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Welcome to Beyond The Blockchain with Scott Tindall, a discussion of blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, and why it matters to you. Hey folks, welcome into Beyond The Blockchain. Happy to be here with you on a Tuesday night, like always. We got the full squad together. We got a fun night tonight. We got Johnny G in studio, Johnny Gwen, thanks for being here. Always happy to be here. We got Philip on the board. Hi. Keeping us straight. We're here from the New Jersey studios, here to tell us about her fun, exciting week, and the annals of power, how she got some, uh, annals, she got some a, uh, advanced, what is it? Awesome. Oh, my awesome. Actually smart summons. Actually smart summons. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, the joke didn't make itself that's right. But it's been a really interesting week, so I'm excited to kind of dive right into it. You know, we normally get into the headlines in the beginning, um, Sierra, I think we just let Johnny kind of riff off some of the stuff that he's been working on and then we'll come up with, uh, the AI stuff on, uh, when we get through with that JG. I want to call this the Johnny Bitcoin news of the week. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, uh, so, Philip, by next week, we need a sound for that Johnny Bitcoin news of the week, so, uh, the crypto whipping boy, uh, Gary Gensler, the SEC chair it was up at the Capitol this week, he denies that he even knows what the anti crypto operation choke point 2.0 is. So he just says he's never heard of it before, which is roughly a very way as the US government trying to stifle the industry. And the other thing was he couldn't still define what a security is. He couldn't tell. He couldn't tell us why a Yankees ticket was different than an NFT when a very smart representative asked him, what is the difference between an NFT and a Yankees ticket that you could trade a collectible anything he could not sell for more value. He could not distinguish between an artifact, an actual thing and an NFT and a digital thing and a digital thing. And that's the guy making, supposedly making the rules. So for now, I think he's on bar. He is literally the worst, but I will tell you if the Harris administration, Bob comes in power, he will probably be the Treasury Secretary, probably. Number two, actually, speaking of Kamala Harris, it is said that Kamala Harris would be better for the Bitcoin world than Donald Trump would be. Why would you think that? Because their policies of big, of more state spending leads more into why you would want to actually be in Bitcoin, because they're going to damage the dollar more and more and more and more. Well, faster and quicker didn't didn't see that coming in the start of the conversation, but I see where you're going. So there's a civil lining in that because I do believe. Did you say there's a civil line? Civil. Put saying I'm saying things I'm not saying last week it was very bad because they feel the lining. You did say civil. Well, okay, what is a civil matter? And then there's a civil, civil line in this civil matter that we do know that Trump is interested in the crypto thing. He's been very, very vocal about his full-throated support for it, even has his own, which I would say shillcoin, which I would stay far away from. That's not financial advice. We don't give financial advice, but I would have run away from it. And the last thing is, and this is a little bit of good news here, GameStop customer went and bought a packet of actual trading cards. It was currency trading cards from, and it was a packet from 2023. And it was his twelfth packet he's ever bought. It's a pretty cool packet. It has like Doge. It has NFT kind of pictures, and it's just roughly a $33 collectibles of currency. Well, in that pack, he pulled a full Bitcoin reward at one of those packs, so there are packs out there, but they call it, it's called the currency collection. But there's only five out there, two of them have already been found. Well, that's really interesting. You know how much I love collectibles. Well, I love the idea of the digital and the artifact together. Yeah. You know, when I worked for Upper Deck back in the day, the memorabilia company, I did work for them, they actually were the first to have e-cards. This is the early days of the internet. So you got a card of like Tony Gwen, right? Yeah. So you had the card, you scratched the back, and you got a number, you made an account, and it would give you a digital card, which is so funny. That's NFT. NFT. NFT from 2001. How about that? Yep. 2001 to now. So that's Johnny Gwen's Bitcoin news of the week. Bum, bum, bum. I like it, folks. Phil, do you want to break now? Oh, good. Come on. It's a break. And when we do, we're going to come back on the backside of this thing, and Sierra is going to tell us about her experience at the United Nations. Where in the world is Sierra? Yeah. Oh, it works. Where in the world is Sierra Catalina? Catalina. Welcome back to Beyond The Blockchain with Scott Tindall. If folks welcome back into the show, you're listening to Beyond The Blockchain, and we're here to tell you about blockchain technology cryptocurrency, why