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Ripple’s Big Rebrand, Powell Rejects CBDC & $160M Loan for TRUMP Token? 🚀🔥
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Jeff
Fired up. Welcome to on the Chain. This is Jeff here with co host Chip. What is going on? Chip, what's going on? Lethal. Good morning, Lethal. Good to see you guys. Good morning, Rob Liquor. Good morning, Slovakia. Getting ready to go skiing. So I'm glad you're tuning into us. We got all sorts of things going on today. We are going to talk about the big, big breaking news ripples. Rebrand. It's actually their website. Rebrand. It's actually kind of cool. It's the first time that it all makes sense and a big rejection in the US of the CBDC there. It's onto a good path. And did you guys hear there was 160 million dollar loan for the Trump token. What was that all about? Don't. Not sure if you guys saw that news. Probably not what you think it is and not from the source you would have thought that it would have come from, but maybe it did. I would have expected it. And so from that we got a lot of other cool things to talk about. We might even talk about J.D. vance getting up in front of Europe and putting them all on notice, every single last one of them. You knew who you are. Because you know what? The deep state isn't just in the US it's also over in Europe. And you're either with us or you're against us. We're going to talk about that. We're going to workshop it. We're going to dig in deep. So get ready, buckle your seat belts.
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Chip
We're diving head first into the shallow end for maximum impact. Let's go.
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Lethal
Welcome to on the Chains.
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Chip
Drop in where you're coming in. Hello, everybody. Welcome to on the Chain. It is a Saturday glorious morning here in sunny Florida and we are excited to get started. It is a brilliant day. Everybody's happy around the world because Trump in three weeks has accelerated three years into from. He took what would take three years into three weeks. Why is that turning up? Why is that dark now?
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Jeff
I changed it. This cool action. Look at this action. Boom.
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Chip
I don't like it.
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Jeff
Look at this action.
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Chip
I don't like the action.
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Jeff
I know I don't like the dark, but I like the action.
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Chip
I don't like the. No, I just like the regular comments. It's. Look at that dark background. No good, man. We got to change it back.
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Jeff
Change back.
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Chip
Go back to the original.
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Jeff
Bueno. No bueno.
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Chip
Go back to the original. Let's go back to the original. So also too, before we get started here, I wanted to say that Jeff and I will be attending. And everyone always says, Jeff, would it be great if there was a meetup? Wouldn't it be great if we had a meetup in Florida? Wouldn't it be great? Well, guess what guys, we're going to be at the Quantum Summit too. That's going to be in Cape Canaveral. It's on the 9th and 10th happening in Cape Canaveral. Jeff and I will both be there at the event. A lot of speakers. It's put on by Mel Carming. Mel was on the other night. That was a good dude. Love to. We talk often, text each other often and this is a cool event. There's a lot of great people that I'm looking forward to fanboying over and meeting. But guys, I mean I'll give you the. I'll drop the link in there but. And the tickets are pretty reasonable. Jeff, this is what I don't like about conferences and this is one of the reasons we got really behind the wave of innovation which we'll be heading to again this year in Australia. But if you look at the tickets opportunities. Oh, something went wrong. I don't like when that happens. There we go. Here we go. So if you look at the ticket prices, they're pretty, they're reasonable, right? For a two day event it's 432 bucks for, you know, for two days, food, everything included. The VIP is 532 but you can get a general. And then there's going to be a gala dinner which Jeff and I will be at and it'll be like all the speakers and stuff. So it'll be really a very good time but again very reasonable. It's going to be at a great hotel. It's going to be a great event. So just wanted to put that out there, guys. March 8th and 9th, it starts at 9:00am Eastern Time and it goes to Sunday which will conclude right around 5:30. It's at the Radisson Hotel in Cape Canaveral. I'll drop this in there guys. But if you want to come by and see, Jeff and I, we always love to meet you guys.
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Jeff
Look at that. Kelly over. Why don't you do something outside at a bar or something? A meetup. It's an interesting idea.
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Chip
What we could.
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Jeff
We'll meet up outside. I don't think we'll meet outside a.
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Chip
Bar because there's the dinner Saturday night and then we're blasting off on Sunday. So I don't know that there's really.
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Jeff
We just have to do it earlier.
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Chip
But I'm Actually, there we go.
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Jeff
Look at that. Should join you at Cape Canaveral.
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Chip
Come on, Jim. Do you catching some of that. Too expensive, man. These. Okay. Go to Vegas and pay 1500 bucks. Good luck. Go to. I'm going to at a conference, but.
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Jeff
No one's going there.
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Chip
I'm going to a conference in March for. Professionally, for work. It's 3, 100 bucks a ticket. That's what these conferences cost. So the fact that it's 400 bucks, it's not bad.
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Jeff
Buying gold. That's why investing well, that might be more important. Caroline, we're looking forward to seeing you as well.
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Chip
Oh, that's gonna be great, Caroline. Yeah. And we're hoping to have some lemon trees on that stage. Maybe maybe just one. Just maybe, just maybe just one lemon tree. Maybe not. If it doesn't fit the motif, we're not gonna. We're not gonna be okay with it.
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Jeff
We'll just bring it up when we come in. Yeah, it'll walk up with our own lemon trees.
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Chip
It's like come up on stage without holding our own lemon trees up there.
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Jeff
Bring them up and then walk off stage.
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Chip
I'll be like. We'll walk upstage, be like, guys, forgot the lemon trees. Okay. Walk off with almond trees.
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Jeff
Just give us a lemon. Lemon tree stick.
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Chip
And how ridiculous would that be? That would be. That would be a joke. That'd be.
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Jeff
See, that one is not enough. That's right.
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Chip
That's. That's well said. I can't say it any better than Caroline just said right there. She's absolutely right about that. Let's jump into some news here. Look at this. So, Brad Garlinghouse, this is a. When I see this. When we think of where we've been over the last couple years. SEC suing Ripple. Brad Garlinghouse. Mum's the word, right? And Jeff, do you remember the epic show we did about six months ago where we put in the title garling House is MAGA Darling house. And we dissected it and we talked about why we thought it was. So when he was on stage and he was called out and he didn't say no, he just proceeded to. Right. There were other times we talked about it. And Jeff, I hate to say it, but it looks like we are right yet again. But look at that. Again, Garlinghouse said, I walked away from an action packed day in D.C. yesterday with the feeling that there is finally an incredible opportunity to advance meaningful bipartisan legislation that establishes clear, constructive and pro innovation regulatory framework for crypto. Thank you to these Great leaders. So we met with Senator Tim Scott, Republican Richie Torres, Democrat Hunga. He's a Republican. Is Timmons. What is Timmons? I don't know Timmons. Do you know him? I don't know if he's. Oh, he's GOP oversight. So yeah, he's a Republican as well. Zach Nunn from Iowa. Congressman Zach Nunn, Brian Steele, Republican Bo Hines, Senator Schumer, Democrat, Republican. No, no, definitely not. Catherine Clark, the Democrat whip of the, of the House.
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Jeff
Time for her to remove that. She. Her off of there because that's not, not permissible anymore on a public forum.
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Chip
That's right.
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Jeff
Government official.
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Chip
I mean, she is. And she's got the, the gray which indicates she's a public official. She's got to remove that because that is going to be removed from all of government according to the order. Well, this is the. She's the, she's the whip of the U. S. House. This is the one was formerly held by Tom Emmer. Right. So Tom Emmer had that when they were in the minority. Now that they're the minority. She's a Democrat Whip of the House. And also Rep. French Hill, who used to, who used to chair the Financial services. He's Financial Services Committee chairman. So there you go. I think he's the outgoing though. But look at these. I mean, this is exciting when you see these kind of pictures. There he is talking with Tim Scott, right? Having a conversation like this is amazing to see. What a turn of events. And there's Richie Torres, there's Heising. It's amazing to see these, you know, and Richie Torres, I mean, he's such, he's so, he's so close. There's a couple things he doesn't agree on, but you know, he has to toe the party line every once in a while. But Richie Torres is a good dude. He's always. He's been one of the standouts and the Democrat Party that's really championed crypto. And I think he gets a lot of crap for it. I think he does because every once in a while he puts something out and you're like, oh, that's so weird that he would throw that out. But I think he probably gets a lot of pressure. But look at Brad hanging amongst, you know, all of the folks right there. And there's Stu Alderati. Amazing, right? What a great turn of events. What, what is your thought about all this happening.
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Jeff
Man? I'll tell you, you know, we're seeing a whole new narrative. You know, there's already talk from Elon Musk about putting all of our government expenditure data up in the blockchain. There's a massive push for clear rules of the road. We're getting all of the coalescing and consolidation of the thought leaders in terms of those that actually want good outcome for this country. And then you've got people like Schumer that, you know, they're jumping on board, hoping they can hide all their corrupted behaviors in the past. Because the one thing that's going to be certain over the next months is that every corner and every rock is going to be turned over, looking for the corruption, looking for the theft, looking for the ways that people stole their money and, you know, stole government money, tax dollars and enrich themselves. And so, you know, this is. This is a sign of good tide, you know, of good times. You know, it's a turning of the tide. JD Vance said it perfect last night. You know, there's a sheriff in town, new rules of the road, and, you know, people better get on board because it. It's going to be a rocket ship. It's going to be a little turbulent in the beginning again. When you fire up the. The fuel of the rocket and the fuel is coming out and the, and the fire and the smoke and things start vibrating and shaking, get a little turmoil. But once that rocket takes off, hold on, because it's going to pull, you know, everything with it. This is we're setting and building the foundation. If you don't have a solid foundation, how do you build your castle? So we're building a mighty, mighty castle, and we got to lay that foundation to support it. And this is amazing, amazing things. So get ready. That's what I say.
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Chip
Chip, that's your rocket analogy right there. That's the rocket analogy rant for today. But it is true. And I would be thinking, because you know what's great about you painting that picture is I could picture the shaking going on. I could picture the fumes coming out. I could picture the rumbling. You know, that giant rocket that launches and you don't even understand. Like, you see it on tv, you're like, oh, look at that. It landed. And it was caught by the two arms that things like 23 stories tall. It's like sending a building into space. And if you ever seen the picture, like, I saw a picture and I was like, what's the picture of it? Just look at the bottom of the rocket. And then I look and I'm like, oh, there's a whole team of people standing at the bottom of it. And you're like, oh, my God, that's just the bottom of the rocket. It's like you don't even realize the magnitude of how ginormous that thing is. Right? Because, you know, you see, there's nothing to really compare it against. You're watching, you're thinking, oh, this is interesting, you know.
