WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.000 Hey friend, listen. I know the world is scary right now. Corruption, war, inflation, demographics, 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:18.000 degeneracy, disease, unrest, hatred, and despair. We didn't come here to tell you how it is. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:20.000 But that it's going to get way better. 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:28.000 I've got a good day coming. And it's all I need. Everything I wanted. Just wait and see. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:29.000 Better. Bye, Bitcoin. 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:34.000 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:41.000 All right. How's everybody doing today? Welcome back. 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:44.000 I heard your voice underneath the intro. 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:53.000 This is real good. Welcome back. We got JD, Anton, and myself, Bondor, on the pod today. 00:00:53.000 --> 00:01:00.000 Basically, we wanted to talk about what the biggest problem is and why aren't you solving it? 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:04.000 So this morning, just total shower thought for me. It was like sitting in the shower. 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:15.000 I was like, why? The Epstein stuff is coming out. The crazy absurdity of our communist mayor in L.A. 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:21.000 trying to shut down ICE. We're trying to defend MacArthur Park, which is one of the most drug-ridden, 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:29.000 insanely indefensible places on earth. And it's just such a bummer encountering all this stuff constantly. 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:32.000 All day, all day, all day. So I was just sitting in the shower like, what can we do about it? 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:37.000 What can we do about it? And it was like, what's the biggest problem we can solve? 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:41.000 What's the biggest problem I can solve? What's the biggest problem Anton or JD or anybody else could solve? 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:47.000 And then why aren't we solving that problem? Like, go solve that problem. 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:50.000 What else are you doing here? Are you playing video games? Go solve the problem. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:58.000 So anyway, we kind of just wanted to break this down and figure out the different strategies 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:03.000 or the long-term perspectives on this and what actually solves the problems 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:07.000 and how to actually work through this and think about it correctly. 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:12.000 So that's where my head's at today. 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:18.000 So we can go through and say, the biggest problem in the world is... 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:24.000 Yeah, there you go. That's great. So for me, I think the biggest... I mean, this is a Bitcoin podcast. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:31.000 The biggest problem in the world is fiat. And the way to solve fiat is Bitcoin. 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:40.000 Now, that's just that, right? But then in my head, I'm just like, nobody believes that. 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:45.000 Okay, so everyone else has got, what's their biggest problem? Right? 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:50.000 What are the biggest problems, Anton? What are the biggest problems in the world 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:54.000 that everyone else is like, that's the biggest problem. I got to solve that one. 00:02:54.000 --> 00:03:02.000 The biggest problem in the world is shorts on airplanes. 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:05.000 I don't know if I've ever worn shorts on an airplane in my life. 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:10.000 Like maybe if I was flying to Cabo for vacation or something. 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:19.000 But there's been a breakdown in decorum in American society and a breakdown in culture. 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:27.000 And people just act like absolute slobs. They litter. 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:32.000 They... I realize you cuss, Vondork, but I mean, I cuss too. 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:37.000 But, you know, like, you'll be at a restaurant with your children... 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:42.000 I think we got a cuss word in the intro to this pod today. 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:47.000 You'll be at a restaurant with your children and you'll have somebody just, you know, 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:55.000 a little drunk sitting next to you just saying horrendous things with an earshot of children. 00:03:55.000 --> 00:04:02.000 People have just lost all sense of etiquette and respect for others. 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:09.000 And I think it's indicative of a larger breakdown in American culture. 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:18.000 What has caused that? I mean, in the most simple explanation, fiat has caused that. 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:23.000 You have a lot of different cultures coming into the U.S. 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:29.000 and not being expected to assimilate into American culture. 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:39.000 And, yeah, I don't know. Why do you guys think that etiquette and decorum has broken down in the U.S.? 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:44.000 I love that. I didn't think you were going to go that direction because this started so jokish. 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:49.000 Like, I wear shorts in an airplane. No, that's 100% true. 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:55.000 And I struggle to find a better explanation than fiat. 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:01.000 Because, OK, fiat lowers your time preferences or fiat heightens your time preferences, 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:07.000 brings all of your choices forward, and therefore you make choices in the moment, in the day. 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:12.000 Like literally, I'm wearing a T-shirt right now. Anton, you're wearing a T-shirt. 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:16.000 A T-shirt solves the problem of something to wear. 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:20.000 But etiquette and decorum would say this is just underwear. 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:25.000 And it was just underwear until 1913, the same year the Federal Reserve was founded. 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:31.000 Right? It's like, literally, you would never wear just a T-shirt in public, ever. 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:37.000 And it's the same thing. Like, whoa, why? I struggle to find a better solution than fiat. 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:40.000 Like, what other thing could be causing all of this? 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:45.000 Oh, it's because men, like, forgot about God. 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:48.000 And you're like, no, we didn't really forget about God. 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:53.000 Like, everyone still believes in God. And you can, like, look at the statistics on that. 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:58.000 And it's like, sure, churches are falling apart, but belief in God is not. 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:01.000 And you're like, OK. 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:07.000 Like, people will give other answers, like, it's pop culture. Pop culture's doing this. 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:10.000 Like, it's the, you know, whoever's controlling Hollywood. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:14.000 And it's like, well, no, they're just beholden to the money, so that doesn't work. 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:19.000 That's like, that just points right back to fiat time preferences. 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:22.000 I don't know. J.D., what do you think? 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:32.000 Did we get you on? Oh, we got you on mute still. 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:35.000 What is that for me? 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.000 Did you re-mute yourself? 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:45.000 OK, start over from the top. 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:48.000 Am I muted now? 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:53.000 Yeah, the great part about this is, like, every five seconds I lose one of you. 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.000 And so I'll see one of your face and not hear you. 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:58.000 I just see you reacting to the other person. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:06.000 But the top line, I think you were saying, or what I did get is, like, 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:09.000 what is the biggest problem in the world? And it's fiat. 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:11.000 And why aren't we solving that problem? 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:16.000 It's because we've been born into this understanding that we can't. 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:22.000 Like, fiat is the base layer of understanding for most people. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:28.000 Most people believe that you will never be able to solve the fiat problem 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:38.000 because the fiat problem is the bedrock of their understanding for how all things work. 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:46.000 And until you completely change your paradigm of money, until you can really – 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:48.000 it's not even money. 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:51.000 If you want to solve the biggest problem in the world, 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:56.000 you need to change the paradigm of value in your life. 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:01.000 Because right now, the way the world works right now is value is the U.S. dollar. 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:06.000 Value is fiat because the U.S. dollar has no value outside of what, you know, 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:10.000 one government says that it is, and they just bag it up with a money printer 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:18.000 and, you know, excessive military force that they will just ad nauseum throw at you. 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:24.000 And so until we can get the entire world to look at value and look at time 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:28.000 as the measure of value and realize, hey, we need to have our time measured 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:33.000 in something that can't be devalued out from under us, I think nothing's going to change. 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:41.000 Yeah, it's like pants on an airplane, or rather shorts on an airplane, or T-shirts in public. 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:44.000 The Italians still dress really nicely. 