The Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast - Bitcoin News With a Canadian Spin - They're Not Coming For Bitcoin. They're Coming For YOU. | CBP 257 Pt 2

Episode Date: March 25, 2026

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someone who has real knowledge helps you execute. And that's all I'll say. Thank you, Joey. Bitcoin Mentor, check them out. Send a link below if you wanted to use them. That guy in England could have really used the Bitcoin Mentor to set up a Balticig before wife hacked him out of 2300 Bitcoin. Damn right. All right. I guess the biggest news and the rest of the world, the notable news is that fucking war between Israel

and the United States against Iran. And, man, Trump, he looks fucking weak as hell. I'm going to give you two days, 48 hours to open up the street. If not, we're going to bomb the fucking shit of your major power areas. And then,

it comes up, I'll give you guys five days. We'll think about it. And the timing of it was perfect, right, before the markets open, right? It's Fiat. It's all Fiat to me. Any thoughts on this shit? Because I don't have much to say. I don't have that much either.

Like, I've just been completely, I guess not surprised, but completely, like, overwhelmed with how much information out there. I just don't know is real or not. Right? Like I have Twitter like everybody else and I scan through the news every day to see what's going on. Oh, what's going on with the war?

Like what are they blowing up now? I have no fucking idea if what I'm watching is real or AI generated or something from the last time that there was a war somewhere else. Or like I have no clue. I have no idea what's real.

So I look at the price of Bitcoin, the price is real. Even the price of oil. Watch the price of oil. The price of oil is going up. Oil is going down. That will tell you more than what you see on the news. And regular news, that's even worse than Twitter.

I can't trust anything. I've got a couple of sources, a couple of Bitcoin, but they're not Bitcoin podcasts. They're a couple of regular podcasts that seem to be relatively level-headed on the stuff going on in the Middle East. So that's kind of where I get my information. So I listen to what, two podcasts a day about this. I still don't think I know anything. I don't know.

I have no real opinion one way or another. I just wish there wasn't a war ever. Like I just think it's fiat. Like you said, it's just fiat stuff. I think it's heartbreak. That is heartbreaking. But that Trump got elected in part because he said he would, was not going to start any new wars.

Right? That was like one of the selling points. Right. Free Ross, no war. All these things, right? And what did he fucking do? And Iran is not like some of these other countries that the U.S. has gone to war with in the past 50 years.

Like Vietnam, Afghanistan, even Iraq. They weren't like, great competition. But Iran is no joke. Iran is like, there's like 95 million people in Iran. They have their own industrial base. I know personally,

some of the smartest people I've ever met are Iranians. Right? Like shout out to my former boss, Javad. Like literally the most brilliant person. I've ever worked with in my life as Iranian. You know, these are educated people that have a real sense of engineering and manufacturing, and they have supply chains. And I don't know much about the religious side of what's going on over there.

And I don't know anything about the political side of what's going on over there. but I know that the U.S. and probably Israel as well, they might have bitten off a little more they can chew with Iran. And I think that what you're seeing with Trump is him backtracking.

No, if they don't commit to putting boots in the ground, right? Until they decide to really, we're going to just flood them with people, with soldiers. You're not going to you're not going to be able to accomplish, I think, what they want to accomplish in the period of time that they want to achieve it.

Like, with Iraq part one, they obliterated the army, Iraqi army. And the Iraqi army was, it was like one of the largest mobilized armies in the world. But they came in with force. They had a line of people that, equipment on the Saudi border, plus they had the French involved in the other countries involved. and their goal was to destroy the army. And just that way, they didn't want to topple the regime. They wanted to just fucking kick them out of Kuwait and destroy the army.

Then Iraq Part 2, they wanted to topple the regime, but they had boots in the ground and they committed and they did this. And they were able to achieve it. But with Iran, it's, I'm not trying to diminish what they're doing. They're doing a lot with a lot of the aerial attack they're doing and bombing from a far away. But without having boots in the ground, could you really achieve? I mean, what they did in Venezuela, fine, but I don't know.

