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Episode 72 (19 minutes) was recorded at 2200 Central European Time, on August 3, 2023, with Ringr app. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.

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Transcript
Blair:

Hello, everyone.

Blair:

Episode 72 of the Secular Foxhole podcast is

Blair:

underway.

Blair:

Martin, how are you?

Martin:

I'm fine.

Martin:

Yourself?

Martin:

Claire?

Blair:

You know, I'm hanging in there, doing good.

Blair:

We've had a break in the heat here, and so it's quite nice.

Blair:

We don't have the air conditioner on or anything.

Blair:

And that's it for August.

Martin:

Is this the global warming that we.

Blair:

Talked about the previous episode? It's a global cooling, yeah.

Martin:

And we could talk about that from the get go.

Martin:

Then when returning guest Andy Bernstein came to us and talked about his book and that was

Martin:

hot stuff and material that you don't hear in mainstream media, I think.

Blair:

No, not at all.

Martin:

So if you value this kind of content and you're open to listen and check your

Martin:

premises, how about supporting our show? And that you could do in different ways.

Martin:

For example, the old fashioned way, you could send a PayPal to myself and to Blair.

Martin:

And we will include that in the show notes.

Martin:

If you are orange pill and haven't not yet

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started, how should you say on a regular basis, I know Rob Greenley.

Martin:

Shout out to Rob Greenley.

Martin:

I know that he's into Bitcoin.

Martin:

He mentioned that at the recent new media show live Streaming that they did talking with Pod

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fans, because you wonder a little about that service.

Martin:

So how we could do onboarding and gamification and getting support and finding new ways.

Martin:

So swan bitcoin.

Martin:

We will include that also that you introduced

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me to and then, of course, streaming Satoshis and sending digital telegrams of something

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called Boostogram.

Martin:

And I will also include that in the show

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notes.

Martin:

I so called created a new boostergram number

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called 22195.

Martin:

And what's that, Blair?

Blair:

That is Iron Rand's birthday, February 2, 19.

Blair:

Five.

Martin:

Yeah, so Rand stay boosted, that's on the list now, the so called official list on

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GitHub.

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And if you boost that to us, that's equivalent

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to I think.

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But I will also include that in the show notes

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service called Currency World, that you could check the Satoshis and the Fiat US dollar, for

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example.

Martin:

I think it's around $50 or something like

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that.

Blair:

That sounds great.

Martin:

Yeah, that sounds great.

Martin:

So that's how you could support us.

Martin:

And then, of course, the time and the talent that you listen to our episodes and share the

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good spread the good word, giving us constructive feedback, tell a friend, et

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cetera, right? And then if you want to help in other things,

Martin:

I have an idea about the artwork that we think it's good enough, but I have an idea in the

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future.

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But we really need support.

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If we want to do what I'm thinking or planning to get the real artist to create our artwork,

Martin:

then we want to pay him what's that worth.

Martin:

And then we could talk about merchandise

Martin:

giveaways and what you could do in the future to support our show.

Martin:

Because I have seen other podcasters are doing that.

Blair:

I do want to make a pitch.

Blair:

We've been on the air, so to speak, for three

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years.

Blair:

Yeah, three and a half years, probably in

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September.

Blair:

It'll be starting our fourth year.

Blair:

That's next month.

Martin:

Yeah, that's a good celebration.

Blair:

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Blair:

We can do something.

Blair:

But I know that our statistics show that people are listening to the show.

Blair:

People do enjoy the show.

Blair:

You can contact us at secularfoxhole@gmail.com

Blair:

with any praise or criticism.

Blair:

And again, that's secularfoxhole@gmail.com.

Martin:

We should do a plug.

Martin:

Now, I interrupt you, Blair, but the domain

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that you got and the service on this Pod page, service for podcasters, so the Secularfoxhole

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live, right? You have written some great blog posts also.

