#65 - The Bitcoin Pioneer Serving Two Life Sentences | Lyn Ulbricht

Fernando Puente grew up living between the US / Mexico border in the worst parts of Tijuana, and by the age of 18, he was already crossing immigrants over the US border illegally for one of Mexico's most notorious cartels. Today Fernando writes stories, and hosts his own podcast with the aim to inspire & give hope to the disadvantaged youth in Mexico. EPISODE LINKS https://www.youtube.com/@elbordomx https://www.instagram.com/ferrnvndo16  https://www.instagram.com/elbordomx JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon  DANNY  https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny  https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE  0:00 - Working for the cartel at age 18  13:41 - News coverage of cartel wars  20:35 - Maintaining friendships with cartel members  33:03 - "La Tabla" punishment  40:32 - Selling American weed in Mexico  46:10 - The Tijuana Cartel / Arellano Felix brothers  53:05 - The new ‘Narco Juniors’  57:28 - Mexican police  1:03:56 - Being kidnapped  1:45:54 - Why cartels are becoming more violent  1:56:39 - El Capo’s sons  2:06:54 - El Mayo  2:13:40 - Revenue streams  2:17:14 - Drug legalization  2:29:41 - Mexican pharmacies selling counterfeit drugs  2:34:40 - El Nini (head sicario for Los Chapitos)  2:41:14 - Real narco podcasts in Mexico Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

27 Feb 20232h 54min

Andy Greenberg is an award-winning writer & journalist covering security, privacy, information freedom, and darknet hacker culture. He's the author of the new book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency.    EPISODE LINKS  Andy's new book: https://a.co/d/aIL02zf  https://andygreenberg.net  https://twitter.com/a_greenberg JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon DANNY LINKS https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny  https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE  0:00 - Introduction  6:13 - Hunting down Satoshi Nakamoto  14:00 - Interviewing Dread Pirate Roberts (Ross Ulbricht)  19:55 - Ross Ulbricht’s trial  22:55 - The Silk Road  39:24 - Chainalysis: The super-weapon against bitcoin  42:41 - IRS special agent Tigran Gambaryan  45:39 - DEA Agent who faked a murder and stole bitcoin from Silk Road  52:21 - Cryptography expert who cracked Bitcoin  59:47 - Mt. Gox heist  1:07:37 - Hackers & scammers in Ukraine  1:10:21 - AlphaBay darknet market  1:20:50 - The Kingpin behind AlphaBay: Alexandre Cazes  1:28:34 - The DEA sting that hijacked the entire dark web drug market  1:38:49 - Mysterious death of Alpha02 in a Thai jail  1:52:28 - How Hansa was hijacked by Dutch police  1:56:30 - The current state of the dark web  2:05:20 - Andy’s approach to journalism  2:14:15 - Interviewing Julian Assange  2:27:00 - State sponsored hacking & cyber war Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

20 Feb 20232h 38min

Over the span of his 40 plus-year career, Dr. David Cook’s focus has been on testing, monitoring, and fine-tuning vision therapy as a clinician, author and educator. As one of the nation’s leading authorities on vision therapy, Dr. Cook has given lectures on expanding depth perception to optometrists and other eye professionals at clinical seminars, study groups and optometric congresses all over the world. His book “The Shape of the Sky” teaches us that vision is something we do, and more importantly, something we can learn to do better." EPISODE LINKS: https://www.oepf.org/product/the-shape-of-the-sky https://CookVisionTherapy.com JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon  DANNY  https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny  https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE  0:00 - Introduction  4:02 - What is Vision?  5:05 - Neuroplasticity  7:50 - Using vision to improve Intelligence  13:44 - Dyslexia  22:51 - Technology is making the world ‘near-sighted’  37:47 - Binocular vision  46:17 - 3D vision in super athletes  1:03:14 - Vision & personality  1:12:56 - Knowledge by experience VS acquaintance  1:20:08 - Eye games   1:33:05 - Protocols to improve reading skills  1:41:50 - How language changes perception  1:48:07 - Picasso & Rembrandt were stereo blind   1:55:59 - Color blindness  2:00:45 - Daily protocols to enhance small vision (Deep Winks)  2:05:16 - Daily protocols to enhance big vision (3D)  2:16:06 - The shape of the sky  2:20:39 - How seeing changes thinking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

14 Feb 20232h 26min

Jack Murphy is an author, journalist, & co-host of the @TheTeamHousePodcast Jack is also an eight-year Army Special Operations veteran who served as a sniper and team leader in 3rd Ranger Battalion and as a senior weapons sergeant on a military free fall team in 5th Special Forces Group. EPISODE LINKS  http://youtube.com/@TheTeamHousePodcast  https://twitter.com/JackMurphyRgr JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon  DANNY  https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny  https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE  0:00 - Introduction  3:24 - ranger indoctrination program (RIP)  7:35 - Meaning of death  10:19 - Human suffering in Afghanistan  22:57 - Becoming a war reporter  31:23 - Reporting in Syria  43:13 - CIA Cold War sleeper cells  45:23 - CIA sabotage in Russia right now  1:12:37 - America & Russia’s complicated history  1:16:06 - Foreign sleeper cells in America  1:26:43 - The CIA’s secret experimental dive unit  1:36:52 - Dealing with critics  1:44:35 - Human trafficking at Fort Bragg  1:53:18 - Psychological effects of combat  2:04:25 - Africa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

