The Bachelor's Matt James Talks About Rachael And Bitcoin I Pomp Podcast #564

They come, as if they don't hear from me because I'm no longer in the program, but there is a

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e stain, it's like a yeti. it's like a guy has a beard and it's like he's leaving Walmart it's like who is this guy and then um and then when you leave I'm going to take a picture and I'll be like I see the guy exactly oh god here Let's go the media. There's a storm around that, but um, so they're seeing that and then the next thing I post is like a picture of me in a tuxedo and laser eyes, so okay, this guy literally lost his mind, why is he possessed? a demon like what eats this and that, but it's cool because he starts a conversation, it's like you know, like my laser focus on the moon, oh, what is that?

So it just sparks a conversation that I want to have about something that interests me. and I'm inviting you to step back so I can further validate or solidify why I feel like I have these strong convictions about this investment and just the community in general, so the most interesting thing to me is like you. evolve your interests, learn more about crypto, learn more about hydroponics, whatever audience you have, there's literally a 180 degree difference than mine, right, mine is like you look, I'm like youtube, it's like 95 men , at one point I saw that she was like, oh, we have to get more women, listen, it's like the type of content really attracts a certain type of person, right, but you have like 90, 95 percent women, because to the program and all that stuff, and do you feel that way? uh there's an opportunity to expose a different audience to different ideas, regardless of what the ideas are, what the exact audience is, it almost feels like their interests are very different than what they would normally consume, right, I guess most of your audience don't have laser eyes, right, almost 100 of my audience have laser eyes, so it's like such a different circle of people, you know, that you're really introducing a lot of these new ideas to, yeah, I think I think when you're in a position of influence you have a responsibility and, um, I'm not the chairman of the Federal Reserve, I'm not controlling, that's a good thing, it's a job no one can win, you know?

What I mean is that I have very little to say about anything outside of my own opinions and when I find something that I think is going to be here for a while and something that I want to convey to the students and the families of the students that I work I think it is a responsibility to at least make people aware of the tools that exist and that could change the trajectory of their lives and especially with cryptocurrencies. I think we've seen it. Historically, communities that have been marginalized and discriminated against can't get loans, can't buy houses, can't buy cars, and those barriers to entry don't exist like they do with traditional financial institutions like they do. with cryptocurrencies and that was something that intrigued me because if the families that I work with and the children that we work with have access to these tools now, something that I just think is going to gain momentum in public incorporation and institutional incorporation.

In the future, it would be my honor to be the person to bridge the gap between them and replicate that. For the women who follow me, know that there is no reason why you shouldn't be a part of this conversation too. These are conversations that Rachel and I have regularly, you know, she constantly challenges my thoughts and views on being a

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maximalist and all other crypto things, so Rachel is coinless and I like her because she helps me get to a better place. conclusion of what my truths are rooted in and helps you understand oh, that makes sense because everything you say should make sense, like it's not a secret, there's no similar theorem or it's intellectual, almost like combat or battle. of ideas right where you come in you're like I have this idea, she asks you questions, almost in a way you're educating, but at the same time you're getting a gut check, you know?

Do I really know what I am? Speaking of, do you really believe this exactly? Yes, Polina thinks that Satoshi is a woman that is a popular take and I think I don't think she's wrong about that, I've actually heard that before and why do you think I? I'll tell you why she thinks that. I believe it for the reason that that went into the protocol and I don't think it's something that would have been. I think I think men are greedier and I think there would have been some kind of way to maybe accumulate the potential, I don't know, I just think it's too fluid a system to be created by one of us, so the planet thinks it could be a woman because men are too selfish, right?

I see that someone should be like me, I made that me, yes, I like her, that's very true, but she's like no, actually, it takes a special kind of person, right, that from the point of view of probability it is more likely to be a woman than a man. I don't know who she is, I don't want to know, but I think it's interesting to think carefully, like everyone assumes. The other thing I learned recently is that there is only one time that Satoshi revealed her gender. She was signing up for something. I use it because, when it was registered, I forgot what it was.

She asked him about her birthday and asked him for her gender and the selected email now might have been sent correctly, so you don't know, but that's the only time there is. Gender was involved in a way that, uh, Satoshi, you know, um, said something about what the birthday was, uh, I forgot the exact birthday, but I put them in there like, I think, mid to late 40s 2010 , so like mid to late 50s today, it's all interesting. right, how could it be, could it be who knows, I don't think I want to know, no, I definitely don't want to know, yeah, uh, there's an element of um, if you don't know, no one can say, uh, oh, that's very correct. or far left or that's a man that's a woman that's a white person a black person a green person who is American uh do you know someone from another country uh oh that's a Christian that's a straight Muslim that's right, that's not it nothing as complete as a conversation as knowing that It's the protocol, yeah, I think it wouldn't be bad if people knew that all it does is eliminate another thing that people can say.

