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Bitcoin Study Sessions #067
Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin @craigwarmke @rettlerb @resistancemoney
Grant chooses the best books, Lucas saddles up for the ride.
We don a veil of ignorance to evaluate bitcoin:
If we could be anyone - rich, poor, young, old - would we want to live in a world with bitcoin, or without?
Interesting thought experiment, yeah?
What incentives influence this decision? What timeframe are we measuring on?
What do you want for the world?
Everybody wants to be big.
Nobody works to be strong.
2/7/2026, 2 engagements
Bitcoin is political philosophy. Freedom, manifest in code.
Erik Cason's sharp observations plunge the sword of sovereignty deep in the heart of the monster.
Without the ability to control money, the state cannot control the people.
We should all rejoice. Are we not all people?
Is not control both a burden on the oppressed and the oppressor?
The virtuous cycle has begun. We are no longer on opposite sides, competing for fleeting rewards soon lost to the scourge of inflation.
We have entered a new age of collaboration.
Citizens need no longer compete to ascend the hierarchy of domination within the state.
The states will now compete to draw the most productive and useful citizens.
Another bountiful conversation w/@thewholeframe
share with friends and consider us yours.
We're all in this together.
2/6/2026, 1 engagement
The Question Concerning Technology*
(ep #067)
A conversation about how technology shapes the soul. You can think of this as a wonderful companion to our chat with
In prepping for our conversation on Erik Cason's "Cryptosovereignty", we found he'd left a homework assignment: read Martin Heidegger's "The Question Concerning Technology" for context.
Dutifully, we obliged. And what came of it?
Heidegger's contribution is impactful. He offers...perspective...on our perspective.
Grant squares it:
• Enframing 🧠
• Tech as revealing (not neutral)
• Ancient techne vs modern extraction
• Whether Bitcoin breaks the spell or deepens it
Lucas knods and rubs his chin.
Deep thoughts...deep thoughts.
share with friends, and consider us yours.
we're all in this together!
Bitcoin Study Sessions (ep #66) "The Milk Road" w/
One of my favorite people from The Network School - Calvadev is out in the world. Building. Making funny content to bring awareness to the benefits of milk straight from teat to teeth.
The guy is awesome. The mission is too. He's thoughtful, wise, funny, and sharp.
Check this episode out to learn more about someone building truly useful things on nostr - the founder of Shopstr & Milk Market.
https://fountain.fm/episode/foPVCPqLtN7iZliNhnJb
also on youtube:
Direction and purpose.
The only two things you will ever need.
Direction comes first - decide to move, and do so.
It'll either be in the right direction or wrong.
Equally valuable information.
ACT.
Pain is wanting.
Pleasure is seeking.
1/22/2026, 2 engagements
Not new to nostr...
But new to understanding the true power of it.
Also, blown away by the calm kindness of the builders here.
Struggling with the UX at times, and finding people to follow.
But...maybe it should be that way.
1/19/2026, 13 engagements
Bitcoin Study Sessions #065 "Pura Vida - NOSTR, Network States, and New Life" w/
We teleport to
from the Bitcoin Prairie, and the tan Tarzan of surf, sand, and sovereign speech walks us through the trees.
Paul Keating is pure life.
From barreling fastballs to getting barreled in the surf, he lives a live of pure joy.
The man IS a bitcoin standard. Health, community, family, movement. Paul is building the
community thanks to the power of NOSTR.
• Owning your voice with keys • Interoperability instead of walled gardens • Apps can moderate you — but they can’t silence you • Nostr as the real Web3 moment • Bitcoin as the base layer of the internet • Tools that save time instead of stealing it
Bitcoin is monetary freedom. NOSTR is the digital America. The only borders are those you choose.
Listen to be truly excited about the future of free speech, marketplace, music, and more. And welcome
to nostr!
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Bitcoin Study Sessions #064 Escaping Venezuela: Bitcoin Saves Family from Maduro Regime w/
Sultan is a young man who has lived a full life already.