It's not the same. Venezuela is not the same as Iran. 90 something million, 90 something million people. The terrain is also very different. Yeah. Kuwait in Iraq is just a desert. It's flat. But unless they want to commit and they're not going to commit.

Iran, Iran is mountainous. Like there's mountains everywhere. Iran. It's huge. Iran is massive. It's a massive country. It's twice the size of Texas, three times the size of Texas. It's a big place. And you're right. I mean, I see the videos too. It looks like they're inflicting damage on these air raids and missiles being dropped. It seems like that makes sense to me. Like, yeah, stuff's blowing up. Things are happening. But in the history of warfare, there has never been regime change from bombing. from bombing.

That's not how it works. Well said. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. So. And you know, what's fucked up, you were talking about where to get the information from. You're like mainstream media can't really do it in Twitter, the algorithm. But even when you try to get information from people that live there, like the UAE, like UAE, like UAE is supposed to be this free place where you don't, you know, you're not,

they're restricting people from reporting anything. It's fines or jail time. if you report anything. Like, fucking bullshit is this. It's really weird. Let's see this going on. Yeah.

All the stuff from Dubai as well, too. Like the influencers in leaving Dubai. It's so close. Yeah. Right. It doesn't take, I mean, I don't want it to say it's,

you know, you could throw a rock, but fuck, it seems like it, right? Like compared to other places they want to hit. UAE in Oman is right there too. And the technology is so different now.

than it was 20 years ago. Like, yeah, the Iraq war happened and, you know, Saddam Hussein got his ass kicked and the military got obliterated. But this is a different world that we're living in. Right. And that Iraqi army was big in number, but it didn't have the technological advance stuff that this Iranian government army seems to have. And again, I don't know if it's true. True or not, I don't know shit about shit. Like, I'm just some guy.

Like, I don't know anything about this stuff. I can barely find Iran on a map. Like, I don't know anything. But, you know, you know what's fucked up is right now we have Russia. They've had this multi-year war with Ukraine, which is, I guess, an ally with a lot of Western nations, given all the support they've received. Now you have United States going up against Iran. And it seems like this thing is just escalating. and you know, you have two wars, two different fronts, Russia and the United States.

I don't know, man. I know, I know. Getting close. I don't like it. I don't like, I don't like any of this shit. And did you see that the Americans pulled a lot of like anti-aircraft stuff out of South Korea and are shipping it to Israel? Yeah, that happened.

Why would they do that? They obviously, well, because they needed. The Israelis need it. The Israelis need it. right so like they're they need the equipment more than the south koreans do so i don't know like what what does that mean for you know rocket man up there and piangyang you know and what are the this is like a good one the u sss gerald ford it's an aircraft carrier it's it's in dry dock because of a laundry room fire it's going to be out of action for some time

because of a laundry room fire how fucking funny is that That's a new one Is that the new one? The brand new one? I think that is one of the new ones. It's a billion dollar shit fucking laundry through fire. Look it out. What the fuck is going on?

Let's keep on the topic of what the fuck is going on in Chicago. This is the Chicagoanian Bitcoin podcast, the CBP. And David Kinos is a dude over there, 45 years old. This is a beauty of a story. sentenced on March 9th, and he's going to do over four years of time in federal prison. Why? Because of fraud. But he was busy between 2018 and 2023, and he was going after poor people and buying up their

snap cards and pins for pennies and a dollar. I guess those people needed hard money more than they needed a fucking food that you get from those stop cards, right? Yeah, I'm going to interrupt you there, Lance. sorry, like just for me and for the other people. Snap is like food stamps, right? Yeah. Yeah.

And so like they would rather not buy food, but buy something else that they could get with the cash. So this guy bought these cards at a discounted rate. The people that had the cards, they're happy because now they could, I guess, and they just, you know, maybe buy drugs. And this guy, what did he do with the snap cards? While he went out, he bought a fuckload of stuff like Coca-Cola and other soft drinks. And he sold that to grocery stores. and gas stations. And over the span of five years,

he went through 1,200 snap cards, $1.5 million of taxpayer money. Now he's gone to jail for a little over four years and he's ordered a pay back that $1.5 million. This guy was an entrepreneur. And he was able to find a gap in the system. Granted, you know, he was using taxpayer money, but still what a fucking story this is.

