Great December for Mr Obnoxious.

After the initial drop, on YouTube the show is 39% ahead of the WBD average for the last 12 months. The only month which beat it in total was the Whitney Webb month, a show which is now at 1.7m downloads.

Also, average downloads per show, Audio + YouTube is ahead of the average for the last 50 shows of WBD.

It’s been a hard graft and a transition full of anxiety, so I appreciate all the sponsors and listeners who have stuck with the new show.

WBD is in good hands with Danny and he’s crushing too.

Record year for us, never shipped as many hardware wallets.

Doubled the warehouse capacity, still behind. Still made and shipped from Canada.

A fuck ton of new paranoid crypto anarchists were minted.

Mind blown.

#LearnToBitcoin 🤙

“Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few #powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.”

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe would be a #Nostr pleb and would love to own #Bitcoin most probably if he would live in modern time.

I will check it out! Did my zap go through to you?

I thank God for Nostr. Seriously.

To see the world through the manipulated lens of IG, X, or some other exploitative medium, it becomes impossible to see what the real nature of the world is, and it affects one deeply. The horrific darkness that is pushed on to people through these ‘walled gardens’ which are really digital concentration camps is terrifying. From seeing the world through these controlled methods, you would think that everyone is out to get you, they want to harm you, and that you have to battle against the world.

Then you open nostr and escape this walled garden, and you realize you are no longer in these concentration camps where you are subjugated to these horrors and exploitation. You see how manipulated you are, how much evil, violent, and sexualize content is boosted specifically to manipulate you. Outside of their walls, their digital barbed wire fences, you can see the free world is different. That most people are good, want to connect, and share in a meaningful way. It helps unveil the nature of the war of control that is going on for the web itself, and gives one a glimpse of the very real good that is possible from liberating ourselves from the digital concentration camps, and what it means to be free to control our algorithms and who and how we connect.

just watched an episode of the all in pod where they spent 15minutes reviewing past stock pics and discussing future ones...it was incredibly obvious that they were all afraid to even say the word "Bitcoin"

A lot of people have heard my moped story, but heres the math on it.

In 2016 I needed $5,000 to pay my wife’s master’s school tuition.

I didn’t have $5,000 cash at the time, but I did have bitcoin.

Bitcoin was trading at roughly $500, so I would have had to sell 10 bitcoin in order to pay the tuition.

I didn’t want to do that so I sold my car instead for $5,500.

I took $500 of that and bought a shitty moped and used the rest to pay my wife’s tuition.

So I rode the moped around the rest of the year and everyone made fun of me. Usually I play this part of the story up, but tbh it didn’t bother me. The people making fun of me were poorer than I was, they didn’t understand bitcoin or the market or even basic budgeting.

When people would make fun of me I would tell them why I was doing what I was doing. Then I would start peppering them with questions about their financial life.

“Oh so you financed your refrigerator? You’re still paying that off huh?”

“You have a timeshare you’ve never been to? How’d you get talked into that?”

People would generally go from laughing at me riding the moped to feeling shell shocked by me popping their bubble of comfortable delusion.

Still I drove the moped and everyone thought I was being weird and ridiculous and silly etc…

At 100k that decision was worth a million dollars.

At a million it will have been worth 10 million.

And at 10 million it will have been a nine figure decision.

100 million dollars.

I only rode the stupid moped for 8 months.

Ask yourself? Would you face 8 months of sacrifice and ridicule for 10 million in the future?

Because there are things you could be doing today that would generate that for future you.

My advice is to have your own moped moment.

Do something a little weird/cringe/out there in order to stack more sats and then check in on the sats in 10-15 years.

I think you’re going to be happy with the results.

This is what normies look like to me now.

I cannot understand why they refuse to adopt solutions that are available to them.

Solutions like #Bitcoin that enable financial freedom, and solutions like #Nostr that enable freedom of speech.

Instead they choose to suffer so that they do not appear contrarian.

Why do they 99% not see what we see?

Same! Using amethyst tho.

