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Martin: Foreign.

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Blair: Good afternoon.

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

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This is episode 94 of the Secular Foxhole
podcast.

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Today, Martin and I are going are celebrate
ayn Rand's birth 120 years ago on February 2,

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1905.

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Alicia Rosenbaum, I believe was their real

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name, was born into the, into the world and
the world was never the same.

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Let's hope for the future anyway.

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But anyway, we.

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There's so many platitudes that I personally
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for me in my life and people.

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I know that.

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And you have your own stories, I'm sure those
of you listening and day.

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Martin: To have a celebration.

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And so it's a constructed day or created day

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called Rand's Day, in one word.

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Blair: That's right.

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Martin: So it's Rand's Day.

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It's not official day, but it's a day that we

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celebrate.

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And I was thinking when you said that for me,

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when you say ladies and gentlemen, I think I
like that because it's very nice introduction.

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And we are talking to you, the individual.

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That's correct listening, the one listener.

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And that's her philosophy.

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You know, with the pamphlet, you could say, or

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how you say, not pamphlet, but.

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Blair: Novella.

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Martin: Novella. Thanks. Anthem.

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And the word I.

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Blair: Yes, the most sacred word in the human
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Martin: Yeah. And that's my first blog and
podcast, ego.

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And that's I in Latin, so ego.

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Netkast.

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So that's my reflection.

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When I heard, when you talked about this day,

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it was most important for her, of course,
herself.

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Blair: Yes, that's right.

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Martin: And then she found freedom and moved
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of America.

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And I would say directly, if you haven't

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watched it and if it's possible to rent it,
buy it, is the Sense of life, right.

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Blair: The documentary Sense of Life, it got
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Yes, it did.

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Martin: That's right.

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Blair: Yes, it did.

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Got nominated for best documentary.

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Yeah, it was nominated.

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I don't think it won, but it was nominated.

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And let's see, February 2nd also personally is
my will be my 28th wedding anniversary.

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Martin: Yeah. So you have congratulations for
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And thank you.

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Thank you to you and your partner.

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Thank you.

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She's.

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She's a, an extraordinary woman.

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But I mean, again, when I first read the
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all the cobwebs just blew out of my, my mind.

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And I was, I've said this before, too.

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I was basically an aimless, aimless, drifting

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young man who basically read the sports page
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the Fountainhead by a dear friend of mine, and
that was in 1979.

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And here we are, what, several decades later.

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Martin: Yeah. And your friend, is he still
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Blair: I think he does.

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I think he does.

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I have to make sure he does.

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Martin: Yeah.

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Blair: That's good.

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Martin: And for me, I can't say exactly the
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mid teens, around 15.

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And for you out there, the listener, if you

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haven't read the book, of course, do that.

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It's not the same thing.

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It was called translation.

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And then I read it in original.

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But you could also watch the movie the
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Blair: That's a great point.

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Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal.

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Blair: Ms. Rand herself was, I guess, partial
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Anyway, that's worth watching.

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to talk about also is we the Living.

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Worth remembering and celebrating and then
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And it's now 120th birthday.

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Blair: Yeah. Yeah. I wanted to make this.

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Martin: Episode. Yeah. Good.

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Blair: Yeah. Yeah. But because there's great.

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Even though the culture, certainly American
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between two major tribes, there's always
positive undercurrents.

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There are great individuals swimming against
the tide, like people.

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Like I'll mention them specifically.

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Hopefully they won't suffer ill from this.

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But the people at the Institute for Progress
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way for what's a field called Progress
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And we have boom, Supersonic, which is
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like, New York to London in three hours or
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Martin: That's good.

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Blair: And then you have again, people like
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space, private space shots at the fraction of
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There are great, great things happening.

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Hopefully I won't butcher his last name.

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James Pethicacus, P E T H O K O U K I S who's

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an economist, but he is.

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He has a substack called Upwing Downwing,
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great celebrations of progress.

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And Downwing means the Opposite.

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So there's great things happening in the
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It's just they obviously get no or very little
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Martin: And that's also for us because I'm
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skyscrapers, of course, but the.

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Martin: Yeah, smokestacks and that.

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thing to say because people are.

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Blair: No, they don't.

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the manufacturing industry, things have to be
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is the art architect and we are talking about
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Martin: And the train also the locomotion and
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from A to B and the goods and everything about
that could have been something else.

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But the story as such, you.

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You get interested in, in trains and in
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Blair: That's true.

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things that are happening to combat government
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There's the growing homeschool movement and
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Martin: I have to say that.

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And now I interrupt you, but with Scott

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Blair: Yes.

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Martin: And others that we have had on our
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Blair: So Brad Thompson at Clemson University,
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few pro America courses, if you will, on any
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Martin: And in order to have that, I have
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a story by itself to talk about that.

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to a podcasting site and then now Lyceum
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And I really look forward to one day to visit
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and probably or the name Robert Partner.

