day.
Just to be clear, just to be clear YouTube when he talks
about guerrilla warfare, it's metaphorically, it's metaphoric
and it's information Warfare. We are not advocating for him.
Any time at it, Jesus, dude. Okay, I can't even talk anymore,
okay? Okay.
Alright, leave review. All right.
Drop your me. Move you score in the chat?
While we cover hours, I think this is another simply Bitcoin
exclusive. I don't think I've ever seen
this on the show but if you know if you have a if you have a
Mexican mother then you might know what I'm what I'm about to
show you some some arnica. Okay, you put it on everything.
When did that work? If you got a chocolate thrown at
you? Well, My head, too.
All right. I feel like there's just like a
lot of mom thing. Anyways, I'm going to give it
this half. Drink essential water.
It still remember. It's what you said earlier?
It's a cold essentially. No no.
I would have said cold, but it was cold when I went in the
beginning. But now it's like he's LARPing.
It's still cold but it's not like it was.
I see it like dice exact. It's not ice cold anymore.
So that's my score. Anyways, Rowdy, what would you
give those mean scores those memes?
Well, A lukewarm cup of coffee, but it's premium coffee.
So, I don't want to say that it's, you know, by lukewarm,
that's a bad thing. The coffee is so good, that this
is a hell of a price, and I'm going to give give you guys that
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I like that. Okay, before before I'm writing
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I was a bit unprepared to have a to have a prize.
But for the next time I'm on, I would like an award.
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