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:48.000 But the problem the Italians have is even though – 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.000 actually, I'd say most Europeans have – 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:57.000 even though they have a comfortable understanding of how, like, time should be spent, 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:02.000 they take passeggiata, they take a little bit of time to actually enjoy things, 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:10.000 they're suffocating and they're not actually experiencing true opportunity 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:15.000 because the way that their economies are still valued is fiat. 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:20.000 And so until you can change that, you're stuck, just like everyone else. 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:27.000 And so everyone needs to change their understanding of value from fiat to real, hard, tangible things. 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:33.000 And until that happens, we're going to be stuck in this infinite loop of stupidity. 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:36.000 Yeah. 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:41.000 One thing that comes to mind when you say that is this idea that we all essentially have – 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:42.000 I mean, everyone knows this. 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:47.000 We all have a different worldview just because we have different eyes that are at different locations. 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:49.000 Like, we view the world differently. 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:55.000 Now, we can have a lot of overlap in that worldview, but we view the world just a little bit differently. 00:09:55.000 --> 00:10:02.000 And one of the difficulties of solving big problems, the big problem like this, is – 00:10:02.000 --> 00:10:06.000 Anton, like, you're passionate about, like, not cussing. 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:09.000 I'm like, that's awesome. I love it. 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:14.000 I'm passionate about, like, at this point, pop music is – 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:18.000 like, one of the things that just comes to mind for me is, like, it's just anathema. 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:22.000 It's, like, the worst possible thing you could consume. 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:26.000 And I'm like, I don't know if you share that view or not, but it's just like some – 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:28.000 it's like cussing, fine, whatever. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:33.000 Wearing T-shirts, I'm like, usually against wearing T-shirts, but, like, the Italians, they will dress well, right? 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:41.000 They'll eat well, but then they'll have these really not-so-good problems as J.D. just elaborated on. 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:47.000 We all have these different kind of, like, manifestations about what we care about and what we think is good. 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:53.000 And then we're all missing each other on the bigger issue that's really, like, motivating all of the stuff. 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:55.000 Like, how do you solve the problem of pop music? 00:10:55.000 --> 00:11:00.000 Well, fiat. You have to end fiat. 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:03.000 How do you solve the problem of war? Fiat. You have to end fiat. 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:07.000 How do you solve the problem of getting people to actually care about the words that come out of their mouth? 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:10.000 Tactfulness. How do you do that? 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:19.000 You've got to lower people's time preference and have them think and process speech appropriately. 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:36.000 The biggest problem in the world right now is that we are all being extracted a hidden tax of inflation by money printing. 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:50.000 The money printer is controlled by an evil elite class of people who stand at the very front of the spigot and get the original printed money, 00:11:50.000 --> 00:12:01.000 put it into their own assets, and have their wealth continuously increase while the whole rest of the world just suffers the effects of inflation 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:10.000 and gets penalized by what is essentially a mob that is making them pay. 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:15.000 What's it called when you have a bar and the mob comes and says, 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:20.000 if you don't pay to operate your bar, we're going to burn the place down? There's a word for it. 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:28.000 It's insurance money, but it's like forced insurance or something. 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:38.000 That's essentially what paying taxes are. If you don't pay your taxes, you go to prison and the taxes don't do anything. 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:48.000 In the US, the money printer prints more money than the government collects in tax revenue, 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:51.000 and they can print as much money as they want. 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:58.000 The people who print can then go and take that printed money and put it in anything that they want to. 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:03.000 I was being asked this the other day because I was explaining this to somebody, and they were like, 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:07.000 well, there's no solution for that. That's just the most depressing thing that I've ever heard. 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:13.000 And there is a solution. It's the most simple solution. The solution is Bitcoin. 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:19.000 The word is protection racket. Just have a look at it. 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:25.000 What's the biggest problem in the world? 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:30.000 Communicating that fiat is the biggest problem in the world. 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:34.000 It's like, how do you even begin to break people's minds? 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:37.000 I had a conversation with a guy online today that was like, 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:45.000 somebody was saying, fiat will never go away, Bitcoin will never fix it, never take over. 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:53.000 And I'm like, I literally use Bitcoin. Fiat for me is just rails. I literally use Bitcoin for everything that I do. 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:57.000 It's how I live and support myself, right? 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:03.000 And they're basically saying, no, it'll never work. There's no way. 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:07.000 What you're arguing for, I'm like, I literally am doing this today. 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:14.000 Bitcoin is the car in the age of horses. 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:20.000 And the guy's like, nah, Bitcoin is the zebra in the age of horses. 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:22.000 And I'm like, you're just lost, bro. 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:27.000 How do you communicate? How do you jump this problem? How do you do the communication problem? 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:34.000 This is a job for JD, because this is specifically what JD is trained and gets paid to do, 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:43.000 is communicate and market and advertise and break people's minds about pushing a product out there, pushing an idea forward. 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.000 So, JD, how do you solve this problem? 00:14:46.000 --> 00:15:02.000 In the world, when communicating, something has value is making it actually hurt. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:08.000 And what I mean by that is the only way to solve the problem of broken money is to make people feel pain. 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:25.000 People will move towards things that give them pleasure, but they will feel visceral, just hatred and immediate need for action if they feel pain. 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:30.000 Like pleasure is a vice, pain is a mover. 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:38.000 And so if you want to solve the most potent problem in the world, you need it to get worse. 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:39.000 You need it to get worse. 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:49.000 And so what we need to see and what we, like, unfortunately have to have happen is that, you know, good men make good times and, you know, hard men make, you know, bad times. 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:52.000 And we kind of need those bad times to come to make good men again. 00:15:53.000 --> 00:16:02.000 And it's unfortunate, but the answer to the question of how do you solve the biggest problem in the world is you make people hate it. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:13.000 And so my personal thing right now is, as you like to say, Bond or Accelerate, I'm actually very excited about the America Party because I think it's going to break everything. 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:26.000 I think it's the first time ever that the fiat state has had a third-party actor with some excitement and momentum, and they're actually afraid for the first time ever. 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:30.000 Like the vitriol from both sides is actually what's making me really excited. 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:32.000 It's like, how do you solve the two-party system? 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:38.000 You put a really big champion who everybody hates on the top of it under Elon Musk. 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:42.000 America is going to be on one wild ride for the next six years. 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:52.000 I wouldn't have agreed with you a day ago because there have been so many billionaires that have started third parties. 00:16:53.000 --> 00:17:04.000 And then this whole thing where they've just dropped pursuing anything having to do with Epstein, and they just said, you know what, no victims here. 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:05.000 We arrested him. 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:06.000 He killed himself. 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.000 He actually was probably innocent. 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:10.000 And so was Ghislaine Maxwell. 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.000 And let's just forget about it. 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:15.000 There were no elites running a pedophile sex ring. 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:23.000 Now that that's all happened, I'm kind of in the mode of screw it, burn it all to the ground. 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:25.000 We need a new third party. 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:27.000 So I'm with you. 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:35.000 Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes has been a very consistent refrain for the last 20 years. 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:42.000 And we're finally at a point where people are just like, I think I'm going to because we know everything else is getting fake with AI. 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.000 So I feel like I got to believe something. 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:49.000 So to push back on it a little bit. 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:52.000 I mean, I agree with you. 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:53.000 It's got to get worse, right? 