Good afternoon everyone.
Speaker:This is an addition of the secular
Speaker:Fox with just Martin and I.
Speaker:Martin has some good stuff that he wants to share
Speaker:with everyone and today our top are going to be
Speaker:the podcasting 2.0 which I believe was fathered by Adam
Speaker:Curry the podfather and Dave Jones, his sidekick and their
Speaker:extension of that called Value for Value Martin.
Speaker:How are you?
Speaker:I'm fine, and yourself?
Speaker:I'm doing okay.
Speaker:Got some hectic activity here at the house
Speaker:but otherwise I'm trying to hang in there.
Speaker:Good Blair, appreciate that.
Speaker:And we are now coming up to soon third year here.
Speaker:Yes we are, yes.
Speaker:September we'll talk a little bit about that plans and
Speaker:we are always glad to get feedback, ideas, thoughts and
Speaker:so on today we will talk about then for episode
Speaker:54 here and the title will be RandsDay Boost
Speaker:number and I will propose to this page called Boost
Speaker:Gram numerology, how would you say it?
Speaker:Numerology. Yeah, thanks.
Speaker:Numbers, things like that with symbolic numbers.
Speaker:Like for example, one of your
Speaker:favorite bands is Rush, right?
Speaker:Right, certainly yes.
Speaker:And I remember on a presentation how people come to RAND'S
Speaker:work and some of them are doing that through Rush album
Speaker:2112 and that's an example of a boostagram that
Speaker:you could send to somebody like a podcaster.
Speaker:So that's listed on this page.
Speaker:So I wanted to add like two like ducks in the row.
Speaker:If you look at the number two, if you
Speaker:have good imagination, it looks like a duck.
Speaker:But here is my proposition proposal for the future.
Speaker:I will see if I could add it in because if this
Speaker:is a bit geeky nerdy so you have to add it on
Speaker:something called GitHub page that programmers and so on are using.
Speaker:So you could propose things and you could fix things and
Speaker:you could do as I did maybe break things also.
Speaker:You're talking is that github? Yeah. Okay.
Speaker:I include that in the show notes also.
Speaker:But Podnews net James Cridland, he has a podcast
Speaker:called Podnews reporting on the podosphere and what's
Speaker:going on with podcasts and so on.
Speaker:So he created a page there on GitHub.
Speaker:And there you have Brian of London where we know that
Speaker:thanks us that we had Bosch Fawstin guest back in the
Speaker:day and also Oscar Merry, that's the founder of Fountain.
Speaker:They are all contributors to this page.
Speaker:But I have done something called a pull request to
Speaker:adding two ducks in a row because I have heard
Speaker:about it and I have also given it myself.
Speaker:But here is my proposal for the future and I will
Speaker:see here if you could guess Blair and the listeners.
Speaker:So it's 221,905.
Speaker:Well that's February 2 five was Ayn Rand's birthday. Yes.
Speaker:So the Rand's Day site called Randsday.com, I think
Speaker:it's Harry Binswanger that created that one.
Speaker:I believe that's true.
Speaker:And others that have written blog posts and articles about that
Speaker:that could be a holiday RandsDay so what do you
Speaker:think about that boostagram number for the future?
Speaker:Well, for the future, I'm sure, hopefully we'll
Speaker:have that to be able to cover that.
Speaker:That would be an ideal sum to give. Yes.
Speaker:So we could prepare until then,
Speaker:next year, on February 2.
Speaker:Of course, you could already boost us with that
Speaker:number, if you want, but I want to have
Speaker:so called official to get it there.
Speaker:And that's the beauty of the thing, that
Speaker:you could always propose something like that.
Speaker:So that lists have all kind of interesting,
Speaker:like the pi number, all kinds of interesting
Speaker:numbers, and some are shorter and some are
Speaker:longer, depending on the symbolic in the thing.
Speaker:So if you convert this, because satoshis are bits of
Speaker:a bitcoin, so if you take one bitcoin and then
Speaker:divide it 100 million times, then you get the satoshi.
Speaker:So today and it fluctuates a bit today.
Speaker:Now when I did the screen dump of it.
Speaker:So this number two, two 1905 Satoshis are worth
Speaker:or converted to this currency in fiat dollars, 54.54.
Speaker:So that's a good bit of change, right?
Speaker:$54.54, is that true?
Speaker:Yes, around $50. Okay.
Speaker:If we will get that as a donation, we would be
Speaker:happy to receive that, I could say absolutely, yeah, sure.
Speaker:But this is again the beauty of the thing.
Speaker:You could send very small amount with no
Speaker:transaction fee directly from one to another.
Speaker:And this is again to get this going.
Speaker:So this is my proposal for the future.
Speaker:RandsDay boost number.