it matters to you. And lately, we've just been talking a whole lot about AI because the movement in AI has just been tremendous. Sam Altman wrote a post on his blog saying that we may only be a few thousand days away from super intelligence, which I had to like, I thought I knew what it meant, but I was like, let me just look this up to be sure. Sierra, you had an interesting AI experience this week. You want to tell our listeners about what you've got going on? Where in the world is Sierra Catalina? Yeah, I had the privilege, and it was an absolute privilege of attending a United Nations General Assembly meeting yesterday in New York City on advancing sustainable development through safe, secure, and trustworthy AI. I got to hear Secretary Anthony Blinken speak on safety initiatives for AI, and also there were heads from every major AI company that you can think of there. Sam Altman from OpenAI was there. There were representatives from NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Antropic, Meta. I don't think I'm forgetting anyone, Apple. It was an incredible-- Any of our grok friends there? No, XAI was not present at the UN meeting. Still quite the repository of very large brains. What was your takeaway from the event? Did you come away inspired, or nervous, or what do you think? I felt incredibly inspired. I witnessed individuals from all of those companies sign initiative together, the first inked agreement on some different standards for deploying safe and sustainable AI. AWS was there as well, I forgot Amazon, but I also witnessed--they talked a little bit about everyone from each company, talked a little individually, and some of the--all of the initiatives were geared toward making it accessible to all and ensuring that we have equal access across the board to advance AI tools, but some really exciting for me. Commitments were made on the connectivity front from IBM, from AWS, from Microsoft, and from Google on getting more of the globe connected to accessible internet, and they made some large public financial commitments with tight timelines too, so by the end of 2025, those four companies are going to work on putting a dent in the current 40% of the globe that is lacking access to reliable internet connectivity, so that got me a little teary eyes, I've been working on the connectivity problem for many years now. And SpaceX helps solve a lot of that problem as well as long as we can get everybody to play nice together. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I don't care how they get it as long as they get online. That's right. That's right. We're not even at the same starting point unless we all have access to the internet. So that's kind of what where my brain keeps going with AI, is I'm incredibly optimistic about the future of AI, but I'm incredibly concerned that humanity is not ready, and that we are doing nothing to get ready. We're not training people, like, unless you listen to this show or you're on X, you don't have any idea what's going on in AI in the world. Well, I was talking to some guys the other day that are in their 60s. I was telling them the robots would be here in five years. Yeah. And they were like, oh, like my vacuum, I'm like, nobody. Not like your vacuum. Think of the early days of Bitcoin and telling people about digital currency. It was like, yeah, aliens just landed in the parking lot. They would look you. Look, I remember the crazy days of podcasting. Yes. I would have to explain to people in 2014, 2015 what an internet radio show was. And they were so shocked by it. So yes, something as earth shattering as AI, I'm not shocked by it, but we just heard on that news break right at the turn of the hour, though 98% of all workers are using AI right now. They said 98% of small businesses are using AI. Small businesses. Yeah. Well, so it is, so mass, mass adoptions coming very, very, very fast. I guess where I'm saying is we don't have a plan for mass displacement. Like you're talking about like what AI is going to do to the idea of when there's a new white paper out that says jobs will not be disrupted as much as we think they are with robotics and AI right now used to be read that I know, but I would just talk about it. It just it just got released today. Let's just take the field of law. There is no longer going to be in need to hire associates or paralegals or legal secretaries for that matter because AI is going to handle all that process at a fraction of the cost of humans. Well, again, it's just an industry. You know, if there's 10 paralegals, there'll be two paralegals that know how to use the prompt. Right. Right. Or one. Right. You're right. But you're looking at. I haven't read that paper yet. No, I was curious about it. It just came out today. I put it off in my read thing, but yes, and there are people talking about it. That's where universal basic income came from. Well, I mean, that was one of the reasons they brought it up, especially recently with the idea of like, how are we going to pay for people who no longer have a purpose on a planet? I don't believe that though. We tend to be an adaptable species in the history of purpose, but in the history though, we've become adapted. We do adapt to that. We do and AI