Hello.
Blair:Hello, everyone.
Blair:This is episode 65 of the Secular Foxhole
Blair:podcast.
Blair:Today is just Barton and I, and we're going to
Blair:cover some topics that we want to talk about and we think are worthy of mention.
Blair:This coming February 2, of course, is Iron Rand's birthday.
Blair:She was born in 19 five.
Blair:Was it still Russia back then, or was it the
Blair:Soviet Union, one or the other.
Blair:And we want to celebrate that birth by
Blair:continuing the tradition.
Blair:I think that Harry Ben's wanting to start
Blair:calling it Rans Day.
Blair:Martin, I want to kick off by asking you or
Blair:saying, do you know that for more than two millennia, 99% of the world operates on a
Blair:false premise? Can you guess what that premise might be?
Martin:You have to tell me about that.
Blair:It's original sin.
Blair:Or that man is fallen.
Blair:All the strife, all the misery, all the bad things are based on this false premise.
Blair:All the bad things that are happening are based on this false premise.
Blair:Not because man has fallen, because man has accepted, for the most part that this is true.
Blair:That's more than my personal opinion.
Blair:I think it's fact.
Martin:Yeah. And that's what's valuable, that Rand didn't accept that she had to move from
Martin:one place to another and then build a career and writing and come up with a philosophy and
Martin:so on.
Martin:Right.
Blair:She escaped the closet of the Soviet Union, came to breathe the free air here in
Blair:America, but she also saw that America was headed in that direction and still is, sadly,
Blair:because of the false premise that nearly everyone accepts.
Martin:Go ahead.
Martin:Yeah. Hopefully to see, because she also
Martin:saying, to paraphrase, as we are doing, fighting for Second Renaissance.
Blair:Right.
Martin:We are living here today, and thanks to technology and sort of free market, we
Martin:could do it, and we have freedom of expression and free speech.
Martin:Again, what we'll talk more also about this podcast and 2.2 initiative and value for
Martin:value.
Martin:But it's hard to stop.
Martin:I mean, she went from a place where you couldn't speak out, and then she saw that in
Martin:America, some way that was similar way also.
Martin:But she got the platform, for example, for the
Martin:whole forum that she founded and her, you could say, magazines or newsletter and also
Martin:that she wrote op eds and yeah, many things, fiction and.
Blair:Nonfiction, obviously, and then the talks.
Martin:So that's why a day like that, you could celebrate that.
Martin:She was born on February 2, 1905.
Blair:That's correct.
Blair:Yes. I first remember, I think I was 23, and I
Blair:was introduced to the Fountain Head by a good friend of mine.
Blair:Still my good friend, one of my two good friends is here in America.
Blair:He just said, hey, have you ever heard of this?
Blair:I want you to read this.
Blair:I think he's more accurate of how he
Blair:approached me about it.
Blair:And I said, sure.
Blair:And, boy, the saying is true.
Blair:It changed my life.
Blair:It opened up a whole new vistas for me.
Blair:I realized also that I had a lot of work to
Blair:do, shedding and shredding religion and other chains.
Blair:So I'm still working on that today, some 40 years later.
Blair:40 plus years later.
Martin:Yeah, that's what you said before, that even if we don't accept it and we don't
Martin:pick it or choose it, it is in society in different way.
Martin:And the culture about this sin lately, it is about the new religion, like environmentalism.
Blair:Exactly.
Martin:Because we are breeding or taking space or place or changing our environment,
Martin:our surroundings, it's like a sin.
Martin:Because when they accept in a way, because the
Martin:animals of the nature, they don't have free will, so then they can't be blamed, so to
Martin:speak.
Martin:But if you have it, then it's some sinful
Martin:thing.
Martin:I think about the hardcore environmentalists
Martin:at least.
Blair:It'S becoming broader, I think, across the board in a way, because there's so many
Blair:absurdities that you see in the news today about that.
Blair:Of course they would claim that you and I are planet Rapists because we.
Martin:Don'T follow that bug to come or something like that.
Blair:Yes.
Martin:And again, we will focus on a positive thing you could see when you saw about the
Martin:original sin and what brand went from the country and how what's going on now.
Martin:But we have also mentioned in the episode about Russian Orthodox Church, for example,
Martin:and how they playing a role in the war going on, right?
Blair:Yes. Putin and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Blair:There's your attila in the witch doctor premise right there.
Blair:And that's that Ukraine is not perfect.
Martin:And they have their history also.
Martin:You could look at that and we'll probably talk
Martin:more about that in the future.
Martin:And again, to celebrate somebody who wanted to
Martin:create something, you change something.
