Svetski Wake Up Podcast

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Bitcoin talk with metaphysical shrapnel.

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Svetski Wake Up Podcast treats Bitcoin as more than monetary plumbing. Across long, argumentative interviews, it connects hard money, state power, marriage, theology, mythology, personal discipline, and the uneasy question of what people should orient their lives around.

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About Svetski Wake Up Podcast

Svetski Wake Up Podcast is a contrarian interview show where Bitcoin becomes the entry point to nearly every larger question. Money is rarely treated as just money. It becomes a test case for freedom, responsibility, incentives, hierarchy, spiritual orientation, and the stories a civilization tells itself when older institutions lose authority. The conversations are loose but not casual. They often begin with a guest’s article, book, or public argument, then widen into long examinations of politics, ethics, mythology, theology, and personal discipline. A Parker Lewis discussion uses Austrian economics and Bitcoin to challenge socialist premises and libertarian habits of thought. It asks what political ideas mean when they have to survive contact with the real world. A Rob Malka episode turns Bitcoin advocacy into a question of strategy, state power, and whether legislators can be persuaded without weakening the deeper point. The Money Messiah run with John Vallis is the show at its most metaphysical. Those episodes ask whether Bitcoin changes how people rank value, pursue truth, and translate peak experiences into action. The language gets abstract fast. Then it snaps back to incentives, behavior, culture, and the ordinary work of becoming less corruptible. The Richard Cooper episode pulls the same argumentative style into marriage, masculinity, divorce, authority, and the social position of men. That range gives the show its odd signature. It can sound like monetary theory, a late-night philosophy argument, and a culture-war pressure test inside the same hour. The tone is blunt, impatient with polite consensus, and comfortable with uncomfortable premises. It is also genuinely curious when an idea has not settled yet. Guests get room to build long answers, and the host’s questions often arrive as essays with traps, caveats, and alternate routes already inside them. The show suits listeners who want Bitcoin conversation with theology and mythology still left on the table. It will not appeal to anyone looking for neutral summaries or clean explainer format. Its value is the collision: hard money, hard questions, and a recurring suspicion that the modern world has mispriced almost everything important.

Made for: For listeners who like Bitcoin, political philosophy, theology, mythology, and culture-war arguments in long, messy, serious conversation. Best for people who prefer live intellectual friction over polished explainer audio.

What sets it apart: The show treats Bitcoin as a full worldview stress test, not just an asset or policy topic. Its edge comes from letting money, myth, masculine responsibility, state power, and spiritual value argue with each other in the same room.

In their own words

The world is largely asleep.We're living in a time where our freedoms are slowly being encroached upon, but because we're addicted to mediocre bullshit, we ignore it.Our money no longer represents our work, time or effort, the freedom to speak out is obstructed under the guise of "diversity, inclusion and safety", privacy is no longer respected and surveillance has become mainstream "for our protection".Wake up is dedicated to helping ensure V for Vendetta and 1984 remain works of fiction.Topics will include Bitcoin, Money, Freedom, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Ethics & more

Why you'd press play

Bitcoin becomes a question about God, and your 'just money' argument starts sweating.

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  • to follow Alex Fetske and John Vallis from Bitcoin into value, virtue, and right action
  • to hear Parker Lewis challenged on where libertarian ideas meet political strategy
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Bitcoin and hard moneyAustrian economicsfreedom and state powertheology and mythologyvalue and virtuepolitical strategymasculinity and marriagepersonal responsibility

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Episodes

  1. 1

    FINAL Ep 100. The Betatization of Civilisation with Richard Cooper. FINAL WAKE UP EPISODE

    Svetski Wake Up Podcast episode 100 features Richard Cooper, author of The Unplugged Alpha, discussing Jordan Peterson's three-part Daily Wire marriage series.

    Jan 2, 2023·1h 9m·4 clips
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    Ep 99. To the Socialists of all Parties, with Parker Lewis. Bitcoin Times Series.

    Hidden gem

    Alex Fetske interviews Parker Lewis about Lewis’s contribution to the Bitcoin Times Austrian edition and the connection between Bitcoin and Austrian economics.

    Dec 18, 2022·1h 36m·5 clips
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    Ep 98: Free Will, Uncertainty & Risk with Pierre Rochard

    Dec 11, 2022·1h 2m
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    Ep 97: Toward a Node World Order Part 2, With Michael Goldstein, aka; Bitstein.

    Dec 4, 2022·1h 39m
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    Ep 96: Toward a Node World Order Part 1 With Michael Goldstein, aka; Bitstein.

