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Good afternoon everyone.

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This is an addition of the secular

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Fox with just Martin and I.

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Martin has some good stuff that he wants to share

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with everyone and today our top are going to be

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the podcasting 2.0 which I believe was fathered by Adam

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Curry the podfather and Dave Jones, his sidekick and their

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extension of that called Value for Value Martin.

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How are you?

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I'm fine, and yourself?

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I'm doing okay.

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Got some hectic activity here at the house

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but otherwise I'm trying to hang in there.

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Good Blair, appreciate that.

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And we are now coming up to soon third year here.

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Yes we are, yes.

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September we'll talk a little bit about that plans and

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we are always glad to get feedback, ideas, thoughts and

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so on today we will talk about then for episode

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54 here and the title will be RandsDay Boost

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number and I will propose to this page called Boost

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Gram numerology, how would you say it?

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Numerology. Yeah, thanks.

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Numbers, things like that with symbolic numbers.

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Like for example, one of your

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favorite bands is Rush, right?

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Right, certainly yes.

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And I remember on a presentation how people come to RAND'S

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work and some of them are doing that through Rush album

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2112 and that's an example of a boostagram that

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you could send to somebody like a podcaster.

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So that's listed on this page.

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So I wanted to add like two like ducks in the row.

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If you look at the number two, if you

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have good imagination, it looks like a duck.

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But here is my proposition proposal for the future.

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I will see if I could add it in because if this

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is a bit geeky nerdy so you have to add it on

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something called GitHub page that programmers and so on are using.

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So you could propose things and you could fix things and

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you could do as I did maybe break things also.

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You're talking is that github? Yeah. Okay.

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I include that in the show notes also.

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But Podnews net James Cridland, he has a podcast

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called Podnews reporting on the podosphere and what's

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going on with podcasts and so on.

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So he created a page there on GitHub.

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And there you have Brian of London where we know that

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thanks us that we had Bosch Fawstin guest back in the

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day and also Oscar Merry, that's the founder of Fountain.

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They are all contributors to this page.

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But I have done something called a pull request to

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adding two ducks in a row because I have heard

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about it and I have also given it myself.

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But here is my proposal for the future and I will

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see here if you could guess Blair and the listeners.

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So it's 221,905.

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Well that's February 2 five was Ayn Rand's birthday. Yes.

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So the Rand's Day site called Randsday.com, I think

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it's Harry Binswanger that created that one.

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I believe that's true.

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And others that have written blog posts and articles about that

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that could be a holiday RandsDay so what do you

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think about that boostagram number for the future?

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Well, for the future, I'm sure, hopefully we'll

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have that to be able to cover that.

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That would be an ideal sum to give. Yes.

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So we could prepare until then,

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next year, on February 2.

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Of course, you could already boost us with that

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number, if you want, but I want to have

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so called official to get it there.

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And that's the beauty of the thing, that

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you could always propose something like that.

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So that lists have all kind of interesting,

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like the pi number, all kinds of interesting

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numbers, and some are shorter and some are

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longer, depending on the symbolic in the thing.

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So if you convert this, because satoshis are bits of

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a bitcoin, so if you take one bitcoin and then

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divide it 100 million times, then you get the satoshi.

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So today and it fluctuates a bit today.

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Now when I did the screen dump of it.

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So this number two, two 1905 Satoshis are worth

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or converted to this currency in fiat dollars, 54.54.

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So that's a good bit of change, right?

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$54.54, is that true?

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Yes, around $50. Okay.

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If we will get that as a donation, we would be

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happy to receive that, I could say absolutely, yeah, sure.

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But this is again the beauty of the thing.

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You could send very small amount with no

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transaction fee directly from one to another.

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And this is again to get this going.

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So this is my proposal for the future.

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RandsDay boost number.

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Very cool.

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And then I could give you some stats.

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Here what we have received so

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far and then you will understand.

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It sounds maybe like a big number,

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but then you see what it is.

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But we are happy because this

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is only the beginning of things.

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The whole podcast index has been around for two years.

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Right now it's around 8000 podcasts that are

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hooked up to, as you mentioned, value for

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value model of 4 million podcasts.

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So we have received 7777, seven SATS, so forth.

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So that's about $2, I'll take it though.

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And we've got like ten supporters.

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And we are using Fountain app and you could use

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of course, our own app that we are paying for.

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So we need support for that one.

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But this is in beta.

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But it's fascinating how you could start with

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getting a comment, a feedback or a shout

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out and then you have a note.

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And then with that note you have direct transaction or

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donation or support or whatever you want to call it.

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You could call it tokens also.

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But it is real money, it is a part of a bitcoin.

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And we have a guest. Dave Veksler.

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But explain that in a great way.

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Yes, you did the whole thing and

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we are still newbies, we are learning.

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But the whole thing that you could

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do it in a simple way.

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We have received donations by PayPal and other things,

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buy Me a coffee, and we appreciate that very much.

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Also, of course, there are some

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middleman and some cuts and whatnot.

