XRP Breakout | Fed Embraces Crypto | Bolton Raid Shocks the World

Summary

Podcast Summary: "XRP Breakout | Fed Embraces Crypto | Bolton Raid Shocks the World"

Podcast: On The Chain – Blockchain and Cryptocurrency News + Opinion
Date: August 23, 2025
Hosts: Jeff and Chip

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Episode Overview

This episode of "On The Chain" explores what the hosts call a “seismic shift” in the blockchain and crypto landscape: the U.S. Federal Reserve openly embracing cryptocurrency, massive XRPL adoption metrics, the rise of U.S. crypto holders to 55 million, and a major headline from the world of politics with the raid on John Bolton’s home. Expect lively debates, community shoutouts, fashion tangents, political commentary, and a humor-infused rundown on some digital asset milestones—anchored around the latest with XRP, Ripple, and U.S. regulatory action.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Federal Reserve Embraces Crypto

[00:02–21:14]

• The hosts highlight what they describe as a groundbreaking change: the Federal Reserve's public embrace of crypto, especially the shift in tone visible at major conferences.
• Brad Garlinghouse at SALT Conference demonstrates how top-level financial leaders—including multiple Fed governors—are no longer dismissive but are instead vocalizing support for crypto technology.
  • “I don't think many of us had multiple Fed governors publicly embracing crypto technology on our bingo cards. A new dawn, indeed.” – Garlinghouse (21:00)

2. XRPL Breaks Out With Record Adoption

[21:29–27:00]

• Ripple developer growth: XRPL JavaScript (XRPL JS) library just hit an all-time high of nearly 56,000 downloads in a single day—a proxy for the explosion in developer interest and dApp building on XRP Ledger.
  • Chip explains, “That means people are building. That means people are downloading the library so that you can then work with the XRPL.”
• Jeff emphasizes features of the XRPL like its native DEX and the underutilized potential for on-chain innovation—predicting more government and enterprise adoption, especially for transparency and records.

3. Crypto Goes Mainstream: 55 Million U.S. Holders

[09:37–15:54]

• Discussion of “real American crypto holders” and how industry leaders emphasize the growing and diverse community. OTC's global audience is celebrated.
  • The hosts playfully suggest the real crypto holders are their listeners and community—“Crypto is bringing to real people... across the country and giving a voice to 55 million American crypto holders.” – Chip

4. Fashion and Fun at Crypto Conferences

[13:00–19:56]

• Extended, humorous riff on the attire of prominent figures at conferences: Brad Garlinghouse, Stu Alderati, Cynthia Lummis. It transitions from fashion do’s and don’ts to jokes about “Shoes R Us” and “knock around clothes.”
• The underlying message: leaders are now “well put together” as the industry gains legitimacy.

5. Federal Policy & Regulatory Landscape

[10:00–19:00]

• The National Cryptocurrency Association and the push for pro-crypto legislation are discussed.
• Commentary on the importance of regulatory clarity and bipartisan (or “nonpartisan”) work, with skepticism about the reality of “nonpartisan” efforts.

6. Ripple/XRPL Technical Growth & Civic Use Cases

[22:17–26:51]

• Conversation about blockchain transparency revolutionizing everything from budgets to voting.
• The hosts suggest city or state-level adoption may drive mainstream usage, emphasizing blockchain’s resistance to corruption.

7. Crypto ETFs and Market Readiness

[27:00–29:22]

• Listener question: Will XRP ETF approval happen before October 19?
  • “I think they're going to be probably kicked down the road a little bit. I'm hoping they get approved by October 19.” – Jeff
  • Both agree on the need for good market conditions and regulatory prep.

8. Bolton Raid, Geopolitics & Judicial Commentary

[32:35–34:01]

• John Bolton’s home raided—discussed in the context of U.S. political chaos and Trump’s public commentary.
• David Schwartz (Chief Cryptographer, Ripple) weighs in on court overturning excessive fines in Trump’s case:
  • “Yay, I wish more states would robustly enforce the 8th Amendment’s prohibition on excessive fines and penalties.” – @JoelKatz (David Schwartz) [33:58]

9. Global Political Commentary

[38:04–50:01]

• Analysis of Texas redistricting, critique of both Democratic and Republican strategies.
• Spirited debate about American patriotism, European wokeness, and global leadership shifts post-Obama, with China and BRICS as failed counterweights to U.S. economic dominance.

10. Community & Lighthearted Segments

[35:09–53:59]

• Lots of audience interaction and international shoutouts.
• Giveaway of “Badass Yeti” NFTs: recurring contests interspersed with music and playful banter.
• Tangents on food, travel in Florida, and the changing face of Cracker Barrel (including memes and baby Trump voiceovers).

11. U.S. & UK Socio-Political Tensions

[56:00–88:07]

• Highlighting Virginia lieutenant governor Winsome Earl Sears’s fiery school board speech:
  • “What's happening in our schools right now is just wrong. It's dangerous, it's insane, and it has to stop... That’s not discrimination. It is common sense.” – Winsome Earl Sears [56:00–58:08]
• Commentary on UK’s erosion of freedom of speech: arrests for trivial protest slogans, warnings to Americans about not taking their constitutional rights for granted.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Developer Adoption:

  • “We just hit an all time high in the number of XRPL JS downloads in a single day. Almost 56,000 downloads... That means people are building.” – Chip [21:29]

• Ripple Leadership at Conferences:

  • “I don't think many of us had multiple Fed governors publicly embracing crypto technology on our bingo cards. A new dawn, indeed.” – Brad Garlinghouse ([via hosts], 21:00)

• On U.S. Political Shifts:

  • “It's going to be interesting next year. 26 is going to be a very, very interesting year.” – Jeff [21:14]

• On True Crypto Holders:

  • “Meet America’s real crypto holders. Now, I don't know who these people are, but maybe they chose them because they're just obscure...” – Chip [12:08]

• On School Policy & Parental Rights:

  • “There are two sexes, boys and girls... that's not discrimination. It is common sense.” – Winsome Earl Sears [56:00]

• On Political Messaging:

  • “Why is it that the Republicans do redistricting... it’s a threat to democracy. Yet if the Democrats do it, it’s democracy itself.” – Chip [38:32]

• On the State of Europe:

  • “Europe's gone. Say goodbye to it. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when it will collapse.” – Chip [43:21]

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Timestamps of Key Segments

• Main Theme Overview & U.S. Crypto Climate: [00:02–10:02]
• XRP Ledger Developer Growth/Fed Embrace: [21:14–22:17]
• Political Quotables & Schwartz on the courts: [32:35–34:01]
• School Boards & Gender Policy (Winsome Sears): [56:00–59:25]
• Audience Q&A / XRP ETF: [27:00–29:22]
• Cracker Barrel Logo Change & Meme Segment: [70:38–76:36]
• UK Freedom of Speech Discussion: [86:44–88:07]

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Episode Tone & Takeaways

The OTC style is casual, irreverent, and loaded with inside jokes, regional shoutouts, and audience interactivity. The episode captures a sense of excitement about crypto’s mainstreaming, but tempers that with ongoing skepticism about politicians, regulatory process, and the direction of cultural changes—both stateside and abroad.

Listeners will come away with:

• Optimism about XRP, Ripple, and the U.S. crypto movement.
• The sense that federal (and global) winds have shifted toward digital asset innovation.
• A deep skepticism for establishment parties and “woke” trends.
• Encouragement to engage locally and stay vigilant about rights and freedoms.

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For Further Engagement

• Badass Yetis NFTs: Giveaways and community fun, see [XRP Cafe].
• Badass Yetis Coffee: Promo discussions throughout, reflecting OTC’s in-joke culture.

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Note: Sections on advertisements, extended fashion tangents, and repeated community shoutouts have been condensed for clarity. For full audience banter and recurring contest drama, the complete recording is recommended.

Transcript

[A]

Welcome to on the Chain. This is Jeff here with co host Chip. What is going on? Chip, what's going on? Everybody out there in the on the Chain community. On today's podcast, we're covering a seismic shift. You heard that seismic shift. The Fed only embracing crypto. Openly embracing crypto. Ripple and the XRPL breakout with record adoption. 55 million Americans standing tall as crypto holders. I can't believe it. Ship 55 million. And just when you thought geopolitics couldn't get any crazier, John Bolton's house just gets raided. Trump weighing in and Washington getting turned upside down. That's right. Xrp, the Fed, Bolton, it's all happening right now. So let's dive in. You ready to kick this thing off?

[B]

Welcome to on the Chain. Welcome, everybody, to on the Chain. Where are you coming into? From where to the world are you? What part of the world are you in? Come on in. We know where Chad's coming in from. Celebration. Celebration. That's what we know, you know. Celebration. We know Willets is coming in from down under. G', Day, lacquers. Good day. G', day, everyone.

[A]

XRP Club plumbing coming in South Florida somewhere.

[B]

I love ayases, man. They're the greatest people in the world. Aussies, man.

[A]

That's right. Take any Matthew coming in from Florida.

[B]

Florida. Flo, Rida, rapper, Flow Rider.

[A]

Flow Rider.

[B]

Nor Flow Rider was from Flow Rider. There you go.

[A]

Homestead, man. I was in the Gables yesterday. I drove down to Coral Gables, south beach, and then up the Coral Springs. So Coral Springs back to Sunrise and then south again.

[B]

Wait, you were in. Wait, you were in Coral Springs or Coral Gables? Which ones?

[A]

Both.

[B]

Oh, geez. That's a.

[A]

That's a drive north and south beach.

[B]

And a head south.

[A]

Wow, that was. It was tough.

[B]

What were you doing?

[A]

That was a lot of driving. I had a meeting in Coral Gables that got pushed over to South Beach. I ended up in south beach and I still had to get up to Coral Springs for another meeting. And so.

[B]

Man, that's messed up, dude.

[A]

That was a lot of driving.

[B]

That's a lot of driving.

[A]

Yeah, a lot of traffic.

[B]

It's a lot of. It's a lot of stuff there, man.

[A]

And I know Bird Road in Coralway. Bird Road.

[B]

God, man, I haven't been down there in ages. I got lost there one time and I ended up. I don't even know where I ended up one time, but back in the day.

[A]

El Jefe coming in from East Lansing today.

[B]

East Lansing.

[A]

East Lansing.

[B]

Always a good place.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

It's funny because now you know, before you know it, I mean, August is almost over. It's back to school up north. I know. Florida already starts early.

[A]

That's right. Florida's already started. Florida, Broward county, maybe. The rest of Florida started on the 11th.

[B]

It's amazing.

[A]

I still went back to school on Wednesday.

[B]

It's amazing how much fat. Oh, he's back to school on Wednesday.

