The Rise of Man through The Stone and Iron Ages | The Saylor Series | Episode 1 (WiM001)

technologies that are dominating

today they're dominating because they're

able

to deliver

Force faster harder stronger

smarter so if we ask the question what

is money money is the highest form of

energy that human beings can Channel

Bitcoin is channeling human

Ingenuity into making it

better and and every commodity is

channeling human energy into making it

worse the low brow or or the the the

historic colloquial term is hotal right

hold on for dear life or just hold or

save whatever and the highbrow term

would be adopt as a treasure Reserve

asset hey everyone welcome to episode

one of the what is money show I'm your

host Robert

Breedlove uh and our purpose in this

show in general is the pursuit of

Truth uh we're going to explore many

topics in depth and many of them will

take us down the proverbial Bitcoin

Point Rabbit Hole by pursuing what I

call is the rabbit and the rabbit is

that question that all important

question what is money and this question

is a seemingly inexhaustible generator

of answers uh that have continuously

reshaped my perspectives on the world um

and I I think they will for you as well

and our first episode is part of a long

series with Michael sailor who's the CEO

of micro

strategy uh Michael is the latest and

arguably the greatest proponent of

Bitcoin and uh an ally for the space and

its battle for truth and freedom in the

world and Michael is uh as I said he's

he's the leader of micro strategy micro

strategy is a NASDAQ listed business

intelligence firm so Michael has very

deep experience in the fields of

Technology uh Network

architecture um things like this and in

fact uh he was actually educated in the

domain of scientific Paradigm shifts and

uh the impact of technology on

civilization and 10 years ago Michael

actually wrote a book called The Mobile

wave that uh depicted many of the

impacts that he saw um say Fang stocks

would have on the world so Facebook

Apple Amazon uh Netflix Google he had

laid out a case an investment case

largely for these these companies um and

their their dominance in in the global

Marketplace and clearly over the past 10

years as we we sit now in 2020 those

stocks have been uh standout performers

and have become in many ways uh the new

dominant monopolies in the world today

so Michael has a very deep understanding

of these these topics that I think

actually predisposed him to gaining a

rapid understanding of Bitcoin uh and as

you'll see uh or as you may have heard

in other interviews he really entered

the Bitcoin space in 2020 and got uh

very deep into the rabbit hole very

quickly in the wake of the the co Global

lockdown situation so uh Michael's a

very intelligent guy very high energy

very hardworking um and I think his

acceleration into the Bitcoin Rabbit

Hole also demonstrates that a lot of

this Trail has been blazed before him so

we've a lot of Bitcoin maximalists have

laid the foundation for others to gain a

more rapid and clear understanding of

the impact of

Bitcoin uh and in the wake of that as

you all probably know but you may have

not heard uh Michael's firm micro

strategy actually named Bitcoin as its

primary treasury Reserve asset uh they

initially invested $425 million into

Bitcoin and then Michael personally uh

publicly disclosed it he holds about

17,000 Bitcoin himself so uh he's got a

lot of skin in the game to say the least

and um I think you'll see why as we go

through some of

this uh so in this what we're calling

the Sailor series uh we're going to

start from the first principles of

energy of anthropology of technology and

really build a solid foundation for

gaining a deep understanding of

bitcoin's potential impact on the

world um and Michael and I to craft this

this series we iterated on a discussion

framework and we finally arrived at his

overarching thesis uh which is kind

enough to lay out in a very uh

sophisticated form and he goes very deep

on the topics we've laid out here um

which starts kind of very early like

Stone Age and we build all the way into

modernity so this is a long uh long

narrative Arc but super fascinating very

interesting stuff and clearly it takes

us some time to build up to bitcoin but

the the journey itself it's purposeful

and it's well worth it um so we've

divided the content itself into

timestamped chapters and sub chapters uh

we' We've chopped it into a bunch of

episodes each episode is comprised of

chapters and then two those chapters

there are sub chapters uh we'll have

time stamps available both in the video

bar and in the description to the video

and the early episodes will include a

lot of Michael talking so a lot of

uh him kind of speaking solo about his

his uh Bedrock thesis on on energy and

anthropology and Technology things like

this and then as we build into modernity

into Bitcoin it will become much more of

a dialogue and conversation as we go

back and forth uh about Bitcoin and

things of that nature so I realize this

is really long form content but I assure

you and promise you you're going to find

it deeply meaningful uh I myself

found I the feeling of chills at times