Martin:And again, when you leave it in today, if
Martin:you're fighting for that's right tomorrow's, second round of those, you fight for the
Martin:future.
Blair:You live in it today.
Blair:That's I think more accurate quote from her,
Blair:but that's, again, just the sheer magnitude of her genius.
Blair:And I've often said to some people that you could take a single paragraph of what she
Blair:wrote and do a doctoral thesis on it.
Blair:You do your doctoral thesis on it.
Blair:That's how in depth and how clear logical she was.
Blair:Otherwise, go ahead.
Martin:Yeah, we do it in our way, not to remind individuals about that thinking
Martin:individuals.
Martin:So we had an episode here in August 2022
Martin:called Ran Stay Boost Number 54.
Martin:And I created then you could say, I mean, it's
Martin:open to everyone to do it, but then to add it on a numbers page of Boost, like symbolic
Martin:numbers on a page on GitHub.
Martin:And then Ran Stay Boost number was created.
Martin:And that's this number that you could say slowly so audience could get it and write it
Martin:down, the number it.
Blair:Is 221905 and that's February 2 and.
Martin:The year 19, 1905. And then it will be become 221,905 Satushi's.
Martin:And then you could ask what's the Satushi? That's a bit of a bitcoin, correct.
Martin:The Bitcoin is daily price changes.
Martin:So today, now it's around $50 in fiat money,
Martin:fiat currency or whatever you want to call it.
Martin:So if you would donate that.
Martin:So I have a call to action here that you download a new podcast app like Fountain and
Martin:podverse and then you could stream Satoshi's and also send Satoshi like a booster gram and
Martin:like a digital telegram on Ramsay, for example.
Martin:And you could do other symbolic donations like the Liberty Boast and that's 1776 Satoshi's.
Martin:Or if you, as you are, you are a fan of Rush, could do a Rush Boast and the album that was
Martin:inspired or dedicated to Rant.
Blair:Right, right, dedicated to her, yes.
Martin:And then of course you could do this Rand Stay boost of 22195 Satoshi around $50
Martin:today.
Blair:The interesting thing again, we want to follow up from our last guest, professor
Blair:Richard Ebeling.
Blair:He said that for any currency, to be honest,
Blair:it has to be separated from government control, it has to be a market driven
Blair:currency.
Blair:And Bitcoin, I believe, is that it's certainly
Blair:leading us out of the fiat currency abyss.
Blair:That's why, although we are still nervous and
Blair:neophytes concerning Bitcoin, we are staunchly in favor of it because of that separation of
Blair:economics and state.
Martin:Yeah.
Blair:Go ahead.
Martin:Yeah, as an example, then, we are new to this and new beasts and also, as we call it
Martin:sometimes we are serious about to be capitalism.
Martin:That Richard Solsman explains so good that cap is coming from, for example, a cap, baseball
Martin:cap or thinking cap or capital in that way the brain and activity and the mind and create
Martin:something.
Martin:So that's why you do the so called walk the
Martin:talk and you also listen to other podcasters and you see what they are proposing and their
Martin:value, what they are creating.
Martin:And you do an exchange voluntarily, value for
Martin:value.
Blair:That's right.
Martin:And that it could be related to the trade principle, for example.
Martin:But here is to think about it, what's worth to listen to us, to listen to our guests and what
Martin:we create and what we write in blog post and so on.
Martin:So I did ran state boost to Adam Curry and Dave Jones of Podcasting 2.0.
Martin:Podcast recently.
Martin:So it will be on time to Ransday.
Martin:It was on a Friday there.
Martin:So when I said that from the Instagram page
Martin:and Rans day boost of 22195 Satushi's Brand's birthday February 2 19, five guest premises.
Martin:My name Martin Linda Cook and then I am on Lysum on Podcast Index social that is on this
Martin:mastered on service and they read it on air, so to speak, and when it's now published also.
Martin:So you could make a clip of it and send out and be inspired and do a call to action,
Martin:right.
Martin:If you have any questions about how you do it
Martin:now fountain.
Martin:And also it's easy by this Get Albi thing and
Martin:also to top up your wallet, so to speak.
Martin:So you could do that with the debit card and
Martin:Via in a very easy way.
Martin:It's payment transfer service, I think you
Martin:call Moon Pay, but it's integrated in the app, so you don't have to do all kind of side steps
Martin:or different applications or several steps.
Martin:It's very easy to do.
Martin:But fascinating is also when you do that, it's to think about now I'm changing fiat to real
Martin:money to bitcoin and now I'm giving it away as a value for value.
Martin:But there your own bit of a bitcoin, very small, but a bit, and that's the transaction
Martin:then it has to be.
