AM Show Hr 2 | A Deeper Dive Into Bitcoin

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, lucking load. Michael Very
Show is on the air.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
I like to think of Jesus like with John Eagle's
wings and singing lead vocals for Leonyard Skynyrd with like
an angel band.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
And I'm in the front row and I'm hammered drunk.
I just want to set.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Up bach another deal live. I just want to save.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
A brich another.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
You don't have to fix the can't we have a
defective face on that? He hates these cans.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
From a chair. I just want to celebrate.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yeah, another ta live in.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I just want to sad break another fresh Mas Saint Louis. Oh,
the guy in firsh mase? Who his arm first? What
are you asking me for?

Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'm the sun shot down.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
To say, that's why I'm tell I just want to celebrate. Yeah, yeah,
another tailor in. What makes you think she's a good? Well,
she turned me into a newte a mute.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
I just swat to set love break another day of the.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
I just swat to celebrate.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
I mean, what the white why world of fortunes.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Are going on here? Why honey, what are you doing swimming?

Speaker 5 (01:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:46):
I went back with uh killing me and Uh yeah,
I thought, you know, a good hot swim up the muscles.
Why go to the car, get the bathing suit, jump
right in.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
He's all righty.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
I guess what, honey, this person here was h here.
I didn't see this person, so I screamed. That's why
YO surprised. You can imagine cagular, honey.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
I don't think there's another show in America. I'm about
to brag just so you know it's coming. I don't
think there's another show in America where the host looks
at his emails during the break and three different people say, Hey,
we would like to be sponsors of the show. We
love what you do, we want to support it, we

(02:40):
want your listeners. Three one break, and it's not cheap.
It's a model that works. You find a model that
works for you, and then the rest takes care of
itself from home. I don't know what you contribute to
all this, but all right, let's go to Robert you
on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Rober, wonderful day,

(03:03):
Michael Berry. Yes, sir, I invented.

Speaker 7 (03:06):
I invented a board game over the past year. I
that's a strategy game mixed with chance and highlighted with trivia,
and uh, I just want to talk to you about
it about hour to play and pursue.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Pursue your game.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Dot Com, Pursue your game.

Speaker 7 (03:26):
I'm sorry, yes, dot Com? All right?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
You know what it looks like I just got accepted.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
It looks like the old nut Merlin. What what was
a simple Simon? What was the one?

Speaker 4 (03:39):
What was that black box that you'd go it would do?
It had red, yellow, green, blue, and and it would
you would It was a memory game and it, Simon says.
Simon says, yes. Pursue Friendship, Pursue facts, Pursue strategy, Pursue conspiracies,
Pursue your game, dot com pursue questions. Pursue is a
strategy board game mixed with chance and highlighted with trivia.

(04:01):
You randomly capitalized stuff.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
That's kind of freaking me out a little bit, but
I do it was fun. I love I love the
idea that you've done this. My story.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
My name is Robert, and I love games, risk, chess.
Who knows Checkers, monopolies, Stratego, Stratigo sequence five second game.
I don't know if Cards Against Humanity and Katan that
is or a few of my Hey, you know what
I played with some friends a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Have you ever heard of a game called hisster h
I T S T E R.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
And you buy the game, and the simple simplified version is, uh,
you pull a card and then uh, you scan, you
scan the the what are those skew codes of what
other damn things are called? And it starts playing a
song and it gives you about ten seconds of a song,

(04:58):
and you tell the name of the song and the artist.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
But the trickery of the game is you have to
tell what year it came out.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
And I think in terms of a lineal timeline of
bands and where they were in their life, in their lifespan.
So that works out for me, but for a lot
of people. We were playing as a group, it was
a lot of fun and the girls would all say, oh,
that came out when I was in seventh grade? Is
that how you think of a song from them? I

(05:32):
think of them as a year And Okay, here's what
Skinner did. Here's when Journey moved into the Steve Perry direction.
All right, so give me the thirty second version. I'm
going to time you on what Pursue is about or
sell it to me in thirty seconds go.

