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Happy Bitcoin Thursday, freaks. I know it is not Tuesday,   but we are here for another serial dispatch.   If you've been following along on Twitter,   we have, this brand new   studio in Bitcoin Park in Nashville.   So I will be prioritizing   in person conversations going forward. That means that the Tuesday schedule every week is officially dead.   We will be going with the flow. Some days, you will get   multiple dispatches on the same day.   Some days, you'll get no dispatches.   I will try and keep you updated on Twitter.   But if you subscribe on Twitch, twitch.tv/dispatch,   or if you subscribe to the podcast feed in your favorite podcast app by searching Dispatch,   you will get notified every time,   a new dispatch drops.  

Also, if you go to our chat, citadel chat,   by going to dispatch.com   and clicking that   citadel chat button,   I will obviously,   notify   everyone   whenever we're going live and keeping people updated on the schedule. But,   I'm really loving these in person rips, and,   as a result, it's gonna it's gonna be going with the flow and going with our guest schedule.   With all that said,   this is seal dispatch 67.   Seal dispatch is a 100% audience funded without,   sponsors or ads.   So   it exists because of you guys and your generous support, so I I do wanna thank everyone who continues to support the show. As always, you can support the show at seal dispatch.com,   with our BTCPay   instance. We're a Bitcoin only operation, so the only way you can contribute is,   with Bitcoin.  

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So with that said, we have CA Danner.   She contributed   10,000 sat. She said, thank you, Matt Odell, from your satoshi white paper, artist freak, CA Danner.   We have letter 6173555   sats, Bitcoin and Ranchers is based as fuck. Great episode.   4,000 sats from Nick, inspired.   4,000 sats from Law of Bitcoin. Bullish on ranch pilling.   See, he doesn't like cow pilling you do. And then we have, Chad Farrow with 3,333   stats. He did that twice, and he said Bitcoin Wednesday. Well, Chad, today is Bitcoin Thursday now.   Judging by those boostograms,   you can tell   that our last rip was with Texas Slim himself,   and we had some other great guests with us for that rip. But we have Texas Slim back here again,   for an update on on what has been going on for the last 2 weeks. How's it going, Texas Slim?  



[00:03:55] Unknown:

Hey, Matt. Honored to be back here again.   It's, it's going well. I've been on the road, man. I've been driving and driving.   And I asked you last night, I said, how long has it been since I was there?   So,   I went to,   Knoxville, went   to Chattanooga,   Charlotte, Columbia,   Greenville,   Charleston,   through the Smoky Mountains to the Blue Ridge,   doing a lot of   boots on the ground work and meeting a lot of different Bitcoiners,   different Bitcoin meetups,   and really kind of spreading the word about, you know, the the initiative basically being here in Tennessee now, you know, our 2nd major headquarters.   Lot of good noise and a lot of good signal, a lot of good feedback  

[00:04:38] Unknown:

coming. I love it. I love it.   Slim was came into town yesterday. I had them over for steaks.   Slim, how did I do? Were they were they alright? It's top notch. They were  

[00:04:48] Unknown:

I watched your whole process and,   and everything. You know, as far as getting the wood,   it was it was highly impressive. And,   it it was kinda cool because,   I didn't know what kind of stakes you were going to to serve last night   in, White Oak Pastures. White Oak. That's good. You've been doing that for a while, haven't you? Yeah.  

[00:05:11] Unknown:

I mean, I joked with Slim when he called me. I've been waiting years for him to call me. So   White Oak is,   on the, you know, one of the cutting edge farms that does,   regenerative farming. Mhmm.   And they just seem like they're running a great operation.  

[00:05:26] Unknown:

What they're doing is they're out there, and   they're good. They're kinda like a good standard to look at as far as what you can do in regenerative farming and ranching, how you can regrow soil.   Will Harris and his family went out there 25 years ago to Bluffton, Georgia. And if you look at Bluffton, Georgia on the map, it's about 2 and a half, 3 hours south of Atlanta.   It is out in the middle of nowhere. It's a one horse town.   And once you get into White Oak Pastures itself,   you can go in any direction and see what they've done through the last 25 years. And it's amazing   the progress that can be made to regrow the soul, to steward the land, to steward the animals, to steward a community.  

He's, you know, he's preeminent right now in the United States along with, you know, Joe Salatin in a lot of the ranchers that we're bringing into the beef initiative. They're doing exactly the same thing. That's freaking awesome.  

[00:06:18] Unknown:

Also freaks, I don't know if you're watching the live stream, this is,   I think, the second ever dispatch that has video.   So welcome to the new studio.   We   not all dispatches will have video   going with the flow on that too. It's gonna depend on who the guest is and whether or not they wanna be on video. Some of them will be audio only still.   If you are contributing in the live chat,   I will be pulling it up occasionally, basically switching between,   the video and the live chat. So   definitely continue to put your questions there and your comments.   Same goes with the live chat on Twitch and Twitter.  

Cool. So one of the big things we wanna talk about was these cattle deaths that, have been circulating on the Internet. Yeah.   Kinda look like mass graves of of of cows.   What's the deal with that? Is there  

[00:07:13] Unknown:

Well, what's the story? Well, of course, you know, we're gonna get all the conspiracies. We're gonna get, you know, that these cattle and what I've seen that, you know, they were killed from some space technology.   You know, it space lasers. Space lasers. Is that what it was? Okay. I I haven't really paid attention. Somebody brought that up, and I keep on getting a lot of, you know, DMs and everything, you know, and people are kind of freaked out about it. But what I want to do in what we've done within the beef initiative, I mean, we have direct contact with ranchers all across United States.   And   let's lose the conspiracy theories. Let's get back to pragmatic   approach to what's going on in our beef industry.  

And that's the best way to start.   These cattle are fat cattle.   That's what cattle are called before they go to harvest.   These cattle were basically one step away from getting harvested, gone into the kill barns.   The the images that were shown   in the video shown, they're all stacked up nice and neat.   And everybody thinks that it all of a sudden, all these cattle just drop dead. And that's just   once again a manipulation of information of content.   You see it all the time, and what it is really is a distraction   for   starting off.  

It's it's sad when this happens   into any type of food industry in which feeds our nation and feeds   the world.   But one thing that people need to understand   is this happens in because of elements. This happens because of the protocol that we're using right now   to grow fat cattle to where they can be basically sold on a market   through a feedlot system.   That feedlot system is basically right now controlled   by chemical companies   and by 4 major processing companies that are global processing companies.   They're not basically based in the United States. 3 of the major processing companies in that that harvest   85%,   about 80, 85% of our animal protein in the United States controls   all of these feedlots.  

By saying that, what had happened during this time in Kansas,   before that heat wave that hit the Midwest, it was around 70, 72 degrees.   When you have fat cattle,   what that means that are getting a mixed ration of feed.   It's a mixed ration. Some call them,   hot feeds, cold feeds. Well, these feeds are are basically designed   to fatten up cattle so they can get the most money that they can.   Who's making that money? The processing centers, not the ranchers.   The ranchers are basically out of the picture at that point in time.   These processing centers are the the bottleneck   to good nutrition, to healthy cows, and to healthy meat in the United States. This had nothing to do with any nefarious thing on the ranchers part   or basically through the government. This was not a coordinated attack.  