Remember that story from a couple of years ago? You and Joey covered it. about some guy, I think he was a janitor at a school somewhere, and he set up a bunch of S9 Bitcoin miners in the basement of the school. This wasn't us. This was more about like a general story that's going on in the Bitcoin community. I'm pretty sure it wasn't us at the... Well, you guys covered it.

I mean, you're my source of news, right? Like, everybody, you know, I listen to 40 hours of Bitcoin podcast a week, but like you guys are my number one news podcast, right? I like Rabbit Hole Recap too, but you guys are my favorite, news. So when I hear a news story, I associated with you and Joey. So yeah, a couple of years ago, some janitor guy set up a bunch of S-9s and was using the electricity at the school to mine Bitcoin.

And apparently, like, got caught and got in trouble. Yeah. This guy kind of reminds me of that guy. These, you know, like, these are entrepreneurial guys. We should not be throwing these people in jail. There's a difference. I'm not saying it's right. I'm not saying it's right.

and I'm not saying he should have done it. And I'm not saying that he shouldn't be like somehow reprimanded for this. I'm not I'm not condoning it. I'm not at all. But the entrepreneurial spirit in this guy is alive and well. And we need more of that. We need more of that drive and that creativity. Now, and I see this guy, he needs maybe a little bit of guidance.

maybe you know i i don't think it's i don't think it's jail that we should be doing with this guy i think that we should four years worth of jail time by the way that's a lot that's more jail than most people in canada get for like a lot for we will go we will go that actually but momentarily so you know don't commit fraud guys but also these are not the people we should be thrown in jail but hold on hold that i i didn't you do anything wrong someone somebody had a card. Right. They wanted to sell it.

This guy was, I'll give you a fucking money. I'll give you this one Singapore dollar for it. And it's not like he did any, like they wanted to sell, he wanted to buy, he used it, you know,

I don't know. And then he's probably under, he's probably selling back to the gas stations, the Coke and Pepsi at a, at a rate that's cheaper than what the gas stations were getting from the suppliers. Yeah. And where he buys it from,

they're getting some money too. So like there's, there's a circle here that's this shit sloshing around. The people that should be put in jail are the people with the snap card selling at the begin with. Not this guy who bought them. Well, they had to get their nails done, man. They had to get their nails there.

They look so bad. Canada is not the Wild West, right? I remember not too long ago we had. Was it Miller saying that Canada is not the Wild West? But maybe it is. I'm not sure if you heard of this story. But March 17th, just this past week, there was a homeowner in Vaughn, and they had some mass intruders break into the house 1 a.m.

And as they forced a way into the home, the homeowner, who was protecting an elderly woman at the time, he grabbed a legally owned gun that he had, and he legally stored, used it, shot one of the people, looks like in the chest or in a stomach, and they fled. And the guy ended up later going to the hospital and charged with robbery and so forth.

And also breaching a probation order. What's interesting about this is the guy that shot the gun is not being charged by the police. I'm not sure if you heard this story. And even our premier Doug Ford was commenting and saying that the police did a good thing by not charging. And he's like, you know what? Anybody breaks into home, you know,

I'm kind of paraphrasing here. like maybe don't shoot me if I don't get a right but he's saying yeah they deserve to get shot if they enter a home unlawfully so it's interesting because not too long ago we had stories a story of somebody that was shot a somebody that broke in their home and he was charged but now we have this one yeah not charging him and there was a crossbow as well too I remember a story I have somebody getting shot but a crossbow as well uh-huh there's a lot at this story that like you know my spidey sense is tingling here. I know a little bit about firearms,

and I know legally. It's very difficult to get to your gun, get to your ammunition, load the gun. That's tough to do if somebody just breaks into your house. That's tough. Because you need light. You need, because there are very specific rules about how your gun and your ammunition.

They got to be separated, I believe. Yeah. Different locks. So you need like different access to different locks. And in a situation like that, the average person's heart rate is going through their chest. They're nervous. Right? Like literally, there's a masked intruder in your house.