7 Feb 20232h 18min

Luis Chaparro is a journalist / producer moving between the border of Texas and Mexico reporting on narcos, drug cartels, immigration, corruption and more. EPISODE LINKS  https://youtube.com/@LuisChaparro https://www.instagram.com/luiskuryaki JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon  DANNY  https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny  https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE  0:00 - What’s happening in Mexico right now  09:42 - The raid on Ovidio Guzman’s home  39:15 - Damaso Lopez  47:12 - El Nini  57:08 - The CIA & El Mayo  1:09:20 - America’s interest in Mexico  1:13:12 - The failed raid on El Nini’s home  1:17:04 - Mexico weed manufacturing plant  1:22:31 - Implications of drug legalization  1:28:58 - Managing relationships with sources inside Sinaloa 1:47:25 - Working with FOX & VICE 1:58:41 - Negative psychological impact from reporting narcos 2:10:46 - Political agenda’s & clickbait 2:19:22 - China’s relationship with Mexico 2:26:25 - Journalism is the deadliest job in Mexico 2:35:38 - Upcoming federal elections in Mex Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

31 Jan 20232h 51min

Ryan Graves is a former Lt. U.S. Navy and F/A-18F pilot who was the first active duty pilot to come forward publicly about regular sightings of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP). Today, Ryan serves as first Chair of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Integration & Outreach Committee (UAPIOC), representing more than 30,000 members of the aerospace industry. EPISODE LINKS  https://www.youtube.com/@UCHN8Do9rEyOTVNjL2I38yiA  https://twitter.com/uncertainvector JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon  DANNY  https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny  https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE  0:00 - 350 NEW government UFO reports  7:30 - Becoming a Navy fighter pilot  11:05 - How accurate is the Top Gun movie?  16:23 - How to land on an aircraft carrier  23:56 - First time seeing UFO / UAP off the east coast  30:45 - Formation flying  35:40 - The “Cube inside a sphere”  46:41 - The pilot behind he Gimbal video  1:05:59 - Pentagon intimidation  1:13:39 - Holograms in the sky  1:26:27 - Private aerospace companies  1:32:19 - Bob Lazar, anti-gravity, & time manipulation  1:33:35 - The future of war technology  1:39:09 - Hypersonic weapons  1:48:47 - Varginha Brazil UFO crash  1:58:35 - The economics of the UFO topic  2:06:32 - Implications of full public disclosure  2:10:03 - UFO sightings at schools Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

24 Jan 20232h 17min

Bek Lover is a podcaster and proud Albanian. Both his mother and father immigrated to America from the oppressive regimes in Albania and Kosovo. Unfortunately, other members of Bek’s family were not so lucky. In the Kosovo War of 1999, many of his relatives were victims of the Serbian Army’s Genocide against Albanian Kosovars.   EPISODE LINKS:  https://www.instagram.com/beklovernyc  https://thecomebackteam.com JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon  DANNY  https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny  https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE  0:00 - The tragic history of Albanian people  6:30 - Albania’s love affair with America  15:07 - The American Empire  19:57 - Experiencing REAL oppression in Albania & Kosovo  26:06 - Trauma   32:31 - Immigration  34:47 - Ukraine / Russia war  42:22 - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis  45:44 - Surviving the worst day in NYC history  56:33 - The biggest misconceptions of Islam  1:11:07 - Free speech and Elon Musk  1:18:10 - The Easter Bunny Generation  1:27:48 - Arms Dealers  1:30:23 - The next world war  1:42:30 - New York City  1:45:51 - Drugs  1:52:20 - The power of laughter  2:00:40 - Divine wisdom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

19 Jan 20232h 6min

Con artist and true crime author Matthew Cox analyzes the Logan Paul CryptoZoo project and Coffeezilla docu-series. Watch the full episode here: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon EPISODE LINKS  https://www.youtube.com/@InsideTrueCrime  https://www.instagram.com/insidetruecrime DANNY  https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny  https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 0:00 - How to fix your hairline 3:50 - CryptoZoo Scam 14:56 - Breaking down the response video 21:04 - Is Logan cooperating with the FBI? 37:03 - Is there an indictment? 43:08 - How does this end? 45:00 - Logan Paul /  CoffeeZilla lawsuit 52:35 - Testosterone & diet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

11 Jan 20231h 5min