The Wolf Of All Streets - The Ultimate Fight For Bitcoin & Crypto | Vote John Deaton!

Episode Date: October 17, 2024

John Deaton, Candidate for United States Senate in Massachusetts and , joins me today to discuss his epic debate with Elizabeth Warren and share his thoughts about the upcoming elections.  John Deaton: https://x.com/DeatonforSenate Vote John Deaton! https://johndeatonforsenate.com/ ►►DID YOU WATCH THE DEBATE? LET ME KNOW HOW YOU THINK IT WENT HERE 👉https://roundtable.rtb.io/shortUrl/1nOLUZe ►► JOIN THE FREE WOLF DEN NEWSLETTER, DELIVERED EVERY WEEKDAY! 👉https://thewolfden.substack.com/   ►► The Arch Public Unleash algorithmic trading. Discover how algorithms used by hedge-funds are now accessible to traders looking for unparalleled insights and opportunities!  👉https://thearchpublic.com/  ►►TRADING ALPHA READY TO TRADE LIKE THE PROS? THE BEST TRADERS IN CRYPTO ARE RELYING ON THESE INDICATORS TO MAKE TRADES. Use code '10OFF' for a 10% discount. 👉https://tradingalpha.io/?via=scottmelker  Follow Scott Melker: Twitter: https://x.com/scottmelker Web: https://www.thewolfofallstreets.com/ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/30N5FDe   Apple podcast: https://apple.co/3FASB2c   #Bitcoin #Crypto #JohnDeaton The views and opinions expressed here are solely my own and should in no way be interpreted as financial advice. This video was created for entertainment. Every investment and trading move involves risk. You should conduct your own research when making a decision. I am not a financial advisor. Nothing contained in this video constitutes or shall be construed as an offering of financial instruments or as investment advice or recommendations of an investment strategy or whether or not to "Buy," "Sell," or "Hold" an investment.

We've spent endless time talking about the implications of the presidential election, whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris is better for crypto and what will happen if either of them wins. I have long made the argument that that is misdirection and that the election and the race that really matters is the one for senator in Massachusetts. Elizabeth Warren has long been the head of the snake in the anti-crypto army. She says it literally herself. And we have one of our own running against her and have the opportunity to unseat the senator

that is controlling crypto policy in the United States of America. Luckily, I have him here with me once again today, John Deaton. We're going to talk about the eviscerating that he did of Elizabeth Warren in the debate two nights ago and the next debate, which is coming tonight, that you don't want to miss. Guys, you have to tune in for this. You have to donate to John. Let's go. Anytime I get the opportunity to talk to John, it matters. And you have to get fired up and you have to be passionate because this is maybe one of our only and biggest chances to do what's right for our industry in the United States of America. I'm going to go ahead and bring John on right now. Dude, you killed her in the street. It was a public murder.

I've never seen anything like it. As I said to you before, I might be biased. I might be. Maybe a public murder. I've never seen anything like it. As I said to you before, I might be biased. I might be. Maybe a little bit. A little bit. But I like to look at things through a somewhat objective lens. And you just destroyed her. I mean, listen, you know, Senator Warren is obviously a talented, brilliant woman. And she's been doing this rant for president and all those things. But when you have truth and justice on your side, it's hard to fail. That's how I look at it. Yeah. Truth and justice seem to be less compelling motivations for voters in this

country in 2024 than they were when we were kids. Yeah, go ahead. Well, no, we saw that at the first debate. I mean, go ahead. I think, Scott, we got to get back to voting for who the best candidate is in an election and not be so labeled and wrapped around, you know, Republican means this, Democrat means this. And here's the thing, Senator Warren, we know how she's going to vote on anything, everything. Her vote is taken for granted. I'm truly an independent thinker. And, you know, there's going to be issues like the abortion issue where I'll be caucusing with Democrats, I'm sure, if something arises. And then when we're talking about, you know, regulations and fiscal responsibility, I would caucus with the Republicans in my party. So, you know, but that was her argument at the end of the day. She's a Democrat. Vote for her.

