Gabe Lord is an Iraq War veteran, a homeschooled son of a Vietnam vet, and the cofounder of Operation Bitcoin, a nonprofit on a mission to reach every one of America's 17 million veterans.

At nine, he watched armed police stand at his front door because his parents refused to send him to public school. At 29, he went to war knowing the official story didn't add up. Today, he believes the system can't be fixed, only replaced.

In this conversation, he reveals:

◆ What the police wanted when they showed up at his door

◆ Why every branch of the military lied to him, and the one that didn't

◆ What he saw in Iraq that he still won't say on camera

◆ Why he believes civil unrest in America is inevitable

◆ Why Gen Z will walk away from the system without a fight

◆ How to raise kids for the most uncertain world in history

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The Adam O'Brien Show explores faith, family, freedom, and sovereignty in a world of broken systems.

#iraqwar #iraqwarveteran #bitcoin #homeschooling #brokensystem

You’ll Learn:

0:00:00 There were things that weren't ethical, moral or legal

0:00:55 You're never ready for your kids to leave

0:08:03 Raised homeschooled in a family of eight

0:09:52 The police came to our door for homeschooling

0:19:01 Printing money doesn't fix problems

0:24:58 Bitcoin is like gravity

0:35:10 I knew it was oil, money and banks

0:43:34 Every branch of the military lied to me

0:46:56 America is an ideal worth striving for

0:54:06 Is America destined for ash?

0:58:29 You can't reboot a broken system

0:59:27 Gen Z is going to opt out

1:08:31 How do I prepare my kids for this world?

1:14:12 A new mission for 17 million veterans

1:26:30 Peaceful, but not harmless

Gabe Lord is a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq from 2005 to 2006. He is the cofounder and CEO of Operation Bitcoin, a nonprofit he started with his father, a Vietnam era Navy veteran, to bring Bitcoin education to military veterans. Through a partnership with the state of Georgia, Operation Bitcoin teaches veterans every month as they transition into civilian life. Gabe is also part of the Bitcoin Veterans community, cohost of the Bitcoin Veterans podcast, and brings nearly 20 years of experience as a leadership coach, trainer and educator. He was homeschooled in South Carolina, the seventh of eight kids, and is now a father of three.

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🎖 Operation Bitcoin: https://operationbitcoin.io

🪖 Bitcoin Veterans: https://bitcoinveterans.org

📍 Bitcoin Veteran Summit 2026 · November 9 and 10 · Bitcoin Park, Nashville

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Jan Kotas left Europe, built a life in Paraguay, and now helps families leave countries before those countries get the chance to do the same thing to them. His own grandparents didn’t have that option. Under the Iron Curtain, leaving meant leaving someone behind.

If this is what happens to entire countries, what happens to the people inside them? Why does a government eventually confiscate what people spend a lifetime building? Why is a steak flown in from the other side of the planet cheaper than one grown down the street in Canada? And why does a guy who calls Paraguay home think El Salvador’s entire reputation is just marketing?

The Adam O’Brien Show explores faith, family, freedom, and sovereignty in a world of broken systems. If this one challenged you, subscribe. New episodes drop every week.

#canadaimmigration #paraguay #sovereignty #escapethematrix

You’ll Learn:

0:00:00 “I’m Petrified Of My Own Government”

0:08:11 “The Countries All Of A Sudden Lost Control Of The Money”

0:09:49 “This Is How They Hook Them And Enslave Them”

0:11:56 “We Are Just Small Ants In This Theater”

0:35:25 “How Did We Get It So Wrong?”

0:42:43 “We’re Watching Bitcoin Centralize In Real Time”

0:45:04 “We’ll Have To Go Through Some Crisis”

0:51:51 “We Will Have No Privacy In The Digital Space”

0:53:17 “They Needed Permission From The State To Leave”

1:02:11 “The Image Of El Salvador Is Just Marketing”

1:13:56 “I’m A Christian Anarchist. Burn The State Down.”

Jan Kotas is a Czech entrepreneur and software engineer who left Europe, settled in Paraguay, and runs Hacking Lies, a company that helps clients legally diversify their lives across jurisdictions, residencies, and tax structures. He’s also deeply involved in the Bitcoin Paraguay community, and his own family history under the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia shapes a lot of how he thinks about state power today.

