Messy Times

Greg Ward has a tremendous depth of experience in the things that matter most: music and creative coding. He joined our Glittering Host in the Messy Times Studios for a discussion about the true power of blockchain technology.

The original Bitcoin as described in Satoshi's white paper is all about radical economic inclusiveness. The strong uses cases of peer-to-peer micropayments along with the power of immutability to strengthen cyber security are some of the finest applications of free human empowerment ever devised.

Conversely, there are the Forces of Totalitarian Evil in the world like PayPal who are trying to use their dominant technological and market position in combination with the fact that 99.9% of users of technology never read the EULA (End User License Agreement) which can be modified after they've signed up for a service, to demand societal conformity and groupthink.

Greg is a Co-Founder of SmartLedger Solutions and its subsidiary company Certihash, which provides a radically improved cyber security detection service.

Tune in to learn why your best remediation for contractual integrity is either the public blockchain or - second best - an army of 2,000 spear-wielding Kayapo.

We are living in difficult times, what the glitterati call Messy Times. Sadly, it is looking very likely that we're going to look back on this period in history as being relatively peaceful compared to what is coming down the track at us.

Tune in as Robert Patrick and our Enlightentaining Host ponder the major issues of today, including the horrendous eruption of anti-Jewish hatred in America and Europe "because" evil terrorists of Hamas murdered 1,400 innocent, unarmed people and took another 200 civilians hostage.

While you wrap your mind around that insane illogic, we are delighted for you to have an active listen to our discussion, which we hope will bring some clarity for those confused and some light to pierce the overwhelming darkness so many are experiencing.

Most listeners will know Robert from his excellent career on film and screen. I've had the pleasure of getting to know him from the work we do on behalf of our military veteran community. Your Glittering Host is on the Board of Directors for the Combat Control Foundation and Robert is the CCF's Ambassador. Robert additionally is very active with TAPS Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors.

We urge you after listening to this discussion to immediately go to those websites and make a donation - no matter how small. The connectivity, recognition and support for our veterans matters as much as the dollar amounts you are able to afford.

Imagine a government plan designed to achieve these

1. Make electricity SIX TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE.

2. Destroy America's security by removing our radar and

3. Deprive people of healthy seafood or at least make it

4. Take American tax dollars and give them to Scandinavian

5. Oh, and kill lots of whales by deafening / blinding them

In a better - not even perfect - nation, this insanity would not occur.  In that hypothetical nation, if someone raised such a bad idea, rational voices in government would tick off all the negative consequences to, say, destroying marine life to build pointlessly expensive electricity generation and the whole thing would stop.  Sadly, we do not live in such a

There are myriad lessons to be gleaned from this madness.  One is that NOAA and any other agency tasked with delivering analysis to the government must be a purely scientific enterprise, with its staff insulated from budgetary or other concerns.  We all watched what happened when "science" became divorced from reality and became one more political plaything.  Here is another example of that abuse of the objective scientific process in pursuit of ridiculously damaging political aims. 

For those who wish to dig deeper, Meghan provided some helpful links: 

Save Right Whales (www.saverightwhales.org)

Responsible Offshore Development Alliance (www.rodafisheries.org)

An Examination Into Offshore Wind Industrialization https://www.youtube.com/live/j9MY7G8pi5M?si=G0_1XsBidT03NGw0

Cape Wind Info | Cape May County, NJ (www.capemaycountynj.gov)   

 Information on the lawsuit against Vineyard Wind, taken by

Fellow Native New Yorker, now proud resident of the Last Free State in America, Florida, Andrew Gutmann joins us in the  @MessyTimes  studios for a wide-ranging but focused conversation about the need to root out the insidious evil of Marxism in American life. He achieved accidental fame for penning a letter of protest to his daughter's school in New York City - a private school called Brearley which for decades was a beacon of educational excellence, but during the Wuhan Hysteria and the BLM Summer of Love 2020 turned into a racist, CRT-pushing propaganda factory. That letter went viral.

Andrew cogently sums up the main ills of the Woke Ideological Disease:

1. The woke loathe free speech; their relentless campaign to silence voices they disagree with has become their non-stop obsession

2. The woke hate capitalism, based as it is on personal freedom.

3. The woke's focus on groups, not individuals goes against the entirety of Judaeo-Christian Western civilization and the Constitution.

4. They insist on denying objective reality, hence the nonsense around "dozens of genders;" their power comes from forcing people to say publicly things they know are insane.

5. The woke loathe democracy and our system of meritocracy; their entire focus is on leveling outcomes rather than setting fair conditions for people to compete in.

During our talk - spoiler alert! - we added a 6th symptom of Wokeism:

6. The woke hate religion and hate the family unit, because both resist the godless materialist chaos of Marxist conception.

None of this is new to scholars of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thought. In the American context, the Marxist Left have taken advantage of Americans' relative ignorance of the true nature of Communism/Socialist to hide behind words like "justice" and "equality," which they have perverted into their exact opposites.