00:17:53.000 --> 00:18:00.000 Like you have people have to experience pain like the guy riding the horse is going to get smoked by the guy right in the car. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:04.000 And that's going to be a visceral like, oh, I'm out of business, right? 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.000 I can't get there in time. 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:12.000 OK, so but how do you make people feel pain in a fiat world where they can just print more money? 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:14.000 The containers get close access. 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:22.000 And then they've also established these systems like the whole welfare state establishment and welfare cliff. 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:30.000 Which actually puts the people at the lowest end of the system closer to the money printer than the people in the middle of the system. 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:35.000 So they print more money, they'll just give it to the welfare state. 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:40.000 Hey, you know, the people like the proletariat is essentially just bought and paid for. 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:42.000 Right. 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:50.000 So how do you make people in the fiat world feel pain to solve the problem of fiat to get everybody on Bitcoin? 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:59.000 Yeah, the lowest people are literally incentivized to not work. 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:02.000 And the people who never understand Bitcoin. 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:03.000 Yeah. 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:07.000 The people who are somewhat in the middle are there in the rat race. 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:13.000 They're on the constant wheel of just trying to survive and they can never, ever get ahead. 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:16.000 And actually, their quality of life degrades over time. 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:27.000 They're they're punished for doing the right things, which just makes people want to just join the ranks of the lower class because they have no chance of getting to the elite class. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:30.000 It's super twisted and it's going to break down. 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:32.000 It's just when is it going to break down? 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:34.000 Sorry, I kind of interrupted your point, but. 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:36.000 That's it. 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:44.000 J.D., how would you how would you make people on fiat feel the pain of being on fiat in comparison to what what else is out there? 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:58.000 How do you make the lower class feel more pain so that way they solve the problems that they have? 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:00.000 And the upper class. 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:01.000 Unfortunately, the answer is. 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:02.000 Oh, sorry. 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:04.000 And the contillionaires. 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:08.000 I think maybe the other way to do it is, again, this is going to be an unpopular opinion. 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:11.000 This is probably going to be the most unpopular thing I'm going to say on this. 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:15.000 But like, how do you make the poor feel more poor? 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:16.000 And the answer is you can't. 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:25.000 There is no level of rock bottom that will universally make somebody move. 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:31.000 And so the only answer to the how do you make somebody actually feel pain is you can't. 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:37.000 The only thing you can do is try to make them aware of pain that they're feeling. 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:39.000 And the only way you can do that is storytelling. 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:43.000 The most powerful tool we have is narrative. 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:46.000 That is why we orient ourselves in tribes. 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:48.000 That is why we do stuff like this. 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:58.000 The uniqueness of the human narrative and story is unlike apes and chimpanzees and orangutans. 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:07.000 We have a story ethic that actually transcends the bifurcation of our species. 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:13.000 Whether you're from Latin America or you're from the United States or you're from Russia or you're from Asia. 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:26.000 Story and myth have a ubiquity in the human psyche that doesn't exist in any other species in existence as far as we're aware. 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:36.000 And so I think the most powerful thing we can do, if you really want to change the world, learn how to tell a good story. 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:53.000 If you can very quickly sum up why something hurts or why something is pleasurable or why something should be desired, you can move people closer to it or away from it. 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:57.000 And until you can do that, you can do nothing. 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:02.000 And so I think how do you solve the biggest problems in the world? Learn to tell stories. 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:11.000 So, Anton, you and you and me both, I mean, we were we've been friends on Facebook for it's got to be like a decade or so. 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:18.000 We've been trying to tell people about Bitcoin for who knows how long on on Facebook, trying to tell these stories. 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:25.000 Right. Like, I don't know about you, but I don't feel like I was very successful in that endeavor. 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:37.000 Well, you did the exact opposite. You tried to get every single person not worthy of it to unfollow you on Facebook for a decade. 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:40.000 Success. Yeah. 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:46.000 But OK, so the follow up question is, how do you tell the story correctly? 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:51.000 Because, JD, I love it. I think you're 100 percent on story is the key. 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:55.000 Narrative is the key. How do we tell the right narrative? 00:22:56.000 --> 00:23:07.000 How do we tell the right story that breaks this like these unbelievably ridiculous connections in people's minds to get them thinking correctly about the nature of reality and the nature of the world? 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:15.000 Practically, it's not like you don't even have to jump through these like spiritual hoops like evangelism, like as you do. 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:19.000 Like this is this is very practical. 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:23.000 What's the practical story that we can tell people? 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:29.000 And how do we tell it? I love it. 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:34.000 And I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:39.000 I'd love to tee this up and have you run with it. Sure. 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:40.000 Sure. 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:49.000 The way you get people to do something is you pick an emotion like story is all about emotion. 00:23:50.000 --> 00:24:00.000 And so I'd be curious, you're taking it and like how you break a dock or how you break down your storytelling process like and actually even more specifically, though, an emotion for an audience for a who. 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:02.000 Like, how do you kind of go to that? 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:11.000 How do you kind of go to that? Because, you know, everything I do from a marketing perspective, the first question I ask is who am I talking to and why am I talking to them? 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:20.000 Because until I have that answer to who, you know, the way I would talk to a king is different than the way I would talk to a slave. 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:23.000 And I'm using that as a very stark contrast. 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:35.000 But it's like talking to somebody who's in bondage versus somebody who imbues, you know, their own ethic on the world are two completely different methods of communication. 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:40.000 There are similarities, like they both understand pain and happiness and joy and pleasure. 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:42.000 But how you package it is a little different. 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:50.000 Like, how do you kind of solve the problem of pain or the problem of storytelling and your way of, you know, communicating? 00:24:53.000 --> 00:25:02.000 One of the biggest problems in the world is that people don't believe in themselves and they don't tell good stories about themselves. 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:10.000 People tend to be jealous of the people around them. 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:18.000 They're always looking around at the things that they don't have, comparing themselves to other people, and they're not satisfied with what they have. 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:30.000 In the context of good storytelling, there are universal truths or there is a universal truth and there are archetypes for storytelling. 00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:41.000 And so as a storyteller, you need to be true to the archetypes of storytelling. 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:48.000 But when it comes to you as a storyteller, your experience is unique. 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:54.000 So if you tell stories from your own experience, you have a good story to tell. 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:57.000 So you have to believe in yourself. 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:05.000 You have to give yourself credit and tell yourself that you are capable of really incredible things. 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:15.000 I personally believe, and I think this goes into what I was saying about the loss of values, the loss of etiquette in the United States. 00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:20.000 People don't believe that they can be in shape. 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:24.000 People don't believe that other people are going to like them. 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:32.000 And so they have this anger and this jealousy and they don't strive for great things personally. 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:43.000 And then they have these false stories that if they just got lucky or if they didn't get unlucky with some circumstance or somebody else got lucky. 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:46.000 And as Bitcoiners, this is something that we all face. 00:26:47.000 --> 00:27:00.000 We know the hard work that we put into getting Bitcoin, understanding Bitcoin, the years that we've put into studying Bitcoin and fostering relationships with other Bitcoiners. 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:06.000 And then let's say that the price of Bitcoin all of a sudden went to a million dollars and your friends knew that you had Bitcoin. 