Speaker 7 (05:51):
This is a strategy game mixed with chance and highlighted
with trivia. It is designed to bring groups of people
together two players three or two teams of two, two
teams of three, to have the opportunity to delve into
strategy and more serious chess like game, but also to
have a lot of fun, just with the conversation part

(06:13):
of the cards, where you have conspiracies and facts and
questions and topics like Medialize and Jesus and logical fallacies
and big corporations and big pharma. And it's just as
I gonna get people to talk and have fun and
come together again post COVID.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Robert Rutherford.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
It's you say on the page that you developed as
you were waiting tables and you would be overnight waiting
on your wife and daughter to wake up, and you
use that time to develop this game.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Have you has the game been made? You have copies
of it?

Speaker 7 (06:50):
Okay, I have eighty copies, like they're sitting in my apartment.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
How much did it cost you to have the game
built and shipped to you?

Speaker 7 (07:04):
So for one hundred games, it costs right at like
thirty five hundred because but how much of that was
set up to get one hundred? How much of it said,
Oh no, that's a there's a website board GameMaker dot
com give it.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Presumably it was a lot more expensive to set it
up than the units, the marginal units.

Speaker 7 (07:23):
After that, oh, I made everything on it. I just
uploaded the little PDF files to their website and they
printed and send it over.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
It's amazing. You know, in the past you would have
had there would have been a lot more to that.
It's amazing how many things can be done. You can
build your own website. I mean, I can't do any
of this stuff, but you can build your own website.
You get there's so many things that are just kind
of plug and play. Now you just you drop your
logo in and putot and and you've got these fulfillment
shops that can that can do that.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Do you have it in any stores? Yeah, but you're
one of them.

Speaker 7 (07:59):
Fixed cofee Bar, Well, I have a buddy go in
the coffee bar and he's uh, he said that he's
gonna let me put a couple in there to their sales.
So Fix Coffee Bar at West Timer and Taft basically.

Speaker 8 (08:10):
West Timer and Taft hold on, I know, Tath, I
know you know what wrong promonos. Good for you, Good
for you, Robert, It's pursue your game dot com.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Somebody buy a couple of these FoST nice fellows.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
What's the name you say, Michael, Buddy.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Woodwood Willie Well, he travels the fall.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
I am trying to track down Till Moneys from archpublic
dot com.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
So he calls in, put him to the front of
the line because I want to I got bitcoin.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Ed.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
You're on the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
Go ahead, Ed, Hey, I want to just tell you
a quick little story about a friend of mine that
was at the rally where Trump got shot. He was
in the CIA for a long time and he finally
got a call to you know, protect somebody important in
his mind, and so he was super excited. So he
was there that day on stage with him and then

(09:17):
when he uh, you know, they went through the briefing
and they told him, hey, this is what we're doing,
this is what you need to do. You're gonna be
on stage, and he got quick So ironically, sure enough,
the gunshot went off and he jumped on Trump and
he started yelling, Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse, it's like, man,
what are you doing? So it was over to doing
the debrief and then he the captain, said, hey, man,

(09:38):
why did you yell Mickey Mouse when he did your job?
He goes, oh, man, I was so excited. I meant
the elk Donald dug Donald Duck.