will create new jobs. The question is, how do we educate the workforce fast enough to overcome the speed of AI's development? Because it's only getting exponential. Well, it's not like we've got a 20 year timeline. We live in a world where we are just now understanding Netflix. Let me know where we live. We're slow, slow. I'll stay away in that category. I have a full understanding of Netflix. We literally live in a place that's three years behind every. Our part of the world is three, good or bad, we're three years behind anything. The idea of it, we will see it coming and be able to maybe change. I don't know. It is alarming to a degree, but it's also a huge opportunity for someone that wants to take the bull by the horns. It's a huge opportunity. That's that generational change in you being something from learning how to be a, just going to be a prompting consultant, what's going to be huge in this part of the world. Let's go back to the basics. I don't think first, I mean, bubbles on prompt engineering, but that will go away very soon. As AI gets better, as LLM's get better, right now we have to go making air quotes prompt engineer, which for our listeners is a very specific way in which you phrase queries that you feed to AI, specifically large language models. Those are our prompts whenever you're asking a question or asking to carry out. Asking it to carry out a task, you're doing so in the form of a prompt. Currently with the existing level of AI that we have in LLM, how you phrase those queries is very important to the type of results that you get. However, as they get better, natural language processing and natural language prompting, just talking to it the way that you would speak to another human will continue to deliver better and better results. Star Trek. Yeah, they should. Yeah, they should. Computer, give me the history of, you know, medieval art from blank to blank. I mean, Grok already does that. I ask Grok questions all the time. Like one of the things I love about X is you can highlight over something in a tweet and click ask Grok and it will give you like, oh, I don't understand what this is or who this person is. It just gives me a summation of that instantaneously. My biggest concern is we currently, I do agree that we are an adaptable species, but we currently are not even considering the fact that everything I read says that 20% of human jobs may be replaced by AI in 10 years, and it may be faster than that. I think 20% is low in 10 years with I. Well, I was being conservative. I've read 20% in five years and 40% in 10 years, and I was just trying to split the difference. I don't do percent jobs. You're going to go away. But it's just my personal opinion, I could be wrong, but I don't think I am wrong. I look forward to seeing you all at the beach. What I was going to ask is about, okay, so we have the massive computer farms that takes a lot of energy to run them, and we have trillions of dollars of debt. So how are we actively paying for everything? Because that may determine like, well, the big banks just stepped up this week and said they're into nuclear. They're talking about bringing back on Three Mile Island, which I cannot believe. Yeah, they're bringing back. Three Mile Island was the scariest three words on the planet when I was growing up. You know how many deaths there were from Three Mile Island? Well, I'm sure it was none. None. Yeah. But I mean, but Sierra, a while back, you were talking about a change in style of currency. Not just crypto or Bitcoin, but something else altogether, I know you're addressing that. New ways to it. How are we going to pay for everything in time? Like, can we pay for enough of like Tesla self-driving vehicles? Do we, does Tesla is, how in debt, debt may Elon Musk actually be? If there's trillions and trillions and hundreds of trillions of dollars of debt, what does he running against? What does he run into? He's got more dodes than anybody on the planet. I think part of what you're going to see also. He is running toward a world where money doesn't matter. Right. We are running toward a world in which the entire concept of money is irrelevant. When all basic human needs food, water, shelter are met absent human labor when we don't have to work to survive any longer, the idea of money becomes entirely new. The valuation of money in the global economy right now is designed around a scarcity heavy society. We have scarce resources and those who have access to the scarcity determine how much the rest of us pay and what the value of those resources are. In a post-scarcity society when we have not just enough for everyone but an abundance of how is power determined. Yeah, yeah, because, I mean, somebody a while back kept saying, alright, so if you've got somehow a real allocated allocated, all the resources and you basically can take a land mass the size of Australia and fit the whole world's population in it to each acre however many acres of land and everybody would have a split of so many different resources that it's possible to do that. This was back in 1991 when this guy made this calculation, drew up this calculation so I can see kind of where you're headed with that. Well I think part of the log jam is going to be how many CPUs