21ism - Block011 - MEME - PUBLORD

**SPEAKER_2** (1:14)
All right, we are recording. And with me today is Guy Bennett from the Toxic Happy Hour and Twitter Spaces, it turns out. Guy, great to have you on the show, brother.

**Guy Bennett** (1:26)
Oh, thanks, man. You know, like we're just quickly talking about there. It's been too long. You've been, you know, a guest on our show. You've had us on your show. So this is just a fantastic way just to meet up again and have a good conversation.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:43)
100%.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:44)
And this one is going out for 21ism as well.

**Princeysov** (1:46)
You are the featured meme-er for the next block that is being dropped in the month of September.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:53)
So that's the reason that we are hooking up again.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:56)
Looking forward to getting into this.

**Princeysov** (1:58)
And we were just discussing what we've brought to the party. I have a German Pils by my side here.

**Guy Bennett** (2:09)
That's good for you. What I have here, most people know I'm in Moldova at the moment. The capital is Kishinev. Right outside of here are some of the biggest wineries in the world. And what is called Krikova. And I did a tour and it's unbelievable. I think it's over 100 kilometers of tunnels they dug in 1952 to 1954 And it's amazing when you go down to those tunnels, they show you all this wine storage, the whole process. Apparently, Vladimir Putin had a birthday party there in 2002 that they're quite proud of. So all these world leaders, you can go and you see their personal wine stores they have over here. It's absolutely amazing to see. So yes, I have a local red wine that I'll be enjoying as we talk.

**Princeysov** (3:03)
In your little plastic or paper cup?

**Guy Bennett** (3:07)
Yeah. Some of the places I get to stay are four and five stars. Some of the guys I travel with, they value their points like Marriott or Hilton. So they will downgrade the status of the hotel just to get their points. Right. And that's where I am today.

**Princeysov** (3:26)
Are you one of those guys?

**Guy Bennett** (3:29)
I'm not, actually.
I love the old style hotels, the ones that with unique architecture, you know, proper history. Yeah, like this stuff to me. You know what this reminds me of? This is, was it Seth Faddeen when he talked about like Fiat architecture? And Fiat, I'm the same way, man. Like, Marriott or Hilton, time after time, it's the same thing wherever you go. I love something that is unique, beautiful, old. Absolutely.

**Princeysov** (4:03)
Yeah, I totally agree.

**SPEAKER_2** (4:05)
And we were just on the west coast of France at a conference in BRITS, and Caitlin is sitting next to me.

**Princeysov** (4:10)
She's sitting in for Lauren, who's out on a playdate today.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:13)
But right on the beach front of BRITS, you have all of these beautiful old stone buildings, like, you know, they're so majestic.

**Princeysov** (4:23)
And then bam, like the worst looking shittiest building, Sofitel Hotel, you've ever seen. It's like, look at that. Fiat standard right next to what was clearly built hundreds of years ago, and still standing and still looking majestic, right on the beach front.

**Guy Bennett** (4:44)
It's amazing how architecture and art and Bitcoin are so intrinsically intertwined. In a sense, some of the books that really brought me to Bitcoin are things like, there's one, I think it was Howard Kuntzler, The Geography of Nowhere. And by The Geography of Nowhere, what he was mentioning was how everything in every city and state, especially in the US in particular, looks the same. Every time you drive now across the interstate, when you get off the road, guess what? There's a Walmart, there's a Target, there's a McDonald's. All the architecture looks the same to the point of you build something, and what used to be, everyone knew it was a local store, they actually have to put the title, country store on it.
They put the name country store on it because there's no architecture anymore. It is just a cheap imitation of what used to be beautiful.

**SPEAKER_2** (5:47)
Yeah, and these houses, they get thrown up and they're going to fall down the day the mortgage expires, right?

**SPEAKER_3** (5:53)
It's really bad. But before we carry on, Katie is going to get pretty bored.

**Princeysov** (5:59)
She was supposed to ask the first question, as is tradition. One of my kids generally asks the first question. For those tuning in via 21ism and haven't heard the Once Bilton show before, that is the shtick.

**SPEAKER_3** (6:11)
So Caitlin, over to you.