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Hello.

Blair: 00:00:09

Hello, everyone.

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This is episode 65 of the Secular Foxhole

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podcast.

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Today is just Barton and I, and we're going to

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cover some topics that we want to talk about and we think are worthy of mention.

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This coming February 2, of course, is Iron Rand's birthday.

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She was born in 19 five.

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Was it still Russia back then, or was it the

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Soviet Union, one or the other.

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And we want to celebrate that birth by

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continuing the tradition.

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I think that Harry Ben's wanting to start

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calling it Rans Day.

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Martin, I want to kick off by asking you or

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saying, do you know that for more than two millennia, 99% of the world operates on a

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false premise? Can you guess what that premise might be?

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You have to tell me about that.

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It's original sin.

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Or that man is fallen.

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All the strife, all the misery, all the bad things are based on this false premise.

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All the bad things that are happening are based on this false premise.

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Not because man has fallen, because man has accepted, for the most part that this is true.

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That's more than my personal opinion.

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I think it's fact.

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Yeah. And that's what's valuable, that Rand didn't accept that she had to move from

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one place to another and then build a career and writing and come up with a philosophy and

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so on.

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Right.

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She escaped the closet of the Soviet Union, came to breathe the free air here in

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America, but she also saw that America was headed in that direction and still is, sadly,

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because of the false premise that nearly everyone accepts.

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Go ahead.

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Yeah. Hopefully to see, because she also

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saying, to paraphrase, as we are doing, fighting for Second Renaissance.

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Right.

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We are living here today, and thanks to technology and sort of free market, we

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could do it, and we have freedom of expression and free speech.

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Again, what we'll talk more also about this podcast and 2.2 initiative and value for

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value.

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But it's hard to stop.

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I mean, she went from a place where you couldn't speak out, and then she saw that in

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America, some way that was similar way also.

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But she got the platform, for example, for the

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whole forum that she founded and her, you could say, magazines or newsletter and also

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that she wrote op eds and yeah, many things, fiction and.

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Nonfiction, obviously, and then the talks.

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So that's why a day like that, you could celebrate that.

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She was born on February 2, 1905.

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That's correct.

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Yes. I first remember, I think I was 23, and I

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was introduced to the Fountain Head by a good friend of mine.

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Still my good friend, one of my two good friends is here in America.

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He just said, hey, have you ever heard of this?

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I want you to read this.

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I think he's more accurate of how he

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approached me about it.

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And I said, sure.

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And, boy, the saying is true.

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It changed my life.

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It opened up a whole new vistas for me.

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I realized also that I had a lot of work to

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do, shedding and shredding religion and other chains.

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So I'm still working on that today, some 40 years later.

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40 plus years later.

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Yeah, that's what you said before, that even if we don't accept it and we don't

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pick it or choose it, it is in society in different way.

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And the culture about this sin lately, it is about the new religion, like environmentalism.

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Exactly.

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Because we are breeding or taking space or place or changing our environment,

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our surroundings, it's like a sin.

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Because when they accept in a way, because the

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animals of the nature, they don't have free will, so then they can't be blamed, so to

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speak.

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But if you have it, then it's some sinful

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thing.

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I think about the hardcore environmentalists

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at least.

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It'S becoming broader, I think, across the board in a way, because there's so many

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absurdities that you see in the news today about that.

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Of course they would claim that you and I are planet Rapists because we.

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Don'T follow that bug to come or something like that.

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Yes.

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And again, we will focus on a positive thing you could see when you saw about the

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original sin and what brand went from the country and how what's going on now.

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But we have also mentioned in the episode about Russian Orthodox Church, for example,

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and how they playing a role in the war going on, right?

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Yes. Putin and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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There's your attila in the witch doctor premise right there.

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And that's that Ukraine is not perfect.

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And they have their history also.

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You could look at that and we'll probably talk

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more about that in the future.

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And again, to celebrate somebody who wanted to

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create something, you change something.

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And again, when you leave it in today, if

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you're fighting for that's right tomorrow's, second round of those, you fight for the

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future.

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You live in it today.

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That's I think more accurate quote from her,

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but that's, again, just the sheer magnitude of her genius.