Speaker:Very cool.
Speaker:And then I could give you some stats.
Speaker:Here what we have received so
Speaker:far and then you will understand.
Speaker:It sounds maybe like a big number,
Speaker:but then you see what it is.
Speaker:But we are happy because this
Speaker:is only the beginning of things.
Speaker:The whole podcast index has been around for two years.
Speaker:Right now it's around 8000 podcasts that are
Speaker:hooked up to, as you mentioned, value for
Speaker:value model of 4 million podcasts.
Speaker:So we have received 7777, seven SATS, so forth.
Speaker:So that's about $2, I'll take it though.
Speaker:And we've got like ten supporters.
Speaker:And we are using Fountain app and you could use
Speaker:of course, our own app that we are paying for.
Speaker:So we need support for that one.
Speaker:But this is in beta.
Speaker:But it's fascinating how you could start with
Speaker:getting a comment, a feedback or a shout
Speaker:out and then you have a note.
Speaker:And then with that note you have direct transaction or
Speaker:donation or support or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker:You could call it tokens also.
Speaker:But it is real money, it is a part of a bitcoin.
Speaker:And we have a guest. Dave Veksler.
Speaker:But explain that in a great way.
Speaker:Yes, you did the whole thing and
Speaker:we are still newbies, we are learning.
Speaker:But the whole thing that you could
Speaker:do it in a simple way.
Speaker:We have received donations by PayPal and other things,
Speaker:buy Me a coffee, and we appreciate that very much.
Speaker:Also, of course, there are some
Speaker:middleman and some cuts and whatnot.
Speaker:And we believe in the free market.
Speaker:So we want to have friendly competition here.
Speaker:So I will do a bit here.
Speaker:Announce the winner of this episode of 50,000
Speaker:Satoshis that Fountain will give as a campaign.
Speaker:So it's mere mortals and he sent 2111, two, one, one.
Speaker:So that's around you calculate that quickly.
Speaker:We could say something like that.
Speaker:And he said on July 24,
Speaker:always nice hearing another aussie accent.
Speaker:Funnily enough, I don't listen to so many Aussies.
Speaker:Podcasts is all my favorites are around the globe.
Speaker:Related to episode 52 with
Speaker:remaining guest Vinay Kolhatkar, right? Yeah.
Speaker:He's in Australia.
Speaker:That episode.
Speaker:So you will see also if people have
Speaker:done directly to the show or if you
Speaker:have done it to a specific episode also.
Speaker:And then if somebody writes a note, you could
Speaker:also comment on that back or reply to it.
Speaker:So if we say this, then we
Speaker:have added Vinay and he's Savvy Street.
Speaker:So he added himself to this fountain app.
Speaker:We had added him to the split 31%,
Speaker:and you and I get 32 each.
Speaker:And then it is 1% is going back
Speaker:to the podcast index for system and then
Speaker:4% Fountain is taking for running this also.
Speaker:I think that's pretty fair all around. Yeah.
Speaker:So in the future, when people listen and
Speaker:donate to these episodes, our guest is there,
Speaker:he will get the cut of it.
Speaker:And we want all our guests who want to
Speaker:join this to add them to the split.
Speaker:So that's pretty fascinating how that
Speaker:could work out in the future. That's right.
Speaker:I'm again more and more fascinated with
Speaker:this bitcoin idea that it's completely decentralized.
Speaker:In other words, the government cannot manipulate it.
Speaker:No, that alone is worth anyone
Speaker:who's skeptical to investigate it.
Speaker:And the best book on that that I have found,
Speaker:and I know Martin is reading it as well, it's
Speaker:called The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous.
Speaker:It's S-A-I-F-E-D-E-A-N-A-M-M-O-U-S.
Speaker:He's a brilliant economist and both Martin
Speaker:and I are plowing through that book.
Speaker:And I bought his second book called The Fiat
Speaker:Standard, which I'm sure he decimates the history of
Speaker:fiat currency and how it's basically destructive of wealth.
Speaker:I can't wait to finish this book to start that one,
Speaker:and hopefully some day he will be on our show.
Speaker:But that's maybe a pipe dream at the moment.
Speaker:But I didn't tell Martin about this, but
Speaker:I'm going to give a shout out to
Speaker:Jack Spirko and his podcast, The Survival Podcast.
Speaker:He's been doing that for, I think, 15 years.
Speaker:And just recently he had a gentleman on, I believe
Speaker:his name is Guy Swann, and he has one of
Speaker:the most legitimate bitcoin where you can purchase bitcoin.
Speaker:And that's even as small an amount as $10 a month or
Speaker:as much as $50 a week or whatever, $10,000 a week.
Speaker:If you're wealthy, you can do any range like that.