These, these cattle that died, there was 10,000 of them. And what it was is about $20,000,000   in losses. That's insane. It is.   And if you look at the the capacity of of that those numbers,   you can kind of tell that, you know, factory farming is an issue in the United States. Why is it an issue?   Well, because the processing centers and the packers, which are basically the same thing, have been manipulating   and destroying   the American rancher the last, of course, decade, but even beyond that.   So let's go through what happened that day. It was 72 degrees.   When you have that many fat cattle, they need shade,   they need water, well, with that type of temperature change.  

These like I said, these cattle are one step away from death anyways. Right. So they're barely making it. And whenever you get cattle together, cattle have to cool off   overnight. Usually, that's what they do. And then they'll they'll get heated back up. Well, they never had a chance to cool off from the day before.   So for over 30 6, 48 hours, it was over a 106 degrees.   And so whenever you get cattle that are basically pinned up and going into harvest,   you know, they're rubbing bellies. They're they're they're so close to each other that they're just overheating.   Right. When a cow that is a fat cattle, they're close to metabolically failure already. Right? Just like an obese person would be.  

And I look at these cattle as a reflection of our society as a whole right now as far as our health. These cattle, basically,   if they're not being farmed, harvested,   and,   and basically put on the market   as American beef   in in the way that they are having to do right now in the United States. None of this ever happens.   That's out of the control of the rancher right now. You know why that's out of control of the rancher?   Because of processing plants? Because of our consumer demand.   Right.   We it comes down to our consumer demand   being changed in a way that we're not   propping up these processing centers   because all they're doing is manipulating   a system that is corrupt.  

Tucker Carlson   had a interview with 1 of the ranchers that was involved with this,   and it was about a 15 minute interview. And what that rancher was really trying to say, and that I don't think people are understanding,   is that   they're being driven out of business. Our cattle industry in the United States is slowly being chipped away at   in a way that the consumer does not understand. They don't do not understand this because of complacency   and convenience.   And so our consumer demand has to change as citizens in the United States. We need to demand better.   We don't need to be looking at these ranchers and say the ranchers have done anything wrong. They're doing exactly what they know how to do under the, basically the apparatus that has been designed   by the chemical companies and the processing centers. They're playing the game that's   that's presented to them. They have to. Yeah. And they they have to basically play in a technology use agreement. They have to sign contracts.  

They have to, cater to the USDA insurance policy.   You know, I've I've always been at the last couple years. I ask a lot of people. I said, where do you think the value of the cow is? This is a good example.   Those 10,000 cattle that died, the value of those cow now turned into the USDA insurance policy.   Right. Those ranchers are gonna get paid, you know, because the cost cost Do they get the full 20 mil? Or   Well, they won't get the full amount. No. Most of most of that   this will go deeper as time passes, but a lot of that will probably be given to the processing centers,   not to the ranchers themselves.  

Let's say, like, JBS   this last year was fined   $56,000,000   for price manipulation during COVID.   Well, what the government, you know, and the current   $56,000,000   is a small little slap in the face to JBS, but JBS ended up making over   $500,000,000 worth of profit during COVID because of that same type of price manipulation.   So what what is what is the intention of the processing centers?   Is to get a big fat cow that's almost metabolically   dead,   right before they do harvest that cow.  

[00:14:48] Unknown:

So, I mean, let's just just to pull it back for a second here. So   you have 10,000   1010,000   cows die. Mhmm.   Roughly $20,000,000   worth of value. Yes.   The pictures we see   aren't where they died. They they get they get put in place. They're insurance photos. Right? Yeah. They're insurance photos.   So when you see those pictures of all the all the cows with their feet up, like, all next to each other, it looks like a mass grave. Right. That's an insurance photo for USDA.   And then so then the farmer, the ranchers is submitting those photos,   and I assume there's some kind of inspection or something.  

Mhmm. So that there's no there's no foul play involved or something like that. They submit that to the USDA.   Mhmm. And then the USDA   is doing a payout,  

[00:15:42] Unknown:

an insurance payout, but the majority is going to the processing center. We don't know the numbers on that, but, yeah, it'll be a collective type of payout to where who you know, the percentages involved depends on the stage of, you know, the harvesting and everything.   That gets pretty in-depth   as far as who actually ends up getting that money. But if you look at history,   the, that the 56,000,000   that JBS was, fine, none of that went to the ranchers. Right. And so, you know But that's different. That was a fine. That's not the insurance payout. But you can kinda probably merit the same thing as a insurance payout. You know, the ranchers are probably gonna be breaking even on that cow. So, like, what's your what what what would your gut say on that that payout? Like, what does that look like? Is it, like, a 5050?  

[00:16:26] Unknown:

Is it 6040?  

[00:16:28] Unknown:

I would I would have to say that the rancher gets to to maintain his ranch for the next year. So he's getting just like cost. Yeah. Or whatever you get. Right. Even. Yeah. You get to go that 12 month cycle that we play in the Fiat world. Right.   That's all this is anymore. That's all ranching is anymore. The ranchers are poor these days.   They've lost over $200,000,000   out of the the industry itself in the last decade. And that's what the rancher was trying to say on Tucker Carlson saying,   we're losing a major percentage of the American ranchers. We're losing our heritage. We're losing access to be able to provide you, the consumer,   basically,   cattle that's not metabolically already dead before they go into harvest.  

That's the big message here that nobody's understanding. They're thinking that these cows got killed by lasers.  

[00:17:14] Unknown:

No. It's because of the system and the apparatus. Well, it's way more it's it's way more catchy.  

[00:17:20] Unknown:

Of course, it is. We live we live in that clown world. Satellite cattle kill. You know? It is. It's just that sounds like a horrible movie that a lot of people would watch. Well, in in these days and times, that's that's what people want. You know, they enjoy the fear porn. They enjoy everything. You know, they like to pair it the daily news.   And so that cycle,   it it takes maybe taking a step back   and looking at basically  

[00:17:45] Unknown:

the industry that's actually feeding us. Right. I mean, I I think it's interesting because,   so, I mean, dispatch, this show is primarily focused on Bitcoin   and Freedom Tech. It's mostly a tech show. Right. I think all everything is all very interconnected. I mean, obviously,   when I first conceived of the show, the idea was, you know,   broadcast   from from my citadel to your citadel or whatever. So it it could really   I I I like to think that this this,   this format is is broader than just tech,   because all of this is relevant. Obviously, we need to feed ourselves. This is all sovereign.   It's all part of the sovereign stack. Right. I think it's interesting   that you mentioned   consumer demand   basically being the source of all of this. Like, the everything else is a symptom of   what consumers are going out and basically voting with their wallet. Mhmm. And you mentioned this thing, convenience. It comes down to convenience.  

