WEBVTT - Fourth Turning, Parallel Systems, Energy Dependency, and Great Reset | Marty Bent 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.480 You know, if you've looked at big cycles and things 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.560 like you know, the fourth Turning for example, right, you 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:08.200 can see how like the generation that we have today, 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:12.280 obviously being shaped by those experiences, has a distrust for 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:16.439 these legacy institutions, the centralized institutions. It's a very like 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:18.439 insiders club, and if you're not in it, you're not 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.680 going to be able to do anything to change that system. 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.600 So that pin provides a system in which you can 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:27.560 build in parallel and build a competing financial system and 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:31.680 arguably like a system through which to coordinate economic activity. 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.559 People are out there building a parallel system. They're not 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.400 living in fear like, they're just out there doing it. 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:42.760 The statistics on the CDC website it is acidine that 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.239 we're forcing children to wear a mask. A bitcoin waste energy, Well, 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.720 what's a waste Like one man's trash is another men's treasure, 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.880 isn't it to measure value throughout economy? You you distort 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:58.320 economic decisions, particularly capital allocation can So it's a good 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.600 argument to be made because we've the money by going 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:07.680 off of sound monetary standard and completely detaching ourselves one 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.880 just printing money out of nothing, pretending like there's going 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.360 to be no consequences that you have a massive miss 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:17.600 allocation of capital. Well, a tensions ineering and all time high, 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.360 and the fears of the dollars reset, a currency collapse, 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.400 and the Great Reset are all looming. Of course, people's 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.360 feelings of fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the future are 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.720 running at all time highs. But there is hope. There's 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.360 a new system that's being built in parallels, being built 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.240 alongside the legacy system, and it's attracting some of the 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.360 smartest people in the world to come and build, to 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.520 transact and conduct business. Now, today I'm sitting down with 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.760 Marty ben to spearheading a movement to fix some of 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:50.320 these legacy systems that are broken, including education, energy, and 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.960 even the environment. Now we discuss a wide range of topics, 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.000 including how the events of nine eleven and the great 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.720 financial crash of two thousand and eight really shaped the 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.320 worldview of these young adults, how the legacy systems have 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.680 evolved to work against people's best interests, and how by 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.720 fixing the pricing system of the world, we can fix 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.440 almost everything else. Now, there's so much good stuff that 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.000 we covered here, So let's just go ahead and just 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:14.959 jump right into it with Marty. Hey, everyone, welcome to 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.560 another episode of the Market Disruptor Show. And today I'm 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.640 sitting down with Marty Bent. He is the host of 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.680 the Tales from the Crypt podcast and he's also director 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:27.000 of business development for Great American Mining. Um. He's a 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:31.320 lover of liberty, a patriot, and a freedom maximalist, will say, 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.680 And so I want to dig into some conversations. Episode 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.720 ex had to have you, Marty, Thanks for joining, Thanks 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.760 for having me Mark, I'm excited for this conversation. Yeah. So, um, 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.000 you know, as I was kind of saying before, you know, 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:44.560 you know, seeing that content you're putting out, which is 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.440 a lot obviously hosting the Tales from the Crypt podcast, 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.680 And I know you write the newsletter. You've been doing 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.639 that for a long time. Um, and I think, uh so, anyway, 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.000 I've been falling for a long time. Why don't you 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:56.920 just tell everybody else kind of like what you're working 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:58.520 on so they get an idea before we kind of 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.840 dig into this. Yeah, So the podcast, it was an 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.040 extension of the newsletter. So I started the newsletter Martys 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:09.800 Bent around this time in seventeen June seventeen so about 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.120 almost four years ago, exactly less than months, three years 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:18.160 and eleven months ago. And I started that because I 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:22.000 was known throughout my friend and family group as the 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.480 the bitcoin guy, because I'd been falling down the bitcoin 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:29.320 rabbit hole since when I was in college. And around 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.160 that time, in twenty seventeen, the price of bitcoin was 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:32.960 going up, the price of all coins was going up, 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.280 and everybody in my immediate circle was like, all right, Marty, 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.120 what the hell is going on here? And it was 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.520 just the deluge of text and emails calls, and I 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.240 was like, all right, this is getting overwhelming. I'm gonna 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.360 write this daily newsletter. Marty's bent to in and date 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.280 you with a little bit of bitcoin information, day by day, 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.000 daily newsletter, five days a week. So it started out 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:56.040 as that, and I started posting the newsletter to Twitter 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:57.760 with links, like all right, I'm gonna send this my 0:03:57.760 --> 0:03:59.800 family and friends. Let's see if the Twitter verse likes 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.240 it took on a life of its own. Got introduced 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.920 to a gentleman at Barstool Sports, the big media company 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.360 here in the Northeast, and it was talking to him, 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.760 introduced him to my newsletter. We were talking about bitcoin, 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.600 and he convinced me to start Tales from the Crypto podcast. 