After realizing the same thing I did, that New York has become a Marxist cesspool of illogic and Leftist totalitarianism, he moved his family to Palm Beach County and is now running for Congress (FL-22) to help reverse the horrible radically leftward tide the nation has been suffering under.

To learn more, donate and support this excellent candidate whose sensibility, morality and clear comprehension of the Constitution is badly needed in Congress, please go to: www.andrewgutmann.com.

In today's episode of Bizarre Leftist Hypocrisy, we find the

We'll be offering for sale soon some Messy Times Save the Whales - Ban Offshore Wind Farms bumper stickers. In keeping with the Big Environmental Win brought about in the 1970s by such memorable bumper art as "Nuke the Gay Baby Whales for Jesus!," we at @MessyTimes and @davidblackmon6807 hope to drive a - pardon me - sea change in attitudes about the Energy Absurdity Church ruining our world.

Listen in!

 Lunatics are killing the whales while pretending otherwise and are gaslighting the living bejesus out of all of us.

I had the pleasure of meeting Zach Resnick at the London Blockchain Conference earlier this year. Now that we're both back in the Western Hemisphere, Zach paid a visit to the  @MessyTimes  studios for a deep dive into his career as an entrepreneur and how his journey has been interwoven with blockchain technology, most recently #BSV, or Bitcoin Satoshi Vision, the bitcoin protocol based on the original white paper, versus #BTC which has diverged from that original vision in myriad ways.

Tune in for a rollickingly enlightentaining discussion. Find out more about Zach and his investment firm at unboundedcapital.com.

David Blackmon joined us in the studios for a wide-ranging discussion on the virtues of affordable energy, debating whether insanity or perfidy motivate Apocalyptic Climate Cultists and the general messy madness of our age. David knows of what he speaks - having deep expertise and long experience in the oil & gas industry.

For a fun pre-episode game, try to guess whether our Brilliant Guest or your Glittering Host has more biting calumny to heap on the ridiculous #ESG fraud which has destroyed more value than even Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley have combined.

Either way your bet breaks, we promise you sheer #Enlightentainment at its finest!

Added bonus material with sneak previews into the 2024 Election Cycle including educated guesstimates of how many of us will be rounded up and indicted as co-conspirators before the polls open! Enjoy!

Messy Times is focused on making the American military culture and its people available to a wider audience. Only 7% of Americans are either in the military or family members of our all-volunteer force. Our Enlightentaining Host is privileged to serve on the Board of Directors for the Combat Control Foundation.

You can learn more about this Special Operations branch of the Air Force at Combat Control Foundation. After this video, hop on over there to enjoy the wealth of information and please leave a donation to support our veterans and their families. A donation of any size is welcome - as important as the dollars raised is the number of people who take the time to donate their hard-earned money as a way of expressing appreciation for the hard, difficult and dangerous work our military volunteers perform on our behalf.

Jack Pitts and I shared a stage at the London Blockchain Conference. We were mesmerizing. For those unfortunate souls who missed the big event, we bring you this discussion.

He is the founder of SLictionary, a brilliant, blockchain-enabled Web 3.0 version of the processes which created the Oxford English Dictionary. A self-learning dictionary which grows in accuracy and comprehensiveness the richer the user-contributed corpus grows is just the shot in the arm the English etymological industry needs!

Check it out: https://www.slictionary.com/

Be sure to vote for the Messy Times definition of "unicorn" while you're there!

We are delighted to be joined in the  @MessyTimes  studios by Connor Matthews ( @TheControllerMMA ) who shared with us a bit about his journey involving an early interest in martial arts, to MMA (mixed martial arts) to accidentally signing up for the Air Force's Special Operations branch after first hearing what the SEALs had to say about a career in the Navy.

Your Enlightentaining Host is honored to serve our military veterans as a Board Member of the  @CombatControlFoundation.  One of the perquisites of our relationship with the CCT community is being able to participate in events with our phenomenal active-duty military community. Connor was part of a group that spent a great day together with candidates in the current training pipeline recently.

We discuss some of that from his point of view about what it takes to succeed in the rigorous washout machine that is Special Operations training. Every American would sleep better at night if they understood the caliber of motivated volunteers and the rigorous training and selection process they go through, all in order to fight to protect our national interests.

To check out Connor's fights either live or via ESPN, go to his YouTube channel Connor Matthews - YouTube or his Instagram: Connor Matthews ⚡️👊🏼 (@thecontrollermma) | Instagram.

I know I'm going to move mountains to be ringside for his upcoming Las Vegas fights!

After hearing Connor's story, hop over to the Combat Control Foundation website and make a donation to this awesome cause - any amount is welcomed, as part of our support for our veterans is demonstrating by sheer numbers of donors how much we value what they and their families have sacrificed for us: https://www.combatcontrol.team/Donate-to-the-CCF . It's simple; do it now.