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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared, the podcast.
0:20.0	The podcast.
0:30.5	I am usually your host, Madeline, but today, David's actually hosting the podcast.
0:34.1	We'll see how it goes. I think it's going to be good.
0:39.1	It's, uh, we're doing, I figured we would be topical. Yeah, I think it's good to be topical. I think the numbers are better when we're topical. I, you know, next week,
0:44.9	I think we're doing the dot-com boom, which is not topical. I think it is topical because it is
0:49.9	about runaway market speculation. You know what? It is topical. That is.
0:55.0	And like I always, I think of it as like the baby Bitcoin boom.
1:02.2	Baby Bitcoin boom.
1:04.6	And this is pets.com really was the doge coin of 1999.
1:09.1	Wow, that's a beautiful metaphor.
1:10.0	Sometimes I think about, though,
1:12.3	like full transparency, I'm no better than anybody else. When I think about what I would do,
1:16.8	if I woke up age 18 with the knowledge I have today, what would I do? And the answer I always
1:22.4	come to is max out every single credit card on Bitcoin and wait for it to hit 50K.
1:27.3	And then sell it all.
1:28.4	Sell it all and they become a Bitcoin billionaire, live in secrecy funding my little
1:33.1	projects to help people.
1:34.7	Here's the thing.
1:35.8	Once you do that, I don't know what infects your brain.
1:39.5	You buy a Lamborghini.
1:40.6	You move to Miami.
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