you know there were various epiphanies I

had going through this which I'll

articulate in some of the outros to the

episodes um but it's just this is

dynamite content and I think it's a

great um view into the mind of Michael

sailor um and it's very it makes a very

powerful case uh for Bitcoin and and how

much is going to to reshape the world so

I I promise you that you'll find You

know despite the time it may take you

you're going to find this extremely

intellectually satisfying perhaps even

philosophically satisfying uh we go

really deep on a lot of topics so hope

you hope you enjoy it and you know I

firmly believe the insights that come

out of this will actually reshape your

worldview so if this is the kind of

content you're interested in and you're

really interested at at going deep and

getting to Truth uh I think you're in

the right place today so with that uh

let's jump into episode one of the

Sailor series here on the what is money

show Michael sailor thank you for

joining me well happy to be here Robert

thanks for inviting me so for a man that

runs a company named micro strategy you

may have just executed the most

brilliant macroeconomic strategy there

has ever

been how does it

feel uh it's been a busy uh a busy

quarter I would

say really busy there's been a a year

you know January 1 of this year the year

started out one way and then uh it

became something all together different

in

March and uh it became something all

together different Again by

June and uh now we're in

September and I you know I look back on

it and

certainly there's a lot of things I

didn't expect

and I joke with people you know if I

gotten what I

wanted I wouldn't have gotten what I

needed I wouldn't have been nearly as

successful if at any point in time I got

what I wanted I'm sure this is not what

I wanted when I started the year and for

a while I thought it wasn't it wasn't

terribly a good thing but now as we move

toward the end of the year you know I I

see the silver lining here and I'm glad

these things happened which is uh which

is

fascinating yeah so it sounds like the

world in a lot of ways got a wakeup call

this year right on a lot of different

levels and um for you particularly it

was the the melting ice you were sitting

on that maybe started to melt a little

bit

faster yeah you know there's there's two

there's two quotes from Lenin's

era there's a

try's quote you may not be interested in

war but war is interested in

you and this year we we launched one war

on covid and another war on currency and

so we were caught up in kind of two Wars

in two dimensions and then there's

Lenin's quote you know there are decades

when nothing happens and there are weeks

when decades happen right and this was

that year in both of those ways

and uh I'm grateful that that our

company is an Enterprise software

company we our value proposition is we

ship software to large Enterprises to

help them think better and the value

proposition is intact if not even uh

even uh improved by all of the changes

this year and our our cost structure and

our operational systems the way we

operate we we uh dramatically impacted

and we had to adjust but I I would say

this was the year that digital

transformation went from being a

bromide or um or

diance to being something that you you

really had to internalize this was the

year that digital trans transformation

really did transform you you know the

core of your being it I mean it

transformed my ideas about money it

transformed my ideas about sales

marketing and services it transformed my

ideas about what product offering we

should deliver to the market it

transformed my ideas about the

marketplace and the future in general

and it's been thrown around as a

buzzword for a decade maybe for two or

three decades but this is the year when

you kind of got it viscerally in your

bones you had been bragging your feet

the least

amount yeah I think it's a great great

points there and as if the world wasn't

changing quickly enough right as we

progressed further into this digital age

it's as if Co was just a massive

accelerant on the entire

process um so not only are things you

know transforming much more quickly now

moving to digital much more quickly but

are likely to change even more quickly

expon potentially so into the future so

you know with that the the theme of this

conversation today um is deep

conversations and I know you're a deep

thinker and I I've really appreciated

the media work you've been doing um and

the voice you've brought to the Bitcoin

community and I'd like to jump in as

kind of like first principles a look at

history and what got us to today what

got us to this digital age that's

changing so quickly and where do we see

it

going um and I I know you've thought

deeply about this and you know maybe we

could start just at the beginning so to

speak with with historic

technology

okay well the I mean the phrase that

runs through my head

is is

um there's never been such a thing as a

fair

fight humans have been struggling for

millions of years right

in order to rise uh first to become the

you know the apex predator in nature but