Speaker 9 (09:48):
Mmm.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
No, no, no, you cannot, You cannot econate that guy.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
That was good because what made that so good is
he told that story in complete sincerity. He had kind
of a goofy style, like it really happened. It wasn't
like he was prepped and delivering something that you didn't
know it was a joke.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
I believed it. I believed it.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
And the thing is, I've heard the stupid joke already
and I still thought it was funny. That's very well played,
very well played. I got an email back in December,
just before Christmas from a fellow named Melvin Wayne Franklin,
and he a retired shriff's deputy. I can't remember if

(10:32):
he was part of the constabulary or a shriff's deputy,
but he he said, Hey, my passion is knife sharpney.
I got a company called Superior Knife Sharpney, and I
would like to sharpen a knife for you. And I said, well,
I responded, I saw. I looked him up and he's

(10:52):
a I saw that he was a I think he's
retired law enforcement fellow. And I said, oh, you're law
enforcementomy something in Montgomery County and he said yes, and
then I went through. So his wife law enforced. She
may be active duty. He might have worked for Brett
Ligan in the DA's off I can't remember anyway, So

(11:12):
we went back and forth, and so I said, well,
Ramone's really I appreciate it, but it would. I don't
accept gifts because then it just causes problems. But Ramone
does because he is shameless. And uh, Ramone would. He's
a knife guy, like he's a legitimate night not not
quite christophel level knife guy or Donnie Meismer, but he's

(11:34):
a knife guy and he would really enjoy that. So
I said, well, we'll set it up. And then I
haven't made it. I haven't set it up yet. So
I got an email this morning.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
And he died, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I
just want you to pay attention. I just wanted to
pay attention. He didn't die. He didn't die.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
But see, now, now all you can think, is oh
Melvine's alive. Five minutes ago, you didn't think to yourself, oh,
you got an email from Melbourne. We'll can you get
him to sharpen my knives? You'd be like, all right,
but now you're thinking, Oh, thank god, Melman's alive. You're
gonna appreciate Melvin now more. It's a totally different thing.
But don't be like Melvin. Melvion just sent me the
following email. Zar, I like to call in and talk

(12:15):
about superior knife sharpening.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Is that okay? If so, what's the number?

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Oh man, if there's one thing that gives me the
red ass, Melvin, I'm gonna tell you and put this
in your phone, and every other one of you put
this in your phone. I love when people email me, Hey, Hey,
you're talking about adoption, or hey, you're talking about people
that lost their second toe from the pinky toe.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
And I never thought I would call, but I'm calling.
I want to call.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
What's the number? Well, everybody's gonna call at one point
in your life. That's going to happen. Oh no, I'll
never call. Yeah, you're gonna call because there's gonna be
a story about people that got a DWI and then
they change the blood alcohol level and with the.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
New number, you wouldn't be in the old one.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
You did, and how it ruined your life, or about
crazy ex wives, or about some dude that disrespects your
daughter and you had to damn near kill.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Him and I never would have thought I would call.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Or your child got lost and you were on you know,
one of those shows where they find you're missing child.
So here is the number for the last time that
I will ever give it out in the entire time
that we do the show. Seven one three none none,
one thousand, seven one three nine none none, one thousand.
By the way, Telman's on, tell him the whold just

(13:34):
a moment. By the way, let me ask you a question.
If you have a little side business you're trying to
get going, or you've started a business, it's full time
and you I will talk to people all the time
about their business they started.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
I love.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
I love to talk to people.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
We have show sponsors and they spend a lot of
money to support this show so that we stay on
the air and get you because you're great customers.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
But we also talk about businesses that can't afford to.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Be a show sponsor yet, because everybody's a future show sponsor,
why wouldn't you swing for the fences and send me
an email say I have this company and this is
the website and this is what I do.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Why wouldn't you do that in hopes that we would
mention it.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
You have to know what kind of response you're going
to get, especially if you're a person who uses our
show sponsors, which you're contributing just as much as a
show sponsor is. If before you eat out you think, oh,
by the way, Sam ol Saudi Romo said, uh, their
super Bowl business will be the biggest day of the year.

