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All right, so we're into our number two.

That was something a little bit different, but Ben Mesrick, always been one of my favorite guys. I love him. I love Ben for so many reasons. He is so prolific. And the guy's a genius. And he really hasn't changed. I mean, we all changed. We all evolve. But I first met Ben when his first book or two dropped and he came in the jungle and he's just always been that good of a guy.

And although it's not accurate, he always gives you clones credit for all of his success.

And he always makes it a point.

He said it.

I'm going to be doing a lot of shows, but I want to start with your show.

On the day the book dropped, I wanted to start with you.

So that was just great.

You know, the thing, I ran out of time, but I did want to ask him, remember, a lot of you clones got your first exposure to crypto in 2019 when Ben came on this show to discuss this book, Bitcoin billionaires. Do you remember that? And at that point, I had no Bitcoin and didn't have a lot of knowledge about it until I read that book. And then it became more and more interesting to me. And then Ben came on and talked about the book. And then it was really interesting to me. And I think if I'm not mistaken, I have to go back and listen to the interview again. But I think I asked Ben, do you have any Bitcoin? He said, nah, I don't. Not now. I don't. And I said, I'm kind of interested. And I bought my first coin for just over $9,000. That was the price at that time. And I remember a lot of you clones that were in the

know. They're like, you're an idiot. How stupid are you, Rome? Way to buy high. Rome. What are you thinking? Do you know what it used to cost? I'm like, well, yeah, I can't change that. Now I know what it used to cost. But a lot of you were coming at me so hard. You're an idiot. You're a moron. Where to go, Rome. At 9,000. That's when that was.

So that was something that... Like, these are the types of things that Ben writes about.

And chess. And anal beads. It's wild. Such good stuff.

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