But not only that. So that was her argument at the end of the day. She's a Democrat. Vote for her. But not only that. So that was her argument for voting for her. But her argument for voting against you literally was he's lying and he's not going to do what he says. He's lying. He's not going to do what he says. He said, listen, I have three daughters. I'm pro-choice. I would never want them, you know, the government to interfere with what my daughters can do with their bodies.

And she went on this tirade that said, yeah, but then he's going to get in there like every other Republican and he's just going to become pro-life. So vote for me. But her entire argument, I told you before I was joking, I was like, make fun of his head or his beard or you don't like his tie. Tell me something that you don't like about what he's actually saying or doing, not about some future projection of what he could theoretically do that has no basis in reality. Yeah. I want everyone to think about that for a minute. How tragically sad is it that

Sarah Warren actually believes, listen, I held a press conference. I challenged her to debate me for one hour, a third debate just on women's reproductive rights, other women's rights that I referenced it, the whole gamut, and she wouldn't do it. And she actually is going to take the position in this sad, political, tragic world that she lives in, that I'm going to have a press conference. I said, if it came down to it, like if it was the last straw, I would switch parties if it meant an abortion ban. I pissed off tons of Republicans. Some of them want to throw me out as a Republican party. Then I get on stage and I look to the world and say, I'm pro-choice. I would never, I'm a freedom maximalist. I believe in the freedom of choice, right? And that doesn't mean I believe in late term abortions and all that stuff. I'm just talking about a woman's fundamental choice during a certain period of time.

And I said I would never betray my daughters. Senator Warren lives in a world where I would I'm lying. I'm pretending and that I would go into the Senate and dishonor my my word, my life, that I would betray my daughters. That is a sad, tragic world to live in. And that's why we need term limits, man, because they get in there and they just go whack-a-doo with that stuff. Yeah, man, term limits for sure.

This, I have to just play this really quick because this just made me laugh. I don't even know if this is really, if you really added this to the end or somebody else did, but I was dying when I saw this. Look, people of Massachusetts know me. If John Deaton has a chance to go to Washington, he's going to be there to fight for crypto. I'm John Deaton and I approve this message.

I mean, I didn't. I know I didn't think so. I thought it was just a meme. But when I saw the ending of that, I was just dying because it just blows my mind that what one person can say is like the biggest negative against you is the thing that you wear as a badge of honor on your sleeve. Yeah, well, you know, here's the thing. It's why I made the point. And everyone's got to think about this. Look at what we're facing.

Just real quick. We have illegal immigration. It's bankrupting Massachusetts because we have a right to shelter law and it doesn't require residency. So any migrant that comes that's homeless, goes into a hotel, gets fed, goes to school, all of that. It's bankrupting the state. You have a debt crisis. You know that better than anyone. We're falling off a cliff. We're paying $3 billion in interest a day. We have an opioid crisis, losing Americans. We have foreign wars striking up everywhere. The world's going into chaos and people are being priced out of the economy with inflation. But Senator Warren, the senior senator from Massachusetts, woke up one

day and said, you know what? I'm going to run for reelection and I'm going to build an anti-crypto army. With all those real world problems. Why is she so focused on crypto? So I've been calling her the crypto candidate. Yes. Do I have my money invested in Bitcoin and crypto? Sure. But she thinks it's a bad investment. Fine. Don't tell the rest of us that we can't and don't attack an industry. But I just don't understand why she's so focused. I would never understand it. And I remember, Scott, I was scratching my head. This is before I got in the election was like, why would she be doing this with all those real world problems?

And then she went on Chuck Todd and said America is ready for a central bank digital currency. And then I go, ah, she wants to control everything. I get it now so yeah so but they okay so first of all you didn't know what the questions would be in advance of debate correct no no i i'm no gary gensler okay uh i didn't have that opportunity she might have uh but i but um i you know yes that's probably not true i have no idea um but so you had no idea that they were literally going to ask her about the anti-crypto army. I, you know, I almost spit my drink when they said those words.