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And we believe in the free market.

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So we want to have friendly competition here.

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So I will do a bit here.

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Announce the winner of this episode of 50,000

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Satoshis that Fountain will give as a campaign.

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So it's mere mortals and he sent 2111, two, one, one.

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So that's around you calculate that quickly.

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We could say something like that.

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And he said on July 24,

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always nice hearing another aussie accent.

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Funnily enough, I don't listen to so many Aussies.

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Podcasts is all my favorites are around the globe.

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Related to episode 52 with

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remaining guest Vinay Kolhatkar, right? Yeah.

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He's in Australia.

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That episode.

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So you will see also if people have

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done directly to the show or if you

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have done it to a specific episode also.

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And then if somebody writes a note, you could

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also comment on that back or reply to it.

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So if we say this, then we

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have added Vinay and he's Savvy Street.

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So he added himself to this fountain app.

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We had added him to the split 31%,

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and you and I get 32 each.

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And then it is 1% is going back

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to the podcast index for system and then

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4% Fountain is taking for running this also.

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I think that's pretty fair all around. Yeah.

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So in the future, when people listen and

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donate to these episodes, our guest is there,

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he will get the cut of it.

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And we want all our guests who want to

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join this to add them to the split.

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So that's pretty fascinating how that

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could work out in the future. That's right.

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I'm again more and more fascinated with

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this bitcoin idea that it's completely decentralized.

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In other words, the government cannot manipulate it.

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No, that alone is worth anyone

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who's skeptical to investigate it.

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And the best book on that that I have found,

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and I know Martin is reading it as well, it's

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called The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous.

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It's S-A-I-F-E-D-E-A-N-A-M-M-O-U-S.

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He's a brilliant economist and both Martin

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and I are plowing through that book.

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And I bought his second book called The Fiat

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Standard, which I'm sure he decimates the history of

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fiat currency and how it's basically destructive of wealth.

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I can't wait to finish this book to start that one,

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and hopefully some day he will be on our show.

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But that's maybe a pipe dream at the moment.

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But I didn't tell Martin about this, but

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I'm going to give a shout out to

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Jack Spirko and his podcast, The Survival Podcast.

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He's been doing that for, I think, 15 years.

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And just recently he had a gentleman on, I believe

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his name is Guy Swann, and he has one of

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the most legitimate bitcoin where you can purchase bitcoin.

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And that's even as small an amount as $10 a month or

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as much as $50 a week or whatever, $10,000 a week.

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If you're wealthy, you can do any range like that.

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And I actually started a bitcoin account with Swan

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Bitcoin and I am an affiliate and I'll give

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my affiliate web address in the show Notes and

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I have to disclose that I get 25% of

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any new member using my link for twelve months. Great.

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That's pretty cool.

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Yeah, that's very good.

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I listened to that when I was

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on a train from being on vacation.

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Oh yeah, cool.

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Listen to that.

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He was a guest on the show.

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But he has a podcast himself also, right?

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Yes, he does.

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And he also has a podcast about thanks for that.

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Reminded me because I was looking for this, because I

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will talk about that on my podcast, Tea Party Media.

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I got a reaction of somebody using

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Fountain, but especially about this bitcoin.

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And Adam Curry had said that also that

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this cryptocurrency and bitcoin could be confusing and

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also people could be afraid of it.

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But he has a podcast also, I think about all

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these, and I don't use strong words, but sh star,

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t, coins and all these kind of things, because if

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you have that list of all the so called cryptocurrencies

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out there, it's lots of garbage.

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But again, if it's a free market,

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it will take care of itself.

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It's sad if people are getting fooled

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or duped or dumped or whatever.

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But yeah, I think he has a podcast about that also.

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Really taking care of the bad apples out there.

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Yes, that's good.

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He's a very sharp, very intelligent individual and I grew

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to respect him just in that hour and a half

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or 2 hours that he was talking to Jack, whom

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I've always admired for the last several years.

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And Martin, I'm going to email

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you my link, my affiliate link. Please do.

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And for the show Notes for this episode.

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But again, I know bitcoin has been

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smeared, of course, by your usual government

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hacks, but they know it's a threat.

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I'm hoping they're realizing that

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their time is soon up.

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Yeah, so maybe next year.

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I was planning to do that around my birthday

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because it's bitcoin pizza day around May 22.

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I think that was the history about more than ten

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years ago, a programmer, I think it was, that was

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hungry and two pizzas pie says in America for Domino's

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or some other I don't know, I don't remember the

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actual one, but he paid several bitcoins for that and

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that turned into his celebration, 10,000 bitcoins.

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But when bitcoin was like $2 a coin.

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Yeah, so now it will be 10,000 times $50,000 or

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what is it depending on, again, a current exchange.

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That's fascinating there.

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So thanks again for this because this is also that this

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could be a value to listen to us newbies in this

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area trying to learn and fall forward and try to really

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figure it out that we got from a previous episode with

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Andy about logic and Aristotle to really get it.