Like you're going to be stressed out. It's strange to me. I'm not saying it didn't happen the way the media said it happened. Maybe it, I don't know anything. I guess it's good that the guy didn't get charged. Also, getting shot in the stomach and then running away. What did he shoot him with? Couldn't have been a firearm that was very powerful.

Nine million, I don't know. I have no idea. Nine millimeter, no, because that's a handgun. Like, no, if it's legal in Canada, then it has to be some sort of, sort of rifle or shotgun. No, he can have an ARPAL. I have a friend that has an ARPAL and it has handguns.

They're not giving these licenses anymore. Extremely difficult to get in Canada. That would is, before it was easier. And your grandfathered in. Right. Maybe. Maybe that's what it is. That would make more sense to me if you had some sort of low caliber handgun

that you have a grandfathered in over yeah maybe I don't have any experience with handguns whatsoever so I don't know I'm you know my father was a hunter so like I do have I grew up around guns and he was extremely careful about how he stored that he was an instructor he instructed people on gun safety so like he was and he he did it like he and the idea that he could get to one of

of our guns, one of his guns, if somebody broke into the house. Yeah, hard for me to envision. That being said, I'm glad to see that the Overton window is really shifting on this stuff. And we're talking about this stuff, which is good. I think the more we talk about it, I think the less likely that somebody is to break into somebody's house again. No, no, it's not going to, it's not going to, until you have some real to turn out there, having the odd guy that has an R-PAL license and the loaded gun, like, I don't think that's it. But if it's in the media more and more and Doug Ford is like talking about like, yeah,

I should have shot him twice. Didn't he say that? I think he did. Yeah, he was saying. He should have talked twice. Like, the more that comes out, I. the more of that's out there, I think it's probably a little bit more of a deterrent

for people to break into the next person's house. That being said, people are getting poorer and poorer and poorer. And as the economy gets worse and as people getting poorer, more likely to see crime, I don't know. It's not good, it's just not good, man.

100%. It's not good. Like, this guy protecting the old lady, like good good on him for for protecting his home and protecting the person he's taking care of good on him but it's we shouldn't be celebrating people shooting people well the other side of it he did nothing and you know whatever i know i know i know yeah right let let's talk about well you mentioned in the bitcoin side the france tax collector you're you're referencing that and the crooked dude out there was selling info to the mob,

and they were using that information about who had Bitcoin and shit like that. Well, in Canada, we have something kind of similar. We had a 35-year-old former CRA employee by the name of Yohan Zola. He was arrested in Vancouver and charged on March 17, 2026. This was following a four-year investigation. So this guy looks. like he was doing some suspicious activity for four years at least because that's how long they were doing the investigation could have even even longer than that buddy is up for charges

of identity theft remember he worked for CRA he's being charged for identity theft trafficking in identity information breach of trust and fraudulent personification or personification so like this guy what was he giving information to whom for how much we were saying the guy in fucking France was a piece of shit for giving up that information to who the fucking mob this guy out on bail by the way going to court in april april april 16th they have information on anybody right anybody that filed taxes and even if you don't file taxes they're filing taxes automatically for you these days they have information on you how much earn where you live your sin number you're all this shit

Could you imagine somebody had this information sold it? Like, fuck. Man, like the amount of trust we had in these agencies, it's being eroded. We had police charged not too long ago in Vaughn in Toronto. Now we have a CRA employee that's being investigated or there was a four-year investigation flagged because suspicious activity. Now charges are laid against them. This is turning into Benet Republic, man. This is bullshit.

It's bad. It's bad. Yeah. I wonder if this type of stuff has been happening for a while. And maybe... This is one guy they caught. This is one guy they caught. Look,

would you be surprised that there's a lot more? I know I wouldn't be surprised. No, I wouldn't. Like, if there's more cases like this, either like a few or more than a few, no, I wouldn't be.

surprised people i've heard i've heard i've heard stories like i live in ottawa right like i live in ottawa region almost everybody's a government employee over here i i've heard i've heard a stories of people like doing stuff not not it's again i don't know them personally it's just stories people talk right about using their access to information and addresses and stuff to spy on ex-girlfriends and ex-wives and stuff. I've heard that type of story. It's not good. This stuff shouldn't happen.