Blair:

Yes, well, I've written a few, but I've also posted some that I think are quite of

Blair:

vital importance for intelligent minds to read.

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So the blog is fairly active, and I may post something else out there over the weekend.

Martin:

And now I will do a shout out to him.

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I think his name is the owner of this service,

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PodBank, to get these new podcast app badges so we could update the site with new podcast

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apps.

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For example, fountain podverse, pod friend and

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so on.

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Podcast guru and the one that I will soon I'm

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a premium account there on Customatic.

Martin:

So next month, I will pay around $10 to

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support a new podcast app and developers.

Blair:

That was batches B-A-T-C-H-E-S batches.

Martin:

Because now we have the regular ones, like Google Podcasts, Spotify and others.

Martin:

But we want to support and promote new podcast apps because then they could stream Satoshis

Martin:

and send Boostograms to us with the legacy apps.

Martin:

You can't do that.

Martin:

That's true, but then he has to create these

Martin:

badges because I'm not technical vice vet and I don't want to mess up with our template or

Martin:

design.

Martin:

So I've pulled his leg a couple of times on

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Twitter.

Martin:

But we will talk more about that in the future

Martin:

and maybe get some help of developers of the podcast apps, new podcast apps, if I have any

Martin:

solutions to that.

Blair:

Okay. All right.

Blair:

Yeah. But again, we do appreciate our

Blair:

audience, and we hope that they would consider sending a couple of dollars, $5.10, whatever

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they can afford to send through PayPal or the Fountain app with Satoshis or Satoshis.

Blair:

I forget how it's pronounced, honestly.

Blair:

And then that gives us fuel to keep going, for

Blair:

sure.

Blair:

And I was sitting with my wife last night.

Blair:

Let me think, what is today? Before I went to work last night, and I saw

Blair:

this men's T shirt that said, my wife told me I have only two faults, I don't listen and

Blair:

something else.

Martin:

Yeah.

Blair:

Which I think is hysterical.

Martin:

Yeah.

Blair:

But I think my favorite T shirt, which I bought at some local gadget shop, it says,

Blair:

in my defense, I was left unsupervised.

Martin:

Then we could do a plug there for Dr.

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Edwin Locke and Dr. Ellen Kenner.

Martin:

About that book, romantic Love.

Blair:

Yes, I think that is.

Martin:

And Ellen Kenner, she has a radio show and podcast.

Blair:

That's right.

Blair:

She does snippets of her show, puts them on

Blair:

her site.

Martin:

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Martin:

And that we could do with new podcast apps.

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Also we could do clips and that you could then earn money or earn satoshis by distributing

Martin:

them or giving hearts or likes and so on.

Martin:

So it's very fascinating what you could do in

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future.

Martin:

Of course, it's a bit of work with it and so

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on, but I see potential in the future.

Martin:

But again, it's this onboarding and helping

Martin:

guests and listeners.

Martin:

We will do this.

Martin:

We have been doing it for a bit, and we will continue doing it.

Blair:

Yeah. Before we started the show, I guess the other day, we had talked about doing

Blair:

a new sandwich, but I said that a new sandwich is two good stories with a bad story in

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between.

Blair:

But I said, you know what?

Blair:

I just want to do some good stories.

Blair:

So two or three good stories that I found, and

Blair:

I usually go to HumanProgress.org to find some pretty exciting, interesting, and thought

Blair:

provoking things that, again, no one hears about.

Blair:

And the first one I want to talk about is there's a couple here?

Blair:

Hold on, I got to bring them up.

Martin:

Yeah.

Blair:

And since this is a newer laptop, I don't have a mouse, but I have a touchpad,

Blair:

which let's see.

Blair:

Gene therapy.

Martin:

This is good radio.

Blair:

Sure.

Martin:

That is checking.

Martin:

Yeah, that's good.

Blair:

Gene therapy.

Blair:

Okay. Gene therapy.

Blair:

Eyedrops restored a boy's sight.