if you look at our struggle against

nature there's never such thing as a

fair fight I remember

seeing Eagles Fly along a a mountain

side it'll home in on a goat or and it

focuses on a baby goat not the not the

parent goat catches it from behind grabs

its foot and drags it off a cliff and

then backs off and waits while the goat

goes bang bang bang and hits rocks every

50 feet and is smashed to death 500 feet

below where the eagle circles down lands

on the goat eats it leisurely W yeah

nothing fair about it if you know you

feel sorry for the goat and then you

realize this is not a human being this

is nature it's not fair then you see

lions and it's not like one lion chases

down one gazelle

it's eight lions

chase 67 gazelle into a Channel with

three other Lions waiting and one

gazelle is forced to take the right side

because it gets crowded out by the other

16 gazelle and that one bam this dead

for no other reason other than it just

happened to be on the right side of the

her and there's nothing fair about it

you know Nature's not fair and when you

think about the plight of man the

amazing thing is we

actually evolved right to be to be the

Apex creature on this planet you know

because a single individual on their own

has almost no chance right like there's

's that scene in Jurassic

Park and there's the bully and he's just

as mean to the

little whatever the little dinosaur

creature like some kind of small Raptor

and it's like the size of a little dog

and he kind of kicks it around and he's

a bully and a SST and then there's a

point where he gets trapped in the park

and he's walking and he sees that little

creature and it nips it his legs and he

kicks it and then he turns around and he

sees it's got a friend and there's two

of them and he looks around again and

there's four of them and then they jump

on them and he knocks them off and then

there's 16 of

them and then there's this overarch and

then they all jump on him and he fights

them off and he gets up and he runs and

now there's 32 of them and then you you

know the the human being right the

modern the modern uh American that lives

in their world of shopping centers and

cars and air conditioned hous and locked

doors and 911 and policemen they can

call and a feeling of safety and they

look at nature through a

zoo right and they look through the bars

and that's nature or it's in paintings

and it's all just so romantic right they

don't have this view of

nature The View when there's 64 of those

things and the over the the horrifying

realization that that guy is sure is

dead he's dead man walking he's going to

die there's not a damn thing he can do

it doesn't matter if he has a bazooka it

doesn't matter if he has a machine gun

it doesn't matter he's going to at some

point in the next 48 hours he's going to

fall asleep and they're going to eat

him and that's the Human Condition so

when you think about that three million

years ago and your first question is how

do we even make it here it's pretty

obvious that in that circumstance if

you're alone you're dead you're going to

have to have someone to guard your back

right and and you know my heart goes out

to that you know the Adam and Eve right

who wherever they were you needed two

three four you needed a tribe you needed

someone to watch because when you fall

asleep something is going to eat you

watch a pack of wolves hunt the one that

kills you isn't attacking from the front

you're you're not going to get to fight

it off it's going to be an asymmetric

attack from the rear while you're asleep

and uh and so the importance of human

beings using their brains and thinking

is uh is incredibly important and you

start to figure out H how do we survive

in a hostile

Universe we we have to figure out how we

can get harder smarter

faster and

stronger and uh that's

that takes us to the to the beginning of

man so if I look back at Stone Age

Technology and you ask how how do we

even emerge uh from this you know

incredible terrifying

scrum and uh there's just key

Technologies uh that you you decide you

kind of like in a hurry right one of

them is

fire one of them is

missiles one of them is Hydraulics and

so there's a lot more we could talk

about but if we start with fire fire is

like the Prime energy network of the

human race it all started for us with

channeling energy and um when you start

a

fire uh and what fire is a chain

reaction right where we're releasing the

latent energy in matter we're converting

matter into energy right which is like

stored sunlight we're releasing right

stored yeah stored sunlight you're that

human being and you want to rise above

the Tigers and the packs of wolves and

the other creatures and the snakes and

the jungle how are you g to do that

you're going to have to tap into and

channel energy and that's why Prometheus

has such a incredible Mythic Place

Prometheus is to Satoshi right as fire

is the Bitcoin bitcoin's a fire it's a

fire in cyers space and most people

don't realize it but but it has its uh

it has its antecedence right and fire

came along first and when you think

about what it means and most people

don't they don't necessarily think very