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:21.839 So that started, I believe early September late August, and 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.120 again that was an extension of podcast. People were liking 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.240 the written content, and so I started Tales from the 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.120 crypt to give them some audio content and to introduce 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.280 them to people building in the bitcoin space and whether 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:37.239 it be code at the protocol level, apps and building 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:42.000 theses around the economics innovation around bitcoin as well in 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.119 the monetary revolution that it that it presents the world. 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.839 So I did that for a time and then around 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.320 the beginning of eighteen a goat introduced the team at 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.719 Great American Mining. They told me what they were doing 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.799 with their mining operation. I was working up our stool 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:02.960 full time at that that point, selling podcast advertising UH 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.480 to two Barstool's network and using their studios after hours 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.880 to record Tales in the crypt and decided UH that 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:11.960 I wanted to come. Even though working for barstool is 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:13.839 a really cool experience, it's something that a lot of 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.320 the new asset as well. Lots of ways you can 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.880 do this. UM and Block five is the company that 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.400 I recommend. Down in the description, I have a link 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:24.080 that you can click on if you choose to use 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:25.560 that link. You can earn up the two U fifty 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.200 dollars in bitcoin just for using that link, So check 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:32.360 out block Fine. Now, men my age particularly would killed 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.919 to be in that position. But I was truly just 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:39.120 drawn towards bitcoin and Grant American Mining presented an opportunity 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.760 to go work full time outside the podcast and the 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:46.520 newsletter on bitcoin. They sort of jumped at the opportunity. Uh, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:50.640 and here we are today. Grant American Mining was I 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.000 wouldn't say quasi stealth mode for for a couple of 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:57.000 years until we nailed down our exact path towards scalability, 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.599 finding abundant and cheap energy. And we've been uh moving 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.320 pretty quickly over the course of the last year, particularly 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.840 to to scale up our operations and um, good mind 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.200 as much big horn as possible. So yeah, I have 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.839 a weird career or weird uh way of making money 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.840 right now, which is writing a daily newsletter, have this podcast, 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.640 and I work for this mining company as well. Yeah, 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.400 well it's not weird. That's how that's how it's done 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:28.960 these days, right, that's the world. The world's changed. So um, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.279 you know it's interesting and I guess it's not weird 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.159 necessary from our perspective, but maybe from the outside looking 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.880 at it is. But it almost seems like um and 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.000 you could probably talk to this, but like in the 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.880 hand around novel of you know, Atlas Shrugged or in 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.480 the movie if you've seen it, you know, where it's 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.200 like all the productive people in the world where like 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:50.120 disappearing to go like start this like new system. And 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.480 it seems like we've seen like this mind shared like 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.840 all moving towards like this new technology, which I guess 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.440 isn't that um alarming. A new technology attracts all the 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.799 best people. So whether that was the Internet or whatever 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.440 it was, UM, and so it's attracting all these people. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.120 But I think, and I'd like to get your opinion 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.000 on this, but it seems like maybe it's like the 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.000 bait and switch where they come for the tech or 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:16.320 they come for the for the money, UM, but then 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.680 when they learn what it really is, it kind of 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.280 changes their mind and they just start seeing the world 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.880 differently and they start seeing like solutions differently two problems 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:29.200 and stuff. I completely agree and from it, I mean, 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.960 many bitcoiners will say they had the same trajectory, but 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.720 I did as well. Speak for myself. I was working 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.200 at a managed futures fund in Chicago. I studied economics 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:41.480 in college and intern at this managed futures fund in 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:45.560 the West Loop and UM basically part of that job 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.480 as an analyst, we we were actually a fund of funds, 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.960 So we index commodity trading advisors into a fund of funds, 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:56.360 and many of those indexes across the business that we 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.280 went out and sold to two investors. And part of 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.560 that was doing due diligence on the c tas that 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.960 we index and then their trading strategies. And part of 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.240 that due diligence was understanding how markets were moving and 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.800 the markets that c t a s trade, particularly or 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:15.720 commodities markets, currency markets, equities, futures, any futures market you 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.960 can think of. And so that entailed me following central 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:24.080 bank announcements how currency exchange rates were fluctuating throughout time 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:31.080 