In high school he became part of a group of underground bitcoin miners in Venezuela.
His work for freedom money continues thirteen years later.
Bitcoin empowered his family to flee the collapse and corruption...to escape the country where he was kidnapped as a child...TWICE.
He's fascinating, energetic, and excited about the future.
So are we!
https://fountain.fm/episode/KTXj2Tfmf73LKf65mQTy
Perhaps someday it will be strong enough to bring him home as a father.
is one of the heartbeats of nostr.
Breathing life into decentralized freedom technology as a builder and a philosopher, he lives the values he espouses.
Only on nostr. Acting by axioms. Moving with intent.
The money is broken, and we all feel it. Our platforms of expression are less obvious...they work for most people.
But it's that tiny minority of people brave enough to speak out whose voices are silenced.
The state steals money. Platforms steal speech.
Bitcoin fixes the first. Nostr fixes the second.
*all zaps split with guests. Value-for-value is amazing!
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1/15/2026, 36 engagements
Looking to interview the most NOSTR folks around -
people who can explain both the protocol technically and the societal impacts philosophically.
please volunteer or recommend who you'd like to hear on bitcoin study sessions!
Bitcoin Study Sessions #061
"Build on it - make it better!"
That's the message from
, chief of staff at
.
Bitcoin isn’t about number go up. It’s about who controls the rails—and what survives when fiat fails.
🎙️ On Bitcoin Study Sessions, we sat down with Ivan Makedonski (Chief of Staff at Breeze) to talk Bitcoin, Lightning, Nostr, and the future of value.
Key takeaways from this chat👇
⚡ UX over ideology Decentralization doesn’t matter if it feels broken. Nostr’s UI is fine. The UX needs to be better..
🌍 Adoption happens when systems fail Bitcoin doesn’t win arguments. It wins when fiat breaks.
🧠 Proof of Signal beats audience capture When comments cost sats, noise disappears.
💸 Split payments change capitalism Value flows directly to individuals. Corporations → networks. Creators → patronage.
🛡️⚔️ Bitcoin is shield and cannonball Defense and penetration against centralized power.
⚠️ The risk ahead CBDCs riding Bitcoin rails. Mandated Lightning split payments. Centralized treasuries posing as freedom.
Final thought: Hoarding isn’t the goal. Building is. Providing value is.
🎧 Full episode out now. Build signal. Ignore noise.
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https://fountain.fm/episode/4hQusTRdEF8KcGuw5ns4
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Bitcoin Study Sessions: Episode 60!
We just unpacked The Mandibles—and it feels less like fiction every year. Lionel Shriver's 2016 book is coming alive before our eyes.
🇺🇸 Dollar collapses
💳 US renounces its debt
🌍 New global currency
🥫 Food shortages, gold outlawed
👨👩👧👦 A family forced to confront what wealth actually is
As money dies, so do identities.
As comfort disappears, morality shifts.
Survival replaces ideology.
The real question isn’t will this happen— it’s who adapts when the system breaks.📉
Empires don’t fall all at once.
They decay… then default.
Have you read it—or are we living it?
from your grateful hosts :
thanks for listening! share with friends and consider us yours - we're all in this together!
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1/3/2026, 5 engagements
New Year - new episodes!
Bitcoin Study Sessions episode #059 hits in the heart...the soul...deep down where it counts.
James Poulos wrote "Human Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War" and put it as a question to the world:
What does it mean to be human?
Look at what surrounds you...how much it came to you through an algorithm?
What about the thoughts in your head? Your opinions and preferences, your allegiances and opposition...
Where did it come from?
What would happen if you opted out?
Bitcoin lets us opt out of the lies of the fiat monetary system...
What can we do to remove ourselves from the undue influence of technology?
What does it mean to be human??
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Bitcoin Study Sessions - Episode 58 is a BANGER!
Disclaimer: nothing said constitutes legal or tax advice :)
IF you don't know Adam Simecka, you will.
He's the founder of Manna Bitcoin , one of the best and most entertaining follows on X, and a truly genuine man.