I was very surprised that that John Keller, the moderator, literally quoted, you know, anti-crypto army and which that's why I, you know, I explained my journey in the Bitcoin with my mom and the fees, Western Union fees and all that stuff. But that's why I turned the focus on to her. And, you know, listen, that crypto anti-crypto army is is her and Gary Gensler now, because Vice President Harris is now putting out, you know, whether it's sincere and true, it's election year. We all need to take that into consideration on both sides. Right. They're trying to get votes. But certainly Vice President Harris has repudiated Elizabeth Warren at this point in time. She's repudiated her anti-crypto army. She wants a reset.

And and so Elizabeth Warren is out there on an island with her and Gary Gensler with one paddle left. You know what I mean? But what struck me about the question is you obviously gave the answer that you just described. We've heard you obviously give the crypto speech, which is genuine and just a part of who you are many times. But she played it off like it wasn't even real. This is what she said. I'm going to paraphrase. I don't have the quote, but she basically said, I think that everybody should be able to trade crypto however they want, buy and sell anything you want. It's fine. I just want to make sure you have the same rules as everyone else. When she sat on the floor of the Senate with Jamie Dimon from JP Morgan and asked him canned and prepared questions with canned and prepared answers, where he said,

if I was the government, I would ban it. And she said, yeah, right. Exactly. That's right. She's complete. Dude, I'm sorry. I know you're a politician. She's completely fucking full of shit. And it makes my head just want to explode. She sat there and said, I support crypto. It's fine. Buy and sell it. Whatever. I just want the same rules and then can go and openly say this stuff should be banned and never touched by anyone in the United States. How do we let them lie so much? Listen, Senator Warren, and I'll say this on the debate stage, respectfully, of course, and civilly, but she lacks a commitment to the truth. And that is a fact. You just said it. She got up there after literally proposing a ban. I call it the bankers ban on Bitcoin bill. Right. Because you and I can't have self-custody under it. But, you know, BNY Mellon can or any other thing. You get the exception, but crypto companies can't get that exception.

Well, I want to, listen, you know, you got to understand, and I know there's people in this industry that are like, I wish John would have said this or that. Crypto is not a big issue in our election in Massachusetts, right? To me, it's more about a freedom thing. It's the immigration, it's the inflation. Massachusetts is the second most expensive state to live in now. And so, I mean, people are really, really suffering.

And so if you were to ask them the top 10 issues, crypto wouldn't be in there. That's why I said, why is she so focused on it? But, yeah, she got up and act like, oh, I don't care if people dabble or trade in crypto. Well, tell that to Silvergate Bank. Tell that to to you know uh all of the other yeah signature and all of the other ones you have absolutely tried to attack this industry and you know she she's going to continue with the the the uh oh what are the crypto people want from deaton because you know people donated to a super pack or or. Or a guy like you in the industry will get me on and support me like you have, which I appreciate immensely. We were doing this before you were even running.

Of course. We're just being Scott and John anyways, right? But I'll answer that question. If she keeps posing it, I'll answer that question. I won't give it now. I'll save it, right? But I'll give that answer to question i won't give it now i'll save it right but uh i'll give that answer to her if she keeps asking it yeah i notice she doesn't answer any of my questions ever ever like none of it it's it really blew my mind i have to ask you actually outside of

the debate in the election obviously as you stated there and everybody knows you were a huge driving factor in the XRP decision. You obviously took that case on pro bono, won a number of awards for it. I played the clips yesterday, so I'm not going to be redundant. The sec is appealing. Were you surprised?

I mean, completely separate here, but I haven't gotten a chance to ask you about it. think i remember metal law man being like they're gonna appeal and everyone else saying no way these guys are gonna appeal they've lost but what do you make of the appeal now and the chance that actually uh they win yeah well first uh if there's a dispute i'm gonna go side with metal law man and those kind of things he's pretty pretty smart. Uh, and he's, and he's a friend and, and, and, uh, love him to death, but listen, um, it's, it's just no more nonsense. Right. And here's the thing that voters need to know. Um, judge Torres didn't apply the other factors, right? She just