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Jeff
Yeah. And Osman's right, man. When the figures come out on Musk's X account, so he has this whole website up, this guy. You know, you put it into the hands of a tech trillionaire. You know, they've been planning this for the past four years. You know, they've been orchestrating and building it. Musk is trolling on a level that no one has ever trolled before. He's got everything. He posted yesterday, Maxine Waters came out with a little clip and she said that, you know, their privacy is being eroded. And she said, we don't know what Trump and Musk have on us. And, and, and, and Musk posted that on X, posted that video clip of Maxine Waters saying that with a thought like this. Like what the. Like what? You know, that there's. They've been so bold about coming out in to our face, telling us what they're going to do. Now. They're worried because they've got every last receipt we've got. You know, they know exactly who's been reporting on ICE Action. Right? That was a big one that was announced this week. They know exactly who did it. They know who's been revealing ICE movements. They, they have, they have the person or persons, they're arresting that person or persons. They're going to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law and they're going to jail. This isn't the, the pansy administration that we lived through for the past four years that just allowed corruption and fomented corruption. We also saw $50 million that went for supposed DEI stuff that went through some, you know, Palestinian outreach organization right into the hands of the terrorists. Right? And they knew exactly where that money was going. $50 million, $59 million was just clawed back. Remember how we talked about the clawback on the XRP ledger? Remember there are people that were outspoken against it. Now you see how critical a clawback can be. When they clawed back 59, obviously they didn't do it at XRP, but, but they clawed back $59 million that went to the hotels to house illegals. They clawed that money back to the government. Why? Because it wasn't legal. It wasn't a legal expenditure. They shouldn't have done it. It was a corrupted policy and they clawed the money back. They're going to claw money back across the board. People are going to jail. Elizabeth Warren, they're chasing her around. She's smiling and giggling because she's caught. Maxine Waters caught and the rest of them are caught. And it's brilliant to see what they're doing. And we're going to see so much. And now, J.D. vance yesterday put Europe on notice. And you know why? Because there's more corrupted political elitists in Europe than there are in this country. And they're going down too. Because you know what? Our spigot is being cut off. You're not getting a cent out of this country. This country's done, you know, allowing our money to just flow into the hands of the despots and the elitists over in Europe and the so called royalty in the uk. The UK has been put on notice yesterday. And it's brilliant. It's the greatest thing. It's going to be for the salvation of everybody in Europe and the salvation of everybody in the uk. And you guys better get on board with this because you're not going to jail because you're standing out in front of an abortion clinic, you know, praying to your God. Why can't you pray to your God? But yet hundreds of thousands can go into the streets and pray to Muhammad, can pray to their Islamic God. But you as a Christian get arrested because you want to pray to your God. What does that make in the uk? And you don't have the decency as a community to stand up against your government. Come on, it's happening.
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Chip
And the.
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Jeff
We're leading it.
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Chip
And that gentleman that he was referring to, the reason he was standing outside there was for an aborted child. His own child. He was saying a prayer for his own child that was aborted years before. Okay, so this is a very personal moment for somebody. And you know, I love the fact that it was called out. I mean, I absolutely love it. I want to see the show. This right here, this is going to play in a V8. Hulk911. Chip, can you pop over the UK? We need a leader with some stones or send me a green card. Yeah, we're gonna have to do a mass exodus of all the patriots over there and send you a green card.
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Jeff
It might be easier because look at.
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Chip
Tommy, look, what's his name? Tommy Robinson is Tommy Robinson. Put out a great documentary that exposed the grift and they were. He was told to take it Down. He said, absolutely not going to take it down. They asked him to bend the knees and I'm not bending the knee. So he's in prison and it's breaking him. I saw an interview that they did recently with him. This is a guy. I mean, do you understand, a man who's got a family, who is serving time in prison for what he believes is right. This is what. This is how the country of the United States was founded. Men who took to. Basically all the people who signed that Declaration of Independence, except for maybe two, had their farms burned, they had their houses burned down. Most of them went to jail. A lot of them were killed. I mean, this is what it means, standing up for freedom.
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Rob Liquor
Rah, rah.
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Chip
You know, on. On X post behind an anonymous. Not to say there's nothing wrong with that, but somebody that stands up for that. I mean, this is amazing to see this. And this is something I wanted to play later, but I think it's probably more appropriate to play it now. I wanted to. I wanted to play this. Here's a. And you guys have probably seen this. It's been out for a while, but I think it sort of hits home in a great way. It kind of tells you, here's a young British girl and for the first time she's discovering the perils of inflation and a cashless society for herself. And she's talking about ice cream. But you own. And I'll tell you. I'll tell you how it led into a post and some. Some discourse over on X.
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Lethal
Here we go, girls, what's just happened?
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Chip
So there's an ice cream van there, silly. Just two ice creams with two chewing gums in it. Yeah. The bloody nine pound for two of them.
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Lethal
Nine quid for two.
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Chip
Yeah, Nine quid.
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Lethal
That is gonna get nowhere.
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Chip
One that comes on my streets, I'm.
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Lethal
A £1 a P or two. Like, he's going to get nowhere with that.
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Chip
No, he ain't, is it? No, no, he ain't.
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Lethal
That's well bad.
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Jeff
Is it? Yeah, you should know.
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Chip
And he only does bloody card stood.
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Lethal
There with my cash. Bloody hell, that's well bad.
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Chip
Is it? Bloody well bad.
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Lethal
Yeah, yeah.
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JD Vance
Bet he can hear me.
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Jeff
Oh, my God, I love that.
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Chip
And on top of it, he wouldn't take cash. That was the best part. No, I don't take cash after. She probably is like, all right, I'll go for it, you know.
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Jeff
Yeah, that's where the condoms went. That's exactly right. They use them for balloon bombs. So the previous administration knew that guys 100 knew where that stuff was going.
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Chip
What do you think all the money. What do you think the attack on Israel came from? Right? When there's a big airlift, another big, you know, with Obama, it was pallets of money. Now there's a giant bot of money transferred over and all of a sudden now they've got the money to do it, right? It's a. It's incredible that this is what we're. Where we're at. I mean, it's unbelievable.
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Jeff
Hey, Chip, why. Why do people not realize that we're on at 8am on Saturday mornings?
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Chip
I don't know. They don't realize it. We've been doing it for five years now. I don't know why no one's realized it yet, but it happens.
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Jeff
But we're on 8:00am Eastern Standard Time every Saturday morning.
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Chip
Every Saturday.
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Jeff
And put that, put that in the calendar.
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Chip
Yeah.
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Jeff
Just glad you found us on today.
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Chip
You're not going to get the. You're not going to get this. So I just said, if only the adults in Britain showed the love, this level of anger, they might be able to save their nation, right? Here's a little girl who's just like. I mean, and she's. She's pissed, right? I mean, she's like, he's not getting anywhere with maybe two pounds, one pound or two pound, maybe nine quid. No way. Okay? She's like, there's just no way. And then she's like, I hope he can hear me.
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Jeff
And the catch of society, which he's even more pissed, right?
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Chip
She's like, said, okay, all right, I'll go for it. Here you go. Here's a. Here's a ten pounder. And he's like, sorry, I don't take cash.
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Jeff
Yeah. Could you imagine the days of Chase when you would run after the ice cream truck, you'd hear the, the jingles in the neighborhood. We still hear them. I'll hear them driving around. And you'd give that. You grab your money from the, from your parents. It would be like a couple bucks, right? It was like a dollar for an ice cream. Maybe. Maybe 50 cents. I don't know.
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Chip
Used to go around, you know, would go around the thing and people. It'd stop and all the kids would run to the ice cream truck. It was just fantastic. You know, it was just a really good thing. But I wanted to. So listen to this. I put this out. I was like, hey, if the adults show this much anger, right, over what's happening, people being jailed for memes for Praying silently. And then you got this guy who I love him to death. He's, he's, he, he's, he loves to just comment, he loves to discourse. And he's over in Wales. He says, you're so full of anger, it spoils your judgments. Equanimity, equanimity gives you calmer assessment and better values. I'm like, where was the anger in that? So I was like, England, the entire UK are on the brink of collapse. It's not anger, it's reality. And the good people of the UK stood up. They can save the nation. Instead they accept the man be in jail for praying outside of an abortion clinic or others being arrested for posting memes. A country that tolerates this will not stand against tyranny. By the way, I'm having the time of my life. There's so much winning happening every day, I can barely keep up. So he comes back with, every time you come, you come across an opinion that does not chime with maga tropes which contradict and change as often as the weather. You become very impatient. Rather than examining the arguments, you start telling your opponents as they listen to the wrong media outlets are communists or liberal lefties. I've told him, I was like, dude, you got to wean yourself off the BBC news. He goes, I don't listen to BBC news. I'm like, well whatever your news sources are, they're very leftist, they're very centralized, they're very control oriented, right? He goes, to me, this is anger speaking. It's not equanomity or calmness.
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Jeff
This is the problem, this is the problem with the leftists that are so brainwashed that they listen to their media sources. They're afraid to shut off their media sources, they're afraid to do their own research, they're afraid to read, they're afraid to watch videos, they're afraid to dig in, they're afraid to think for themselves. And, and, and yet the way they point fingers and aspersions, right? So he's, the finger pointing at you is, is basically his own emotional state. So that emotional state that he has, he knows that he's only listening to leftist propaganda news. You know, he knows that it's communist news. He knows down deep at the core of his soul that he's listening to propaganda, but yet he's so afraid to acknowledge it, right? And this, and you'll see people that get red pilled go through that. At least he's in dialogue with you, right? And he's doing it in a pleasant way. At some point he's going to have a wake up call. It's going to affect him personally on a personal level. He'll have a wake up call, then he's going to get angry. And when he gets angry, first he, now he's in disbelief.
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Chip
I'm the one that's angry, Jeff.
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Jeff
No, I know, but he's in disbelief stage right now. Then he's going to get angry at, at the disbelief, then he's gonna not believe that he was angry at disbelief. And he's going to go through this emotion. Then he's going to be red pill. And the whole UK is, has to go through, if they don't go through it, done, it's over for them because they have to go through this red pilling. And we thought they were there when they left the eu. You remember, you remember Brexit, the greatest point in British history, modern history, was Brexit, get out of the eu, right? There was passion, they were fired up, they had all this behind them. But you know what? The populace didn't support it at the extent that they should have. They didn't understand it. They still wanted to believe their leftist propaganda, you know, and then you look at the police forces in the UK and you wonder, you know, and I, I'm sure there's some really brave police out there, but I see lots and lots on, on the YouTube and TV, a lot of them are overweight, a lot of them are out of shape and a lot of women that shouldn't be in that police positioning and they're not allowed to carry guns. I'm sure there's some guns out there, you know, but I'm always shocked to see how many of them are out of shape and overweight. Well, and then they just get abused. And I'm like, that's you, that's how, that's your respect for your state, you know, at least have some respect, you know, and then it's just, that's crazy, Jeff. You know, even when I look at that, I'm glad I went to visit when I did because my wife said, we're not going to the UK until they clean up their act. We're not going.
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Chip
Yeah.
