Hi folks, this is Jack Spirko with another edition of the Survival Podcast, and in the case of today, also an episode of

the Bitcoin Breakout, episode 3180 of the Survival Podcast, 22 of the Bitcoin Breakout, and I've got a great one for you today, but it was kind of like a last minute switch.

Basically, today's guests kind of build me out of a hole. I had Robert Breedlove, who to me is one of the better minds in Bitcoin, to have deep intellectual conversations with about it, and money is well in economics and a full on freedom advocate as well.

So I was excited to have Robert on. As often happens when you book really big name people though, things come up, and he actually is in like a last minute travel schedule conflict on this.

So Dorothy is working through his PA to rebook him, and I've been chatting with Gary Leland, known as the Bitcoin Boomer back and forth, and recently kind of helped him out and getting one of these imposters that show up, happens to me all the time, where somebody's pretending to be you and trying to fish people.

And there's a pretty sophisticated one, but both cloned as Twitter and as YouTube, and I assisted him with getting that taken down, and that started to die like we realized we knew each other.

We actually met at a Bitcoin meetup not so long ago, and I kind of think I talked to Gary back in about, and I was saying it was earlier than this when I was talking to me yesterday, but back in like old nine, when I was just really beginning to get off the blocks with the Survival Podcast, I think I met Gary at a

meetup, a podcasting or Dallas search engine marketing meetup, or possibly a conference WordPress driven podcasting conference, and had a discussion with him about a podcast that he was doing about softball fast pitch softball.

I'm not sure of that. We're not sure of that, but it certainly is the case, but we've kind of been in the same space a long time. Gary's not just a great voice in the world of Bitcoin either.

Gary is a pioneer. We'll talk a little bit today about Gary's entry into the internet. How many amazing projects, successful projects he's had online that I'm not to do a Bitcoin or podcasting and then how much podcasting this guy's done.

This guy's one of the few people podcasting today. There was podcasting before I was very few people have been podcasting more than 14, 15 years. He's one of them. It'd be Adam Curry, me, Gary, I'm sure there's others, but those are the ones I'm like aware of.

I do believe that to date the survival podcast is the oldest continuous podcast online. I could be wrong. If I'm wrong, let me know. I'd like to know that. But anyway, you're about original gangsters get together here. They've been in the podcasting game a long, long time.

Gary's also the founder of Bitblock Boom, which is one of the biggest Bitcoin conferences. And the one that's truly 100% Bitcoin only conference in Austin every year. We'll be talking about that.

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