And that's what we see when all the tech conversations we have about privacy, about sovereignty. It's always a convenience versus sovereignty trade off. It's always a convenience versus   privacy trade off, and it's the same exact case here. Right? It is. It really  

[00:18:59] Unknown:

is. And I think a lot of it, once again, I always say that there's no judgment going on here. You know, we're all guilty. Right? Right. We're all complacent in certain certain aspects of our life, and we do search for that convenience. It's what we've all been conditioned to do when we're thinking, hey. We're we're advancing our society because of this convenience model that we've created.   Well, it's starting to show some cracks in that yearning for that convenience and that complacency.   And if people need to start, you know, this is a tech show. Well, the tech that we're we're looking at within the Bitcoin space,   it touches every aspect of our life. And if we're not starting to look   at the the   correlation of tech in our food right now with how we can improve and how we can actually change   our perception of, the value of that convenience   that causes this complacency,   then it takes us a step back. We get into more of a low time preference thinking when it comes to our consumption,   our consumption of food, our consumption of audio, video.  

We are able to basically   understand why we desire what we desire.   And within   Bitcoin tech, within the food industry itself, within animal protein,   if we can start really correlating those and how valuable   they are, that symbiotic nature of Bitcoin and food,   then we're gonna understand that we've gone a little too far down this, complacency model and the convenience model.  

[00:20:27] Unknown:

Right.   So, I mean,   I think, first of all, freaks, like, if you haven't,   listened till,   last week I don't know. When when did we record those ones? For 2 weeks already. Slim was on the road for 2 weeks, and I didn't give you guys a dispatch until he came back.   If you haven't listened to that one, go back and listen to that one because I think we talked a lot about   actionable things that people can do to basically improve that situation. And I think,   there's, I mean, there's a there's a ton of parallels with other things we we discuss on dispatch,   but the big one of the big ones for me that I always try and harp on is   is don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Small improvements do help,   and this wouldn't be a conversation with Slim if we didn't say shaker rancher's hand. So those are the the 2 main takeaways.  

So, I mean, let's let's transition a little bit to more positive topics. Sure.   So yesterday,  

[00:21:25] Unknown:

your boy Cole had a big announcement. Should we talk about that a little bit? Yeah. Let's talk about Cole K&C Cattle. He basically supplies all of our beef through the beef initiative. We have a good   strong partnership with Cole.   He was one of the first ranchers, top 3 ranchers that I reached out to. And we've developed a really good business model.   And we've known for a while   what Cole's plans were for the future. Well, yesterday, he came out and announced that,   his processing center down there in Luling, Texas, south of Austin, will be opening up within the, you know, next 60 days.   What does that mean? What does that mean for Bitcoiners? What does that mean for people wanting true market access to healthy cattle that aren't metabolically bankrupt? Well, it's a regenerative model. In the last dispatch, we talked about the vertical integration   back into, you know,   into cattle itself, into beef and everything.  

Well, this is basically   the first major step that   we are able to,   take   moving forward.   We're about to up our volume about   tenfold.   We're in control of the the soil, the grass, the cow, the producer,   and now the processor.   We don't have to be under the umbrella or the thumbprint   of the processing centers or the chemical companies.   The processing center is a clean facility,   0 chemicals,   the cattle,   0 chemicals,   0 GMO grains,   0 anything 0, you know,   steroids, all the type of stuff that you hear that get injected in these cattle. So what we've done is we have a working model now that we can start feeding the nation again within the beef initiative.   And it's by developing this strong relationship with Cole   that he's he was a small regenerative farmer and rancher down in Texas.  

Well, we're about to step it up, and we're about to basically   change the game in ways that I don't think that people understand.   But one thing that they they can understand is   the lifestyle that you can have.   You don't have to worry about those cattle that are dying. You don't have to worry about that saran wrap beef in your supermarket anymore. If you're gonna be intentional   about your consumption within beef,   there's a vertical integration that we can do on our own. You can you can pay in Fiat. You can pay in Bitcoin.  

[00:23:52] Unknown:

And so here we go. We're off to the races. Yeah. I mean, so this is a massive deal. This has been a long time coming. It has. It seems,   I mean, from my I've just kind of dove into this world headfirst.   Like the processing center is the major bottleneck. It is That's been the the major issue, and it's a big hurdle to actually   have your own processing center. Right? You have to go through all these different regulatory bodies. Mhmm. There's a lot of upfront cost.   So now you have, like, basically, a parallel a parallel channel that,   ideologically aligned folks control. Yeah.  

The   so, I mean, now let's go back to the those the recent cattle deaths, these these 10,000 cows that died.   Does   the processes   that   this plant is going to be doing   avoid that fate? Like, are you still gonna have fat cows rubbing against each other that are like zombie cows that are about to die? No, never. These cows are basically brought off the grass, and they go to harvest. They're stress free.  

[00:24:58] Unknown:

If a cow gets stressed, right, this is this is a little education error.   If a cow gets stressed right up until harvest Right. You know, it releases all kinds of stressors throughout the muscle tissue, throughout the flesh itself.   And so that beef is gonna be kind of destroyed. And that's why that's something people don't understand   in the regenerative movement and especially with the processing center that, you know, Cole is kind of pioneer   pioneering forward with   those cows. If they get stressed during, right before they get harvest, they just get taken out. They get to live another day. You know, it's a streamlined process that is stress free,   and and they're not going to be in 110   degree heat, 106 degree heat for 24 hours. No. They're going to be they're going to be shaded. They're going to they're going to have plenty of water. They're not gonna be running, rubbing belly to belly.  

That's not that's that high volume. Let's look at that   10,000 cattle. We process   600,000   cattle a month   in the United States.   Okay. The micro processing, the micro avatar   that we're moving forward with in the beef initiative,   we're not even competing with those guys. What we're doing is we're doing something that's very inclusive and exclusive for the intentional consumer,   somebody that wants to be educated, somebody that wants to know exactly where their protein's coming from. And they want to make sure that those cattle are are raised   and then harvested in a very, very humane way.  

The type of cattle that, you know, Cole Bolton, Jason Rick, Justin Tramm, all the different ranchers we have, they have some of the best lives   that you could ever hope for for a cattle.   They're not rushed into a processing center because that kill date is set by a processing center saying, when that cow's a calf, you have to process it on August 1st, 18 months away from here.   Where's the intention of that? Well Right. As a rancher, you lose all of that basically   sovereignty of being a rancher, and all you're doing is the the means to an end is to hit that date. You don't know if that cow's gonna be ready for that harvest, but you have to harvest it so you can turn that   small margin back into it.  

So with what Cole is doing, he's taken away all the power of these major processing centers.   And by doing that, guess what? We can change our consumer demand   into this model in which cobaltness   is basically pioneering.  

