Just a heads up, there's a little swearing in this episode. Okay, here's the show.

Let me tell you some. There is no nobility in poverty. If you've seen the Wolf of Wall Street,

then you are familiar with Jordan Belfort.

I've been a rich man and I have been a poor man and I choose rich every fucking time.

Because Elise is a rich man, when I have to face my problems, I show up in the back of a limo

wearing a $2,000 suit and a $40,000 gold fucking watch.

That's Leonardo DiCaprio playing Belfort.

Salesman, stockbroker, criminal, and now, long after the events in that movie,

cryptocurrency enthusiast.

Which is how New York Times reporter David Yaffi Bellany found himself at the real Jordan

Belfort's house in Miami a few years ago covering a crypto seminar. I remember everyone gathered in

the backyard on the first day for a kind of like introduction, you know, meet and greet sort of event

with made-to-order omelets and mimosas and other fancy breakfast stuff.

And everyone was kind of milling around for 20 minutes and Jordan hadn't shown up yet.

And then finally he kind of emerges from the, from a porch which is sort of elevated and people kind of look up as he sort of walks out in, you know, faded jeans and sunglasses and sort of

stares down at his empire. And I remember he made a comment about how everybody was a man.

And he was like, oh, we got to get some more feminine adoption of cryptocurrency, maybe

next year.

There was someone else there that day who David met.

Another crypto fan, a guy with the improbable name, Chase Hero.

And he's just kind of like an instant jolt of energy, and you could tell that the guys loved him.

You know, he talked really fast. He was kind of throwing

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