Tokyo Citadel Builders

Doomer Dash Dunks on Andy

A: Japan

General election 27th November. LDP releases manifesto.
Shikoku Officials Halt Inbound Tourism Survey; Tout Inaccuracy of Counting Based on Visitors’ Physical Appearance
Shinsei Bank dropping English language support?
Gold ATH
Tokyo By-Law proposed to tackle “kasuhara” customer harassment
Japan GDP to be 12th by 2075, falling behind Nigeria, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, and even the UK! according to Goldman Sachs.
Japan new PM Ishiba is “Church of Christ”?

B: Bitcoin ~ 52 mins

Does it matter who Satoshi is?

Down only Uptober.
StackerNews numbers flat over 2 years
Bitcoin pods dying? (Blue Collar Bitcoin, Bitcoin Rapid Fire)

C: World news ~1 hour 21 mins

Tampa Bay Rays lose their roof.
Elon goes all in on President Trump
Polymarket moves to 56% backing Trump

D: Other topics

Broadcast on:: 11 Oct 2024
Audio Format:: other

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You lied to me, you told me, you told me up only in October, yeah, I mean, I awoke to the 58 gang meme back on Noster, I immediately closed the app and I'm not quite sure what to do with the day Well in all fairness, I don't think anybody expected the US government, like they keep coming up with these, CBI came in a little bit hot, which did it, but I think a lot of it is the ruling that 70,000 or 60,000 in change Bitcoin at the US has, can they can now dump it on the market, so everyone's kind of like, oh, Germany again, they're just gonna market sell a bunch of shit and crash and price for a few weeks, so Yeah, okay. I was confused by that because it seemed like they were just getting legal clarification that they could sell it because I guess they've seized that from Silk Road, right, and so I suppose the question is around the legality of what they should do with that, how they should deploy those funds, and it didn't necessarily mean they were gonna sell it, so I don't know Well, I think a lot of these things, these are just like legal constructs where it's not like, you know, Biden wakes up in the morning and he's like, oh, we can sell it now, you're right, like, it's whether if they don't necessarily have the option to fuck, I mean, I'm sure they could make some executive order or something to hold it, but you know, he sure as hell is not gonna do that, right. So if the legal clarification, as far as I understand it is, if they can sell it, then it is to be sold, right, like they can't just move on to it, they're not an asset holding organization, right. Okay, fair enough. Yeah, you mentioned Biden, is he still around? Yeah, it was funny. He woke up this morning and like, it was a clip of him and he was like talking about the one of the hurricanes in the U.S. and he's like, I don't know where President Trump is, President Trump needs to get down there and help all the people and then he walks off stage and he goes, go to hell or whatever, like he was a kind of cranky old man thing. He really, I mean, I mean, at least he's not blaming the, on Obama I guess. Really, I think the funny, I mean, I do think when Trump has come out a few times, he goes, he hates her and this was a coup to get him out. That seems more and more of the case because he's just every possible opportunity taking every time to be like flipping her off and be like, screw this woman. Although she, I mean, it's not like he needs much in the way of help because that woman is functionally retarded. So, polymarket, I think, is now catching up to what we all know in our hearts that that woman is basically on electable. There's not enough deep state shenanigans that can be pulled to get this woman across the finish line. You have as good a chance of electing me as this woman. Or even me? Yeah, I mean, you, I, I, that would be a dash. Let's bring back the monarchy. By the, by the end, by the November, polymarket will have you at 1% and her at negative 5. No, but yeah, so that's what's going on. The, the world. Every day, though, I mean, like, I'm not a huge Trump guy. Never have been. But every day, the, the stance this guy takes, people come out and be like, announce some new policy is making me more happy that I've learned about the concept of patronage politics and that the people that I, you know, are more appreciative and more appreciative in the world are playing this game now because every day he just comes out with some new tax, like no, no taxes on people living abroad, no estate taxes, all this kind of, every day, like some kind of like tax benefits if you buy an American or attack, no tax on American. If you're an American buying an American car, shit like that. It's just like, this is fantastic. This is like, if we're going to play, if we're going to play the game, let's play the game right and get exactly what we want. And I don't even, you know, I'd give a shit about Ross, but he, he was talking about him last week, um, getting him out of jail. And it's like, well, I consider him to be kind of a borderline criminal anyway. So whether or not he gets out of jail is not my biggest concern, but all things considered, you know, he shouldn't have 18 life sentences and federal party in the ass prison. So I'd be more than happy for that guy to get, you know, see some daylight. Never let him touch a computer again. But, um, so things like that. So, you know, white pills galore. And then the hurricane went to a three. It didn't fucking blow over Miami or whatever it was supposed to do. Okay. Well, we got that on the list that because that's an interesting one, but we'll get back to that. But, um, the whole Trump thing, I don't know if it's the overton window or whatever, but I've, one shift to have noticed is you can, you can just speak about it now with just about anybody and people, and people will just be like in polite conversations. Yeah, I'm burning for Trump or like, and they don't, they don't feel like they need to make excuses. Like there's something, something has changed, like psychologically or whatever. I don't want it. You like it's not, there's, there's no kind of shame. Um, it seems that company like supporting Trump anymore. It's just like, it's a pragmatic thing. It's the, it's almost the sensible decision. So people don't feel apologetic about it. I don't know. Maybe it's the limited sample size that I've spoken to, but that seems to be the most actually funny. I was talking to someone in the US about this and, um, right after the Trump shooting the original one, we got, he got clipped in the air. And he said that exact same thing at, at the time that when he got blasted and he stood up and did the piss, the fist pumping and all that, the, the tone changed and all of a sudden it's like, it was, it was cool to be behind the sky. And, um, I think that has continued on, it got a little bit bold over when they, they switched out Biden for Kamala. And there was this kind of quick push to make this woman into something. And that lasted for a few weeks, but it just couldn't maintain because she sucks beyond description. Um, and now it's just kind of reverting back to what it was, you know, two, three months ago when he got shot in a face, um, which, you know, which is, which is interesting to see. Um, also they, they're Trump is a master of media. He did this in 2016 with Twitter when he was, you know, and he got all those guys. And this time with the podcast, he's going on, he's doing all the podcasts and just kind of coming out. Yeah, he was going one yesterday. What? Is he done took you? Yeah. No. Oh, yeah. He did. Yeah. He did Tucker a while ago, but he did the flagrant one with Andrew Schulz, like all the communion guys. No way. Schulz got Trump. Yeah, it was actually great. It was one of my, it was one of the, I usually wouldn't want to listen to a Trump thing because it's an hour and a half of Trump being Trump. I know what that's all about. But it was really, it was actually really endearing. If you listen to it, like he's talking and hanging out. One of the most endearing interviews I've ever, I've heard of him. Schulz was one of my favorite like up and coming comedians. I mean, I guess he's pretty, he's made it now and everything. He's got either Netflix specials and whatever. But, and I remember a couple of years back, I stopped following him because I remember when there was some sort of transgender thing that was happening. I forget whether it was Rachel Levine that it was maybe around that time and Schulz tried to play the whole like, I'm not going to say pro trans, but he like, to me, he was trying to protect his Netflix special. Yeah. And I was like, ah, I'm not going to follow this guy anymore. But so I haven't followed him for a couple of years. But I remember he was, I mean, he was funny back in the day, like before he got his special. Oh, he's fucking hysterical. Yeah. But he was, I mean, real like stuff, like he'd push, he'd push the envelope, right? I mean, he'd do some real like, can't cancelable stuff prior to the Netflix special. I don't know. I don't know how he's, how he's been like, I imagine he's, he's toned it right down. Now he's kind of establishment, if you like, but yeah, I don't know that he's he, I do know what you're talking about. So, you know, it would be silly to pretend that that's not the case. But I wouldn't say that he's, I mean, he'll still pop off, you'll still catch him from time to time. Like this whole Trump interview, like this has got to be bad for that, um, for the, his current placing in the world, like, because he, not only did he bring him on and be like a deck to him or something, like he was visibly and audibly like, uh, behind him, you know, uh, he talks about how every race, nation, creative people don't just like him, they love him and all this kind of stuff. So he, uh, he's, he seems to be angling himself back into, um, more of a, uh, kind of a, uh, back, back to where, where he was, maybe a few years ago. I mean, the other thing with comedians that was like, I don't care who Eddie Murphy, whatever, like they hit a certain, you know, they have a few years of just really roasting, roasting the, uh, roasting the, you know, the, the gods of the age, but then they all kind of fall off. I don't even know if it's, if it's a conscious thing. It's just like, kind of like Marvin Hagler said, it's hard to wake up and run, uh, at five a.m. when you're sleeping in silk chic. Like you get a certain level of success and you just can't be that, that fiery anymore, Chris Rock. Even Dave Chappelle isn't, you know, he's, he's entertaining, but like it's been a while since you're super funny. I'd push back on, I agree with your overall point. I pushed back on Chappelle. Like he's the one that, um, I remember watching that he's later specials. Um, no, this is going back a couple of years. So maybe, I don't know if he's releasing another one since, but, um, I remember him like, cause I was listening to a bunch of comedians podcast for a while. So I sort of picked up from them, like the kind of inside baseball stuff and like, you know, like, like, the things you're not supposed to do as a comedian and, and, and, et cetera, et cetera. And one thing I noticed is Chappelle deliberately went out in one of his, one of the specials. I think it was one he did in Austin, like the, uh, low, sort of low-key gig he did there. And he did, he broke out. He basically broke every single rule. Every single rule that I'd heard on these podcasts that comedians weren't supposed to do. Uh, he just, he just went down