The Wolf Of All Streets - Rapper Zuby: Our Freedom Is Violated

Episode Date: May 12, 2022

Our guest today is REALLY good at making predictions for the future. How does he do it? Hear from Zuby (@ZubyMusic) himself on critical thinking, paying attention, and challenging the status quo. We also talk about the atomic bomb combination of smart phones and social media, history, and why we are grateful to be living in these times. JOIN THE FREE WOLF DEN NEWSLETTER 📩 https://www.getrevue.co/profile/TheWolfDen THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS ►► Have you ever had your exchange go completely offline during days of high volatility? Of course you have. We've all been through it. Those days are no longer with Bullish. Bullish is a new breed of digital asset exchange that empowers users to trade with deep and predictable liquidity across highly variable market conditions. They also have incredible automated market-making and industry-leading security. I can't get enough of this platform and it's fully regulated. Sign up here: https://thewolfofallstreets.info/bullish/youtube EPISODE LINKS Zuby: https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic Production & Marketing Team: https://penname.co/ FOLLOW SCOTT MELKER • Twitter: https://twitter.com/scottmelker • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scottmelker • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wolfofallstreets • Web: https://www.thewolfofallstreets.io • Spotify: https://spoti.fi/30N5FDe • Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3FASB2c

If you pay attention and you just think and you question motives and you look at incentives and things like that, you can often see how things are going to play out. So it's less being prophetic and more paying attention. This episode is sponsored by my good friends at Bullish. Stay tuned for more information on this amazing company later in the episode. I often like to say that nobody has a crystal ball when it comes to their trades and investments, and nobody can predict the future. But some people are really good at making guesses that seem to come true. I joked just about that with Zuby.

Everybody knows Zuby. He's an incredible thinker, rapper, thought leader, and he broke down exactly why he saw our freedoms being violated and what's likely to happen in the future as this progresses. This is a conversation you do not want to miss. You guys got enough cameras? No, we need more, I think.

We definitely could do more. Yeah, I think- Dude, my man rolls with six. And the crazy thing is that I started the podcast like one week before the pandemic. So it's just been me on a Zoom until this weekend that I've actually sat with people and done them in person. Yeah, I've only ever done one on mine in person.

I just did like 200th episode came out today. I'm right about there. 200 something. Yeah. It's looking crazy. Yeah. It's always just been, but also like doing, yeah, doing them in person. So I'd love, I'd love to eventually do that, but I'd need to be a more geographically. Well, it works here because you can just bring everybody to you and just like expend all your resources and get four months of content or whatever whatever so i want to know what it feels like to uh be a prophet and how your crystal ball works oh you were telling me about all this shit years ago sure thing man sure thing you want to cover that in the interview? No, we're talking. Oh, you just want to talk now? We're good. You just... Oh, we're good? Yeah, I just want to know. Okay. I just... I practice critical thinking and I practice second, third, and fourth order thinking.

A lot of people just think on the surface level and see the immediate thing, but I always go deeper, right? If you push an object, then, you know, some people just see the pushing of the object and not what that can lead to, right? Is there another object next to it that you can know? Like, oh, okay, if you push that and it hits that, okay, that one's going to go as well, and that'll make a certain amount of noise, and that'll catch certain people's attention. So that would be like, okay, second third of consequences right if you do that one thing what would logically follow from it um so yeah that's that's how i look at that's how i look at things that's how i see things i also also sometimes information is out there which people

ignore or aren't aware of because they call it conspiracy theory. Yeah. But sometimes, sometimes it's even from official sources. Right. Right. So for example, like if you want to talk about, I mean like the past, a lot of the stuff that happened over the past two years was they said from very early on, there was information about what people were planning. So if you go on the EU Commission website, European Union Commission website, you will find a document from spring 2019, prior to anyone ever hearing the word COVID,

called something like Road to vaccination passports before the pandemic started. Right. And this is on the official EU, European Union website. And that document is sitting there. And it's like, okay, this is what they're going to try to do. It's literally laid out up until 2020 2024 I believe 2022 or 2024 and it's literally like this is the plan to install some type of you know you

digital vaccination certificate passport and you can like show this to people even and they don't believe it right so if you I mean if you, in 2020, if someone talked about a vaccine passport, we're saying that people would be denied entry or exit or, you know, not being allowed to do certain things. People were calling you a conspiracy theorist. And then those same people a year later are then calling you a conspiracy theorist for saying that, like, what's actually happening.