said, look, um, you didn't prove the third factor, which is rely on the efforts of others because of the affidavits we submitted and all that stuff. So she didn't answer the common enterprise question or anything. So even if the SEC were to take it up, and I don't think they will, but let's say they won, all that would happen is it would go back to Judge Torres and she would then apply the common enterprise factor. And I thought that was the weakest factor that the SEC had. And then she would rule again, in my opinion, that XRP is not a security and that the XRP holders who were acquiring it on exchanges wasn't a security. So it's a colossal waste of money, of taxpayer money, because it's such a fact-specific decision. But for whatever reason, Gary Gensler, the SEC,

probably Jorge Tenrero, who is like the chief prosecutor of this stuff, they just can't let stuff go. They can't take an L, take the L and move on. You're supposed to be wearing the white hat, right? You represent the United States of America. Like that should mean something to you. You don't have to win everything. You want to protect regular people. Well, regular people don't want your protection, all right? The way you're doing it. So honor your mission of protecting investors. And so they need to clean house as far as I'm concerned at the SEC, because I think some of these lawyers are literally unethical. Didn't their head of enforcement leave, like, I'm sure it was coincidence,

but within 24 hours of that ripple appeal coming out? Yeah. And that's a guy that, you know, in Congress under oath, you know, misled. I mean, so, you know, good riddance to him. He was part of the problem. But listen, we all know that the real problem is Gary Gensler and and my opponent, Senator Warren. And they're on that island. But when the vice president of the United States running for president repudiates her, when Donald Trump running for president says he's going to embrace the technology, you know, it's here to stay. And what everybody should look at the debate the other night, Sarah Warren was defeated. Right. When I say defeated, I don't mean by me, by, oh, I don't care what you said, Scott. I don't care if people trade crypto. That is a complete 180. Now, it doesn't mean she's not going to be behind the scenes still trying to hurt crypto and hurt freedom

and push for her central bank digital currency or whatever. But clearly, she's losing the war on crypto. Yeah, maybe she's just going to capitulate and pretend it never happened. Do you think that in this world... That's what they do. That's what they do, right? They like ignore it. I mean, I'm against the banks, but all my money comes from the banks. Well, not yet. I mean, maybe tonight she'll talk about another vote she did 10 years ago and avoid what's going on today. Right. Remember, she's like, I voted for immigration reform 10 years ago.

Who cares? And it didn't even go through. What's going on about today? We need a senator today in Massachusetts. Is there a chance that Harris wins, but Gensler is pretty much immediately ousted even under a Democrat president? Well, listen, I know that Mark Cuban is kind of divisive or people in crypto because of the Trump versus Harris stuff. But listen, according to Mark, and I haven't had personal conversations with him. I mean, we DM'd about other stuff, but, you know, he says that she wants a reset. And if she wins and he certainly is someone, whether you like him or not, agree with him or not, is pro the industry. So you would imagine he said Gensler needs to go.

Anthony Scaramucci is helping her. He says Gensler has to go. So when you have some of the biggest leaders who are supporting you, telling you this guy is a problem, and you're saying you want to do a reset, the writing should be on the wall that he's going to be gone at some point soon. You know what I love, though, is that these guys who, I guess Cubans, Democrats, Garamucci certainly is not a lifelong Democrat,

I think, as we know. They support Harris, but they still support you. Listen, I have the most, the thing that I'm really proud about is I have devout Trump supporters supporting me. Listen, some of my best friends are voting for Donald Trump. Some of my best friends are voting for Vice President Harris. We live in a divided world, man. But I have both sides saying, hey, you know, I'm voting for Trump and Deaton or I'm voting for Harris and Deaton. And I like that.

I think that puts me on the right side of history. She's obviously painted you from the first moment that you ran as a MAGA Republican, which was just I mean, it's just hilarious. But that said, I mean, I know that's Massachusetts, so it's a bit of a vacuum. But if you take a look, even on polymarket now, I mean, Trump's odds of winning here at 62%. I mean, does 62% Harris at 38, this has gone up like 10% in three days or something given this is a betting market, it's not necessarily polling. But how much does it affect your election in Massachusetts for Senator, like how the tides are turning in the presidential election? I have a friend I've told you about who obviously he's a politician in Tampa, Hillsborough County. And he often says to me, he's like,

literally, it's like whoever wins president is probably going to swing whether this county goes Democrat or Republican in my small election. Yeah, not in Massachusetts. I mean, listen, I think that President Trump has more support than people think in Massachusetts, but he lost Massachusetts by 33 points. So even if he did twice as well that he did four years ago, he would still lose by 16 points. And so a lot depends on turnout. And, you know, it works both ways. If a lot of Democrats, if they're blinded by the D and the R, and this is what people need to know. I've never been delusional, right?

