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Episode 65 • 2nd February 2023 • The Secular Foxhole • Blair Schofield and Martin Lindeskog
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What is the one stumbling block that has crippled mankind for more than two millennia? Tune in to find out. Martin had sent a digital telegram (boostagram) with a note and a treasure of 221,905 Satoshis, to Podcasting 2.0 podcast with Adam Curry & Dave Jones.

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Episode 65 (27 minutes) was recorded at 2200 Central European Time, on January 28, 2023, with Ringr app. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.

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Martin:

Hello.

Blair:

Hello, everyone.

Blair:

This is episode 65 of the Secular Foxhole

Blair:

podcast.

Blair:

Today is just Barton and I, and we're going to

Blair:

cover some topics that we want to talk about and we think are worthy of mention.

Blair:

This coming February 2, of course, is Iron Rand's birthday.

Blair:

She was born in 19 five.

Blair:

Was it still Russia back then, or was it the

Blair:

Soviet Union, one or the other.

Blair:

And we want to celebrate that birth by

Blair:

continuing the tradition.

Blair:

I think that Harry Ben's wanting to start

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calling it Rans Day.

Blair:

Martin, I want to kick off by asking you or

Blair:

saying, do you know that for more than two millennia, 99% of the world operates on a

Blair:

false premise? Can you guess what that premise might be?

Martin:

You have to tell me about that.

Blair:

It's original sin.

Blair:

Or that man is fallen.

Blair:

All the strife, all the misery, all the bad things are based on this false premise.

Blair:

All the bad things that are happening are based on this false premise.

Blair:

Not because man has fallen, because man has accepted, for the most part that this is true.

Blair:

That's more than my personal opinion.

Blair:

I think it's fact.

Martin:

Yeah. And that's what's valuable, that Rand didn't accept that she had to move from

Martin:

one place to another and then build a career and writing and come up with a philosophy and

Martin:

so on.

Martin:

Right.

Blair:

She escaped the closet of the Soviet Union, came to breathe the free air here in

Blair:

America, but she also saw that America was headed in that direction and still is, sadly,

Blair:

because of the false premise that nearly everyone accepts.

Martin:

Go ahead.

Martin:

Yeah. Hopefully to see, because she also

Martin:

saying, to paraphrase, as we are doing, fighting for Second Renaissance.

Blair:

Right.

Martin:

We are living here today, and thanks to technology and sort of free market, we

Martin:

could do it, and we have freedom of expression and free speech.

Martin:

Again, what we'll talk more also about this podcast and 2.2 initiative and value for

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value.

Martin:

But it's hard to stop.

Martin:

I mean, she went from a place where you couldn't speak out, and then she saw that in

Martin:

America, some way that was similar way also.

Martin:

But she got the platform, for example, for the

Martin:

whole forum that she founded and her, you could say, magazines or newsletter and also

Martin:

that she wrote op eds and yeah, many things, fiction and.

Blair:

Nonfiction, obviously, and then the talks.

Martin:

So that's why a day like that, you could celebrate that.

Martin:

She was born on February 2, 1905.

Blair:

That's correct.

Blair:

Yes. I first remember, I think I was 23, and I

Blair:

was introduced to the Fountain Head by a good friend of mine.

Blair:

Still my good friend, one of my two good friends is here in America.

Blair:

He just said, hey, have you ever heard of this?

Blair:

I want you to read this.

Blair:

I think he's more accurate of how he

Blair:

approached me about it.

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And I said, sure.

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And, boy, the saying is true.

Blair:

It changed my life.

Blair:

It opened up a whole new vistas for me.

Blair:

I realized also that I had a lot of work to

Blair:

do, shedding and shredding religion and other chains.

Blair:

So I'm still working on that today, some 40 years later.

Blair:

40 plus years later.

Martin:

Yeah, that's what you said before, that even if we don't accept it and we don't

Martin:

pick it or choose it, it is in society in different way.

Martin:

And the culture about this sin lately, it is about the new religion, like environmentalism.