Adam is rare - a combination of talent, passion, drive, and grit. From Air Force firefighter to entrepreneur, he has proven the courage and fortitude to succeed.
What will you learn here?
why is spending bitcoin the most important factor in it's success?
what anonymous, self-custody wallet is so easy a nine year old can set it up in thirty seconds AND create her own point-of-sale system for multiple vendors?
what role did the Bank Secrecy Act play in handcuffing your freedom?
which amendment is the most important? (hint: bang-bang!)
He brought beef from a bitcoin rancher, gave us shades of @NSmolenski in his thoughts, respectfully refers to Tether as a scam (monthly) and brings it home with a message:
Build the world you want to live in.
From your hosts @thewholeframe & @lucasmaddy (on X) - thank you for listening!
Share with friends and consider us yours - we're all in this together!
12/16/2025, 4 engagements
has been thinking about time for a minute.
It's his saying - "Tick tock, next block" that has become the memetic pledge of plebs, presidents, and pundits worldwide.
Time, like Bitcoin, marches on.
We at Bitcoin Study Sessions find bitcoin and time an interesting topic. We tackled
's "Bitcoin is Time", we looked at what Nick Land has to offer on the subject...
weighed in on the topic as well.
Brady stuffed two hours worth of insight into his 17 minute presentation at Bitcoin Amsterdam.
We did our best to wring out what struck us.
enjoy Episode 57, and enjoy the day.
on nostr via
https://fountain.fm/episode/5Qvr51vohPbY0lNucEHh
youtube:
12/4/2025, 2 engagements
Capital is not what you think it is.
A non-human entity engaged in the cybernetic process of perfection known as capitalism. Fine-tuning with no limitations, it advances beyond human control. The Singularity.
Digital money, digital intelligence, and robotics. No humans.
We are not controlling the system. We are errors, wrenches in the gears being ground out as the machine reaches terminal velocity. Hardening it, making it stronger and stronger.
It's not what you think because you don't think. All that you know are state-approved narratives.
But you notice. Implanted thoughts itch. Mad morals and vicious virtues odiferously offend the mind. It attempts to expel the implanted miasma, a cough of common sense or sneeze of sanity.
"Why?", you ask.
Why is everyone fat, sick, indebted, anxious, drugged and dumb?
Why are we always at war?
Why don't I feel ok?
And the answers come.
Be body-positive until you can praise pharma, praise pharma, extend credit, praise pharma, blame China, blame racism. Freedom isn't free. You're fine. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
This is part one of three, a journey into the magnificent mind of Nick Land and "Xenosystems", an accounting of something incredible. In real-time and public, people thought.
Curtis Yarvin, Land, Mike Anissimov - these inspired intellects peeled back our moral curtains and took a look inside.
We're starting to see how the sausage is made, but it's not all lips and assholes.
This is printed pemmican. Nutrient-dense, chewy. It may not taste sweet, but it gives you power.
A massive thank-you from us to Lomez and Passage Press for this work. We are forever indebted to you for the great discussion, Grant's cool hat, and the motivation to be smarter, better-dressed, and better-looking.
Episodes two and three will be released Friday morning & evening to normie channels, but all episodes are available now on
because nostr is the future.
Share with friends & consider us yours - we're all in this together.
on nostr: https://fountain.fm/episode/6lJP1QiHPDzyFZOr7A7x
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11/26/2025, 1 engagement
Bitcoin Study Sessions #053 Recap - Jeff Booth
After
signed off, we flipped the camera back on to capture the moment.
That fresh post-interview glow is apparent!
Listen/watch on
via nostr:
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Bitcoin Study Sessions #052
Jeff Booth - Freedom
If you’ve ever felt something is deeply wrong with the world but also felt an inexplicable optimism about the future — this episode is for you. The most mind-expanding Bitcoin conversation you’ll hear all year.
melts minds This is NOT another “number go up” chat. This is Jeff at his absolute deepest:
❤️ Why love & belonging is the hidden force driving every human decision (and how Bitcoin frees us from chasing it in a broken system).