hard about it you always had it

right if you're an individual what can

you do with fire well you can start by

by starting a fireus you don't freeze to

death that's pretty useful you know the

fire will scare away the animal so I

start the fire I can I can sleep around

it and I cannot freeze I can also put it

around my camp and then maybe something

that other like a snake that would have

slithered in and eaten me will go away I

can scare away insects and smoke away

insects with it that's useful I can hunt

with it I can start a fire and I can

drive the prey away from the fire you

know and if I'm smart I drive the prey

from the fire off Cliff I wait for them

to trip I go to the bottom of the cliff

I find one that broke its neck you ever

get in a fight with a horse or a fight

with hippopotamus or an elephant It's

Not Gon to end well this idea of heroic

hand-to-hand combat is a great idea in

the movies it's an awful idea in in

reality and if you went back a million

years you would find that that uh your

great great great great great whatever

grandparent thought you're pretty

freaking stupid to fight hand onand with

anything or

anyone so I hunt with it I cook with it

there's a you know there's a lot of

biologist that make and the Paleo

theorists that make a very compelling

argument that that human anatomy

actually evolve because we mastered fire

and when you're cooking something you're

pre-digestion it and if you predigest

something not only do you increase the

scope of the foods that you can consume

you also accelerate and and you increase

the efficiency with which you convert

that food into calories Maybe by a

factor of 10 to one or 20 to one and if

you can actually metabolize the food 10

times more efficiently your digestive

tract shortens and the energy that your

body expends in order to digest food can

be redirected

probably to your brain right animals

that don't cook food have small brains

animals that a human being can cook food

can can have a very short digestive

tract can eat anything we're an

omnivores we can go anywhere we can

metabolize calories that are very

efficient we can eat only takes us 10 or

15 minutes a day to get all the calories

we need there are animals have to graze

all day to get the C they

need so fire is is critical for that

it's critical for seeing right you you

you you Channel your fire and you can

light up a cave you can light up a camp

you can light up a tent you can line up

any area and with the seeing comes

communicating you ever travel through

the um the ancient world you see they

have all these watchtowers the Romans

built

watchtowers you put a fire in the tower

you can see it from Miles and Miles Away

you create a signal system a certain

presumptive arrogance or ignorance

amongst modern modern men we think that

kind of everything worth doing was done

in the past 2,000 years or 3,000 years I

kind of figure a 100 thousand years ago

people were doing all this stuff they we

might not have the writings of it but

but uh they were pretty

smart so I'm gonna use the fire for all

those things and eventually for

communicating but once I figure that out

I can use it for hardening right I can I

can cook things right I could I could

Harden the the tip of spear right I can

I can use it to work metals and

eventually we used it to work metals and

that ushered us into you know from the

Stone Age to the Bronze Age to the Iron

Age um you you know fire is intrinsic to

manufacturing processes all sorts of

manufacturing processes and of course I

give you a thousand acres of um of

forest Robert how you going to clear

it sounds like fire would be the easiest

way tractor and 100,000 BC fire you're

gonna burn it yeah yeah right so I mean

every you know everybody talks about or

I see these these discussions oh yeah

well paleo man they're all hunter

gatherers and they're just like walking

around chasing after things that are

running away from them I doubt it yeah

like like if I dropped you into 100,000

BC I don't think you would on solo chase

after a bunch of stuff with four legs I

think you would start by finding a you

know a canyon and start a fire on one

end and dig a trench on the other end

and let something a Mastadon trip on it

and break its neck it's sort of life's

way to take the most energy efficient

strategy right that's why the the eagle

would drop the goat off the cliff and

let gravity do its work right instead of

trying to fight it out um and it's it's

interesting that you you bring up fire

and it's it's almost as if we were using

it to energize our strategies in the

world right and uh I think as you put it

earlier um channeling it channeling

energy through our intellect and I think

the one piece that maybe we didn't hit

on as much is the the intellect itself

develops through trade and interaction

right that's how we are more than the

sum of our parts is by cooperation and

that that's sort of the kernel of all

economics right we have we have these

ideas we swap them they become better

over time and we get to energize better

and better strategies the phrase right

you're playing with fire be careful you

might get burned yeah exactly and uh