Speaker:And I actually started a bitcoin account with Swan
Speaker:Bitcoin and I am an affiliate and I'll give
Speaker:my affiliate web address in the show Notes and
Speaker:I have to disclose that I get 25% of
Speaker:any new member using my link for twelve months. Great.
Speaker:That's pretty cool.
Speaker:Yeah, that's very good.
Speaker:I listened to that when I was
Speaker:on a train from being on vacation.
Speaker:Oh yeah, cool.
Speaker:Listen to that.
Speaker:He was a guest on the show.
Speaker:But he has a podcast himself also, right?
Speaker:Yes, he does.
Speaker:And he also has a podcast about thanks for that.
Speaker:Reminded me because I was looking for this, because I
Speaker:will talk about that on my podcast, Tea Party Media.
Speaker:I got a reaction of somebody using
Speaker:Fountain, but especially about this bitcoin.
Speaker:And Adam Curry had said that also that
Speaker:this cryptocurrency and bitcoin could be confusing and
Speaker:also people could be afraid of it.
Speaker:But he has a podcast also, I think about all
Speaker:these, and I don't use strong words, but sh star,
Speaker:t, coins and all these kind of things, because if
Speaker:you have that list of all the so called cryptocurrencies
Speaker:out there, it's lots of garbage.
Speaker:But again, if it's a free market,
Speaker:it will take care of itself.
Speaker:It's sad if people are getting fooled
Speaker:or duped or dumped or whatever.
Speaker:But yeah, I think he has a podcast about that also.
Speaker:Really taking care of the bad apples out there.
Speaker:Yes, that's good.
Speaker:He's a very sharp, very intelligent individual and I grew
Speaker:to respect him just in that hour and a half
Speaker:or 2 hours that he was talking to Jack, whom
Speaker:I've always admired for the last several years.
Speaker:And Martin, I'm going to email
Speaker:you my link, my affiliate link. Please do.
Speaker:And for the show Notes for this episode.
Speaker:But again, I know bitcoin has been
Speaker:smeared, of course, by your usual government
Speaker:hacks, but they know it's a threat.
Speaker:I'm hoping they're realizing that
Speaker:their time is soon up.
Speaker:Yeah, so maybe next year.
Speaker:I was planning to do that around my birthday
Speaker:because it's bitcoin pizza day around May 22.
Speaker:I think that was the history about more than ten
Speaker:years ago, a programmer, I think it was, that was
Speaker:hungry and two pizzas pie says in America for Domino's
Speaker:or some other I don't know, I don't remember the
Speaker:actual one, but he paid several bitcoins for that and
Speaker:that turned into his celebration, 10,000 bitcoins.
Speaker:But when bitcoin was like $2 a coin.
Speaker:Yeah, so now it will be 10,000 times $50,000 or
Speaker:what is it depending on, again, a current exchange.
Speaker:That's fascinating there.
Speaker:So thanks again for this because this is also that this
Speaker:could be a value to listen to us newbies in this
Speaker:area trying to learn and fall forward and try to really
Speaker:figure it out that we got from a previous episode with
Speaker:Andy about logic and Aristotle to really get it.
Speaker:So I appreciate that.
Speaker:So I will do a short
Speaker:run through around ten donations here.
Speaker:Mere Mortals then several times,
Speaker:jack Hyde, the secular foxhole.
Speaker:So you have tested the system also, blair
Speaker:I think I did just that one time.
Speaker:Blair is testing the system.
Speaker:I wrote here Mere Mortals again in June 7.
Speaker:Garas seated, 238 set streams.
Speaker:So you could also set like ten sets per minute
Speaker:or 100 sets or whatever per minute because you could
Speaker:earn them Satoshis if it's hooked up on Fountain.
Speaker:So if you listen to podcasts like Spirko, you
Speaker:own Satoshis and then you could decide every minute
Speaker:to give him and his podcast Satoshis.
Speaker:That's all you could get the
Speaker:boostagram, like a telegram.
Speaker:You could say it at donation directly
Speaker:one time, but you could also stream
Speaker:per minute when you listen to podcasts.
Speaker:We have got a user here called 68952 two long
Speaker:number because you often get the number you got that
Speaker:and then you change it to secular foxhole.
Speaker:Yes, I probably should have used
Speaker:my name, but that's okay.
Speaker:No, but it's good streamed.
Speaker:And then Merry Oscar of Fountain, he streamed
Speaker:95 sats at the beginning, testing the system
Speaker:also, very nice, 658-3928, seven sats stream.
Speaker:And then I tested the system with 35 SATS streamed.
Speaker:So that's the list.
Speaker:So now we have done checkmarked, everyone,
Speaker:because that's often how podcasts are doing every
Speaker:time we have an episode and check.