the list and broke every single one of them. And he still killed. And I think, I think he did that. I deliberately, obviously that was a very, like a mindful thing just to set that massive challenge. It was almost like a climbing Everest thing for a comedian. And just to just demonstrate such mastery that I was like, you know, and, and the, and the special itself was funny. Maybe it wasn't a side splitting, like you say is back in the day or whatever, but it was like, it was just, it was just like a work of art almost. Um, so I'll give, I'll give Chappelle that he's, he's a, he's a master of his craft. There's no, there's no doubt. Well, we will, um, not disparage the great because it'd be hard to say after, uh, that, that many years on top. And I, I do think that he made, because you had other, I mean, like, I've mentioned Eddie Murphy or something before, who was the king of that kind of thing or Richard prior, whatever, but you know, they do respect, like they're not funny anymore. They're older, they're rich. Um, whereas Chappelle has been funny for what, 30 years now. So yeah, hats off to the men. I don't think he's chasing my approval. No, but he'll, he'll get it regardless. Um, but that's, uh, that's, uh, that's what, uh, it's good to, good to hear everybody's in good spirits today, despite the shitty price action. Oh, what are we talking about in Japan? Yeah, on some more mundane topics, perhaps there isn't a whole lot going on. Well, although we do have the, uh, the general election coming up. Um, of course. And so I believe that's, um, now just decided for the 27th of November, the lower house has been dissolved. Um, the LDP have released their manifesto, um, online. You can go and see all of their plans and schemes. It's all, all laid out in text. Um, under, you'd shared something in our group chat, uh, shared by one of the, the right wing Japanese account. My favorite account yet. Did you follow? Um, and, and, and that, that, that particular account had highlighted some measures, it seemed that Ishiba had, uh, when the LDP were taking, um, to kind of maintain the, the harmony of Japan, uh, especially given the influx of foreign invaders that they, we have, uh, we have recently, uh, endured. They didn't put it that way in the, in the manifesto, but, um, but, but, but it was maybe alluded to. I, I, I, I kind of looked at that. I looked at the English translation they made and the, it seemed to be like a machine translation thing. So it was fairly, I think it was fair. I don't think it was a bad spirited translation, but, but the, um, but, but, but, but, yeah, looking at the Japanese as well, I didn't see a huge amount, which was that different to just general cathedral. Like, you know, the pain lip service to maintaining the, um, uh, the, um, the, uh, the harmony of Japan, but I think the key was the kind of, I think they call it cure, say, shakai or something like that. It's like the, so essentially the end goal is to bring in, you know, immigrants and, and, and, and integrate them into society. So it's not like, it's not like the LDP is coming out and saying no more immigrants or anything. They're just saying, you know, we're going to do a better job of like bringing them in and make, you know, making sure that they fit into the society, which I think is, is fine. I don't think that's a bad thing. I just don't think we should be too hopeful of like a massive policy shift, uh, based on this. Well, one of the things with the, the immigration, the way, you know, and we've talked about this before, the way we, the way the, the current structure is set up is that you're kind of fucked either way. And like, if you want to maintain any kind of GDP, like the way and the, uh, the stupid policy scheme that is, uh, uh, social security, you, yeah, you just got, there's got to be somebody doing something here to pay for these old people, right? Um, and to pay for these, these services. So if you're not, if you don't have Nigeria levels of population expansion, you got to get them from somewhere. Um, and which is, I don't think as hopeful as I am on different fronts, even I am not at the point where it's like, well, they're just going to dissolve fucking social security and all these other things, right? Like they're not going to do that. So you guys, they're going to have to float these things somehow. And the only way to float them is just bodies, right? Um, yeah. So they're going to have to get immigrants from somewhere. Now the, the question is like, are you going to bring in some, some, some favorable Vietnamese tourists that can kind of integrate fairly well, some less favorable, like, uh, Malaysians or something that are, are kind of on the outskirts, you're going to keep bringing in fucking ball busting herds and things like that. Right. Like, um, uh, so I don't necessarily, I mean, if it were me, I would say, you know, redo the structure, figure out better ways to handle this. Don't fledges society with mass immigrants that nobody wants. But since they're going to, they're not, I mean, just realistically, they're not, we're not quite at the, uh, the Reformation stage yet. Do you want, um, and you know, Americans aren't going to be coming over for fucking, you know, in droves. It does not going to happen. The Brits aren't going to be coming over in droves. So you're going to be getting some either Middle Eastern or Asian, um, immigration. I don't think that the Japanese are going to import a bunch of people from Zambia. So, um, do you want the more favorable, more integratable, um, Vietnamese types? Or do you want the, um, the more hostile, um, culturally, um, adaptable curds, like, like you see, and like, you ever heard about in Saitama. So my hope is that they'll do it, but they'll do it in a way where it's like, we'll bring in a hundred thousand more Vietnamese or a hundred thousand more, um, South Koreans or whatever every year and let them slowly disperse, not seamlessly, but less turbulently into the general populace. Hmm. I think, yeah, the idea would be probably South to South Koreans. Um, Oh, obviously they also have their issues in, in Japanese society. That's not, that's not, tends not to be their fault. They're just for some reason targeted by the, uh, by the right wing now and again. They have a problem. There's not a fuck ton of them. Like, if you go to South, like, if you go to Seoul now, they, they got to import their own people. So they can't be sending their folks over on it. So that is one issue that we're all facing over here is that, well, not only that, but they're richer in South Korea now as well. I think like the per capita GDP is higher in Korea. Yeah. I was over in Seoul. It certainly didn't feel that way. It still feels poorer. Yeah. Hmm. I've never been. Okay. I would like to go and check it out. But, um, and well, I've heard conflicting accounts and because I've heard people saying that they, you know, it feels, it feels just like being in Tokyo or so. No, that's bullshit. Like it's still shitty. It's still like, it's closer to a shitty Osaka than it is a Tokyo. No, fair enough. But I think the key is one thing to consider is like these politicians don't really give a shit about it. I don't think anyway about integrating people peacefully and maintaining the harmony of Japan or any of that stuff. Um, what they care about is just, you know, satisfying there. I mean, talking about patronage politics, right? So, you know, you've got to, you know, obviously, industry, you've got to balance the books. You've got to keep on inflation. I mean, there's just a ton of things to do, uh, practical realities that you, you know, problems that you're dealing with. So, you know what? And, and I, so I think the number one criteria would be like people who want to come here, people who are sort of cheap, people who just do their work and don't, you know, sort of don't complain. But, but, but really just need to find people who are going to come and, and it's like, um, you know, the, the thing with immigrants as well. I mean, you, you want to steady, steady flow, steady stream. So where, you know, where can you get that from? Like you say, South Korea is probably, you know, not the place. It's, but where is the place? It's, it is more likely to be like the Middle East, right? Like you talk about the Kurds or whatever. I mean, the, the, you know, a lot of people who are going to be desperate to come to a place like Japan. So they, they put up with a lot of, a lot of shit. They work in your convenience stores and, you know, 16 hours a day and they don't complain. Maybe so. So there's, there's the incentives for me and more to pull people from those kind of places than, than maybe perhaps the kind of places we, we'd prefer. But we'll see. I don't think the LDP are going to do a huge amount too. I don't think, I don't, I don't think I didn't see, I didn't read that in Manifesto and think, oh, there's going to be a huge change in policy, basically. Um, one thing I did notice though, on the, on the last page, sort of sneaked, sneaked into the last page of the Manifesto is talk about the constitutional reform. And the list keeps growing. So we've covered this on the show before. And, um, you know, originally it was all about just, um, the, the, the, I think it's clause nine around self-defense, the right self-defense, and just modifying that to make it explicit that Japan has the, you know, the kind of self-determination with its own armed forces or something like that, I guess, right? It was, it was the original idea. And then after the COVID era, they started talking about, oh, well, actually, we also need emergency powers. I don't remember, we covered that. I do. Yeah. Maybe. Yeah. Now I'm looking at, there's a list of four things. Um, and I couldn't quite work out what like three and four was. It was something to do with, uh, education. Um, like, I think they would, they use the word like juji to something like that. So like full education, like no details on, on what that meant. And the other thing was some bizarre, what was it? I can't even remember it now. Um, so it's like this, they're trying to sneak in these other things. Uh, it seems they've been pretty explicit. I mean, the constitution demands that they have to have, I think a debate in both houses, it has to pass both houses, then it has to go to the people for a, um, what do you call that? Uh, uh, um, plebiscite or whatever you call it, right? Referendum. Referendum, yeah. Referendum, thank you. Um, so they're going to be, so they're going to be driving through the shop. I think, so I think what they're going to do is they're kind of trying to sneak the defense thing and the emergency power things as a, like a Trojan horse. And they're going to try and also that, but they'll probably be talking about diversity and, you know, by, by, by the end, we'll just have the shopping list of things like, you know, we need this for diversity. We need this for empowering women. We need this for education. We need this for whatever, tackling cyber crime, there'll be lists like shopping list of things, but then hit, you know, hidden in there is the true goal, which is emergency powers and, and, and, you know, the, and the ability to go to war. And then they can start things like, okay, now it's an emergency. China's going to invade Taiwan. So now we need to conscript. Now we get conscript, conscription back now we can say, you know, we can implement capital controls. Now we can do everything we want without having to