Blair:

Exactly.

Martin:

Because we are breeding or taking space or place or changing our environment,

Martin:

our surroundings, it's like a sin.

Martin:

Because when they accept in a way, because the

Martin:

animals of the nature, they don't have free will, so then they can't be blamed, so to

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speak.

Martin:

But if you have it, then it's some sinful

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thing.

Martin:

I think about the hardcore environmentalists

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at least.

Blair:

It'S becoming broader, I think, across the board in a way, because there's so many

Blair:

absurdities that you see in the news today about that.

Blair:

Of course they would claim that you and I are planet Rapists because we.

Martin:

Don'T follow that bug to come or something like that.

Blair:

Yes.

Martin:

And again, we will focus on a positive thing you could see when you saw about the

Martin:

original sin and what brand went from the country and how what's going on now.

Martin:

But we have also mentioned in the episode about Russian Orthodox Church, for example,

Martin:

and how they playing a role in the war going on, right?

Blair:

Yes. Putin and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Blair:

There's your attila in the witch doctor premise right there.

Blair:

And that's that Ukraine is not perfect.

Martin:

And they have their history also.

Martin:

You could look at that and we'll probably talk

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more about that in the future.

Martin:

And again, to celebrate somebody who wanted to

Martin:

create something, you change something.

Martin:

And again, when you leave it in today, if

Martin:

you're fighting for that's right tomorrow's, second round of those, you fight for the

Martin:

future.

Blair:

You live in it today.

Blair:

That's I think more accurate quote from her,

Blair:

but that's, again, just the sheer magnitude of her genius.

Blair:

And I've often said to some people that you could take a single paragraph of what she

Blair:

wrote and do a doctoral thesis on it.

Blair:

You do your doctoral thesis on it.

Blair:

That's how in depth and how clear logical she was.

Blair:

Otherwise, go ahead.

Martin:

Yeah, we do it in our way, not to remind individuals about that thinking

Martin:

individuals.

Martin:

So we had an episode here in August 2022

Martin:

called Ran Stay Boost Number 54.

Martin:

And I created then you could say, I mean, it's

Martin:

open to everyone to do it, but then to add it on a numbers page of Boost, like symbolic

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numbers on a page on GitHub.

Martin:

And then Ran Stay Boost number was created.

Martin:

And that's this number that you could say slowly so audience could get it and write it

Martin:

down, the number it.

Blair:

Is 221905 and that's February 2 and.

Martin:

The year 19, 1905. And then it will be become 221,905 Satushi's.

Martin:

And then you could ask what's the Satushi? That's a bit of a bitcoin, correct.

Martin:

The Bitcoin is daily price changes.

Martin:

So today, now it's around $50 in fiat money,

Martin:

fiat currency or whatever you want to call it.

Martin:

So if you would donate that.

Martin:

So I have a call to action here that you download a new podcast app like Fountain and

Martin:

podverse and then you could stream Satoshi's and also send Satoshi like a booster gram and

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like a digital telegram on Ramsay, for example.

Martin:

And you could do other symbolic donations like the Liberty Boast and that's 1776 Satoshi's.

Martin:

Or if you, as you are, you are a fan of Rush, could do a Rush Boast and the album that was

Martin:

inspired or dedicated to Rant.

Blair:

Right, right, dedicated to her, yes.

Martin:

And then of course you could do this Rand Stay boost of 22195 Satoshi around $50

Martin:

today.

Blair:

The interesting thing again, we want to follow up from our last guest, professor

Blair:

Richard Ebeling.

Blair:

He said that for any currency, to be honest,

Blair:

it has to be separated from government control, it has to be a market driven

Blair:

currency.

Blair:

And Bitcoin, I believe, is that it's certainly

Blair:

leading us out of the fiat currency abyss.

Blair:

That's why, although we are still nervous and

Blair:

neophytes concerning Bitcoin, we are staunchly in favor of it because of that separation of

Blair:

economics and state.