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Jeff
Unless we've been there, done that. We're not going back until they clean up their house.
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Chip
Some kind of a scuffle going on. And there were like two or three police around this. And I was, I was recording it. I was like getting right there and recording. And they're like, sir, you can't record. I'm Like, I can record. This is public. I can record anything. They're like, sir, we'll take your camera. I'm like, I just go, you're not gonna take my camera? And they started coming after me, trying to grab my camera. I was like. And I was like, running away from them. I'm like, you're gonna take my camera from. From filming this? Like. And then I was thinking like, hey, man, don't push it too hard. They probably will take my camera because I'm, you know, a foreigner, and they'll just lock me up and say I was doing something wrong or. I don't know, who knows? I mean, there's some. Something to it, right?
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Jeff
There you go. That's the statement. And this is all over the world. That's why the US Was always the beacon of freedom. That. That's our role in the world right now. Again, we have to be that light shining on the hilltop, the beacon that people want to achieve. That was the whole concept. That's what's in the Constitution. That's the whole point of this country. Not, let's lead towards a new version of socialism. Let's not give handouts to everybody. No, you know what? It's the American dream. All the years that I grew up overseas, it was, the streets in America are paved with gold. That's what people believe. They believe that they came here, they could accomplish anything they wanted to. They believe that if you came over here, you started a business, you could do anything. People come here from all over the world. This is the. This is the.
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Chip
The.
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Jeff
The. The craziest part is that from all parts of the world, people want to come here. Not for the handouts that the socialist Democrats want to give people. Right? They just want to give people money. $1,500 a month for illegals coming in. No, you give them zero. You don't give them a dime. Why? Because when they come over here, they came here with a passion to do better for themselves. They find a way. Remember, they were selling wares on the streets. Hey, you know what? They're doing something, at least. They were trying to sell stuff, and they're trying to make money. But people came to this country because they believed in the American dream, which is, I can come there with zero and I could become a millionaire. Not everybody will succeed, but you'll see. You know, every ethnicity group comes over here. What's the first thing typically they do? They open up stores, right? I have lots and lots of Chaldean friends in. In. In Detroit, in Michigan, and Their family structure from the early years. They own stores, grocery stores, party stores, gas stations, restaurants, and on and on and on. I was hanging out with my, my buddy this past, the past couple days and his brothers have owned a grocery store for years. His dad owned a grocery store, his brother's owner grocery, another brother owned restaurants. They're owners, they're entrepreneurs and they came over here with nothing. They lost everything when they left Iraq. Everything. They came over the zero in their pocket. That's the American dream. That's what we want.
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Chip
When I lived in Detroit too, I need some, you know, former Iraqis as well that did the same. I this is like what Detroit is loaded with rough Rican, you know, who's not afraid rough Rican to support this channel. This guy has been one of our top supporters since for five years, man. And rough Rican. We always appreciate you, man. And I love this comment here. He said, I, I think it's a blessing that Trump last election was stolen. It gave him more time to understand Washington how it works and, and Doge is just shutting them down. We are back and I think a lot of what it was, you know what, this is what it always is now if Trump had had come in with tanks and said, hey, you don't understand what the left's doing. You don't understand. It's all been orchestrated. No, walked out, said everything right? Walked away. And, and this is what's happening in the UK they're having their Biden moment, right, with Keir Starmer, right? They, they, this is what they're having because you have a scenario where, and this is playing out in Australia, it's playing out all over the world, right? You have a choice. Do you want it? Do you want to endorse the people that want to control every bit of your lives or do you want freedom? Do you want the freedom of speech? Do you want to be able to criticize your government? Criticize whatever you want, not threaten, criticize. And this is, and this is what's happening. So when you have the US that's rising up and being a true by leading, by example, right? Peace through strength. When Trump comes out and says, hey, we're going to take over the Gaza Strip, we're going to, we're going to take over all of Gaza, we're going to redevelop it two days later, you got Jordan and Egypt tripping over each other trying to get into we're going to do. We're good. But if you ask politely, here's how would regular politicians do it? Hello, Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'd like to make a request. I'd like to request from the. From the community that surrounds Gaza, I would love you to come in and lend a hand and help us rebuild. You know what? That's going to get you Nothing. You know what's got every other politician, nothing. Man comes in, here's what we're doing. Strong arms, it. Boom, boom, boom. Right? Hey, the Panama Canal, you guys, you know, it's been taken over by China. Sorry, but it's in our treaty that. That's not allowed. Either you. Either you give it up, or we're coming down there and we're taking it back. Any questions? Boom. Rubio goes down there, just like that. Boom, they're out. This is how it is, you know? Hey, excuse me. Canada and Mexico, we would really appreciate it if you'd come and help us clean up the borders and stop the flow of fentanyl coming across, you know? Or how about in December, a month before the inauguration, you say, listen, either you're going to help come up with a plan to help us close the border. Working. Work together to close the border. It's good for every country, it's good for your country, it's good for our country. Help us out there, or we're going to do tariffs announces tariffs going into effect on Monday. Boom. Canada. First Mexico and then Canada. And Canada comes across and says, hey, we're. We got a whole plan. This is how much money we're contributing. But look, the whole idea is like. And this is what I. What I love what's going on in Canada right now is because you have people that are just getting a little bit fed up. You got the, you know, the alternative, you know, Pierre is out there. Not Pierre, different Pierre. But you got a scenario playing out where guys fight for your freedom, Make Canada great again. Canada's a great country. I have relatives from Canada. Love Canada. Canada is great, Jeff.
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Jeff
Montreal.
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Chip
What's that?
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Jeff
Oh, good.
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Chip
What are you saying, dude?
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Jeff
This is Jeff.
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Chip
Jeff. He's back watching from southwest Florida. Not watch for almost sure, we'll come. Come up and meet us and.
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Jeff
And look at this. Last time I watched that shorter hair. Now you remind me of a sensei from Karate Kid or the Cobra Kai series. Yeah, that's true.
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Chip
And next thing you know, it started growing like crazy.
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Jeff
You pulled off well, Jeff. Well, the last time I was on, I had long hair and Chip had short hair.
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Chip
Yeah. Remember that?
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Jeff
Remember those days?
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Chip
I remember that. It's funny, if we go through all the incarnations of my hair and you're the same. But no, sometimes j. You'll see the beard come and you'll see it go. You'll see it get longer and fuller, and then it'll go. And then it'll get longer and fuller and go. That'll be the big change. Mine was like. With the hair. Yeah. Let it grow and. And that's what it is. What are you.
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Jeff
Boom. 589, dude.
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Chip
589. Visual vendetta. Thank you for that. That's a significant number right there on a tirade there, Jeff. We had so many other things going on here in plan, like we always do. Well, you know, what beaten path.
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Jeff
If you open up the constitution, all right, you go to the Declaration of Independence. It starts off. When in the course. See if I can read this in the dark. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and the nate and the. And of nature's God entitled them. A decent respect to the opinion of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. I love that opening.
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Chip
It's a great open. Yeah, man.
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Jeff
I can't read the rest because it's dark and it's hard to read it.
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Chip
Come on, Jeff. You have to read the rest. You have to. But. But that is quite the. Yeah, and if you look at the. If you look at the preamble, you know, the opening phrase of the. You know, the preamble, it starts off with we the people. And the. And the reason it starts off with we the people is because it was crafted by the people, not the government. It's the only constitution in the history of the world. People now. And in the 200. We're coming up on 250 years as a country, you know, an anniversary still pretty young in the grand scheme of things. You would think. You would think, Jeff, that some other country be like, hey, you know, they might want to take a page out of that book. You know, like Peter polio said, pay. Which page? Well, any. The constitution page, right? Take a page of that book and say, let's. Why don't we the people craft it? And it. And the thing about the Constitution, it's written in a way that tells the government what it cannot do. It limits the government power. It doesn't. Every other constitution tells you all the way. The government can throw its thumb on your face. And, and hold it on your neck. That's what every other constitution does. This constitution is crafted by we the people. It happened over a series of of of it started with the Federalist Papers and then it was knockout drag out fights to get it across the line. It took some time to actually put the constitution constitution. And it wasn't like they went in a weekend like let's do the Constitution. It wasn't, it didn't unfold like that. It's a cool history if you really want to get into some real good, some of the best bits of American history and how it was crafted. But you know, and it started off anonymous as the Federalist papers, right? What later been became known as the federalist papers. And we're like we can't have anonymous handles on X. This is how the whole, this is how this whole constitution came to be written by anonymously to protect people's identity, right? And in times of you know, looking for freedom but the whole thing, the way it unfurled and, and even though we've broken away from Great Britain, the UK still near and dear. It's always been a great ally to the US you saw what happened World War II. You saw you know those events unfold. I mean not personally but you know history tells us you had one man that stood up. All of Europe was being crushed and you had a man who was a drunk, who smoked, who was a philanderer, who was a, you know, every by everybody event, you know, meat eater, you know and meanwhile you had a guy who was a vegetarian. He was supposedly peaceful, he supposedly didn't drink. He supposedly did. He was crushing all of Europe. And you had one man that stood up, Churchill. Churchill stood up. The U. S came over. The rest is history. Right Merit. He's late.
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Jeff
We'll let it 30 minutes late. Hey Chip, you said your son but.
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Chip
I am old enough to be his father probably two times over because someone said oh you have long hair like Cobb. I'm like bro I had long hair before Cobb was born, okay? I had long had there down a year before cop was even a even a thought in his parents. I was like anyway it's the other way around. You know, it's like yeah cop. I'll be like give me a break guys. 589 the trigger delta on how fast the stock market index can move plus or minus before program trades. Trigger circuit breaker halts on trades. Look at that. Bam. There you go.
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Jeff
I'm back.
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Chip
I'm trying to undo something you're trying.
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Jeff
To pop it out, Jeff. I'm back. And already realize what I've been missing. The intellectual aspect is so strong. That's right, man. It's been like a year you've been gone a year? That's crazy. Whole year he's been away from us.
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Chip
He's been away for a year and we've gotten very political. Is that funny? But we're giving away a badass, by the way.
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Jeff
We're giving this bad boy away. This is a pathfinder from the badass Yetis blue tribe. We haven't given away a blue tribe for a while because we had a whole bunch of them tied up. We're getting them back so we can give them away, and so we're excited about that. So here you go. We've got the badass Yeti pathfinder. Look how nice and cuddly this guy is. They make you, they kind of, you know, suck you in. You think they're going to be friendly and then bam, when you least expect it, they might, you know, tear you apart limb from limp. But you know, that being said, type in. You guys know the word? Type in Yeti. Get your zamen wallet ready. Get ready to win this bad boy. Because this bad boy is kick.
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Chip
Not the one, Jeff. You know the one. That's not the one.
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Jeff
This is not the one.
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Chip
Okay, gotcha.
