News on Clean Energy, Gene Therapy, Lunar Activities, and How to Support Our Show

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Hello, everyone.

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Episode 72 of the Secular Foxhole podcast is

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underway.

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Martin, how are you?

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I'm fine.

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Yourself?

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Claire?

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You know, I'm hanging in there, doing good.

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We've had a break in the heat here, and so it's quite nice.

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We don't have the air conditioner on or anything.

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And that's it for August.

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Is this the global warming that we.

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Talked about the previous episode? It's a global cooling, yeah.

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And we could talk about that from the get go.

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Then when returning guest Andy Bernstein came to us and talked about his book and that was

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hot stuff and material that you don't hear in mainstream media, I think.

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No, not at all.

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So if you value this kind of content and you're open to listen and check your

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premises, how about supporting our show? And that you could do in different ways.

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For example, the old fashioned way, you could send a PayPal to myself and to Blair.

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And we will include that in the show notes.

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If you are orange pill and haven't not yet

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started, how should you say on a regular basis, I know Rob Greenley.

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Shout out to Rob Greenley.

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I know that he's into Bitcoin.

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He mentioned that at the recent new media show live Streaming that they did talking with Pod

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fans, because you wonder a little about that service.

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So how we could do onboarding and gamification and getting support and finding new ways.

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So swan bitcoin.

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We will include that also that you introduced

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me to and then, of course, streaming Satoshis and sending digital telegrams of something

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called Boostogram.

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And I will also include that in the show

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notes.

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I so called created a new boostergram number

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called 22195.

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And what's that, Blair?

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That is Iron Rand's birthday, February 2, 19.

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Five.

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Yeah, so Rand stay boosted, that's on the list now, the so called official list on

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GitHub.

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And if you boost that to us, that's equivalent

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to I think.

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But I will also include that in the show notes

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service called Currency World, that you could check the Satoshis and the Fiat US dollar, for

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example.

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I think it's around $50 or something like

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that.

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That sounds great.

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Yeah, that sounds great.

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So that's how you could support us.

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And then, of course, the time and the talent that you listen to our episodes and share the

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good spread the good word, giving us constructive feedback, tell a friend, et

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cetera, right? And then if you want to help in other things,

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I have an idea about the artwork that we think it's good enough, but I have an idea in the

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future.

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But we really need support.

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If we want to do what I'm thinking or planning to get the real artist to create our artwork,

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then we want to pay him what's that worth.

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And then we could talk about merchandise

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giveaways and what you could do in the future to support our show.

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Because I have seen other podcasters are doing that.

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I do want to make a pitch.

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We've been on the air, so to speak, for three

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years.

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Yeah, three and a half years, probably in

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September.

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It'll be starting our fourth year.

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That's next month.

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Yeah, that's a good celebration.

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Yeah, that's a good idea.

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We can do something.

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But I know that our statistics show that people are listening to the show.

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People do enjoy the show.

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You can contact us at secularfoxhole@gmail.com

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with any praise or criticism.

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And again, that's secularfoxhole@gmail.com.

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We should do a plug.

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Now, I interrupt you, Blair, but the domain

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that you got and the service on this Pod page, service for podcasters, so the Secularfoxhole

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live, right? You have written some great blog posts also.

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Yes, well, I've written a few, but I've also posted some that I think are quite of

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vital importance for intelligent minds to read.

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So the blog is fairly active, and I may post something else out there over the weekend.

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And now I will do a shout out to him.

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I think his name is the owner of this service,

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PodBank, to get these new podcast app badges so we could update the site with new podcast

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apps.

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For example, fountain podverse, pod friend and

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so on.

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Podcast guru and the one that I will soon I'm

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a premium account there on Customatic.

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So next month, I will pay around $10 to

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support a new podcast app and developers.

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That was batches B-A-T-C-H-E-S batches.

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Because now we have the regular ones, like Google Podcasts, Spotify and others.

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But we want to support and promote new podcast apps because then they could stream Satoshis

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and send Boostograms to us with the legacy apps.

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You can't do that.

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That's true, but then he has to create these

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badges because I'm not technical vice vet and I don't want to mess up with our template or

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design.

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So I've pulled his leg a couple of times on

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Twitter.

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But we will talk more about that in the future

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and maybe get some help of developers of the podcast apps, new podcast apps, if I have any

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solutions to that.