Jan Kotas | https://x.com/kotasjn | https://hackinglives.com/ | https://bitcoinparaguay.org/

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He didn't stop there. Private meetings with Trudeau. A call from a future political leader asking how to make the transition into Bitcoin. Years of silence from people he thought were his peers, right after he handed them his book.

Jeff Booth is the author of The Price of Tomorrow and one of the clearest voices on Bitcoin, deflation, and the coming transition away from central banking. In this conversation with Adam, he goes further than most Bitcoin interviews ever go, into identity, fear, faith, homeschooling, and the decision he's already made about where to raise his own kids as more countries ride their currencies to zero.

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#bitcoin #sovereignty #homeschooling #christianfaith #freemarkets

You’ll Learn:

0:00:00 "My Kids Are Going To Grow Up In This Dystopian World"

0:08:24 "Bitcoiners Are Going To Hate This"

0:10:06 "They All Had Pre Release Copies Of My Book, Then Everything Went Silent"

0:12:57 "How Do We Make The Transition Into Bitcoin"

0:15:58 "The Government Is Just People Capitalizing On Our Hypocrisy"

0:19:17 "Your Identity Has Been Formed By A System That Steals From You"

0:25:57 "If You're Not With Me, You're Against Me"

0:28:53 "Does The Whole Thing Have To Fail For Us To Rebuild"

0:39:17 "You'd Have To Kill These People"

1:05:59 "I Refuse To Live In Fear"

1:09:57 "Most People Ride Their Country To Zero"

Jeff Booth is a Bitcoin author and entrepreneur, best known for his book The Price of Tomorrow. He built one of Canada's top technology companies before exiting, has had private conversations with central bankers and government leaders about the transition to a Bitcoin standard, and now lives as a digital nomad with his family.

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What does it really mean to protect your family, your wealth, and your future?

Brandon Gentile sat down with Adam O’Brien to get into why he believes it, what fiat actually means in Latin, and why whoever controls the money ends up controlling the rules everyone else has to live by.

That last part is hard to ignore this week specifically, with the Senate just voting down the Clarity Act and Bitcoin taking the hit for it. Brandon's lived through worse weeks than this one and explains why he's not worried.

From there it moves fast: homeschooling five kids outside a system Brandon calls Prussian by design, why he thinks Trump's actual job is exposer-in-chief, real estate as fiat's last stand, the six year clock he says is running out on the dollar, and why he thinks the builders outlast the takers no matter how this decade goes.

#inflation #truthseekers #sovereignty #soundmoney #bitcoin

You’ll Learn:

0:00:00 - The US Dollar Is The Mark Of The Beast

0:05:09 - This Is What Men Are Born To Do

0:12:14 - Who's Wealthier At The End Of Ten Years?

0:13:10 - You Rent Everything Against The Government And Time

0:19:56 - I'm Surprised More Bitcoiners Aren't Buying Real Estate

0:26:47 - The School System Is There To Create Serfs For The State

0:41:13 - Was Charlie Kirk Murdered In Cold Blood?

0:48:52 - Trump To Me Is Exposer And Chief

1:04:29 - You Have Six Years With Your Dollar

1:16:02 - Is Bitcoin Enough To Achieve What It's Promised?

1:38:16 It's Super Demonic

Brandon Gentile | https://x.com/brandon_gentile

Brandon Gentile is a former US National Team Development Program hockey player who played at Michigan State before building a 13-year career in real estate syndication. He's since built out a growing Bitcoin media presence too, interviewing guests on his own channel and launching a second project blending Bitcoin and politics.

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In this episode, Paul Keating joins us for a wide-ranging conversation about freedom, family, community, health, faith, fatherhood, and the growing desire to step outside the conventional path.

Paul shares how moving to Costa Rica changed the way he thinks about success, relationships, raising a family, how his Bitcoin journey led him straight to Jesus, and finding a place where you genuinely feel at home. We talk about life in the jungle, surfing, natural living, building strong communities, and why being surrounded by people who share your values may matter more than simply trying to “escape the system.”

