And we are live. Good Friday morning or afternoon, depending on what part of the country

end or I guess the world that you're tuning in from today. We have an episode of Outback with Jack,

of course, because it is Friday and we tend to do that. Off to a little bit of a later start

than typical today. And hopefully I won't end up in the YouTube clink by the time this broadcast

is over or across the weekend because we are going to talk about some things today that have to do

with the coof, the covades, etc. And some of it is things that I guess the Ministry of Truth may not

like. Though there won't be any medical information, this is just reporting what other people are

saying. And we'll be digging into that right out of the gate. We're going to talk about a bunch of

stuff that owe a bunch of stuff today, though. We're going to talk about central bank digital currency as

well. And why I don't think we're going to get one the way people think. And there's a report out

about the Fed working with MIT that kind of sort of says that or at least that they're not totally

sold on this yet. We'll talk about how that plays with inflation. We're talking about Joe Rogan a

little bit more. And just, you know, this idea that some people are upset that he said he maybe

would interview more mainstream sources or something. I'm going to tell you like that. Well, that's

that's not to be a don't be upset about that. That would be great. I really wish that they would do

that. And I don't think it's going to happen, but I think he's going to offer it. I think that's

even better. It'll make sense when I explain it. We got some stuff about the Texas grid. It's all

frozen out there. There's global warming everywhere on the ground. Everything's frozen. I've had to

use an axe and a rate to get my gate open today. The gate was frozen shut. And I'll tell you some

things that are going on with that, including how Bitcoin is actually supporting the Texas grid right

now. It's supporting it. Not, well, it'll make sense when I explain it. It's exactly what I said

would happen. We got some data out of Israel that shows according to the director of one of the

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