can Nvidia produce compared to how many people are trying to buy them. I mean, there's this giant race right now to be able to get the computing power and I think that's really the only thing slowing us down right now is we just don't have enough computing power in the world and when they solve that problem, all bets are off at that point. Well, the energy problem is still going to have to be solved. I mean, that's going to be first is the, I mean, again, hopefully getting toward something because they have to calculate, I mean, the stuff we're reading now, I read something recently that said, some of the calculations are talking about now is eight times the amount of power we generate right now in the next like two years. How in the world are they going to, I mean, the grid doesn't even, the grid won't survive in California as of now, summer time when you put ACs on it gets rolling blackouts. That's a great question. I don't know. Let's go to break. Let's let our listeners think about it. Maybe somebody will call in with an answer to all your problems. Yeah. Volcanoes. Super Volcanoes. Super Volcanoes. That's what they do in New Zealand. Yeah. Is it what they're doing in Belize? All right, folks, we're going to take a break. We'll see you on the other side. I'm beyond the blockchain. Welcome back to Beyond The Blockchain with Scott Tindall. Welcome back, folks. We're listening to Beyond The Blockchain, and we talked about blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and why it matters to you. Off here, we were having a really good discussion about power consumption and how AI is going to change that. There's talk of nuclear. There's talk of Sam Altman saying he used to build a five gigawatt power plant. That may be the only thing that keeps us from accelerating into the, what do we call it, the superintelligence. It may be human factors that stop us before computing factors. I don't know. Well, I'm curious to see how we get used to certain tools, AI tools, and how things get faster and easier, and then it grows too big and then we lose access to the speed and the accessibility of those tools. I remember a couple of weeks ago, Sierra was talking about a certain platform going down and how it disrupted so many businesses. That's the thing that when you'd see companies rioting in the street, I mean, I have one tool that I use in my small business that if I lost it, it would add something like 20 hours of work to my week that I've gotten back. I don't know if I could survive without that tool being that fast. I hope we don't get to a point where we run too fast to where we have to go 10 steps back because it's a great thing to go faster without the power. Also, it sounds like they got you by the fingernails and they could reject the price upon you. No. I had a lifetime thinking that. I bought it. I was a beta tester and bought it. I paid up one time fee. That Johnny Quinn. Trust me, I bought 10 of them that suck. I bought one of them that is awesome. It's paid for all the other ones I've paid for. Hey, Sierra, can you explain to our listeners about going to the beach? We talk about it on the show, but I'm worried that all listeners don't understand. I can't remember the name of the creators that I took it from. We'll give them credit in retrospect. We give credit to not your original idea. It was a YouTube video that I saw of these guys who went to a town hall meeting and very genuinely but also hilariously approached their city council and said that AI was going to take all of our jobs, but they were fine with that because they hated jobs and that the city council should just instruct AI to pay everybody so that they could all retire. At one point, say, and we'll see what the beach, everybody's going to be caught. The bonfires are going to be epic. Whenever we get a little closer to AGI, I say I'll see what the beach, because we are approaching an era where the beach is not even my thing, but if it's your thing, you can go all the time. You're not going to have to work anymore. What happens to our institutions? What happens to everyone that's employed by a university? Johnny, your wife's-- Your wife's-- The university will be the slowest, I believe, the university will be the slowest to-- Why am I going to pay to go there? I don't think it will be. It's going to take a while. With education, I mean, we have the access to all of the world's knowledge at our fingertips and we have for a long time with the internet, right? However, you may still have needed someone to help you understand. Well, it's also just about getting the credential, like to also get a jump through the hoop. Dude, the politics of the university is unbelievable. Right, but it's important for those who are going to go away too. Look, I'm just saying that the politics of a university-- I'm not saying MIT won't go very fast. I'm saying Stanford won't go very fast. The majority of universities are impossible to transform. OK, so my concern is not-- I'm not saying I'm going to the beach with nothing in my head. Well, my concern is not about the university's transforming. OK. My concern is people opting out of university because there is no job for them to go to. So here's-- I saw an example today that software developers, computer