Martin:

Yeah.

Blair:

Go ahead.

Martin:

Yeah, as an example, then, we are new to this and new beasts and also, as we call it

Martin:

sometimes we are serious about to be capitalism.

Martin:

That Richard Solsman explains so good that cap is coming from, for example, a cap, baseball

Martin:

cap or thinking cap or capital in that way the brain and activity and the mind and create

Martin:

something.

Martin:

So that's why you do the so called walk the

Martin:

talk and you also listen to other podcasters and you see what they are proposing and their

Martin:

value, what they are creating.

Martin:

And you do an exchange voluntarily, value for

Martin:

value.

Blair:

That's right.

Martin:

And that it could be related to the trade principle, for example.

Martin:

But here is to think about it, what's worth to listen to us, to listen to our guests and what

Martin:

we create and what we write in blog post and so on.

Martin:

So I did ran state boost to Adam Curry and Dave Jones of Podcasting 2.0.

Martin:

Podcast recently.

Martin:

So it will be on time to Ransday.

Martin:

It was on a Friday there.

Martin:

So when I said that from the Instagram page

Martin:

and Rans day boost of 22195 Satushi's Brand's birthday February 2 19, five guest premises.

Martin:

My name Martin Linda Cook and then I am on Lysum on Podcast Index social that is on this

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mastered on service and they read it on air, so to speak, and when it's now published also.

Martin:

So you could make a clip of it and send out and be inspired and do a call to action,

Martin:

right.

Martin:

If you have any questions about how you do it

Martin:

now fountain.

Martin:

And also it's easy by this Get Albi thing and

Martin:

also to top up your wallet, so to speak.

Martin:

So you could do that with the debit card and

Martin:

Via in a very easy way.

Martin:

It's payment transfer service, I think you

Martin:

call Moon Pay, but it's integrated in the app, so you don't have to do all kind of side steps

Martin:

or different applications or several steps.

Martin:

It's very easy to do.

Martin:

But fascinating is also when you do that, it's to think about now I'm changing fiat to real

Martin:

money to bitcoin and now I'm giving it away as a value for value.

Martin:

But there your own bit of a bitcoin, very small, but a bit, and that's the transaction

Martin:

then it has to be.

Martin:

And that will be interesting.

Martin:

Like David, wexler talked about proof red, but it's correct and it's very open and

Martin:

transparent.

Martin:

So it will take some time.

Martin:

Of course, if you go to the bank, it could take some time manually and so on.

Martin:

And if you do it value exchange or like going to an exchange physical, it takes time also.

Martin:

But to wait you get the confirmation and then up to maybe like a half an hour or something

Martin:

like that.

Martin:

But then it's there, but then they have to

Martin:

check it, but everything is in order to do it.

Martin:

So it's fascinating to see.

Martin:

And then I could create this booster ground with Digital Telegram and send it and when I

Martin:

see they receive it and then it show up on the fountain like now called Bowler Boost if it's

Martin:

bobbling or like a big strike or what's the reference, but it's also listed now in

Martin:

Fountain Activity feed.

Martin:

So I have got a nice comment, like a heart or

Martin:

like you could say and that's ten sets, everyone doing that.

Martin:

And also we will let Van Van, after we're going through with statistics, do a shout out

Martin:

to individuals that have supported us by streaming and also sending in a boost to grab.

Blair:

Great.

Blair:

Now we have a couple of websites that we want

Blair:

to promote for the secular foxhole and one of them, of course, is Https, the secular hyphen

Blair:

foxhole captivate FM and I'm trying to bring up the other one.

Martin:

Yeah, the secular foxhole in one word, live.

Blair:

That's right.

Martin:

Thank you.

Blair:

Yes, that's correct.

Martin:

You got that great domain.

Blair:

Yes, I did.

Martin:

It's powered by Pod page.

Blair:

Pod page, it's crazy.

Martin:

Tool web tool, web page tool for podcasters.

Martin:

And we will be I will remind Brandon about to add to the buttons to listen here or download

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here.