[00:27:26] Unknown:

That's huge. So you're like taking the power. And it's kind of ironic because I mean, he's opening a processing center, but you're taking the power from the the large, I guess, the big four processing centers,  

[00:27:37] Unknown:

100%. That's that's it right there. That that's what people need to really focus on anymore.   With the distractions,   with the with the conspiracies.  

[00:27:47] Unknown:

Okay. This conspiracy is in the processing centers. Right. There is a there is a conspiracy.  

[00:27:52] Unknown:

You're damn right. They're they're stealing There's just not ninja assassins going to kill cows. It's the apparatus in which they have to function.   And we, as a consumer, are okay with it because lack of education,   some complacency   in the yearning for convenience.   Right. We don't have to basically play that game anymore.   So if you're really,   you know, focused and it does matter to you, then you can say, I'm not going to pay attention anymore. I'm gonna go ahead and develop my own market access. I'm gonna become my own food supply chain line.   I'm gonna develop my own food security   by going to this vertical integration, in which what we've done in the Beef Initiative.  

Correct, yeah. And what you hear though, on a lot of things, and a lot of people look at this.   See, the the processing centers, they control market access. Right? What does that mean? Okay. A processing center is also the packager.   Okay? They package. Okay? So after the cows process, they package that beef.   Well, that beef and that distribution of that beef is controlled by the processing centers.   They are the distribution model as well.   So they're the ones that have all the contracts with the major supermarkets and everything from the Walmart's to the Krogers to the HEBs of the world.   And whenever they have the control of that market access to those,   those coolers in the supermarkets,   the small independent rancher does have no access   We went out shaking their hand in person, or we've shaken their hand digitally through the beef initiative. Right. And once people can start thinking like that,   they see a shift in their lifestyle,   and they start understanding food intelligence a little bit more than I started off with in the very beginning.  



[00:29:47] Unknown:

Right. So, I mean, so that so we're the key is to cut out there's 2 bottlenecks. Right? Just the processing centers and the supermarkets. Yep. And then the processing centers also control the supermarket bottleneck, basically 100%. So you cut out both.   You have like a proper circular economy. Yep. And, and you have a processor that is pro rancher processor, basically.  

[00:30:08] Unknown:

100%. It's back in the as, as I said, from the very beginning, man, let's go start living like my grandfather  

[00:30:14] Unknown:

It's funny because like, usually,   I mean, at least in the Bitcoin world, you try and look for   at least, an attempt at decentralization.   In this case,   that's almost   not it's like, pure decentralization is not really possible because you need the processing center. Mhmm.   So the alternative is, like, okay. So we'll do a vertical integration that is parallel to the current system that ideally has better incentives.  

[00:30:42] Unknown:

100%. Right. You're not gonna you're not gonna break these 4 you know, we'll we'll see what the government does with legislation   Right. The representatives,   the congress, the senate, and everything, but let's go back to JBS real quick.   JBS, you know, the fines and everything. Well, their their,   founder of JBS is they're in Brazil.   Well, he went to prison for 2 years for bribing the Brazilian   presidency. Right? Right. Well, that same bribing team, as I like to call it, were also caught bribing in the United States.   All of that always gets covered up. All of it gets swept under the rug, and the general public never gets to hearing that information. Well, that's the damn case.  

Well, you gotta go play that game. We're playing a different game over here, and we're following the law better than the law falls it follows itself,   And we are setting precedents   that is driven by a new consumer demand.   And if we can take that sovereign responsibility   as consumers   and people that are educated and want the best health that we can get,   then we do create that parallel colony, parallel food sourcing,   that   once again, that our grandparents, that that's how we got here. Makes sense to me. Huge shout out to Cole for   Yeah. Congratulations.  



[00:31:56] Unknown:

Stepping out on a limb here. Right? I mean, I that's gotta be a massive   massive undertaking. It really is.   What did you say? Like, it's it's gonna process what 1200 cattle how often? That'll be about 1200 cattle starting off. That's Per year? Is that a per year number? But,  

[00:32:15] Unknown:

you know, that that can scale. I'll just say I'll just say that. But it will never scale up to where we're, you know, you know, getting out of control   with that,   with the numbers game. It's not a numbers game. It's a quality game now,   and that's where we're changing the perception.   It's like it doesn't have to be 600,000   cattle a month in the United States. What it has to be has to be a quality game that's intentional   to where we don't have to play that   numbers game anymore. We're bringing quality back into our beef.  

[00:32:47] Unknown:

I love it.   Freaks, I hear you in the live chat.   First of all, I know that the matrix chat is not up on the screen. I do have the Twitch chat up on the screen,   which is different than usual.   I have to, like, figure out how I'm gonna display the matrix chat and the video at the same time. We're kinda just winging it.   I also hear you that the camera you don't like how the camera is aligned. Well, I don't have a producer. I literally have this, like, thing over here that I'm controlling the sound. I have a camera over here that I plugged in ahead of time.   So I will take that feedback going forward. If you do wanna see dispatch have a producer   and better cameras, you know, feel free to support the show. It is appreciated.  

But we will be iterating on this and and slowly improving. So I I I   thank you for for standing with me,   as this,   show slowly and steadily improves,   but it will be it will be a little bit of a process.   And huge thanks to Slim for being here,   for that process as well. I hope the audio quality is fantastic. I think   we've improved that tremendously, which is, to me, was the lowest hanging fruit. So,  

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good for that. What else you wanna talk about, Slim? Let's talk about, the beef initiative. Let's talk about Tennessee, but let's first first talk about our second conference. Okay. Let's talk about Colorado. Colorado beef initiative   conference. That's July 22nd 24th.   So it's it's basically exactly a month from now? Exactly a month. And it's a 3 day conference. It's Friday afternoon, Saturday day, and Sunday.   There's gonna be options in there moving forward,   different days that you might be able to attend because we know it's a destination spot.   This this is kinda how I I work. These conferences, I don't want them to be convenient.  

Right? You gotta show some proof of work. Hell, yeah. I mean, this is what this is about. I I've told everybody from the very beginning, this is a lifestyle change. So where is it in Colorado? It's in the Norfolk Valley of Colorado. Vehicles get there, or do you have to ride a horse? No. You you you well, you can bring your horse if you want. But   what it is, it's   it's in the Norfolk Valley. It's it's,   Crawford, Colorado, Peonia, Colorado, Hotchkiss.   It's, out by Needle Rock. It it's a beautiful part of the country that a lot of people don't get to see a lot.   You know, Jason Rick of Rick Ranches. He he basically his small smaller ranch is 400 acres right there.  

But also what he's doing, he he's small 400 acre ranch. Yeah. Small 4 acre ranch. I would love a small 400 acre. Wouldn't we all? Right? That's what I've been looking for out in Tennessee.   But what he does, he takes care and he stewards 4,000 acres.   And so that whole valley, he's got cattle all over that valley. That's awesome. And it's absolutely beautiful. And if you go to the website, of course, beefinish .com, you'll see a picture that we're we're using for that conference.   That's his daily life.   And so   Is that the one with the horse butts? Yeah. Yeah. I love that picture. Yeah. It's it's awesome.  

