SOB: Crypto Crime, Whiskey and Always Twirling, Twirling Towards Freedom
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🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The best and brightest people can make truly stupid decisions and terrible predictions. What can we learn from them?
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How did criminal use of crypto go up over 75% the same year that it went down 75%? It’s not just words that have multiple meanings – sometimes how we define a number can change everything, and still be true.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Speaking of Bitcoin on the Coin Desk podcast network is brought to you by nexo.io. |
| 0:09.5 | Hello there. I'm George Franklin, and I'm going to take a look at how even the best and brightest people can make truly stupid decisions and terrible predictions. |
| 0:18.0 | And what we can learn from them. This is Dare to be Stupid. |
| 0:21.6 | This time on Dare to be Stupid, what exactly do I mean by this time? |
| 0:25.6 | Wait, how exactly do we define stupid here? |
| 0:28.6 | It's bad enough when we don't agree on the words we're using, |
| 0:31.6 | but what about when we have different meanings of the same number? |
| 0:34.6 | It's if by whiskey and other fallacies. |
| 0:39.1 | On October 27, 1996, the all-time finest work of English-language literature was released to the public. |
| 0:45.9 | I can say, without hyperbole, that it has all been downhill from there. |
| 0:49.7 | I refer, of course, to Citizen Kang, one of the anthology shorts in the Simpson's seventh annual |
| 0:55.2 | Treehouse of Horror Halloween special. Taking place during the 1996 presidential election, |
| 0:59.7 | the two space monsters Kang and Kodos abduct and replace candidates Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. |
| 1:05.4 | Their plan, to conquer the world by taking over the White House, no matter who gets the votes. |
| 1:10.5 | With no interest in making any big political statements, the two skin suit-wearing tentacled |
| 1:14.7 | creatures say meaningless, agreeable-sounding fluff at every appearance. |
| 1:19.3 | My fellow Americans, spoke codos in his Bill Clinton skin suit. |
| 1:23.1 | As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but tonight I say we must move forward, |
| 1:27.3 | not backward, upward, |
| 1:28.3 | not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom. |
| 1:32.3 | You can't go wrong with any of those words. |
| 1:35.3 | Forward is good. Freedom is great. And as they say, twirliness is next to godliness, probably. |
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