You’ll Learn:

0:00:00 "Canada won't survive the next ten years"

0:05:09 "Why your Bitcoin journey leads you to Jesus"

0:10:42 "Paul's health crisis and how Bitcoin found him"

0:20:33 "Meeting Paul Saladino and landing the job"

0:26:09 "Building a life in Costa Rica's Bitcoin Jungle"

0:34:34 "Escaping the system Vs. Finding people who love you"

0:37:29 "What a network state actually is"

0:39:58 "Is Canada actually sinking as a country"

0:49:01 "Why they pulled their kids out of school"

1:07:56 "Are we slaves to the algorithm"

1:17:35 "What Paul believed ten years ago that seems crazy now"

Paul Keating | https://x.com/thepaulosophy | https://primal.net/paul

Paul Keating left the US at 23, went all in on Bitcoin, and ended up building a life in the jungle of Costa Rica with his wife and daughter. No mortgage, no 9 to 5, surfing most mornings, working with Paul Saladino on ancestral health, and raising his kid completely outside a system most people never stop to question.

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The government doesn't want you well. It wants you dependent.

In this episode, Adam O'Brien sits down with John and Nadja from Born To Be Free; a husband and wife who walked away from processed food, pharmaceuticals, and the default medical system to build a life rooted in faith, family, and self-reliance.

They get into why big pharma profits when you're sick instead of healthy, why the birth control pill and modern obstetrics were built to make women feel powerless over their own bodies, how losing everything can still leave you rich if you have your faith and your family, and why "being hard to kill" might be the most important thing a man can teach his children.

This is a conversation about sovereignty; over your body, your money, your time, and your soul. In a system built to take all four from you.

You’ll Learn:

00:00 "They Want You Sick, on Purpose"

00:46 "This Has To Be The Worst Attack In Bitcoin History"

02:29 "I Have To Trust A Bridge I Can't Verify"

06:34 "Can I Learn FROM This, Not TO Me"

09:19 "The Most Devastating Mindset You Can Have"

13:35 "A Tree Went Through Her Windshield"

28:24 "Why The Government Wants You Sick"

42:23 "Giving Birth With No Doctor In The Room"

50:28 "I Delivered My Own Daughter"

1:13:45 "You're Not Crawling Toward God (He's Pulling You)"

1:26:30 "Are You A 'Lukewarm Christian'?"

Born to be Free | https://x.com/BornTo_BeFree | https://borntobefree.store/

John and Nadja are the husband-and-wife team behind Born To Be Free, they are challenging the food and skincare industries with their tallow products, regenerative sourcing, and a business rooted in transparency, sovereignty, and long-term thinking.

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In this episode, George and Adam get into what it actually takes to build a life on hard work and conviction when almost everything around you is designed to make that harder: a jobs market quietly being hollowed out by AI, a government that's lied to your face and called you crazy for noticing, inflation eating your savings faster than you can earn it back, and a financial system that can freeze what's yours with one phone call.

George doesn't theorize about any of this, he's lived through the moments that taught him to trust himself over the system, and he explains exactly why that matters more now than it ever has.

This is a conversation about family, faith, and the discipline it takes to stay sovereign in a world that keeps asking you not to.

#truthseekers #inflation #sovereignty #soundmoney #aijobloss

You’ll Learn:

00:00 – Intro

09:36 – "We Created Zero New Jobs In 12 Months"

14:31 – "They're Too Scared To Release This AI"

17:04 – "Iran Is Charging A Toll On The World's Oil"

21:32 – "We Are In The Crisis Stage Of History"

26:42 – "The One Thing You Can Actually Own"

29:40 – "The Dollar Won't Die, It'll Just Get Weaker"

36:04 – "You Can't Print Cows"

42:08 – "Everything You Own, Owns A Piece Of You"

48:30 – "The Government Could Freeze It Tomorrow"

1:12:53 – "I Should Be Dead" — Why I Have A Gold Tooth

George Bodine | https://x.com/Jethroe111 | https://georgebodineart.com/

George Bodine is a former Navy F-18 fighter pilot, retired airline captain, and the voice behind Maverick Money. A father of five, George has spent his life pushing back against comfortable lies — from the cockpit to the economy — and has appeared on shows like TFTC, What Bitcoin Did, and The Bitcoin Matrix.

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School was never built to make you smart, it was built to make you obedient, and he's got the receipts, from his own kids' education to the moment he realized his Ivy League professors sounded exactly like the guy who wrote Mein Kampf.

This conversation goes places most interviews won't. Why curiosity gets beaten out of kids on purpose. What it actually looks like to raise three kids with zero lessons and zero homework. And the night everything he believed got tested for real, standing on an IDF base while a bus thirty feet in front of him got bombed.

If you've ever wondered why the smartest generation in history feels the dumbest, this is the episode that explains why.

