626 - Simian Slurp feat. Ben McKenzie (5/9/22)

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🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Author, anti-crypto advocate (and yes, film & TV star) Ben McKenzie stops by to talk Cryptocurrency. We discuss the lies & fraud at the center of Crypto, the use of celebs to boost the scheme, and his experiences traveling to the Miami Bitcoin conference and a Bitcoin mining server farm to research his forthcoming book. Keep an eye out for Ben and Jacob Silverman’s forthcoming book. You can find some of their recent writing on the topic in Slate here: https://slate.com/author/ben-mckenzie

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0:00.0	wahr
0:30.0	Alright, hello everybody, it's Chapo coming at you for Monday, May 9, 2022, and sadly
0:40.8	I have to begin the show with a sort of a gentle admonition.
0:44.9	Sadly, a lot of y'all still don't get it.
0:48.5	What don't you get?
0:50.2	Sadly you have failed to get that ape holders can use multiple slurped juices on a single
0:55.3	ape.
0:56.3	What does this mean?
0:57.3	One astro ape and three slurped juices you can create three new apes.
1:02.1	Still don't get it?
1:03.1	Well our guest today is someone who is trying to understand the apes and to slurp them.
1:07.8	We're joined today on the show by Ben McKenzie who you may remember from such TV shows as
1:13.9	the OC and Gotham.
1:15.6	Ben, first of all, thank you for being here.
1:17.7	My pleasure, thank you for having me.
1:19.4	What an intro.
1:20.4	What an intro.
1:21.4	First of all, have you slurped any apes recently?
1:23.9	I haven't slurped any apes recently, I was so disappointed in the slurping because I
1:29.2	really thought slurping meant something else.
1:33.7	Maybe for people that aren't having sex, that's what slurping means, but to me, slurping
1:38.4	is something else entirely.
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