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:10.000 And they would say Bondor got so lucky or JD got so lucky. 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:21.000 If you can just understand that you are capable of great things yourself, you won't be looking at other people. 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:23.000 You'll be happy for your friends. 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:28.000 And in the context of storytelling, you have a great story to tell already. 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:34.000 You just have to believe in yourself, have a vision for yourself, tell a great story about yourself first. 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:39.000 And then you will be able to share a great story and it will make you attractive to other people. 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:46.000 I'd like to hear JD's take on this. 00:27:47.000 --> 00:28:02.000 How do you tell this story about fiat, about Bitcoin to somebody who just doesn't want to hear it, doesn't care, doesn't, you know, is looking, is a horse owner entering a world of cars? 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:14.000 You will never solve the problem of how much you are worth until you tell yourself you can. 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:25.000 Until you tell yourself you are capable or you are worthy of whatever it is you are doing or that you will succeed, you will always fail. 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:28.000 And that goes with your savings. 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:31.000 That goes with how you plan for retirement. 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:35.000 If you tell yourself you're going to have no money for retirement, you're absolutely right. 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:38.000 You're going to spend and you're not going to actually take yourself back. 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:41.000 What you tell yourself is what your subconscious does. 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:44.000 You always find what you're looking for. 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:47.000 So you know what the biggest problem in the world is? 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:50.000 Most people don't lie to themselves enough. 00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:52.000 Most people tell themselves they're fat. 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:53.000 Most people tell themselves that they're stupid. 00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:55.000 Most people tell themselves that they're unlucky. 00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:57.000 You know what? 00:28:58.000 --> 00:28:59.000 You will be. 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:03.000 Because at the end of the day, you find what you're looking for. 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:06.000 Sometimes you do have to lie to yourself. 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:09.000 And lying to yourself a little bit is actually not bad. 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:13.000 Lying to yourself to tell yourself that I can get in shape, even if you might not believe it a little bit. 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:19.000 Lying to yourself to tell yourself I can save that extra money, even when you know you have a little bit of a spending problem. 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:23.000 But if you start moving yourself in that direction, that's how you solve that problem. 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:33.000 And so solving the problem of fiat starts with the first thing of maybe I can trust Bitcoin a little bit, even if you don't trust it completely. 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:35.000 But just lying to yourself a little bit. 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:41.000 Because then you'll go search and you'll think, okay, well, if I am going to trust it, why? 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:46.000 And that, as soon as you ask your first question, that is when you can win. 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:49.000 You will never win until you get to your first unanswered question. 00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:52.000 And at that point in time, the race is on. 00:29:54.000 --> 00:30:02.000 This is a great episode of the show Radiolab from probably 2009 or 2010 called Deception. 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:07.000 And it's a great episode for many reasons. 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:09.000 It's a great episode for many reasons. 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.000 But one of the things that they go into in it is they talk to Olympic athletes. 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.000 And the Olympic athletes tell themselves, I am the greatest runner in the world. 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:22.000 I am the greatest person at this sport in the world. 00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:30.000 While they essentially deceive themselves into believing that they are capable of incredible athletic achievements. 00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:32.000 And then they're able to actually do them. 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:34.000 I mean, at that point, it's not deceiving yourself, right? 00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:39.000 Even in that, there's got to be a better way to frame it. 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:41.000 Just lie to yourself, bro. 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:43.000 It's good. 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:45.000 You're not in debt. 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:47.000 You're not in debt. 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:49.000 You're fine. 00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:52.000 I think that's a good, that's a wise reframe. 00:30:53.000 --> 00:31:00.000 So I think maybe the better way to frame this is one of the biggest problems in the world is people don't take enough chances. 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:03.000 People don't take enough chances in how they talk to themselves. 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.000 People don't dare themselves to be better. 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:09.000 They don't dare themselves to be skinny. 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:11.000 They don't dare themselves to do some research. 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:14.000 They don't dare themselves to do that big audacious thing. 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:16.000 And that's what you should do. 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:19.000 Because that's what elite athletes do, is they dare themselves to be better. 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:21.000 They dare themselves to be the best in the world. 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:24.000 They dare themselves and they dare their friends to be better. 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:31.000 The biggest problem in the world is one dare to yourself away from being solved. 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:37.000 I did phrase it as believe in yourself, not lie to yourself. 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:39.000 J.D. to the end. 00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:42.000 That was a little more negative. 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:48.000 Okay, so I feel like there's some progress here. 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:53.000 Now, again, there's another problem. 00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:57.000 How do you frame this? 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:00.000 You're like, oh, okay, believe in yourself, believe in yourself. 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:07.000 Well, the reason I don't believe in myself is because every time I try and do something, it just gets harder and harder. 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:14.000 I got this new job, but then they didn't give me a pay raise, but the cost of living is going up, and so I'm not making enough money. 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:18.000 That's just a fiat problem all over again. 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:22.000 We're back in the same treadmill of trying to solve the problem. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:28.000 Now, maybe this is just me in my own head being like, bro, you're not thinking about it right. 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:32.000 You got to believe in yourself and take a dare and try and think about it better. 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:38.000 But man, how do we get over the hoop? 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:51.000 Because as we were describing earlier, all the problems that we can see in the world have some input, which is money input, 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:57.000 which pollutes the nature, pollutes the well, pollutes the nature of how we can go about solving these problems, 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:05.000 including our own self-talk about what we think we're capable of doing, right? 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:11.000 So how do you jump through that quagmire? 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:15.000 Memento mori. 00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:19.000 Remember that you're going to die. 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:24.000 Money locks up time. 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.000 It is time put into a physical form. 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.000 That said, you're still going to die one day. 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:41.000 So remembering that you're going to die gives you an appreciation for what you have in the present, 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:47.000 and it gives you, if you frame it in the right way, a gratitude for what you have. 00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:52.000 You can visualize success for yourself and you can come up against roadblocks. 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:57.000 Or in the Christian framework, I like to think of seasons in life. 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:03.000 There's four seasons in the year, and autumn is great. 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:12.000 But when it slides into winter and you get that horrible weather time period and it just gets old after a while, it's getting dark all the time, 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:16.000 it can seem like it's going on forever. 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:20.000 And then you might get a little bit of spring going on and then it gets dark. 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:23.000 It's stormy and nasty again. 00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:25.000 Is winter ever going to end? 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:28.000 And then there's a new season. 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:32.000 However, you're going to die at some point in your life. 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:39.000 And so at some point, if you have time locked up in money, you also have to spend the money. 00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:41.000 And so it is a balance in life. 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:50.000 And the way that you learn how to do that balance is by pursuing wisdom, which is its own reward. 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:54.000 But it also takes a lot of hard work and discipline. 00:34:56.000 --> 00:35:01.000 So just remember that you're going to die and it will give you a greater appreciation for the time you have. 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:12.000 This reminds me of one of Tony Robbins' truisms or one of the phrases he says a lot, which is, 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:15.000 life doesn't happen to you. 