[A]

Yeah, he already went. Well, just went back. This is his first half a week.

[B]

I don't know when that is anymore because my kids are. The youngest is in uni, so I don't know.

[A]

I mean, Right.

[B]

So last year, actually this next year.

[A]

Oh, really? Oh, wow. That's. That's crazy.

[B]

I asked her about that. I'm like, how is it? Well, you know, originally she was all excited because she was. Sent me. You know, she did that. You know, where you go to college? College credits last two years. And then she sent me. She was a freshman. She sent me something, and she's like. I'm like, okay, what am I looking at? She goes, look what it. Look what year it says. And it said junior because she had enough credits to be a junior.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

And I'm like, let me set something straight right out of the gate. Do not rush to get college done. Take your time. Do four years. I don't care if you got the credits. Do four years. You want to enjoy the experience. You don't want to rush off and think, God, why did I do that? You can never go back, so enjoy the year. And I said, well, how do you. Are you enjoying the. Are you gonna miss it? And she's like, oh, I'm so bummed out. Like, it's my last year, so I have to, like, really just, like, savor everything. You have to, you know, last football, you know, last. Last year, watching, you know, college ball, as, you know, as a, you know, attending school. Now she does Goes on to do, you know, her postgraduate, but, you know, I don't know if she ends up doing something later, but Karma Carmichael's in the house.

[C]

Whoa.

[A]

Now we can start. That's what we're waiting.

[B]

Start it. Karma's here. Waiting for Karma to come in.

[A]

Steve Willits wants to know what the fish and chips are like in Florida. So it depends. First of all, Florida does not have a large fresh fish industry anymore. It used to.

[B]

Used to.

[A]

But try to find a good quality seafood place in South Florida. You can't find it. It's almost impossible. Most of them are chains. There's maybe One or two left down in Miami. But everywhere you go are major chains and it's. But they devastated the fishing industry. I knew someone that was in the fishing industry and they were closing things down and I. And the reason why was because Florida wanted tourism more than they wanted the fishing industry. And so some of that fishing industry was pushed north. Now it's just tourism, fishing industry, not so much fishing industry. So you don't see the boats going out, you know, like maybe you used to.

[B]

Yeah, that's.

[A]

It's kind of crazy that it kills me that you go to Fort Lauderdale or Miami and you don't find fresh fish. You can go, you can get a seafood restaurant, but it's not like, hey, we just caught this off the coast. You know, it's really hard to find that.

[B]

It's pretty wild. Yeah. I mean it's like you said, it's been. Just been decimated. Like a lot of stuff has. I mean, we know manufacturing has been decimated. There's been so much. So much throughout the. Over the years that has just been destroyed. But now we got manufacturing coming back. A lot of good things happening. So it's not all. Exactly.

[A]

It's not. It's not all bad. No, no. Definitely not. Extrapeat plumbing. Sit. Florida's nothing but one big tourist trap. And that's true too. It's so crazy because anytime I travel, I hate getting caught up in tourist traps now because we live in a tourist trap. So as soon as you go anywhere in the world, you're just like, I'm in a tourist trap and I can't stand it. You know, when can I. When can I just get out of God.

[B]

For a tourist trap, there's no, there's no state tax.

[A]

That's. Yeah. And they just changed. They actually just. There's another law that takes effect October 1st. If you're renting any commercial properties, you don't pay tax any longer starting October 1st. So there's all sorts of things that are coming down the pipeline which are, you know, huge. And that's what Chad saying. We love the tourists. Thank you you for paying my taxes. Yeah. And there'll be a lot more of that. So that's the benefit of living in a tourist trap. Well, the time to get rid of property tax. Oh yeah.

[B]

The other benefit is there's the, the food. Right. So you have great restaurants everywhere. Yeah. Maybe you don't have fresh this, but there are a lot of unique restaurants. Non chains or at least a lot of people. Even chains that start in A place like Florida, where they usually start in California, but you get a lot of stuff that starts in Miami now that maybe might turn into somewhat of a change. But, you know, you go to south beach restaurants. There's.

[A]

Yeah. Remember that restaurant that. That we went to with. With Dirk? I can't remember the name of that restaurant. For the life. We went to a barbecue place that actually came up on one of the shows, which was kind of cool. I'm like, we were at that barbecue place in Miami that was in a warehouse district.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Which was crazy. I can't remember the name of that. And I can't remember the name of the other place we went.

[B]

Well, I can find the name of the other place. Don't you remember it had like that enclosed glass, you know, like bones or something like that.

[A]

Like, I have it on my elephant or dinosaur.

[B]

I could probably do a look up on it.

[A]

Yeah, we'll have to go back and do a look up because after. That was a great. That was a pretty decent food. It was a great time over there.

[B]

But man, was fantastic.

[A]

That was awesome.

[B]

Fantastic.

[A]

Limited citrus in Florida. It's all north, like central Florida.

[B]

Right.

[A]

That's where the citrus is. Where I live. Used to be. Used to be orange groves. There's not an orange tree, you know, anywhere. I don't know where there's an orange tree in the area.

[B]

Yeah. And outside of Orlando is the most famous one. That was the one from the Howie test. That was the whole, you know. Howie, that's right.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

You know, the whole. It's funny because that case actually happened after he passed away, but, you know, he had. It was the whole thing where he said, come work the orange groves. You know, you buy a plot of land and you could either work it yourself or we'll work it for you. That and then boom. A security was. The security law was born based on that.

[A]

So based on that, how we test. We talked about that a lot.

[B]

That place that it's actually at, I'm trying to think of.

[A]

Vincent said, good morning. I'll take. I'll take the tourist trap over a third world country in New York. Mopeds on sidewalks, people selling bootleg, barbecuing every 10ft, man. New York is a different place.

[B]

Place.

[A]

Let's just say that I have no desire to go to New York anytime soon.

[B]

Dude.

[A]

It's just not. Not what it used to be.

[B]

Well, if Mandami gets elected, it's gonna get. It's gonna get worse before it's gonna get better. But again, that's right.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You can't necessarily. You're not gonna see that in other cities. So it's not something that's going to be something widely, you know, maybe seen. So it's something totally, totally different. Let's get started with some news here.

[A]

What do we have, Jeff get into something here? We're almost at the bottom of the hour getting ready to play some music.

[B]

At the bottom of the hour. It's too quick. How can that be? How can that be? So Stu Alderati. Stu, let me. This is the stew quote. Yeah. So this was National Cryptocurrency association, which Stu is behind again, trying to bring, you know, blockchain to the masses.

[A]

Sweet.

[B]

He said he took the stage. This was at the. The American Innovation Product Project. A non partisan. When you say. When you see non partisan, you know it's partisan. It's the first thing you realize is right. Anything that says non partisan, you know it's partisan. Non profit.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

If you have to say it, non profit. But don't worry. Some. Some people are making money there. That's non profit. Because there's nothing left over because the salaries are boosted.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

Someone always makes technology in America's future. We're committed to boosting America's innovation through policy, education. Yeah.

[A]

Okay, awesome.

[B]

So meet Karen and Rob, real crypto holders. Well, you know what I say to that? I say, me, are they real Caprizy? I see XRP Plumbing. I see. Meet Jim D. Visual Vendetta. Chad Nauseam. That's what I say. You know, what about Obsidian Assets? Right. What about Rafi? What about Carmichael Karma? Carmichael? Come on, these are. You know what I mean? This is what I'm saying.

[A]

What about King Christopher and Biloxi?

[B]

Yeah, look at that. What? Amisa? What about Steve Willis, Australia?

[A]

That's right. How about Sledfast Lubke? Coming in from Winnipeg, Canada?

[B]

There you go. We got some Canada news today. Got some Canadian geopolitics segment.

[A]

There you go.

[B]

Winnipeg. Nice.

[A]

Winnipeg.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Very cool. Now we got people from. We just crossed the entire globe.

[B]

Crypto whelp in Spain.

[A]

There you go. And crypto whelp is never home. I think crypto was always on the road.

[B]

He's a constant traveler.

[A]

Constant traveling.

[B]

They're helping us educate industry leaders, elected officials on the benefits that crypto is bringing to real people, like I just mentioned, across the. Maybe not real names, but real people across the country and giving a voice to 55 million American crypto holders using this technology every single day.

[A]

What's the technology.

[B]

There we go. So there it is right there. There's, you know, meet America's Real crypto holders. Now, I don't know who these people are, but maybe they chose them because they're just obscure. They're not like, you know, or they're somehow.

[A]

They're somehow within the inside of whatever. You know, they might work for the non profit or something along those lines. I don't think they're just random people they picked out of a hat. Put it that way.

[B]

I think. I wonder if they're the ones from the commercials that they were running. Remember those commercials they were running?

[A]

I do, yeah.

[B]

Yep. So. And then there's Cynthia Lummis. What's really weird about this, I've been looking at these pictures of Cynthia Lummis. She. I don't know if it's the camera angle, but it's such a weird look, and it is very weird. Shoes. What's what? I don't get the shoes. Dude.

[A]

Are we getting into wardrobe again? We already got in trouble for sweaters. Now we're going to talk.

[B]

Well, she's never coming on the show, Jeff, so we're okay coming on.

[A]

This is. Hugo's definitely coming on the show.

[B]

We'll come on the show.

[A]

Maybe we're talking about flair. We're definitely bringing Hugo on the show.

[B]

Maybe we'll. Maybe we'll put that. Play that clip for him just for a laugh.

[A]

That would be funny.

[B]

But I'm just like. I mean, this is weird. Like, you know, they're like work shoes or something. It's just awkward to wear at a conference. I bet they're comfortable. But you see, look at these nice shoes right here, Jeff. That's like something you'd wear to this, right? Nice dress.

[A]

Meanwhile, not women. Women don't wear those shoes.

[B]

Like, you know, my mom used to say a thing. She would be like. Like I'd have an old shirt and she'd be like. She'd be like, well, you know, don't throw that out. I'm like, well, I don't even really wear it. Well, she goes. She would always say this line, jeff, it's okay to knock around in at home.

[A]

Yeah. Well, the other thing is. And this, this gets me. And I never. I can never figure out, is it okay to wear brown shoes with black pants.

[B]

Dude, I get so mad when I see any people don't like a suit with brown shoes. Drives me nuts.

[A]

Well, I like brown shoes if brown shoes are nice. If you're wearing a gray suit, Or a blue suit, then the brown goes nice. But if it's a black suit and brown shoes, it doesn't make sense.

[B]

Dude, I don't think brown goes with much. I'll be honest. You got a gray suit, you know what dresses it up. Nice pair of gray. Light, like a light or a dark gray or black shoes. You know what looks good on a blue suit?

[D]

Black shoes.