based off of UM, macro economic factors, central bank policies, YadA, YadA, YadA, 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:37.000 and and just through that process alone, a really at 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.000 a young age came to realize that these experts, particularly 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.720 the central banks are bankers, really didn't have any idea 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.160 of what they were doing they sort of just throwing 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:46.840 ship at the wall to see what sticks, and that 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:48.920 really didn't sit well with me. And at the same time, 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.120 I was discovering bitcoin in my free time while still 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.760 in college and learning about monetary policy. I think literally 0:08:55.800 --> 0:09:00.520 stumbled into bitcoin just randomly googling obscure monetary policy or 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.680 something like that and stumbling upon people talking about bitcoin's 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:08.479 perfect monetary policy inforums on the Internet. And the juxtaposition 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:13.360 of the transparency of the Bitcoin ledger and its monetary policy, uh, 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.600 next to what Janet Yelling uh at the time, who 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.000 was ched FED chairman when I was working at this fund, 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:25.199 was doing, and how the markets were basically moving based 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.320 off of the color of the jacket that she wore 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.559 during press conferences and stuff like that, and everything they 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.520 were doing was very non transparent, uh. And so that 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.280 juxtaposition is what drove me, and this sort of stability 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.959 and transparency of Bitcoin's monetary policy compared to what Jane 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.480 and Yelling and crew we're throwing out there. And so yeah, 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.560 I came into it just from a purely geek perspective 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.920 of this is like a unique sound monetary system experiment. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.880 And then as you mentioned, as you dig deeper and 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.880 you understand the distributed nature of the protocol, how it's 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.559 geographically distributed, how proof of work works, how you come 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:08.320 to consensus in the ledger, and how UM and how 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.720 it enables individuals to to make transactions and ap pear 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.760 ap pear fashion. You go, WHOA, this is actually bigger 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.199 than money. It is it is a way to coordinate 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.800 and coordinate directly with with other peers that can't be censored, 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.280 and that is something that is desperately needed in this 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.080 day and age. And so that's that's how I fell down, 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.360 and I was radicalized before that, I think I was 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.120 searching for something like bitcoin, being seventeen in two thousand 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.200 and eight when the Great Financial Crisis went down, UM 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:41.720 and really diving into the TARP bill with the professor 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.280 and that I had in high school. When I was 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.000 going down, it was like, this is messed up. Um, 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.360 I'm a child at nine eleven and going through that 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.440 whole experience, and it's coming to find that maybe the 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.760 pretenses for going to war with Iraq where we're fabricated 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:59.720 and just really a lot of distrust in the the 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:04.240 expert class and the traditional system, and Bitcoin provides an 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:09.199 incredible way to escape the tyranny of this very i 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.040 would say evil system. At the end of the day, 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.000 it may not be overtly evil in the in the 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.960 sense that the people running it have evil plans, but 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:22.320 their implementation on their plans turns out to have evil consequences. Yeah, 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.720 some interesting things that you said there, if we can unpack. 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:28.160 But um, the last kind of part just kind of 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.520 mentioning that you know, child of nine eleven and the 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.439 great financial crash of two thousand and eight, etcetera. And 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.880 it's you know, it's interesting. Yeah, it's it's not surprising 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.200 if you're paying attention. But um, you know, growing up 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.960 under those different circumstances of course shapes your worldview and 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.079 so um, you know, if you've looked at big cycles 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.520 and things like you know, the fourth Turning for example, right, 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.280 you can see how like the generation that we have today, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:57.360 obviously being shaped by those experiences, has a distrust for 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.520 these legacy institutions, these centralized institutions. Um, but also want 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.280 to enact change, which is, you know, one thing and 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.360 then we have a brand new technology, which of course 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.280 a younger generation kind of grabs onto as well. So 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.840 it's like definitely we have like the catalyst for like 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:16.760 major change right now. Um. But I would say going 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.000 back to kind of what you're saying about, looking at 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.400 the Central Bank and the Federal Reserve and um, the 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.000 Fiat money system and like the centralized you know, legacy 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:30.480 system of Fiat money, and it's really started to like 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.360 spread over into everything. So we've seen like you know, 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:38.960 centralization of now the education system, you know, health and 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:43.319 food media of course, and it's almost like these like 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:48.719 distorted policies have made their way into all of that. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.640 Now do you I guess, I guess do you think 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.080 that's happening like it's it's growing or is it that 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.200 we're just becoming more aware of it and seeing it 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.920 all over there? Yeah? I mean I think it's been 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.720 metastasizing for decades now. It's just becoming impossible to ignore 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:08.479 of how pervasive the the corruption and the the distortion 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:13.440 of reality has become. And I think bitcoinners, a lot 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.400 of bitcoiners, I'm not gonna say bitcoinners in general, but 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.280 a lot of bitcoinners, particularly those who believe in sound 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:23.680 money and particularly as a way to efficiently allocate capital, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:25.640 would would say that the fact that we have this 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.440 vat monetary system that's running buck and allows you to 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:34.360 print money ex nihilo and just allocate it, not you allocate, 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.120 allows the central planners who who print the money x 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.600 deal to allocate all over they see fit. It leads 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.160 to a distortion not only in the pricing mechanism of 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:47.520 the currency at play, whether it be the US dollar, euro, Juan, 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.360 yen um, but also that that disruption of the pricing 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.920 mechanism leads to a miss allocation of capital that then 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:58.560 leads to a miss out allocation of incentives or creates 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:03.760 the conditions for preserves perverse incentives to arise and leads 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:08.600 to a bastardization of the economy at large. Just beyond 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:13.800 the monetary system, as you said, leads into education, housing, 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.280 coding that goes into housing, and how towns are built out, 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:23.240 suburban areas are built, leads into everything. Yeah. Yeah, and 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.560 I think it's easy. You know, most people can see 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.840 that there's like wow, I don't know, it's like it 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.760 seems like obviously there's a lot of people that see 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.440 there's something wrong. I mean, we see this populist uprising, 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.040 which again is indicative of kind of like this this 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:40.280 fourth turning or when you know, civilizations change, and we 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.880 had before pre COVID there was I think eight countries 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.200 that had like a million people each you know, marching 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.360 or whatever. Um that was kind of shut down a 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.680 little bit. But it still seems like we have half 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.160 the people that are like still gung ho about all 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.840 this right, Like it's pretty pretty divided and and it 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.200 it seems pretty shocking, like how do these people not 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.520 see like this path that they're going down? It's a 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.360 mass psychosis. That's actually the newsletter I'm writing today is 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:11.960 like are we h are we currently enthralled in in 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:15.720 the middle of a mass psychosis? And what is it 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.240 being driven by? It's being driven by I mean fear, right, 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:23.760 Fear and uncertainty leads humans to act in very regular ways. 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:28.400 And the people that find themselves in places of power 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.720 and the political sphere of the media sphere and the 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.600 monetary sphere, and like the expert class fear of the 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:38.920 education sphere UM are leveraging fear and uncertainty the apparatus 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.680 of the media, particularly to spread that fear and uncertainty 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:47.400 too cattle herd the mass, you know. In in interesting 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.720 you say that psychosis UM I was listening to a 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.400 podcast a couple of months ago, and it was about NLP, 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:57.080 like neural linguistic programming, which is what marketing marketing uses, 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:01.080 and you can get certified like as practitioner of NLP 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.200 and then you get like this master certification. It's like 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.960 Tony Robbinson uses it and marketing uses it, and it's like, um, 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:10.400 it kind of plants, like inception, plants things into your subconscious, right, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.200 And so these are these the master level practitioners of 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.000 n LP on this podcast, and they were explaining how 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.760 the news and the media is actually using n LP 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.160 on the people. And they gave all these examples and 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:25.240 I don't know good enough to kind of repeat those back, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.560 but a lot of these like sensational headlines like if 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.480 you don't wear a mask, you're going to kill grandma, 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.520 for example, right, and then they repeat it over and 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.840 over and over, and it's actually goes past the conscious 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.440 into the subconscious and they're basically brainwashed or kind of 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.000 you know, brainwash these people. And they even went in 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.240 further and they said how because of the education system 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.080 has been so dumbed down to teach you not to question, 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:52.040 not to think that it's easier than ever before to 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:56.840 actually use LP on the people and brainwash them. It's 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:01.040 insane how pervasive it is so here the Philadelphia area. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:02.800 I've been watching like a lot of Phillies games and 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.720 it happens very nonchalantly, Like in the background, you have 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.239 the two announcers in the booth just talking about how 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.000 they got vaccinated and how they feel. They feel like liberated. 