Like, literally, I'm watching this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And all of those people who were saying it was never going to happen are now like in support of it or whatever. But this happens with a lot of things. You can often see where, I mean, maybe not everyone can.

Well, clearly not everyone can. But if you pay attention and you just think and you question motives and you look at incentives and things like that, you can often see how things are going to play out. So it's less being prophetic and more paying attention and being willing to question what's happening. Yeah, it just seems like there's a fine line that's hard probably to straddle where you get to

a point where you can't take anything at face value yeah it's yeah and that's and that's a big problem we have right now it's a big problem we have right now because if you want people to trust you you have to tell the truth or try to you can't lie all right if you lie constantly then people lose faith in you they lose they lose trust as they should right if someone tells you if someone's talking to you and you know every every fourth thing they say is false and they know it's false right now there's one thing with being wrong and you you're not you're not lying you're just wrong about something you think a fact is this and it's actually something else that's not the same as lying that's just being wrong but if you know the truth and you're saying the opposite or

you're saying something different and you do that to people repeatedly this goes for it doesn't matter if you're an everyday person politician the meet someone in the media scientist whoever then people lose faith and i think we're living in this age where a lot of institutions a lot of these traditional institutions from the press to uh the government are like why are people not trusting us as much and it's like well because you've been lying to them for years on end knowingly so right right you you've been lying to people for years on end on every single thing. You're saying this and then, oh, three months later, six months later, one year later, it's the opposite.

And then sometimes they'll even switch back. Yeah. Right. And it's just like, well, you're lying at some point here. I don't know if you were the first. I don't know which one of these was true necessarily, but you're lying. And the and when the incentives line up with those lies, then that's often a problem because so much stuff when you're talking about those entities is driven by, so much is driven by money, power, and control. It's driven by money, power, and control. And so when you give people in those positions an opportunity to seize or maintain control of more of that, then you're always going to have a situation which is not working in the interest of the people at large.

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that's backed by multi-billion dollar liquidity contributions from the Bullish treasury. Follow at Bullish on Twitter or visit bullish.com slash Melker to learn more. It's always been the case, right? It's like, it's not like the government just started lying or just had some sort of motivation. So is it the rapid spread of information that, you know, we live in a technological world that now there's sort of a bit of an awakening?

And to be honest, I don't think there's that much of an awakening. I still think most people don't. Right? Or is it just that people are finally like over it or did they just push too hard? Like at this time, did they just go too far and it's like... You know, I think it's all of the above. I think it's all of the above i think it's all of the above like this is not a this is not a new problem no this is if anything what's interesting now is that just the the volume right we've never been people so true people understand but i don't think they fully understand how unique of a time period we are living in as the human species.

Like we are the past 15 years, especially I'd say particularly the Internet for sure before that. But the combination of smartphones and social media. Yeah. That combination is like an atomic bomb level. Bigger than the atomic bomb. I agree. Bigger than the atomic bomb. I agree. Bigger than the atomic bomb. I agree with that.

And it comes with. It hits everybody at once. And it comes with the amazing opportunities. What we're doing right now. Like we only met in person two days ago. It's crazy. But we've like known each other for a couple years. Yeah.

And chatted before and interacted. And we can I mean, right now we're here in person, but we could have done this via Zoom or something else. And you can be on different sides of the world having a conversation. And then you can go and you can share that with thousands or even millions of other people. And we're connected to so many people. You're connected to you've got over a million people following you online, which is incredible and it's amazing. It's also completely unnatural, right?

Like you were not supposed to be able to reach that many people and share our opinions and thoughts and ideas or whatever and everyone has this power, right? Sure, people have different sized followers. Yeah, but you still, everybody feels that same, even if they have a hundred followers, they feel the same power you do with a million. Yeah, and they have the same ability to reach you.