Blair:

Similar treatments could help millions.

Blair:

That's a great headline.

Blair:

And that was in the last Sunday's weekly Links

Blair:

email that I got from Human Progress.

Blair:

Let me click on the story real quick, see if I

Blair:

can read a few sentences, if you don't mind, because I think that's worthy of let's see,

Blair:

this is in Miami.

Blair:

So it's in the United States, of course,

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naturally.

Blair:

More or less.

Blair:

All right, now, why is this here? All these pop ups, get out of here.

Blair:

But again, they're doing the same thing they're looking for.

Martin:

All right.

Blair:

Antonio, who's been legally blind for much of his 14 years, can see again.

Blair:

The teen was born with dystrophic epidermalysis belosa, a rare genetic condition

Blair:

that causes blisters all over his body and in his eyes.

Blair:

But his skin improved when he joined a clinical trial to test the world's first

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topical gene therapy.

Blair:

That gave the inventor an idea, what if it

Blair:

could be adapted for Antonio's eyes? And apparently it worked.

Blair:

So that is pretty exciting.

Blair:

I like that.

Blair:

And then we have jump back into my mail.

Blair:

What else we have?

Blair:

There's an interesting headline here.

Blair:

If I don't go by it, what's next for the moon?

Blair:

And let's see.

Blair:

Robots.

Blair:

Once again, please get all this robots.

Blair:

And then humans are going back to the lunar

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surface and here's what they'll be doing.

Blair:

And then this is from MIT Technology Review.

Blair:

So let me scroll down.

Blair:

I really need a mouse.

Blair:

This Pad touchpad thing is not my cup of tea.

Blair:

All right, let's see.

Blair:

It's been more than 50 years since humans last walked on the moon, blah, blah, blah.

Blair:

And starting this year my goodness.

Blair:

Sorry, folks.

Blair:

But anyhow, that's an interesting story and that's in the latest issue of the MIT

Blair:

Technology Review.

Blair:

There are two American companies that have

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built robots that the ultimate goal is to getting humans living and working on the moon

Blair:

and then using the moon as a way station for possible later missions into deep space.

Blair:

More than a dozen robotic vehicles are scheduled to land on the moon in the 2020s.

Blair:

So that's pretty exciting.

Blair:

And what else do we got here?

Blair:

Let's see, how about this one? Forums reports that Bill Gates is backing a

Blair:

secret startup drilling for limitless clean energy.

Blair:

Let me scroll down.

Blair:

It's apparently Denver based Coloma

Blair:

K-O-L-O-M-A Coloma, has quietly raised 91 million to drill for carbon free hydrogen

Blair:

that's continuously generated underground.

Blair:

If it succeeds, it could turbocharge the clean

Blair:

energy revolution and potentially tap a trillion dollar market.

Martin:

Well, yeah, that's cool.

Blair:

Fossil fuels and we have a great thing.

Martin:

Yeah, let the free market decide and we'll see.

Blair:

Yeah, exactly.

Blair:

That's the way to go.

Blair:

But those two or three things I thought were very interesting, and the wider audience

Blair:

should know about these kinds of but and what else is going on?

Blair:

Of course, since I have a worldwide audience or we have a worldwide audience, it is getting

Blair:

close to football season.

Blair:

Of course.

Blair:

Football is what we call it here in America.

Martin:

Yeah, not the soccer thing.

Martin:

That's what's going on right now.

Blair:

Oh, sure, soccer seems to be annual, I mean, goes all year long parts of the world.

Martin:

Woman.

Blair:

But yes, because America is pretty good at that.

Blair:

They seem to be pretty yes, they seem to be.

Blair:

Yes, they sure do.

Blair:

But so I'm an avid football fan.

Martin:

So it's go Pets.

Blair:

Hey. There you go.

Blair:

Yes, I cheer for the Cincinnati Bengals.

Blair:

Unapologetically.