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Robert's partner. Robert Bigley Partner could
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The foundation and as I do celebrated December
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That's not either holiday but should be I
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Blair: Well I, I, I certainly concur with that
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mentioning, you know, dozens of other great
people who are doing great things.

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Martin: So positive news sandwich or should we
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What's happening on that day on February 2nd?

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Blair: Well again we just want to celebrate
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system to present her vision of what she
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And some of the achievements unfortunately the
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stay in the United both conservative and
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But her time will come especially and.

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Martin: If we look liberals we are classical
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Blair: Yeah. Leftist progressives.

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Martin: Yeah. And we are for progress also
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Blair: I, I once some years in my some years
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Martin: Yeah. You know you could as I like the
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You're right and I think we should have that
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could support our show and the work of our
guests and so on and there I see other

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podcasts they have a boostagram corner.

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We could have our, you know, Foxhole segment
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podcasters and guests and supporting us and
how we could support others.

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Blair: But again Ayn Rand herself, she has
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And for those of us who fight for the future,
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So that's I encourage anyone who's confused or
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the Fountainhead to to just take A journey
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a different.

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Have a different outlook on yourself, on your
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Martin: Yeah. And it could be also as I had, I
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Blair: You want to end the show with some.

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Blair: And so on.

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Martin: Yeah, I want to do some shout outs to
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So if you go to randsday.com I think it's
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Blair: I believe that's true.

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forward/2025htm and there is a celebration
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there and then the organization here will have
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Blair: Great, great.

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Martin: And about it's Raymond Newman, the
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They will release program there talking about
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Blair: Okay, yeah, that's an oldie but a
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Martin: Yes, very good.

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And then I want to do it quickly here and we
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So ISO Cor called created the numerology
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So I created 221905.

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Blair: If you read it out.

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Martin: Yeah. And in that list now and there's
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the GitHub list so it's there.

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other podcaster they could send a booster gram
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And on that list now before it's number 47
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When is Rand's day?
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312009 Bitcoin birthday boost.

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Martin: You could go to podnews.net

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Article boostagram normg.

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And when I searched on Ran's day we had like
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got that domain.

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reflection about the situation we want to be
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like gold and silver.

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A gold standard or silver standard.

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Currency world and type in on the Satoshi
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krona it's then 2,537 in US dollar is now 232.

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So if somebody would send that to us we will
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When I created it some years ago it was around
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How did this happen?
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flag in the ground or how you say it, a stake
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Blair: Yeah, stake in the ground.

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Martin: Yeah. So something to reflect on.

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And I again want to do a shout out to Sam

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My goal is to onboard all our guests, 30 plus

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guests who wants that?

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So we could give a split in satoshis to them
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and the listen out there if they want.

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But they could also use this as Adam Curry

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saying fun Fiat coupon and Send us via PayPal
for example or Stripe and they go to the

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Captivate support page and there they could
donate and again thanks to you that have done

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it in the past.

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And we how do you say thanks in advance for
you who do that in the future.

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So at the end Blair, do you want to hear some
short stats?

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Blair: Yes, go for it.

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Martin: Yeah. So we are around again around 7
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The importance in the future is how long you

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listen and how you'll interact because that
you could look at TrueFans FM in a positive

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gamification.

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something with the bots or something download
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But other than that it's about 7 downloads per
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and here are the countries where the listeners
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You, the listener.

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United Kingdom is now on the top.

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This cycle of 96.

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And then United States 64, Canada 9, Hong Kong
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For some reason, India 4, Spain 3.

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and Belgium 1 and Ireland 1.

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That's 10 list for this last 28 day cycle.

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Blair: Great.

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Hello to everyone and thank you.

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Martin: Yeah.

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Blair: And I was going to say something and it
just completely slipped my mind, so.

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Martin: It's okay.

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It's all good.

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Blair: It is, it's all good.

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But unfortunately, Martin, I do have to run.

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Martin: Yeah.

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Blair: And I appreciate again you throwing
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And again, just everyone.

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Iran is one of the greatest human beings, the
second greatest human being that ever lived,

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in my personal opinion.

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The first one being Aristotle.

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And our show will continue.

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Martin: Yes.

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Blair: And this is what I thought.

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Here we go.

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Two upcoming guests that I hope to entertain
you with would be Professor James Lennox.

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And we'll interview him on his latest book,
Aristotle on Inquiry.

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And hope to reach out to Brad Thompson of
Clemson to talk about his work and his Lyceum

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scholarship program.

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So those are two upcoming shows that will
happen soon.

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And that's a wrap for me.

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Martin: Yeah. Great, Blair, thanks.

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And talk to you soon again.

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Blair: Thank you, Martin.

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I appreciate everything you do, you know that.

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Martin: Yeah, same.

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I say the same.

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Bye for now.

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Blair: All right. Bye. Bye.

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Ra.