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Jeff
Just check the one. The one is tagged. It ends with a six.
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Chip
All right?
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Jeff
This is not the one.
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Chip
So, yeah, type in right there. And this is the opportunity to win a badass yeti. Nft the new me, Jim D. Jim D. Then come. Come hang out with us. Come hang out with us in Cape Canaveral, man. We'll. We'll maybe like, we'll meet up at some bar or something like that if we have to. If we can find something, we'll do that. Maybe Friday night we can do that. Jeff.
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Jeff
Yep.
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Chip
You find a bar in Cape Canaveral and do something on Friday night.
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Jeff
But the whole bars over there, the.
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Chip
Whole idea is that area too. The, the, the summit though, man, come to the summit, drop a couple hundred bucks, it'll be worth it. Not because we're there, because it's going to be a great time, great stuff, great food, energy.
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Jeff
And by the way, by the way.
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Chip
By the way, Yatai, the Jettai.
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Jeff
And by the way, if you guys haven't seen this yet, this is happening soon. It's coming up. It's not that far off. This is the wave, is the wave of innovation. Gold coast. Gold Coast.
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Chip
Play it, my man.
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Jeff
I gotta click over here.
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Chip
Truly and impactful. Yeah. Good stuff. Good stuff.
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Jeff
I just went full screen. Why'd it go full screen?
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Chip
I don't know man.
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Jeff
I hit the wrong button.
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Chip
This was something. There was an interview with Casey Cradock. She is the general. I think she's the general. She's the managing director over at Ripple and this is her right here. Casey Cradock right there. Managing director based out of London. And there's a great article we want to provide. This is Casey Cradock, Ripple Europe. We want to provide an end to end infrastructure for financial institutions. Institutions initially focused on cross border payments. The American company Ripples gradually extended its range of services to include custody and tokenization. This strategy should enable it to become a must have for businesses as its European boss, Casey Craddock explains an interview and it's a good one. We're not going to go through the entire piece of it, but it's a. It's a good. It's a very good interview. And the tokenization piece of it is. Is huge. Right. And that's located in the publication Big Whale.
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Jeff
I thought the name was Biatch.
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Chip
Biatch. No, it's big wheelchair block.
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Jeff
What does that say? Oh, on top.
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Chip
Raphael bloke.
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Jeff
Bloke. That's why I looked up like, does that say biatch?
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Chip
Nice check, my man. I had a laugh at this one here. Powell commits to no cbdc. Well, it's real convenient to commit. There's no CBDC when it's already been locked out via an executive order. And it will never be like, oh, there's no cbdc. Oh, I'm Chairman Powell, I'm committing to. There will be. No, of course you're committing. It can exist and during the Trump administration. This is so ridiculous, Jeff. This kind of stuff is everything that's wrong with, with the Federal Reserve. I mean it's just absolutely a joke. Right, right. Howell commits to no cbdc. Global Momentum stalls. What a great headline that is. Global. There's Global Momentum. Fed Chair. If you want to look at the, the one thing that's going to hopefully go away under the Trump administration, two things. The irs, the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is a shakedown, loan sharking operation. Debt ridden, never been audited since 1913. It's going to get audited. You can see the pressure starting to mount. There's a bill going through Congress right now to audit the Fed. And what do you think we're going to find? Geez, if we're finding all this weird stuff with Doge and every single government agency is tainted, what do you think is going to happen when they look at the Fed and look at the balance sheet, the real one, not the one they've been showing us and pretending that everything's fine when we know Bernack, we have got Bernanke, an ex Fed chair who's talking about sending a trillion dollars overseas. Well, trillion dollars from what? For whose money? This is what happens when the founder's vision is not met because Congress can go off and do stupid things, which they did with the Federal Reserve. And you know, in the, in the Constitution it allows the, it allows Congress to create COIN or you know, a monetary system and they gave it to a third party that has no governance, zero oversight, doesn't do anything for we the people. And that's coming to an end. And we, when Trump talks about this golden age, the only way we can have a golden age is to get rid of the Federal Reserve, to get rid of the irs. And you see by saving all this money that's no longer worth spending, the government doesn't have to spend it. You cut 80% of the people in the government. Well, guess what? The amount of tariffs you need to cover the nut is very low. Right? Then you're going to get into state taxes. Okay, well you know, Florida doesn't have a state tax. Texas doesn't have a state taxes. But you know, places like Georgia, New York, Illinois, they got massive state taxes. Right. So this is what's coming, Jeff. It's going to be brilliant. And this is. I will look at this one right here. Shoot. I hate when it happens. Look at the survey found that interested in issuing a CBDC steadily declined. Some 18 of respondents said they are more inclined to issue one than in previous years, down from 38%. This is a nothing article. Republican opposition has been vocal in its opposition to a cbdc. A year ago, five Republicans introduced legislation to prevent Biden from issuing a cbdc. I mean, well, do they get into Trump already did it or no mention it. What a goofy article.
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Jeff
But it had, it had to be done, you know. And Brian's saying it looks like Ripple is positioning itself to take over for the Fed. I think we'd be better off if we got rid of the Fed. I think we're getting ready to see an audit of the Fed. We're going to see a dismantling of all the different agencies. First they got to go agency by agency. And as a matter of fact, as you shut, shut down agencies like the USAID or Department of Education, etc. Etc. You also cut the tentacles of the Fed because the Fed is ingrained come out in all these areas. Now you get rid of that. Then when they go after the Fed to audit the Fed because Trump is already made statements that they're going to audit the Fed. Elon Musk wants to audit the vet. Ron Paul wants to edit the Fed. There's a whole group of them. I'm sure they're pulling the people together now, positioning themselves. Once they audit the Fed, they got to audit the IRS too.
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Chip
Boom, boom.
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Jeff
They're shutting down these agencies and departments and it's going to be amazing. And I think Elon Musk was, he made a statement the other day to say how much money the US Government actually has. We have so much money coming in that that's why there's all these slush funds. That's why there's all these outpouring of money because they have too much money. They're taking too much of our tax, they're printing too much money. They have way too much, you know. So shut down the IRS, let people keep all their money 100% of their earnings. And then, then we're going to see some rocket ship. Every everybody will have money to build a rocket ship. That's what we want. Productivity product we want pouring into our economy. Yeah.
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Chip
And as a result the whole world will do amazing. So Brian Quinten's this guy was a great commissioner of the CFTC and something great happened this week. He said it's his great honor to be nominated by Donald Trump as the next chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. And if you guys don't know what that means in the U.S. the CFTC is the regulatory body, not the SEC. The CFTC is the correct body that will take care of crypto. And you got a guy here that is so freaking pro crypto. Right. And the SEC is a useless organization. And once the new legislation comes out to become even more useless, they'll have nothing to do except if like you know, you have an ETF or something that actually is a security. But if they also change the definition of what that looks like, they'll, they'll have nothing to do. And we don't even have to worry about Gensler 2.0 with this task force. And we're come on in. We have a new way to register. This is like that reminds me of the communist ism that you talked about earlier. Everyone goes like I know the communism didn't work when they tried it but if you do it our way it's going to succeed. It's our version of communism is going to work for all the people. Right. And it fails and fails and fails and it's never ever worked. And so now you got the task force over at the SEC headed up by so called crypto mom and she's telling you we're going to have a new way to come in and register and buzzer this guy right here in the new legislation is going to prove that the SEC is a useless place. He said I served as a commissioner in the last, in his last administration. CFTC plays a critical role in maintaining robust hedging and price discovery markets. They're the envy of the globe. The agency is so well poised to ensure the US leads the world in blockchain technology innovation. I look forward to working with the President Trump's incredible financial regulatory team. What do you think about this Jeff? This is amazing.
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Jeff
I like it.
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Chip
I like right is you know how it's chimed in on that house. He said the CFTAC plays a vital role in making sure the US has the most robust capital markets in the world. Congratulations. Brian Quintez on your nomination for CFT's. It's just the winning is so much in three weeks, Jeff. I cannot keep up on the winning. That happens daily. People send me stuff, and I'm like, I didn't know that. Here's more winning. I didn't see that. It's like, there's winning three weeks in. There's so much freaking winning going on. It's. It's. Or it's. I think we're four weeks in now. What was that you posted?
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Jeff
Coming up on four weeks. Not yet. Not quite yet. We're getting. We're getting there.
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Chip
We're coming up on four weeks.
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Jeff
Coming up on four weeks. Crushing it. Just absolutely crushing it. Every single day is something new. It's. It's really amazing, the speed at which even. What's his name? James Carville Carver Carvel. Yeah. So he was coming out saying he can't keep up with the speed at which Trump is going after. And they're doing it on purpose. They had all this stuff planned. They're. They're playing chess. The Democrats are still playing tic tac toe. And, you know, and it's. They're just. There's no, you know, they're going after everything. Everything. And they're moving all these pieces so fast, and that's what you got to do. Speed, you know, if you look at business, speed is. Is everything. Sometimes you gotta kind of take a slow approach to put stuff together, but then once you get that momentum, you gotta go. You can't sit back, because when, especially in government, you sit back, everything's a slow roll. It allows them to plan and strategize and figure things out, and they're just going, man, they're bulldozing. And. And they got to keep going. There's so much fat and corruption and these despots, and they have to go after so many of them. It's. It's unbelievable. It's decades, Decades of this. USAID was put in place by Kennedy. That's how long USAID has been in place. And. And the corruption that ensued out of it. It was a slush fund. Right from day one, it's a slush fund. You know, so there you go. And they've corrupted that slush fund. How do you have, you know, Maxine Waters or an Elizabeth Warren that's worth like $200 million on a $200,000 salary?
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Chip
Well, they're about to find out. I saw Elon Musk from the. From the. He goes, you know, we're going to look into how somebody had $175,000 salary amass $60 million and if you want to know the cockroaches, when you turn the light on, you ever turn the light on late at night you see cockroaches. Scary. That's the Democrat party. And if you want to see who the evil bad eggs are in the Republican party it's people like McConnell McConnell didn't any of this. Why? Because you know, and people are like well I think a lot of his money came from China. This is a well known fact. This isn't like hyperbole. We know his money came from, from China, he's been being paid off for China for years. But what's happening is they're going to trace the payments, they're going to figure out who got paid. It's going to go to some ngo, the NGO is going to filter it over here, it's going to come back over there and just like FTX when all the money was sent to Ukraine, Ukraine sent it back to FTX and FTX funneled it back into the politicians pockets. Now 90 were Democrats but a lot of them were Republicans too and there's evil on both sides. It's a, it's a uni party that has to be broken up and thank God for you know when they're. And you know what the new, you want to know what the new Russia, Russia, Russia is Jeff? The new Russia Russia Russia is personal data. This is what they're, this is the lie they keep telling Elon Musk has all your personal data. He getting your personal data. Did you know that he has access to your personal payment data? None of it's true. This is what they're trying. This is the new Russia Russia where they're talking about personal data because they got nothing else. They gotta like land on something. So they've been given the, the mandate. Here we go right here. Look at this. V8 says first step to ending the Fed is to launch automated bond auctions via federated sidechain by U S Treasury and smart contracts. The disenfranchise of the Fed its primary dealer starts then. This is spot on right here Jeff.