I've never pretended that this is, you know, not an uphill battle. And I know people are citing the poll that shows me, you know, down 20 points. Well, if all the voters know, I want you to know this. We did polling. If all the voters see is Democrat, Warren, Cambridge, right? Deaton, Republican, then yes, I lose by 20 points. But we did polling that if they only learn I was in the Marine Corps and I'm pro-choice, it's a single digit race immediately. When they learn more about me and they see, wow, I'm like Charlie Baker, centrist, common sense, perspective, pro-choice, all those things, then it's really tight and competitive. And so for me, it's all it goes comes down to getting enough name recognition out there.

And so hopefully after tonight's debate, we'll see some polling that shows that the race has gotten much tighter. Right. Dave Weisberger and I were joking about this year. You know, we're a bit older. So you probably remember the movie The Distinguished Gentleman. Do you remember that movie with Eddie Murphy? Yeah. Where the guy Jeff Johnson, the congressman in Florida, dies and Eddie Murphy's name is Thomas Jefferson Johnson. And he just runs as Jeff Johnson, the name, you know, the presumption being that people just vote for the same person they've always voted for without even thinking. They just look at the ballot and they go, oh yeah, I know that person's name.

How do you fight that phenomenon? Because she's been around so long. You got to figure a lot of people are just going to look and be like, maybe I don't know John Deaton. I know her name, check. Yeah, it's a double-edged sword. Like I'll tell you this way. One, you're right. But two, she remember she ran for president. She came in third in Massachusetts. Bernie beat her. Biden beat her in her own, which means you need literally like 15,000 people going to the supermarket.

And they would say, Hey, John Deaton, former Marine is running for Senate where you sign his ballot. They keep walking because they don't know who John Deaton is. Right. I've been a lawyer here, but they don't know me. And then they go, he's running against Elizabeth Warren. Stop, turn around. All right. I'll sign his ballot. You know what I mean? It seems like nobody loves her. No, I'm sure there are people. I'm sure there's some like there's a lazy acres retirement home somewhere where they're all huge, you know, Elizabeth Warren fans. But like you said,

I mean, listen, when I'm out on the parades and stuff like that, you know, you run into here and there, but most of it is not so much about her is that they view a Republican as an extremist, right? Like as someone who's pro-life all the way, someone who is, you know, a climate denier, someone who is all those things. And so, but I, listen, I, again, if, if I'm able to get the word out, I have lifelong Democrats that are voting for me, you know, once they learn that when it comes to social issues, I'm moderate. I mean, the, the globe said he might, he's downright liberal when it comes to social issues, you know, because for example, when Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden and Barack Obama, they didn't support gay marriage. They supported civil unions. I was like, we live in America or

not, man. Like freedom is freedom. Like marry who you want, love who you want. That was sort of my attitude. And so they were like, because of that, they're like on social issue, this guy's, you know, liberal, but I'm someone who says, you know, at 35 trillion debt that we're walking off a cliff of, we really have to pay attention to that. The fact that we've printed 80% of all US dollars in the last four years, I mean, we might want to pay attention to that. Just maybe. And so we'll see. But Elizabeth Warren, she's never seen a spending bill that she doesn't like to support. And hopefully tonight we get into the wealth gap because I really want to

talk about that. As you know, someone who grew up so poor, we really do have a society of the haves and have nots. But Senator Warren's policies actually hurt poor people and middle class people. And I really want to prove that tonight, hopefully. Yeah. And that speaks right directly to the crypto debate. I mean, I know we've only got a couple minutes left here. So in general, what would you say are the biggest issues in your state that need to be addressed that you are addressing and maybe she is not? Yeah, it's absolutely immigration and inflation. And that's it. I mean, there's other issues, obviously. But listen, average price of a home in greater Boston, $980,000. That's your median, right? Statewide, it's $650,000. That's $200,000 more than the national average. Housing market in Boston, we've got none. We beat