[A]

You know what, brown shoes look good with a blue suit. I have nice brown shoes with a clasp and I have a great blue suit. And I. And, and it's perfect.

[B]

However, knock around clothes, I don't know.

[A]

But that doesn't make any sense to me. It's just awkward from.

[B]

From the shirt rolled out of bed.

[A]

And she's going into a meeting as a sitting u. S. Senator. Exactly. You know, well, at least what's his name? Fetterman. Rolls around in, in gym shorts and a hoodie.

[B]

Yeah, but that's his, that's his, that's his look, though.

[A]

That's his thing.

[B]

That's his M.O. man. You know, it's like, look at this. So then you got, there's the Brett. Now look at this. You see what I'm saying, guys?

[A]

Look at garland houses put together.

[B]

Now he's got dark brown shoes, which I do agree, does look, are they dark brown? Black? See, that's dark brown. Looks nice.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

By the way, welcome to, welcome to shoes r us. It's the podcast we do every week critiquing somebody's shoes. It's always funny how it devolves into stuff.

[A]

You know, Matthew just have. Just have to have a belt to match. But is it okay to have brown shoes with black pants? Even if you have a brown belt, Is it okay to mix those two colors?

[B]

Well, you see, look at that.

[A]

I'm not sure.

[B]

Brad is always really well put together. Look at this beautiful blazer, classic white shirt, phenomenal shirt. Got a little bit of a light pattern. Very nice, very, you know, very corporate dressed up.

[A]

So you zoom in on that beautiful blazer. Oh yeah, there are checks on that shirt.

[B]

Look at that, A little bit of checks in the shirt there. Look at this. He's wearing a, you know, black belt, some great slacks. Yeah, Just kind of hit the top of that nicely. He's got the, you know, they're nice and, and hemmed up really nice. And then beautiful black shoes. And there you go. And look at. Stu's wearing some beautiful penny loafers right there. He's got the little penny in there.

[A]

Are those brown or black?

[B]

It's Hard to go brown.

[A]

You think so? The back one looks black. The front one looks brown.

[B]

I'm seeing brown there.

[A]

Yeah, that one's brown.

[B]

You guys can let us know in the comments. I'm seeing brown there. But again, shoes you get when you arrive too late to the Wicked Witch estate. Hijack.

[A]

Dorothy. We're not in Kansas anymore.

[B]

Not in Kansas anymore. I don't know. I didn't. I didn't intend this to be a critique, but just look at how well everyone looks put together. Even Stu's got, like, that, you know, beautiful, nice kind of cardigan. Classic gray.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, he dressed it up a little bit. He could have just wear a white shirt, but, you know, it kind of looks put together. Yeah.

[A]

With the cardigan, it's a good. Not a big fan of the cardigan, but it's all right.

[B]

It's a very good look. And then Stu also had this one here where he said he was glad to be at the. The soul conference. We saw a lot of. I saw a lot of videos from that. He was with people from Andreessen Horowitz. A16Z, they go by. You know why it's called A16Z?

[A]

What's that?

[B]

You know why it's called. It's Andreessen Horowitz. You know why it's called a 16Z.

[A]

I don't know why it's a 16.

[B]

And reason Horowitz starts with an A, ends with the Z. There's 16 characters between it.

[A]

That's smart.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Holy crap.

[B]

That's how they came up with it. You take the A.

[A]

That's crazy.

[B]

Put 16. And that's how you get Andre's and horrors. I didn't know that before. I just found that out pretty recently because I was always like, why do they go by a 16Z? Well, there you go. Blockchain association. Miston Labs was up on stage, and then CNBC woman was moderating, talking about the genius act World most important tenants of any market structure bill and what it means to have a cohesive legislature. I keep having to remind people on X, they're like, because yesterday it was finally approved for the court with the ripple thing. They're like, it was approved, and it's such a different climate. And I go, this happened back in November, the day Trump was elected. Let's not forget the man who dug the well, okay? That's when this happened. Everyone's running around thinking, oh, it's just some, you know, mystical, magical thing that happened. Now.

[A]

Mystical, magical thing approach.

[B]

I don't Know what's going on here? Oh, I guess it's just the tops of right here, but there you are. This is Natalia Kaplan from cnbc.

[A]

I thought those are like big suction fans or something.

[B]

I was like, what the hell is it? I'm like, what do they have the. The lights for? But I guess it's a. There we go.

[A]

They're real lights.

[B]

Bring it into focus.

[A]

Or their chandeliers or something. It must be in a huge, like hotel lobby or something. Or. Hotel. Yeah, Ballroom or something.

[B]

Or something like that Summer Mersinger. She's going to be at the Swell conference. Got Stu Alder ready for Ripple and Sylvia Favretto from Mystic Lab. So very cool. That's what you have there. And then let's see what else the other pictures you got here. Okay, Jeff, let's look at the shoes.

[A]

Oh. So Colin said there are more than 16 letters between a and Z, but between the first letter of his name, A and the last letter of his last name, z, there are 16 letters in between his first name and last name. You're not talking about the letters of A to Z.

[B]

No, no, no. I'm talking about his name. If you take the name Andreessen Horowitz. Right. The N and the, you know, between the. Andreessen Horowitz. If you go Google it, count the letters between the A and the Z, not between A and Z in the Alphabet.

[A]

So here, here's another fashion question. If you're wearing brown shoes and a brown belt, is it okay to wear a watch with a black band? Or do you have to then wear a watch with a brown band? And then is it okay. Is it okay to wear a smart watch instead of a dressy watch?

[B]

Yeah. I don't know, man. I don't wear.

[A]

Lots of questions here.

[B]

I don't. I don't. Not a watch wearer. So I don't know. But look, I mean, I think everybody kind of passes the test here. Dude's a little bit on the light side. He's got, you know, he's got those.

[A]

I wear jeans all the time up.

[B]

These are farm.

[A]

I like wearing jeans.

[B]

If you put on a good pair, faded look.

[A]

Let's see what he's got on there.

[B]

He's got.

[A]

But look, see how they're bunched up at the bottom, though? You got to tailor your jeans. You got to get jeans that fit properly, you know? So if you're going to go and buy your jeans, make sure they don't bunch up at the bottom like that. I don't like that look, they got to be tapered nicely.

[B]

Look at the backdrop there, man. It's gorgeous. 1.

[A]

Where's that? Where'd that come from?

[B]

Is Wyoming. I think that's where they headed.

[A]

Whoops.

[B]

Is that where it was? Yeah, it's in Wyoming.

[A]

Is it sweet?

[B]

Beautiful.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And Garlinghouse commented on that, saying that while many attendees at the SALT conference have been in crypto for a long time, the change in tone on stage one to one canvas, even from a year ago, is dramatic and palpable. I don't think many of us had multiple Fed governors publicly embracing crypto technology on our bingo cards. A new dawn, indeed. I'd like to have zero Fed governors and I'd like to see say goodbye to the Fed. Everyone's. Everyone just acts like it's normal to have a third party where you have to borrow the money when Congress has the power of the purse and can coin money, but we outsourced it to some company that then lends it to us so that we owe them money. I don't get it personally. I just. The whole thing is absolute crazy town. What's going on there?

[A]

Things, things are shifting. It's going to take a. Maybe another year, but it's going to be interesting next year. 26 is going to be a very, very interesting year.

[B]

I believe you're right about that. It's going to be. I think that when we get to a real bull run, it's going to be even way more interesting. Check this out.

[A]

Yeah, right now there's.

[B]

Yeah, just the sampling somebody does he do at Ripple. He's a dev growth. He's a project manager though over there at Ripple. He said we just hit an all time high in the number of XRPL JS downloads in a single day. Almost 56,000 downloads in a single day. Jeff, look at this. Now you're probably asking yourself, what the hell is XRPL JS JS? Well, here is. Right here. This is the JavaScript download JS stands for. It's the JavaScript library for interacting with the XRP ledger. That means people are building. That means people are downloading. That means people are downloading, you know, the, the library so that you can then work with the XRPL. That's what that means. So if you have 56, 000 downloads in a single day. Jeff, that's insane.

[A]

That's a lot. People are. You know what, and we've talked about this a lot and you know, we didn't see a lot of movement before, but the XRPL is probably one of the most sophisticated chains that are available today and available before. There is just so much technology that was baked into the original version of the xrpl. And the XRPL continually grows and adjusts and changes, you know, based on need and, and new understandings. And it can all be voted, you know, by, you know, through the validators, you know, so it's, it's an interesting, you know, growth model, but there was so much technology baked into it that isn't even tapped. You know, like one of the big things we talk about is the decks that's within the xrpl. It's native to xrpo, being able to exchange currency through the xrpl. That technology is baked into the original version of it. And what other chains have all that technology, you know, to be able to take advantage of. And we don't really see a lot of companies that have really tapped all the, the power of it. You know, Ripple has, is definitely the largest and the most well known that is taking advantage of that technology. And even they weren't utilizing the full, and aren't us utilizing the full scope of the technology, you know, and so it, it's just, you know, where, where we're going, where we're at right now and where we're going, you know, it's, it, there's such a vast canyon in between the possibilities, which is why we're all here. It's what we're, that's what we're all contemplating and chip with as the, as we start seeing the government, you know, specific, starting to truly understand the benefit of crypto, benefit of the crypto model, the blockchain model and being able to then apply it to all parts of and from a transparency perspective, being able to record on the ledger and do it in a transparent fashion, you know, it's, it, it's going to take, you know, and, and there's obviously going to be a lot of resistance to it because there's many people within government, whether they're elected or non elected, you know, the unelected bureaucrats that don't want transparency, they don't want efficiency. If you don't have efficiency, you don't have transparency. And there's always things in a state of confusion. That's where corruption happens very easily. As soon as you, you know, remove all of that and you put barriers up to corruption, which would be full transparency and a clear recording on, on the, on the ledger, you get rid of corruption. So what is it going to Take for us to get, put voting there, put our national budget there, put state budgets there, put, you know, local city budgets. And does it start national or does it start at the city level? Can we get a city to adopt recording on a ledger and, and having an, allowing transaction on the ledger? Can we have a city election, state election that is somehow provided through the ledger system? And you know, being able to then record one person, one vote, you know, Trump's going to be doing some interesting things in the near future because he wants everything to go back to paper ballots. He wants to get rid of the fraud. So between these two dynamics, whoa, did you see that? That was crazy.