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Jeff
I love it.
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Chip
Massive. And again this is what I would love, I would love to see this happen. Right but this, it will happen. Happen. It will happen. We are headed towards a very, very good place. I mean God, we're heading to a really good place.
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Jeff
It's amazing to me. It really is amazing to me. Yeah, the momentum so amazing ripples.
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Chip
Becoming a white knight, buying U S Treasury bonds to back the, the Ripple USD stable coin. And it's funny that, isn't it? Funny how tether's casually falling out of favor because when new legislation comes in, you know, these fake audits you're having, you got, you got to show what you're actually backing it up with, right? You gotta just, you can't say, well, with some bitcoin here and there and some gold and some precious, yeah, okay, when the rubber hits the road, you're gonna find, you're gonna see somebody conveniently slide right in there like this. There's no mistake about the Ripple USD and it's, it's going to be welcome, it's going to be great. And there's no mistake. This is a strategy. You got the tokenization and you have the industrial, you know, institutional custody. Those are the big pieces that we're missing before, man. Just, yeah, coming together.
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Jeff
Well that, you know, to your point. So Ripple went, Ripple's gone through multiple rebrandings. First it was tech, right? So he had to be heavily involved in tech and understand blockchain to understand their terminology. Super confusing. They had all, all these different aspects of it, lots of different names and you'd have to figure out where do all the components fit in. Then they simplified. Still was confusing. Now with their website, now you go on their website, you know exactly what these guys do and this is the time, this is liftoff. Because now what we're going to start seeing is a coalescing of this kind of technology. They're prepared. Elon Musk knows it, Trump knows it. Everybody knows the direction that the country's moving in. But if you look at what you know, Ripple's direction right now, modernize your financial infrastructure. If that doesn't tell you everything, right? Ripple is the leading provider of digital asset infrastructure for financial services. Sent cross border payments in real time, engage with tokenization and digital assets and meet regulatory compliance requirements all in one place. Boom. Elevator pitch. First time in the history of their company that it's clear to the populace, right. Anybody can go on this website right now and understand 100% what they do. Beyond that you go to Solutions Payments Custody, stablecoin. Who are their customers? Banks, NEO banks, digital banks, payment service providers, crypto business. There you go. That I love, I love this, you know, cleanup of this website. Don't know exactly when it happened, but it's so clear. It's so perfectly clear right now. I love it.
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Chip
Request the demo right there. Not hidden somewhere in some, you know, third or fourth Page request, a demo. Right. How does it work? You know what else they changed? They got a white background, Jeff. And I've been advocating this for years. Right?
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Jeff
Background.
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Chip
I'll get rid of the dark colors. I hated that. I just. It was not white background. Nice and crisp and clean. You know, we're not coders working the midnight to seven shift that we got the darks, you know, the, the dark mode on. It's. And, and you see, look at, look at the folks they're dealing with. Look, it's right in your face. This is, you know, this is bbva. Big banks in there. I mean, it's fantastic that we're seeing that. They are, you know, look, they're, they're, they're transforming and this is it. They're gonna be. They're the player. They got a seat at the table. You got to see that. That Stu Alderati and Brad Garlinghouse, both maga. I mean, that big photo with them and Trump doesn't get any better than that, man. I mean, in an all time, the whole time. You know, Ripple is a company that, that really, really were the ones that said, we're not bending the knee. We're in the right. And I don't care what the SEC. And it cost them a tune to $200 million to go fight that lawsuit. Unfortunately, organizations like Library didn't have, you know, with Kaufman at the helm, didn't have $100 million sitting in a, in a, you know, in an account that they could go fight the sec, that they could go fight the corporate Quartz. Right. You see the clear photos of the people behind it who are running the organization. Don't like the dark screen, but. Okay, that was a mistake.
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Jeff
Still kept that one.
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Chip
That was a mistake.
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Jeff
But look at their leadership. Chris Larson's not in. In leadership. Chairman on the board of directors.
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Chip
Yeah, he's a board of directors. Yeah.
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Jeff
Stu, Chief legal officer. And Brad Garlinghouse. But look at this.
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Chip
I mean, it's Monica Long. Beautiful. Yeah.
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Jeff
This is really, really clean. I like it.
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Chip
Yeah.
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Jeff
The direction, man. These guys are leading the crypto revolution.
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Chip
All the way to the bottom. I want to see the last picture. Bottom left corner. There you go. There's. There he is. He sits on the board too.
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Jeff
Yep.
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Chip
Board members. Really great stuff. Rosie Rio's still there. Sandy O'Connor. Yeah, it's great stuff. Michael Warren.
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Jeff
Yep.
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Chip
It's good stuff, man. And Garland House also sits on there, which is fantastic. There's a lot going on. I want to play Jeff. I want to get Into a little bit of. I want to show JD Advances. Now, what's very different about this Trump administration over the last one. 1.0, Trump was good. 2.0 Trump is beyond imagination. It's exceeding expectations that any of us had. And why? Because he brought the A team. And what did he do? He went out and got Tulsi Gabbard, right? They put her on a no fly list. They tried to mess with her. Well, guess what, she's in charge of all the agencies now. Good luck there. They try to railroad, you know, RFK Jr. It's been a life. I mean, there's probably no family that better describes the word Democrat than the Kennedy family, the Kennedy clan, the Kennedy dynasty. You had John F. Kennedy, you had Bobby Kennedy, right? Both executed and taken out, you know, both Democrats but stood for something. You look at the great last, the late, the last great Democrat was John F. Kennedy. Today he'd be considered a right wing nut job. Strong and strong on the economy. Strong on defense tax cuts. Right. Issuing heavy tax cuts at a time when taxes were outrageously high. I mean, the good thing was the dollar was worth something back then. It was still backed by gold. But JFK today would be like, if he was around today, be like, you're a right winger, you're a nut job, you're this and that. But back in the day, you know, and he was the one that tried to battle the deep state. He came out with that speech three, three, four weeks before he got taken out. Anybody said he was going to shake, shake him down. We can't. It was a secret society speech. Go listen to it. It's an amazing speech. Talking about, we call it the deep state. He was calling it the secret society. So he knew about it. He tried to take him on single handedly and well, he was eliminated by his outside force, no, an internal force. And Trump is valid to, to basically Release everything about RFK Jr. Bobby Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King. We're going to find out. This is all inside jobs. We're going to find out exactly what's going on with the internal agencies. Now release. You know, the Warren Commission was an absolute joke. It was an absolute, you know, it was, it was pathetic in a lot of ways. And I want to show you something that you want to see. How you want to see checkers versus chess. This is what people miss. This is, this is checker, this is 4D chess that Trump's playing versus the Democrats who are so lost they can't even figure out how to catch Up. This is from the page of screw.com on Facebook. Came across a lawyer, Tom Renz, who actually read Trump DOGE executive order and expecting some illegal power grab, found it to be airtight. Turns out that Trump and Musk did not create anything Obama did. Obama created the United States Digital Service, which was called the USDS 2014. It was meant to be a bureaucratic patch job to fix the Obamacare website meltdown. Fast forward to 2025. Trump rebrands it as Doge United States Doge Service. Get that? USDS United States Doge Service. He changed the name but kept the acronym. Same acronym. Keeps the funding, but gives a whole new mission. Find the receipts. So legally untouchable because it was already fully, fully found, funded and operational. Trump invokes 5 USC 3161, which allows him to create temporary hiring authorities. Doge then gets teams embedded inside every single federal agency. Each team consists of a lawyer, an HR rep, a zoomer, nerd, and an investigator. They report to those, not the agency, zoomer to that. Like that, not the agency that they're embedded in. But wait, there's more. Trump invokes 44 USC Chapter 35, which governs federal IT and cyber security oversight. And since the USDS was originally an IT oversight body, DOGE now has full access to all federal data systems. Yes, that's right, all of them. His executive orders, written to block legal challenges. Includes languages that overrides conflicting executive orders orders every agency has to comply. Refusal means they violate presidential authority. Congress can't defund it because it's not a new program, just a repurposed one. DOJ can't sue for overreach because Trump used existing laws and it was done exactly as written. Democrats trying to file legal challenges run into standing issues because the DOGE operates within existing frameworks. Obama literally built the perfect administrative read. Deep State IT backdoor. Trump and Musk just hacked the system, took the admin controls. MUST now has legal oversight over every agency's internal systems. The administrative state can't stop it without rewriting multiple federal laws. And they legally just outplayed the system. And there's nothing you can do about it because Obama created doge. Thank you to the person that sent that to me. I had. That was actually a better account of. Of what I had read, which is fantastic, Jeff, but this is what I'm talking about. Trump had four years to put it together. Do you think, when he was trying to figure out how to govern when he was the president elect back in, you know, in 2016. Looking to take over in 2017. No, he's had a team of attorneys. He's had a team of, you know, it people. And you got Elon Musk going in there with his. I mean, they're making fun of. These kids are 20, 21, 18 years old. They're geniuses. The one guy got the Taylor Award because he put together, he figured out how to read an ancient document that was destroyed. He rebuilt it with AI using 3D. And then they were able to. He was able to decipher what it meant. A kid, he was 17, deal came to him and gave him the Thiel Award. Gave him a couple hundred thousand dollars, just go start a company. And now this is one of the kids on top of all the other ones, and they've got nothing. All they can do is attack them. The best, the best and brightest kids, young kids, young, young men and young women are going in there and they're using their skills, they're using AI. And with AI, there's no running man you can put right about AI is you can. Structured data is easy to, to basically search and do that. Unstructured data is very difficult. This, the way the government was set up was very difficult to go find the receipts with AI and with this young talent man, when they track the payments, when Trump comes out and says, huh, I wonder if there's any kickbacks. And he says it several times, that means he already knows there's kickbacks. And that's why you see the rats scurrying. And that's why they will not be able to walk down the street. They're getting assaulted. The one shot of Elizabeth Warren, that crotchety old lady running for her life, when they're saying, how did you amass all this money? How did you get this? How did you get that? The cockroaches are on notice, Jeff.
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Jeff
The cockroaches are definitely on notice. Thank God. It's about time. Put the cockroaches on notice. Let them, Let them know what's coming for them. Let them be terrified. You know, it's. It's been way too long. You think about what they've done to this country, what they've allowed to be done to this country. It's such a travesty on all sorts of different levels. So now we're putting, putting this country back in order. Sometimes there's going to be a little bit of potential pain points as we, as we bring back everything, you know, back on track. And. But you know what? It's going to Be for the best. It's going to be amazing. Amazing.