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And I've often said to some people that you could take a single paragraph of what she

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wrote and do a doctoral thesis on it.

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You do your doctoral thesis on it.

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That's how in depth and how clear logical she was.

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Otherwise, go ahead.

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Yeah, we do it in our way, not to remind individuals about that thinking

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individuals.

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So we had an episode here in August 2022

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called Ran Stay Boost Number 54.

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And I created then you could say, I mean, it's

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open to everyone to do it, but then to add it on a numbers page of Boost, like symbolic

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numbers on a page on GitHub.

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And then Ran Stay Boost number was created.

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And that's this number that you could say slowly so audience could get it and write it

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down, the number it.

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Is 221905 and that's February 2 and.

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The year 19, 1905. And then it will be become 221,905 Satushi's.

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And then you could ask what's the Satushi? That's a bit of a bitcoin, correct.

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The Bitcoin is daily price changes.

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So today, now it's around $50 in fiat money,

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fiat currency or whatever you want to call it.

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So if you would donate that.

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So I have a call to action here that you download a new podcast app like Fountain and

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podverse and then you could stream Satoshi's and also send Satoshi like a booster gram and

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like a digital telegram on Ramsay, for example.

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And you could do other symbolic donations like the Liberty Boast and that's 1776 Satoshi's.

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Or if you, as you are, you are a fan of Rush, could do a Rush Boast and the album that was

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inspired or dedicated to Rant.

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Right, right, dedicated to her, yes.

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And then of course you could do this Rand Stay boost of 22195 Satoshi around $50

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today.

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The interesting thing again, we want to follow up from our last guest, professor

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Richard Ebeling.

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He said that for any currency, to be honest,

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it has to be separated from government control, it has to be a market driven

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currency.

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And Bitcoin, I believe, is that it's certainly

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leading us out of the fiat currency abyss.

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That's why, although we are still nervous and

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neophytes concerning Bitcoin, we are staunchly in favor of it because of that separation of

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economics and state.

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Yeah.

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Go ahead.

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Yeah, as an example, then, we are new to this and new beasts and also, as we call it

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sometimes we are serious about to be capitalism.

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That Richard Solsman explains so good that cap is coming from, for example, a cap, baseball

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cap or thinking cap or capital in that way the brain and activity and the mind and create

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something.

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So that's why you do the so called walk the

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talk and you also listen to other podcasters and you see what they are proposing and their

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value, what they are creating.

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And you do an exchange voluntarily, value for

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value.

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That's right.

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And that it could be related to the trade principle, for example.

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But here is to think about it, what's worth to listen to us, to listen to our guests and what

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we create and what we write in blog post and so on.

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So I did ran state boost to Adam Curry and Dave Jones of Podcasting 2.0.

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Podcast recently.

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So it will be on time to Ransday.

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It was on a Friday there.

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So when I said that from the Instagram page

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and Rans day boost of 22195 Satushi's Brand's birthday February 2 19, five guest premises.

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My name Martin Linda Cook and then I am on Lysum on Podcast Index social that is on this

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mastered on service and they read it on air, so to speak, and when it's now published also.

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So you could make a clip of it and send out and be inspired and do a call to action,

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right.

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If you have any questions about how you do it

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now fountain.

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And also it's easy by this Get Albi thing and

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also to top up your wallet, so to speak.

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So you could do that with the debit card and

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Via in a very easy way.

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It's payment transfer service, I think you

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call Moon Pay, but it's integrated in the app, so you don't have to do all kind of side steps

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or different applications or several steps.

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It's very easy to do.

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But fascinating is also when you do that, it's to think about now I'm changing fiat to real

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money to bitcoin and now I'm giving it away as a value for value.

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But there your own bit of a bitcoin, very small, but a bit, and that's the transaction

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then it has to be.

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And that will be interesting.

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Like David, wexler talked about proof red, but it's correct and it's very open and

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transparent.

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So it will take some time.

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Of course, if you go to the bank, it could take some time manually and so on.

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And if you do it value exchange or like going to an exchange physical, it takes time also.