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:18.000 Life happens for you. 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:25.000 And in the changing and the reframing of your perspective on your life, you could have, 00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:27.000 it's the worst day of my life. 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:28.000 It's the worst day of my life. 00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:31.000 Life is just completely dumping on me today. 00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:37.000 Or that's the life is happening to you perspective. 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:39.000 It's the worst day of my life, right? 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:43.000 Or life is happening for you perspective. 00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:45.000 This is a challenge. 00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:47.000 The Jocko Willink thing. 00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:49.000 Good. 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:50.000 This is the worst day of my life? 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:51.000 Good. 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:57.000 It's time to reload, to put together a better plan. 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:01.000 It's a time to think about what went wrong and fix it. 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:05.000 It's a time to re-engage, renegotiate. 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:10.000 Do the things that you think you couldn't do because it's the worst day of your life. 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:12.000 It can't get worse than this. 00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:16.000 So you're free to make choices and do things that you wouldn't otherwise do. 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:23.000 Anything you want to add, J.D.? 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:32.000 Sorry, I got a phone call and then it was, the service here is wildly terrible. 00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:35.000 To the whole world and to you guys. 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:45.000 Yeah, the, I had a verse a second ago. 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:53.000 But I think the most important thing you can do is remember that you're going to die. 00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:57.000 That is the most important thing you can do for yourself. 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:05.000 Because if you remember, recognize, you acknowledge that you do not have infinite time, 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:08.000 you will hopefully be spurred on to action. 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:12.000 And so I think that's the greatest gift you can give to yourself, 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:17.000 is remembering that you only have so much time and effort you can give to everyone you love and to yourself. 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:19.000 And so don't squander it. 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:25.000 And in not squandering it, remember that you are trading it every day for something. 00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:29.000 You could be trading for pleasure or you could be trading it for value. 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:35.000 And if you are trading it for value, try and gain an understanding of what is the bedrock of that value. 00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:38.000 Because if the bedrock of that value is something they call fiat, 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:47.000 which means it is a value that is derived out of something that is printed or created out of thin air by someone else, 00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:49.000 you're actually trading it for nothing. 00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:56.000 And so it might be a good idea to learn what fiat is and try to get something that isn't fiat. 00:37:57.000 --> 00:37:59.000 Because it'll be better for you and everyone else. 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:02.000 Yeah, that's the Jack Muller's thing, right? 00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:10.000 Like, don't spend your time working for something that another man can just print with a button. 00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:11.000 00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:14.000 Anton, you had some? 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:18.000 I'm thankful that we have Bitcoin. 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:25.000 There's a risk involved with putting your time and your effort into Bitcoin. 00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:27.000 And time's not infinite. 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:34.000 There's ways that you can frame it in your mind, like going to the Jocko Willink good thing. 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:40.000 Let's say that the price of Bitcoin is $1. 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:44.000 There's ways that you can frame it in your mind, like going to the Jocko Willink good thing. 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:56.000 Let's say that the price of Bitcoin were to fall and the price drops 25% tomorrow. 00:38:57.000 --> 00:38:59.000 And you hoped it just went up forever. 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:02.000 Well, you could be disappointed. 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:04.000 I just lost 25% of my money. 00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:13.000 If your belief is strong enough that Bitcoin is valuable and you know that fiat is just eroding over time, 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:21.000 and it's a one-way street to zero for fiat, that gives you more time to work. 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:26.000 You're going to get paid in fiat and to take that fiat and buy Bitcoin at a discount. 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:33.000 But your belief has to be pretty strong that Bitcoin is actually going to be worth more in the future. 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:41.000 Otherwise, if you haven't framed it correctly in your mind, you are going to be disappointed. 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:43.000 You're going to be depressed. 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:46.000 And so many things in life are that way. 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:51.000 If you have wisdom, if you've put in the work to know what you truly believe, 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:58.000 then you will not be as disappointed when there's little bumps in the road. 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:02.000 You can actually look at them as opportunities or as learning experiences. 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:07.000 But you have to make the decision to have that perspective ahead of time. 00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:13.000 And a lot of people don't make that decision as life is happening to them. 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:15.000 If something good happens, they're happy. 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:17.000 If something bad happens, they're sad. 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:20.000 And they have this negative outlook. 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:26.000 And so things get weighted to the depressing, disappointed side. 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:33.000 And people, as they get older, some people just get more and more pessimistic and grumpy and disgruntled. 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:40.000 And then some people, those rare people, their joy actually increases as their wisdom increases, 00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:43.000 even though they're getting older and getting closer to death. 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:50.000 Personally, I want to be more like the person who, as I get older, my joy and my peace increases. 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:52.000 And that is a choice. 00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:58.000 The greatest... 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:08.000 The biggest problem in the world is people remaining ignorant 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:14.000 when they know they can take the time to educate themselves so they don't fall for everything. 00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:17.000 Maybe there's a better way to say that is... 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:22.000 If something doesn't feel right, and you don't try and rectify it, you are at fault. 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:28.000 And I think that's one of the biggest problems in the world is people feel like everything is off. 00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:36.000 People feel that everything is just not right when it comes to their money. 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:38.000 They feel that the stock market is manipulated. 00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:41.000 They feel that they're being manipulated. 00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:44.000 They feel that everything is just not right when it comes to their money. 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:46.000 They feel that the stock market is manipulated. 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:49.000 They feel that they're not earning enough interest on their bank account. 00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:51.000 They feel that interest rates are high. 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:56.000 They feel that the real estate market is upside down. 00:41:57.000 --> 00:41:58.000 And what they're feeling is true. 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:00.000 What they're feeling is correct. 00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:02.000 But what they keep being told by the media is, 00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:04.000 Oh, everything's fine. Everything's fine. Everything's fine. 00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:06.000 They keep being told by their president is everything's fine. 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:08.000 They keep being told by their brokers and their investment bankers is, 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:10.000 Oh, everything's fine. 00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:12.000 Everything's fine. 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:14.000 Nothing has been fine since 1913 when they got the Federal Reserve. 00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:18.000 And everything's been even worse since 1971 when they got off the gold standard. 00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:21.000 The house is on fire. 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:23.000 Everybody can feel it. Everybody can smell it. 00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:28.000 But the problem is the media and everybody else is telling you to go back to sleep. 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:32.000 And if you do that, you're going to burn down in this house. 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:34.000 And you will be the only one to blame. 00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:40.000 So it's probably a good idea for you to figure out what's going on and why. 00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:44.000 Because if you don't, you are the only one to blame. 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:49.000 Like Bondor says, the move is to attack. 