#273: Supply chain problems, a proposed solution, and Bitcoin + Natural Rights with Ross Kennedy

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with Ross Kennedy, founder of Fortis Analysis, to discuss:

- The global supply chain issues

- How the California ports work

- Why there is no easy fix

- How Ross thinks we can fix the problem

- Our over dependence on Southeast Asia

- Woes of the Cold War mentality + USD reserve status

- Bitcoin as an extension of Natural Rights

- much more

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What is that freaks at your boy, Marty Bent here?
0:03.0	Touchdown in Austin, Texas.
0:06.0	With no furniture.
0:09.0	Luckily, my house has a nice outdoor screened in porch.
0:12.0	I'm here in the tool shed.
0:13.0	Got my computer set up, standing up.
0:19.0	The show must go on.
0:23.5	You freaks don't care if my furniture hasn't arrived.
0:25.5	You don't care if I don't have a desk.
0:31.9	Luckily, I packed my computer shit in the car that I drove down here.
0:33.6	So it's not in the moving truck.
0:34.8	That's already four days late.
0:40.8	Anyway, enough about me. You're not here to listen to me. You're here to listen to the guests that I speak with. And today's guest is a very special one, one of which a few of you
0:46.6	freaks have tagged in in replies to some of my tweets about the supply chain, inflation,
0:53.3	and just how borked it is.
0:56.1	His name's Ross Kennedy. He goes by Man Integrated, Man underscore Integrated on Twitter.
1:03.8	And he called a lot of the supply chain fuckery that we've seen unfold over the last year and a half.
1:10.2	Early last year, he wrote a bunch of threads explaining how supply chains were probably going
1:15.6	to be a bit perturbed by the top-down control of the global economy.
1:25.8	So we jump into that.
1:26.6	We talk a lot about Bitcoin and natural rights towards the end of the show. It So we jump into that. We talk a lot about Bitcoin and natural
1:28.1	rights towards the end of the show. It was a really good episode. It got cut off at the end again.
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