out San Francisco and San Diego and LA for rent now. We're number two behind Hawaii. And so people are working 50 hours a week and they can't make ends meet. So inflate and then immigration, listen, it's literally bankrupting the state. I just learned that, believe it or not, I just learned that in Taunton, they had an $8 million contract for Uber rides for the migrants, for Uber and Lyft. I mean, it's insanity. In the meantime, you know, I know some of you don't understand my references when I talk about Neshoba or Kearney Hospital, but we lost two hospitals in Massachusetts, and the governor and others couldn't save it, right. Which would you know, they couldn't save it, but they've spent a billion dollars feeding housing and driving migrants. Why? But why? Well, we have that right to shelter law that was passed in the 80s and it doesn't require residency.

And listen, Scott, I mean, it's it's a noble thought. Right. If you if one of your citizens taking care of taking care of people less fortunate is a noble thought, right? If one of your citizens- Taking care of people less fortunate is a noble thought. Right, and think about this. If you had a family and let's say the husband was the breadwinner and he gets killed in an accident and now you got a mom and she's homeless and she needs help, of course we should help that person. But that doesn't mean that they expected an open border where just literally millions of people would come in. And now in Massachusetts, we got to feed them and we got to house them. And then there's the education is you got a right to educate law. It really is bankrupting Massachusetts and people are leaving. So that in the cost of living really is the entire

election, man. I just want to play a real one more clip before I let you go of living really is the entire election, man. I just want to play a real one more clip before I let you go, because this is the one that when I watched, I was like, oh, they didn't he didn't know what questions were coming. And he's not these are not prepared answers because I was on the floor on this one is in this hype thing. Senator Warren lives in this hyper partisan political world where she's defined by party. You notice it's Democrats are great. Republicans are bad. I got news for you, Senator. All of you suck in Congress. All of you.

It's a broken system. I'm disrupting that system. Senator Warren worries about control. When she was asked, what's wrong with John Deaton's policies? You know what she said? Oh, the crypto people like him. Then the said well wait a minute is that it she goes oh we want to not lose control of the senate this is the point i mean yeah you didn't yeah i'm like hey i'm just gonna tell her she sucks like well you know 72 hours in advance i can honestly tell you

that uh that's not planned at that that moment, and I'm sure some people would be criticizing, but at that moment, I was just being an American, right? Think about this industry that you're in with crypto. We're applying 1930s law in a case from 46 to modern day artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, automation, robotics. It's insane because Congress won't do their job. So in that moment, I wasn't really a candidate for U.S. Senate. I was like a citizen saying, my God, quit pointing the finger, because if you are, then point it to all of you.

You know, I mean, that's really what that was about. Well, I think it's nice to see you actually get fired up in real time. And, you know, you don't see that very much anymore. You see these canned responses to questions that have been prepared before and, you know, the sort of misdirection of talking points. So what do you think about Ukraine? Well, the problem we have is at the southern border. I mean, it's not what I asked you about. You know what I mean? And we see that all the time, I think, in politics. So quickly, the debate tonight, 7. PM Eastern standard time. The last one was at eight 30.

So this one's earlier, right? This is on your personal account. Yeah. You can go to my personal account. C-SPAN is covering it. GBH and local streaming. So everyone be able to watch it.

And yeah, listen, I'm just going to be me. Go up, go up there and whatever happens happens. You know what I mean? But I'm looking forward to it me, go up there, and whatever happens, happens. You know what I mean? But I'm looking forward to it. But more importantly, guys, you can't win without money.

It is. So you're not a politician in the classical sense, but there's a certain game that everybody has to play, no matter who they are in politics. I've seen it with my friends as well. You've got to donate. You know, Scott, I appreciate that because uh i guarantee you that i have a text message from my team saying why didn't you plug the site more you know i suck at certain

things about being a candidate man this is what i'm so i i really appreciate you you're doing that because if you didn't do that i guarantee you i got a call it's like dude why wouldn't you plug the website you're still gonna get the call because i did it, but I didn't do it like five or 10 times during the, during the thing. But listen, uh, I appreciate it, man. And yes, if you could go out there, even if it's 10 bucks, it helps. Cause if I can get the word out, get on TV with a commercial that I just cut, uh, we can make this race competitive. You know what I mean? And that's, listen, it's an uphill battle. There's a narrow uphill path to victory.