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Okay. All right.

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Yeah. But again, we do appreciate our

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audience, and we hope that they would consider sending a couple of dollars, $5.10, whatever

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they can afford to send through PayPal or the Fountain app with Satoshis or Satoshis.

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I forget how it's pronounced, honestly.

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And then that gives us fuel to keep going, for

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sure.

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And I was sitting with my wife last night.

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Let me think, what is today? Before I went to work last night, and I saw

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this men's T shirt that said, my wife told me I have only two faults, I don't listen and

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something else.

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Yeah.

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Which I think is hysterical.

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Yeah.

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But I think my favorite T shirt, which I bought at some local gadget shop, it says,

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in my defense, I was left unsupervised.

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Then we could do a plug there for Dr.

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Edwin Locke and Dr. Ellen Kenner.

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About that book, romantic Love.

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Yes, I think that is.

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And Ellen Kenner, she has a radio show and podcast.

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That's right.

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She does snippets of her show, puts them on

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her site.

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Yeah, that's a good idea.

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And that we could do with new podcast apps.

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Also we could do clips and that you could then earn money or earn satoshis by distributing

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them or giving hearts or likes and so on.

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So it's very fascinating what you could do in

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future.

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Of course, it's a bit of work with it and so

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on, but I see potential in the future.

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But again, it's this onboarding and helping

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guests and listeners.

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We will do this.

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We have been doing it for a bit, and we will continue doing it.

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Yeah. Before we started the show, I guess the other day, we had talked about doing

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a new sandwich, but I said that a new sandwich is two good stories with a bad story in

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between.

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But I said, you know what?

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I just want to do some good stories.

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So two or three good stories that I found, and

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I usually go to HumanProgress.org to find some pretty exciting, interesting, and thought

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provoking things that, again, no one hears about.

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And the first one I want to talk about is there's a couple here?

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Hold on, I got to bring them up.

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Yeah.

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And since this is a newer laptop, I don't have a mouse, but I have a touchpad,

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which let's see.

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Gene therapy.

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This is good radio.

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Sure.

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That is checking.

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Yeah, that's good.

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Gene therapy.

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Okay. Gene therapy.

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Eyedrops restored a boy's sight.

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Similar treatments could help millions.

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That's a great headline.

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And that was in the last Sunday's weekly Links

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email that I got from Human Progress.

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Let me click on the story real quick, see if I

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can read a few sentences, if you don't mind, because I think that's worthy of let's see,

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this is in Miami.

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So it's in the United States, of course,

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naturally.

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More or less.

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All right, now, why is this here? All these pop ups, get out of here.

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But again, they're doing the same thing they're looking for.

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All right.

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Antonio, who's been legally blind for much of his 14 years, can see again.

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The teen was born with dystrophic epidermalysis belosa, a rare genetic condition

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that causes blisters all over his body and in his eyes.

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But his skin improved when he joined a clinical trial to test the world's first

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topical gene therapy.

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That gave the inventor an idea, what if it

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could be adapted for Antonio's eyes? And apparently it worked.

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So that is pretty exciting.

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I like that.

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And then we have jump back into my mail.

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What else we have?

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There's an interesting headline here.

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If I don't go by it, what's next for the moon?

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And let's see.

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Robots.

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Once again, please get all this robots.

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And then humans are going back to the lunar

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surface and here's what they'll be doing.

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And then this is from MIT Technology Review.

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So let me scroll down.

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I really need a mouse.

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This Pad touchpad thing is not my cup of tea.

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All right, let's see.

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It's been more than 50 years since humans last walked on the moon, blah, blah, blah.

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And starting this year my goodness.

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Sorry, folks.

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But anyhow, that's an interesting story and that's in the latest issue of the MIT

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Technology Review.

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There are two American companies that have

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built robots that the ultimate goal is to getting humans living and working on the moon

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and then using the moon as a way station for possible later missions into deep space.

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More than a dozen robotic vehicles are scheduled to land on the moon in the 2020s.

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So that's pretty exciting.

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And what else do we got here?

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Let's see, how about this one? Forums reports that Bill Gates is backing a

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secret startup drilling for limitless clean energy.

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Let me scroll down.

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It's apparently Denver based Coloma

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K-O-L-O-M-A Coloma, has quietly raised 91 million to drill for carbon free hydrogen

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that's continuously generated underground.