Martin:

Also new podcast apps.

Martin:

We could add it on the website because now, how do you say the old ones, but they are not

Martin:

compliant or with value for value, they are welcome to come, but we are focusing on the

Martin:

new one like podverse and fountain.

Martin:

But you also could listen our lives.

Martin:

It was interesting to hear when we were talking, when they mentioned it, so when it's

Martin:

really on the air, you could say, True.

Blair:

I was glad again.

Blair:

Plus, it's very reasonable at $20 a month for

Blair:

the Pod page live site.

Blair:

That's exceptionally reasonable.

Blair:

And in keeping with the majority of our show, hope today, hopefully today is positive.

Blair:

I want to mention this great website called HumanProgress.org O-R-G and they specialize

Blair:

and focus on the great things that human progress and humanity are doing today that

Blair:

don't get any press, if you will.

Blair:

And they also, I guess, the founder of the

Blair:

website, Marion Tupi, T-U-P-Y-M-A-R-I-A-N this gentleman and co author, they came out with a

Blair:

book called Superabundance, basically about all the great things that are happening in

Blair:

spite of interference by people like the environmentalists and so on and so forth.

Blair:

And the people like the WEF people clause Schwab, who wants to do the great reset.

Blair:

But anyway, I'm at that website right now.

Blair:

Let me just read a couple of the great things

Blair:

that are happening that probably very few people know about.

Blair:

Let's see.

Blair:

Asteroid mining startup Astro Forge to launch

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first space missions this year.

Blair:

That's pretty cool.

Blair:

And here's a great one how to be 18 years old Again for only $2 million a year.

Blair:

Now, wait till now, those who want to abolish billionaires, wait until they do that.

Blair:

And for you and I, it's $200 a year.

Blair:

That's how the market works.

Blair:

Let's see.

Blair:

But this story promising.

Blair:

Gene therapy delivers treatment directly to the brain.

Blair:

And now you can open that up and find out what that's about.

Blair:

But there's several, just hundreds and hundreds of things going on daily all around

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the world that no one ever knows about.

Blair:

So HumanProgress.org Org is a great place to

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go to uplift your spirit.

Blair:

And their book, too, which I bought, but I

Blair:

haven't got to it's on the pile to be read, of course, but I haven't started that yet.

Blair:

But I will.

Blair:

I'm trying to get the author on for that on

Blair:

our show this year.

Martin:

Good.

Blair:

But as far as new guests coming down the pike, I have to get busy.

Blair:

I haven't really set anything up other than we have a potential guest in her book, but it

Blair:

hasn't been finalized.

Martin:

And we have also a potential fellow podcaster, so we will maybe next time we could

Martin:

give some more updates on that pipeline.

Blair:

But the main focus of the show today was we wanted to celebrate and promote Rand's

Blair:

Day, February 2.

Blair:

And I personally want to thank Ms. Rand for

Blair:

everything she's done for me and has continued to do for me.

Blair:

That's basically all I've got.

Martin:

Martin yeah, so we'll do here about the stats from Captivate.

Blair:

Yes, please.

Martin:

So the all time unique listeners are now 3561.

Blair:

Excellent.

Martin:

And of course, you have to take it with a bit of grain of salt and how you

Martin:

measure it, but they should measure it like on IP address or unique identification for

Martin:

someone without any privacy, things like that.

Martin:

That's interesting over this time and then the

Martin:

download total so far is 7078.

Blair:

Nice.

Martin:

And so the average per day, calculating the analytics page is like eight

Martin:

per day, but we have been pretty stable.

Martin:

But we want to grow that.

Martin:

We see the potential, 80 per day, 800, et cetera.

Martin:

So we will shoot for that in the long run.

Martin:

But it's a good trend and you see the latest.

Martin:

I sent you some stats from different episodes, but some old ones will continue to be listened

Martin:

to and downloaded and also new ones that is going good.

Martin:

So if you take like an average per 28 days, like a month, that's 224.