worry about the constitution and due process. That's the ultimate goal, but, um, it'd be interesting to see like, again, like it sneaked into the last page of the manifesto. We haven't heard much about it in the media for a while, but I wonder if, um, you know, we're going to see a push for this maybe next year. Um, that was my impression, but any, any thoughts on that? Yeah, I mean, you're probably right on some of the stuff. The, the only thing though, is I, I think because Japan is, is a few years cycles, how do we want to put it behind? You can see how that that's working in, in the US and the UK, like a lot of these things are pushed through, but as with their, in the US and the UK and other places, um, their, their group doing it is becoming increasingly incompetent and rapacious, um, and incapable of actually implementing anything in, in meaningful ways, um, that I, I think you'll see a mirror of that in, in Japan. Now every, I mean, if you have any brains, you can't have a fucking giant ass country like Japan with no army, right? Like it just doesn't make any sense. That was never long for this world. So that, I mean, I don't think it's the biggest problem in the world that you can't have, that the Japanese don't have some kind of military arm. Um, obviously that, that brings its own problems, unfortunately. Uh, but you know, realistically, they were always, at some point they were going to get their army back. They weren't going to be a, a complete docile, um, launch pad for the US forever. So the other stuff that you mentioned is obviously more, uh, more of a concern for me. Um, but can they do any of these things? Like they always have these, these things, you know, like, what was it? Dutch the other day that we're like, we're going to start implementing, um, exit taxes if you try and get the fuck out. Like, you know, they're scrambling trying to not, uh, you know, seek complete collapse of their control mechanisms. And when you see, you know, this is just a kind of a rule of nature of, uh, you know, a, you know, guy, guy with his backing is the wall throws the hardest punches, a cage dog bites the hardest, or whatever expression you want to use, uh, is what you see here. And increasingly, like, they're, they're just, they're, they're acting out, um, in seemingly incoherent and stupid ways. And that, that, that's an indication of, of weakness, one's strength. And if it's weakness and they're not going to be able to hold, they can have a lot of the policies on the books that they want, but if they can't really make you do them, then it's kind of like jaywalking laws. Like every, every country or every city has jaywalking laws, but if they ever bit, I mean, has, has, has anyone since 1934 been ticketed for jaywalking? Like it just doesn't exist. So not quite to that, not quite to that extent, but some of these things, they might be on schmuckity schmuck's, uh, ideal, you know, list for when he takes power, but whether or not he can implement them is something else entirely. And you can see that with, you know, in just, once again, just mirroring the US, like, you know, they, they're going to, they're going to bring in all of these, uh, samales into Michigan and they're going to help push the, um, uh, the woke agenda because they're brown. And then they fucking found out now they're all misogynistic, um, Muslims, and then I'm going to vote for a woman. So I bit them right in the ass, you know, and with a lot of these things, it's like they're going to try and implement some of this stupidity and they're going to fumble over themselves because they can't do it because they're not that smart and they didn't think through some of the, the realities of what they're trying to push and who they're trying to push it on and how they're trying to push it. So hopefully, you know, we'll, we'll keep an eye on it, but it just, it just amuses me that the list of things keeps growing. I do wonder if they'll be able to get it through. Um, but we'll see. They can't even get fucking new. I mean, they've been, you know, nuclear shit, you know, they're, you know, so if they can't do that, which is the most obvious slam dunk in the world, then some of those other crap that I'm going to be able to do. Well, I think they need a compelling event and, uh, you know, like a COVID like thing or a Taiwan, but you know, they're just, they'll, they'll be waiting for that probably. Never let a crisis go to waste, as they say. Um, anyway, so next item on the list is, I thought this one was quite amusing. Um, so she, cockoo officials have halted their inbound tourism survey. Uh, reason is they touted the inaccuracy of counting based on visitors' physical appearance. So what she, cockoo had been doing for a number of years is, uh, you know, they want to collect data on the number of tourists, et cetera. And so whenever they see why he walked down the street, click on a counter or whatever. Um, and that was the way they were doing it. So it's, it's a slightly more sophisticated than that, maybe, but, um, but not much. Um, or the, or they were, you know, pestering people for their passports and things in hotels. Um, so they've, and, and they decided they can no longer do this because of, uh, I guess, you know, maybe increased, uh, diversity, our favorite thing in Japan or whatever. And you know, there's, there's, uh, there's people like you and me who are kind of ruining it, uh, walking around, looking like tourists, but not really being tourists. So, uh, so I thought that was quite funny. I thought it was quite funny, they were still doing it. Uh, you know, and, uh, this kind of thing is going to die as slow death over the next, I guess 20, 30 years as Japan comes to terms with the, with this new reality. Um, but, uh, any, any, any thoughts on this? Are we, are we going to, are we going to look back in, and at these times as being like quaint, innocent times, are we going to miss these times? Uh, do you think these kind of practices were, were pernicious, uh, pernicious and need to die or is it, was, it was that maybe part of the charm of Japan? Oh, I think it will, we'll look back fondly on this time wishing that it had, that it could have continued. I, um, although I'm, I'm increasingly white-pilled on a bunch of different things that it would just be, it'd be silly to pretend like, uh, some of these trends, um, don't continue into the future just realistically and, you know, lacking some major global cyber pandemic attack that kind of cuts everybody off in the rest of the world, just realistically speaking. Um, I don't think either side has an immediate plan to, um, to stop any of the, the, the general trends. So sadly, they continue and we will, we will all be, we will be in, in, uh, multicultural Tokyo pretty soon, fighting with random, random real foreigners that don't speak Japanese on the street and having, having to deal with some of the crap that we, that we, that we, uh, so gleefully left from our homes, our home countries. Yes. Yeah. Pretty, pretty bleak. Um, uh, uh, Libertarian, uh, often gets shot on this podcast, but he was, he was complaining. I think he was in Katarizawa somewhere and he said it's, it's over. It's fallen to the foreigners. It's, uh, yeah. Well, the, I mean, Katarizawa was set up for foreigners. Like, that was all foreign Christian missionaries that built that thing up. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. I mean, the whole thing was, you know, that obviously like the, the, the, the, the imperial folks had their stuff out there, but the whole thing is built like a Western, uh, town, like a, a lot of the buildings and stuff out there. It's all Christian missionary influenced that, that brought, brought the people there, that and no jitty, uh, no jitty, uh, the lake, no jitty, like no, no jitty up there. Like, those things exist because of that. Like if you, that's why, you know, a lot of people like going up there because it, the houses are, um, Western, Western ranch style and, and whatnot. It doesn't really look like Japan. So sorry Liberty man. You are wrong on that one. That had, that had been conquered years ago. That used to be one of the outlets of Whitey. So. Okay. Good. Uh, fact checking live on, um, good. So on that note, uh, one thing I thought was quite interesting, the news is a couple of weeks old, but I, you know, I was reading a lot of people complaining about, uh, Shinse Bank, uh, dropping English language support. So Shinse Bank is kind of famous amongst the foreign, uh, community in Japan as being one bank, which is kind of friendly to foreign people traditionally. Um, so they do things like they allow you to sign, uh, things as opposed to use a Japanese chop, you know, the wooden chop, the hanko. Um, for example, and they always had like English language support. Uh, they're pretty good in terms of like, if you wanted to receive dollars from overseas, you know, it, they make it very easy to do that. Um, and, but yeah, they, they were recently acquired by SBI, uh, major financial group in, in Japan. Um, and, um, and now I've, you know, apparently they're dropping the English language support, which I, I, so I found really weird because, you know, given all these trends that we're talking about of the, you know, diversification of Japan and what, what have you, you'd have thought the opposite would be happening where you'd get English language support cropping up with other banks. But no, it seems Shinse is going to get against the swimming against the tide here. So, uh, any thoughts are you, uh, any, any familiarity with Shinse and any, any impact on you from this, uh, yeah, I looked, I looked that up and saw that the only thing they're doing is getting rid of the call center. That was, that was what they're doing, which leads, leads me to believe that that probably has something more to do with them. Um, cutting back on staff more than making it, like, what's the easiest thing to get rid of is stop paying the, um, you know, whatever translators they have, uh, you know, they probably, because you would call, I mean, if you were, if you were used, Shinse, you could call up and get a, get a, uh, uh, a simultaneous translation fairly easily, um, which meant they had to have a bunch of these fucking people just kind of sitting around, um, waiting for, uh, calls. So if they're, they're trying to cut some fat, that would be the easiest thing to do it. Uh, there's also going to be more, I think, um, online, um, uh, support services going forward, it'll be AI, it'll be shitty AI ones and whatnot. But, um, yeah, I don't know that that it's a meaningful thing. I mean, it sucks if you wanted to use it and get somebody on the phone and you didn't have, you know, some JAP to, to, to do the process for you. Uh, but I don't know that it's, uh, a meaningful, like I said, the, the, the, the, the site will still be all maintained in English and whatnot. So it's just, you can't call up and, and, and get, get somebody on, on, on the horn in English, which I don't know how many people actually do anyway. Yeah. Fair enough. So, um, learn to be, you know, use, use the internet or learn Japanese would be there. I'm all, to be honest with you, I'm all for it. Fuck them. Fuck them foreigners and learn your Japanese and speaking, if you need to call the bank, then learn how to do that. Yeah. Yeah. Fair enough. Um, okay. So next item on the list, uh, item dates, my heart, uh, gold has hit another all-time high here in Japan. Uh, so there's two factors behind this