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:55.000 And when it comes to wearing shorts on an airplane, 00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:58.000 trimming your fingernails, picking up litter, 00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:02.000 not getting drunk and cussing in front of children in a restaurant, 00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:04.000 you can't control what other people do. 00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:08.000 You can't control that society is breaking down around you. 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.000 You cannot make other people behave. 00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:14.000 But what you can do is you can make a choice in your own life 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:17.000 to live in the best way possible, 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:21.000 the way that you know is the way that you should be living. 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:24.000 And you can do the same thing financially 00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:28.000 by learning about Bitcoin, investing in Bitcoin, 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:30.000 even if nobody else does it. 00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:33.000 You can choose to do it yourself. 00:43:33.000 --> 00:43:37.000 So that is the way that you solve the world's problems. 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:39.000 You don't solve them for everybody else. 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:41.000 You solve them for yourself. 00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:43.000 Yeah. 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:47.000 When I have these conversations online, 00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:53.000 it's like you see these people appealing to politics. 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:55.000 Well, Trump will be able to fix this for us. 00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:57.000 So-and-so will be able to fix this for us. 00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:00.000 As long as we can just vote, as long as we can just do this or that. 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:04.000 The other thing like that will never solve the problem. 00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:07.000 The biggest problem in the world in many ways 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:10.000 is just thinking that you don't have to take responsibility 00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:14.000 for the actions that affect your life. 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:17.000 And the thing with Bitcoin and the thing with fiat 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.000 is that so many things in your life are affected by money. 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:25.000 And when the money is devaluing, your life is devalued. 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:28.000 So you personally right now today, 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.000 you don't have to wait for a politician to say it's okay. 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:32.000 You don't have to vote. You don't have to do anything. 00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:35.000 You can just convert your entire life into Bitcoin 00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:39.000 and just stop having that problem. 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:44.000 Yeah, we're all waiting for the world to go on a Bitcoin standard. 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:50.000 But what you can do right now is you can go on a personal Bitcoin standard. 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:52.000 You have the ability to do that. 00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:56.000 It's amazing because I know for a fact that you have been living that way. 00:44:56.000 --> 00:45:00.000 And so many people are debating the future 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:06.000 and not realizing that they can be living in the future for themselves. 00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:09.000 They don't have to wait for everybody else to do it. 00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:11.000 It's a mindset. 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:15.000 We are living in a world that's dominated by horses. 00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:19.000 And you can go buy a car right now very cheap, right? 00:45:20.000 --> 00:45:22.000 You just be the one guy on your block who has a car, right? 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:24.000 You can just do that. 00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:27.000 And you can buy a fraction of a car too, which is just crazy. 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:29.000 Here we are. 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:32.000 But the people don't care. 00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:34.000 That's the meme. 00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:39.000 But the people are retarded. 00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:41.000 Yes. 00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:49.000 One problem that I've been trying to figure out in my own mind 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:58.000 is the problem of accepting Bitcoin as payment for goods and services. 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:03.000 I remember probably 2018. 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:10.000 I work freelance and I put on my invoices that I would give my clients a 25% discount 00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:14.000 on what I was charging them if they would pay me in Bitcoin. 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:18.000 I bet you can guess how many of them paid me in Bitcoin. 00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:20.000 Zero. 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:24.000 And I've thought about the same thing with, let's say you want to open a small business. 00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:30.000 Let's say you wanted to, okay, in LA right now, everywhere across the city 00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:33.000 are taco vendors on the side of the street. 00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:37.000 They don't have, they have not passed health code. 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:40.000 They are cash only. 00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:44.000 I'm pretty sure that they're getting food stamps, going to Costco, 00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:48.000 buying all the meat and making pure profit. 00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:55.000 What if you did the same thing minus the unethical thing of taking the food stamps, 00:46:56.000 --> 00:47:01.000 but you try to run a business profitably, but you only would sell to people 00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:03.000 if they paid you in Bitcoin. 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:05.000 I'm curious what you guys think. 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:08.000 How do we bridge that gap? 00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:14.000 No one would ever buy. 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:16.000 Not right now. 00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:18.000 Not right now. 00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:21.000 I'd love to hear JD's thoughts on this. 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:26.000 It's an interesting thought experiment because that's the basic premise 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:28.000 behind the Bitcoin treasury company. 00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:35.000 Take out a whole bunch of debt, buy Bitcoin, sit on it, speculative attack. 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:40.000 That's all you're doing with the, if you were to take, 00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:44.000 even if you were to go to the extreme, like you said, don't do, 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:50.000 but if you were to take the EBT and then sell that, 00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:54.000 so you got free meat and then you go to the street and you sell it, 00:47:55.000 --> 00:48:00.000 and you sell it for Bitcoin, you're just taking on somebody else's debt, 00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:03.000 which is EBT, and you're buying Bitcoin for yourself. 00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:06.000 It's just a speculative attack all over again. 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:11.000 There's way more efficient ways to do that, but in terms of your deeper question, 00:48:11.000 --> 00:48:17.000 the better question, which is how do you actually bring Bitcoin into a world 00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:23.000 as a circular economy, as part of your everyday life and business? 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:28.000 I mean, for me personally, the way I think about it is 00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:33.000 fiat is just rails system right now. 00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:35.000 Right now I have a credit card. 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:38.000 I'll swipe my credit card and then I'll go to my credit card statement, 00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:40.000 which will go to my bank. 00:48:41.000 --> 00:48:44.000 But I just sell Bitcoin to pay for that. 00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:48.000 So it's just a rails system. 00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:51.000 I'm not saving any money in my bank. 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:54.000 I don't have any debt on my credit card. 00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:58.000 This is just the system that gets swipe, swipe, swipe, gets you all the way through. 00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:08.000 I've been thinking about if you had a coffee shop 00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:11.000 and I live in Los Angeles. 00:49:12.000 --> 00:49:14.000 If you had a coffee shop in Los Angeles, 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:18.000 if you were to go register with the city, 00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:24.000 you would have to pay taxes on the business itself. 00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:30.000 If you own the building, you're going to pay property taxes on the building. 00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:33.000 There's all kinds of regulations for, I don't know, 00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:37.000 if you have to get a food and beverage license to do coffee or not. 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:39.000 But I was thinking, 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:43.000 what if you just got a little cart and you went to the beach 00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:46.000 and you just pulled up on the side of the road 00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:48.000 and you put up a sign and you said, 00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:50.000 we only accept Bitcoin. 00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:52.000 I bet that you, 00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:55.000 especially if you started in an Instagram or something, 00:49:56.000 --> 00:49:59.000 you marketed it so that other Bitcoiners knew where to find you. 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.000 And let's say you did it just on the weekends or something. 00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:06.000 So it's not like your main business model. 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:09.000 You still have to buy the coffee cups. 00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:11.000 You got to buy the beans. 00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:13.000 You got to make the trailer. 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:15.000 You got to pay for the gas. 