[B]

When you get rid of the, the fraud, when you get rid of the, you know, the mail in ballots, all this other stuff and illegals, you know, people still think, oh, the Democrats really care more about illegals. No, they care about being voted in power. That's all they care about. So anybody, you know, I mean, that was, I think we talked to Warren Davidson about that before he went live. He said, you know, the biggest thing that happens is you get elected and you spend the next two years, if you're in the House, worried about your campaign and getting elected again, that's. You spent a lot of time and energy on that and it's a lot less if you, six years if you're in the Senate. But still, I mean, it's insane. Jim D says all the new software development implies that many more side chains begs the question who is going to archive and support, support old obsolete side chains as some token types fade away? I don't know that people will. I don't think it really matters so much.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

So I mean, go ahead, just real quick.

[A]

Crypto web said, what are you two drinking? I want it also. Well, I'll tell you what we're drinking.

[B]

It's called up there baby.

[A]

Badass Yetis.

[B]

Probably drinking Obsidian like I am, right?

[A]

I love Obsidian. The Obsidian bolt. I like the dark roast. But if you ever wondered what are we drinking? Go to badass yetis coffee.com badass yetis coffee.com and get yourself some badass Yeti coffee. That's it right there. Obsidian Bold, nice rich dark roast. Everything is roasted to order. So you go log into badass yetis coffee.com you order it up, it gets roasted as soon as the order is received. Not. It's not sitting stale on a shelf someplace. They're not, it's not pre roasted. They take those beans, they're roasting them, put them in the package ship them off to you. And when you get, and you open that bag, it's amazing. The, the aromas of the coffee are just phenomenal and, and you can just eat them right out of the bag. It's like, it's like a snack. It's a nice treat. So there you go. Amazing, amazing Coffee dot com. Do you think, Jackie from North Carolina. What's going on, Jackie? So do you think ETFs will be approved before the October 19th deadline and we're talking about XRP ETFs? That's a, that's a great question. I think they're going to be probably kicked down the road a little bit. I'm hoping they get approved by October 19th.

[B]

I don't know. I think they would get approved, but who knows? Really?

[A]

Yeah. It's such a, hard to, it's a hard determination. You know, it's, it's really, really difficult to make this determination given the fact they kicked it down the, you know, kick the can down the road. And we need ETFs. You get the ETF. Is the market going to be prepared and ready for an XRP ETF right now? There's a bitcoin etf, there's an ETA etc etf and so I think there's room for an XRP etf. It's just a matter of putting all the right pieces in place and making sure we're the market's ready for it. Market conditions.

[B]

Going back to the badass Yeti's coffee. You know, James Rule and I talk pretty often and I was telling him, he was saying something about coffee and I'm like, dude, have you tried the badass Yeti's coffee? He went out and bought two bags. Obsidian was one of them. And then I painted the other day and I said, dude, how do you like it? He goes, dude, this is the best coffee I've had. He goes, this is great. He's a coffee snob. He really loved it. But he bought two bags of it.

[A]

Nice.

[B]

And I wanted to remind everybody later tonight, coming up at 7 o' clock tonight is the Zaodao interview with co founders Fabio Marzella and then Santiago Velez who are the co founders of the, of the Zao Dao project. I am a marketing advisor for this project and so I get to interface with these guys all the time. Really, really exciting stuff. So they did an interview, I think a 40 minute interview with James Rule and I will actually pop that in there. So you guys can go ahead and set a Reminder, but it should be a good interview. I'm looking forward to watching it myself. One of the first dowels on the XRP ledger. I think there's another one over maybe in Asia. But also this one's grounded under Wyoming law. So this one, a lot of time and energy and research. They tried to do this a couple years ago and these guys actually made it happen. So should be launching probably early September. It's going to be stress test in a little bit, but wanted to remind everybody for that. But that's. That should be a good show. To find out a little more about the Z. What it is, David Schwartz, you know, kind of got involved in some on politics here.

[A]

So the king wants to know if he can get it in pots.

[B]

So here's the thing.

[A]

Here's what I will tell you. We're going to. But we didn't because it wouldn't be the same. And Chip has a good solution to it.

[B]

Here's why. It's first of all, the value to, you know, when you get the pods, it's going to be. It's too expensive. Number one. You know, I know it's expensive coffee, but you got to remember this is, you know, we, we actually roast it to order. So order comes in, beans get roasted, get sent out probably. Unless you've been to a coffee farm where they just roasted some beans and they ground it and you had to drink it. I bet you've never had anything that was remotely fresh. When it comes to beans, that's the key difference. Why it's a little more expensive. It's expensive to, to produce. However, I will tell you this off of Amazon, you can get these little plastic, little plastic pods, you know, for the K cup or whatever, whatever, whatever you have. You can buy these, open them up. What you do is you grind the beans, put the, put it in there and it makes a great cup. And it'll go way further than the pods. The. It'll. You'd have to buy like five or ten of those pods to, you know, to, to equal what you could actually do. And it actually makes the, it's. That's, that's what I use. But I also use a stove top too. So on the weekends when I have a little more time, I use the stove top. During the week, I'll just throw it in a K cup. But it makes it, it's better on the stove. You know, it's definitely makes a better, better cup. But I will tell you that for seven or eight dollars, get the pods, you get like Four or five of them. You can recycle them, wash them out, and they're fantastic. They have metal ones. I don't recommend the metal ones. They're just hard, they're hot. They get really hot when you try to remove them. But you don't have to worry about the plastic or microplastics either. So it's, it's a good trade off. But I would tell you that that would be the kind of, the two big factors there. But it is really good. I do it myself. And we just couldn't make it affordable enough that we're not going to market something that's going to be way too expensive, you know, for the, for the money, for what you get when you can make the pods at home and get the coffee. So David Schwartz chimed in on this. Look at this, Elizabeth.

[A]

You don't like the metal ones. You like the plastic ones.

[B]

I like the plastic because they're easier to work with. I, I do have a metal, two metal ones, but they get so freaking hot. You can't like take them out right away. They're so hot, you know, because of the coffee going through them. They're probably better for you. But you know, again, if I can find New York Appellate Division, remember, people are going like, oh, of course, you know, Trump's in office and Trump, this is New York. These are Democrat judges. This is a highly Democrat area. These are left judges. These are, you know, appointees by, you know, by former, you know, Democrat presidents. The New York Appellate Division tossed out the penalty in the New York civil case brought against Trump in New York AG by Leticia James. Penalty was 364 million plus interest since rising to the approximately 500 million. The courts, the disgorgement order said it was excessive fine. That violates Trump's eight amendment rights in the U.S. constitution, which is absolutely 100% got thrown out, absolutely ridiculous to begin with. And Joel Katz, better known as David Schwartz, chimed in and said, yay, I wish more states would robustly enforce the eight amendments, prohibition on excessive fines and penalties. Totally right here. Does that surprise you that he thinks this was the right thing, Jeff?

[A]

No, no, I think not at all.

[B]

You know, David Schwartz is very, he'll bring stuff back to the Constitution. He's very well spoken and understands it. But this is like the 8th amendment is like, you can't, you're supposed to have something where you can't just like discord somebody and have these massive excessive fines. It doesn't meet. You know, accounting error is not worth $500 million, right? Unless you're trying to break. Break a president. But I thought that was interesting, Jeff. Yeah, we got. It's time to have it halfway through. We got to go ahead and play that rocking banger for you guys here, man. You guys are going to be tapping your fingers and your keyboards on this one. You're going to be playing air drums on this one. All right, here we go.

[A]

So get ready. Get your Zomban wallet ready, because you guys know what's coming. Get ready because this one is going to be epic.

[B]

Are you ready to win a badass yeti from the Blue Tribe? The word of the day Yeti got yours on mine while it locked your claims on the block.

[C]

Why?

[B]

Cause this is gonna be. It's time to get your warrior, your.

[C]

Blue Tribe Yeti of the clan Titan. Titan. His name. Jordan Saxon. Raise it up. Let's go. On the chain. Born for battle, made for legend. Claim yours or be a captain.

[B]

Cotton.

[A]

Cotton.

[B]

Got it. Badass Yetis.

[C]

On the chest. On the chest.

[B]

Whoa. There you go, dude.

[A]

On the chain.

[B]

Drumming.

[A]

It's on the chain.

[B]

Stays with you. Stays with you.

[A]

So, John Saxa.

[B]

John. John Saxon. That's funny ass stuff.

[A]

Darn socks on. All right, so XRP Plumbing said, let's get some 2 live crew music mix in one day. All right, tomorrow. Tomorrow night, we're gonna do some hardcore rap on the. On the song. How about that?

[B]

Yeah, I'm waiting for it, Jeff. I'm for it.

[A]

I'm all you said. Zaman Wallet Ray runs at Zomban is not managing NFTs anymore. I don't know, Joe bud. I was chatting with Zama and people, and they said they're not managing NFTs anymore. I don't know. That's good. As it. As it stands right now, XRP Cafe, the login is still through. Is through. Is still through. Zombit.

[B]

Well, I know you can connect Joey Wallet, too. The Joey Wallet is by. Is by the same guys that do first Ledger. It's the same founding team that did XRP Cafe. And so Joey Wallet works too. If you have a Joey Wallet.

[A]

Joey. Who's Joey?

[B]

The Joey Wallet dude. So, yeah, I'll have to. I'll have to find out more about that. I'm not aware of that. We were going. Reggae version would be good too. Looking it up.

[A]

Reggae would be good too.

[B]

Yes. You're awesome. So, Jeff, all this. The Democrats left. They put up this big thing. They just wasted everyone's time for three weeks. Whatever. They should have all been Fired. They should have been replaced and fired. But no, they, you know, again, they didn't do the right thing. You don't show up for a job in three weeks. Let me ask you. And, and because you didn't like something, how long are you gonna last when you work for the people? You should be gone. Sorry.

[A]

The people.

[B]

You have a chance to come back. The full Texas legislature has officially approved the new 2026 u. S. House map and it's set to add five seats. Jasmine Crockett. Bye. Bye. Her. She's gonna be. She was. She's gonna be gone. Greg. Governor Greg abbott can now sign it. Democrats attempt to block it failed miserably. There's this. There's. It is right there. Well, it looks pretty red to me. So a five seat pickup right there. This is nothing different than what the democrats have done. They redrew the districts. And that's how it works, people. And what does that look like, Jeff? So two fleeing democrats that said that they're saving democracy in Texas and the United States Relative to the congressional redistricting. Here's the facts. Massachusetts is 36 Republican, has 0 seats. Connecticut, 42% Republican, 0 seats. What is me is that Maine. Maine, 46% 0 seats. New Mexico, 46 Republican, 0 seats. New Hampshire, 48% Republican, almost 50% 0 seats. Rhode Island, 42% Republican, 0 seats. Vermont, 32% Republican, 0 seats. Hawaii, 38 Republican, 0 seats. Delaware, 30, 42% Republican, 0 seats dot Also, as to some of the blue states that were benevolent enough to give us a smidgen. They were so nice, Jeff. California is 38% Republican. Nine of the 52 seats of 20% and there's almost 40%. So you can see that that's not true representation. Illinois's got 44% Republican, only three of the 17 seats, which equates to 17%, nowhere near the 44% that of Republicans. New York, 43% Republican, only 26% of the seats. Maryland, 34% Republican, only 1 12%. New Jersey, it's 46% Republican, only 25%. And then with Oregon, you have 41% Republican, only one of six seats. So there you go. Why is it that the republicans do redistricting? Do redistricting. It's a threat to democracy. Yet if the democrats do it, it's democracy itself. First of all, it's, it's a constitutional republic. We don't live in a democracy. But I get, I always get where they're trying to go. They're trying to speak the language. This is what happens, Jeff, you brought this up some time ago about language means something. And when you even start trying to match it with other people, you erode what the meaning is. And so it's. Democracy is not interchangeable with constitutional Republicans. And I see a lot of people on the right use democracy. They have used it in a long time. We don't live in a democracy. So over time it gets erased to the. No one knows what democracy or a republic is anymore. And I would imagine if you'd go to a university and start polling kids and say, what form of government does the United States use? I would imagine probably 80% or more would probably say, oh, we live in a democracy. No, we don't. Right.