There are a lot of people who say, "Oh, I don't like Vitalik." Vitalik has done anything worth attacking or being mad at or not liking him or something, but it's because they know who Vitalik is, he tweets something that everyone goes crazy, half the people are like yeah he's you know He's the king, right? right people are like I'm an idiot right, right, right, like whatever, that just adds another level of complexity, so it's not so much that you solve a problem as it necessarily

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ers as much, but it's one less thing. for the people. attack and then if everyone is shouting about

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and by the way the creator of the protocol does something, it's just another kind of attack vector, right?

When you think about the last year of your life, what are the two things that It's like I can't believe this happened, maybe a positive surprise and a negative surprise. I would say they're probably both related to my Bachelor experience and I would say the first positive is that he's talking about it like it's my Bachelor experience like it's like uh I don't know how to like yeah I got you I don't know how to refer to that because it's like it's the process or I like the experience and I don't like saying it's a show and then I say contestants because then it takes away from me like the clinical thing yeah, it doesn't feel like it's real it's like oh , I was like when I think about the show, I think about fucking Nickelodeon like getting slime like I don't think like like you know what I mean like I don't want that comparison to ever be made to a relationship in danger stand up, exactly, so the price is right, yeah, look at that all the time as a kid, exactly, so yeah, so the process that I'm going through that for me is like I can't believe I was able to know.

I went into this with an open mind and I'm surprised that I was able to find someone like Rachel who can put up with me has the kind of heart that she has and was able to form that connection as I was skeptical before the show that you could find someone like that on a show of television and that was incredible and that was a big lesson for me from the whole experience and then the second thing would be where we are as a country and the types of things that we need to do and grow in having the conversations that we need. not just around race but also diversity inclusion, you would think we would be further along, but it gives me hope that we are having those conversations now, so those are two things that I never would have thought would be, yeah, the byproduct. of this experience for me, before we get into quick questions to answer Rachel, do you know how lucky you are to have this guy?

This guy is amazing. I just want it to be known right now that I said that, so it's on the record. You're so lucky to have this guy, so let's move on, so listen, just give me twenty dollars. What is the most important book you have ever read? Oh man, the most important book without a doubt is the Bible. I read the Bible. I try. read it every day, but that's what grounds me, that's what grounds me, so okay, the second one comes from our friends who ate the dream. I used to sleep like five or six hours.

It was very bad, right? My lovely wife said, “Hey, sleep is important.” I mean, because she didn't want me to keep waking her up and all this stuff. I see Rachel moving her arms here so I have to sleep now and I like it so much that I invested in the company because it's a bed that they make super cold uh you can make it cold or hot shut up I make it cold I sleep like a baby eight nine hours it's amazing uh and it has sensors that can tell you you know how deep your sleeve was, how many times did you toss and turn whatever it is that tracks all the things?

The only downside is that when you first take it out of the box it's a fun tip for everyone. It also has a vibration alarm, so it asks you when you set up the app, it's like you know what time you want to wake up at eight o'clock the first night, go to sleep and that thing woke up, I swear I thought that It was an earthquake, listen, what is it? That's the only downside, but I love this, what's your sleep schedule and based on Rachel's reaction, it can't be very good, bro. I could tell you without a doubt if you'd asked what Rachel's biggest problem is with our relationship right now: my sleep cycle.

How many hours do you sleep? So I normally sleep five hours, okay, I eat six at most, but I used to think that was normal, so, and and I, and to get to that point, I don't like waking up, like I had to wake up at 5 am. I'm not going to set an alarm for 5 am. I'm going to set an alarm for 2 am because when my alarm goes off at 2, I think, "Oh, thank God, I have 3 hours left and then." I'm going to set the alarm for 2 15 because I'm going to look at it at 15 minutes. I'm like, oh, I have 2 hours and 45 minutes left, so I set like 10 alarms and the whole time I'm Rachel.

I'm probably 20 years old and I'm waking up because I hit snooze, so Rachel likes having to deal with this, but when I'm with Rachel, she likes to sleep, she likes the room to be like a bomb shelter. the curtains have to be all the way down there can't be any light coming into the room the phone faces down so she could wake me up if it was mile and she would turn off my alarms she made me set an alarm and when it rings obviously I'm not going to go up, no I'm going to get up, so I wake up, I went to bed at 11 p.m. m., it's three in the afternoon because I didn't do it.

I have an alarm like there's no concept of time, it's pitch black and I'm looking at my phone and I'm breathing hard, I'm like me, I've been asleep for 11 hours, she's torturing you, yeah, she is, I love it, she's no He doesn't have a microphone, so he can't say anything, so what? So you only sleep five or six hours or she has you well, it depends, for example, when I work from Monday to Friday, I try to sleep five or six hours, but on the weekends I like to sleep, I will sleep late, it's okay, the last question and they ask me one to finish: aliens, are you a believer or a non-believer, brother?