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:17.000 You have to have a car that can tow it out. 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:19.000 There's a lot of expenses involved in doing that. 00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:22.000 And so it's doable. 00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:24.000 It's absolutely doable. 00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:28.000 But you have an inherent cash flow problem. 00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:31.000 And especially if the price of Bitcoin started to dip 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:33.000 or something like that. 00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:34.000 Bitcoin treasury companies, 00:50:35.000 --> 00:50:38.000 it's the same thing times a hundred for them. 00:50:41.000 --> 00:50:43.000 Do you guys think I'm missing something here? 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:47.000 A little bit. 00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:49.000 I think here's the biggest thing. 00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:53.000 Bitcoin is currently an insurance product. 00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:56.000 Like people are not using it as rails, 00:50:57.000 --> 00:50:58.000 as Bondo was saying. 00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:00.000 So I think that the better way to think here is the, 00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:01.000 or rather, 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:05.000 I would posit a way I would try to break this problem down is 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:09.000 the goal in sales is not to make demand. 00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:11.000 It's to channel it. 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:15.000 And so finding the beach where there's an inordinate amount of coiners 00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:17.000 is where that kind of coffee shop would work. 00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:21.000 The same thing is true with storytelling. 00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:25.000 You're not trying to 00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:27.000 make people want an escape 00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:29.000 when you're creating a Netflix 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:31.000 or a streaming platform. 00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:33.000 You're trying to provide an escape 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:36.000 from what people already want to escape from. 00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:38.000 People already get home from work and they're tired. 00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:40.000 They already get home from work 00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:42.000 and they just want to check out their brains. 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.000 Feeling that desire for rest, 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:47.000 for Sabbath. 00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:49.000 Unfortunately, it bastardized 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:51.000 because we were called for Sabbath. 00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:53.000 We were called to take a break. 00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:55.000 But we have 00:51:57.000 --> 00:51:59.000 learned that the best way to take a break 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:01.000 is to fuel an addiction for dopamine 00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:03.000 because that's what these shows 00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:05.000 and that's what content does. 00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:08.000 And so the biggest problem in the world that we have right now 00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:10.000 is we are addicted to 00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:12.000 the symptoms of the Fiat culture. 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:14.000 That is dopamine. 00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:16.000 That is caffeine. 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:18.000 That is, you know, sedatives. 00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:20.000 That is uppers and downers and alcohol and stuff. 00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:22.000 The only way to break yourself free 00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:24.000 is to gain an understanding of that. 00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:26.000 Is to realize pharmaceuticals 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:28.000 are not going to make you skinny. 00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:30.000 Your habit changes are. 00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:32.000 Is to realize, you know, taking on debt 00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:34.000 is not going to help you get out of debt. 00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:36.000 Your habits of spending money in a relationship with money is. 00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:39.000 And realize that voting harder 00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:41.000 is not going to solve any of your problems. 00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:43.000 Your relationship 00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:45.000 with your cultural understanding 00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:47.000 of your government system, 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:49.000 i.e. the monetary value that 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:51.000 they are requiring of you in tax 00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:54.000 and that you are giving them in taxes 00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:57.000 is the root of everything. 00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:00.000 And so the way you fix the world 00:53:01.000 --> 00:53:03.000 is you fix the way the world values things 00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:06.000 and the way that the world values things is money. 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:08.000 And the only way to fix that 00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:11.000 is to help people gain an understanding of 00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:14.000 valuing their time and 00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:17.000 their insurance policy for their retirement 00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:19.000 is actually not an insurance policy. 00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:21.000 It's a sinking ship. 00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:23.000 It's broken. 00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:26.000 And you just think it's your life raft. 00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:29.000 Your life raft is the Titanic, guys. 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:32.000 It's probably time to find a better one. 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:39.000 So the title of this episode is 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:41.000 What is the biggest problem in the world 00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:43.000 and why aren't you solving it? 00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:46.000 Right. For all three of us, 00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:48.000 the biggest problem in the world is fiat. 00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:49.000 And we are attempting to solve that problem 00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:53.000 via Bitcoin and producing Bitcoin content 00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:55.000 and putting ourselves out there as Bitcoiners 00:53:56.000 --> 00:53:57.000 being like, yo, you guys, 00:53:58.000 --> 00:53:59.000 you can just use Bitcoin. 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:01.000 You don't have to use fiat. 00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:03.000 So we're trying to solve the problem. 00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:06.000 Now, JD, I think you just had a really awesome point, 00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:10.000 which was about the desires out there. 00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:14.000 What you want to do is you want to channel 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:18.000 the desire or take it 00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:21.000 and push it towards where you want it to go. 00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:25.000 Now, when you just look at social media, 00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:27.000 when you look at the news, 00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:29.000 when you look at all that stuff, 00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:32.000 it's bonkers how much desire is out there. 00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:35.000 You can look, it's like almost every post. 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:38.000 You could scroll up millions and millions of posts 00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:40.000 and almost every single one of them 00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:44.000 will be a problem about somebody's life, 00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:48.000 about why they hate the world 00:54:49.000 --> 00:54:50.000 or whatever the thing is, 00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:52.000 what the problem is that they're going through. 00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:54.000 The standard refrain is, what happened? 00:54:55.000 --> 00:54:56.000 Why is it like this? 00:54:57.000 --> 00:54:58.000 That's the standard refrain now, right? 00:54:59.000 --> 00:55:01.000 From Bitcoin's perspective, 00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:03.000 we're just like, it's fiat. 00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:05.000 The reason that it's like that is fiat. 00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:07.000 So the question is, how do we, 00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:09.000 as people trying to solve this problem, 00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:13.000 how do we channel the desire, 00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:16.000 which is absolutely there, 00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:19.000 towards the actual solution, which is Bitcoin? 00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:24.000 What can we do to actually facilitate 00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:26.000 the cultural change that needs to happen, 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:28.000 the narrative that needs to happen, 00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:30.000 the story that needs to happen 00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:32.000 that opens up that pathway for people? 00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:40.000 One thing that you can do to change the world 00:55:41.000 --> 00:55:42.000 is to build. 00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:47.000 If you are a person who has a great idea 00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:50.000 of something implementing Bitcoin, 00:55:51.000 --> 00:55:53.000 you can just make things. 00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:57.000 But if you're not the type of person 00:55:58.000 --> 00:55:59.000 who has technical knowledge 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:02.000 and you just want to use Bitcoin 00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:07.000 as a savings standard, that's fine too. 00:56:08.000 --> 00:56:09.000 If you want to use it like an IRA 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:11.000 and you know that it's going to increase in value over time 00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:13.000 and that gives you some peace of mind, 00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:17.000 that also makes you a value to the world. 