Anyone can just be like, at Scott Melker, oh, boom, that goes to you. And you could be a president, you could be a super famous athlete or celebrity or whatever and that's the case now and we're constantly bombarded. Every time you go on social media you're just seeing the opinions and ideas and actions of millions and millions of billions of people across the globe which is really really interesting but also we're not like, we're

not wired for this. This is an experiment. What are the long-term consequences of this? The pros and the cons? How's this affecting people's well-being, sense of self, mentality, ability to decipher right from wrong, truth from fiction, all of that. So it's really noisy. So I think that it's beautiful that it's not just this total monopoly. I mean, if you go back not long ago, it was just whatever they say on the TV goes, whatever they say on the radio goes. There's no dissent at all. There's no ability for people to share alternative media any type of way, no podcasts, no blogs no no any of that so i mean given what we know with what's going on now in this modern time it's even an interesting question like how how accurate is

is history you know like the history that we that we all know history is written by the victors right yeah the history we all know like how much stuff was just omitted you know there must have been some huge events that happened in history and they're just like we're not documenting that we don't even see one side of the entire story of every no no we're just we're just we're just burning that like any any report from that any script any book nope get rid of that one right so i mean before we're done like i guess the question then becomes what's the end game i'm not asking you to pull out the crystal ball again which we know works really well but does this lead to this just like the uprising of the people and we see all these systems burn down or do once again, the majority just fall into the trap and continue business as usual

after like a few years of unrest or something, or maybe it never even gets to that. I often say the majority is always going to be the majority, you know, so most people are going to do what most people do, which sometimes is fine. In normal times, that's okay. Because it's not easy to be a dissenter on anything. It's not easy, you know? And a lot of behavior, most human, a lot of human behavior is driven by, it's driven by social factors. It's driven by conformity. It's driven by acceptance, you know, wanting to conform, not wanting to stand out,

not wanting to be insulted, not wanting to be called names. And so all of that is typically used to keep people in check. And again, this is not something that's inherently bad, right? There are, people should be socially cognizant. You shouldn't literally not care at all what anybody thinks about you or what, like that's psychopathic, right? But there's a balance. There's a balance. And especially when you have bad actors or you have like a genuine threat or something that's truly immoral or unethical,

which is trying to be forced down on people, then you have to have the power and the courage and the constitution within you to stand up and say no. Even if I'm, just because a bunch of other people are doing or going along with something bad or something that completely makes no sense at all, that doesn't mean I have to. But it takes a level of fortitude, and that takes practice to develop because it's not the easiest way to do things.

In the long term, I'm a long-term optimist. I'm a big believer in humanity, and we've been through, as a species, far, far, far worse and more traumatic things than anything that's happened even with within my own lifetime really so I'm always the optimist but I don't but it's clear that progress is not it's not linear it's more like a it's like a stock it's like a Bitcoin chart it's like a Bitcoin chart or the stock market, you know. Overall, it trends upwards, but there are corrections. I think we've been living through a correction for the last several years where I think that

we've actually regressed in many ways. I think modern Western society has gone backwards over the past five years, not forwards. Does that mean it's going to keep going that way? No, I think the pendulum will swing back and that overcorrection will be dealt with, you know, people will buy the dip and we'll, you know, in the future, future generations, things will be better and more prosperous, but that has to be worked on. It's not a given. It's not just like, oh, everyone just sit back and chill and we naturally trend towards more liberty and more compassion and more kindness and less war. And, you know, it takes effort and it takes constant vigilance.

It takes constant vigilance. And most people are good. Most people are decent. And the unfortunate thing with humanity is it only takes like a very small number of ill-willed people or malicious people to totally destabilize any society. And I mean, if you think of it on the most basic level, I mean, what percentage of people are violent criminals? What percentage? I mean, sub 1% by far. Yeah, but because of that tiny, tiny minority, which exists in every city and every

country in the world, you now need this whole judicious system. You now need prisons. You now need all these police officers. You now need all this and that. Not because 99% of people are bad or or coming after you, but because that small element exists, you now need this whole gigantic and expensive apparatus to to to deal with it. But overall, if I look at if I do look at history and I see where things were a century ago or two centuries ago or three centuries ago, I would much rather live in this time than any of those. So I think we just need to keep working to make sure that that statement is true for the next century from now, for our descendants. Well, I'm glad you have the courage at least.

So where can everybody follow you after this and check out everything you're doing? Yeah, you can find me on everything. I'm on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Minds.com. Follow me at Zuby Music, Z-U-B-Y Music. You can find links to, yeah, that's my handle on everything. Buys books, buys music. Guys, this is the new mainstream media. Doing my best. Right here. Just doing my part. Right here. Appreciate you, man. No doubt, bro. Appreciate it. Thank you so much for listening to this episode. If you haven't already left a rating or a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please do that now. Spotify just added ratings, so please go ahead and click that five star. I'll see you guys next time.