We entrust these institutions. And you know, maybe it's going to get me in trouble. Maybe not. I don't know. I think these institutions should do a better job of screening people when they hire them. Well, clearly they should. Because if this guy is getting charged,

I would hope that. Like, when did the, like, and I'm changing the subject a little bit and it's a little off topic but it's similar. Maybe you guys covered it. Maybe not. I don't remember about the COVID benefits. People at employment, people at employment and social development. Something like 100 employees were found a way to get $2,000 a week or $2,000 a month,

whatever it was out of the SERP. You know, these are government employees doing this shit. like government employees should be held to a higher level of account than the average person because we're you're entrusted with information you're entrusted with tax dollars with that to me this is just a sign of just poor at the banana republic we're at the end of the yeah yeah right it's the fourth turning is upon us there's you know it's so many different ways you look at it. And go even further, this next story, it's about social media causing unhappiness,

according to the CBC. You hear this and you read this story. That's the problem. Social media. Yeah, the social. So the 2026 world happiness report was released on March 18th. And it shows now Canada is 25th on the index and that it's lowest ranking ever. CBC, they decided to look at this.

and they have analyzed it and said social media is the primary culprit for the decline. It's shit like Twitter. It's shit like Instagram, all that stuff that's causing why people are more unhappy. They say that under report, older Canadian 60 years or older, still rank in the top 10 globally for happiness, but the youth have fallen to 71st place internationally. And they say that because of heavy social media use, this is defined as five, plus hours a day. That is a key factor for why the young people are very unhappy. And they say the constant scrolling and algorithmic feed, it triggers negative social comparisons

and rage baiting. And that they say erodes mental health. They say nothing about the cost of living where people that are young, they are forced now to deal with higher costs for housing, wages that are stagnant, price of groceries going up, the cost of fuel going up. They don't say about that, but you know what? It's social media. That's the fucking problem. They just totally neglect the fact that country like Finland,

they're not seeing the same type of drastic drop with youth unhappiness. Why is Finland keeping their youth, or why are their youth on this report much happier than ours? Maybe it's not social media. maybe there's something else to it. And they're just fucking hiding what it really is. When I see shit like this, it just makes me fucking burn, man.

The worst thing about this is that there is a nugget of truth to it. I know personally, the more I'm on social media, the worse my mood is. That's, that's, why do people go on social media for five plus hours? They, they've, they're compensating,

we're not compensating. They're filling the time with, imagine you had family, you had a job, you had friends to hang out with, you had hobbies and shit like the stuff that defines what I define to be everybody defines it differently. What I define to be a healthy life. When you have that type of stuff that fills your time up, you don't have time for five plus hours of social media. Agreed. So your food is shit. Yeah, yeah. The food, the food is shit.

Canada, the weather is shit. Right? The weather's shit in the winter. The food is shit. Young people can't afford anything. Everywhere they go, they're seeing a decaying society. Downtown areas in major Canadian cities are unlivable. Completely unlivable. You can't. You just can't. I mean, I'm not going to go on the rants that Joey goes on, like, for a variety of reasons. But the gaslighting that our media does is just nonstop, telling you that it's Donald Trump's fault or it's social media's fault or it's this fault that fault, Putin's fault, whatever.

Nobody takes responsibility for anything, right, for the decay of society. And our media is bought and paid for by the higher powers, whatever that is. fill in the blanks. Then they feed you this shit, tell you that it's because you're on Twitter too much, or you're on Facebook too much. And there is a fucking nugget of truth to that because the social, the algorithm is a pain in the ass.

You're in the same chat that I'm in, and I remember a couple of days ago, I posted to the group. I'm just like, have you guys noticed just like how aggressive the algorithm on Twitter is getting these days? Like since the war in Iran broke out, like it's been non-

on stop, like just, I've noticed it significantly, it's gotten significantly more negative. So, yeah, social media is, is contributing to people being, feeling like shit. I agree. But the fact that nobody has any fucking money and can't live a good life. Yeah, it's a symptom. It's not the cause. Yeah, exactly. It's a symptom, not a cause.