You’ll Learn:

00:00:00 They don't know anything

00:10:23 Built to break kids

00:14:53 What unschooling really means

00:24:07 The payday system

00:29:37 Trained for nothing

00:38:02 Educated and empty

00:41:57 Full ride to the Ivy League

00:45:16 Becoming an extremist

01:02:07 The book that changed everything

01:06:42 One-way ticket to Israel

01:29:53 The bus explodes

01:40:19 Building the anti-Google internet

Matt Hill | https://x.com/_MattHill_ | https://x.com/start9labs | https://start9.com/

Matt Hill is the CEO and co-founder of Start9, where he coined and helped popularize the term "sovereign computing," the idea that you should own and control the server your data lives on instead of renting your digital life from Google, Amazon, and Big Tech. Before Start9 he was the CTO of Salt Lending, one of the earliest Bitcoin-backed lending platforms. He's a self-taught developer, an unschooling dad of three, and a former registered Democrat turned libertarian.

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There's a pattern in Bitcoin nobody talks about: skeptical, first-principles thinkers keep walking themselves into Christianity, often after years of study. Jimmy is one of Bitcoin's most respected technical voices, an early developer, author of Programming Bitcoin, and co-author of Thank God for Bitcoin, which puts him in a rare position to explain why this keeps happening.

I wanted his honest take on it. Not the surface-level orange-pill version, the deeper one.

His answer starts with what he calls little-t truth pills. You learn that the monetary system lied to you. Then you start questioning the food, the medicine, the experts, and the education system. Eventually, you run out of small lies to expose, and you hit the big one.

We also get into Rene Girard's scapegoat mechanism and how it explains losing VP candidates, the difference between judges and kings in Scripture, why debt sits uneasily with a sound-money worldview, and the one barrier Jimmy thinks stops most Bitcoiners from going the full distance.

You’ll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[3:48] Begging his dad for a Commodore 16, then learning BASIC from a pregnant tutor

[14:27] Writing two-hour emails in college quietly made him a better thinker

[23:53] 2008 and Ron Paul's End the Fed turned a coder into a libertarian

[26:43] The five-person email list that became his first Bitcoin community

[33:38] Nobody predicting AI's future actually has a clue what it will become

[40:11] The COVID Bible study that became Thank God for Bitcoin

[48:56] Bitcoiners keep converting to Christianity through slow, methodical study

[1:03:44] Judges over Kings, and what Israel lost by demanding a ruler

[1:07:19] René Girard, mimetic rivalry, and why kings function as sacrificial scapegoats

[1:13:08] The pattern of losing VP candidates as modern-day scapegoats

[1:20:03] Coming to terms with sin is the real barrier for Bitcoiners meeting Christ 

Resources Mentioned:

End the Fed by Ron Paul | Book or Audiobook

The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous, et al. | Book or Audiobook

The Ethics of Money Production by Jörg Guido Hülsmann | Book

Honest Money by Gary North | Book or Audiobook

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Jimmy Song | X | Website | LinkedIn

Programming Bitcoin | Book

Thank God for Bitcoin | Book

The Little Bitcoin Book | Book

Bitcoin and the American Dream | Book

Fiat Ruins Everything | Book

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Most people think a second passport is a luxury. Katie the Russian, founder of Plan B Passport and now CMO at CitizenX, treats it like a Bitcoin custody plan for your identity. Her work helping Bitcoiners and high net worth individuals build out flag theory comes from lived experience.

She grew up in post-Soviet Russia, lived through two hyperinflations before 20, and was repeatedly denied visas as a national team athlete. That's what made her the passport chick. Her framework is simple: figure out the attack vectors, then stack flags accordingly. Bitcoiners already do this with seed phrases and inheritance. Borders are the next layer.

The conversation goes deeper than I expected. Her predictions on the fall of the EU, the fourth turning we're inside right now, and why El Salvador may be the first country out of crisis are worth sitting with. Her view on marriage, raising three kids including one with cerebral palsy, and the overlap between the Bitcoin journey and the Jesus journey changed how I'm thinking about a few things.

