#772: Bitcoin Is The Peaceful Revolution with Average Gary

**Marty Bent** (0:07)
You've had a dynamic where money's become freer than free.
When you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts. So it's all acting like safe haven. I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency, Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor. I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin. If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.

**Gary** (0:36)
The recruiter was good at being a recruiter. And then my ex-girlfriend's stepdad was telling me sea stories about being on a ship and using Rebar to spear hammerhead sharks to off the side of the ship. So signed up, fully PsyOpt into freedom, played a lot of like Silcom US Navy Seals on PlayStation 2 and Call of Duty, and all these other things. So I fully bought into that whole PsyOpt, very much like let's go spread freedom and democracy.
Yeah.

**Marty Bent** (1:05)
Bubba would tell me stories. He was a captain of large ships, and he would tell stories about having like take the ships down the Mississippi into the Gulf. I'm like navigating that, but I forget when he was deployed. I think it was after the Gulf War in the 90s, or like before 2001 He would tell stories about it. They would just get commands, just like there'd be like stranded boats in the ocean. They would just like use their artillery to sink them.
Yeah, yeah.

**Gary** (1:35)
I mean, there's no like international law, right? There's once you go 12 miles off the coast, you're like in the national waters and it's, I don't know, there's not, there's like rules and treaties and ways that things should be happening. But yeah, there's a boat out there.

**Marty Bent** (1:47)
It's blown up. Yeah, I don't want to dox too much, but if you're comfortable sharing, so you listed when you were 18, what year was that?

**Gary** (1:54)
I was at 8

**Marty Bent** (1:54)
8 Yeah. And so you got deployed in 2012?

**Gary** (1:57)
I was in boot camp when the meltdown happened.

**Marty Bent** (2:00)
What was that like?

**Gary** (2:02)
I had no idea. I mean, I was completely oblivious. I remember distinctly there, it was the same thing. So like 9-11, I was in like sixth grade and I just remember like the teachers were all like worried. And I remember the same time like when the whole Lehman Brothers, Bears, whatever was like crashing because I was in boot camp from August to October of 8 And I just remember like people were very much paying attention to the news and not to what we were doing. And I'm like, OK, what's going on here? Like something's happening. I don't know what it is because they don't. They completely isolate you from the outside.
It's a whole process. But I came out and in hindsight, there were a lot of like second career older men joining the military at the time.
And in hindsight, it's like if I had been paying attention a little bit more, it's like, oh, these guys just got their asses handed to them because of the crash and needed something to go do. And the military is a fantastic, if you're looking for something like the military is always there, they're taking volunteers all the time, steady pay, great benefits, you get the pension, all these other things. And so there was like, I was 18 And there was a bunch of older men that were joining at the same time, which I think was a boon.

**Marty Bent** (3:15)
And, I mean, going back to 2012, when you were deployed, what was that experience like?

**Gary** (3:20)
I'm very fortunate. So none of my deployments, I saw combat. Like, I thank God that I never, I was never shot at. We got mortared, right? So like, called indirect fire. There's like sending mortars on the base. Nothing super close. But I was never like in gun to gun combat, and I'm very thankful for that.
As a young man, you glorify combat, and you think about that. But then as I've gotten older and reflected a lot more, it's like, now I'm really glad I don't have those demons to deal with because there are, I'm sure you've heard about like veteran suicide numbers, like guys go through hell in combat. And I'm thankful to not have that hell to have gone through while still very, very much participated in it. I called myself a fobbit, right? I never left the fob when I was down range in Afghanistan. I was like Intel, sort of back end support, running operations on the backside of things in my nice air conditioning without exposing myself too much to harm.