(14:42):
By two they will more than double their other biggest
biggest day. Like Russell Labarro will tell you that Sinko
to Mio is their biggest day of the year. I
guess Wings that people just think of Wings at A
at A for the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
It's big city Wings dot com.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Come, by the way, if you send me an email
for any of our sponsors, I will connect you with
Sam And if you pre order, it's like if you
order over one hundred of them, I don't have a
lot of superpowers from one. I can eat a lot
of wings. I can eat an obscene amount of wings,
and I am not a person. I don't like that

(15:21):
Joey Chestnut and a Japanese guy and all that. I
don't like to watch people scarf food. I think it's
gross and food is sacred to me. Most people in
the world don't have enough food, don't. I don't agree
with treating food like trash or some game. I don't
the speed eating and all none of that.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
But in terms of quantity, especially with wings, Oh my
very frigame activate the Michael Barry show.

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Speaker 11 (16:12):
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Speaker 3 (17:07):
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Speaker 9 (17:11):
Music Blazing Morainvidio walts.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
With me Darland to night.

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A music blazing Moraino walts with.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Me Darland to night.

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Speaker 11 (18:07):
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Speaker 3 (18:14):
Walson me Darling tonight.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Walson me Darling tonight.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
Thomas writes, I heard you talking about Moravia. I am
Czech and Moravia is where my family settled. My family
is buried at the Catholic Moravia Church. My uncle is
a musician. Here is him playing moon over Moravia tom Halata.
I don't know if I'm pronouncing Halatta correctly. Probably not.
But a fellow named Steve grow Mossman sent me an

(19:01):
email and said, czar Unfortunately, Czech has lost its accents
and diacritical marks in transit. In translation to English, the
name Haines that has the mark over the s in
Czech is not pronounced like Haines h ai n e
s or Haines h a y n e s in English.

(19:22):
The hook on the s makes it sound like sh.
So pronounce the name for me, remote Hunish. That's exactly right,
so Haines should actually be pronounced Hunnish in Check.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Stephen Grossman, Well, I figured, being Grossman, he's got to
be a Jew. So I said, how in the world
does a Jewish fellow know all these details about Moravian
or Check names? And he says, because I'm Czech and Slovak.
They dropped an n off of Grossman, which was two ends.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
At some point in my dad's life, he.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
Was born at our family homes, said, in an area
called Cokernut between Shiner and Gonzales. None of the kids
when he started school at age six spoke English. Everyone
spoke Czech or Slovak. I don't know I've ever told you.
I watched a documentary about French kids. And this was
relatively recently. I want to say this was early twentieth century,

(20:20):
so maybe nineteen fifteen or so, but the state of
Louisiana passed the law that children were not allowed to
be instructed in French, not even as a second language,
because so many of the Acadians had come down from
what we would now call Canada or the Snow Mexicans,
and they had come down to create Acadia, and they

(20:41):
had held so firmly onto their culture that many of
the kids were not learning English. So the state of
Louisiana imposed upon them, you will learn English, and they
tried to break their cat. They were Catholic French, and
they tried to impose well, they imposed English. Am I
understanding as they try to impose Protestantism on them as well.

(21:06):
Stephen Grossman is not Jewish Ramon. He is Czech and
Slovak and he is a partner at a firm called
Fga Fear or fur Fehr Grossman Architects. But their website
doesn't work because the domain name says FGCA dot CC,
but that doesn't work. They're on Mrcari Street in Houston

(21:27):
seven seven two seven. I have been trying to get
this guy on with me for a while, and I
don't know if he's just too busy or what's going on,
but I'm glad to have him on.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
The area's name is Tilman Holloway.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
He happens to be a show sponsor because I was
getting questions about bitcoin, and I sent our people out
and said I need a bitcoin a sponsor so that
I can forward people to them. That's where the best
sponsors come in where people say, Hey, I need a
recommendation on X, and then we go out and interview
folks that do that. The company is called archpublic dot Com.

(22:02):
Tilman Holloway is our guest. Tillman, can you wait about
thirty seconds for me to do something real quick?