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But to wait you get the confirmation and then up to maybe like a half an hour or something

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like that.

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But then it's there, but then they have to

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check it, but everything is in order to do it.

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So it's fascinating to see.

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And then I could create this booster ground with Digital Telegram and send it and when I

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see they receive it and then it show up on the fountain like now called Bowler Boost if it's

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bobbling or like a big strike or what's the reference, but it's also listed now in

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Fountain Activity feed.

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So I have got a nice comment, like a heart or

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like you could say and that's ten sets, everyone doing that.

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And also we will let Van Van, after we're going through with statistics, do a shout out

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to individuals that have supported us by streaming and also sending in a boost to grab.

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Great.

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Now we have a couple of websites that we want

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to promote for the secular foxhole and one of them, of course, is Https, the secular hyphen

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foxhole captivate FM and I'm trying to bring up the other one.

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Yeah, the secular foxhole in one word, live.

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That's right.

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Thank you.

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Yes, that's correct.

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You got that great domain.

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Yes, I did.

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It's powered by Pod page.

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Pod page, it's crazy.

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Tool web tool, web page tool for podcasters.

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And we will be I will remind Brandon about to add to the buttons to listen here or download

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here.

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Also new podcast apps.

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We could add it on the website because now, how do you say the old ones, but they are not

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compliant or with value for value, they are welcome to come, but we are focusing on the

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new one like podverse and fountain.

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But you also could listen our lives.

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It was interesting to hear when we were talking, when they mentioned it, so when it's

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really on the air, you could say, True.

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I was glad again.

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Plus, it's very reasonable at $20 a month for

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the Pod page live site.

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That's exceptionally reasonable.

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And in keeping with the majority of our show, hope today, hopefully today is positive.

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I want to mention this great website called HumanProgress.org O-R-G and they specialize

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and focus on the great things that human progress and humanity are doing today that

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don't get any press, if you will.

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And they also, I guess, the founder of the

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website, Marion Tupi, T-U-P-Y-M-A-R-I-A-N this gentleman and co author, they came out with a

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book called Superabundance, basically about all the great things that are happening in

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spite of interference by people like the environmentalists and so on and so forth.

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And the people like the WEF people clause Schwab, who wants to do the great reset.

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But anyway, I'm at that website right now.

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Let me just read a couple of the great things

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that are happening that probably very few people know about.

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Let's see.

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Asteroid mining startup Astro Forge to launch

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first space missions this year.

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That's pretty cool.

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And here's a great one how to be 18 years old Again for only $2 million a year.

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Now, wait till now, those who want to abolish billionaires, wait until they do that.

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And for you and I, it's $200 a year.

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That's how the market works.

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Let's see.

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But this story promising.

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Gene therapy delivers treatment directly to the brain.

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And now you can open that up and find out what that's about.

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But there's several, just hundreds and hundreds of things going on daily all around

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the world that no one ever knows about.

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So HumanProgress.org Org is a great place to

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go to uplift your spirit.

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And their book, too, which I bought, but I

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haven't got to it's on the pile to be read, of course, but I haven't started that yet.

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But I will.

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I'm trying to get the author on for that on

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our show this year.

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Good.

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But as far as new guests coming down the pike, I have to get busy.

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I haven't really set anything up other than we have a potential guest in her book, but it

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hasn't been finalized.

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And we have also a potential fellow podcaster, so we will maybe next time we could

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give some more updates on that pipeline.

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But the main focus of the show today was we wanted to celebrate and promote Rand's

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Day, February 2.

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And I personally want to thank Ms. Rand for

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everything she's done for me and has continued to do for me.

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That's basically all I've got.

Martin: 00:19:32

Martin yeah, so we'll do here about the stats from Captivate.

Blair: 00:19:38

Yes, please.

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So the all time unique listeners are now 3561.

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Excellent.

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And of course, you have to take it with a bit of grain of salt and how you

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measure it, but they should measure it like on IP address or unique identification for

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someone without any privacy, things like that.

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That's interesting over this time and then the

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download total so far is 7078.

Blair: 00:20:15

Nice.

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And so the average per day, calculating the analytics page is like eight

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per day, but we have been pretty stable.