00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:20.000 And I just want to encourage you, 00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:23.000 if you feel like you're caught up 00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:27.000 in the hamster wheel, the rat race of life, 00:56:27.000 --> 00:56:30.000 and you know that you have something 00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:32.000 to offer to the world, 00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:35.000 but you just have to spend all your time 00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:37.000 just thinking about how to survive, 00:56:38.000 --> 00:56:39.000 how to just do your job, 00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:42.000 make enough money to pay your bills, 00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:44.000 I just want to encourage you 00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:46.000 to believe in yourself 00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:50.000 and do the thing that you know you were made to do. 00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:53.000 Because you are capable of doing it. 00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:56.000 And if you take the risk to take the time 00:56:57.000 --> 00:56:58.000 to think through it, 00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:00.000 get a pen and paper, write out a plan, 00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:03.000 you will succeed. 00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:06.000 Even if success looks a little different 00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:08.000 than what you imagine, 00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:10.000 taking the risk 00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:13.000 and doing something that you know 00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:16.000 in your heart that you are capable of doing, 00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:18.000 you will succeed. 00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:21.000 Other people may not be telling you that 00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:25.000 because they are infected with jealousy. 00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:27.000 They are infected with a fear. 00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:29.000 They don't have faith in themselves. 00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:31.000 They have doubt. 00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:33.000 Who cares? 00:57:34.000 --> 00:57:36.000 You have the capability of doing great things. 00:57:37.000 --> 00:57:38.000 If you're listening to us 00:57:39.000 --> 00:57:40.000 and if you're interested in Bitcoin, 00:57:41.000 --> 00:57:43.000 you probably have a pretty high intelligence. 00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:45.000 So go out there 00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:47.000 and make the thing that you want to make. 00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:49.000 Tell the story that you want to tell. 00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:59.000 Every risk is rewarded. 00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:02.000 But not every reward is monetary. 00:58:03.000 --> 00:58:06.000 I think sometimes we get so caught up in the 00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:08.000 I don't want to fail 00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:10.000 because I don't want to lose money 00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:12.000 or lose friends or lose out on something. 00:58:13.000 --> 00:58:14.000 You're not losing anything. 00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:16.000 You're getting insight. You're getting knowledge. 00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:18.000 You know, Dyson 00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:21.000 did I believe like 900 attempts at the Dyson vacuum 00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:24.000 before he made his first successful piece of hardware. 00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:26.000 Edison was hundreds, 00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:28.000 if not thousands of attempts at the light bulb. 00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:31.000 If you have something you want to go build, 00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:33.000 go do it and know along the way 00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:35.000 you're going to fail. 00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:37.000 But that's just part of the process. 00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:39.000 So if you want to solve the biggest problem in the world, 00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:41.000 just keep going. 00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:43.000 Yeah. 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:46.000 And theoretical knowledge will only get you so far. 00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:48.000 You have to try and fail. 00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:50.000 Failure 00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:52.000 will teach you lessons 00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:54.000 and it will help you iterate 00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:56.000 because if you're only trying, 00:58:57.000 --> 00:58:58.000 you won't iterate at all. 00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:00.000 It'll all be stuck in your head forever. 00:59:01.000 --> 00:59:02.000 You have to try. 00:59:03.000 --> 00:59:04.000 You might fail a little bit. 00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:06.000 But you will make the thing 00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:08.000 that you're trying to make 00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:10.000 better and better and better 00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:12.000 and you will gain knowledge 00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:14.000 that you can never gain with 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:16.000 just thinking about things theoretically. 00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:19.000 Don't let your ideas get stuck in your brain. 00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:21.000 Go out into the real world and try. 00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:23.000 Okay. 00:59:24.000 --> 00:59:25.000 So what I'm hearing, 00:59:26.000 --> 00:59:27.000 and I love this answer, 00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:29.000 is that to solve real problems, 00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:32.000 you have to build real solutions. 00:59:33.000 --> 00:59:34.000 You can't just sit there 00:59:35.000 --> 00:59:36.000 and postulate about it or whatever. 00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:38.000 You literally have to build something, 00:59:39.000 --> 00:59:40.000 create a company, create a product, 00:59:41.000 --> 00:59:42.000 create a movie or a film 00:59:43.000 --> 00:59:44.000 or whatever the thing is, 00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:46.000 but you have to go out and you have to do it. 00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:48.000 You can't just be like, 00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:50.000 well, I'm just going to postulate about it. 00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:52.000 JD, did you have a different answer to that? 00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:54.000 Or is that kind of like 00:59:55.000 --> 00:59:56.000 you're just 100% on board with that too? 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:01.000 Shoot, did we just lose JD? 01:00:03.000 --> 01:00:04.000 I can hear him. 01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:06.000 There we go. 01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:08.000 No, I was just going to say 01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:10.000 a podcast. Go make a podcast. 01:00:11.000 --> 01:00:12.000 Oh, yeah. Go make a podcast. 01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:14.000 Yeah, go make a podcast. 01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:16.000 Don't let those haters 01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:18.000 tell you not to. 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:23.000 We're getting better at this by doing it. 01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:25.000 That's for sure. 01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:27.000 Yeah, that's true. 01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:29.000 So, you know, 01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:31.000 we just sat around and brainstormed a podcast 01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:33.000 for the last year. 01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:35.000 We definitely wouldn't be any better at podcasting. 01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:37.000 We wouldn't know anything. 01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:39.000 Yeah. 01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:41.000 And I think actually to that end, 01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:43.000 I think the most important thing 01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:45.000 we did when it came to doing this 01:00:46.000 --> 01:00:47.000 is we just picked a goal 01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:49.000 and that goal is 100 episodes. 01:00:49.000 --> 01:00:50.000 So hopefully, you know, 01:00:51.000 --> 01:00:52.000 we could do 100 episodes 01:00:53.000 --> 01:00:54.000 and be like, damn, that was a terrible idea. 01:00:55.000 --> 01:00:56.000 But you know what? We learned something. 01:00:57.000 --> 01:00:58.000 We learned how to formulate our thoughts. 01:00:59.000 --> 01:01:00.000 We learned how to be better 01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:02.000 at articulating ourselves. 01:01:03.000 --> 01:01:04.000 We learned how to, you know, 01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:06.000 how to do streaming 01:01:07.000 --> 01:01:08.000 in a world that really needs it. 01:01:09.000 --> 01:01:10.000 But at the end of the day, we built. 01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:12.000 And there's a lot of failure. 01:01:13.000 --> 01:01:14.000 There's a lot of bad episodes, guys. 01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:16.000 God, there's a lot of bad episodes. 01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:18.000 I'm also talking inside. 01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:20.000 I'm so sorry. 01:01:21.000 --> 01:01:22.000 But you know what? We're building 01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:24.000 and we're learning and we're doing. 01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:26.000 And I just encourage you guys to go 01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:28.000 because even if you're building in hard times, 01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:30.000 you're going to learn something every time. 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:32.000 All right, guys. 01:01:33.000 --> 01:01:34.000 I think with that, we should call it quits. 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:36.000 I got to get out of here. 01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:39.000 Anton, JD, always a pleasure. 01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:41.000 Unless there's any last words, 01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:43.000 I'm going to call it here. 01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:45.000 Don't let your dreams be dreams. 01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:47.000 And buy big ones. 01:01:47.000 --> 01:01:48.000 Love it, JD. 01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:50.000 Cheers, guys. 01:01:51.000 --> 01:01:52.000 All right. Peace. 01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:18.000 Peace.