science majors, used to, even if you were a mid-tier student, would come out with dozens of offers. And now there's 4.0 students coming out of Berkeley and all these other places that have no job offers because computer science is not replacing humans with humans. So everybody with a computer science degree now goes, well, why am I going to go do that? Yeah, well, I think there is a wave of change coming with the idea of like, it's this very expensive product that I'm buying supposedly to ensure my future, there's a lot of things in the way of people rethinking it for your college. But at a certain time, you stop thinking. If it takes away everything, you're going to be sitting on the beach with not a thought left in your head. So I don't agree though. I don't agree that humans will succumb into laziness and nothingness. I think when we stop having to work to live, when we stop having to work to survive, people will pursue things that they are passionate about. The hunger for knowledge in humans is innate. We want to use our brains. We just don't necessarily want to use them pushing a button at a factory every day for 30 years. And there are people in 2024, there are people whose entire lives were literally bad. They just push a button. And I have a feeling that their brain power could be better used pursuing something that actually interests them. When we think about the things that we are experts in, even personally, like whatever subject matter you are an expert in, maybe you studied it in school, possibly. Maybe you didn't. But I guarantee you were passionate about it and you pursued knowledge in that subject because it interested you. When people are able to pursue what interests them, I think we'll see a lot more creativity. I think we'll see a lot more innovation. I think we will see a lot more exploration, especially as it pertains to our galaxy. We're already venturing out into the stars. I think that also relationships will be strengthened. We used to promenade in the Victorian era. We used to just go to a third place, a place that was not home or work and meet socially and just promenade and walk around and socialize with one another. And that took up a lot of hours of the week in the Victorian era. Well, I grew up in the '80s, Sierra, and that used to be the mall. It was the mall. That was the mall. Right. Yeah. That was the meeting center, and it was just of commerce, but to be honest, I had no money when I was young. You know what? I wanted to see people. I wanted to see girls and my friends. So Malcolm Gladwell has a term about that, and it's called bumping. Bumping. Not in that matter, but the idea that the way that we, not exactly, but the way that we exchange ideas is through these third spaces with no perceived agenda. Not like I've gone to a networking meeting, and I'm trying to get business. And the way we exchange ideas is by teaching and learning. If the AI takes place of our teaching and learning, our brains will atrophy. They'll send robotic ships into the galaxy. We probably won't feel motivated or even understand anymore how to board those ships and go into the galaxy. With the process of teaching and learning, which forms a new, then the plasticity of the brain, then we begin losing the process of thought. One of the things I love about the show is we discovered both into the spectrum on AI. Yes. It's either the death of humanity or the future on AI. No, or new Renaissance. I don't believe it's the death at all. Or new Renaissance. Or new Renaissance. It could be new Renaissance. No, I think it's all, I think there's danger and what you say profited in it as well. I believe in both. I'm for AI. I use it. So anyway. Here's me. Sierra, damn it. It really makes me angry. You scared me because I am such a Puritan workaholic. If I didn't have to work, I don't know what I would do with myself. I don't know what I would do. It's like, what is your passion you would do? Oh, we start. I have no idea. I start a new band. No, I would not. No, I would not. No, I would not. Well, hold on. If I could be like a windman band, I would never be in a band again. Not even me. Oh, no. We'll be in a band again. You have to be better. I will not be in a band where I'm the best musician. I have to be in a band where I'm the worst musician. That's definitely not me. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's me. Could AI train me? Possibly. Yeah. That's not me. I think that's me. Yeah. I think that's me. I think that's me. I think that's me. I think that's me. I think that's me. I think that's me. You have to be better. I will not be in a band where I'm the best musician. I have to be in a band where I'm the worst musician. But that's definitely not me. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's me. I think that's me. Well, I would like a year off, and then I would have to have something to wake up in the morning to do. I couldn't be relaxed all the time. That is not how I am wired. I'm not either, but I could be convinced to go sell coconuts on the beach in St. Croix. I could definitely spend the remainder of my life wandering and seeing every last inch of this earth that I'm able to, traveling, boundlessly, wherever. Just this earth? The work to live. We're not leading you to traveling just to this earth. I would leave the planet. I have a serious fear of heights. I'd have to know that there was an asteroid headed this way to do that to a bandic ship. Otherwise, I am thrilled that we are expanding human civilization out into the stars, and that's great. I love that for us long term, but I'm going to be here on this rock. Thank you to everyone else for going to Mars. Yes, somebody on the next post, would you be willing to be one of the people to go to Mars? My response was, is there a return trip scheduled? That is a one way. That's my question. We can only go to Mars, like we can only launch to head to Mars every two years, because... I'll do two years. I just want to make sure there's a ship coming. Two years later. That's just to get there. We have absolutely no plan for a return trip from Mars. Yes, there's no... I mean, we've got to terraform the planet first, right? There's no atmosphere, so propelling does not work the same since the atmosphere as it does with an atmosphere, but beyond that, yes, there are many, many, many factors, but it is generally widely accepted that the first crew, the first manned crew to head to Mars is not coming back. Isn't this how they populated Australia? With criminals. Look, I'll tell you, now, I'm not brave enough to go north of Birmingham. It's true. I'm definitely not going to his face. Well, he's set for your mansion in North Carolina. I think that would definitely give him. Well, again, I'm forced to do that, but I'm not very brave. Sorry, folks. We're going to take a break. We come back. We're going to talk about FTX, SPF, Diddy, and all these fun pop culture things. And girlfriends. And girlfriends. Yeah. Welcome back to Beyond the Blockchain with Scott Tindall. If I was welcome back into the show, you're listening to Beyond the Blockchain. We've been having a good time tonight talking about some crypto stuff early. We talked a lot about AI tonight. Johnny, I want to talk about what's going on. Let's jump back to crypto. If people have listened to this show, if you're familiar with crypto, you know that the trading platform FTX was in the news quite a bit over the past two years, more so. But they had a tragic fall as there was some fraud going on, and the CEO massive in Ron level fraud. The CEO Sam Bankman freed, got indicted by the feds, ends up pleading guilty to many different charges. Today there was an update. His co-conspirator and Paramore, I guess. Paramore. Caroline Ellison. Okay. And she went through court today, yeah? She was sentenced to two years today. She was up for like 114 years, but they settled on two years, and she has to forfeit $11 billion. Which I asked the question, has she been holding more than $11 billion this long? Maybe all of her holdings. But that's incredible. That's just absolutely like- It shows you the level of fraud. It made off half. It shows you the level of fraud. Yeah, yeah, the level of fraud was, I mean literally unbelievable. I think of all the money that's hidden. Oh yeah. It's unbelievable the billions that are hidden. She can't wait to do her two years. Gives up $11 to come back to $5. Right. And again, she was the star witness for the federal case. So I heard the judge said that in 30 years, he's never seen a informant who was more helpful than she was, but still doesn't mean she can escape jail time. Also, she seems a little mousie and a little, they probably scared the mess out of her. Oh. She probably literally said what- She's also- How do you need it and how much do you want it? She's also probably going to the, you know, Pong Beach country- Oh yeah. They'll play handball and they'll, you know, you have to, the punishment will be you don't get the tea time you want on the federal and prison golf course. You don't get the Martino Espresso. I say that God knows what those places are like, but I actually had a friend amount to the federal prison. He said it was about the, after you get like the first two months down, he said he had it pretty easy. I had a friend that went to the federal prison and the panhandle in a minimum security facility. He said, wasn't that bad? Yeah. He's like, I didn't have any, I didn't have any responsibilities. Yeah. I wouldn't expect it anywhere. No. He literally said I was like, you weren't- I wanted it to be known that I have no friends that have found a federal prison. Oh, just wait here. My buddy was really stupid, really an involved moving, you know, adult. My friend was involved moving fun things to smoke. My friend was involved in a Medicaid scheme and he was, did not realize he was the punk. Oh, he was the Patsy. He was the Patsy and he didn't realize it. My buddy actually actually kind of was the guy who took it on the chin for everybody. Yeah. So he was kind of different. Different situation. Good guy. Yeah. But yeah. So, Sam Bankman. Sam Bankman. Freed. Freed. I think he's serving 20 plus years. Right? I think that's right. But while that also makes the news this week, he also has a new cell block mate this week. And who is that, Scott? Sue Selly. Diddy. Take that. Sean Combs. P Diddy. You know what I loved about the indictment? They used all of his aliases. Right. Exactly. We're not trying to confuse you on who this