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.600 They're able actually to go live free because the backs 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:18.520 somehow magically enables them to do that. And in driving 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.840 in the city, if if you're not in your own car, 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:22.840 you're an uber, and the ubers listening to the radio 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:24.919 instead of what I would typically listen to it is 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.240 just my playlist on Spotify or something. And you have 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.480 literal commercials in the Philadelphia And I'm sure this is 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.040 in other areas too, but it blew my mind the 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.000 first time I heard it. Getting an Uber to my 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.479 brother's apartment from my wife's parents house in Philadelphia, and 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:42.800 the Uber driver was listening to the radio. It was 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.040 just a commercial wear Mass Sable Life, Wear a mass 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.840 Sable Life. In the In the course of a thirty 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.280 minute drive to the city, that commercial came on three 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:57.160 times and again that that that line where a mass 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.840 save a life, like if you say it enough, and 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.520 it begins to make people question, like if I don't 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.159 wear a mask and I causing people to die, and 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.760 so like they feel forced to do that to to 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:12.680 save their fellow man. And it's really scary how easy 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.879 it is to manipulate the masses. And we see, uh, 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:18.840 we see evidence that the people in media know this 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.720 and they leverage. Just specifically, Project Veritas had that that 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:26.320 expose on the CNN producer who basically admitted, like Jeff 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:28.880 Zucker would call us, so I'll never read the red 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.720 phone with the direct line to the president office. He's say, 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.000 put the death numbers back on the screen. We need 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.520 people to be free. People are turning away because you 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.359 don't have the death numbers on. They need that fear 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:43.760 inducing stat uh to draw their intention and to draw 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.679 them in. And then I'm actually very happy that Project 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.840 Veritas came out because it showed the playbook too. He's like, next, 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.520 when COVID dies down, we're going to go to climate change. 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:57.720 We're gonna start fearmongering over that. And it's disgusting that 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:01.600 they intentionally and some parts of the media, particularly the 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:07.359 mainstream media leverage fear and uncertainty to to drive a discussion. 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:11.640 It's all for advertising dollars and clicks and views. It's 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:15.840 a perverse incentive system that's been erected by the advertising 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:20.720 model of mainstream media particularly. Yeah. Well as back to 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.760 kind of marketing analogy like you mentioned kind of earlier, 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.119 like that that motivation of fear and like humans are 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.160 pretty basic. I mean we were motivated by one moving 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.040 away from pain and to moving towards pleasure, Like pain 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:36.720 and pleasure. I think I think fear pain is the 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:41.160 more powerful one than than the pleasure. But um switching 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.720 from a message of pain and despair too, maybe a 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:49.040 message of hope, you know. I similar two thousand eight, 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.520 it was a great financial crash rocked my world as well, 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.359 maybe a little bit older. And I had been a 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:57.120 real estate investor. I started eighteen. I've been a real 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:59.240 state investor for I don't know, almost ten years at 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.560 that point, and made a lot of money, sold a 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.159 couple of businesses. But I got wiped out, and uh, 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:07.720 I was like, what the heck is this financial casino? 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:09.320 Like I don't know anything about it? And I started 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:11.520 digging in and I became a gold bug, and I 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:13.320 was like, oh, we gotta fix the money. That's what 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.840 it is, right, we got a gold that's the way. Um. 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:18.200 It took me a couple of years to realize I 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.320 wasn't necessarily a goldbug. I was a sound money advocate. UM. 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.760 But UM, you know, I then became very disillusioned with 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.640 the system, like, I mean it's ruined, Like we need 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:30.920 to fix the system. And I've just kind of given 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:33.520 up on politics and all that. And it was about 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.600 um that I I finally went and took the plunge 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:42.560 into bitcoin. And uh it was like, hey, sorry to 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:45.160 interrupt this video just one more time. I'm not running 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.679 Google ads. So it's actually way less interruption than I 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:49.879 normally would have on a video. UM. And that's because 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:53.359 it's sponsored by block five. Um. They are opening up 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.320 the world of bitcoin and financial products offering to pay 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:59.639 you interest on your bitcoin. Um. Better than owning a 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:01.760 rental property that you have to manage and control and 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:03.479 have the risks. You can just earn interest on it 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.439 or you can leverage against it. Now, I plan to 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:10.240 hold my bitcoin forever and literally never sell my bitcoin. 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:12.359 So how do you do that? Well, if I need money. 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:14.320 I don't want to sell that bitcoin. I'm gonna pay 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.240 tax on it, all right, I'm gonna end up with 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:18.840 less and I don't have the bitcoin anymore. So a 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.480 better way to do it is to borrow against the bitcoin. 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:23.879 So I've put all my money into bitcoin. If I 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:25.520 want to buy a car, or I want to buy 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:28.600 a house, I can borrow against it at very very 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.359 low competitive rates. Get my house, get my car, whatever 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:34.080 that may be, and get to keep the bitcoin. I've 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:36.399 done a whole video on this. You can find it. 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:38.359 I'll link it down to the description below. How to 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:40.880 retire off a bitcoin without paying taxes, and you can 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:43.399