And then he's got needle rock there too. So is that so so it's gonna be held at his ranch. Is that the plan? Yeah. It's it's it's definitely interactive hands on regenerative farming and ranching education.   That's awesome. We're gonna have Jason Rick of Rick Ranches. We're gonna have Weldon,   Warren.   He's out of holy cow. He's out of Lubbock, Texas outside of Lubbock, Texas, West Texas, kinda where I come from.   Weldon's been doing a lot what Will Harris has been doing the last 20 years, and he's been doing it in the desert high plains as far as regenerative farming and ranching. I mean, you wanna talk about proof of work and changing his life because his family kinda suffered from metabolical   health problems, and then he went deep down into the soil and started really understanding   how to steward animals to improve his health.  

And so he's he's highly successful. Him and his wife, Anne Warren, have been doing this, like I said, for 20 years. And then we've got, Scott Hawk of,   Colorado as well. He's a 1st generational regenerative farmer and rancher,   and, Sacred Songs Farms. They're on, Twitter. You can look him up. Scott's gonna be speaking there. We're gonna have Katie the Russian,   Amy a k 40   8 a k 47.   They're gonna be talking about, you know,   nutrition,   their cotton newborns. They're gonna be talking about unschooling.   We're gonna have a lot of I hate the term unschooling. That's what the people keep telling me though. It's like unschooling. What would you call it?  

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Cowpilling. No.   I don't know. I mean, I like,   rescaling. I don't know what it is. What we can come up with a term. Like, a more positive term. I don't Yeah. Usually, when the term is the reverse of something Mhmm. It's like it's, you know, it's it's a response. It's not an active an active thing. Because it's something that I with my future children, that's what I wanna do. Like, I don't wanna put them through the traditional school system. Sure.   But, also, I don't wanna call it unschooling. Like, I feel like that's Yeah. I really to the movement. I like that.  

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One thing that's important, Anne Warren, Weldon's wife, they they homeschooled all of their children. Now they're homeschooling all their grandchildren. Right. You see this lifestyle starting to play out. I think homeschooling is a better term. We'll just use homeschooling. We won't use But I feel like you can jazz it up. Yeah. You know? We'll we'll have because homeschooling has, like, a different negative connotation, but that's just because of, like, years of propaganda. That's that's true. Yeah. That's true. I won't use that p other p word either. So   but you if you look at, you know, the so is there gonna be any Bitcoin content? Or is it Yes. We're gonna have, buying the in there. We have  

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a bit ranching content.  

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We're gonna have econoalchemist.   We're gonna I love that dude. He's he's freaking top notch, man. Me and Econo have been talking for about a year now. Shout out to Eco. Yeah. Eco. He's got a wonderful family.   Real family. And he lives out there in Colorado, man. It's in his you know, I don't know exactly where he lives. I don't wanna docks his location, but, you know, he's doing it right. I mean, he's really creating that lifestyle.   We're gonna have,   mining talk, we're gonna have privacy talk of Bitcoin, we're gonna have, you know, education of the rancher, basically, and the rancher educating us, and we're not gonna use cow pilling. So We're ranch pilling. Yes. We're ranch pilling. And,   what we're gonna end up people are gonna start seeing   is that this you brought it up 2 weeks ago about how all of this is kind of balanced out as far as the rancher   really ranch filling us. It's true value for value. It really is. Neighbors helping neighbors. It's it's so balanced that it once   both sides of this coin start talking,   it just flows. And that's what these conferences do. We're gonna have tons of Bitcoin education,   tons of soil education,   people wanna get into regenerative farming and ranching, you will leave that conference and you'll have a call to action, you'll have a game plan. And you're gonna meet people that are being successful right now,   from the last 20 years to the last 7 years to the last couple of years. So you'll see that roadmap,   anything that you want to learn at that conference, because it's gonna be very interactive.  

And you're gonna be able to see the valley we're gonna have, we're every day we're cooking everything from Rick Ranch's   all the food we're gonna have gourmet caveman look him up on Twitter. It's gourmet caveman.   He's got a brand or a person? It's a person. That's Michael. Awesome. Great great name. It is. And he is top notch, man. He he's, like, 5 star, but he focuses on fire   and beef now. So, I mean, whenever I was in Tennessee, I was up in 10 Mile. I stopped off at Charles Mayfield's place with Farrell,   the skin product that he's making out of large. Right. So we had a big cook out there and, out there in 10 mile.  

He's excited. I mean,   how he approaches, you know, preparing and, you know, he's going to be showing off a lot of different recipes, how to prepare beef. So we're bringing all this education into one spot there in Colorado.   It's a destination spot. It's like a big family gathering.   We have camping sites that you can use that we've already reserved. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. So you wanna camp out. I mean, I think Katie and, Amy, they were talking about getting a RV in Denver, flying into Denver, renting a RV, and then staying at the campsite in their RV. So And with the drive to Denver there is, like, 2a half? Is it? 2a half. Yeah. It's not horrible. No. It's it's it's you go over the mountain range. Right. You know? And, it's not that difficult. Very pretty drive, I presume. Oh, yeah. I mean Colorado is one of the most beautiful states in the country.   Why wouldn't you wanna be there in July? I mean, that's a summer vacation. And if, you know, we look at right now with inflation, you know, with the Bitcoin   volatility, whatever you wanna call it. Yeah. Maybe so. But it's a destination spot that you really should kinda mark on your calendar   because we're not you know, these conferences aren't big. You know? How many people are you expecting? We usually do about a 100 is what I target. What is the capacity?  



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And what's your max? 100. 100. That's all I'm gonna do. So once once you hit the 100, no one could get no one could get in? No.  

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No. FOMO. Yep. FOMO freaks. So if people want if people want more information, they wanna buy this beef initiative dot dotcom. This is where they get tickets. You bet. You can go there, and you can look at you know, if you if you really wanna discover what the beef initiative that we keep the website pretty much up to date.   So there's tons of educational information. You know, you wanna buy your beef box. Everything's right there. So   go share it around.   I really like the idea of these small, intimate events. I think, there's a lot of momentum to them right now. I think so. I think, you know, moving forward, we're gonna have more of these conferences. We're gonna try to have 4 total. I've definitely 3 on the books that we've we've looked at and targeted right now. We're gonna have one at White Oak Pastures Right.   In September in Georgia with Will Harris and everything.  

But right now, the the the definite focus is on Colorado   and why I want them more intimate.   Once we get to where the the demand is hitting so high,   we can start   live streaming these   globally and make, everybody understand that the beef initiative is a global event. It's a global movement.   I've got people from Australia,   from Africa,   from Europe, from Asia   coming on board from the Middle East that are reaching out and saying, how can we be part of the be finished?   Once we get to where the signal and this narrative is kind of being spread globally,   let's livestream every one of these to where everybody has access, and they can take away from these events,   something that they can use locally.  