[A]

You want to believe we live in a democracy.

[B]

Should pull. Aaron should do that poll. He should do an unofficial poll at school and just kind of like pull some kids.

[A]

The problem is at his school, I mean, the majority of them, I would say probably 70, are conservative. You know, maybe.

[B]

Right.

[A]

That's why the 2030 that they actually know, he'd have to pull the other kids. Most of them are pretty astute at his school just because of the environment they're in. But that's a good question. You know, that would be. I'd like to go through. Because what they're doing. He's doing American history this year, so he's super excited about it. And they're going to dig in, you know, through the Constitution and dig in. What the heck just happened?

[B]

Your camera just went out.

[A]

Oh, I think I. Great. I'll be right back. I think I. I didn't even touch the wire. No, I didn't hit it.

[B]

I'll be right on the stage of. Yeah, on that map, they're all on that. On the verge of bankruptcy. Interesting. I was embarrassed to be in America, in South Europe this early this year when you got a severe problem, man, I don't know why you would be embarrassed. Take a look at Europe. There's nothing more embarrassing than Europe right now. Those guys have absolutely good. They're gonna collapse. Europe's gone. Say goodbye to it. It's a good thing you visited because it's going to be gone. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when it will collapse. And luckily you'll be able to go there and live under Sharia law. That's going to be your new. Your new thing. Amazing.

[A]

I don't know what happened.

[B]

I don't know. So the camera went up. Maybe you hit your. Hit the cable, man. I went to change that. You changed it, man. Like flip flopping around here. Look at this. Can you. Jeff, you missed this comment. Oh, XRP Plumbing was embarrassed to be American. I'm never embarrassed I ever. Proud, dude.

[A]

Nope. I'd be more embarrassed to be in lefty. Some of those European countries, I was telling right.

[B]

Exactly when their country will collapse and they'll sit there and watch it. And I hope they're along and I hope that they're not too old. They can experience it. So that this guy said. He called it. That's what I want them to know.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Well, it's interesting, too. I was talking to a friend of mine and I. And he had been traveling over in Eastern Europe, and I had no idea. And he said, if you want to go to Europe and have the experience of what Europe is supposed to be, like, go to Eastern Europe. Don't go. If you go to the Western European states, you're going to get more of a Middle Eastern, you know, culture. If you go to Eastern Europe, you're going to get the original flavor of what Europe was.

[B]

My allegiance is to my family. That's great, dude. I'm not.

[A]

That's perfect.

[B]

I'm not doubting your allegiance. I'm like. But I'm never going to be embarrassed. I'm just making a commentary. I'm never going to be embarrassed. Always gonna be proud.

[A]

Never.

[B]

Yeah. I spent a lot of time with Europeans, got a lot of European friends. And I'll take them on any day of the. Any day of the week. They're. They think they. They think they know a lot about the US and they know a lot about the world. They know very little. They don't even know much about their governments because they sit back and want to live their lives. We just want to just live our lives while they get conquered. Good luck. Enjoy very quickly. Yeah. And they're too. Too big of to stand up and. And talk. They're gonna just get rolled. And I'm like, well, you remember World War II? Yeah. You want to come in here? Come on in. We're gonna be cool. You want to just come in and take Jews? Sure. I mean, as long as you're not coming for me. I mean, why not? Come on in, right? They got rolled.

[A]

See, XRP Plumbing likes Morocco. Now, I've never been to Morocco. I almost went to Morocco one time, and it would have been a great experience. I know quite a few people that have gone to Morocco or from Morocco. I hear it's beautiful there. You know, I would like to go.

[B]

I'd love to desert on a camel where there's nothing but sand. And I was doing FaceTime and it was perfect. I'm like, how are we doing this right now? Like, how are you in the middle? She's like, look. And she had the wrap on and the whole. She was wearing the traditional clothes. And I was like, man, I just. I couldn't believe my. Know, my wife and I are watching her on a cam. We could see all the string of camels behind them. And I was like, they. They said they. She was with the university and they drove like they had to get on a bus for nine hours to go do these cam camels.

[A]

So, yeah, extra people in Africa.

[B]

It's the most beautiful place. Oh, I mean, yeah, there's places all over the place.

[A]

The world.

[B]

I'm not. I don't know. Jim D. Said he yachted to Morocco from Gibraltar. Yeah, I went through there on a cruise ship. It was great to see, you know, Europe, you know, Gibraltar, the rock right here, and then Africa over here. It's cool when you go through that straight, right? You know, it's cool. It's like, Europe's over here, Africa's right there. So I've seen Africa from afar, but never been there. And. And of course, Eyes Wine said. I used to tell them that you can drive across England from one of the other countries in a few hours. You can drive three days and still not cross Texas.

[A]

That's so true. That's exactly. Yeah. People have no concept, you know, of the size of. Of the US it just. It's amazing. Just got out of Florida. If you drive north to get out of Florida, you want to get to Georgia, it's going to take you just to get to the border of Florida, and Georgia is going to take you what, like six hours, you know, from here, from Solid Fear in Miami. Yeah, probably going to take you seven hours. If you want to get to Tallahassee from here, it's going to take you seven or eight hours.

[B]

Seven.

[A]

You're still in this state.

[B]

Both my girls are in Tallahassee. Both went to Florida State. Last one's in the last year of Florida State there.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. That's seven hours. You can do it in six and a half if you, you know, pedal to the metal, no stops. But it's about seven, seven plus hours and then you're in Tallahassee. But if you want to get out of the state going, you know, west, you got another couple hours.

[A]

So, yeah, to get to Alabama It's a long.

[B]

It's a long road.

[A]

So if you want to go to the Redneck Riviera, kind of on the Panhandle, takes time to get over there.

[B]

Spain is a. No, it used to be great. Yeah. A lot of places in Europe used to be great, but they're not Europe.

[A]

Right.

[B]

That's the whole point.

[A]

That's right. That's sad, too. You know, that's the one place, you know, we've talked about going. I have family in Madrid, and I've never been to visit them. Never been to Spain. You know, I would love to. I would love to have gone, but now we were checking it. We were gonna go. My son really wants to go to Spain and see, you know, a Barcelona game live and, you know, there. But I don't know, you know, the things that. But you hear bad things about here, too. People are terrified to come to the US because they think there's violence on every corner. Right, Justin? You know, so look at that, Justin.

[B]

Just takes eight hours just to drive across Kansas.

[A]

That's right.

[B]

The funny thing is the Europeans and a lot of people outside the U.S. they think the movies and TV shows are depicted. Depictions. Their depictions maybe like where they shoot. Most of them are shot in Canada anyway. But the funny thing is not even a lot of that's their shot in Canada. And. Or, you know, Georgia has a big production thing that they shoot a lot in Georgia because Georgia said, come in and we'll. We'll give you tons of tax breaks. So they stole a lot of the production from Florida because Canada was doing the same thing. But now that there's this hostile thing going on between them. But I'm always amazed where they ask questions they like, okay, what movie did you watch? What. What TV show are you talking about? Because they kind of like. And then they see the politics, and then, of course, they get the skewed news on Trump. Oh, Trump's a dictator. And Trump, well, you know what? Every one of their ass leaders got down and. And bent the knee, right? He was nice enough doing. He's. They came over here, they bent the knee. They're. They're useless. They have zero impact. They have zero influence. They're. They're a bunch of squawking little birds. They got nothing. Keir Starmer, we will always stand with Ukraine. Really? Well, that's weird because you haven't given them any money or weapons, so you're not standing with them very well. Macron, you will always stand. Picture, ceremony, take pun, you know, shake Hands. No. No money, no weapons. So what are you going to do? How are you. How are you with them? There's just a bunch of.

[A]

They do nothing, do nothings, and people get a lot.

[B]

I don't care. You love, hate Trump, you know, I mean, look, I mean, you know, he's certainly making a lot of things happen pretty incredibly fast. So there you go.

[A]

It's crazy. You know, you think about what's happening on a. On a global stage, not just. Yeah. Not just in the U.S. but all over the world. People are coming to really bend a knee, you know, because we have leadership. And with leadership, were setting the world back on track. The whole, the whole world went in chaos mode over the past couple years. First, it started under Obama because he went around the world on an apology tour. He was apologizing for, you know, for, for what. What was he apologizing for? He was embarrassed to be. To be American. His wife came out and said, you know, she was embarrassed. She had never been, you know, proud of, of the country until Obama got elected. Right. I mean, that. That's pathetic. Right? And if you're not proud of the country, why even. Why even run for, you know, what, what were you doing all those years? So, you know, and then they go on this apology tour. Then he was talking about, you know, the really. It was a, A focus on the caliphate, you know, and it was. It was really about changing the dynamics of this country, the fundamentals. It was bringing us down a couple notches. Clinton was doing the exact same thing. You know, it's all about kind of bringing us down instead of, you know, elevating us. But under Obama was all about nothing to do with elevating this country. Elevating the people in the country was always about bringing us down to the lowest common denominator. And, you know, and the same thing, you know, if we look at it like, on a global scale, how do you function and operate when you have no leadership? You know, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we were the sole hegemonic power. We're the only superpower that was kind of guiding and leading in the world. China tried to rise up to, to be a competitor in this space. They are. It's been proven that they can't really be a, a strong player as a hegemonic, you know, power. You know, they can't share that power seat with the US for, for many different reasons. So then they try to orchestrate. They've been, you know, all these different things that we've seen, like with the bricks. And it just, it's not, it's not a, you know, Soviet Union, American style sharing of power. And so when we took that step backwards and try to lead from behind, it didn't work. And then we started seeing on a global scale, you see the collapse and you see this woke, you know, crazy mentality of leadership throughout Europe and you see an imbalance of what they're doing over, over in Europe right now, because whatever their guilt is, whatever their conscience is, whatever they're trying to do in Europe, they're destroying the fabric of, of their civilizations over there, you know. But now with leadership coming in, now we're starting to see people rise up around Europe as well to say, hey, you know what, we do want to keep our, our country. You know, we do want to take our country back. We don't want to become a Middle Eastern country, you know, and so, and that's the dynamic shift, you know, that we're seeing. And that's because of Trump and that's because of renewed leadership. And you have to have leadership that is moving the world towards a free world. And, and that's what it takes. And sometimes people aren't going to like it. Sometimes, you know, there's going to be some bloodshed in order to maintain this semblance of peace and prosperity, you know, and so this is the direction we're moving it. And, and it's a pot, it's a net positive, which is great China doesn't want global world reserve. They, they not only don't want it, but there's no way that they could even manage it. You know, what, what do they do? They have a, they have an artificially managed currency. You know, not to say that our currency isn't manipulated, but their currency is continuously manipulated, has always been manipulated. You know, so they tried to establish bricks that, that whole thing, you know, and how many people bought into the whole bricks thing. And it was all, it was all fictitious. There was no way it was going to work. You know, you don't have all these countries that don't get along with each other to begin with, all of a sudden have some sort of a shared economic zone that, you know, of influence and they're trying to share currency. It made no sense.

