Julian Figueroa (@GetBasedTV) joins me to talk about Bitcoin, building a media brand, creator burnout, sovereignty, and much more. We dive into the challenges of orange-pilling, YouTube’s algorithm, and Julian’s most powerful pieces of content.

Julian’s links:

https://youtube.com/@getbasedtv

Julian ate bugs for 30 days: https://youtu.be/AOKWztgeVk8

Getbased tv video about the FED: https://youtu.be/Zw9rg8PU0W8?si=ugkiyhxsHFLpkf8n

Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Intro

00:03:45 – Trick to Content Creation and YouTube Shorts

00:05:55 – Did IMF kill the El Salvador experiment – Bitcoin Country – Moving there

00:09:45 – Bitcoin Youtube compared to other Niches – Bitcoin Followers

00:12:05 – Types of Bitcoiners – Same Culture – Myers-Briggs Test

00:15:08 – Youtube Analytics – Click-through rate – Mobile vs TV viewers

00:17:59 – How to Orange pill viewers?

00:22:05 – What Bitcoiners Want

00:23:39 – Self-Sovereign

00:28:25 – Growing up in British Columbia

00:33:01 – Urban vs Rural

00:35:25 – Lightning Round – Price prediction

00:39:10 – Joe and Creator Burnout – Bitcoin Stories – Content development

00:43:50 – Youtube owns the community, Get Based Team

00:48:27 – Dealing with Criticism and Trolling

00:53:35 – Journalism integrity and mistakes

00:57:15 – Ripple and Greenpeace $5 million Anti-Bitcoin campaign

00:59:45 – Going to Crypto Conference – Ordinals

01:02:00 – 2nd YouTube Channel – Crypto Journalism

01:06:33 – LLM and AI – Free Market Journalism

01:08:25 – Nostr and Value for Value

01:09:40 – Julian’s most proud piece of content

01:14:05 – Sharing Knowledge and Open Source