An In Person Podcast Episode in MIAMI: Rum, Montana, Vaccines, Pandemic Politics, New Mexico, Ancestors, US History, and Bitcoin

First, Nate and Luc's discuss their history and review their first day of travel, which leads to an exciting talk about traveling and sightseeing by train. 

Nate then engages in an I'd Rather Be Right Tradition of talking down to a group, in this case, Montanans.

Then they talk about how weird bitcoin people can be with their anti-mask tendencies and vaccine reservations. Then Nate drops knowledge bombs about the mRNA vaccine while debating what's worse, long-haul covid or a shot of the vaccine which leads to Luc and Nate making fun of people who say our immune system is enough without the vaccine. 

Then the guys compare and contrast the differences in how conservatives and liberals are dealing with this pandemic which leads to how they deal with wearing masks now that they're both vaccinated. 

The guys then shift topics and discuss what makes New Mexico special. The guys recount the time Luc found out one of Nate's favorite cities was ABQ. Nate then goes into the story about why this is so and Luc explains why he enjoys New Mexico and Nate goes on to recount his story of going to the Taos Pueblo in Taos, New Mexico, and how it touched him and this leads Luc to talk about his favorite thing to do on his long mountain runs. Trust us, this all connects.

This all leads to a long discussion on ancestors and our shared history, first, with Nate reminding the audience about how brutal our ancestors were and this leads to a discussion about slavery and how 'old times' were only three people ago.

Then Nate jumps on his historical soap box, as he is want to do, and talks about how the founding fathers felt about slaves and dives deep on George Washington; this leads to the guys shared natural hate of Robert E Lee and mocking people who stormed the capital and followed Trump. 

Luc then needs a break and Nate guesses what his answer would be to a question. This leads to the biggest shared question the guys want to resolve this weekend in Miami: just who the fuck are bitcoin people? 

This leads to the guys discussing what they're interested in finding and experiencing at the Bitcoin conference and the danger the conference poses to the conference attendees.

The guys then get into why many people misunderstand bitcoin, specifically, because of its inherent multi-disciplinary nature. This leads to a discussion about bitcoins Layer 1 & Layer 2 and Eth vs. Bitcoin. 

Luc then attempts to explain what makes bitcoin decentralized and what that means in relation to Amazon & Facebook. 
Nate then gives some homework to help understand bitcoin, namely understanding how the internet works, and that suggests you should buy bitcoin (insert Luc sarcastically shouting "shocking!"), so you begin to learn how it works.

The guys then wrap up the pod with why Nate came out to Miami and update on what they'll be doing this week.

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