[B]

Was.

[A]

It made no sense. It was a joke.

[B]

It was an absolute joke. Jeff, look at this right here. Colin Hughes says, for someone who's never been to the US and has an interest in American antiques and country music etc, would you suggest be a great place to visit?

[A]

Wow.

[B]

I would Say Nashville, man, if you like Nashville, you got to go to Nashville. You see live country music, you might see some notable people kind of sit in, like Nashville will be one of the places. Memphis, you know, But I'd be careful in Memphis, man. Be very careful in Memphis. Nashville getting pretty dangerous there.

[A]

It is. Yeah.

[B]

It's very commercialized, but, you know, I would say Memphis is very dangerous these days. But you know, that's where Elvis. You can visit some stuff. There's some great, great museums and places to go take in that kind of stuff. But anywhere in the south too, right? There's a lot of great places in the south that you could visit that would.

[A]

South Carolina. South Carolina would be great, you know, but I would even say, you know, yeah, Georgia, South Carolina, Chip. But even, even if you go to the Northeast, go to. Go to, you know, Boston, Massachusetts. Forget the politics of it. But if you like the antiquities of it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And you want to see like the history, you know, there's. Yeah. Go in that.

[B]

You also go to Philadelphia for that too. But I would make sure you have an escort, police escort do that. Just. Just saying. So I wanted to, you know, somebody that really deserves to get blown up is Winsome Earl Sears. She is the lieutenant governor of Virginia and she's taking so much, such so much incoming from these nut job Democrats. And I really hope that she is the next. The next governor because she is fantastic. She's a great voice. But also too is like. She doesn't take. She doesn't take any. But here's her just. This is her introducing herself, but she's. She's fierce, man.

[E]

Good evening. My name is Winsome Earl Sears. I'm a marine. I am a mother, I'm a grandmother. I'm an immigrant to this great country. It was my job growing up in Jamaica to dust the picture of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I also served as vice president on the Virginia State Board of Education. I have sat where you are sitting and let me tell you what is happening in our schools right now is just wrong. It's dangerous, it's insane, and it has to stop. Here's the truth. There are two sexes, boys and girls. And for generations we've understood this, that they deserve their own sports team teams, their own locker rooms, their own bathrooms. That's not discrimination. It is common sense. But here in Arlington, the trust between parents and schools is being broken. When girls lose their privacy, when boys are punished for speaking plain truth, when parents are silenced for simply asking questions, that's not education. That's indoctrination. You are one of the five NOVA school districts who have been found in Violation of Title 9. Title 9 was written to protect biological girls spaces and opportunities on the basis of biological sex, not gender identity. And by refusing to reverse your reckless policies, you are failing our daughters and risking losing millions of dollars in funding our children. This is not theoretical. Right here in Arlington, a convicted child sex offender walked into a high school girls locker room and exposed himself to young girls. That is the reality. That is the danger. And it's about keeping schools focused on reading, writing and math, not ideology. As governor, I will not stand by while political correctness tramples over science, fairness and safety. I will continue to fight for all students. I will continue to fight for parents and I will continue to fight for the values that make Virginia strong. Our children's lives are not a game. Thank you. Thank you for your comments this evening.

[B]

Her mic went on at the end there. But the funny thing about it is she is the lieutenant governor. And if you live outside the US you're unaware each state has a governor. Lieutenant governor. It acts as the governor is like the president. The lieutenant governor is akin to a vice president. So she has a very, she has the second highest role right now and she's running for governor. She's already done the job, so now she would just elevate to governor. And this was her on Fox and kind of talking about her recent, her opponent here.

[E]

This is nonsense. And my opponent will not come forward and say anything. And then last night you saw that they equated bathroom opportunities with me being black in America. And here I am, second in command of the, a former capital of the Confederacy.

[B]

Think about that. The former. Here she is, second in command, black in America to the former, you know, capital of the Confederacy. Jeff, it's amazing, right?

[E]

Me, the immigrant whom they say as Democrats they love more than anybody. Me, a black woman who they say they love, love as Democrats more than anybody. This is insane.

[A]

It's, it's interesting that she said that. You know, the Democrats, it, they, they don't love anybody. You know, it's, it's all just expediency to their power. They use, they, they subjugate and they use minority groups in order to prop up whatever their agenda is. You can go cross section across every minority group within the US and they've attempted and to manipulate the minority group to their cause, whatever it is, and just go one by one. And the Democrats have used them, used and abused. You know that that's kind of their Their mantra. They don't care. They don't care about anybody. They don't care about, they don't care about, you know, black groups and they don't care about Hispanic groups, they don't care about Asian groups, they don't care about anybody's. But they will care for that moment in time as a method of expediency to subjugate, you know, through subjugation to gain power. And the reason why they're subjugating is because they're just using and abusing and they only care during an election cycle. Beyond that, they don't do anything. There's never been a moment in history where they've actually done anything positive to uplift any of the groups. They always subjugate and push the groups down because if you lift somebody up and all of a sudden, you know, their people are flourishing, then you have nothing. You have no, no cause because everybody's doing great and. But they'll undermine, you know, somebody like her and, and they'll, you know, put her down and they'll call her names and they'll attack her for everything she's accomplished and that it's really interesting because we have, you know, in, in Florida, you know, there's a fairly large Jamaican community here. And for the most part, you know, you go into those communities and they're, you know, very religious, right? And I think they, they bring, you know, that component of it and then, then therefore also very conservative, you know, and so it's just part of the family structure. They believe very passionately about the family structure. Then how is it that they're being manipulated? You know, like I would say the Jamaican community in the U. S being manipulated by the Democrats, you know, how many of them are Republican versus Democrat? And I think a lot of them end up, you know, supporting the Democrats mainly because the Democrats go into the, into the communities and they lie and, and they abuse and you know, and take advantage of. And then the Republicans don't, you know, they don't go in, you know, they're not, there's not a lot of outreach. I think now we're seeing it differently. But there's a lot of conservatives across the spectrum and all of the different groups that have come over to this country from, you know, whether it's from South America or, you know, Jamaica or wherever. There's a lot of conservative value stemming from, you know, from religions that, stemming from close knit family familiar structure and all of that. And that's. The Democrats are against an anti, all of that. You Know, and, but, and so then the Republicans are in favor of all of that. And so now we're starting to see, you know, definite, a definite switch and change because there's an awakening and you have to have that awakening. And people say, you wake up and say, look, we're not Democrats. We're actually everything that you believe into the core is a, is a Republican conservative value. And the Democrats have done such an amazing job over the decades. Years, years, years of undermining the. This value, but also latching on and taking advantage. And they do it through fear. And that's why I say they subjugate because they'll go into the black communities and say, well, Republicans are racist and they, you know, and they believe in and passionate about slavery and you're gonna lose your freedoms. Then they, they go. And this is kind of like the, the mental anguish that they've done because I know they do it within all the different groups. And if you want to single out like, even, you know, within religious groups, you know, they'll go to the Jewish community. And, and it's the exact same thing. You know, they go there and say, look, you know, the, here's. The Republicans are, are racist and they're anti Semitic and they want to send you, you know, and they believe in. And sending you back into gas chambers or whatever, you know, during World War II when, when Jews were coming here. And so it was all the same kind of mental anguish. And, and that's what the Democrats do, you know, and you just go community by community, you know, whether it's. And look how the Democrats have undermined the Christian communities, you know, and, and faith, and they've gone after every religious group and they try to undermine it and belittle it and destroy it, and they remove religion out of every aspect of, of the religious value, right? So if you look at like Christmas, how, how did they remove all the religious aspect out of Christmas? How do they remove it out of Easter? You know, why is that not relevant anymore to. And then if you say here, well, I'm going to church, you know, and I believe in, in Christmas because of the Christian value, right? And. And yet the Democrats will come out and say when they'll belittle and they'll laugh at you, you know, and this is the, this is a, a definite, you know, problem. It's not just here in this country, because then when you travel over to, when you travel over to Europe, you also saw a significant removal of religion from many parts of, of Europe. And as soon as you Tear out the religious aspect of it and then you have just a bunch of atheists running around. There's no higher. There's no higher cause. So if your highest cause is your monarch or your politician, you have to go above and beyond that. You have to go significantly above and beyond that.