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Chip
Caroline said, I'm wondering why I'm amazing. Task force for the release of JFK files and everything else. We just wanted them released unfiltered and unredacted. Yeah, I agree with that. I think it's more of a having a point person, but we don't need it. We don't need that. That's not a necessary type of a thing. Here's JD Vance sticking it to Europe. This is what I like. This guy right here started running for president on the inauguration day. This is not, we've never seen a vice president like this. So well spoken. I was explaining to some one of my European friends yesterday that if you'd ever heard of Hillbilly Effigy, which was the best selling book that J.D. vance wrote before anybody knew who he was. But he chronicles his life growing up in Appalachia with a, with a drug addicted mother, horrible family, horrible upbringing, poor hungry, you know, and I would, the movie is actually a pretty good depiction. So, and the, and Glenn Close puts on an amazing performance performance playing his grandmother and, and I thought Amy Adams did a great job playing his playing his mother as well. But you can go watch Hillbilly Effigy. It's on Netflix. It's a Netflix film by Ron Howard. I don't know, Jeff, you've seen it yet.
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Jeff
No, I've not.
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Chip
I bet I got, I employ you to go watch it because it chronicles J.D. vance's world, his life and how he came to overcome it all. Because he had one person that believed in him and that was his grandmother. And his grandmother was a drug addicted. She broke the cycle and she tried to help. But you had a long cycle. You have families. You know, my grandfather, both on both sides of the family. One checked out at 52, one at 54. Both died of alcoholism. My father was an alcoholic. My mother said to him when I was 2 years old, either or actually my brother was 2 years old, I was, I was 5. Said if you don't quit drinking, I'm taking the kids and I'm leaving. My father quit drinking that day, never took a drop in his life because he valued his family more and he broke the cycle of his grandfather, of his father was an alcoholic, his grandfather was an alcoholic, and so on and so forth. So it's a great depiction. I, I, you know, it'll give you a whole new light of who J.D. vance is, how he overcame it all. It talks about how he met his wife and how she stood behind him and you'll really get a vat. You really get some good value around who this, who this guy really was. So anyway, let's watch JD Vance take it to Europe.
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John Kennedy
And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it's sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War's winners. I look to Brussels, where EU Commission commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they've judged to be, quote, hateful content. Or to this very country where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti feminist comments online as part of, quote, combating misogyny on the Internet. A day of action. I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to supposedly protect free expression do not in fact grant, and I'm quoting, a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief.
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Chip
Oh God.
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John Kennedy
And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from Congress conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons in particular in the crosshairs. A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam smith Connor, a 51 year old physiotherapist and an army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes. Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply, it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before. Now the officers were not moved. Adam was found guilty of breaking the government's new buffer zones law which criminalized silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person's decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility. He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution. Now I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one off crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person. But no. This last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizen suspected guilty of thought crime. In Britain and across Europe, free Speech, I fear, is in retreat.
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Chip
Boom. Jeff. I mean, it's. He goes on and on, but that's really the. That's really the crux of it. And here you got. Here's a. Here's a Brit chiming in what she thought. Listen to her. Listen to her thoughts.
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Lethal
How refreshing to actually hear someone defend the rights of the peoples of Europe and Great Britain. Sadly, it came from an American called J.D. vance at the Munich Security Conference, where he addressed the fact that leaders have canceled elections because basically they don't want the other team to win. What's happening in our country with the council elections, this is for no other reason. You'll have to convince me very hard that it's for something quite practical. It's not. It's because someone's chomping at the bit to take your seat and you would lose power. It's taken an individual from America to actually address all the issues that are wrong that mainly stem from unfettered immigration. Immigration that's not being managed properly. Immigration that's absolutely ruined the way Europeans live their life. I'm sorry. Yet when you go to the shops and people are putting barriers up to get to a Christmas market and we have barriers within our town centres that are permanently there in Manchester and Liverpool and different places, that is our life being eroded and nobody's bothered. These European leaders are not bothered. Our rule leader is not bothered. They say the words but there's no real feeling behind them. And what really concerns me, it took an American to come to Munich only days after a recent terror attack, yet again, which is an attack on the way we live our lives, to actually bring all these issues to the forefront. And the audience was sat there in all their military uniforms. Oh, yeah, let's talk about security. Let's talk about defending ourselves from China and Russia. What about defending ourselves from the people where the power's in the wrong hands within our own countries who aren't listening to the electorate. Brexit never delivered sky high prices for fuel, for heating, sky high prices on the cost of living tariff to death, while billions are made through the companies that supply us with power. It's just wrong on every level and nobody's sorting it out. They're just treating us like livestock on a cat on a tax farm. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Watch the speech by J.D. bounds. It's on Fox News, on YouTube. It's really quite uplifting to think there is actually somebody somewhere in the world that sees what's actually Happening to people in Europe and Great Britain.
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Chip
Well said, June. That's June Slater. Apparently it's a well said well sell, June Slater. I mean, it's amazing. And you know, this. Listen, there's so many patriots. Look, what, what disturbs me is like, Jeff, you know, when I wanted to. When I went to France, right, And I took a little wrong turn and ended up in a place where I didn't recognize France anymore. And, and I was like, kind of shocked and surprised and dismayed. But I want the French culture. I want the French food. I want the history of France. I want the. I want to learn about everything I can do about the great people of France. When I go to the uk, If I'm visiting Wales, the. Well, if I'm over in, you know, whether it's Northern Ireland or Ireland, I, I want to know the people, right? I want to engage with them. I want to go to Scotland. I want to learn. I want to do enough from Great Britain. I want to be with the people and I want. It's an amazing culture. There's such amazing history and, and people can say what they want about the, you know, the Roman Empire. They can say what they want about the British Empire. Without the British Empire, would we have had. Would we have what we have today if the Brits hadn't gone out and colonized and changed the face of the planet, if they hadn't gone out there and were like, oh, oppressive and colonization. Well, guess what? It wasn't for the colonization, we wouldn't have had the advancements. Let's take India, for example. Everybody, everybody in India for the most part, speaks, you know, English. Okay, thank you. Thank you to the. For, for the British Empire. Thank you for English being the language that is spoken the most universally. Right? So there was. So you can say, oh, there are bad bits and bad parts, but, man, thank God for the British Empire. Thank God for Great Britain. And although we had a disagreement, it pains me in my heart to see what's happening there. Here we go on a ramp. It does. I mean, and, and the only way to do that is for the people to stand up. You guys are having your Biden moment, and it's time for you guys to maybe take that next course of action and stand up. Keir Starmer knows he's on, on, on, on, on rocky ground. And it's so funny. He's like, I talked to Zaleski and I talked to that. Nobody cares. You're irrelevant. Nobody cares what you think, what you do, and the persecution what you Your false promises when you came in and what you were going to do. And guess what? It's. You're. You're on borrowed time right now. And who you were in a previous life is even more embarrassing. We've gotten into that whole thing, but, yeah, it's so funny how they protect their own, Jeff. They protect their own cockroaches. You're all unnoticed. You're getting exposed. And you won't be able to walk down the street. There will not be a safe haven for you. You will not go anywhere. You'll be able to walk the street.
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Jeff
Again because they're corrupted criminals. And it's different than when the leftists, when they were in power, they said, single out Republicans wherever they are, make their lives uncomfortable, get in their faces whether they're at a restaurant. They called for violence. Right? I don't care what the leftist media propagandist machine wants you to believe. I don't want, you know, whatever the Democrats want you to believe. In 2020, they called. Or in 2016, sorry, they called, you know, for, you know, violence against Republicans. 2020, when they took over, they called for violence against Republicans. Get in their face. Don't give them a quarter. Don't, you know, wherever they are, wherever they go, you know, be there. That was Maxine Waters. That was. The whole lot of them said that. Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden said, I wish I could bring them around, you know, the shed or whatever, and beat them up. And they were, they were so violent. The vitriol, right. And yet the leftist media, like, it gave it a wash. Like they weren't the ones calling for violence. Antifa blm, you know, they were the ones that were burning down streets and, and city blocks all over this country. That was, that was the narrative then the fictitious left, his propaganda with January 6, even though there was, you know, some. Obviously something happened over there. And we're gonna, we're gonna get the receipts and we're gonna find out exactly what was behind it, you know, and we're gonna see, you know, which agencies were involved in it because they've got the receipts on all of it. We're gonna hear about the stolen election in 2020 because they've got the receipts on it and they're not going to let it up. And we're going to see all the corruption that's gone on in every agency at every level to the point where it's going to be transparent and clear. We're three weeks, four weeks into it. Wait for six months, wait for 12 months. Twelve months from now, this country is going to be in a different place. The world's going to be in a different place, you know, thank God, you know, and, and, you know, it's good for everybody. There's going to be a lot of, you know, infighting, but already, we're already starting to see there's going to be calm and quiet. Why? Because there's an actual leader in the White House. There's a leader in the world. We had a power vacuum and you allowed, you know, all the, all the despots to start running wild around the, around the world. Accountability, transparency and leadership. And that's it. Mostly peaceful rides. That's right.
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Chip
So I'm gonna hold them all accountable and perp walk them all. There you go. They're all people. You know what? Absolutely. With anyone else See the bubblegum ball immigration video? I don't know if. Oh, yeah, the bubblegum one. We'll. Yeah, we'll play that tomorrow night. That's a great, great, great one.
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Jeff
Get ready.
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Chip
Type in Yeti. We got 16 entries, so you have a 1 in 16 chance. Unless I see some more.
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Jeff
That's it.
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Chip
16. You can win only 16, guys. Type in Yeti if you've already typed again, however. So I want to play, I want to play a video in the. We got a couple. We. We promised this once we got to play it, but this is interesting, an interesting video. I wanna, I wanna, I won't tease it, but let's just watch a tweet from moonpay.750,000 new moonpay accounts in the last 7 days.
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Rob Liquor
What should they buy next?
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Jeff
You just told me a crazy story.
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Chip
That is linked to one of my previous podcast guests, Mike Novogratz. Can we go deeper into that?