Martin:And that will be interesting.
Martin:Like David, wexler talked about proof red, but it's correct and it's very open and
Martin:transparent.
Martin:So it will take some time.
Martin:Of course, if you go to the bank, it could take some time manually and so on.
Martin:And if you do it value exchange or like going to an exchange physical, it takes time also.
Martin:But to wait you get the confirmation and then up to maybe like a half an hour or something
Martin:like that.
Martin:But then it's there, but then they have to
Martin:check it, but everything is in order to do it.
Martin:So it's fascinating to see.
Martin:And then I could create this booster ground with Digital Telegram and send it and when I
Martin:see they receive it and then it show up on the fountain like now called Bowler Boost if it's
Martin:bobbling or like a big strike or what's the reference, but it's also listed now in
Martin:Fountain Activity feed.
Martin:So I have got a nice comment, like a heart or
Martin:like you could say and that's ten sets, everyone doing that.
Martin:And also we will let Van Van, after we're going through with statistics, do a shout out
Martin:to individuals that have supported us by streaming and also sending in a boost to grab.
Blair:Great.
Blair:Now we have a couple of websites that we want
Blair:to promote for the secular foxhole and one of them, of course, is Https, the secular hyphen
Blair:foxhole captivate FM and I'm trying to bring up the other one.
Martin:Yeah, the secular foxhole in one word, live.
Blair:That's right.
Martin:Thank you.
Blair:Yes, that's correct.
Martin:You got that great domain.
Blair:Yes, I did.
Martin:It's powered by Pod page.
Blair:Pod page, it's crazy.
Martin:Tool web tool, web page tool for podcasters.
Martin:And we will be I will remind Brandon about to add to the buttons to listen here or download
Martin:here.
Martin:Also new podcast apps.
Martin:We could add it on the website because now, how do you say the old ones, but they are not
Martin:compliant or with value for value, they are welcome to come, but we are focusing on the
Martin:new one like podverse and fountain.
Martin:But you also could listen our lives.
Martin:It was interesting to hear when we were talking, when they mentioned it, so when it's
Martin:really on the air, you could say, True.
Blair:I was glad again.
Blair:Plus, it's very reasonable at $20 a month for
Blair:the Pod page live site.
Blair:That's exceptionally reasonable.
Blair:And in keeping with the majority of our show, hope today, hopefully today is positive.
Blair:I want to mention this great website called HumanProgress.org O-R-G and they specialize
Blair:and focus on the great things that human progress and humanity are doing today that
Blair:don't get any press, if you will.
Blair:And they also, I guess, the founder of the
Blair:website, Marion Tupi, T-U-P-Y-M-A-R-I-A-N this gentleman and co author, they came out with a
Blair:book called Superabundance, basically about all the great things that are happening in
Blair:spite of interference by people like the environmentalists and so on and so forth.
Blair:And the people like the WEF people clause Schwab, who wants to do the great reset.
Blair:But anyway, I'm at that website right now.
Blair:Let me just read a couple of the great things
Blair:that are happening that probably very few people know about.
Blair:Let's see.
Blair:Asteroid mining startup Astro Forge to launch
Blair:first space missions this year.
Blair:That's pretty cool.
Blair:And here's a great one how to be 18 years old Again for only $2 million a year.
Blair:Now, wait till now, those who want to abolish billionaires, wait until they do that.
Blair:And for you and I, it's $200 a year.
Blair:That's how the market works.
Blair:Let's see.
Blair:But this story promising.
Blair:Gene therapy delivers treatment directly to the brain.
Blair:And now you can open that up and find out what that's about.
Blair:But there's several, just hundreds and hundreds of things going on daily all around
Blair:the world that no one ever knows about.
Blair:So HumanProgress.org Org is a great place to
Blair:go to uplift your spirit.
Blair:And their book, too, which I bought, but I
Blair:haven't got to it's on the pile to be read, of course, but I haven't started that yet.
Blair:But I will.
Blair:I'm trying to get the author on for that on
Blair:our show this year.
Martin:Good.
Blair:But as far as new guests coming down the pike, I have to get busy.
Blair:I haven't really set anything up other than we have a potential guest in her book, but it
Blair:hasn't been finalized.
Martin:And we have also a potential fellow podcaster, so we will maybe next time we could
Martin:give some more updates on that pipeline.
Blair:But the main focus of the show today was we wanted to celebrate and promote Rand's
Blair:Day, February 2.
Blair:And I personally want to thank Ms. Rand for
Blair:everything she's done for me and has continued to do for me.
Blair:That's basically all I've got.
Martin:Martin yeah, so we'll do here about the stats from Captivate.