[B]

Right there. Jeff. The Democrats love to call it Xmas. Removing Christ from Christmas. Like, yeah, it's not like forgetting what the holiday is really about. Right? That's what the holiday is about. It's about the birth of Christ. It's the. Not about. But they like to put Xmas. We'll just remove Christ and put an X. You know, Latino, Latin, X. Well, that Latinx stuff got crushed because they didn't like, you know, if, you know Spanish, there's a male and female, you know, you know, congregation of the of. Of words. So it's either masculine or feminine. They didn't like that. They want to do Latin, Latinx. And they're even, like, even, even like the liberals are like, that's her language. What are you talking about? Like, stop. Stop trying to change because you're. Because your feelings are hurt. Nobody cares. Nobody ultimately cares, man. Everybody doesn't care about it. I wanted to go back to this comment here, that. Yeah, that's a good one, too. This one here, it says, wow, the kids in American schools are getting weird education by the sounds of it. Well, here's the thing Trump got rid of. The Department of Education was founded in 1979 by Carter. Jimmy Carter used to be the worst president ever. Now it's Joe Biden. He's taken it. And it's debatable whether Obama's in there somewhere in the mix. But I think it goes. It's probably going to be Biden toss up between maybe Carter and then Obama. But the thing about it is, is that ever since it was found in 1979, test scores have declined every single year, even though sometimes it was kind of level every single year since its inception. And so from a national level, you had all these woke tards and they're trying to basically, it used to be called history and then he called it social studies. They try to dumb down everything, not teach real history. These textbooks are ridiculous when you look at them. There wasn't real history of what was going on. They're kind of rewriting it. They were talking about even the settling of America. It was all skewed through this leftist prism. What Trump said was like, look, instead of doing it at a national level, goodbye, now, we'll let it go. At a state level, if you still live in a blue state, you're going to get the wokeism. You're going to get all the garbage, but that's up to you. The parents should be deciding how their kids get educated. If the parents come up loudly enough and start complaining, you know, and say it will improve. I mean, Florida went from like one of the mid range schools to the number one in education in school because they got rid of that woke stuff a long time ago. A lot of it had to do with DeSantis. But I mean it's, it's, it's at a local level. And then the private schools like, like Jeff mentioned too, tend to be a little bit more on the conservative side. They're, you know, of course, costs a lot of money to send your kid there, but again, they're getting a real education. The teachers are vetted. You don't have a, yeah, you're going to have some here and there, but for the most part you're going to have good quality teachers that teach what they're supposed to be teaching. Not all this ridiculous, you know, weird curriculums and stuff and you know, just a little bit commentary on that. I wanted to also mention that Trump was asked this week about, you know, the FIFA, about the whole FIFA thing. And he, listen to this, what he said here, big event at the Kennedy Center. Do you intend to take part in it?

[A]

Will you have a part to play.

[B]

In on this December 5th. So he's asking if he'll have a part to play the upcoming, you know, World Cup. Is he going to have a part to play? Play.

[A]

What's Trump, what Trump's answer is?

[C]

I might play.

[F]

I mean, I see the money that these soccer players, you know, we call it soccer, but I see the money that these soccer players are making. I may try and play. I'm a very good athlete. My son, my son is a very good athlete and he's a good soccer player. On the tall side for soccer, he's six nine. That's pretty tall.

[B]

But six foot nine.

[A]

Six nine. Aaron is six nine.

[F]

I mean, I see the money that these.

[B]

I'm a good athlete.

[F]

I mean, I see the money that these soccer players. We call it soccer.

[B]

We call it soccer. Thanks to.

[A]

Great, look at that great hat, by the way.

[B]

I get more, I get more flack from my English friends. They're like, trip, what do you call it? Soccer. Because of you, you bastards. In the early 1900s, you got us on the soccer kick and we never changed it. Everyone called it football. Then we had American football, right? So they got confusing. But what people don't realize is Trump, in fact, is a really good football player. Check this out. He has. So if you're listening on the podcast, it's basically someone took some AI and Trump going through a bunch of. Scoring a goal, while all the while he's wearing his suit with his classic red tie, and then one of the players comes up and hugs him at the end. This is just fantastic. That's just fantastic, Jeff. You just got. You're really gonna love that. That is absolutely fantastic. And, you know, this Cracker Barrel stuff has been going a little bit crazy lately. You know, you probably see that Cracker Barrel. I mean.

[A]

Oh, my God. We showed the logo the other day, Chip, right?

[B]

I mean, what were they. What are they thinking, Jeff? Quite honestly, I mean, what are they thinking? So, yeah, we've got some commentary on that. I wanted to put something up on screen as well, but here, let me show this. Here, let me go ahead and share the screen. Gosh, it feels like so much work here.

[A]

I know. Putting one up.

[B]

Somebody said, you know, some of the Cracker Barrel memes aren't bad. So you got the cracker, the traditional Cracker Barrel logo on the left with. With Sydney Sweeney on the right, you know, with their jeans. And then you've got the woke version of it. Yeah. Greta, that little kid that's always whining about climate change on the right. So there's your two. There's your dichotomy right there. You get the whole. Look at this.

[A]

Look how horrible that logo is. Look up. Just bland and communist that logo is.

[B]

It's just weird. It's like they didn't put a border on. It's just. It's so weird.

[A]

Just boring and bland and just nothing.

[B]

Yeah. And then you've got somebody else thought did this meme along the same lines. You got the left. The traditional Cracker Barrel logo, which has a. It's this. This dude sitting next to an actual barrel and it's. And then you got Sweeney, and then you've got the little girl from. From the list, whatever that was. Snow White, whatever the hell that was. So. My God, that's. And then people are trying to. Trying to point them in the right direction. There's Sydney Sweeney with the. She's got classic great tape on.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Cracker Bear stuff. Sydney Sweeney has great taste. Cracker Barrel. You just have to love these. These memes, man. They're so funny. God. Let's see. Yeah. So let me. Let's let's play a couple videos here.

[A]

Visual and Vendetta said. Surprised they didn't change the name to CB or just Barrel. That's right.

[B]

Remember what happened to you? Remember that happened to KFC was Kentucky Fried Chicken. I go. And then they came out with all this stuff with fried foods. Bad.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What do we do? We'll change the kfc. No one will remember the original name.

[A]

And no one will know.

[B]

So look at this. So here's Baby Trump. We gotta have a baby. Trump's commentary on the Cracker Barrel.

[F]

Cracker Barrel. The name alone, it's sacred. It's America. It's rocking chairs, biscuits the size of your fist, and a store full of things nobody asked for, but you buy anyway. And now, now they've gone and changed the logo. Here's the truth. Nobody asked for a new logo. What we wanted was unlimited biscuits. What we wanted was a third peg in that triangle game so we could finally win. But no, instead of giving the people what they want, they gave us a logo that looks like it was designed by Sleepy Joe Biden. At what point do we, as a country, we put a stop to this tyrannical destruction of our rich culture and history.

[B]

There you have it.

[A]

You know, it's funny. So we have. We have one of those rocking chairs. When my parents years ago bought, bought Aaron one of those rocking chairs. So we have this little tiny Cracker Barrel rocking chair that we've had, you know, for at least. At least 10 years. I'm trying to think how old he was when we got it. But it's this little thing and the quality, the craftsmanship is unparalleled. It's unmatched. You know, it's. It's good quality. I don't know where they make them. Maybe North Carolina. I'm not sure where they came from. Hardwood, like the North Carolina furniture industry is coming back thanks to Trump. Whereas handcrafted, handmade, you know, good quality. And that's what we need again, you know, and so that's Cracker Barrel. And he's mentioned rocking chairs. That's exactly what people knew, you know, and we have one here in the house, which. But it's a little tiny kids version.

[B]

Yeah. Remembering Coke changed the recipe. You don't mess with stuff. I mean, God, that was like the biggest PR disaster in history. New Coke. Oh, New Coke tasted like garbage.

[A]

It was garbage. And, and even, I mean, I don't drink soda, but back in the day.

[B]

I did rum and Coke. That's about it.

[A]

I don't Say, I don't mix. I don't like mixing alcohols with soft drinks. But. But the thing is, think about, you know, now you get Coke from Mexico that has real sugar in it, you know, versus all the garbage and corn syrup. You go all over the world and all the products are different. There's a different standard for even soda. It's just. It's amazing. Amazing.

[B]

It is incredible.

[A]

Oh, they're made in Tennessee. That's interesting. Okay, there we go.

[B]

Barrel Tennessee. Yeah. Ate their lunch. But when they did turn it back to the Reggio coat, then everybody flocked back and they.

[A]

Right.

[B]

They finally had some sales. Jim D. Says Coke took out the secret ingredients.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

That's what it used to happen.

[A]

That's when it went down.

[B]

That's why it's called Coca Cola.

[A]

That's why I was addictive. Remember Cherry Coke? Do they still have Cherry Coke?

[B]

One of those hardcore, like, diners. They still mix the cherry Coke with the syrup.

[A]

Oh, the real. Yeah. When they really do, they would put.

[B]

Coke and they put the cherry syrup in there.

[A]

Yeah. My grandfather is better than back. Back years and years ago, obviously. My grandfather owned pharmacies in upstate New York. And so one of the things that my mother tells me about is the soda fountain in the pharmacies. And that was like, the place people would go and gather at the soda fountain. You'd go and everything would be, you know, kind of poured. And, you know, I thought that was interesting. So I've never seen it. Yeah.

[B]

The funny thing about Cracker Barrel is the. If you look at what this. What it looks like now is the remodel that they're all excited about looks like some generic store. I mean, my God, you know, what is that?

[A]

Is that Cracker Barrel?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's so boring. What is on the. What's on the wall?

[B]

I don't know. It's.

[A]

What is that garbage?

[B]

Look, I'm not saying. I'm not defending Cracker Barrels, like a great place to, like, eat, but you don't mess with tradition, dude. You don't mess with it. It's like, it works for a reason. It has its own vibe. You don't turn into, like, a homogenized, sterile environment.

[A]

Right.

[B]

You know who spoke out about this horrible.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know, the little. You know, the guy that I wanted to. The guy in the Cracker Barrel logo. And this is going to be good for context when you watch this.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because XRP plumbing says. Yeah. The word cracker could be associated with the N word. You know what I Mean, in today's America, it is a slur. It's a, you know, a slur that, you know, you know, black people, they call white people crackers. I. I mean, I guess it's a slur. I don't know if they still do that, but it was an old sort of cracker. Call him a cracker. You know, a white guy would be called a cracker. So here is the white dude from the logo. He's speaking out, Jeff. He's not happy. Listen to this.

[C]

Oh, I'm the cracker from cracker Barrel. And y' all know I sat on that damn logo.

[B]

I never really, you know, I'll never look at that logo the same again when I look at the cracker and the barrel. The cracker white dude next to the barrel, cracker.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

How freaking funny is I'm the cracker. The cracker. This is great.

[C]

Hello, I'm the cracker from cracker Barrel. And y' all know I sat on that Damn logo for 48 damn years, longer than a snake deep throat in the giraffe neck. Then overnight, you got this diverse, evil, ignorant, or DEI group of people taking over our marketing, talking about we need a rebrand. Then, poof. I'm going faster than a black man driving through Alabama. How you gonna rebrand without dbrand? I'm the goddamn reason people come to cracker barrel. How you gonna have a place called Cracker Barrel without a cracker leaning on a barrel? I mean, what's next, America? A black female popeyes manager that doesn't fight her customers. Cracker barrel needs a cracker and a barrel. And I'm the coldest cracker son of a that ever leaned on a barrel. Decide if a misses Mississippi. Hell, maybe both sides. But don't you go worry about your old boy, cracker. I got a little nest egg, and I'll find something to lean on. I always have. But it's a damn shame what y' all done let happen to old barrel. Who the hell out here finna hire me, bro? Nobody. Nobody hiring barrels. I might as well just jump in the fireplace, bro.