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But we want to grow that.

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We see the potential, 80 per day, 800, et cetera.

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So we will shoot for that in the long run.

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But it's a good trend and you see the latest.

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I sent you some stats from different episodes, but some old ones will continue to be listened

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to and downloaded and also new ones that is going good.

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So if you take like an average per 28 days, like a month, that's 224.

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And if you compare with that general number still I think 150 downloads, unique downloads

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per episode.

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Of course it depends on the length of the

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podcast, how often you are publishing, et cetera.

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If you take all the podcasts out there and according to podcast index where it's 4

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million that are registered, but they could also be maybe not so active and so on.

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So if you see like on a three months period, maybe you have around 500,000 or something

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like that.

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So if you take that and see 150 and you have

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some that are lower than that and then of course some of our much bigger and so on, we

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are getting there.

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Yes, we have like two episodes per month, 224,

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28 days when we are getting there, but we aspire to continue because we see again the

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potential and that could be also I don't have a list there but I sent the screenshot, I

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think it's 85 countries now or something like that.

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But I've downloaded and list the top list that I sent to you were also with USA, India,

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Sweden, et cetera, also knew what they are up and coming and so on.

Blair: 00:22:24

That's great.

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I didn't look at the whole list but I saw the

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top ten or.

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20 and I also mentioned a guy called John Sperlock, but he has a product called

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Upfree Dev and I also sent you a link so he has very interesting data.

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For example, it was one special app that I wonder that was popular in Spanish language

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Radiance, where that could come from, for example.

Martin: 00:22:56

And I don't think we will look into that more in the future.

Martin: 00:23:01

Okay.

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And then I went here also I will do a

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proposition or proposal also for new boost to gram numbers, but we will do a shout out here

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to Karen Down and I will now open the app here of the Fountain app.

Martin: 00:23:16

Yeah, and I have it here.

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So we have in his latest period of like 30

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days, we have got earned 1467 sets to supporters.

Blair: 00:23:31

Nice. That's very nice.

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Thank you, guys.

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Mere mortals on fountain.

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So that's Chiron, he sent 1376, and then

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somebody called yes Brewer.

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I think it's saying like ninety one cents.

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And that's like the streaming.

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And he tyrone did that on the latest episode

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with Dr. Evelyn and he says it was 2222, like the docs in the row.

Martin: 00:24:02

Okay, that was a very interesting point about how slave owners were against capitalists

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because of how they would treat their workers.

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Rather amusing if it wasn't so messed up.

Blair: 00:24:21

I appreciate that.

Martin: 00:24:22

So that's what you could do if you something that you comment on or thinking

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about or got your thinking, and you could do it in different ways.

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And then it's to send a digital telegram and send the symbolic numbers with satoshi's.

Blair: 00:24:42

True enough, sir, true enough.

Martin: 00:24:44

Well, yeah, at when I propose this to have like a Boston Tea Party boost, could be

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something for the future, and it will be then twelve, and then I don't remember.

Blair: 00:25:01

Okay, you tell me.

Martin: 00:25:02

And then one seven, seven free.

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So it's like twelve month with December.

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So that will be like 12 million satoshi.

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So around $2,800 today's value.

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But that could be something for end of the year here for somebody maybe in Boston area to

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celebrate, because I think it's very important day to remember and celebrate and think about.

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And then at the end here, how about Atlas Frag Day, 1946.

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So that's September 2.

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September 2, 1946.

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So that will be then around US dollar 212 in today's.

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And you could go to if you want to check out the currency here, currency world, like the

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globe currency world.

Martin: 00:26:00

And then you could check for Satushi.

Martin: 00:26:07

Then you could put in your US dollar whatever fiat currency.

Martin: 00:26:12

And then satushi.

Martin: 00:26:13

Since.

Blair: 00:26:18

I like that.

Blair: 00:26:19

So again, happy ran stay happy, happy

Blair: 00:26:23

birthday, Iron Rand.

Blair: 00:26:26

And thank you, Martin.

Martin: 00:26:27

Thank you Blair, and talk to you soon again.

Blair: 00:26:30

Sounds wonderful.