what what makes human beings unique is

is as far as I can see they're the only

animal that plays with fire yeah

and and from the point we started to

play with fire we started to evolve at a

very rapid rate genetically Evol we

evolved intellectually we evolved

sociologically we evolved and we talk

about the fire of truth and the fire of

Faith you know it's like or The Keeper

of the flame you know and The Keeper of

the flame really means something if you

have a a city a village a civilization a

tribe and you've got a fire and it goes

out

you might very well die you don't want

that fire to go

out I mean uh Bitcoin and the Bitcoin

blockchain is a fire we don't want it to

go out either we talk you know we talk

about feeding the fire of Bitcoin and we

talk about feeding the fire of faith and

and and U simply uh being The Keeper of

the

flame it was an old idea thousands and

thousands of years ago I suspect fact

it's the difference between life and

death for Humanity for a million years

and uh when you've got fire you you know

you started the fire it's all good but

now I want you to like go back 100,000

years and be running around in 42 degree

temperature while it's raining on you or

what happens when it goes to 20 degrees

if it's cold and you

wet and the fire goes out you're going

to

die right this is it's not an academic

thing it's a it's a serious thing so

human beings harnessed fire and it made

all the difference and then Along Comes

the the next set of thoughts right if if

you can harness fire maybe you can

develop a brain and maybe you'll live

long enough to use it the next

observation is you know you ever rustle

around with a lion or a tiger or a bear

pick any animal that you wish to kill

and you have a russler you ever wrestle

with a dog that weighs 880 pounds not

easy would you like to fight with one

how do you feel about fighting with 10

how do you feel about trying to running

these things down you know that I I read

about you know in Runners world right

Runners all they want to tell you about

how humans were always made to run you

know because ancient mankind chased its

prey it could run 20 miles a day or 30

miles a day and we just run them down

until they get tired

okay well that that's one idea and and

oh maybe we did but you ever try to

catch something that's running away from

you while you're hungry around dinner

time I I don't really want to run for 20

hours straight until I Tire it to death

I have a better idea which is hit it

with a missile and by I I really mean

literally missiles I mean I mean a sling

A Primitive sling or I mean an

arrow and I think they found arrowheads

that go back 100 thousand years I mean

like they're they're old most people

think of a slingshot and they think um

they think about the kids slingshot with

the rubber band and and uh and the light

the kids play with but um like David and

Goliath sling right yeah if you study uh

Roman history and you go back a thousand

years before Rome they had Slingers I

mean the bolic islands like ABA they

were very famous for slingers

and if you read about them what they'll

say in the ancient text is is the

natives of the Bic Islands were raised

from age three before they could speak

they were raised to operate a sling the

sling is about six to eight feet long

it's made of animal

fiber and uh you know you not throw a

baseball and you've seen highly right if

I increase the lever at the end and if

your arm was 12 feet long you generate

some serious leverage a whip action so

those slings give the average person the

equivalent of a of a 10 foot long or 12

foot

long probably 10 foot long arm and they

practice with those for years from age

three you can imagine after 15 years of

practicing you get pretty good and they

weren't slinging little light ston or

the that you pick up on the on the

um Seashore they're actually forming

lead bullets okay everybody thinks oh

yeah bullets are from Guns well they're

not I mean people invented bullets

thousands of years before

guns guns were just the latest idea of

putting bullets together with

gunpowder um the lead bullets probably

came along 10,000

BC and maybe more maybe 100,000 BC this

is a straightforward idea if your life

depended upon it you would figure it out

and the figuring out is you get yourself

a very dense bullet you put it in a

sling you you ever seen a good pitcher a

good pitcher can place the

ball what 90 feet away plus or minus

four

inches can a good pitcher hit you in the

head if you're standing on the

plate okay now imagine someone that's

catching a 1 in or half inch Stone

bullet or bullet a lead

bullet from 50 yards away that can hit

you in the head every

time because the Romans say they

could okay right now you so now think

about that and this is how bad it is

right we talk about this in a bit but

but to make the

point these guys could stand 100 meters

200 meters off and from 200 meters off

they could actually hit an animal in the

head or another human being in the head

but it didn't matter if they hit you in

the head if they hit you in a torso

they're GNA rupture your ribs and you're

gonna and you may have organ failure