🇺🇸How we’ve NEVER lived in a real free market… and what actual freedom will feel like when deflationary abundance finally arrives.
🔋Why fighting the fiat system only feeds it — and how quietly moving your time & energy into Bitcoin bends reality itself.
♟️The endgame: a world where jobs become optional, genius in every human gets unlocked, and consciousness itself levels up.
AI, ego death, exponential tech, Zoran Mamdani, stablecoins, privacy tech, El Salvador… he ties it all together with terrifying clarity and contagious hope.
Take the time to watch or listen, and hear this message.
Share with friends & consider us yours -proud to be on this journey with you.
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11/19/2025, 2 engagements
Bitcoin Study Sessions #051 "Digital Industrialization, Land, Labor, and Capital,"
The internet digitized land, AI & robotics take over labor, and bitcoin dematerialized capital.
Jonathan Kirkwood's essay focuses on the impact of digitization on these three fundamental aspects of business and industry.
With care taken to read and review, Grant and Lucas dive into this piece to learn how abundance in once area creates new scarcities.
We encourage you to read this simple essay and think for yourself as you listen along!
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Want to chuck some 🧨 in your noggin and 🤯?
Bitcoin Study Sessions celebrated our fiftieth episode by diving down into the psychedelic rabbit hole of
"Bitcoin is Time"
How can you re-conceive something native to your understanding of the world?
Time is a big bite to chew, and we did our best.
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Bitcoin Study Sessions #049 is up!
The gracious David R. Samson joins Grant & I to share his evolutionary anthropologist ideas about camp-crafting, Jason Lowery's Softwar, Balaji's Network State - and soooo much more.
He inspires us to build our camp, eat Mexican food, and choose faith in others. We talk about the social timekeeping that is a cigar, how psychedelics can be used as ritual, the importance of friendship above all...and again...MORE!
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11/10/2025, 1 engagement
Been thinking on what "The peaces that passes all understanding" means.
Nearest I can figure, it's to be ok without a reason.
ok.
"The Price of Tomorrow" -
Where Sal Pineda has focused on the social and cultural aspect, visionary tech entrepreneur Jeff Booth gives us a sober accounting of the battle between deflationary technology and inflationary money.
Terrifyingly, tech has been taking a beating.
The money is made worthless faster than revolutionary tech can make it useful.
But the story isn't over. In fact, we are just now reaching the inflection point.
Fold a piece of paper onto itself fifty times and observe the thickness.
After ten folds - .25 inches. Twenty - four inches.
Even at thirty folds, it's thirty-four feet.
But the fiftieth?
Nearly seventy MILLION miles - almost to the sun.
This is Moore's Law in action - the defining observation of technological advancement.
For decades we dismiss exponential improvement because it seems irrelevant.
Then it astonishes us.
The car drives itself, better than any human. The AI detects and treats cancer earlier, more accurate, and for the cost of a few cents of electricity. The power itself crashes in price such that the peasant of tomorrow will have access to more electricity than the nation-states of mid-century.
The Price of Tomorrow is the story of deflation, the power of exponents, and the questioning of a post-economic society.
The boat shall be rocked, and we're here for the ride.
Grant and I break this one down, throwing a special thanks to
for the recommendation.
spoiler alert: There's a hero in this story...
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10/29/2025, 7 engagements
Amazing - and thank you!
Art and culture are growing on bitcoin.
The Renaissance begins!
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An ode to
-
"nothing stops this train"
new music on
10/27/2025, 4 engagements
Bitcoin Study Sessions #047 Sal Pineda
Sal's energy and empathy for the world bursts through the screen.
A child survivor of brutal civil war in El Salvador, he has a unique perspective on violence, truth, pain, and faith.
And from that has emerged hope - aptly identified by
- in the form of bitcoin.
In this conversation:
What IS violence? Must it be kinetic, or is the unrelenting attack on wealth and savings through the unjust economic system it's own form own violence? Is it even worse than physical, given that it kills the hope of generations?