Am I a believer? I think it's because I think there are a lot of reasons, but I think there's too much smoke to not be fire. I don't necessarily know what they look like if they look. e.t or if they look like a transformer, but there's too much going on for there not to be something like, did you see the cephalopod test? I didn't see that, oh man, I haven't talked about this on

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s in a long time. time so cephalopod I don't even know if you showed me 10 things I couldn't tell you what a cephalopod looks like but it's something in the ocean and they gave it an IQ test designed for four year olds or something and it passed you're lying I swear and by the way I don't know what's in the IQ test I don't want to know uh I don't know how you give an IQ test to a fish or whatever I don't want to know that either but all I know is I've read several reports that he passed the intelligence test, and when I think of aliens, I always think of thespace, but there is something in the ocean that is scary. the house, hey, me too, rachel is afraid of sharks, sharks, yeah, do you think sharks or octopuses are scarier? documentary I called my teacher Octopus and I like it and and now as if we couldn't, Octopus, if you're Octopus and you're cancelled, uh, so I have to watch the documentary.

Maybe I feel the same way, so I can't even talk to you, yeah, yeah. but apparently uh yeah, you can't teach him, you have to get a good look at him, can you eat sharks? However, if we don't like them, yes, sharks are endangered, yes, they are sharks too, oh, have you ever seen the uh, the viral one? video of the woman who is in her car and I don't know if she is driving or just sitting there and she says I have been telling them they want to go to the beach, no problem, go to the beach, but don't go to the house of the shark because if the shark enters my house I will eat it, so if you go to the shark's house, the shark will eat you.

It's like a two-minute video, this is hysterical, it's a great way to think. Yeah, don't go into the shark house, respect the sea, you know what's crazy, when I was in Jupiter there was a uh, I was living in Jupiter quarantine, there was the biggest tiger shark I've ever seen in my entire life in video, uh. there's a guy who's just paddling maybe 50 feet from shore maybe 50 60 feet from shore this guy's paddle and he and he puts his gopro under the water, I promise, maybe I don't know, does he? What did? 15 20 foot long tiger shark that's got a whole hammerhead shark in its mouth breaking it and this is under his paddle board bro like he's just paddle boarding there's people playing on the beach and like me I'll send you the video, it's crazy, yes, no.

Don't go into the shark house, I understand why people would be fine, yeah, I'm fine, I like looking at it, it's nice, you know, go, there's a breeze, but walking in, I'm fine, yeah, just go to the pool. . What question? You have to finish, if you could tell yourself, your 20-year-old self, one thing, looking back at your entire life experience, what would you tell yourself two things, fearless and growing? Everything you do in life, uh, requires the same amount. of effort regardless of the result, for example, if you want to achieve something, you have to work hard to achieve it, but if you work hard to achieve something small, then you get a small reward, but if you work hard to achieve something big, you get the big thing. reward, so it's like if you think about sports, right, you have to play as hard in the first game of the season as you do in the championship game, if you want to win, but obviously the championship game is much more important from the beginning. just like the reward of it, so if you really want to achieve things in the world, you're going to do the work anyway, like go after the big things because asymmetry is so much better and I think it's like when you're younger. , it's almost like uh uh in baseball, like batting average, like you want to hit about a thousand every time I do something, I want to be successful, but as you get older I think you realize that slugging percentage is more important, right?

I'm going to need to get a hit every time I get a hit, it's a home run, right, I like that and that's a framework that I think is really, really difficult when you're younger and then as you get older and you realize you say: "Damn, I've been doing it wrong all the time," like you look at all these super successful people, like "take Masayoshi's son from Softbank." You've been the richest person in the world twice, right? She's not the richest person anymore, right? And one time he was literally the richest person in the world and he lost 99% of his wealth and then he came back, how do you do that like you?

You always make big changes, right? And so, yeah, great. he probably didn't enjoy the right 99, I mean, he was making big swings, right, mike novogratz from uh galaxy digital, I think it's going to kill him if I'm wrong, uh, I think he's been a billionaire three different times, billionaire, not billionaire. billionaire not billionaire billionaire now again yeah, and now I think he's richer than ever, so it's like you see enough data points and you think, okay, go big, yeah, okay, where can we send people to look for? on the internet, oh man, abc food tours, that's our non-profit, we work with students and we have our sustainability model and then abcfoodtours.com, abcfoodtours.org on any social media and then me personally, matt

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Okay and then obviously if we go to Rachel's Spotify playlist, we'll see you there. Yeah, there's also something on Rachel's social media because I'm going to explore it especially on Spotify's social media because she has better music than me. Alright, thanks for doing this, I absolutely appreciate it bro.