one is, I believe the global price, the US denominator price is, is maybe on the up. Um, but of course, we've also seen a recently weakening of the yen. It's returning back to around, I think hovering around the 150 mark now. What a shit coin that thing is, by the way, that thing is like fucking ETH. It is ridiculous. That one 42, 150, 143, 178. This thing is all over the fucking place. Well, not only that, but it's like really weird because, you know, Ishiba gets in and then it kind of strengthens. And then he goes and meets with the, uh, Ueda central, you know, central bank guy. And like, I don't think he said anything that wild, right? He was sort of saying he kind of supports, I guess, business as usual, maybe kind of hinted at that or something. And all of a sudden, yeah, that the yen's crashing again. I like, I half wondered if I, so I have this theory that the financial, the financial institutions are essentially weaponized by different, I guess, in a geopolitical way in the way that we saw with list, list trust, list trust in the, in the UK, where she obviously upset the wrong people. And, and I feel like the whole run on the UK bonds and stuff like that was kind of a deliberate thing like, fuck you, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and so, and I feel like maybe this was a shot across his bow, maybe from from again, certain, certain parties, I don't know. Um, you know, he'd released his white paper about wanting soldiers in Guam and stuff. I, so I don't, I don't know if he, if he's upset the wrong people, if this is a way of keeping him in line. Um, I don't know. Or if it just is, because we're, you know, this is like late for this is for turning. This is sort of why more like stuff where, you know, volatility is just now, it's just impossible to contain. And, and so the slightest thing can just set these, these problems off. I don't, I don't know what it is, but it's, it's kind of, it's kind of deeply concerning. And like you say that, like, I made you like the, what is it now that is it the third or fourth biggest economy in the world currency trading like a, like a shit coin is not, I don't know, it's not inspiring me with confidence. Yeah, it's a weird, I mean, the whole thing is obviously, um, strange. Um, once, once you bring in the, the parallels to Liz trust and what happened with the guilt market and all that kind of stuff that that does, you know, that does say something about, you know, uh, where institutions lie. I don't know that we have the info to make definitive statements or at least I haven't done the, um, um, kind of dug through the, the, the source material to have a strong view on this. But I think, you know, if you, if you go back and those in the know, and if you, if you just kind of take it as some of these people know a little bit more than, then we do some of the statements that had come out from, from folks that do autistically look into this stuff had, you know, kind of talked about, um, Black Rock calling in, calling in the, uh, the UK government back, uh, be like, what, what is this shit? We're not, we're not eating this. You get rid of this bitch or they'll be held to pay kind of thing. Um, so with Ishiba, whether or not that, something like that happened here, it's hard to know, right? Cause we, you know, you'd have to do some real digging to try and piece together, uh, a decent theory, but all things considered, I don't, you know, I'd be perfectly happy to entertain that as a possibility. Also could just be the end sucks. And anytime the, the Dixie breaks out, like it has been recently or going back up, like it has been recently, you see, uh, Japan, you know, taking it to the teeth because nobody wants that fucking thing anymore anyway. Yeah, I, you know, we'll keep an eye on it. I think, you know, gold's very interesting to watch is just, um, I think there's a lot of signaling in the price of gold right now. I think gold is signaling, you know, something. And I think it's, you know, uh, it's calling bullshit on a lot of these, uh, central bankers and, or have you, um, a little bit better than, than Bitcoin is. Bitcoin is worthless at the moment. Yeah. Yeah. So there you go. So the old school, I don't know. Gold is still the king. If you ask me, um, it's, it's the one to watch for signal, but, um, uh, hopefully Bitcoin can catch up soon. So, uh, a couple of, uh, items just to close off the Japan list. Um, so one is, I found this interesting. I don't have like, I'm not quite sure. I haven't done my thought thinking around it and don't really have too many ideas. I'm interested to get your ideas. Um, so I, have you noticed that, uh, this new word, kasuhada, like customer harassment, kasuhada, uh, around at all? I had not. No. So I've, no, I, well, I noticed it in, uh, like some supermarkets I've been in just hearing there around, you know, um, and then I see it in, in the paper, uh, uh, Tokyo, uh, Tokyo, I guess metropolitan government are, they propose this bylaw to tackle kasuhada. So the, uh, customer harassment. So essentially what this is, is, uh, you know, if you live in Japan, you'll know the scene, but it's like, uh, somebody screaming at a, uh, someone working the tail in a supermarket, for example, complaining that, what, I don't know, they didn't, they didn't pack their apples correctly in the carrier bag or something. Um, you know, essentially Japanese people generally nice, you know, uh, people, but you're pretty, pretty easy to live here. But every now and again, you'll get what they call a, a claimer, kurima, right? Or, uh, what do they call it? Like monster Nantuka. Yeah. Um, so you, you'll, you'll get a real asshole who just takes advantage of the power dynamics in a, uh, for example, it could be a parent of using a teacher. Um, I think that was the, the monster parent or something like that. Or you could get a, you know, just whatever, someone, uh, a customer abusing a, a member of the staff in a restaurant or a supermarket. So, um, the, and this is it, we've seen a kind of, uh, a bunch of these hada, hada over the, you know, you had Seiko hada, right, uh, sexual harassment and you had, you've had a bunch of these hadas over the last, I guess 10, 20 years. And it seems like Japan is slowly coming to terms with some of the dark underbelly of the, of the culture here where, you know, people, people, people definitely do suffer due to power imbalances and things. Um, and so that, yeah, this is the latest one, kazahara. And I think the, so I think the reason that they're making this big thing, a big deal is a lot of the people maybe who, these immigrants who've been talking about have been coming over and they haven't been maybe quite conditioned in the same way in the Japanese school system with the senpai kohai and the kind of, you know, conditioning to be a surf, dynamics. Um, and so, and so when they've been placed in these situations where they're getting shouted at, um, you know, instead of having that kind of, uh, psychological coping mechanism of just kind of shutting off and just letting it all wash over you, as is the Japanese way, um, they, they, they respond by quitting or, or maybe shouting back at the customer and creating a scene. And so, and so I think, I think this is probably where this is coming from. It's like, it's like, it's just causing problems in the labor market. People are quitting in an already tight labor market and, uh, you know, maybe the businesses, business interests have been, you know, asked, asked the, uh, politicians do something about this. I'm not, I'm not sure, but this is the latest hara that we're seeing. Um, so I don't know any, any, any thoughts on why this might be and where this might go. Yeah, the hara thing is, is always an interesting topic. Um, I did the hara, uh, when I first got here, not knowing, and I was like, you know, it was just kind of like, you, you first get here and you're, you're not understanding that if it says they can do A, B and C, they can do A, B and C. And if you ask for something that would be in your mind, not even a D, but just something adjacent to A or whatever, that you, they're just not going to do that. And then you lose your fucking mind and you, and you, and you get like, yell at this, just pour more on behind the counter who's just incapable. And then they go into turtle mode and then you lose 45 minutes trying to get out of this fucking situation. So you learn pretty quickly not to do this because it just becomes a source of, of pain frustration and, and time waste for you. So they, I mean, that, that was how I was inculturated by trying to do this a few times and, and losing this battle of, you know, fighting the turtle, because the turtle has a shell, which is in breakable, which is the Japanese response to, I'm not going to do this. I will just kind of go into freeze mode and we're going to sit here forever. Um, but yeah, if, um, they, they want to tackle that, they can, you know, a few of you, I mean, it, it works pretty quickly too. Like, I know everybody, everybody has that story when they first get here and within six months, they're like, all right, well, we're not going to yell at the, at the lady beyond the counter because this is just three hours of my life wasted and I still don't get what I want. So, um, actually, as an, as an enculturating mechanism, it was, it was fairly effective. So it'll be a shame to see it go if that's, if that's what happens. Yeah. Any thoughts on what the next Hara is going to be? Well, they, they love the Hara. Like it was, wasn't there a fucking high heels one or something like women had wear high heels and they were, they did that one a few years back. Oh, really? Okay. That, what the hell was the name of that one? I forget what the name of that was. It wasn't directly a Hara, but it was in line with that. There's a bunch of, they're always all, they, they love that. They love that word. Um, okay. So yeah, God knows what it'll be. Let's, let's spend something up on the, on polymarket or something. Yeah. Okay. So for the last couple of stories, one is it's a little old. We didn't, we didn't manage to cover it on previous shows, but the Japan GDP is one of the Japan GDP stories, but according to Goldman Sachs, Japan is going to be 12 by 2075. They are going to be falling behind such countries as Nigeria. Yes, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt. And this is the worst one. This is the most humiliating one. And even the UK, you know, your kingdom is going to be, is going to overtake Japan. So, um, this is according to Goldman Sachs. Uh, they, they released this, this, this paper. I, I guess a couple of questions is like, do one, do we care, to, should we be concerned? I don't know. Um, falling behind the UK does not seem, that's not, that's not the reason I came across the oceans, you know, this seems like horseshit to me. You're going to fall behind Nigeria because of that powerhouse that is the, the Nigerian economy of what? Like, what the fuck does that even mean? Like, um, a lot of these, these, these, these Goldman Sachs things are, are, are lefty morons that are like, all the third world will rise up and will kill all of whitey and white adjacent Japan. Like, go fuck yourself. Like, what, what is the, the mighty, um, uh, industry that the, the, the people's republic of Congo going to fucking do like Egypt is, you know, completely dependent upon, you know, as we can see in the, in the war, like they, they are, they exist at the behest of the US giving them billions, not