Speaker:Yeah, they think they're donors and now we have announced
Speaker:the winners, but that's how you could do it.
Speaker:So now I have done the catch up here.
Speaker:That's great and thank you for that, Martin.
Speaker:But I want to reiterate to listeners
Speaker:the Fountain app, it's just called Fountain.
Speaker:I'm not sure if there's any other apps, but this
Speaker:app is the gateway not only for podcasters to earn
Speaker:Satoshis, but guests and listeners to earn Satoshis.
Speaker:So everyone benefits, it's value for value.
Speaker:But thanks for letting me plug my affiliate
Speaker:link and sent you that email just now.
Speaker:Yeah, great for the show notes.
Speaker:So thanks for that explanation.
Speaker:I will do also if you have time here for a
Speaker:bit of another stats because we are very transparent here.
Speaker:So here is the stats from our, as I
Speaker:call it, audio Hotel or the podcast host Captivate.
Speaker:Oh, yeah, I love those guys and
Speaker:I have been on them also.
Speaker:Hello, Mark Asquith and company and
Speaker:all the team out there.
Speaker:Now it's going with podcasting 2.0
Speaker:applications and they're all for it.
Speaker:So they have transcripts and other things like
Speaker:that and this will be the friendly competition.
Speaker:Also recently there was a service called
Speaker:RSS.com, that is a hosting company that
Speaker:incorporated a service called Alby.
Speaker:So if you start an account there you get
Speaker:directly in the podcast player that you could get
Speaker:satoshis through a service called Get Alby.
Speaker:In the future we'll see if we could add
Speaker:that to our own page, our own site.
Speaker:Yes, I think we'll try.
Speaker:I think we will be able to do that.
Speaker:So then people, when they come to the site and
Speaker:if they have this plug in the Chrome browser, I
Speaker:think mainly they will see this site you could donate.
Speaker:So here for example, think about some of
Speaker:the guests that we have had like authors.
Speaker:If they do that, they come to their site
Speaker:and say you could support my work directly. Yeah.
Speaker:And that will be paid directly
Speaker:with no middleman.
Speaker:Think about this.
Speaker:I mean it's so powerful.
Speaker:Yeah, again completely eliminate it does parasites.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So unique listeners so far when I checked 2930
Speaker:and they check the IP address, then that's the
Speaker:thing, it's no personal data, information was taken.
Speaker:But where you are listing, how you're listing
Speaker:where from all time downloads is 5506. Nice.
Speaker:And we are maybe a record month, maybe if we look back
Speaker:in the future when we talk next time, if we got that.
Speaker:But if it gets to 400, we are
Speaker:around 390 right now at this point.
Speaker:Downloads today, the other month well hit 400 so far.
Speaker:The latest 28 days a month is now
Speaker:USA, Argentina, Czech, Venezuela, Spain, Sweden for some
Speaker:reason, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany and Netherlands.
Speaker:So think about this mix.
Speaker:It's pretty interesting, the
Speaker:latest period, the month here.
Speaker:So I'm thinking, so maybe we should reach out or get
Speaker:some guests from South America or figure out the new listeners
Speaker:is coming from this part of the world, for example.
Speaker:So that's interesting.
Speaker:But also other places in Europe and USA we
Speaker:want to have on the top of a list.
Speaker:Personally I think that's a big market and should
Speaker:be canada should be there also, I think.
Speaker:And if you go to the all
Speaker:time list, then it's USA top ten.
Speaker:Here India, Sweden, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia,
Speaker:the Netherlands, Norway, Argentina and Uruguay. Wow.
Speaker:Now we have 80 countries and I have listened.
Speaker:That's great.
Speaker:So we're worldwide to a certain site.
Speaker:Do you want us to mention any future guests that we are
Speaker:planned or having in mind or should that be a secret?
Speaker:Well, right now Bosch Fawstin, he wants to be back
Speaker:on the show and we would love to have him.
Speaker:He's an objectivist artist and I have solidified Professor Stephen
Speaker:Hill and we're going to discuss his book Explaining Postmodernism
Speaker:and that's in September and those are the only two
Speaker:that I want to mention at this time.
Speaker:But others are still up in the air.
Speaker:Yeah, and we are planning it forward.
Speaker:So I could say the first name then
Speaker:so you know that if you listen. So. Ken.
Speaker:Brian Leopold.
Speaker:We will be in touch. That's correct. Oh yeah.
Speaker:I wanted to talk to those three for sure. Yeah.
Speaker:All right, listen, I've got to run.
Speaker:Yes, so thanks for your time, Blair,
Speaker:and talk to you soon again. That's correct.
Speaker:Martin, thank you so much for all you do.
Speaker:And let's touch base this week.