You’ll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[5:10] How Russian sanctions work for employees hired through third-party providers

[20:29] Why Katie walked into a Sunday school at twelve, in an atheist country

[29:32] Why Orthodox Christianity feels like suffering and Presbyterian feels like Disneyland

[44:55] El Salvador might be the first country out of the fourth turning

[52:34] The flag theory security model, and when you need a passport versus residency

[1:00:35] How selling glow bracelets at nine years old funded a sailing career that almost reached the Olympics 

[1:11:02] Why the 100k São Tomé passport is the play for Canadians and Americans

[1:22:31] How motherhood forced her to make peace with the system she rejected

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In this episode, I chat with Daniel Prince, a British Bitcoin podcaster, author, and digital nomad known for sharing how Bitcoin reshapes real lives. We get into how homeschooling, unschooling, and world schooling challenge the traditional education system, and why lived experience often teaches more than any textbook.

We also get into spirituality and the Bible, including how you can actually trust it and why that matters when you start questioning bigger systems. I reflect on how following incentives changes how you see everything from Bitcoin and financial systems, to health conversations around vitamin B3 niacin and natural light.

Daniel shares how stepping away from conventional paths led him to rethink parenting, learning, and what freedom actually looks like for a family. This conversation hit close to home as I navigate homeschool vs public school, screen time, and raising kids who can think for themselves.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction

[03:06] Who actually owns the science, and what they do with it

[10:38] Why Daniel walked away from a 15-year forex career to travel the world with his kids

[40:50] The 1902 secret meeting that built every system you grew up inside

[49:57] Why Bitcoin, of all things, led Daniel straight to Jesus

[59:00] What ancient tablets, a dying prophecy, and a NASA eclipse confirm about the Bible

[01:13:34] Fallen angels, the Nephilim, and what the Bible says caused the flood

[01:27:41] How Macron's homeschool crackdown exposed the indoctrination hiding in plain sight

[01:30:29] The word no one wants to say and the paper trail that proves they should

[01:40:00] The slow-motion capture of Bitcoin most people refuse to see

[01:48:38] How Bitcoiners are building community offline and why the code war still matters

Resources Mentioned:

The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss | Book or Audiobook

Niacin: The Real Story by Andrew W. Saul MS PhD et al. | Book

The Grant Williams Podcast | Website

TrustedHousesitters | Website

Willard Krehl’s Vitamin B3 research | PubMed

John Holt’s Growing Without Schooling | Website

Peter Gray | Website

John Taylor Gatto | Website

Dr. Naomi Fisher | Website

Daylight Computer | Website

f.lux® | Website

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Once BITten Podcast | Website

Choose Life by Daniel Prince | Book

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Nobody tells you that the worst sentiment in Bitcoin's history arrived right alongside the best fundamentals on paper. Governments buying, institutions stacking, every business able to accept it, and yet the mood feels like a funeral. Tomer Strolight has a theory about why, and it starts with what new buyers were never taught.

Most systems of law punish you after you break the rules. Bitcoin won't let you break them in the first place. That single distinction reshapes everything, from how we think about governance to why politicians accumulate wealth that their salaries can't explain.

Tomer spent a decade as a convinced atheist building a career in corporate boardrooms. Then depression, psychedelics, and a deep study of Bitcoin's design pulled him somewhere he never expected to go. The guy who once dismissed faith ended up being baptized in the Atlantic Ocean at a Bitcoin conference.

This conversation covers civilizational decay, the aligned incentives that make Bitcoin ungovernable, why democracy might be the god that failed, and what happens when a philosopher stops fighting the idea that the universe has a creator.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction

[01:56] What Bitcoin cycles, the Ethereum hard fork, and Satoshi's sacrifice all have in common

[13:27] Why Bitcoin's incentives make cheating the system impossible

[17:05] Free will vs. predestination: why God had no choice but to give us one

[21:32] Why a Holocaust-era family and the 2008 bailouts destroyed his faith in Western institutions

[34:51] The case that democracy was always going to fail, and what Bitcoin does about it

[58:22] Bitcoin as civilization's foundation: the system where breaking the rules is impossible

[01:07:38] Why unchecked government power has a genuinely demonic quality

[01:16:56] What the BIP 110 debate reveals about Bitcoin's developer problem

[01:40:58] From atheist to baptized believer: the psychedelic experience that led him to God

Resources Mentioned:

Bitcoin is Generational Wealth - A Short Film | YouTube

Ethereum | Website

Mt. Gox | Wikipedia

Silk Road | Wikipedia

Square | Website

Genesis Block | Wikipedia

2008 Financial Crisis | Wikipedia

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I’m joined by Julian Figueroa, a bitcoin educator and filmmaker known for turning complex ideas around hard money and self-custody into content people actually stick with. We keep coming back to the same underlying problem: what happens when you stop thinking from first principles and start outsourcing judgment, whether that’s to AI writing tools, authority figures, or the crowd.