to blow up each, uh, Israel. Like this, this whole kind of nonsensical claim, like all of these countries, they're going to just rise up all of a sudden because they have what, like, why the fuck would they rise up? Just because this, that's just this bullshit. Peter Zahan, demographics is destiny kind of thing. Like that, that, that were the case then India would be already ruling us all in which they are not. So this is, well, I think they're going to be second. I think India is projected to be second. Anyway, yeah. I mean, it's, it's the classic thing of, okay, we've got the data we've got, we've projected out, it shows this, you know, but there's a bunch of stuff that can happen in the next, in the next 50 years. Um, are we, are we all even going to be here in 50 years, right? And also, I mean, what would be GDP? Like, who gives a fuck? I mean, like, do you want to live? I mean, you know, the, the US still has the, the, the king of the GDP. Do you want to live in, um, Beijing or, or some shitty part of Detroit, right? Like these numbers are meaningless for quality of life purposes. Like, you know, like the Poland, uh, you know, Warsaw, I'm sure doesn't have the world greatest GDP, but I'd rather be in Warsaw than fucking, uh, San Francisco. So, yeah, things like that. Yeah. Good point. Good point. Okay. Well, let's, uh, let's finish off with. So one, one thing I wasn't aware of the Ishibar, the new PM. He's, uh, he's a Christian. I think you had mentioned it on last, last week's show. Um, but it didn't, um, it didn't really, uh, strike me them for them for some reason. But I, but then I read an article about him, and they're highlighting that for some reason in the Nikkei. And, you know, I dig, dug into it, apparently his church of Christ, his mother raised him a Christian. Um, you know, we had a little back and forth in, in, in, in, um, in chat about it. But, um, I don't know, I do, I do think it's, it's, it's interesting. I like, it makes me feel more, I don't know, more complex feelings towards the guy, because I feel like it's better to have someone who's a Christian than not, uh, in charge, though, you know, you, you, you raise concerns about that in terms of the type of Christian here's all. So I, I don't know. It's like, um, I, I, but I'm not, I'm not completely convinced that it's better to have like a, a he than a, than a, than a, you know, than a, than a, than a Christian who might only be nominally Christian, but it's not, you know, I, the ideal, maybe, um, Christian, but, um, but any, I don't know, any, you want to, you want to give your opinion on that? Well, my problem with, um, a lot of these constructs is that, I mean, like the, the killed on, uh, New Zealand, you could, they have these kind of Canada has, uh, Church of Canada, all these different things. Uh, and the, the equivalent over here was it, um, the, the pre-war consolidation of the government putting all of the Christians in the one box being like, whatever you people are, you're all one thing, so we don't have to deal with that anymore. Um, and that kind of morphed into, um, this kind of overarching liberal organization post-war as it did in Canada, as it did in, uh, New Zealand, uh, a lot of the anglosphere, because these, uh, because these are consolidated political entities, uh, in the eyes of those in power, they, they took them and they treated them in such and infiltrated them as such. So now, you know, you've, I mean, it's in these kind of things that you have an infinite amount of cash as an institution because, you know, it's been around forever and it's where all of the, you know, the, the friggin, you know, lesbian, trans, sexual, priestess, thing that wants to worship a law, right, has, comes out. This, where all this nonsense comes, unfortunately, these, these, uh, consolidated, Protestant, um, organizations are mouthpieces for the regime in the old school, uh, to the old school. So he was brought up in, Ishiba would have been brought up in one of these things where it wasn't a meaningful Christian denomination. It was, uh, it was a political entity. And my concern with that is, you know, that's just signaling to, uh, the anglosphere that he, he, he, he knows the game to play and he knows about how he is supposed to, uh, act in accordance, uh, with Western norms. So is it better for a pagan to be? Well, I mean, I wish it were so simple as that and be like, well, this guy's a Christian, so it's better. But I don't think the church has adequately dealt with what, you know, a lot of these, um, these, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the infiltration and the entrenchment of, uh, the liberal ideologies that took over the mainline denominations in, in the, in the Western world. So until, you know, until the church can kind of root out some of this, just the bald paganism that is, you know, the Swedish Lutheran, whatever the hell mainline denomination, right. And also the crap, then it's, it, I don't know that, that we gain much by, um, having somebody like him as opposed to just, you know, kind of a naked Shintoist in, in office at the moment, unfortunately, because what hat, what that is, is the Shinto guy usually doesn't give a flying rat's ass about you and me in this kind of context, whereas the, the Kildan people are virulently anti, uh, you and me. So we actually, uh, in a, in a bit of a surprise, we do have to be a little bit cautious, in my opinion, um, how we approach somebody like Anishiba, uh, or somebody out of the, the, the Kildan there. And hopefully we can root out this worthless, the, as these worthless, um, liberal denominations fade into obscurity, irrelevance, and, and non-existence, and they all die off and just old people getting together. Well, that might solve, that problem might solve itself within the next 30, 40 years, but at the moment, you know, still have to deal with that nonsense. Okay, fair enough. Well, we will keep an eye on Anishiba and, uh, and, uh, you know, see, see how he, uh, how he acts going forward, but so, yeah, I appreciate your opinion on that. So that, yeah, that concludes the Japan segment. Eh, which brings us to Bitcoin, um, besides sucking, um, in terms of making us any money at the moment. Uh, the new, uh, the, there wasn't, there hasn't been, there isn't much being built that's particularly important at the moment, as far as I can tell they have, there's conferences going on and shit like that, but it's not really, unless I'm missing something, are you aware of anything happening interesting in terms of building at the moment? Uh, no, there's, um, I think there's Bitcoin Amsterdam going on, which I, I have, I couldn't have less interest in. So that's, I don't know if that's just me, but, um, it just seems like there's nothing going on right now. Yeah, there's, there's not much meaningfully being done. So the big builder thing, uh, was the HBO doctrine, uh, documentary, uh, Money Electric, which was released, which apparently they spent three years putting together and landed on the most random of fucking people, Peter Todd, as, uh, Satoshi, which of all names, you know, like, I guess it's better than, or I mean, it's, it's more, uh, close to the truth that it'd be him than, you know, I don't know, um, pick your random internet and on, but nevertheless, it, no, it's obviously not Peter Todd, like, this is a ridiculous claim and I don't know how you wasted it, why you wasted three years to out this poor fool who now has a fucking bullet as a target on his back. You know, um, there could be a few more ones that, that'll, that'll take that, trying to extort him for his, a 70 billion dollars where the Bitcoin or whatever it is. And, um, their, their reasoning was, I'd go over the reasoning, but it's almost irrelevant to do so because it's so nonsensical, you know. Um, so my, the bigger question is, do you think it matters, um, as time moves on, if who bit, who Satoshi is? I think it matters a lot that he remains he, she, they, remains, no, no reaction, uh, remains, uh, anonymous, um, also anonymous. I, you know, I don't think it would be good for anybody for Satoshi to come back. Right. And, uh, like, I think it'd be terrible for price action. It'd be just terrible. It would just be terrible. You know, one of the best things about Bitcoin is that kind of founding myth, the mythology, the, the mystique around the synonymous founder, which no other shit coin protocol obviously has, and it is almost magic. And I, and to be honest, I scratched my head because, you know, it's, you know, from my deep dive into online privacy and what have you over the last several years since COVID, I have come to the realization that it is impossible to remain your anonymity online. If somebody's really determined to dok shoe, they can. It's not that hard. Um, there's, you know, every day you interact with a computer, you, you, you, there's 10,000 potential mistakes you can make. And, and, and the evidence stays forever. And, and so if you made a mistake five years ago, um, people, people will get, people will follow the breadcrumbs, they will find you, they will, they will dok shoe. So, so the fact that Satoshi, you know, hasn't been doxies is remarkable. It's almost miraculous if you ask me. Um, and I think, I think it's, it's very good for Bitcoin that that is the case. And so yeah, it would be, it would be terrible. And it would be terrible if it was Peter Todd, because I, that guy has the worst takes. Yeah. You know, I need, I think he's so, I think he's a flaming liberal as well, right? Or, at least he's had some takes, which are kind of, maybe it's just a libertarian, but he's kind of left, a lefty libertarian. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So I didn't get the set, like from, because I read all Satoshi's kind of, um, you know, I bought that book of Satoshi thing. And so I read all his original postings and what, what have you, he seemed like a really careful, just conservative. I'm not talking like political, political, but like just careful, just, just, didn't, there was like zero waste in his writing. Zero. Everything was mindfully done and just, just, it's hard to put into words, but I just couldn't imagine Peter Todd, who, for me, makes so many careless kind of throw away, stupid, poorly thought out takes on, you know, when he's on nostril, whatever, that I can't imagine him possibly being Satoshi. And if he was, it would be such a disappointment, it would, it would take away such a lot of the ethos. Yeah. So yeah, just overall, I thought, I, you know, again, maybe it's just me didn't even watch the HBO thing, barely paid attention to it. Um, but, but, but yeah, and I don't think it's Peter Todd, and I don't think it, you know, it would be good for such, such to be fine. Although I do, I do have to say, I think it's a miracle he hasn't been. Hmm. Do you think it would matter if it came out that it was actually, uh, a government agency? Well, if it was, we'd never know, right? We'd never know for sure. Like, we all know the CIA killed Kennedy, but no one really knows, right? I mean, there's no smoking gun. I, um, I, uh, that would probably matter. That would probably matter. But, uh, and a lot of people say that anyway, right? Like the CIA did, you know, create a Bitcoin, like the really, the really paranoid people. Um, well, you know, whether, whether they create it or not, it's or not, they certainly understand it very well. And, uh, and so, um, but I, yeah, I don't know. I think that the whole thing is