Martin:

You do that even when you're on West Coast, east Coast, I mean, well.

Blair:

I have adopted the Patriots, of course, and the Red Sox for that matter.

Martin:

I had that issue when I was in Ohio.

Martin:

So when they talked about the Bengals and at

Martin:

that time they were not so great team.

Martin:

Right.

Martin:

But now they have lately, in the.

Blair:

Last four to five years, they've really turned their franchise around all the way.

Blair:

Good for them, top to bottom.

Blair:

So, yes, I'm very happy that the way things

Blair:

are going.

Blair:

Although the superstar quarterback has a calf

Blair:

injury, which hopefully isn't serious, but he should be ready for the first game of the

Blair:

regular season, which is early September, hopefully.

Blair:

But they're not going to rush him back to play.

Blair:

I think the professional sports across the board have gotten wise to.

Blair:

If you want to keep the audience, you can't jeopardize the players that you have by

Blair:

rushing them back.

Blair:

That used to happen quite frequently, frankly,

Blair:

and then they will get re injured.

Martin:

That's their human capital and the investments.

Blair:

So they have to be much smarter.

Blair:

They're much smarter about those kinds of

Blair:

things today than they used to be.

Blair:

And that only enhances each sport, I think.

Blair:

And let's see what else is going on.

Blair:

We went to see Mission Impossible Dead

Blair:

Reckoning, which is I have to hand it to Mr.

Blair:

Cruz, he does know how to entertain an

Blair:

audience and unfortunately it was a part one of two.

Blair:

So hopefully the rest is in the can for next summer's release because there's a Hollywood

Blair:

strike right now.

Blair:

Writers and actors and so on.

Martin:

Okay, union.

Martin:

Before I watch that, I will ask Scott Holleran

Martin:

if he has done a review yet.

Blair:

I don't think he has.

Blair:

Yeah.

Martin:

Newsletter? AutonoMIA.

Blair:

AutonoMIA, yes, AutonoMIA.

Martin:

I recommend you to subscribe to that.

Martin:

And I've been a subscriber for some time now,

Martin:

so it's a great service.

Martin:

And that's how you could support content

Martin:

creators also and writers and authors and capitalists in different ways.

Blair:

Right.

Blair:

He's got a great substac thing going there.

Martin:

Listeners, if you have any recommendation of like newsletters or fellow

Martin:

podcasts or something that you find in mainstream media also, you're welcome to give

Martin:

us a call or send us an email or shout out somehow in cyberspace or even better, send a

Martin:

boostogram with your.

Blair:

True. Yes. Yeah. So secularfoxhole@gmail.com again is the email

Blair:

address and I guess that's it for me.

Martin:

Martin yeah, it's again for me also, and we were open, as we say, so we will get

Martin:

you onboarding on this podfans FM.

Martin:

Blair.

Martin:

Okay, so we could then onboard our guests that have been in the past and upcoming guests and

Martin:

returning guests, and also, of course, listeners, because that's a great opportunity,

Martin:

how you could support our work and fellow podcasters and also get something from it

Martin:

yourself also in different ways.

Martin:

So stay tuned.

Blair:

That's right, stay tuned.

Blair:

All right, well, I think we have safely been

Blair:

in the foxhole again for another episode.

Blair:

Ha.

Martin:

Yeah.

Blair:

When we emerge undamaged.

Martin:

Yes, I will do that and I will think about that also, as an ending note, what do

Martin:

you think as listeners to get something from us, like a giveaway or something like that?

Martin:

If you have any ideas what could be a good thing, I have some thoughts about that.

Martin:

So we'll talk more about that in the near future.

Blair:

All right then.

Martin:

Yeah.

Blair:

Okay, Barton.

Martin:

Thanks for now, Blair, and talk to you soon again.

Blair:

That sounds great.

Blair:

Okay, budy, take care.

Martin:

Take care.

Martin:

Bye now.