What role does shame play in understanding bitcoin? What about humility and acceptance? Beacons of light in the storm - like
and her uber journey to acquire bitcoin - are giving hope to thousands.
Is the ability to create and store wealth in a way that cannot be adulterated vital to freedom of speech, assembly, and more? How does art flourish in the age of sound money?
All this and more - a magnificent discussion with a tremendous voice and motivator of change.
Share with friends and consider us yours -
We're all in this together.
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:
10/27/2025, 1 engagement
Bitcoins Study Sessions #046 Our Tribal Future - Part Two
The camp, band and tribe - in part one we learned the integral components of how humans evolved societal organization.
David R. Samson uses part two to lay the roadmap.
How do you craft your camp? What are common pitfalls - and proven solutions? How did bitcoin change the game by escalating trust from Dunbar's number...to infinity?
Grant and I dig deep into these strategies, particularly how they are proving successful on the ground through @balajis building in public of The Network State.
These questions and conversations are vital to thriving in modern society.
We build our moral vision through brothers in honor groups - without this, our romantic relationships are doomed to fail.
The world in which you want to live - how do you build it?
Set a goal, break it down...take that first step!
Share with friends and consider us yours.
We're all in this together.
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Art is not shared.
The dam holding heart’s current has burst.
The soul swept away, gasping to remain.
There is peace is the power of being pushed toward purpose.
The invigorating terror of a current unleashed.
Bitcoin Study Sessions #045 "Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money" by
Nearly 90% of the world lives without basic monetary freedom.
Imagine losing half your wealth overnight to politics. Imagine not being able to even have money in your name because of your gender. Imagine a new ruler comes to power that disagrees with your religion and your place of worship can no longer gather funds to turn the lights on.
This is reality for the great majority of global citizens.
How is bitcoin altering this reality?
Alex Gladstein's voice, writing and "boots-on-the-ground" approach is opening doors for a better world.
Bitcoin enables these freedoms currently being oppressed. Freedom of assembly, religion, movement...things we take for granted in the western world.
Joining the peaceful protest through adoption and use of bitcoin is making a difference for millions - soon to be billions - across the world.
Are you keen to make a difference - even if only for your own family?
Take a listen, give a read.
Share with friends and consider use yours - we're all in this together.
10/12/2025, 1 engagement
Culture is a mirror.
What we see is a perfect reflection of leadership.
10/11/2025, 1 engagement
Natalie Smolenski:
Debt & Guilt: Instrumentents of Societal Control
10/10/2025, 2 engagements
meet
Au9913 is out here slinging meat and marketing milk for btc.
Discuss!
10/10/2025, 1 engagement
Bitcoin Study Session #044 -
We are joined by Natalie Smolenski, editor of and contributor to "The Satoshi Papers: Reflections on Political Economy After Bitcoin".
Violence - the exercise of force to procure and secure resources and enable payment - is the well-spring from which the state emerged.
But the ability to maintain control, seemingly, has been dependent upon the ability of the state to issue money.
What is the world after Bitcoin, when the state is no longer in control of money?
If religion is the vehicle to enforce the sacrifice demanded of original sin, how are we think about the spiritual domain in today's world?
The non-profit sector seemingly exists as a reward to those profitable enough to buy themselves into the prosperous world of charity - as the state loses it's coercive power of taxation, what does charity look like in the future?
The discussion of the role of violence casts shadows of Major Jason P. Lowery's
SOFTWAR.
Most refreshingly, she reminds us:
The state has no rights. All rights are of the people, who can agree to temporarily delegate limited power to the state. Perhaps the time has come to review those delegations.
Grant and I agree this is our favorite discussion to date.
Natalie's depth and consideration of thought invites the listener to consider the purpose and nature of the existence of state.
Listen intently. Read the book.
Share with friends and consider us yours. We're all in this together.
“A drag show is the perfect first date”
Or…
“Who can drink the most Busch Light?”
Dating in the US is wild.