obviously very strange. It's very strange that this person hasn't been docked. It's very strange, um, that somebody had that ability, right? To, to, to code it to, it's all, all, all, you know, all across domain knowledge they had to have that went into that to release it as they did. And then, and then mine the coins and what have you and be so, be so rich on paper and not, and not then just disappear and not move any of those coins and not, not fall for the, you know, uh, the, you know, the temptations to be famous or to be rich. Like that, that is all very, very strange. I like to think it was just that it was just an incredibly noble, wise individual, um, you know, um, but, but, but, but, but who knows? I mean, it's, um, it really boggles the mind because like, what, what kind of person could pull that off? And, and I think Peter Todd at the time was like 22 or something, right? So, if, if a 22 year old has done that, that's just, that's just something supernatural at that point, right? Yeah, I don't, um, I think, uh, with the amount of work that have gone into it, if it could have been found, it would have been found, it hasn't been found. So it won't be found. And at this point, any other kind of, uh, guesses that, that who it is is just that it's guesses. It won't, it won't mean much, um, because everything is, is, um, is open source and verifiable and public and things like that. It's been, I don't think any amount of code has ever been that poured over as the Bitcoin code has. So, um, unless there is, uh, some kind of poison pill, um, embedded in some giga brain way that nobody else can see that, that's been, that looked at it thus far, it doesn't really matter. And, um, you know, I'll leave the story, leave the, the story of, uh, of myth and, and, and lower to, to children and just move on with what we got now. Um, I'd be remiss to say my opinion on the, the, the NSA having created the thing, um, which is probably not because the, um, you don't get government types, uh, with, I mean, who the hell before, you know, up until recently had any grounding in Austrian economic theory and things like that. So, um, you know, to get a bunch of government bureaucrats together and them all aligning on this seems, seems unlikely, uh, to me, it was just, you know, one dude, one autistic dude had, uh, had a, had a confluence of, uh, have good ideas, right place, right time, and was able, was able to pull it off, it seems, um, and has, has since, uh, gone off into, uh, the mythical history of, uh, world events and, uh, may had, may had continued so, and HBO certainly isn't going to find out through their shitty documentary. And, uh, that was probably the biggest waste of, of money for a documentary you could have possibly put together with the least compelling, and least interesting storyline imaginable. So, may that documentary go into the trash bin of cinematic history? Yeah, I have one thing to say though about the, uh, the timing of the whole thing as well. I, so this is a bit of a tangent, but I, I'm coming to this theory that, you know, that the global financial crisis was a much bigger deal than I, at least I thought at the time. Like, I know a lot of people were saying it was a big deal, uh, then, and, and, and now, I mean, but, but I, I think it was an even bigger deal, even than anyone was thinking like that. And I, I feel like all of the crap that we're dealing with right now is, is almost downstream from the global financial crisis. I think because, because the, you know, the, the Chinese, I think, and the Russian, like that, that's, that's essentially the, the war in Ukraine is a direct result. You can draw a straight line back to the global financial crisis. I think because of the way the Americans responded by just debasing the currency, bailing out the bankers, it just broke all trust in the currency to all of the in the know people. Like I was just a naive, like I was an idiot, like I didn't realize, but, you know, for, for the leaders in China, for the leaders in Russia, for the leaders in Saudi Arabia, people who really know what they're doing, like that, that there was a, that was a breaking, you know, what would you call it? Like I'm one of those moments in time where everything just breaks and, and it kind of, the wheels are set in motion then for a new, a kind of new world order, if you like, or, and I, you know, I feel like culturally, pull it, like everything, all the, all the crap we're going through is just downstream from that. I think Bitcoin could only have thrived in the era, in this era that we're living in, in the breakdown of the US dollar and kind of slow motion. If, you know, if Satoshi had released it before the final global financial crisis, I don't think it would have got nearly the same traction as it did, you know, the timing was just, was just perfect. I don't know, and I, like I was, like I was watching a TV show yesterday about, there was like some stuff about music in the early 2000s, it was in, it was in Japan, but what struck me was how, and maybe this is just me getting old, but it seemed like the music was better then, like the culture was better, like people were happier, like everything, everything seemed a lot kind of bet, like there was, there was more energy. And when I see like Japanese popular culture now, I see like zero energy, and I, again, I feel like this is all, you can draw back a line to the global financial crisis where just the loss of faith in the dollar from the, like as a top down thing, that she's now coalescing, it's like coming down to, you know, midwits like me, and then, and then, you know, even people with lower ability to reason, whatever than I have, as few as they are, but they, but they, they're, they're, they're intuitively starting to understand what's going on. And it's like, it feels like, like all the energies just being sucked out of culturally, politically, like the, like the world. And I don't know, like, like, so, and I don't know, I started, I guess it's a bit of a black pill, and sorry, because I know you've been on a, on a white pill thing recently, but like it feels like this, this whole ridiculous thing, which is Bitcoin could, could only be thriving in this kind of, in this kind of environment, in this kind of situation. So I don't know, that went on a bit of a black pill round there, but any, any thoughts on that? I don't think it's a black pill, particularly. I mean, at the right, you know, at, at the right time that something came along that, that could help those with, I see any as to hear, do, do some, some work to, to make sure that they, they end up all right through the turbulent times going forward. I think I generally agree on the kind of, the cultural arc, as well, things have degraded a bit. Not so, it would be, I've heard some people similar to you make the argument that the GFC was bigger than, than even what is recognized at the moment, that there's actually the unwinding there, what was actually a bigger deal than, then, then can possibly be quantified. I'm in no position to, to say one way or the other, but I think just kind of, kind of culturally and civilizationally, the post, Cold War, American Empire at a zenith, had, had a certain amount of spiritual energy, which kind of kept it through until the 90s and with its hegemonic power and its, its, its, its, its voracious need for an enemy, got us into the GWAT and, and those are the things and, and the, the shine lasted for 20, for 20 years, but is, has slowly come off and its, its decadence is, is apparent and a lot of the, kind of the hope and the, the, the, the, Francis Fukuyama end of history kind of triumphalism is, has shown to not be the case and has shown to not be, really coming about in any way that anybody would have hoped for, so I think that's part of it, whether or not the, the GFC plays into that, it's the driving force behind that, whether we go back to W, WTF 1971 or whatever, all these things probably combine in, in various ways to add to that, that, that, that pie, but I don't think that, I don't think it's a black pill, what you just said, no, no, I think it's, it's wrong per se, I, I just don't know that I'm, you know, I don't think anybody really has the, the, the context and the ability to step back, it'll be 500 years before anybody can really look back and, and see all, see all of that, but in, in light of that, there are, there are good things that emerge and perhaps one of them going forward will continue to be Bitcoin for those of us who, who take the time to, to get involved in it. Yeah. Well, yeah, good, good points. I think on, on Bitcoin, I mean, I, I am bullish in Bitcoin as a store of value. I think it's, and it's innovation for me is just clear now it's digital gold. It's like you can put your wealth in this thing, you can move around, you know, and, and, and move around as in jurisdictions, like move, you can move to Dubai, you can move to Singapore and take your wealth intact. And that is something that, you know, we, humanity's never had. And it is, it is a, it is, it is, I still think it's an incredible game-changing, amazing thing. I think most of the world is sleeping on. I do think, you know, joke, joke inside about down, down to over. We will see price appreciation going forward. And it does make sense to have a little, little of this thing, just in case it does, it does take off. It catches on, but, but, but, but yeah, on that note though, I wanted to say like short to medium term, it does seem, you know, we're, we're obviously flat, you know, in terms of price action. We're also flat and down a little bit if you ask me in terms of sort of engagement, culturally, maybe. So a couple of, a couple of data points I noticed, one was stacker news. And if you listen us out on where stacker news is like a kind of Reddit style experience, but you can stack SATs. So if you make comments there that people like, they can kind of zap you, I guess is the, is the verb, a few SATs. And some people have made some serious, like money, like they've made like millions of SATs that just posting, just shit posting all day or posting informative things. And it's pretty high signal place, you know, you typically get pretty smart, well informed people are posting stuff and the algorithm is pretty good as well. It kind of, you know, so if you're going there and seeing a bunch of junk, what you need to do is you need to click on the, I think there's, there's, there's hot and there's recent or something like that. And tabs you can select. And if you select hot, it's pretty good at like putting useful content in front of you rather than the garbage spam and what have you. Anyway, it's all to say though, what I found interesting was that there was a post on stacker news and all the data in terms of user usage, et cetera, is apparently all available over public API. So it's all very transparent, but someone had done the analysis and found that the numbers of users have been completely flat over the last two years. So there's something like 1,100 active users on stacker news, but that number has been flat for two years. Another thing just anecdotally that I'd seen is, you know, Bitcoin podcast we've mentioned before on the show that they were kind of dying, like Peter McCormack's pivot, et cetera. There's a couple of more kind of anecdotal data points there. I noticed blue-collar Bitcoin, which I used to listen to, heads, I think their last episode was in June or something. Bitcoin rapid fire, which is John Vales, I