there's even

stories you know Li Livy when he writes

about the Second Punic War he writes

about Roman

Slingers you know and they sling so many

of these things that they that they

pretty much break all the bones of the

Galls Bel beneath their

armor if wearing leather armor their

ribs are broken and if they're not

wearing leather armor and they get hit

just like getting hit with a bullet in

your helmet it may still give you

concussion they're getting

concussions it was never a fair fight no

try try taking your your 8 foot long

Spear and having a fair fight with a

wolf or a p a pack of wolves no right a

bear no Humanity wouldn't be here if we

hunted or defended

ourself using Spears or using I mean s

these things these short close quarter

swords and clubs they're all very

romantic and they film well in Hollywood

movies you know and they're great

gladiatorial combat because you got the

you've got the two adversaries that are

in the same frame right but if you go

back a million years the adversaries

were never in the same frame if you made

it this far and you were a human being

you mastered the art of of Death from

Above I mean right killed from a

distance and nobody knew that you were

there it's not a modern invention Not

only would you stand back 50 meters or a

100 meters you would stand up and by the

way you would be up you know at the top

of of the hill where you gravity working

for you that gives you more range you

would be

back if you're really smart Robert like

if I if I told you there's a bunch of

whatever creatures on the plane and any

one of them can eat you or trample you

wouldn't you like to stand up 20 feet on

a cliff that they cannot run up stand up

20 feet above them wait for them to come

by blast them either with a with a sling

or use a a bow and

arrow and if you miss what happens if

you

miss just load up and go again right how

many chances do you get

yeah I think do you run out of bullets

right now what happens if you walk down

on the plane with your beautiful spear

and sword with all of your bu standing

next to you and fight it out risk of

Ruin can never never take that on I

think this is very interesting and it it

also highlights another difference that

we have from animals I know that humans

are one of the few animals uh that rely

on visual Acuity as their primary sense

I think it's humans and predatory Birds

um and then it also comes down to our

dexterity right the the our ability to

handle and manipulate bow and arrow

sling these types of missile weapons um

just sort of highlights again kind of a

difference in in us and everyone else

and those two things too are both

intimately related with speech and

thought and and other tool making so I

think that's very interesting you think

about the idea of missiles right I need

my eyes I need my brain I need to set up

the Kill Zone oh by the way I left off

one I one other observation

right it's 500,000 years ago you want to

kill

something you're down uh you're downwind

from it the Sun is to your back you're

above it and you have a missile and

hopefully you have a channel right if

you really want but it's like you really

want to

live that's you're gonna go find that

spot you're gonna say at this point in

the day the Sun is going to be to my

back the wind prevailing winds are going

to be blowing in my face I'm going to be

20 feet up oh there's a path up here but

guess what I'm gonna block that path

because I don't want the running up to

eat me once I start K it right then I'm

gonna I got 100 missiles and again it's

not a fair fight and there's only two

types of human beings there's the type

that figured that out and that's your

grandparents and there's the type that

were a bit sloppy about one of those

things and they didn't it they're gone

this all this all calls to mind uh sunzo

author of the The Art of War I I'm going

to paraphrase here but he said terrain

is the most important aspect of any

battle it's almost like the smart

general only goes into battle

essentially knowing that he's won based

on these preparations like you're

describing right Sun at your back wind

at your back high on the hill undercover

plenty of

missiles technologies that are

dominating

today they're dominating because they're

able

to deliver

Force faster harder stronger stronger

smarter like how if you're going to

dominate how do you deliver

Force Harder Faster stronger smarter and

um I could think of a hundred examples

in history and and they all you tend to

see those things

so if uh if it's got the characteristic

that it can be made harder it can be

made smarter it can be made stronger it

can be made faster there's something

compelling about it that's why digital

gold is thousands of times better than

gold because you've got all those

Dimensions to work on that's

why the the natural creature gold is a

rock a bear is a bear a Macedon is a

Macedon they're not getting harder

faster stronger smarter they're just

doing what they do human

beings are but only because of

innovation and so so missiles are just a

tool but they're illustrative fire is an

energy Network an an energy source it's

a it's a battery an energy source and

