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Welcome back to the breakdown.

It is Monday, June 29th, and here we are at the end of another month.

This one has been rough, to put it bluntly. We have seen

some of the most intense civil unrest that we've seen since the late 60s. We are currently

in the middle of a re-outbreak of this pandemic and all the consequences that might come with

that. We've had the somehow it makes sense

absurdity of a Robin Hood rally and a Davy Day Trader Global Movement that is pumping bankrupt

stocks. So on this episode, we're going to look back across some of the clips from guests

that I've had over the course of this month. It's a pretty wide-ranging group of people, and I hope

that you enjoy this walk-down recent memory lane. This is mostly in chronological order, but

I do try to put together a sort of narrative through line, so let's dive in. We kicked off the

month with the discussion with Alex Gladstein, who is the chief strategy officer of the

Human Rights Foundation. The conversation focused largely on the raised stakes of the discussion

in the battle between privacy and surveillance and how the new context of electronic and digital

money changes the nature of that fight. In this clip, Alex discusses how important cash is as a release valve

in that system. It's just another attack vector on people's liberties. You have cash, which was

certainly, you know, created from a economic, organic perspective, right, as an easier way of doing commerce to the point where

I just learned this recently.

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