You know, correlation is not causation. Yes, there's a correlation between unhappiness and social media use. Yes, it's a correlation. You know what I find. It's not causation. I'm not sure if you ever noticed this, but the algorithm changes drastically for me when I use my computer versus my phone. And my phone is way more geared towards Bitcoin-related stories. my computer is geared towards international stuff.

I don't know why that is, but for whatever reason, when I use my computer, I cannot use that to get any information related to Bitcoin. I have to use my phone almost exclusively for that, which is, I find it to be odd. Yeah,

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my list of muted words is fucking long all my my mute is growing by the day yeah You just see my list of muted people. It's incredibly long.

I mute words. Like I, I, I mean, I'm you full on words. So, like, I don't even see it.

Yeah. Like XRP and she like that. Well, yeah, but yes, but also shit like anything related to violence. Like,

I don't need to see that. You know, I, I just, you know, any word that you can imagine, like, I'm not even going to mention the word

because I don't want you guys to get, like, demonitize. but any words like these violent, vile things, just fucking mute that word and mute words like it. It'll save you, it'll make your Twitter a little bit better of a place, but it hasn't saved me the past month.

Like it's because my Twitter feed is still shit now. It's still nothing but war. Last story. And an estimated 40% of the top. 1% of Canadian earners. So the 1% to top 1% 40 of them have left Canada for the United States.

I've been talking about this for a year and a half, two years now, telling people to prep, get ready, get the fuck out. The people of means, the top 1%, almost half of them have already fucking left. What does this mean? It means less taxation dollars that are available to be collected by the people up top

and they're going to have to recoup that somewhere else. They're not going to reduce the amount of services they're providing, or maybe they will, and it's going to be harder for you to just live your life. Or they'll just somehow try to recoup it somehow else. Either bring in more people or increase your tax dollars, that you have to pay anything along those lines, more user fees, anything. So this is, it's, you look at it. Some would argue that it's a sinking ship.

And I suggest everybody out there make preparations for the inevitable, because this stuff is getting really bad. People already left. People have means. Why not you? It should be your turn next. Yeah. I mean, it's on my mind and I never thought I'd see the day where it was on my mind.

It shouldn't be able to mind. Very good. It's awful. At our last meetup, I think I've said this before. I've said it on some podcast. At a meetup, you know, there were small turnouts, winter, it's bear market. So it's just like seven or eight guys, regulars. all of us are professionals well educated never been in trouble never broken a law we're good guys

and the topic of conversation at our meetup is when are we getting the fuck out and where are we going very good see i like this i mean i don't want to see it but it is it does but i've been talking about this for like i say a year and a half two years now and finally it's picking up steam man it's just it's the only reason I'm here is because of family if I didn't have family I would be long gone and I'm just waiting for it inevitable day where the family is no longer here either I go first or they go first that's that's the reality and if I go first you know what I'm happy I die happy dude but if you know something happens and I'm here left standing then I'm gone man I won't even dig twice just fucking leave but then where do you go I don't want to say

Well, I'm not saying you. I'm saying general. I'm not like where, where does one go? You be transient. Go somewhere. If it sucks, go to the next place.

Yeah. If it sucks, keep going. Eventually you'll find home. And maybe you'll never find home. You just go from place to place and just be a nomad. I joke all the time. I joke all the time.

Like obviously I have a podcast with one of the rock paper Bitcoin guys, but I'm also really good friends with fundamentals as well. So like those two guys are like two of my best friends in the world. now, right? So I talk to them all the time. And I told Brian, like, fundamental. I said, like, dude, like, there's a non-zero chance that shit hits the fan up here in Canada and I show up at your door. It's completely possible. And he's like, yeah, man, like, me and me and business cat will, we'll break you out of Canada. Like, we, I literally have a jailbreak, quote unquote, jailbreak plan with friends in the United States that if shit gets really bad in Canada,

that they're going to come and meet me at the border and smuggled me across. Oh, no, you don't want to go to that. That's insane. I don't, it's absolutely insane. I would always suggest people do it, the legal channels. Of course. That way you could go and live there and you don't have to dodge ICE and all that. That's the best way to do it.