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Rob Liquor
Can I give you the. A little bit longer version? Yeah, very abbreviated version, which was Ivan and I have been going for my phone starts blowing up hundreds of texts. Everyone is like, Trump just launched Meme coin and it went to $4.6 billion in like an hour. I don't know. We had a meeting the next morning at 8am the whole goal was we wanted to have the meeting. And then we were going to finally take a break for the whole day. We were just going to relax. We finished the meeting, we have breakfast, we're going through sort of what we need to do to follow up. And then we walk back to the hotel. I'm so happy to, like go back in. We get a call. Mona calls who's our CFO and says, keith, Ivan, we have A problem. Trump coin is so popular, and because the Trump team directed it towards moonshot and we had no clue that this was even going. Moonpei has the exclusive rails and moonshot. The volumes were just gigantic. All of the liquidity that we use to sort of wire the crypto to sell the crypto, like, was locked in BlackRock accounts in a traditional finance sort of manner. And it's Saturday of a holiday weekend during the inauguration. So we have no access to our capital. All of the reserves that we have are dwindling really fast. Well, Mona, how much money do we need to raise? And she's like, it's not money. We need crypto to be able to buy this, right? Like, we need usdc. How much do we need? She goes, I'm doing the math. At the current rate, $50 million by midnight tonight, 11 o'clock in the morning, okay? And Ivan's like, okay, are we sure? She does the math again. She's like, honestly, the rate that this token is growing and the demand that we're seeing, $100 million, we have to find $100 million by when? Midnight tonight. By the way, we know that on Tuesday we could pay it all back because we have the money in the bank. It's just we have no access to it. So I text my Mike, I'm sorry to bother you on the weekend. Do you have a minute to chat? Within a minute, he texts back. We get on the phone with him and Ivan and I explain the situation. And Mike says, well, you know, guys, I like you both. I like the team, I like. It's good for the space. How much do you need? A hundred million dollars in usdc. Mike goes, okay, no problem. Let me see what I can do. Whole conversation, two minutes. Five minutes later, we get a call from Mike's team. The team at Galaxy, absolutely amazing. So we start scrambling the finance team, everyone's scrambling to get all the forms storms going. Later in the day, it turns out that we get a call. They can't confirm that the funds are real because it's a Saturday and no one at blackrock is picking up the phone call. And they can't confirm if they're liens. And so fortunately, Lindsay Haswell, our chief legal officer, sits on the board of BlackRock's ETF. She's calling her friends at BlackRock. We get someone who can confirm the funds. Chris over at Galaxy calls up and he's like, guys, hand on heart, give me your word though, you have no liens on these funds.
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Chip
Funds.
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Rob Liquor
In the meantime, after we gave our word, they asked Ivan to personally pledge his entire life, like his entire personal net worth on the line for this loan. Not even a discussion. Signs away pledges, his entire life. We call Ivan's sisters up, goes to his house to, like, access computer, get some bitcoin to liquidate, and he's liquidating his personal Bitcoin and, like, sending it to Moonpay to make sure that we stay up and running. And finally, at 11:00 at night, the money comes through. $100 million million dollars. So I go to sleep at like 1:00 in the evening. At that point, Trump Coin was, I think, 26, 30 billion dollars. I wake up at 6:00 in the morning and I'm thinking to myself, finally, a day that I could rest. And I look at my phone and Trump coin is $70 billion. And I look at my computer, there's a slack message from our head of product, jd, Ivan. Keith, what you did yesterday was amazing, but if we don't raise another $60 million today, we're going to run out of money by tomorrow. Tomorrow morning at the rate that we're going. This thing is just picking up.
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Chip
Just. If you concretely run out of money.
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Rob Liquor
What does it mean when people try to, like, buy crypto with Moonpay? It just says, sorry, it doesn't work. Like, we had 750,000 registrations, right? So I'm giving you the perspective of Ivan and I raising capital, but, like, at the same time, the operations team is working, like, non stop. Melania sort of launch happened at the same time. It essentially was the equivalent of a DDoS attack on Moonpay's, like, servers, right? Because it was just everything coming full force. Ivan comes running over to my room in his bathroom, and so I even goes, you know who I could text? You know who I think could come through is. Is Brad Garlinghouse. So I even texts Brad at 7 in the morning. Brad responds immediately, says, no problem, guys. Meet me at the waldorf Astoria at 10:45 in the morning. And Ivan goes into explaining to him, you know, yesterday novogratz gave us $100 million. Like, we underestimated this demand of this Trump token. And Brad goes, well, listen, same thing as Mike. I'm gonna call our CFO and chief legal officer, see what we could do. Here's the deal. We want to help you, but you got to get Novo's team to approve it, which is fair. They helped us out the night before, and it was the right thing to Galaxy's team's. Credit. They're like, listen, guys, like, if they repaper everything, you're never going to make your deadline. At the end of the day, it was like 5:00 at night. What we suggest is why doesn't Ripple wire the money to Galaxy and then Galaxy can wire the money to moonpay. And at 11:58 on Sunday, another $60 million comes through. Monday comes around and the acquirers start to pay us back from the floats in Europe, but it's still a holiday in the US Tuesday comes around like we have access to our capital again. All of the US acquirers start to pay us back. And by Tuesday, I think around 2:58 in the afternoon, we paid back the entire loan. What I walked away from was these are just two amazing individuals to the level that, like when you said that you had Novogratz on your podcast and you spoke to them, if Mike or Brad ever needed a kidney, I should be the first call they give. I would give both of my kidneys. To put into context how big the Trump coin was and the Melania coin was and how it impacted Moonpay. Over the course of a week, we onboarded 750,000 new consumers. That was my weekend, which was, I hope. And then I go back to New York for two days and fly here to Istanbul. Okay.
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Jeff
To tell us the story. To tell you the story.
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Rob Liquor
This is the first time I've told the story publicly.
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Chip
What a great. That's one of the better stories I've heard of the way it was told, the way it was positioned. But, man, you know, and Jim D. Said it right here. Telephone and personal relationships, that's how the real money system works. Hey, I think I can text Brad Garlinghouse. Brad says, go call Novo's people and ensure that this really happened. They call Novo, right? Novogratz. And you think those guys are enemies? Oh, they're all on the same team, man. They're all behind the scenes. They know what's going on. They wanted to make this work and float. XRP plumbing. Look at that right there. There's a super sticker right there. Massive support for the channel. Another big OG in the space is always supporting and always appreciate you, man. Thank you so much. It's really fantastic. Jeff says, like, when did go ahead. When did everyone else's feelings and beliefs from outsiders become more important than the beliefs our country was built on? And he's talking about the uk so it's amazing that. Well, this is how it starts. You know, it starts with people standing up and then it starts with your patriots doing the right thing. And there's a lot of patriots over there that really want the best, you know, and it's, it's sad to see that rising tide lifts all boats. Right on.
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Jeff
Man. I wish more monkey business says Trump signed a bill. Everybody with a mortgage in America is getting 50 grand back. I want my money back. I want all. Every dollar of tax that I've spent that's gone to all this chaos and supporting leftist propaganda organizations. We get, we should get all of that money back. Get rid of the irs. I'll call it, I'll call it even. You don't get rid of the irs. I want my money back. I want everything.
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Chip
Yeah, keep us. Not the internal one. Let's get rid of the external one.
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Jeff
Will keep external one. We need, yeah, we need the external chip. Did you see this? Look how beautiful this is. So Trump put, they, they commissioned. This is the New York Post. There's his mug shot. And they put that right at the entrance to the Oval Office. Everybody coming into the Oval Office goes by that New York Post mug shot.
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Chip
It's the greatest thing.
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Jeff
Constant, constant trolling.
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Chip
It's brilliant. This, watch this little bit from a hearing. But listen to this was fire.
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JD Vance
Under the guise of foreign aid, USAID has been an unapologetic front for a far left agenda. It has become self evident there weren't a handful of foolish policies, but rather a coordinated strategy of radical, idiotic and often anti American priorities. Idiotic, you say? Millions to teach Moroccans how to make pottery. The Moroccans were making pottery before we were a country. This entire debate today and the crocodile tears from Democrats just goes to show what's wrong with this town. Not a single Democrat I've heard has expressed dismay at the many examples of crazy, wasteful spending. I don't understand the objection to a deep dive in how we spend our money, but perhaps it's the fact that over the last several weeks a massive surge has occurred in the search for a criminal defense attorney that probably says it all. Five times in this city, any other city in the nation. I'd like to remind the committee that President Kennedy unilaterally created U.S. iD through an executive order in 1961. Yet the president, President Trump orders a momentary pause after winning a mandate for reform. And Democrats cry constitutional crisis. As long as you're spending other people's money, no one bats an eye. But the second you want to save taxpayer dollars, the swamp cries wolf. Or in this case, unprecedented constitutional crisis. This breathless fake outrage from the left is utterly insane. And you know what? The American people, you know they can see right through it. The generosity of Americans and the blessing of giving aid to others has always been one of our most valuable tools for diplomacy. The American people have a proud history of championing aid to our fellow man. But lawless bureaucrats have poisoned that goodwill. Many USAID programs are wasteful and actively sabotage our diplomatic relationships by forcing WOKE ideology on our partners. Just look at pepfar, a beacon of hope in the fight against HIV aids. Yet the Biden administration even weaponized this crucial program, jeopardizing lives and undermining our relationship with African nations under Administrator Power Powers. Our message to Africa was explicit as it was heinous. Abort your babies and violate your religious convictions or we won't grant you life saving aid. Let me be crystal clear to those who've been complicit in this betrayal, firing those involved is just a start. We have a long way to go. And one last point. I want to correct the record on a couple of things. First, Elon Musk and the team that is working does not have access to personal data. They don't have access to your Social Security number. That is a lie. Elon Musk does have a security clearance. He has a top secret security clearance for by God, he makes the rockets for NASA. He's had security suggestion that he somehow can't be trusted to dig into how we're spending our money is nothing but a smoke screen to hide the corruption and the wasteful spending that has occurred there.
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Chip
Boom.
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JD Vance
And I am personally offended at the left's continued references to 19 year olds and 21 year olds in there doing work. There are 19 year olds who have won the medal of honor defending this country. Just because you're 19 doesn't mean you're some child who can't be trusted. It is offensive. And if you're 19 years old out there, 20 years old, and you're serving this country, by God, your service matters. Keep serving. We thank you for that.