There’s a clear difference between content built on conviction and content that’s engineered to perform, and that gap shows up in everything from content creation to how ideas spread. The same pattern starts to appear in unexpected places: how people treat Bitcoin, how they think about privacy, even how belief systems form and fracture over time.

At a certain point, the question stops being about tools or strategy and becomes about responsibility… Who's actually doing the thinking?

Somewhere between the pressure of the YouTube algorithm, the pull of certainty, and the temptation to defer, there’s a line that’s easy to cross and hard to notice.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction

[06:11] Why AI can't replace a writer who thinks from scratch, and what strong conviction has to do with it

[14:33] What it actually takes to make a Bitcoin video go viral

[28:30] Why the Bitcoin philosophers who never spend it are missing the point

[37:21] Bitcoin's privacy problem, and why it matters more than most Bitcoiners admit

[40:57] The three types of governments that will exist on a Bitcoin standard

[01:01:51] How much history can actually be trusted, and the archbishop who found Marcus Aurelius in the ruins

[01:05:12] Decentralized church, false doctrine, and why Bitcoin maxis and religious followers make the same mistake

[01:16:15] The danger of outsourcing your thinking to AI, leaders, or anyone else

[01:29:05] Pascal's Wager and why Bitcoin conviction follows the same logic as faith

[01:39:00] Bitcoin is a foundation; it changes how you value your time and everything else

Resources Mentioned:

Pascal’s Wager | Website

Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius | Website

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Nakamoto, S. | Article

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The Exit Manual | YouTube

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What starts as a casual chat about hockey fandom and Canadian rivalries quickly opens the door to something bigger: the tension between government power, personal freedom, and what the Bible actually teaches about authority. I’m joined by Alin Armstrong (Pastor Coin), who focuses on helping the church understand Bitcoin and why it matters for the future of money and freedom.

I wrestle with questions many believers are asking right now. Verses like Romans 13 are often used to argue that Christians must submit to the state, but what happens when government actions start crossing into areas many people believe belong to the church or to individual conscience?

We connect those questions to Bitcoin, free markets, and the argument that decentralization may lead to stronger and healthier societies than centralized control. Along the way, the story of the Tower of Babel raises a deeper issue: why humans repeatedly build systems of power that place authority in human hands instead of God’s.

If you’ve been thinking about the intersection of Christian theology, government authority, Bitcoin, and decentralization, this episode raises questions that may challenge how you see all of it.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction

[08:26] Why pastors are becoming more politically engaged, and what the Bible actually says about it

[17:12] The biblical origin of centralized government, from Babel to Israel's kings to the gospel

[31:17] Romans 13 as a slavery text, and why "maximize Jesus, minimize Caesar" is the biblical

[47:20] Biblical entertainment, the rise of shows like House of David, and whether Christians should make better art

[55:13] How studying Bitcoin led a pastor to Scripture, fiat debt, sin, and who actually bears the guilt

[01:08:43] Why denominational labels have lost their meaning, and what "Jesus Maximalist" replaces them with

[01:14:46] Mary as the second Eve, the Genesis 3 thread that runs all the way to the cross

[01:25:47] Applying "minimize Caesar" to diet, homeschooling, and food sovereignty

[01:32:54] Biblical archeology, Sodom's sulfur, the Book of Enoch, and the Giant of Kandahar

[01:41:31] Cold Case Christianity, why the resurrection is the only question that matters

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The Bible and Bitcoin by Alin Armstrong | Book

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Roberto Rios, a macro thinker and Bitcoiner, joins me to connect central banking, elite corruption, and what he believes is the spiritual dimension behind power itself.

We move from macroeconomics and investing into the darker implications of the Epstein files, blackmail networks, and systemic compromise. The conversation challenges the idea that corruption is random, suggesting instead that centralized institutions (financial, political, and cultural) may reflect deeper forces at work.

Questions of spiritual warfare, free will, and demonic influence surface as we examine why power structures persist and why reform often fails. Material explanations alone may not fully account for the patterns we see in global finance and governance.