I think I'm on it. You know, we're going to find out soon. Yeah, so it's johndeton4senate.com if you guys can't hear me. No, I'm going to be real. My wife's biggest criticism, maybe of me our entire life, which is like, Scott, you're the worst self-promoter in history.

When I was a DJ, everything, she'd be like, you'll never – people ask you what you do, you'll be like, I just DJ sometimes. They're like, what do you do now? I'm like, I kind of do a podcast. She's like, there's so much more. Talk about it. I'm like, no, I just can't.

She's like, I get it. And so I think stepping into politics where your job is to sit on the phone all day and ask people for money must be a very uncomfortable position. And that's awful. It's the single worst part of the job. Meeting people is great, but you know, calling people, ask for money. And if you learn my life story, it's really not a strength as you can see here. But listen, I think it proves whether it's you or me that whatever we're doing, we're doing it for the right reasons, not the wrong reasons. And so that's the way I look at it. So, guys, donate. Watch the debate tonight.

John's got more important things to do, and I've taken three extra minutes of his time. And thank you so much. We really do appreciate you. I appreciate you and your audience. All right. Tune in tonight. It's going to be fun. Good luck tonight, man. Go prep. Get ready to tell you and your audience. All right. Tune in tonight. It's going to be fun. Good luck tonight, man. Go prep. Get ready to tell her she sucks again. All right.

All right, guys. That's obviously all we've got from John. Just personally, as you know, if you've been watching this show for a long time, John and I met because of crypto. It was long, long, long before he was even considering a run. And I remember our DMs where he said, I might have a big announcement coming soon. I was like, you, my friend, are out of your mind, but I love it. To run against Elizabeth Warren of all people. And I've said this many times. I said it at the fundraiser we did for him. And Austin,

this is a rare, I think, opportunity where not only do you get to do what Americans do, which is vote against someone you hate, because we know that almost nobody votes for someone they like anymore, right? Everybody's skeptical politicians. They say, oh, I don't really like her, but I'm voting against him or the opposite, right? You get the opportunity to vote against someone that you legitimately dislike and who has objectively been horrid for the industry that we love, for the asset class, for we love, for our thing, so to speak. But on the flip side, you also get to actually, for once in your life, vote for or support through a donation,

but vote for or support someone who you genuinely like, who has genuinely supported our industry. He's a likable person, but who has supported our industry for free. I mean, the guy did it completely pro bono. And I see over here in the comments, we've got the Mikkel Mafia, I guess. A lot of people being sent over by Mikkel and people who are usually here saying,

who's Mikkel? Mikkel's awesome. He comes on spaces with me all the time. And I deeply appreciate that he's sending people here. And I can tell you part of the stream the other night, I was actually watching from his ex account. He was live streaming it. And so when I got up from the TV, I was watching it on his account. He's great. And there's a lot of us, I met him actually in person at that fundraiser for the first time. There's a lot of people that you would deeply respect or like in this industry who are exceptionally beyond passionate for supporting John for all of the reasons above, not just because she needs to lose or because he's pro-crypto, just because the guy should literally be in Washington representing us because he's one of the good guys. And I have countless clips here that we can play from the debate, but you saw it. I just encourage you guys really to watch the debate tonight. I think that it's going to be yet another absolute ass beating, and I'm here for it. That's all I got.

I mean, Dan's not here from Chart Guys. He still, I think, is having internet problems from Helene. We could talk about markets, and we could talk about the news, but I just want to leave it on a good note because John is such a legend, and I'm just really, really hoping that he can catch up and win and that all of you will support him in any way you can. Guys, thank you so much. Go to his website, make a donation, watch the debate tonight.

See you soon. And Mikkel, thanks to you and your army for showing up for the stream. Really appreciate it. All right, guys. Talk to you tomorrow for the Friday Five. Later. Let's go.