think is his name, like a Robert Breedlove adjacent guy. I used to love having four-hour like philosophical podcast talking about Bitcoin. I think that one has stopped uploading your episode. So it seems more, I don't know, more data, which is suggesting that, you know, obviously got the flat price action, but I think you've got just interest in general is in Bitcoin is kind of waning. And, you know, my speculation is a lot of this is going over to AI. I think AI is kind of more more interesting than Bitcoin in many ways. There's obviously, like with Bitcoin, you get adjacent scams in AI. You know, there's a shit coin equivalent in AI, I think, because every company out there is trying to claim they're doing AI when really it's just like three or four core companies. But yeah, this is, I don't know, I find this interesting. I don't think it matters, because like I say, Bitcoin has proven itself, if you ask me as digital goal, that is an incredible innovation. I think those with capital in wealthy, in other words, people, high agency individuals will take advantage of this. We will see Bitcoin thrive going forward regardless of the sort of geopolitical, you know, difficulties or even perhaps because of them. And so I'm not concerned about Bitcoin's like long term viability, but it just I just find it interesting that we seem to be in this, you know, completing this transition away from Bitcoin as being something kind of interesting that you do a podcast about to something which is just maybe, you know, fading into the background a little bit like gold, where only those, you know, those who know follow it and follow the signal, but for the vast majority of people, they're just, it just, you know, it's just something in the background that they don't pay attention to. Any thoughts on that? Yeah, the, I think with something like Stacker News not to shoot on these guys or any of the other things, but like a lot of the Bitcoin stuff is just kind of schlocky copies of what's already out there. So of course, you're just, you know, like, why would anybody that's not a ridiculous maxi be on Stacker News? You know, like that doesn't, it just doesn't have broad appeal. You know, some, some, some chick who listens to Taylor Swift is not going to use Stacker News, you know, like what, like, why it doesn't make any sense. So I, one thing with the Bitcoin projects is they're always just kind of schlocky student project level things, which, which is unfortunate, they need to be a bit better. But, you know, with gold with dolly, you don't have dollar news, you know, these, the breed loves and these kind of ridiculous religious priest types had had enough time to kind of sell their garbage and that's coming to an end. You know, like you can only have so many bullshit think boy podcast and discussions about money, you know, like, it's just like you can't do it. Like, it's, it's either going to, you know, how many like people spend week hours weekly pouring over the philosophical implications of the dollar, right? Like, this is just, it's just the nonsensical. It has implications for a financial instrument and the tool, but you don't, you don't deeply ponder your relationship to the dollar. You don't deeply ponder your, your, your philosophical and spiritual investment in the dollar. I mean, like, these are just weird, weird things to be doing and the sooner they die, probably the better it is. As we've said for a bunch of times now, now that Uncle Larry and these other people are involved, it doesn't matter fucking Sean Vallis and Robert Breedlove and the rest of these fools can say whatever they want. It doesn't matter. It, it, it people with more capacity to make meaningful implementations of Bitcoin are now here. We kind of just wait for that to happen. So the death of the podcast is, it's probably good like, you know, as you know, and honestly, I think beyond that, it's like, um, uh, Twitter, uh, spaces, right? You don't need to wait for a podcast anymore. Now you can do it immediately, uh, listen to people kind of, uh, go, I mean, because you still have, um, people that'll, that'll tune into these spaces and they'll be talking the same kind of bullshit that they always did. Uh, but they just do it real time now and they can talk to each other. Um, spaces is actually an interesting concept, uh, for podcasting going forward. One part, there was too many of these fucking podcasts. Anyway, um, you know, the, the great oodie joke was like, you know, uh, you know, talking about the Bitcoin podcast, which, you know, like him or love him, as I've said before, I've, I've come to appreciate him in a, in a few different ways. And, uh, he was right. I mean, like, we just didn't need a, we just didn't need another fucking podcast. I've been going to build something or shut up. Like, like this is just irrelevant, uh, to have another podcast on these things. So my, um, uh, my, my thought is that it was just a flood of too many of these things. Um, our side, our group of guys is lazy. We want to make coffee or want to make soap and make podcasts, right? But there's real, but this is where the lefties and whatnot, uh, shines because they'll, they'll actually go out and build shit. Like Peter, Peter, who's in this is kind of a self, self-identified lefty. Like look at all the shit that he does versus, you know, shit that Robert Breedlove and what that does. So, um, we, we have got to be better at that. We got to start building more stuff and being more, um, involved in, in, in the construction of new businesses and new, uh, new implementations. I'd eat, and if you are in a Bitcoin, well, then we'd fucking make something that is Bitcoin, uh, meaningful, not another shitty website that seven people are going to use. Um, so I hope, uh, going forward, we get off our ass a little bit. The death of the podcast is perfectly fine, uh, especially the ones that are just kind of repeating the same shit over and over again and interviewing Greg Foss and whatnot for the same, the eighth thousandth time. Um, so, uh, I don't think any of that is bad and it, it had to happen eventually anyway. Um, and with, uh, it cultural, you know, all the cultural stuff about Bitcoin. Yeah. I mean, it, it goes out, but it goes down. Then we give a fuck about Bitcoin, you know, after, you know, between 2017 and 2020 and then give shit about it. Um, now the ETF were kind of a popping off point, uh, which, which brought some attention back to it, but yeah, price goes up, attention goes up. The other thing too is like the shit coins are just getting two levels of ridiculousness, which, you know, had been driving a lot of this, you know, it's just people like gambling on things. And with the meme coin, it's just complete nihilism now where it's like, I'm going to buy $50 worth of moudang coin and hope that little hippo, who I love, by the way, I fucking love moudang. Um, I hope that little shit should I get myself some bugs? I think that would already pop. Like moudang. I love that hippo. That is the greatest fucking meme I've ever seen. I don't know why I just love that hippo. That angry little baby hippo is my favorite. I, that, that just brings joy to my day whenever I see it. Um, I am blissfully ignorant about everything you're saying right now. So moudang, there was a, I don't know where this little hippo, it's a baby hippo. Um, that was born, I don't even know if it's just one hippo. I don't know enough about it. It's in Thailand or something, but it's a baby hippo. And if it's just, you know, baby hippos are cute, but if you don't know, hippos are, are angry, vicious fucking animals. So this, this thing with no teeth, this little baby thing with no thing is constantly like, um, attacking it, it handlers. So, you know, it can't hurt them, but it'll, it'll, it'll run up and bite them. And if it were real hippo, you would die, but like it's a baby hippo. So now it's just cute. So it's this cute little animal that just constantly attacking and biting, um, various people that try and interact with it. And it, it kind of caught on, online and become, has become a viral sensation. And, um, of course it got a meme point and that went to the moon and whatnot. But yeah, I mean, this is all just cynical bullshit and people just gambling online. So with the, with the fucking continued, um, just, uh, limp, dick nature of East this time and soul existing purely to rob people of money, uh, through these meme point things, like nobody's doing DeFi shit anymore. Nobody doing VC anything anymore. Nobody gives a flag fuck. I mean, like they, they burn part of the reason I think, uh, Bitcoin isn't so exciting anymore. It's because they just, um, they've rubbed so many people in 2017 and 2020 with this other bullshit that people are just like, I don't give a fuck about this. The shit, the shit coin is right. And so, and Bitcoin gets associated with that in the eyes of most, in the minds of most normies. Yeah, yeah, it makes sense. All right. Well, um, no, no worries. We'll move moving on from Bitcoin. Um, and just, just wanted to close off with a, with a bit of world news here. Um, so one thing you had mentioned that the Florida thing was like downgraded to a cut, cut a degree three or something. I, I had seen the Tampa Bay Rays lose their roof of, of their stage photos that the, you know, they, they're not sure if they're going to be able to play in there in, in March, uh, for the, for the, um, start of the new baseball season. So I, I'm not, I'm not sure which is right. Well, it was still a hurricane. It was just like, they were predicting like Jesus was going to come back and resort to all of Florida. Um, and that just, it didn't happen, you know. Okay. All right. Jesus is not a baseball fan, then I guess just stay in there. Um, okay. So, but I found that interesting. Yeah, the roof, apparently that roof was spec'd at like to resist 120 mile an hour winds and they had planned to put the, um, emergency workers were going to shelter there, um, in the stadium and then they had to change the, yeah, they had to change the plans. Well, so they, I mean, this, I guess, um, maybe one, what, how would you say like, you know, we concerned about the competency crisis and whatever, but it seems that they in advance, uh, knew that this was going to, it was going to exceed the, the spec'd, you know, 120, um, miles an hour. And so they actually moved everyone before. It struck, but, uh, but still it's, um, yeah. I mean, that's kind of, I don't know. I mean, I, I guess there's, you know, there's always been hurricanes and I know this has been politicized now. It's like, you know, if you, if you believe in hurricanes, you're a lefty. Um, so it's an energy weapon. Yeah. I've noticed that. Yeah. That that's the new one, right? The new one is that, um, this is all just like, Black Rock is firing things into the clouds or something to, to control this. Yeah. Um, I don't know. That's, that, that's a little out there for me, although I have, I have constantly been, I've been saying this for years and then finally like, you know, three years after the conspiracy theories, I'm having to admit that maybe they had, they had a point about a lot of things. So I'll, I'll keep my, uh, I'll keep my mind open to this, but it does seem rather unlikely. Um, but yeah, it's, you know, flocked Florida is being hit with, with large storms. Um, I don't know. It's, uh, it is, it is concerning. I, you know, I, I tend to, my opinion on the whole climate change thing is, it probably is happening, but then, uh, I don't know how much like we're, like, we're, we're in control of that, to be honest. I don't, I'm not, you know, you know, I'm not sure how much like, you know, putting my groceries in plastic bags is really contributing to that. I, you know, just the climate changes. We know, we know that looking at the geographical record. And I know people are saying it's like super, super, uh, accelerated. And that's, that's something to do with carbon and whatever, but I, it's, it's, it's way out of my pay grade. I have no idea. Um, but, but I, but I, but I, I don't know, it seems like, um, these kind of extreme weather events are, um, like looking, looking to increase going forward. And you know, again, that might be something you, you want to consider like Florida real estate markets, probably, you know, not maybe, maybe not where you want to be investing all your money. Um, I don't know any, any, any, any thoughts about that and how that might also impact us here in Japan. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't, I mean, I'm, I'm, I've heard enough of the debates and the climate change stuff where I'm not overly swayed by it. I think there's, um, enough people that have, uh, talked through the, uh, the modeling and, and, and the quote unquote silence behind it, that it doesn't seem nearly what they, what they want it to be. Um, certainly not to the, not, can't be used to the, uh, implement the draconian bullshit that they want. Um, the, uh, I don't know. We didn't get any, you know, Florida got a big one. Did we even fucking have one this year in Japan? No, I don't think we don't, do we have any time for it? We, I think we had one, I was out of the country. Maybe you were at the same time as well. Um, wasn't that people were blaming the rice shortage on that, weren't they? Or was that an earthquake? Anyway, um, I think we had a couple in, uh, in all this time, or, yeah, but I mean, like nothing, you know, like it didn't even know over grandma's house here. So, um, like, so for every big one that's over there, there was not one over here. You know, uh, so I don't know, it doesn't seem like it's getting any bigger. Um, the, the, the weather events don't seem any more extreme than any other point. Just, you know, unfortunate that, you know, you know, over 100s and thousands of years. I mean, eventually, like you get a shitty season in the US. It just happens to be highlighted because, you know, it wouldn't have been, nobody would have given a fuck if it weren't an election year, right? And they weren't so prominent in the US that it hit these things that are considered swing states. To be honest with you, I don't even think, I think a lot of the response has just been, um, a fuck you with the establishment, um, because they're not getting the traction that they, that they want. Um, and so they're going to let these people die because fuck them. Um, so it's more just kind of base, uh, uh, retribution against, uh, people who are not falling in line as they should, um, than anything else. There would probably some cynical thought, maybe if they blow up enough parts of, of the Chud areas in North Carolina, they can flip it blue. But, um, once again, they're incompetent shows them like with this, with this moron on TV, fucking drinking coffee or beer or whatever, whatever nonsense she did on this late night shows while the North Carolina explodes, much to the surprise of no one that does not inspire confidence in anyone picking their fucking leader. Uh, so they're like, well, I didn't see that. If this idiot is going to be on TV or on podcast making shitty content, um, maybe I should not vote for her because this person's a moron. Hmm. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, there we go. Um, extreme weather. Be careful out there. Um, so yeah, just, uh, just wanted to finish on one item here. Again, we've had a bit of a slow news week, it seems, but one thing that I found was interesting was, I think, I think Elon's gone in on Trump now, right? He's gone all in. He's claimed. Yeah, he's, okay. And also you mentioned you alluded to it earlier on, but the poly market, I think he's shifted. I think it's 56% now. Um, I want to check this morning. I was saying Trump's going to win, not the popular vote, but the, uh, but the one that matters. Um, and so looking more and more light, we're going to get a Trump presidency unless they can, unless they can, you know, third times a charm with them, with them taking him out. But, um, any, so yeah, are you, are you feeling pretty, pretty bullish, um, about this? Yeah, I think, um, he, she has, uh, she had a grace period where she came out and they're like firm black woman and then blackston legger because she's fucking irritating. And, uh, she's as black as I am. Um, uh, she, Trump hasn't deared himself by getting shim self shot and persecuted, um, a lot. He's just better at media than, than any of these people. Uh, he went on all the podcasts early on and got all the attention. And he, and he's, and dears himself in conversation. She goes on anywhere and it just sounds like the most repugnant and awful person that you, you, like there, you know, there's a reason you didn't put Biden on because he's retarded, right? But at least 25 years ago, you could put him on TV and he was still a horrible human being, but like he could have sounded appropriate on TV. She just fucking sucks. She's complete waste of space. I, I have no idea. Um, this is where the competency they come in again. It's like, I realize having a, uh, a diversity pick there, get, get some brown chick throw in there, click the box, but I could have thrown a rock down the street in fucking LA and hit a better brown for you to, to, to put out there than, than that one. I have no idea how you pick this, this incoherent moron. Um, she goes out and just looks ridiculous. So, if Trump gets in and he, he does the patron in politics, politics thing, it's good for us. We, we gave him a bunch of money. So it's good for Bitcoin. Maybe that 60,000 doesn't get dumped. Um, yeah, he does an executive order. Uh, he gets in there a bunch, you know, being a foreigner that one of the other things was going to stop, uh, taxing on people living, Americans living abroad. So there's a bunch of things for me, which if that, you know, if that old man gets in, probably work out good for me, Trump's America is, uh, is great, uh, for, for Andy. So may that, may that unfold. Um, and then we get, uh, perhaps the, the Elon rain, speaking of Elon with his, him and Peter Thiel's, uh, choke hold on, uh, Vance, you know, we get them in and we get to see what the new technocracy looks like. At least it'll be different than the old gay retarded technocracy. And maybe it won't be any better in the long run, but it'll certainly be less irritating than the current one. How much does Elon's endorsement, so this is, this is just a more explicit endorsement, right? I think he said, I don't follow any of this, I'm not on Twitter. Um, but he's, I think he said something like if Trump loses, he's screwed or something, right? Yeah, they're going to arrest me. Yeah. Um, well, I mean, he's obviously been behind Trump for the past, probably 18, 24 months. He, he's kind of one of those old school, uh, libertarian types that probably was perfectly happy on a 1990s, uh, Democrat or left party, but then they just become so weird. And then they, they, this, this, I think probably is the, with him, the driving thing is the trans thing. They killed it and he said this before. They, they killed my son and fucked them. And I think that had a lot of it. I think that's true for a lot of people. I think that's what, um, quote unquote, radicalize me more than any of the topic. Like that was when I was like, whoa, what, what's going on? Like this, like that's, that's when the whole thing descended into complete fast for me. And then I was like, okay, well, I can't be associated. I can't be on that side. I can't be anywhere near that side. Um, and they're going, like, I don't know my, in my workplace, they go hard on that. Like that isn't, like that does, like I don't, they haven't trans my son or anything. Yeah. Um, but, but like, I'm like, like, um, they, they, they, they hammer that, um, messaging, um, daily almost in the place that I work. So it is like a daily thing that it hurts. And it's not, it's not just like me and upsetting myself by reading the, you know, whatever, the right wing clickbait stuff. Like it is, it is kind of impacting on my life. Because I'm like, guys, I don't want to, I don't know, stop sending me emails about this crap. Yeah. So, so I, so I imagine there's a lot of people who are sort of radicalized over that. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, I'm, I, you know, I'll take a box cutter to your throat if you come after my kids and they do that. Yeah. They do that in the schools. That's the messaging online. They, they shoved this, um, anti human, uh, destructive gibberish at me all the time. So it's like, all right. Because I was, I, I had been calling, you know, this, you know, we both called ourselves libertarians for long time. Just leave me to fuck alone. And like, they said, no. All right. Well, you, you started the war, man. Like I got, I, you left me with no fucking choice. I was perfectly happy to let, I go ahead, let the games get married. Do whatever the hell you want. Just leave me out of this, right? Don't, if you want, do whatever the fuck you want over there. And then they said, no. All right. Well, if the war has, if the, if the war is coming to me, there's no point in pretending like it's not. And I think more and more people are falling in line. I was like, well, all right. Well, time, time to pick up my, uh, time to pick up my, my, uh, my nerf bat and start whacking away if you're coming at me. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. The guys getting married. Yeah, that didn't have the same effect. Although there was the whole birthday cake thing, whatever, the wedding cake thing or whatever. So it did begin with that. If you think about it, like the whole, yeah. Yeah. And, but, but the trans thing is that on steroids, because it's like, now we're not only going to make you force you to bake cakes that you don't want to bake. We're going to, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're literally the grammar of your language is going to change. You know, we're going to control the grammar of your language that you use. And in that, that, that's just a whole level of Orwellian shit that I was not, that was not my bingo card, you know, 10 years and a fucking lumberjack at six foot three and a beard. You have to be like, yes, ma'am. What? No, I mean, I fucking absurd. Right. Right. So there we go. So that's a little, little, I don't know. That's our coverage of clown wheel for the week. But yeah, that's the, that's the list we're through through the list. It was a good one, a good long show today. But yeah, we'll be back, I guess next week with, with, with other topics. So very good. Good discussion. These things today. All right, little homie. Cool. Yeah, I'm looking at Skyline as I drive my Skyline. I'm rockin' baby name like Neo went away. Tokyo drift in what Nakimoto gifted. These dollars don't make sense. No longer on the fence. Bitcoin only homie. Michael sailor told me. Ain't no second best. No, it's my one and only fear takin' nails. Yeah, Bitcoin doing well. I'm in Tokyo. 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