and you can deliver it in a certain way

and then that takes us to Hydraulics

which

is which is um Power from water and

water is a network and uh we talk about

Elemental forces Fire and Water right

well you ever look at the ocean and what

the ocean does right wave action is

incredible energy but um another source

of energy is buoyancy right you I

take you ever try to pick up a 2,000

pound weight and carry it on your back

up a hill or just

across put a 2,000 pound weight on a you

know on a a carriage put it on the back

of a donkey drag it on

skids problem right and this particular

case can't be solved with fire we can't

easily burn it on the other hand if you

needed to move 2,000 pounds you put it

on a barge you put it in the water and

the water pushes back 2,000 pounds and I

can push it with one

hand and uh this is a fast the the

Mastery of hydraulics is

fascinating I went to MIT mit's mascot

is a beaver and we all we have rings

that have the beaver on them and they

talk about you know why are you the

beavers and the answer is the beaver is

Nature's engineer and the Beaver is this

you know nearsighted short waddling

creature it shows up looks around sees

the water

flowing you know and what it can just be

I I don't know Bobcat bait or whatever

bear bear dinner or it can do something

about it and and what the what the

beaver does is just pretty unbelievable

the beaver starts chopping down trees

but first the beaver figures out where

to chop down the trees then the beaver

chops down the trees then the beaver

turns the trees into a dam then the then

the beaver you know it channels the

river into the dam creates a pond floods

the pond it's like it's the terrain

after it's got the pond it creates a

lodge in the middle of the pond with an

entrance underwater and then it creates

its life in that Lodge that pond water

water is Elemental to life and that pond

creates a creates an elemental it

creates a vibrant ecosystem and in that

ecosystem lots of things grow yeah but

for the most and lots of creatures

benefit I mean the ecological diversity

improves and and uh it's good for all

the plant life it's good for all the

wildlife people lament the loss of the

Beaver screws up forest and the Beaver

is just doing its thing and if there's a

if there's a storm and the dam gets

messed up the beaver swims out in the

middle of the thunderstorm or hurricane

or whatever it is and fixes the dam it's

a very industrious creature and you just

kind of sit back and you and you're in

awe and you think wow how did a creature

figure that out and then and then what

does that mean to

humanity of course it means a lot to

humanity I I've been all over the

world and um like I've been to the

desert I've been to Riad I've been to

UAE I've been I've been uh to Singapore

I've been to Miami Beach people think

oil is money they think oil is power

they think you know that

and and let me tell you oil's not oil is

not it's not really power it's not

wealth water is

wealth water is the key to life if I

gave you 10 billion

dollar in as much land as you wanted in

the

desert you can't create life you know

the cost for you to create a pond in the

desert the cost for you to actually

create a park with oak trees if I gave

you10 billion you know you would and you

lived in the desert Robert what would

you do with the

money what's the first thing you would

do buy Bitcoin and exit the

desert spoken like a progressive what if

you so let's parse that what if you

didn't know about Bitcoin and I gave you

the 10 billion doll and you lived in the

desert you'd be looking for treading

partners with water you'd exit the

desert right so it's what do they do you

buy yourself a jet you buy yourself a

villa in the south of France you buy

yourself a yacht that floats in the med

you know and then you figure

out how to live your life

because the cost to grow a palm tree in

the desert is 20,000 a year you want a

100 palm

trees it's $2 million a year to have 100

palm trees you want you want four acres

of grass in the

desert you have you have 100 million a

year for 10 acres of grass by the way

you still can't have it even if if you

spend a hundred million dollars a year

to put 10 acres of grass in the desert

the sandstorm comes and it wipes you out

water is Elemental to life we

underestimate how important it is until

you start paying to create it and yeah

you can stay alive in the desert but um

but uh you know a person making $5,000 a

year that lives in a city that has parks

and rainfall and um and a a temperature

a nice temperature lives better than a

billionaire in the desert right it's

just it's just that powerful now coming

back to

Hydraulics you

know Hydraulics will generate power

right I can harness I can harness

running water running down a hill and

create a turbine and I can create a mill

with that that's interesting again back

to the hunter gatherer

thing people if you dropped me 100,000

years

ago and you said okay well my use your

brain go hunt and gather I'd be like

screw that what would I do I would go

find a

stream with a little bit of elevation

you know Mount maybe a mountain stream

that had fresh water because you can

