Yo, everybody, how you doing? It's Steph. Good afternoon.

Welcome to the 14th of November 2022. I hope you are doing well.

I hope that you have avoided the worst fall out of the FTX wild ride to know

where boy, you know, when a guy with curly hair asks you from the Bahamas to

invest in something you're either not going to the fire festival or you're

eating your shorts and crypto. And of course, this can be blamed on crypto.

But it's not, of course, a crypto phenomenon. It is a banking phenomenon.

But you know, it's all sort of perfectly predictable and and canadal.

So yeah, always be suspicious of exchanges and always look at the moral

philosophy of the people who are running it. And if they claim to be these

pathological outroists who are only gathering money in order to fight for

animal rights and against global warming, then that's a form of hypnotic

maneuver, right? To try and get you to hand over your money with just certain

proof that they're just so deep and moral and excellent and all of that.

So yeah, because people trusted the government about the last couple of

years of health. And now people trusted the government to enforce rules

around SEC and holdings and loans and so on. But that's this house,

the central banking works in general, but guess all all kudos to the

finance guy for popping the bubble before it got even worse. So I just

finished the first chapter of my new book, which is going to be called the

present. I guess from the title, maybe I should make it a gift. It's a

prequel to my last novel, the future. And it sort of says how things are,

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