is. Yeah. How many are there? Sean Combs. Sean Combs. Puff Daddy. P Diddy. P Diddy. P Diddy. I met him dirty. Diddy dirty money. Faith. In my amity. Oh. I met him once then. Well, yeah. I met him at the time. Diddy dirty money. Yeah. And one of the aliases. But you know my favorite alias was because I'm sorry I'm breaking from this. Michael Vick. When he got in trouble with the dogs, he had a name called Ron Mexico. Ron Mexico. I just don't know why I think that name is so funny. You know what? My favorite alias is? What's that? Lane Kiffin. Joey Freshwater. Man. Oh man. Ron Mexico. A couple of times. What should I? Ron Mexico. Yeah. There's a great story about Ricky Anderson, who's the greatest. Oh, yeah. He's called the bass leader of all time. The bass runner of all time. He would never check in under his own name. Yeah. But he was in San Diego and the GM was trying to get in touch with him. And so he was like, what would Ricky check in as? And he called and asked for Richard Pryor. Hey. Has Richard Pryor? That's good. Oh. He thought he was more famous than Richard Pryor. Yeah. It's so funny. That's awesome. Probably the time he was. That's the most Ricky thing ever. In the 80s. My other favorite Ricky Anderson story is that the Yankees could not figure out, maybe it was the A's. I can't remember which team, but their books were off by a million dollars and they could not figure out why their books were off. And they finally found that there was a check written to Ricky Henderson for a signing bonus for a million dollars and they called him and they said, Ricky, you know that check we wrote you? He was like, yeah. We need you to cash it. And he said, Ricky don't want to cash it. Ricky got it hanging up on the wall. Oh, he literally had it in a frame. Yeah. You know, you can cash it and we can write you another one for souvenir, but Ricky only spoke in third person. Oh, I can see that. I can see that. Yeah. I don't think I could tolerate that in like a real. Oh, he was that good. You would tolerate it. Well, at some point it's like you've kind of earned the right. Yeah. Prince would do that too. Prince would talk. If you want to Ricky, then you let Ricky Ricky as long as he goes out and steals basis. Trump does that a lot when I hear him speaking as rallies. So back back to it. So sellies. Yeah. SBF and Diddy in the same cell block as where it Epstein got Epstein. Oh, and you know, they also breaking news. We're not really breaking. But breaking since last Tuesday, Diddy in that cell block has been put on suicide watch. So is he being watched by the same two fellows that fell asleep? I don't think those guys don't have a job at that facility anymore. Do they? Or do they? I don't know. They might have got a promotion. Well, again, what I love is there were literally. They might have retired. On Twitter. This is before X. They might hold a knife. People were already saying when Epstein was in that this guy is going to get got. Oh, yeah. And it happened. It was like, no one was shocked. No. How crazy is that? Every body was saying this guy is not going to make it till this day and he and it still they just they get away with it. I mean, the real question. I will say they because you know who they is. Everybody was tracking Hillary's plane. Again. What is Hillary? Did they? Just so it's so again, I've been reading this story and I understand the theories about the black male schemes because it's nothing new. No, this is happening. The Diddy play is the up team play. It's just different industry. It's the different industry. It's right. Instead of the political world, it's the music world. And then there's going to be celebrities and people wrapped in all this wrapped in this possibly. And they say they haven't even touched the movie one yet. They haven't touched that one yet. Right. So, but it's just so crazy to watch all this in the debauchery of these people. It's like it literally is like there is nothing new. It's so cliche. It's unbelievable. Well, Caligula was. Caligula. Correct. Yeah. This is 2000 years old. Right. But as someone says, if you're a god at some point, you start pushing the edges of all your pleasure because you're giving everything to begin with until the end, you're fly too close to the sun. Yeah. Again. At some point, no matter what you are, it becomes too egregious. And Diddy probably got away with it for a long time until he was no longer useful. Again. Another thing is who is saying he's no longer useful is in the again, that's the part you know, people again, it reminds me like the QAnon stuff, member of the weird petto stuff on Twitter that was in all this. These people are starting to look for this. I love that word come up. They want all this come up. It's for these people, but we will never just like we have never seen the Epstein list. We will never hear anymore about these. That's why they had that that Homeland Security raid on Diddy's house. They went to get those computers to secure all those videos. Yeah. And the other thing is how he did, how does he not have a kill switch? How does he not have a thing that says, you put me in jail, I don't get this thing done. It all get released. Fair enough. All right. More to talk about next week on Beyond the Blockchain.