Primal is great too.

I enjoyed being part of the Chelsea medical team but my approach & my inner work was starting to diverge greatly from their mechanistic, reductionist model. I started to add a more holistic approach to all the conditioning work I was prescribing & amazing results followed..

A wonderful Dutch player & one of the stars of the team, Arjen Robben, was very prone to injuries. He was explosive and a devastating player for the team so when he got injured, the manager wasn't happy. During our rehab sessions, any type of game I introduced he would launch himself into until he was the best at it. Woe betide I introduced any scoring system, as I wouldn't be able to stop him doing it and this could negate his rehab.

One game I introduced was bucket ball. I made it up on the spot using a bosu ball, a half swiss ball on a stable platform for improving proprioception of joints and a waste paper bin and& a ball. High tech I hear you saying. We started off with him standing on one leg and him having to throw the ball into the bin. I quickly understood this was nowhere challenging enough and introduced different scoring opportunities, bounce before bin, 2 points. Of the back wall 3 points up to 5 points, off floor, side wall. Back wall and in.

He wouldn't get off until he was ranked number one on a make chart above my desk. The commotion brought in fit players who wanted to knock him off the number one ranking. Pandemonium ensued but great fun and for me a fundamental objective was achieved. Removed the mind and& his over thinking away and out of his injury. He was pretty obsessive in everything he did and this was why he was so good but also this came with a negative side of slightly neurotic about outcomes especially when it came to any niggle in his body.

I remember an incident with Arjen and Jose, the manager, that has stayed with me decades later. Arjen was on a physio table getting treatment on his injury when Jose marched in after training. The room fell silent as Jose’s face was like stone. He walked up to Arjen and& told him, “you are weak.” “That is why you are here.” Arjen was shocked and tried to explain but Jose turned and left as abruptly as he had arrived.

This story spread around the club and it was discussed at length by the medical team, some understanding, some finding it harsh. I personally couldn't understand why he had said it but I knew Jose understood human behavior and I chewed over it for some time trying to figure it out. Arjen on his side took it and reacted by getting better fast, he spent less and& less time in the medical room and I grasped that there was something magical in Jose's approach.

I started to train not only Arjen's body but his mind too. His sympathetic nervous system was dominant meaning he did everything quickly from football to eating. He was like a cat always on edge. So I prescribed him yoga and qigong movements to stimulate his parasympathetic system which is calming and restorative. Within 10 minutes he was calmer and smiling. Arjen had the lowest amount of injuries of his career whilst with us.

Working with Arjen showed me how detrimental the mind could be on a player's body. Arjen desperately wanted to be fit but there was so much prior conditioning in his thinking that he could get injured at any time. This created a feedback loop where he was fearful when he was playing & fear tightens the body. The body when in this state starts to send out pain signals too quickly & too loud, like an overprotective parent constantly telling their child to be careful. Arjen was getting these pain signals from his hamstrings or calves & perceiving them as injuries but they weren't.

I saw the manager force him to override this protection system & “toughen up”, this was very enlightening for me & showed me the tough love approach. I also learned how important it was to balance the high intensity work on the field with gentle internal energy work combined with the breath. Doing less to do more. Balancing the yin with the yang.

from my upcoming book.

Elon Musk's villain arc is ramping up. Within the last two weeks:

1) Advocated against the American labor force. Got absolutely ratioed on his own platform and got his panties into a bunch.

2) Removed Blue Checks, wiped subscriptions, demonetized and deplatformed many of those with "negative" dissenting opinions.

3) Announced an algorithm change to further punish "negativity" which is completely subjective based on his closed source, proprietary AI models. So much for the "free speech town square" of the Internet.

4) Adjusted his account so only verified or mentioned accounts can reply to him. Anyone want odds that he isn't or won't be going after verified accounts behind the scenes?

That is full mask off dictator level behavior. Combine the fact they're launching X Payments and X AI to give him even more data and control over his paywalled fiefdom... Uh, no fucking thanks.