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (22:10):
I forgot what it was though? What was the email?
Right before that moment, I was just about, don't let
me forget that. We can review. Okay, let's see if
I can find that email. There was something I was
gonna do before I got to you.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
Oh, Trip Zivilely, who is the grandson of my mentor,
Walter Zivley, says that Zivily is a Moravian name per
Nana's research. Well, now I think I'm gonna cry because if,
after all this love I gave to the Moravians and
one of my ten most favorite people in the whole
wide world, my mentor, Walter Perry Zivley, if they are Moravians.

(22:49):
Obviously I wish he was alive so I could call
him and ask him, because he'd probably know or his
wife Nancy. Nancy would wouldn't know. But anyway, Tilman, welcome
to the program.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
I appreciate it. Miche did you play ball at UT?

Speaker 6 (23:04):
I did.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
I played for coach Mac Brown from ninety nine to
two thousand and three.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay, So was Chance Mock there when you were there
or did he come later? He was there? He was
my quarterback. Okay.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Wood Woodland's High school played together in a few games,
so I was in a game.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
I don't remember who y'all were playing. But after the game,
he took his pads off and the shirt he was
wearing under there was his Woodlands High School T shirt.
And although that was pretty cool, but it also made
me think to myself, he's probably not adding any weight
or muscle if he can still wear the shirt he
wore as a high school kid.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Good point. He wasn't spending the time in the weight
room like you should have been.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
When our folks came up with you as being a
bitcoin guy and a good sponsor, he said, I did
my background on you, and I had heard you played ball.
So I reached out to him and he told me
a story about you. Let me see if I can
find it. Hold on just one, You've got corn Pop
was a bad dude. The Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 11 (24:15):
But sometime.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
She just always.

Speaker 6 (24:23):
So.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
Chance Mocks a buddy of mine who UT fans will remember.
He was an all star quarterback at University of Texas
during some good years, played for Woodland's High School. And
when I said I wanted somebody in the cryptocurrency space,
the bitcoin industry, and I sent our guys out to

(24:45):
go looking for somebody, and one of the people that
came up was Tilman Holloway. And I found out that
my buddy that he was guard for my buddy Chance
when he was at University of Texas, and I love
UT football. I used to watch a lot more UT
football because I had more time back in those days.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
But anyway, so.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
I start checking around on this guy, especially because it's
a financial related thing.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
I'm extra I do extra due diligence.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
And so another friend of mine, who was older, who
I trust in respect, said, you know that's Check. You
know that's Jack Trotter's grandson from Well, you probably won't
know who Jack Trotter is, but when I was running
for mayor, I would well, first, when I was running
for city council, then for mayor.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
I would go meet with the Titans of Texas.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
The guys that were, you know, legendary city builders, Ben Love,
Jack Blanton, Corby Roberts and Ernie Cockrell. What was Don's
name that was head of the rodeo and ahead of
HL and P at the time. Gosh, I can't stand
like it anyway. So they would all say when I

(25:56):
would leave, I'd say who do I need to go
and meet? And then say you got to go meet
k Trotter. Jack Trotter was a legend in this town.
So friend of mine said, you know us Jack Trotter's grandson. Okay,
all right, you have my attention anyway, So before we
talk Bitcoin Tilmanholloway archpublic dot com. I called Chance during
the break and said, give me one story about this guy,

(26:21):
because Ramon he played at six three three twenty five,
so you kind of get the idea this is his
Chance said, that is one of the baddest ugelar of me.
He said, we were in Sixth Street one night, hammered
and he's got his shirt off in the middle of
Sixth Street. Say I'll block anybody, I'll fight anybody with
a horse in his face, and he said, I think
he was trying to fight the horse and I'm not

(26:43):
sure the horse wanted any part of that. But for
you UT fans, he blocked for Major Chris and Chance Mock.
So some good UT football memories there. Chance told me,
he said, if you want one good story, I would
say the Beef Bowl at Lowry's Steakhouse.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Is it true? It is true, legend legends of that
I did that. I was injured. I had a shoulder
injury at the time, so I wasn't going to get
to play in the bowl game. And they had a
competition and it was not only team based, but individual based.
Is who ate the most prime rib? And I stepped

(27:27):
up to the proverbial and literal plate and I took
one for the team and we won the Beef Bowl.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
You know what I can. I can respect the competitive advantage.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
I'm not sure if anybody's going to trust their money
to you with bitcoin, which they already don't know much about,
based on the fact that you're a big, bad dude
who can out eat and out drink anybody. But they
are good stories. I will say that they're good stories.
And there's probably some old UT heads out there that
will give you a call just just because of that.