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Chip
Dude, I was like, he brought the boom, man. It was like everything was a boom. Truth bombs all over, like Chad says, just absolutely phenomenal. Like there's so much winning going on right now. It's so fantastic. And you could see how world leaders are even scurrying, right? You can see that. I mean, you know, Justin Trudeau was on the way out, but it took embarrassing him calling Canada the 51st state calling for, I mean, just making him look so entirely small because he was on his way out. Anyway, but it just was. It just toppled him. And when he, you know, was going to waste, I mean, Canada had no other choice but to kind of like, want to go rush to the border and protect it. But I don't think, you know, people were against Canadians that, you know, it created a lot of strife, you know, with. With businesses and stuff. And. Because Canada's, you know, is. Is probably. I mean, they're our closest ally. I mean, they're like, they're. I mean, it's so. I mean, Canada is almost like an extension of the U.S. u.S. Extension of Canada. It's like right there. I mean, it's such a great country and it's. And to see something. What's happening there with Justin Trudeau and how he's destroyed that nation and the, and the. The, you know, great Canadian traditions make Canada great again. You got Pierre Poliev who's jumping in there to do such. Just the next thing. And, and, man, we got this happening all over you. Look what's happening in Germany. Do you ever think you would see in Germany that the opposing party said, first thing we're doing is getting. We're deporting all of the criminals, we're deporting all the illegals. We're getting rid of it, we're getting back. You go to Germany. I want to experience German culture. That's why I go there. But for you to think that you're going to lose your culture, you go to Sweden. Sweden used to. You go to Sweden to experience Swedish culture. Not anymore. This is ridiculous. Why should countries be subject to their takeover of their. Their. Their culture, their language and their borders? That's what defines a nation. Language, culture, borders. That's what it is. Their language, their culture and their borders have to be defended vigorously. Hungary took a stance. Poland took a stance. You saw what happened in Poland. They overthrew the government. Fake false election, right? You got. The left is coming back into power. Look, and Viktor Orban, what a beacon of truth. And he has been one of the. One of the legendary figures of Europe just standing up, not willing to take it, saying, our borders are protected, we protect Hungarian culture, and that's the way it's going to remain. And he got all kinds of leftists giving him crap and interviews about it. Look, we want to have the culture preserved, right? I want to go to England. I want to. I want to experience English culture. I want to go to a pub. I want to go to, you know, just. I mean, the British Museum. The British Museum's coming under fire. Because like, oh, colonization and so bad. And you know, white people are bad and all. I mean, it's ridiculous. I mean, I'm just. I'm tired of all of it. It's. Take back your country. Take it back. That's enough. Preserve your culture, your language and your borders. That's it, Jeff. It's enough ranting.
- [92:59]
Jeff
That's it. It's enough of a.
- [93:01]
Chip
Let's give away a yeti.
- [93:02]
Jeff
Let's give away this badass. Bad.
- [93:07]
Chip
You've got 22. Great chance to win.
- [93:09]
Jeff
There you go.
- [93:10]
Chip
Gotta be here to win. If you don't chime in, I am here with my wallet, address. Then we give it away to somebody else.
- [93:18]
Jeff
Laurel. I was 12 when I began to pay for school. At 19, a young man can join the military, but can't be trusted. But I love, you know, the 19, 20 year old that Elon Musk put in charge. Who's, you know, Monochron X is Big Balls, right? So Big Balls has already bought and sold companies by the time he was 20. He invented some key technologies, built a company, sold it for billions. I think the kid's worth a huge amount of money. It's one of the best and the brightest. So I love how that whole thing unfolded. And then, so they, they were talking about Big Balls on the news, and then what does Elon Musk do the next day? He changes his X profiles. Hairy balls. It was perfect. You know, it just puts this whole thing into perspective. I love how Elon Musk is having fun with it. So here we go, 22 entries for this bad boy right there. Look at that Pathfinder. We got to do the quick drawing. So let's roll.
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Chip
All right, here we go. Boom. Who's gonna win it? Who's gonna win it? Who? I say who?
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Jeff
Yeah.
- [94:28]
Chip
Donnie is the winner. Donnie, are you here?
- [94:30]
Jeff
Donnie here.
- [94:31]
Chip
He's the winner. Donnie. Donnie, are you here?
- [94:34]
Jeff
Donnie Bad ass. That's right, Colin. It's badass. Where's Donnie? Is Donnie here? Donnie? Donnie. Donnie. Donnie. Posted yeti not that long ago. Donnie, you still here? That was at 9:37. Donnie's here. Look at that. All right, Donnie, you know what we need is your Zamen wallet. Address. Boom. Give us your Zaman wallet. We're going to transfer this bad boy over to you. It is Kick ass Pathfinder. Look at that. One of the badass blue Yetis. We haven't given away a blue Yeti in a while because we didn't have our blues to give away. So now we got them to give Away. We're excited. Donnie posted it. Let me go onto YouTube over here. Let me grab this and we're going to go through and we're going to transfer this bad boy over to Badass Pathfinder. Loving this Pathfinder. He's really cool.
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Chip
Beautiful. Love it, man. Love it. Congratulations, Donnie. Congratulations to the end. We went a little long, but man, we had a lot. We were on fire today, Jeff. Saturday rants and we love, you know, freedom. Fighting for freedom and free speech and opposing tyranny overnight income.
- [96:01]
Jeff
We don't believe in about timing, so you may not. Oops.
- [96:06]
Chip
I was like, what the hell are you playing there? I was like, what the hell is that?
- [96:08]
Jeff
Where's the chat? Where's the chat? Where's the chat?
- [96:10]
Chip
I don't know.
- [96:11]
Jeff
Oh, there we go. Okay, I got Donnie's address here. Gonna move him over here. Let me grab this bad boy here, let me unshare for a second while I transfer this bad boy over to you. Let me put wallet, address, any. Oh, invalid XRP address. You know what you need to do? You need to go on to XRP Cafe real quick and you need to do the trust line real fast. Just go on to XRP Cafe and connect your Zaman wallet so we can transfer this bad boy to you through the, through the portal.
- [96:56]
Chip
And while you're doing that, I'm gonna play this. We talked about this a little bit earlier, but I did find the video. This is Elizabeth Warren being with the shakedown, bothered by the fact that Elon.
- [97:05]
JD Vance
Musk is attempting to expose all of this fraudulent spending.
- [97:10]
Chip
What is that about? What is the problem here?
- [97:13]
JD Vance
What is the problem?
- [97:13]
Jeff
Look at the terror.
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Chip
Do not touch me.
- [97:16]
Jeff
Do not touch me. Look at the tear in her face.
- [97:18]
Chip
Question. How did you get a 12 million dollar net worth on a $200,000 salary in Congress? How did you do that? Excuse me? How did you do that? You can keep trying to block my camera. We're on public sidewalk.
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Jeff
So you don't want to.
- [97:35]
Chip
So you don't want to answer that question. What is it about Doge that's such a problem to. You just elbowed me, Senator. I got that on camera.
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Lethal
Thank you.
- [97:42]
Chip
Transparency is your.
- [97:44]
Jeff
I love that, John. Probably more than 12 million from.
- [97:50]
Chip
Where is he from? Louisiana. But anyway, John Kennedy put out a. A message about love on, on. On Valentine's Day yesterday. This is it, folks.
- [98:02]
Jeff
I believe that love is the answer. But you ought to own a hand handgun just in case.
- [98:12]
Chip
That's the greatest thing, folks.
- [98:18]
Jeff
I believe that love is the answer. But you ought to own a handgun just in case.
- [98:26]
Chip
That's the greatest thing I've ever seen. Absolutely 100 fantastic, Jeff. I mean, gosh, that's just brilliant. Holy cow.
- [98:36]
Jeff
Always look forward to shows. Thank you. Thank you, Ken. Thank you, Donnie. If you can just give us a heads up, go to XRP Cafe and just do the trust line with the wallet so we can transfer this bad boy over real quick.
- [98:52]
Chip
Yeah, go ahead and do that. Top. We get top marks. I'm so happy with every time. This is what I live for. For the top marks, I. If we get top part, it's always a good thing. Maybe a blessing. John Deaton didn't get in. I think John Deaton may be called Senator Deaton pretty soon because I think a lot of them aren't going to make it. I'll be honest with you. I don't think a lot of them will make it. And if it goes down, well, first of all, people ask what happens. Warren resigns or gets kicked out. The governor will appoint somebody, but again, it'll go to an election, but they temporarily put somebody in. Like what happened to Rubio in. In Florida. The governor appoints the. The senator, but you know, they're still up for reelection and the person they put in there will probably be as bad as the person that left. But I have a feeling that, that we might be saying Senator Deon sooner rather than later. I think it's still a very strong possibility. Appreciate you, Blue Lotus. Thank you, Mike. Thank you, man. Woohoo. That would be cool. That would be awesome. Thank you for being a big supporter of the show. But also our bad badass Yeti's coffee. And you know something else we don't talk a lot about is we haven't in a while. Let's see. I'm gonna go to. Let me drop this in there.
- [100:07]
Jeff
I'm gonna do it from here.
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Chip
Oh, wow, Jeff, which one I'm sending?
- [100:14]
Jeff
Oh, here it is here. I might be able to do it from my Zaman wallet directly. I try something different.
- [100:33]
Chip
Well, see if we can do that.
- [100:38]
Jeff
If this works. Thank you and thank you and good night. Thank you and good night. Thank you and good night and good night. Thank you and good night. Thank you and good night. Thank you and good night. Hey, it's like live on my phone. Let me see. Thank you, good night. See if I can do this. Come on.
- [101:07]
Chip
Hang on.
- [101:11]
Jeff
Oh, you can't copy it off the phone. The phone won't let me copy. So that. Something different. Hang on. I have another Way to get it. Try something new and unique. I'm going to try to do it right from Z. This will be interesting. I think I can do it. Been exploring it.
- [101:38]
Chip
Hear crickets, Jeff.
- [101:39]
Jeff
I hear crickets, too. Taking time with the crickets. Crickets. Already did it. Nope, Donnie. Didn't connect. Honey. Donnie. Okay, let me try this.
- [101:59]
Chip
I'm gonna go.
- [102:01]
Jeff
Go right from the Z wallet. Where's our thing? Stream. I post pasted it. There it is right there. Boom. This is gonna be fun. And try something crazy. Doing something crazy. Here we go. There's the bad boy. Gonna transfer. There's the destination address. Gonna go wallet to wallet. There we go. Let's see if this works. Receiver must accept the transfer in the wallet. Confirm the transfer. Look at that. Doing it right from the Zomin. Here it comes. Sending it. Oh, Donnie did it. He says, yeah, I saw him do it over there now. But I'm doing it through Zaman. This is exciting. Boom. Look at that. Submitted successfully created an offer through the Zaman wallet. Transfer is pending. Transfer successfully created. Donnie, check your Zaman wallet.
- [103:07]
Chip
There you go, man. Done deal. Boom.
- [103:08]
Jeff
Boom. Look at that.
- [103:09]
Chip
It's time to get out of here, folks. We got to get going. I got. I didn't realize how late that was.
- [103:13]
Jeff
Awesome. I gotta go to Daytona. Under the Daytona 500. Yeah. Yes.
- [103:21]
Chip
Look and see if you can see Jeff in the. In the. In the crowd. They zoomed in. It was you. Like, you're like, there's me. Holy.
- [103:28]
Jeff
I need to get a big. I need a hat. You know, we need our. Our really cool hats with a nice. We do on the chain logo.
- [103:37]
Chip
Right on. All right, guys, that's it. That's all.
- [103:41]
Jeff
Stand out. Hang out here until tomorrow.
- [103:44]
Chip
I do mean it. We gotta get going. Jeff, hang out.
- [103:48]
Jeff
Not say anything. Just stare at people.
- [103:50]
Chip
Stare at people. I like that. All right, guys, that's it. We'll see you guys tomorrow night. See you on the next one. Chip and Jeff.
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Casey Craddock
Oh.
- [103:59]
Lethal
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