Prepare now. Of course. And that way you don't have to do it tomorrow. All right. Let's talk about the next. segment the Hamilton versus Brampton man. No, let's talk about the segment Montreal Man versus the rest of Quebec. So I did an audible because, yeah, given where you live.

And this segment of the show is brought to you by 256 heat. Bumer, you want to take this one away? It is you like this. 256 heat. I say it all all the time. The coolest crew in the Bitcoin space are the heat punks. they're the absolute top the best of the best

Len and I were both in like mining Bitcoin at our house for a little while Joey's got a device too we sold a mine by the way we're not collecting any stats for anybody that's yeah yeah exactly you're heat mining

you're heating your garage but we have yet to hit a block yet we haven't got the 3.125 Bitcoin reward so just for anybody's yeah exactly exactly Look, look, start with a bed axe and work your way up. That's what I would say. And then once you get there, talk to, talk to Twan at 256 heat.

Like, he's the best there is. He's not the best in Canada. Not just the best in Canada. He's the best in the world. So you're telling me he's the best there is? The best there was. And the best server will be. Okay.

Yeah. Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. He's Brett the hitman heart of punk. Don't forget to tell him We sent you. We're the Heart Foundation.

We're like, you're Jim the Anfield Nineheart. I'm Owen. Joey's Brian Pilman. Rest and peace. All of these guys, rest and peace. All of them, right?

Except Brett, they're all, none of them are. Yeah. Yeah. But legit, 256 heat, Twan makes the best

home mining devices you can buy. And he'll, he won't just sell you the device. He'll help you set you, set, set you up. He'll like do like he does more than just houses. Like I think he does businesses as well too. Like he'll he'll he'll talk to you about it. He's not just trying to sell you expensive machines. He's actually wants to work with you with these things. And he's just a a plus dude as well.

He gave me this t-shirt out of five guys in Montreal. All right. We got two stories here. We have a Montreal man. We have a restaurant. of Quebec man. Quebecois man. Quebec man. So it's up to you Homer to decide which is which. So I got two stories. The first

it's actually two men. Two men who allegedly fathered hundreds of kids are banned from donating sperm. So the Quebec Superior Court has temporarily barred a man and his son from donating sperm

after they were accused of fathering hundreds of children. The injunction against the two men will remain in effect while the wider case against them proceeds on its merits. And they are being sued by a woman who has three children using sperm from one man and a fourth child from a genetic material of the man's son. Like the way they fucking describe it. She says the two men violated the terms of agreement, which allegedly stipulated that one man would stop donating sperm after 12. children and the other would stop after 10 children.

Court documents state that the woman through her own research discovered one man is linked to more than 450 kids and the other more than 160. And they say the two men denied ever agreeing to stop donating sperm but admit to fathering more children

than the limit which to plaintiffs allegedly are subjected. It's going to court to decide what the fuck's going on. See, yeah. So what did this guy do wrong? I don't know. Supply the man. He goes to him and his son.

They go to this firm. They just keep dropping loads over there. All right. That's the first story. Strange father's son activity, right? Like I guess I don't know. I used to go hunting carterge with my dad. That's what I used to do.

We go fishing. I don't know. What a story. Some father and sons. I was like, they go play golf. These guys. These guys are fucking good. All right.

The second one, man is blamed for 2023 wildfires. He pleads guilty to setting 14 fires. A man who posted conspiracy theories online that forest fires were being deliberately set by the government, pleaded guilty to setting a series of fires himself. And this guy pleaded guilty, the 13 counts. of arson. And in one of the series of fires, he ignited between May 31st and June 1st.

It said that it was, apparently they were claiming it was due to the forest conditions were dry and so forth. But five fires over a short period of time raised suspicions, they said. And so he kept doing fires. Police decided to start monitoring him. They suspected him. They monitored his Facebook and where he went. And sure enough, he was arrested.

So this guy was causing fires. It wasn't naturally. He was the one that was doing it. And he has since been detained. And yeah, so you got this guy. So it wasn't climate change? Said it. The thing was climate change when rally, he was burning a whole bunch of fires.