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That reminds me, and it's a trend,   with both me and Marty that we like to talk business on air, but I gotta get you a bitcoin tv.com channel still. Yes. Yes. And We gotta make sure that happens. We need to because as I've been on the road, my,  

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the the people that are helping out I mean, we're like you. I mean, we don't have a lot. We have some we have a small team of volunteers that have been fantastic. Yeah. You know, once again, it's self funded here, man. We don't have any stupid VC money or anything like that within the beefiness. We can't. You and I talked about that last Right.   Incentives. It is. We have to be grassroots right now.   And by saying that we're podcasting 2.0. Adam Curry got us all transitioned over. So Right. I love podcasting 2.0. It's it's amazing. Once you get into that and you start making that transformation in,   it, you know, just all the things that you can do. It's just we're we're trying to develop a model that we can kinda give to everybody else, say, hey. This is if you got a podcast,   this is how you use it. This is how you transform into it. That reminds me, actually,  

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the great team over at Fountain,   just released an update. We were just talking about incentives that if you listen through Fountain   Yeah. You can actually earn stats as you listen. So not only can you use,   Fountain or Breeze or another podcasting 2.0 app to support the shows you like and support the content you like directly without a middleman,   which truly aligns incentives because instead of working for your sponsors, you're working for your audience.   Those people can also earn by listening, which I think is a very strong incentive and should get a lot more people into the podcasting 2.0 ecosystem to begin with. Yeah. I saw that yesterday. I was reading that big update. Between that and offline listening, because I I'm a big offline podcast guy. Like, I like to have them downloaded on my phone. Or on the road or something. You don't wanna be like, oh, am I you're, like, right in the middle of a good conversation. It just, like, fucking cuts. Yeah.   So, like, the offline listening and this earning stats for listening is,   2 big things. So the boostograms is massive, I think. It's really cool that people can send their support along with a message.  

So we have,   we have this question from Discotoshi.   Is there a way to incentivize   commercial meat buyers, I e, major grocery outlets, to not purchase meat through the big four and move towards regenerative farming product. Is changing consumer behavior the only way to get outlets that supply meat and mass to change?   The current supply chain landscape seems like they will always choose quantity over quality because margins trump everything.  

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Right now, the only answer is to do the vertical integration through, different types of it doesn't have to be like a Kohl's processing center. And there's Jason in Colorado. He has   Right. That's the only way we're gonna step into this. I mean, you I think you made  

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a well, white oak is available  

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in grocery stores. Yeah. Yeah. He is. He he sells through he was the first actually,   grass fed beef ever sold through Whole Foods. So but he's did he circumvent  

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the the major four? He did by, opening up his own processing. And then he went straight to Whole Foods. It was, like, carry my product. Yes.   So I mean, you were talking last night over steaks.  

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That bay basically, grocery stores are shit coins. Like, we should just not even Yeah. They are. It's cartoon world, man. It's not even worth fighting that fight, really. No. Why would we? They they're not gonna stop. I mean, look at our consumption. I mean, you walk those you hear it all the time, middle aisles of a grocery store.   How much garbage is in that? Why do we why do we want to participate in that? Well, especially the Bitcoiners? Why? Why are we even participating in that clown world more when we have other options?   We're pioneering into a different direction. We don't have to ask permission.  

We don't have   to be dependent on them saying, yeah. We might give you market access into our shelf space,   into, you know, into our grocery store, our supermarket.   And you look well, I was talking yesterday. When was the supermarket   really ramped up? 1971. 1971.  

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It's like, I I that was just a guess, but, you know, it's like, when you're answering a quiz, you go with c. If you don't know what the answer is, well, you just go with 1971. Someone asks you what year something happened.  

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But, yeah, it's a good question, but let's let's not even ask that question anymore. Let's create our our own market access. I mean, there's another thing you mentioned.  

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I'm not sure if it was on air,   the last trip or if it was in per just off the record.   Basically, like, the degradation   of farmer market culture around the country. Sure. So I guess that goes part partially in it. Right? Like, you circumvent the   the the grocery stores, the supermarkets.   You try and do direct to consumer   as well. Mhmm. You try and partner with places like Bitcoin Park here where we can have, you know, essentially,   ranchers come in, sell their product directly to consumers, maybe, like, a once a month type of thing. They come in with their product. People come in to buy it.   But, also, there's there's gotta be that's a component too, like, revitalizing the farmers market. Right? And and getting people   in the rhythm that, like, every week, they're able to just circumvent the the grocery store, and they're able to go directly to local producers.  



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100%. I mean, the degradation of the farmer's market, I mean, I don't think a lot of people now these days in 2022   even know truly where the farmer's market came from. You know, it was on the county square.   Everybody came on the weekend and, you know, they'd grown their small crops or whatever, and they came in and they fed the communities.   Now you go to these farmers markets and basically their craft shows. Yeah. You know, and and it's just it's it's it's interesting because   if we don't get back to the understanding   the source of the seed of the farmer's market, then the farmer's markets are useless.  

And how do these change? How does it change? How do we transform back into what a true farmer's market is? What is it? It goes back to consumer   demand.   And if we start demanding   every time as Bitcoiners because we have to demand everything that we do these days because people aren't listening or they they're they're uneducated.   But if we start asking the right questions,   then that's how we create this new demand of bringing back a farmer's market,   and we're giving these producers   confidence   to start attending these farmers markets again because we want to use them, and we want them to leverage us, and we want to leverage them because we have that symbiotic  

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relationship saying we're here to help you. You're here to educate us, and we're gonna help each other. So I mean, I guess, like, a pretty actionable thing that people out there can do is, is seek out existing farmers markets that already exist.   Ideally, find one that is is is maybe already in the right direction. But I guess you go there and you try and support   local producers that seem to be doing the right thing and have conversations and shake their hand. Right? Mhmm. Yeah. That's like, that's probably a very actionable thing that actually would result in in positive positive change, I think. I think it is. But, I mean, you guys have gone to farmers markets around here out. Right. I went to one that was like a half an hour away. Right.   And, I mean, I didn't do, like, intense research, but I was I was I was talking to to   a bunch of farmers there that seemed like they had really good product and that their their hearts were in the right place. Mhmm.  

And I imagine like, not only just, you know, purchasing from them, like having a conversation with them is like, oh, we're on the right track. Like, there's people out there that actually still care.  

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They really do. And and and that's the best way. You know, we've had this conversation before is, like, how do you how do you orange fill, you know, a rancher?   You know, know, I always tell everybody, of course, you go up and you shake their hand. You look at them in the eye, and you ask them, would you educate me and tell me why you do what you do?   And by doing that,   most of these regenerative farmers and ranchers or just ranchers in general,   number 1, that they're educators,   they want people to understand   what they do every day. Once you show them that type of respect, and you ask the right questions,   you're not soliciting   anything.  