Blair:Yes, please.
Martin:So the all time unique listeners are now 3561.
Blair:Excellent.
Martin:And of course, you have to take it with a bit of grain of salt and how you
Martin:measure it, but they should measure it like on IP address or unique identification for
Martin:someone without any privacy, things like that.
Martin:That's interesting over this time and then the
Martin:download total so far is 7078.
Blair:Nice.
Martin:And so the average per day, calculating the analytics page is like eight
Martin:per day, but we have been pretty stable.
Martin:But we want to grow that.
Martin:We see the potential, 80 per day, 800, et cetera.
Martin:So we will shoot for that in the long run.
Martin:But it's a good trend and you see the latest.
Martin:I sent you some stats from different episodes, but some old ones will continue to be listened
Martin:to and downloaded and also new ones that is going good.
Martin:So if you take like an average per 28 days, like a month, that's 224.
Martin:And if you compare with that general number still I think 150 downloads, unique downloads
Martin:per episode.
Martin:Of course it depends on the length of the
Martin:podcast, how often you are publishing, et cetera.
Martin:If you take all the podcasts out there and according to podcast index where it's 4
Martin:million that are registered, but they could also be maybe not so active and so on.
Martin:So if you see like on a three months period, maybe you have around 500,000 or something
Martin:like that.
Martin:So if you take that and see 150 and you have
Martin:some that are lower than that and then of course some of our much bigger and so on, we
Martin:are getting there.
Martin:Yes, we have like two episodes per month, 224,
Martin:28 days when we are getting there, but we aspire to continue because we see again the
Martin:potential and that could be also I don't have a list there but I sent the screenshot, I
Martin:think it's 85 countries now or something like that.
Martin:But I've downloaded and list the top list that I sent to you were also with USA, India,
Martin:Sweden, et cetera, also knew what they are up and coming and so on.
Blair:That's great.
Blair:I didn't look at the whole list but I saw the
Blair:top ten or.
Martin:20 and I also mentioned a guy called John Sperlock, but he has a product called
Martin:Upfree Dev and I also sent you a link so he has very interesting data.
Martin:For example, it was one special app that I wonder that was popular in Spanish language
Martin:Radiance, where that could come from, for example.
Martin:And I don't think we will look into that more in the future.
Martin:Okay.
Martin:And then I went here also I will do a
Martin:proposition or proposal also for new boost to gram numbers, but we will do a shout out here
Martin:to Karen Down and I will now open the app here of the Fountain app.
Martin:Yeah, and I have it here.
Martin:So we have in his latest period of like 30
Martin:days, we have got earned 1467 sets to supporters.
Blair:Nice. That's very nice.
Blair:Thank you, guys.
Martin:Mere mortals on fountain.
Martin:So that's Chiron, he sent 1376, and then
Martin:somebody called yes Brewer.
Martin:I think it's saying like ninety one cents.
Martin:And that's like the streaming.
Martin:And he tyrone did that on the latest episode
Martin:with Dr. Evelyn and he says it was 2222, like the docs in the row.
Martin:Okay, that was a very interesting point about how slave owners were against capitalists
Martin:because of how they would treat their workers.
Martin:Rather amusing if it wasn't so messed up.
Blair:I appreciate that.
Martin:So that's what you could do if you something that you comment on or thinking
Martin:about or got your thinking, and you could do it in different ways.
Martin:And then it's to send a digital telegram and send the symbolic numbers with satoshi's.
Blair:True enough, sir, true enough.
Martin:Well, yeah, at when I propose this to have like a Boston Tea Party boost, could be
Martin:something for the future, and it will be then twelve, and then I don't remember.
Blair:Okay, you tell me.
Martin:And then one seven, seven free.
Martin:So it's like twelve month with December.
Martin:So that will be like 12 million satoshi.
Martin:So around $2,800 today's value.
Martin:But that could be something for end of the year here for somebody maybe in Boston area to
Martin:celebrate, because I think it's very important day to remember and celebrate and think about.
Martin:And then at the end here, how about Atlas Frag Day, 1946.
Martin:So that's September 2.
Blair:September 2, 1946.
Martin:So that will be then around US dollar 212 in today's.
Martin:And you could go to if you want to check out the currency here, currency world, like the
Martin:globe currency world.
Martin:And then you could check for Satushi.
Martin:Then you could put in your US dollar whatever fiat currency.
Martin:And then satushi.
Martin:Since.
Blair:I like that.
Blair:So again, happy ran stay happy, happy
Blair:birthday, Iron Rand.
Blair:And thank you, Martin.
Martin:Thank you Blair, and talk to you soon again.
Blair:Sounds wonderful.