Speaker 6 (28:00):
And then.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Chance had told me, was it Bud McFadden this year? Relative?

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, he's my.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Other grandfather, okay, And Bud McFadden was All American at
ut Win.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Do you know what year?

Speaker 2 (28:17):
I want to say forty nine to fifty three if
if my memory serves me. But he was a legend
as well, two time All American in he was an
All American boxer, wrestler, and defense and offense football players.
So he's he's in the Hall of Honor and had
a great NFL career and ended up coaching at the
Oilers at the end of his career.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Wow, that's a lot of pressure. Where'd you go to
high school?

Speaker 6 (28:43):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (28:43):
You were home school.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
I went to high school. I was homeschool. But then
I kind of went to a little football boarding school
for a football season in Denver called Faith Christian Academy,
and it was a it was a powerhouse team. We
won state and we're in contingent pretty much every year.
But that was my singer year in ninety nine.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
So did you play organized ball before that?

Speaker 2 (29:05):
I did not know. I came into Texas as.

Speaker 7 (29:08):
Green as you can imagine.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
I love those Compared to all the other offensive linemen, I.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
Love those like when a keem olajah one was the
best low post in all of professional basketball and the
guy didn't play He was a soccer goalie. The guy
didn't play basketball until very late in the day. And
it wasn't just because he was tall. That guy had
skills and he didn't start playing until very late in
the day.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, my parents kind of were a believer that I
should play everything. I played hockey, basketball, baseball. I was,
I was, you know, an all sport type kid, and
then they, you know, everybody started saying, you need to
focus on football, and it became clear that I was
I had, you know, an ability to play and could
go somewhere and could get a scholarship, so it became
kind of the first priority.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
But hockey was my first love.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
I would have played ice ice hockey if I could
have forever, and my kids all.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Play ice hockey now.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
But Texas is I got to wear my grandfather's number,
Bud McCadden. He was number sixty one at Texas and
oh coolest. I got to carry on kind of the family. Yeah,
it was.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
It was an amazing time. Was it your goal to
go on and play pro ball?

Speaker 6 (30:14):
No?

Speaker 2 (30:14):
My goal I actually quit. I had a chance to
go play, and it just never was in my heart.
I didn't love football enough, and I wanted to I
got married my fifth year in college, my last year,
and wanted to start a family and start a career.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
What brought you to Houston.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
I was raised there, I was born there. I went
to Second Baptist and lived on Troon Road for the
vasculatory of our childhood.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Okay, well that makes sense. You're Jack Trotter's Prinson. You've
got to live on Troon Road. That makes all sense
in the world. What got you into bitcoin?

Speaker 2 (30:50):
I got into bitcoin over a decade ago because I
was intrigued with the fact that anyone could participate in
the network, that if you were one of the three
billion unbanked people, that if you had a plug and
you had a computer, that you could participate, you could
become banked. That's what initially got me into And I'm
a little bit of a nerd, and like most offensive

(31:12):
linemen are, and I was intrigued with the crypto mining
side of it, not so much, just I didn't care
about the price appreciation. I didn't get into it for that.
So I fell in love with the technology, and I
saw the adoption potential and one thing went to another,
and I put everything aside and focused on that for
I've done that for the last ten years.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
Ten years ago, I didn't know what it was. I'm
not sure I still know what it is. Can you
hold with us for just a moment? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
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