Bitcoin Study Sessions #043 "Our Tribal Future - Part One"
@thewholeframe & I leave the echo-chamber of sound money advocates in this foray into the science, evolution, and determinism of societal organization - The Tribe, composed of Bands built from Camps.
Author @Primalprimate (Dr. David Samson) provides historical evidence, current events, scientific justification, and more to drive to his definition of tribes as the natural outgrowth of drive for humanity to form coalitions.
In this episode, listeners may ask themselves:
What costly signals do I make to show my alliance to my tribe?
Why is it I view the "other" (sports team, political ideology) with such fervent opposition?
How did selective breeding lead to the scenario that enables pre-meditated "cold-blooded" murder, such as that of Charlie Kirk?
Part One gives us the grounding theory, Part Two gives us the roadmap for success.
Find your tribe, get some sun, be kind.
Share with friends, and consider us yours.
We're all in this together.
I recently gave a three-part seminar series - "Money, Inflation, & Bitcoin" at #TheNetworkState
This is the first minute of the talk.
check it out if you like - Each video links to the next in the series of three on the closing screen.
10/5/2025, 2 engagements
Find a place that gives you space to be calm, learn, and think.
10/4/2025, 1 engagement
Welcome to Kansas, folks.
10/2/2025, 1 engagement
With 40 listens and 3 songs I made more in a week than with 40000 listens and five albums on Spotify
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10/2/2025, 1 engagement
10/2/2025, 1 engagement
New music - previously unreleased!
I'd just begun recording an album with legendary songwriter & producer Mike McClure (The Great Divide, Mike McClure Band, Crow & Gazelle) when COVID shut down the world.
This is the acoustic version of "No Shotgun" from Boohatch Studios.
10/1/2025, 2 engagements
Liberating.
Once you realize you're the source of all your misery, you can be enlightened by the idea that you're also the well-spring of all your own joy.
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Attended an open mic at a joint explicitly not serving nazis, so says their sign. One can only assume the place was thick with nazis and they were bad tippers who consistently left their tabs open.
Many of the artists, it would appear, write using the same dictionary.
Turns out lots of things rhyme with “fascist”. Perhaps I'm missing out on some low-hanging fruit in the lyric game.
New music on
https://fountain.fm/album/bOayhSUXw5AxeBsZXATw
"King Size on the Floor"
Dated a gal whose apartment was so small... she pulled her bedroom door off it's hinges... so her King Size mattress would fit.
Link to music video in description.
Those who write code have changed the world for artists - and we're just getting started.
In less than twenty-four hours on NOSTR, the podcast I host made money.
In over ten months on Youtube, Spotify, and X it did not.
This platform allows for the realization of Kevin Kelly's idea of a thousand true fans.
Incredibly thankful for this code and all who develop on it.
There has never been a better time to be an artist and creator.
9/28/2025, 48 engagements
There's a place in Kansas City advertising a sure-fire treatment for erectile dysfunction.
Free if it doesn't work right there, right away. In the office.
I realized...
Somebody gonna try to scam their way into a free boner... and somebody else gonna have to verify one way or the other.
Anyway, just glad I play music.
Don't know why I thought of that.
9/25/2025, 1 engagement
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If you like reading whole books and learning about bitcoin - read along with us as Grant & I expand our understanding and share it with you.
Subscribe if you would like to support us as we educate ourselves and others!
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Bitcoin Study Sessions is on
, here to provide value and a hearkening back to the days of reading books.
Check out episode #001, the first of a six-part series on
SOFTWAR thesis.
Huge thanks to Nick at Fountain for the fantastic service.
https://fountain.fm/episode/OOSfLrQqthS3EorHWxgw
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"Reasons You Know" is live on Wavlake!
This song was painful to write and healing to perform.
The guitar solo moves me, the harmony on the chorus makes me feel alive!
Check it out - https://wavlake.com/album/e61e8ca0-893c-4c90-b18d-e4d6d9b90dc8
9/23/2025, 2 engagements