Bitcoin is about more than money. It's about power, control, and the spiritual forces behind them.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction

[17:12] Carnivore diet, oxalate inflammation, and why modern produce is nothing like ancient food

[33:07] Bitcoiners, Christianity, and whether atheism requires more faith than theism

[40:30] Epstein's Baal bank account, satanic ritual in the files, and elites summoning demonic power

[43:40] Demons feed off human emotion, every deal backfires, and elites keep making them anyway

[50:57] Epstein's blackmail ring, Trump's compromise, and CERN as evidence of coordinated elite capture

[55:54] Three true stories of demonic influence

[01:06:59] Island exile over prison, capital punishment, and calvinism

[01:26:20] God-given curiosity, a TB genome that stumped PhDs, and how The Big Short changed everything

[01:35:29] Roberto's case for holding gold and silver, the utility theory of value, and paper markets suppressing Bitcoin's price

[01:51:16] China's silver rush, the Shanghai premium, and the next Fed easing cycle as Bitcoin's catalyst

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In this episode, I’m joined by Scott Dedels, Co-Founder of Block Rewards and author of The Dao of Bitcoin. Scott blends hands-on experience in Bitcoin infrastructure with a deeper exploration of how time, value, and decentralization shape the systems we live in.

We dig into how blockchain technology and Bitcoin challenge the way modern society measures and monetizes time, and what that means for the future of finance. Scott reframes debt as monetized future value and inflation as a devaluation of the past, positioning money as a temporal instrument rather than just currency.

Drawing from his own experience navigating cryptocurrency, including the Terra Luna collapse, he explains why he sees Bitcoin’s energy-based structure as fundamentally different from other digital assets.

If you’re interested in decentralization, financial sovereignty, and the bigger ideas behind Bitcoin, this conversation goes well beyond market headlines.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction

[06:46] Pizzagate, YouTube censorship, and the moment Scott stopped trusting what he was shown

[11:57] Clock time, accelerationism, and how Bitcoin enables cathedral thinking again

[24:13] Governments as self-serving organisms, and the anomalies in recorded history that don't add up

[36:47] From Saturn to the moon landing: the full story of how time, history, and technology have been altered

[57:13] Satanic imagery in mainstream media, the theological framework for who holds the keys, and the devil's limited playbook

[01:02:25] The Bible as an edited document, the omitted books, and the free will vs. predestination tension

[01:11:28] The brain's tape delay, block universe theory, and the idea that consciousness might be God

[01:34:16] AI compressing time infinitely, and Bitcoin's low time preference as the only real cognitive anchor

[01:36:16] Scott's daily practice: no TV, physical books only, and retraining a dopamine-fried brain

Resources:

The User Illusion by Tor Norretranders | Book

The Dao of Bitcoin by Scott Dedels | Book or Audiobook

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In this episode, I sit down with Seb Bunney to discuss why so many people feel uneasy about money, privacy, and technology, even when everything appears to be working as intended. That discomfort doesn’t come from paranoia or ideology, it comes from living inside systems that quietly extract data, shape behavior, and centralize control while calling it convenience.

Privacy used to be assumed. Now it’s something you actively defend. The same pattern shows up with money, where long-held beliefs about inflation, authority, and stability go mostly unchallenged. Bitcoin enters the picture not as a shortcut to wealth, but as a response to broken monetary systems and incentives that no longer reward long-term thinking.

Decentralization starts to matter when trust erodes, and financial sovereignty becomes practical rather than philosophical. This conversation connects Bitcoin, privacy erosion, and technology through a systems lens, focusing on how people begin questioning the structures they’ve inherited, and what happens when they do.

If you’ve felt that something about modern systems doesn’t sit right, this episode offers language, context, and a clearer frame for why.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction

[04:03] The "nothing to hide" fallacy and why privacy should be the default setting

[07:59] Sophisticated scams and why high-trust societies are collapsing

[14:41] Societal trauma in the downstream of broken monetary systems

[18:07] Somatic therapy, upward spirals, and the Buddhist fable of perspective

[27:22] Shifting from ego-driven hustle to trusting synchronicities and divine guidance

[45:41] 5D guidance, sensing truth in your chest, and why intuition predates data

[01:03:01] The Bible as distributed ledger, Shroud of Turin evidence, and crucifixion medical accuracy

[01:22:46] Biblical design of rules without rulers and Israel's tragic demand for kings

[01:26:30] The Trojan horse book strategy, flawed money maps, and why people reject Bitcoin

Resources Mentioned:

The Hidden Cost of Money by Seb Bunney | Book

Biblical Apologetics with Wes Huff | Website or Podcast

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