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If it succeeds, it could turbocharge the clean

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energy revolution and potentially tap a trillion dollar market.

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Well, yeah, that's cool.

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Fossil fuels and we have a great thing.

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Yeah, let the free market decide and we'll see.

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Yeah, exactly.

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That's the way to go.

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But those two or three things I thought were very interesting, and the wider audience

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should know about these kinds of but and what else is going on?

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Of course, since I have a worldwide audience or we have a worldwide audience, it is getting

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close to football season.

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Of course.

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Football is what we call it here in America.

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Yeah, not the soccer thing.

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That's what's going on right now.

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Oh, sure, soccer seems to be annual, I mean, goes all year long parts of the world.

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Woman.

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But yes, because America is pretty good at that.

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They seem to be pretty yes, they seem to be.

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Yes, they sure do.

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But so I'm an avid football fan.

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So it's go Pets.

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Hey. There you go.

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Yes, I cheer for the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Unapologetically.

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You do that even when you're on West Coast, east Coast, I mean, well.

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I have adopted the Patriots, of course, and the Red Sox for that matter.

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I had that issue when I was in Ohio.

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So when they talked about the Bengals and at

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that time they were not so great team.

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Right.

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But now they have lately, in the.

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Last four to five years, they've really turned their franchise around all the way.

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Good for them, top to bottom.

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So, yes, I'm very happy that the way things

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are going.

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Although the superstar quarterback has a calf

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injury, which hopefully isn't serious, but he should be ready for the first game of the

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regular season, which is early September, hopefully.

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But they're not going to rush him back to play.

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I think the professional sports across the board have gotten wise to.

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If you want to keep the audience, you can't jeopardize the players that you have by

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rushing them back.

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That used to happen quite frequently, frankly,

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and then they will get re injured.

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That's their human capital and the investments.

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So they have to be much smarter.

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They're much smarter about those kinds of

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things today than they used to be.

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And that only enhances each sport, I think.

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And let's see what else is going on.

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We went to see Mission Impossible Dead

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Reckoning, which is I have to hand it to Mr.

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Cruz, he does know how to entertain an

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audience and unfortunately it was a part one of two.

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So hopefully the rest is in the can for next summer's release because there's a Hollywood

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strike right now.

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Writers and actors and so on.

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Okay, union.

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Before I watch that, I will ask Scott Holleran

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if he has done a review yet.

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I don't think he has.

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Yeah.

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Newsletter? AutonoMIA.

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AutonoMIA, yes, AutonoMIA.

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I recommend you to subscribe to that.

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And I've been a subscriber for some time now,

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so it's a great service.

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And that's how you could support content

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creators also and writers and authors and capitalists in different ways.

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Right.

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He's got a great substac thing going there.

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Listeners, if you have any recommendation of like newsletters or fellow

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podcasts or something that you find in mainstream media also, you're welcome to give

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us a call or send us an email or shout out somehow in cyberspace or even better, send a

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boostogram with your.

Blair: 00:17:25

True. Yes. Yeah. So secularfoxhole@gmail.com again is the email

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address and I guess that's it for me.

Martin: 00:17:34

Martin yeah, it's again for me also, and we were open, as we say, so we will get

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you onboarding on this podfans FM.

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Blair.

Martin: 00:17:44

Okay, so we could then onboard our guests that have been in the past and upcoming guests and

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returning guests, and also, of course, listeners, because that's a great opportunity,

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how you could support our work and fellow podcasters and also get something from it

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yourself also in different ways.

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So stay tuned.

Blair: 00:18:06

That's right, stay tuned.

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All right, well, I think we have safely been

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in the foxhole again for another episode.

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Ha.

Martin: 00:18:16

Yeah.

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When we emerge undamaged.

Martin: 00:18:19

Yes, I will do that and I will think about that also, as an ending note, what do

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you think as listeners to get something from us, like a giveaway or something like that?

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If you have any ideas what could be a good thing, I have some thoughts about that.

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So we'll talk more about that in the near future.

Blair: 00:18:45

All right then.

Martin: 00:18:46

Yeah.

Blair: 00:18:47

Okay, Barton.

Martin: 00:18:48

Thanks for now, Blair, and talk to you soon again.

Blair: 00:18:51

That sounds great.

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Okay, budy, take care.

Martin: 00:18:54

Take care.

Martin: 00:18:54

Bye now.