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So I appreciate that.

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So I will do a short

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run through around ten donations here.

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Mere Mortals then several times,

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jack Hyde, the secular foxhole.

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So you have tested the system also, blair

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I think I did just that one time.

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Blair is testing the system.

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I wrote here Mere Mortals again in June 7.

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Garas seated, 238 set streams.

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So you could also set like ten sets per minute

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or 100 sets or whatever per minute because you could

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earn them Satoshis if it's hooked up on Fountain.

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So if you listen to podcasts like Spirko, you

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own Satoshis and then you could decide every minute

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to give him and his podcast Satoshis.

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That's all you could get the

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boostagram, like a telegram.

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You could say it at donation directly

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one time, but you could also stream

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per minute when you listen to podcasts.

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We have got a user here called 68952 two long

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number because you often get the number you got that

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and then you change it to secular foxhole.

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Yes, I probably should have used

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my name, but that's okay.

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No, but it's good streamed.

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And then Merry Oscar of Fountain, he streamed

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95 sats at the beginning, testing the system

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also, very nice, 658-3928, seven sats stream.

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And then I tested the system with 35 SATS streamed.

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So that's the list.

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So now we have done checkmarked, everyone,

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because that's often how podcasts are doing every

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time we have an episode and check.

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Yeah, they think they're donors and now we have announced

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the winners, but that's how you could do it.

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So now I have done the catch up here.

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That's great and thank you for that, Martin.

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But I want to reiterate to listeners

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the Fountain app, it's just called Fountain.

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I'm not sure if there's any other apps, but this

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app is the gateway not only for podcasters to earn

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Satoshis, but guests and listeners to earn Satoshis.

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So everyone benefits, it's value for value.

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But thanks for letting me plug my affiliate

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link and sent you that email just now.

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Yeah, great for the show notes.

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So thanks for that explanation.

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I will do also if you have time here for a

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bit of another stats because we are very transparent here.

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So here is the stats from our, as I

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call it, audio Hotel or the podcast host Captivate.

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Oh, yeah, I love those guys and

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I have been on them also.

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Hello, Mark Asquith and company and

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all the team out there.

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Now it's going with podcasting 2.0

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applications and they're all for it.

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So they have transcripts and other things like

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that and this will be the friendly competition.

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Also recently there was a service called

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RSS.com, that is a hosting company that

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incorporated a service called Alby.

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So if you start an account there you get

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directly in the podcast player that you could get

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satoshis through a service called Get Alby.

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In the future we'll see if we could add

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that to our own page, our own site.

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Yes, I think we'll try.

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I think we will be able to do that.

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So then people, when they come to the site and

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if they have this plug in the Chrome browser, I

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think mainly they will see this site you could donate.

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So here for example, think about some of

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the guests that we have had like authors.

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If they do that, they come to their site

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and say you could support my work directly. Yeah.

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And that will be paid directly

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with no middleman.

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Think about this.

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I mean it's so powerful.

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Yeah, again completely eliminate it does parasites.

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Yeah.

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So unique listeners so far when I checked 2930

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and they check the IP address, then that's the

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thing, it's no personal data, information was taken.

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But where you are listing, how you're listing

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where from all time downloads is 5506. Nice.

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And we are maybe a record month, maybe if we look back

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in the future when we talk next time, if we got that.

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But if it gets to 400, we are

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around 390 right now at this point.

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Downloads today, the other month well hit 400 so far.

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The latest 28 days a month is now

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USA, Argentina, Czech, Venezuela, Spain, Sweden for some

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reason, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and Netherlands.

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So think about this mix.

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It's pretty interesting, the

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latest period, the month here.

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So I'm thinking, so maybe we should reach out or get

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some guests from South America or figure out the new listeners

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is coming from this part of the world, for example.

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So that's interesting.

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But also other places in Europe and USA we

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want to have on the top of a list.

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Personally I think that's a big market and should

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be canada should be there also, I think.

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And if you go to the all

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time list, then it's USA top ten.

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Here India, Sweden, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia,

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the Netherlands, Norway, Argentina and Uruguay. Wow.

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Now we have 80 countries and I have listened.

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That's great.

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So we're worldwide to a certain site.

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Do you want us to mention any future guests that we are

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planned or having in mind or should that be a secret?

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Well, right now Bosch Fawstin, he wants to be back

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on the show and we would love to have him.

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He's an objectivist artist and I have solidified Professor Stephen

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Hill and we're going to discuss his book Explaining Postmodernism

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and that's in September and those are the only two

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that I want to mention at this time.

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But others are still up in the air.

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Yeah, and we are planning it forward.

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So I could say the first name then

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so you know that if you listen. So. Ken.

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Brian Leopold.

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We will be in touch. That's correct. Oh yeah.

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I wanted to talk to those three for sure. Yeah.

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All right, listen, I've got to run.

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Yes, so thanks for your time, Blair,

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and talk to you soon again. That's correct.

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Martin, thank you so much for all you do.

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And let's touch base this week.