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Well, welcome. As you know, I've wanted to talk to you for some time.

I really enjoyed your show with Rogan.

But back when I heard that, my podcast was different.

My podcast was a Bitcoin podcast.

Yeah.

It was the biggest show about Bitcoin.

And I was listening to you talk about status and cults. And I was like, am I in a cult?

I was questioning myself, am I an occult? And now we've got a different show. I stopped

about four months ago doing the Bitcoin thing. We've moved to the UK. We're just talking to

interesting people. Cool. But I've still got some of the same questions.

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