drink

it and I'd find a big enough one that

had fish in

it and then I would find a point where I

could divert the stream to create a pond

I mean if the beaver can do it I can

probably do

it I would do some Di

I would divert the stream I would create

a

lock and at that point in the year when

the salmon or the whatever are running I

might just flip that lock and I would

actually divert the stream into my pond

and create myself you know maybe it's a

100 foot wide pond maybe it's a 20 foot

wide pond maybe it's a 300 foot wide

pond maybe I waste a lot of the water I

don't care there's infinite and and I

would let five 100 of those little

fishies get trapped in my pond I'm not

chasing after them with

this stick like in Blue Lagoon I'm not

like there's no such thing as a fair

fight I'm not fishing with the hook you

know my idea of fishing is with dynamite

I'm going to blow up everything in the

lagoon and I'm gonna walk and pick up

the fish but in the absence of dynamite

I'm just going to divert the the water

what's the flow rate of water how many

fish swim by you I want them all put

them in the in the pond then what do you

think I'm going to do I'm gonna go pull

out one a day and I'm gonna let the

other fishies swim around and if it if

the winter comes and the pond freezes

over that's okay I'm going to chip a

little hole in the pond and I'm gonna

walk out every day and I'm gonna reach

it and grab my fish I'm G eat my fish

and I'm not chasing after stuff when you

chase after stuff you twist your ankle

and if you break your ankle you're

dying right and you chase after stuff

and then a wolf pack catches you from

behind or you piss off and angry

mastedon so hydraulic power it's the

water like it's GNA bring you something

to drink it's going to bring you

something to eat right by the way maybe

if I'm if I'm worried about the little

creepy crawly creatures or whatever I'm

going to dig a trench around where I

live and they're going to have to cross

the water to get to me yeah maybe I'll

use water a moat right you know if I

live on a seashore I'm going to create a

I'm G to find a natural Title Basin and

in that Title Basin I'm gonna let

creatures crawl in you ever watch yeah I

went to main one you ever watch krabbers

right or or actually

lobstermen I've seen it on TV some never

in person though okay well so so if you

don't know anything about

lobstermen you think oh well these are

guys out hunting Lobster with a

trap okay when you go watch the lobster

men operating you realize they're not

hunting Lobster they're not catching

Lobster they're farming

Lobster

okay big difference they drop they drop

the Trap and they they they'll create a

trap they'll put some uh some kind of

Herring Herring or something in the Trap

to what the the lobster wants to eat

they drop it they put 10 of those cages

down they wait lobsters are lazy

lobsters crawl into the cage they grab

the food they get stuck in the cage they

pull the Trap up they find a big lobster

they keep that one they find little

lobsters they throw them back in because

they need them to keep growing they feed

they're creating agriculture to feed the

lobster the lobster is living in happy

Lobster Hotel its entire

life it's not so bad Rob if I said to

you you know I'm gonna give you like

free room and board to age 70 and then

I'm gonna eat you well not so comping

not so compelling but if I said to you

Robert I'm gonna give you free room and

board until you're 750 years old and

then your life is going to end or you

can make it on your own and you'll

suffer horrific death being eaten up by

a barracuda at age 35 you might think

it's not so bad living you know in your

Lobster Hotel 10 times longer than you

would live naturally it's not like these

lobsters would have made it very far

they're liking it they're domesticated

lob right nature tends to pursue the

most energy efficient strategy available

to it right whether you're the eagle

driving dragging the baby goat off the

cliff or you're the lobster enjoying the

lobster Hotel uh

or you're the man diverting the stream

to capture a bunch of salmon you have a

tendency to want to do the least but

achieve the most right it's kind of the

nature of of productivity

itself I'm channeling energy and yeah

and not wasting any in the process

channeling it as efficiently and and

usefully as possible the pyramids got

bought built 2,000 years before

Cleopatra and Caesar had they haul it up

there and some of the most fascinating

vide I've seen on YouTube are those

YouTube videos that show how they build

hydraulic elevators to move a two ton or

four ton Stone up by floating it you

know up a channel to the side of a

pyramid and I totally believe that's how

they did it they actually used

Hydraulics to uh to construct the

pyramids it makes actually haven't I

haven't seen that actually I've always

seen them rolling them on the logs how

how were the Hydraulics

constructed they you have a two Tu of

let's say you have a tube of

water if I put something in the bottom

of the tube that's lighter than water

with a float attached to it I put a rock

with a with a float maybe you maybe you