700 hectares. Sorry, 700 force fires burned over 4.5 million hectares in comeback copper to summer. And some of which he was responsible for. So you have this guy setting fires, the arsonist, claiming that it was done by climate change versus the other two dudes they were

giving the sperm at the sperm bank and fathering hundreds of kids and so 450 and 160 respectively that's a pretty good count yes me but anyways who do you think is the Montreal versus the Quebec Cibbecois. Now before I get to that I just want to ask you what

your opinion is on this who's going to spend more time in jail the guy who's a bunch of fires or the guy in Chicago who, you know, like the SNAP benefits and he was reselling the sales four years in change. So who's going to spend more time in jail? That's a good question.

I'm going to go with this, the fire dude. I hope so. I think it's a fire dude too. But like you had to think about it, right? Yeah, it didn't fucking, it wasn't a slam dunk. It's not a slam dunk. Yeah, I'd run the scenario in my head a few times. You can burn down forests and, you know, you're fine.

Well, not fine, but you'll go to jail, but you know, you won't get thrown in jail for the rest of your life. Or you can be an entrepreneur and, you know, give people what they want to get money to get their nails done. And you go to jail for five years. It's not. Yeah, like, I don't know. You're voiding the question, which is the Montreal man? I'm getting to a Montreal man. I'm just going to do blocking and tackling here.

Like no major analysis here. I'm just thinking about it. That the guy setting the fires should be the rest of Quebec man because there's not a lot of forests in Montreal. And the father and son, I would think that like sperm banks are more of like that's that's more of like a metropolis thing like I don't think rural Quebec has has a whole bunch of you know sperm donor clinics so that's what I'm going with I could be wrong but that's that's that's what I'm going with it could be a pastime for you know if you're a road trip road trip right

yeah yeah you you live in Saginae or something you drive you go to Montreal to you know you and your son go to the sperm bank on a weekend It's a great time had by everybody. Yeah, yeah. Stop in at Tim Horton's. No, no, no, you're going to stop in that, what's the chicken place? Santobal. You stop in Sanctubal, yeah.

Yeah. So, yeah, you're saying that the sperm donors, Montreal. The Montreal man, yeah. Chires, Quebec. You are 100% right. That's that. They didn't release any names of the two guys. I guess that's for the better.

much not embarrassing that would be, but it is what it is. You're correct. People playing at home, hopefully you got that one correct as well. Next week we'll be back to the Hamilton versus Brenton Man if Joey's voice is back in session. Boomer, any last words before we sign up?

Pump your show, 49th Parallel podcast. 49th Parallel podcast. We're doing one episode every two weeks. So episode one is out. Go out and have a listen. I want feedback. Luke and I want feedback on it. Like I said at the beginning of the show, it's a podcast for Bitcoiners, but not about Bitcoin.

And the first episode we did was kind of just personality types of Bitcoiners. So we just spent an hour, an hour and a half talking about, you know, what are we as Bitcoiners? Bitcoin Men specifically. What are we like? our next episode will be talking about family issues. So I think fatherhood is going to be the topic of the next episode. It should be coming out early next week. I'm also a podcast that I was on that I recorded a few weeks ago.

It's coming out tomorrow. The Bitcoin Broadcast with Vince. Vince Hoddo. I don't know if that one might not be on your regular 40 hour per week rotation, but Vince is a really good host. It's one of those smaller podcasts. super high signal. It's coming out tomorrow.

And most of the time we talked about health and fitness, but we talked about Bitcoin generally. So this is going to be, if you're a 40-hour Bitcoin podcast, a week listener, there's a lot of Boomer content out there this week. So check it out. Boomer, appreciate you coming on to show.

Anytime. And which said, yeah, drop a link of the RSS feed in description. of the chat in the chat. So we'll try dropping the RSS feed in the description. Boomer, give it to Joey so you could add it to the show notes. And that's who we'll get it to you, John. So there we go.

All right. Appreciate you coming on. Appreciate listening and watching us. If you have done so and with that, take care. We'll be back at this next week.