Mm.

And so only...

The, the people who, like, heard me, like, change my mind and, like, read the article about why they changed my mind, the people that understood that the best were the people that had listened to every other Bankless podcast and read every other article I've ever, ever written, and then they also listened to this one, and those people are the most reasonable.

And then you had-- that's, like, the innermost concentric circle.

And then, like, the next most, uh, concentric circle are, are the people who only listen to a few of them, and so they have less context, and they hadn't seen me reason before in other domains, and so, mmm, uh, they start to fill in the gaps a little bit.

And then there's people who's like, "Well, I only watch the clips." And then there's people who are like, "I only read the titles of the podcast and w- look at the thumbnails." And then there's other people who are like, "I only read what other people are saying about you." And the further you get away from, like, the center, the, it, it start, you start to, it, reality starts to look like a, like a funhouse mirror from, from me.

And so, like, there's, there's people, like, attacking me on Twitter for positions I don't even hold.

Mm-hmm.

So David, we understand that you have a therapy dog at school, and we wanna know how does that help students during challenging times?

I do have a therapy dog.

Her name's Chiffon.

She's a four-year-old yellow Lab, and she's about to start her third year with us in the district.

She's been absolutely wonderful.

She really provides two different types of service.

So the first one is indirect service.

But have you noticed a difference with the algorithms that are in phones and technology where kids are more addicted to their phones, and the dopamine hits they're getting in? And as someone who is a school psychologist, what are some things that you can recommend for educators who find that, that relationship with a student and their phone to be a little maddening at times?

So I did want to, we're kind of in that transition, maybe a little bit later in the transition, but I don't think most people are familiar with the difference between cool season and warm season grasses.

Yeah, so cool season and warm season grasses, I mean, when you think about it, really the, and technically because sedges aren't, don't fall under the same family, they're in the Cyperaceae family versus the Poaceae family, which is the true grass family.

They, sedges kind of fall more in line with some of the cool season plants because they're actually flowering in that spring and early summertime and prefer the cooler temperatures.

So whereas warm season grasses really thrive in in the summer and those hot temperatures, I mean, there is a too hot where they kind of slow down.

Um, and like, you know, we have like a hundred degrees plus a 10, 10 degree heat index here in North Carolina where we're based.

Um, but you know, really those warm season grasses, they'll go through the season, um, put up a ton of foliage and then start to begin to flower.

So some, some of them are more dependent on light for that.

So that makes them, you know, wonderful for solving, uh, green infrastructure problems.

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I had a fire nine days ago.

My archive, it was a hundred and seventy-five films, my 16 millimeter negative, all my books and my dad's books, my photographs.

I had collected.

I was a collector, major, big time.

It's gone.

I just looked at it, and I didn't know what to do.

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I was very blessed by that, especially hearing other stories of women who didn't have that experience.

And we also got married right in the middle of COVID.

And I think COVID put a big distrust on just the direction of kind of the medical world.

So like we literally got married right during that time.

And everybody in our ministry, that period of time really impacted everyone's lives.

You know, everything shut down.

And so, and we all kind of felt like, why is everything shut down? And, you know, you'd go to one state and nothing is shut down.

So every night we're up late working and I'm meditating on these birth verses.

we shoot

t-shirts out, we have fire going, we have games at halftime.

And you look in that stadium like, and we do that because we got a lot of kids, as you can see.

We got 13 grandkids and they like to be entertained at the game.

But I think the one distinct thing that we did, we won, and you gotta win, and two, We made it kid-friendly where families wanted to come to it.

And then I think because we got so engaged in the community, businesses really wanted to support it, and they started buying bucket loads of tickets to our game.

You know that success is success.

But we plan on kind of touching pretty much every corner of the arena to make sure that it stays best in class.

What is it about 2026 that makes this the time to, to say that?

Yeah.

It-- I-in order for, like, Ether to be re-rated as an asset, to have this, like, idiosyncratic jump up and, like, elevation in status, uh, Ethereum and Ethereum Layer One and Ether and everything around it really needs to have momentum, and that's the thing that I think, like, uniquely in 2026 I see harder and harder for momentum to uniquely, uh, th-- come back to the Ethereum Layer One.

And, uh, there's just so much structural architecture against value capture for ETH.

Like, Layer Two margins are at ninety-eight percent, for example.

You know, the fat app thesis is displacing the fat protocol thesis.And like, as I was writing this article, like Ethereum as a, as a open source project is kind of like a nonprofit.

It doesn't take, it doesn't take a take rate.

I was on the aggressive side for ETH, and I'm also on the very end of the aggressive side of the spectrum for Solana as well, so.

David, what's your take?

This document, this mandate document from the EF, I read it as it's far more a statement about what the EF is not more than it is a statement about what the EF is and what it wants to do.

In 2026, this was your take, Haseeb.

We don't need another document from the EF reaffirming its vows to Ethereum.

Everyone knows what Ethereum's commitments are.

Everyone knows what Ethereum's ethoses are.

The Ethereum community has been loudly talking about its ethos to the annoyance of the rest of the industry since inception.

right that like so technically novel so tech whatever like it's in it's in a different vein and i think if the eaf found got creative they would have no problem doing this and no problem with with the downsides of chilling shit

Mm-hmm.

To call what a person who wants to end their suffering at the very end of their life by medication the same thing as someone who wants to end their life because otherwise their life and their suffering will not end the same thing.

is confusing, it's linguistically unnecessary, and frankly, it's disrespectful to people who are what we consider classically or conventionally suicidal, meaning those seeking death out of despair in order to end their life because it won't end otherwise.

People seeking medical aid in dying, by definition, in the United States, have a terminal illness.

They have a prognosis of six months or less to live.

The six months isn't the important part.

It means it's the end of their dying process.

What's so wrong with seven days for someone to think it through?