Martin:

And if you compare with that general number still I think 150 downloads, unique downloads

Martin:

per episode.

Martin:

Of course it depends on the length of the

Martin:

podcast, how often you are publishing, et cetera.

Martin:

If you take all the podcasts out there and according to podcast index where it's 4

Martin:

million that are registered, but they could also be maybe not so active and so on.

Martin:

So if you see like on a three months period, maybe you have around 500,000 or something

Martin:

like that.

Martin:

So if you take that and see 150 and you have

Martin:

some that are lower than that and then of course some of our much bigger and so on, we

Martin:

are getting there.

Martin:

Yes, we have like two episodes per month, 224,

Martin:

28 days when we are getting there, but we aspire to continue because we see again the

Martin:

potential and that could be also I don't have a list there but I sent the screenshot, I

Martin:

think it's 85 countries now or something like that.

Martin:

But I've downloaded and list the top list that I sent to you were also with USA, India,

Martin:

Sweden, et cetera, also knew what they are up and coming and so on.

Blair:

That's great.

Blair:

I didn't look at the whole list but I saw the

Blair:

top ten or.

Martin:

20 and I also mentioned a guy called John Sperlock, but he has a product called

Martin:

Upfree Dev and I also sent you a link so he has very interesting data.

Martin:

For example, it was one special app that I wonder that was popular in Spanish language

Martin:

Radiance, where that could come from, for example.

Martin:

And I don't think we will look into that more in the future.

Martin:

Okay.

Martin:

And then I went here also I will do a

Martin:

proposition or proposal also for new boost to gram numbers, but we will do a shout out here

Martin:

to Karen Down and I will now open the app here of the Fountain app.

Martin:

Yeah, and I have it here.

Martin:

So we have in his latest period of like 30

Martin:

days, we have got earned 1467 sets to supporters.

Blair:

Nice. That's very nice.

Blair:

Thank you, guys.

Martin:

Mere mortals on fountain.

Martin:

So that's Chiron, he sent 1376, and then

Martin:

somebody called yes Brewer.

Martin:

I think it's saying like ninety one cents.

Martin:

And that's like the streaming.

Martin:

And he tyrone did that on the latest episode

Martin:

with Dr. Evelyn and he says it was 2222, like the docs in the row.

Martin:

Okay, that was a very interesting point about how slave owners were against capitalists

Martin:

because of how they would treat their workers.

Martin:

Rather amusing if it wasn't so messed up.

Blair:

I appreciate that.

Martin:

So that's what you could do if you something that you comment on or thinking

Martin:

about or got your thinking, and you could do it in different ways.

Martin:

And then it's to send a digital telegram and send the symbolic numbers with satoshi's.

Blair:

True enough, sir, true enough.

Martin:

Well, yeah, at when I propose this to have like a Boston Tea Party boost, could be

Martin:

something for the future, and it will be then twelve, and then I don't remember.

Blair:

Okay, you tell me.

Martin:

And then one seven, seven free.

Martin:

So it's like twelve month with December.

Martin:

So that will be like 12 million satoshi.

Martin:

So around $2,800 today's value.

Martin:

But that could be something for end of the year here for somebody maybe in Boston area to

Martin:

celebrate, because I think it's very important day to remember and celebrate and think about.

Martin:

And then at the end here, how about Atlas Frag Day, 1946.

Martin:

So that's September 2.

Blair:

September 2, 1946.

Martin:

So that will be then around US dollar 212 in today's.

Martin:

And you could go to if you want to check out the currency here, currency world, like the

Martin:

globe currency world.

Martin:

And then you could check for Satushi.

Martin:

Then you could put in your US dollar whatever fiat currency.

Martin:

And then satushi.

Martin:

Since.

Blair:

I like that.

Blair:

So again, happy ran stay happy, happy

Blair:

birthday, Iron Rand.

Blair:

And thank you, Martin.

Martin:

Thank you Blair, and talk to you soon again.

Blair:

Sounds wonderful.

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