You're really yearning to be educated on where and why and what the food is that they that that they steward for us.   By showing that type of respect, you're asking the right questions.   And we have to learn to ask the right questions when it comes to our food anymore. We don't ask the right questions.   We're not asking one of those. We're not truly wanting to know why those cattle died.   The reason they died is because the apparatus that they're under.   Okay? Whenever you go into these farmers markets, and you go in there,   and you're somewhat educated,   you understand their pain points as them being producers,   you can really show that respect and start asking the right questions.  

If we ask the right questions, we're gonna build a dialogue that transforms   into a new vertical integration and how we look at food. I love it. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense to me.   We're  

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we're we're at,   52 minutes. I was just reading some of this comment.   Yeah. And, I mean, I have I have a rabbit hole recap in an hour and 15.   Also gonna be from the studio.   But,   so is there anything else you wanna discuss before we wrap this up? But you want should we talk a little bit about the the work on the Tennessee beef initiative you've done over the last 2 weeks? Or Yeah.  

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You know, I left Texas   at the end of May, and here we are. What's today? 23rd,   24th, something like that of June. What's the 23rd? 23rd.   So 24 days,   you know, this this jaunt, overall, it's over 6,000 miles. This jaunt that I just went out on was over 3,000 something miles,   and a lot of people don't understand what I'm doing.   I want everybody to understand   the importance   of getting out of   the interstate mindset. Right. There's a lot of this country that is being stolen out from underneath us in many ways.   Perceptions   is 1.  

The amount of opportunity   that's out here in the United States that are people are wanting to have this lifestyle change.   The amount of people that I've seen and talked to on this trip within this tour   is that there's a disconnect going on in this country. We think that we have a lot of access to information right now. We don't.   We're in a small index of a Google index these days.   People have to let that shit go, man. They have to start   looking in a broader sense   of a lifestyle change, and it starts with   creating relationships   with people that are trying to feed us.  

If you can make that kind of a yearning for yourself as a strong sovereign individual,   then you're going to get off the damn interstate of this. It does this censorship, the lack of information that we have right now going on.   Once you do something like I've just done, traveling through all these states, all these miles, all the backcountry roads,   you're gonna end up   finding out   that it's not as bad as you think, but there's some alarming things going on as well.   Let's work together as a Bitcoin community.   We're the pioneers here. Nobody else is gonna pioneer through, this, or we need to punch through, and we need to start with lifestyle,   with lead with food,   sound food, and sound money. And that's what if we can do that collectively,   we can create and build this movement into a bigger   signal and narrative   where we are the distraction.  

Those 10,000 cattle that died   don't need to be the distraction anymore. We need to become the distraction.  

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I mean, that's an interesting   that I just pulled back a ton, but, I mean, that was an interesting comment you made   that people think we have   access to all this information, but we don't. But we we do kinda. There's just there's just so much information.   Mhmm. And then people I guess it's just the human condition. They   they bring themselves into this little bubble. It's like a self selected bubble. It is. And it's you know, that's algorithms. That's, you know, Google itself. I mean, Google's a joke. I mean, it's good for, you know, that's what I hear. There's this element, right, that it's it's it's okay. So we have the world's information at our fingertips. You have the most content available   that anyone has ever had in human history. Mhmm. But at the same time,   the human to human interactions are probably at, like, an all time low. Like, if you go back 30 years   Uh-huh. The amount of people that the amount of the average person, the amount of people they would have a conversation with, like, looking them in the eyes and having a real conversation with,   was probably significantly higher than today   because  

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people have, like, this comfort blanket of of the phone or the computer or the screen to hide behind. Right? There's a division of interpersonal communication going on in the United States and humanity right now, and it's dangerous because we've lost touch with each other on a personal level.   And it is something that is rampant, and it's something that people don't wanna admit, And people really   they're having a hard time connecting with each other. And all I can say is, Sal was right. We're talking about handshakes last night. Right? And how truly important that is to have that human contact with each other.   We need to really strive to get back to that. And it it adds value to your life.  

It's it's basically the lifestyle that everybody's yearning for. They just don't know that they're yearning for it in this way.   If we can kind of create,   a new pathway   to that interpersonal connection,   then people's lives do get better. Yeah. I mean, I think  

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I, I, I relate to that significantly.   And I try and practice what I preach. So, you know, part of the reason why my priorities now are,   you know,   we're taking such a huge gamble on Bitcoin Park. Yeah.   And, you know, we already I already have   all these friends I've made online, I already have this audience online, I have this platform online.   But ultimately,   to have a place where people can meet in person and   have in person relationships   is so powerful. Even if the scope of the amount of people that might see   or be a part of those conversations   is decreased. The quality of the conversation   is so much better.  

And I think,   I   mean, hopefully, the gamble play pay   pays off.   But I think there's, like, this nice little middle ground. There's this combination, right, where you you have,   places for people to come together in person,   and then also places where you're the this place is also a place where you're able to produce content that has a global reach. And there's a lot of similarities there to, basically, the Colorado event and what you view beef initiative for. Right? Where you have, okay, a 100 people in person having a high signal real conversations,   and then you also have globally produced content that that goes out from those same   locations.  



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Well, in that that's a fantastic point. I think it was Rod saying, you know, hyper,   localized   broadcast globally. I can't remember the true phrase he said.  

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Locally produced, globally distributed. There you go. That's his shaker wanter's hand. Right. Like, he never shuts up about that.  

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Well, let's look at that. I mean, look at Nashville at Bitcoin Park. Right. Okay. What's our next steps with the Tennessee be finished? Right. Well, it's gonna be Bitcoin Park. Right? Right. What are we gonna do? We're gonna bring a rancher in here. We're gonna adopt him. Yes. And he's gonna come. We're gonna have our own damn farmer's market. He's gonna adopt us, hopefully. There you go. We'll adopt each other. Exactly. It'll be symbiotic. It'll be that balance that we we refer to. We don't have to ask permission. Well, why is that so valuable? Because it's the quality of the relationship that we're building. Right. And people will yearn to come to Bitcoin Park once a month to buy their beef or their clean produce, whatever it is, right.   And once we get that going, guess what happens across the nation with all these Bitcoin meetups in the different headquarters?  

They start doing the same thing. Exactly.   And once you get it going, once you get it flowing, a lot of risk. I mean, you know, Bitcoin Park is risk. Right? You know, it's dollars and cents. At some point, you gotta   you gotta just go for it. Right? You have to go through it, and you just innovate. You don't have to ask for permission anymore. Bitcoiners don't ask for permission. Right.   And so once we get that kind of signal going, and we show proof of work, and we show the successes and the failures and the iterations that we have to go through,   I guarantee we get one Tennessee rancher   here   in Bitcoin Park, and Bitcoiners are buying the beef from him.  

He's set for the next 5 to 10 years.   We're talking about true innovation   of pure animal protein again that which we lost the last 50 years, since the supermarket that was created in 1971, that's been exacerbated by these 4 global processing and packaging centers.  