[B]

Oh, I can't play the song because we're gonna. We're gonna strike.

[A]

Oh, my God. Someone's hiring a barrel. No one's but the funny. What was a cracker barrel to begin with? Why. Why did crackers come in barrels?

[B]

No, he's the cracker next to the barrel.

[A]

I know. I get that.

[B]

I have no idea. I don't know. I don't know. I never really thought about the name much, but, you know, it's. It's pretty funny, man.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

It's too much.

[A]

Too much.

[B]

That's true. It can be used as a word, a term of endearment, like, what's up, cracker? How you doing, cracker? God, that's exactly right.

[A]

Look at the time. We gotta do a drawing here.

[B]

Do our drawing, Jeff.

[A]

Drawing, drawing, drawing. Here we go. Get that ready. Let me get this rolling while you get that ready. Here we go.

[B]

Are you ready to win a badass yeti from the blue tribe? The word of the day? Yeti got yours on mine while it locked your claims on the block.

[C]

Why?

[B]

Because this is gonna be. It's time to get your warrior, your.

[C]

Blue tribe, Yeti of the clan Titan. Titan.

[A]

His name.

[C]

Raise it up. Let's go. On the chair. Badass yetis. Born for battle, made for legend. Claim yours or be a captain.

[B]

Captain, Captain, captain, captain, captain, captain, captain, captain, captain, captain, captain. Badass yetis.

[C]

On the ch. On the ch.

[B]

Whoa, Jeff. Early in the show, the king posted his wallet, so let's see if this is. If he comes up. Man to no end. My God.

[A]

Rigged.

[B]

Rigged. We'll be here at the end of time. Okay, guys, you got a chance. You got 19. 19 are in.

[A]

Or M. What's going on here then?

[B]

What's going on?

[A]

We haven't seen muggy business in a long time.

[B]

Yeah, this is. We're giving away a badass yeti, the one you just saw on screen. So we're giving away a badass yeti. Nft. You can also purchase them as well. Tugged. Look at Collins already congratulating king for win. Crypto web is saying, mine, baby, mine. So there you have it. So you have a chance to say yeti because everybody's got their yetis in. We got time to pull. I don't see anybody else coming in. You can. It only registers you once, so it doesn't matter how many times you actually put it in there. So there you go. He's thanking us already. What's happening with your camera, Jeff?

[A]

I don't know. Oh, look at that Almighty.

[B]

What the hell's going on over there? I just don't know what's happening over there, Jeff. Something weird is going on.

[A]

Give me one second. There we go.

[B]

Something weird. Oh, Jeff comes back. Here he is.

[A]

All right, just gonna stay here. I don't. I don't know what's going on.

[B]

All right, we'll do this. We'll go ahead.

[A]

I'm here. I'm not going anywhere.

[B]

Ready? Let's pull it. See what happens. We go out the full screen here.

[A]

There we go.

[B]

Oh, who's gonna win today? Who is it gonna be?

[A]

The winner is Visual Vendetta.

[B]

Check the. Check the boards and see if he hasn't been a recent winner in 30 days because that would be the only thing to preclude him from moving on with that badass yeti. Visual Vendetta. It's not going to complain about it being rigged. Omg.

[A]

Badass Yetis.

[B]

Omg. Let's get the win. Jeff is AI.

[A]

I am AI.

[B]

Congratulations amongst this. Damn it. Congratulations, Valley Visual Vendetta.

[A]

Stay tuned.

[B]

Rigged beyond belief. Rigged.

[A]

I don't think visually you would have.

[B]

Got non stop, man. Incoming. Rigged. It's even Visual Vendetta. Saying it's rigged.

[A]

Visual Vendetta. Last time for Blue Tribe was December. It's been a while. It's been a while. Damn.

[B]

Certainly been a while, man. Incredible. Well, let's do it, man. Visual Vendetta. Congratulations for winning. Beautiful.

[A]

Vendetta win.

[B]

Fantastic. You're going to be throwing your wallet in there in a second and we should be in a good place. Fantastic.

[A]

People, your wallet in there. Rigged for Visual Vendetta.

[B]

While you're doing that, I'm gonna. I'm gonna play a bit. A little clip by Mark Carney, who basically. Basically bent the knee. Here we go.

[D]

Let's be absolutely.

[A]

There it is. Visual Vendetta. Canada.

[B]

Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada. Ready? Here we go.

[D]

So let's be absolutely clear.

[B]

Clear. I love when they say. When any leader says let's be absolutely clear. That was one of Obama's line. Let's be clear. Let's be clear.

[D]

Canada currently has the best trade deal with the United States.

[B]

But. And what. Tell us more.

[D]

And while it's different from what we had before, it is still better than that of any other country.

[A]

Oh, thanks.

[D]

So as we work to address outstanding trade issues with the United States, it's important, it's vital we do everything we can to preserve this unique advantage for Canadian workers, Canadian businesses.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

And doing so will require both building on a soon to be revised Kuzma, our free trade agreement with the US And Mexico, as well as developing a new form of trade and security partnership with the United States. In this context, and consistent with Canada's commitment to Kuzma, I'm announcing today that the Canadian government will now match. We will now match the United States by removing all of Canada's tariffs on U.S. goods specifically covered under CUZ.

[B]

There you have it. Interesting.

[A]

You send over your X handle.

[B]

Yeah, While you're doing that, I'm gonna go ahead and X look at this. So here is some news from the uk. Check this out. This is fun. Anna. That turned a road into the loudest dual carriageway in Britain has been taken down by police. The banner encouraged drivers to loudly sound their dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Keith Kia Starmer. Locals said the response to the banner was louder than the Rolling Stones. Police said they were removed because they could cause distraction to drivers. What a distraction to the driver. So nobody likes, basically. That's kind of what they're, what they're saying right there.

[A]

He's a wanker.

[B]

He's a wanker for sure. No doubt about that. And then here, check out this, what this British man got arrested for. This is too much, Jeff. Thank God.

[D]

It looks like freedom of speech. We covered this a little bit yesterday with a totally different story, but here's another one.

[A]

Roll this.

[D]

So The Guy, a 23 year old single father arrested while protesting at a site of a proposed mosque. He just shouted I love bacon. Now shout out to Don Keith for getting us this clip. They arrested this dude for. Look, I love bacon too. You gonna come arrest me if I.

[A]

Go to the uk?

[G]

I guess so. Probably neither of us should go to the UK and eat bacon. Good news for pigs everywhere. But I mean, this is tragic for, for all of the uk. I mean, and I think the US should really take this as a warning sign. I mean, look, the UK no longer has free speech, speech judging by this.

[D]

Situation, because they gave up their guns.

[G]

Recent events, it's, they've lost it, it's gone. And the US needs to take note because if, if we don't guard it, if we don't protect it and you know, good on President Trump for the course corrections he has rapidly made in the United States over the past six months. But without those corrections, we can very easily wind up exactly where the UK is right now.

[B]

Yep, that's exactly right. It's just incredible, man. It's just, this is what happens. This is why I love what's happening in the UK right now. And I saw some, some video from Scotland where they're, they're also putting their flag up and it's just great that we're starting to see back. It's gonna, it may devolve into a full revolution. It might have to, it might be the only way where there's a full revolution happens and it's the only way to save, you know, the uk but somebody has to set the standard and somebody has to. And it really, I really hope the damn well that is the UK that fights back and you know, not just protests, not just this. But it was so funny. They were taking all the flags down and the guys were hassling them on the streets like, what is wrong with you? Where's your patriotism? And they were like, don't make it about that. And then they started painting the St. George flag, paint a big white circle and put the reds cross on there and they were painting them on the street. Good luck trying to get rid of that. So every time they squash it down, it just jumps up a level, you know what I mean? So pretty, pretty interesting.

[A]

There you go. Visual Vendetta, the big winner of the day. Now it's time to send you the. The badass yeti. That's the one thing I forgot to do. So I was worried about doing all this other stuff. I'm like, let me get it posted, let me make sure I don't forget anything. And I forgot to send it. So now it's time to send this badass yeti over to Visual Vendetta. Get ready because we are transferring badass yeti number 38 of the blue tribe from the clan Titan. His name Josh. Here we go. Getting ready to open up the Zaman wallet. Getting ready to transfer this bad boy. Over scanned. Get ready. Accepted. Processing, thumbprinted, verifying, submitted and it is now sent. That's it. Submitted successfully. You are now the proud owner of badass yeti number 38, visual vendetta. Make sure you get it. Make sure you accept it on your Zama wallet or log into and connect your zombie wall to xrp.cafe. go to XRP Cafe, accept this bad boy. And if you guys want a badass yeti of your very own and you didn't win, then guess what? You know where you can go? You can go to XRP Cafe. Go to XRP Cafe, search up the badass yetis. You can say when you're here, say, I want to. I want a blue tribe. I want to search up a blue tribe yeti and see where all of this is and check that out. And you go straight into and be like, hey, look at that there, 92%. There's only a couple left over here. A whole bunch of them have been posted for sale. But if you want your very own blue tribe yeti, if you want your very own white tribe yeti, we're going to start giving away some more of the white tribe Yetis. As well. But there you go, White tribe Yetis awesome. There it is. So you can go check out some of these cool ass White tribe. You can buy them right from somebody else or you can just do a, you know, just mint and get a random and that would be very cool. So it's one or the other. But go to XRP Cafe and if you want to get some really good coffee, don't forget, go to badass yetis coffee. Badass yetiscoffee.com go get yourself some Obsidian Bold Italian dark roast. It's our favorite. It's a nice rich blend. Remember it gets roasted as you order it. So there you go. There you have it. I do need some Starlink, I think, which would be great. And then more monkey business and my account got hacked and they left me a bunch of yetis.

[B]

Damn nice, those hackers.

[A]

Thank you and good afternoon.

[B]

That is fantastic, guys. Well, that's all the time we have here, man.

[A]

Good night.

[B]

I'm partially on screen. Jeff's not on screen, man.

[A]

I'm almost on screen. Semi on screen. I don't know what happened. I don't know what's going on.

[B]

But anyway, I'll tell you what's going on. We'll be back tomorrow night at 8:00pm Eastern Time. Guys, go watch. Go check out the James Rule interview with the ZAO co founders tonight at 7pm it's going to be good. Great to see some representation from the. From the OTC fam. So that's all we have, guys.

[A]

Thank you.

[B]

Thank you very much guys for jumping in. We'll have more tomorrow. See you guys on the next one. Chip and Jeff, ouch.

[A]

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