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Episode Transcript: #468 - Duncan Trussell, Christopher Ryan

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Christopher RyanDuncan Trussell

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It feels weird when you break up conversations like this.

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But wasn't the idea about gold and precious minerals being there's very few of them.

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There's a finite amount so that this is a good thing to base money on because it's, you know, people sort of always kind of recognize there's got to be like a way to put a cap on it.

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Yes.

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Got a way, the way to keep this thing, it doesn't totally make sense for controlling everything about, I mean, you think about what money really is.

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It's so bizarre.

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Because it's not human, okay?

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It's not thinking, but it seems to be an organism.

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It seems to be something that requires you to love it.

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So it allows you to connect yourself to all these material items that fill up this weird hole in your idea of the world.

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I'll tell you what it is.

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It fills up holes of perception.

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It's a Western god, right?

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Because it's power hungry.

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It accumulates power.

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It's jealous.

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It doesn't want any other currencies in existence.

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It wants to control the market.

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And it only works if everybody believes in it.

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That's a dark way to put it.

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