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And that's how we do this. I mean, it's definitely it's it's a little bit tangential, but   I I can't stop and I won't stop. So,   you know, one of the things that we are doing at Bitcoin Park is is, for whatever reason, the previous tenants had a coffee shop here. So we have a coffee shop already.   And we brought in   we haven't had we haven't had a rancher here yet, but we had,   this farm to cup   Guatemalan producer of coffee,   and she came in with her husband.   And, you know, their eyes lit up. They were like, this is exactly   what we've been looking for, a way to connect these farmers in Guatemala   directly to consumers and cut out all the middlemen in between.  

And I I like to think that when we start to get ranchers here, it's gonna be a similar it's gonna be a similar situation. It'll flow like water. It'll be so natural. And you think about, you know, you come here in for the coffee. Right?  

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Partnerships with Ibex, partnerships with the Oshi. You know, look at all these partnerships that are starting to happen   to where people,   they don't wanna go anywhere else. And if they know that it's happening and they feel wanted and connected,   then once again, here we go, man. It's an international lifestyle that you've been yearning for. And, like, the crazy thing is when we were talking  

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to them,   they were making us coffee and stuff. We were just talking about, like, coffee and farming and stuff. We weren't they're not Bitcoiners. Right. They're not Bitcoiners yet. Yeah. It doesn't have to be about And we just Bitcoin never came up, except that they'll accept payment in Bitcoin, but they can take dollars if they want. Sure. And that that that and then that's what I always tell people. Don't start the conversation about Bitcoin.  

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Get educated first. See where they're you know, they're from Guatemala. You know? Learn about Guatemala   Guatemalan coffee, how they raise those coffee beans. Everything about that, you need to educate yourself so you could speak towards it. Yeah. It shows you it shows you what a global movement it is, by the way, because Ibex is a Guatemalan company. It is. So we were like, you can accept Bitcoin  

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with this Guatemalan company that has that has market access in the United States, and you can get dollars in your bank account if you don't want Bitcoin. And it all kinda comes full circle. It's starting to happen. And then I mean, it is. It's just it's starting to really unfold pretty quickly.  

[01:02:50] Unknown:

And, you know,   everything like the tickets for the conferences, you know, you can pay in Bitcoin or, you know, whatever. We use all this technology already with our beef. You know, I've told everybody we've had over $100,000   beef sold through the beef initiative,   you know, through Bitcoin.   And so   it's happening. And   if you think that you need to wait anymore   to adopt this   transformation   into everything that we've been talking about, and you especially been in since since you're such an old school guy,   You know, you you you see it too, and you feel it. And I think it's our responsibility to bring these other people in, and it's not about telling them they have to start accepting Bitcoin. It's just saying, hey. We want you to be involved with us Exactly. And let it let it happen holistically and naturally. So we have,  

[01:03:37] Unknown:

Gwet Vox in the comments.   I think that's how you pronounce   his name.   And he supports   3 local producers in SoCal   Mhmm. Southern California. And he wants to know   how does he kick start some kind of Bitcoin beef initiative in Southern California. And I guess   people are asking from any anywhere in the country. Sure. They want they want to try and start something in their area. What what's their steps? What what should they  

[01:04:05] Unknown:

do? The first step is, basically, right now, we're at the point where you can still contact me and we can have a conversation. I love scheduling meetings with people like that. The 3 local producers, especially in Southern California right now,   They need our help in California. So let's let's coordinate   and reach out to me DM me on, you know,   Twitter, or you can email of course to text [email protected].   Most important thing for everybody to hear there's a protocol that's going on with people coming into the beef initiative. Every producer that gets added to the beef initiative right now it's crowdsourced. It's because it's already has proof of work. So   Bitcoiners and producers are starting to see that the value add of getting into the producer section of beef initiative. It's beef initiative.comforward/producer.  

Once they're in there, people start calling them. People start contacting them. They start being educated,   they start reaching out to them more.   Once they've established that themselves in that producer section, then we can start really looking at what are their pain points. Let's start working together. Let's coordinate with me, and we start developing a plan, you know, regionally, geographically,   demographically,   everything. We look at, you know, what they've got going on. And just like with Ryan in Missouri,   you know, he's doing something different than, you know, Justin is doing in the panhandle. Right. That Jason's doing in Colorado.  

Cole's doing in Southern Texas,   Central Texas.   So, you know, let's coordinate. Let's start building these nodes across United   States. It starts with a, you know, a quick conversation and some collaboration.  

[01:05:45] Unknown:

I love it.   By the way, we pronounce his name get Fox. He's telling me in the comments. Okay. Get Fox. I'm just getting So he's gonna reach out to you. Perfect.   Well, Slim, it's been a pleasure. It's always a pleasure to be with you on and off the air.   Do you have any final thoughts before we wrap up?  

[01:06:03] Unknown:

You know, I hope you can come to, the conference and talk about it. I I will say 90%.  

[01:06:08] Unknown:

90%. Well, if if To you and the freaks, 90%. That that'll work for me. I won't push you anymore right there. And, we'll we'll know we'll know in the next couple of days. Once we get those dates done, I'll be right. Move around. So   transfer those dates around so you can be in Colorado. And I would say I would I would absolutely love to be there. And if I'm not there, I'm gonna have massive FOMO. So  

[01:06:29] Unknown:

Well, let's let's make everybody have some FOMO right now. I mean, this is what this is about. Let's, you know, let's not be fragile these days. Fuck you. Let's step it step this shit up, man. Let's really get serious about this.   And, you know, how many relationships and friendships that I've established this last year is just priceless.   Let's keep this going. Everybody can participate. You don't have to ask for permission. This is for everybody. We're open source for crowdsource, ma'am.   Let's let's do this movement. Let's let's not just watch the number and expect number go up.   How we make it is that we start really collaborating   together, and we start bringing in all of this intelligence, all this education,   this this   humility,   as you say, stay humble.  

Let's stack some sats and let's stack some protein.  

[01:07:19] Unknown:

Oh, that's a great sign off. I wanna thank you again, Slim. Thanks, Slim. I wanna thank all the freaks who continue to listen and support the show. Reminder, this show is completely audience funded   by   you guys, and I I really do appreciate your support. Easiest way to do is podcasting 2 point o apps or going to dispatch.com.   If you send boostograms,   I will read them   for the next episode. I don't know when that oh, I think our next our next dispatch is gonna be on Sunday, unless we have one before then.   I have a surprise guest. I don't know if I should tease it. Should I tease it, Slim? Yeah. You have to.  

We we're gonna have Clark Moody in the studio, so it's gonna be a really great rip. Nice.   With the Bitcoin dashboard fame, among other things, ride or die freak. So I'm very excited for that.   Yeah. And with all that said, stay humble, Stack Stats. Love you all. Thank you for being patient with me, and we will   we will we're just the beginning. Just the beginning with dispatch, Bitcoin Park, Bitcoin TV,   and everything else that we're doing, the beef initiative, Tennessee beef initiative. Let's fucking go. Love you all. Peace.