    Nov 27, 2022·1h
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    The Origins of the Austrian School of Economics With Rahim Taghizadegan

    Nov 20, 2022·1h 25m
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    Psychedelic Series Pt 3. The Spiritual Realm. Will Spencer & Tomer Strolight. Ep 94

    Nov 13, 2022·2h 13m
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    Ep 93. Psychedelic Series Pt 2, Medicine or Mierda? With Brandon Quittem & Bitcoin Mechanic (Lex).

    Nov 7, 2022·2h 32m
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    Psychedelic: Demonic or Divine? Psychedelic Series Pt 1 with John Vallis.

    Oct 30, 2022·1h 41m
  10. 10

    Ep 91. Principles of Biblical Masculinity with Elliot Hulse

    Oct 23, 2022·1h 29m
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    Ep 90. Frame. Dignity. Responsibility. with Travis Steward. Meta Series Pt 3

    Oct 16, 2022·1h 39m
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    Ep 89. Bits VS Atoms with Zach Herbert of Foundation Devices

    Oct 9, 2022·1h 15m
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    Remnant Recap #3. Updates + What's coming up for 2022

    Oct 7, 2022·12m
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    Ep 88. Truth & The Multiverse with Craig Warmke

    Oct 2, 2022·1h 56m
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    Ep 87: Bitcoin's Peaceful Revolution with Peter St Onge PhD

    Sep 25, 2022·1h 10m
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    Ep 86: Cults, Religion and Common Law with Peter St Onge PhD

    Sep 18, 2022·1h 1m
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    Ep 85. Bitcoin is NOT a store of value. Bitcoin is Venice Series with Allen Farrington

    Sep 11, 2022·1h 6m
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    Ep 84. Is Globalism Good or Evil? Bitcoin is Venice Series with Allen Farrington

    Sep 5, 2022·58m
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    Ep 83: Responsibility Go Up Technology, with CJ Wilson

    Aug 28, 2022·1h 30m
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    Ep 82: Karmic Gravity, with CJ Wilson.

    Aug 22, 2022·1h 7m
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    Read 11. Ego is NOT the Enemy, by Svetski

    Aug 17, 2022·36m
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    Ep 81: Sun, Sauna, Sleep & Seed Oils. Life Extension with Dr Mercola

    Aug 14, 2022·1h 34m
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    Read 10. Bitcoin is NOT Democratic, by Beautyon. 2014

    Aug 11, 2022·30m
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    Ep 80 Masculine & Feminine Erosion with Nozomi Hayase

    Aug 8, 2022·58m
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    Remnant Recap #2. Value 4 Value Shout Outs. UnCommunist Launch. 2023 Plans

    Aug 3, 2022·50m
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    Ep 79: The Networked Messiah with Nozomi Hayase

    Jul 31, 2022·1h 7m
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    Read 9. On the Potential Adoption and Price Appreciation of Bitcoin in the Long Run. 2011 !!!

    Jul 28, 2022·44m
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    Ep 78: Money Messiah Pt 5. "Alchemy & The Philosopher's Stone" with John Vallis

    Jul 24, 2022·1h 28m
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    Read 8. Bitcoin is the Economic Singularity. Bitcoin Historic Article from 2011 !!!

    Jul 22, 2022·35m
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    Ep 77: Money Messiah Pt 4. "The Hero Archetype" with John Vallis

    Jul 18, 2022·1h 32m
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    Read 7. The Milgram Experiments. "The most dangerous superstition" by Larken Rose

    Jul 16, 2022·39m
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    Ep 76. Bitcoin is NOT Money. It's a Game with John Carvalho

    Jul 11, 2022·1h 33m
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    Read 6. "I'm Just Doing My Job". Excerpt from "The most dangerous superstition" by Larken Rose

    Jul 7, 2022·20m
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    Ep 75. Unpopular Opinions with John Carvalho

    Jul 4, 2022·1h 6m
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    Wake Up Read #5: "The Networked Messiah", by Nozomi Hayase

    Jun 30, 2022·37m
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    Ep 74: "Nietzsche & Nihilism" with Rob Malka

    Jun 26, 2022·1h 8m
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    Wake Up Read #4: Isaiah's Job, by Albert J Nock

    Jun 23, 2022·1h 6m
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    Q&A with Svetski. Ep 1. Parasites, Lemmings, Stupids and other ideas.

    Jun 19, 2022·25m
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    Wake Up Read #3: The Remnant, A Game of Thrones

    Jun 15, 2022·46m
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    Ep 73: "Handball is a game for Prisoners" with Rob Malka

    Jun 14, 2022·1h 1m
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    Ep 73: "Handball is a game for Prisoners" with Rob Malka

    Hidden gem

    Rob Malka describes the Bitcoin Today Coalition's efforts to educate United States legislators and regulators, including opposition to the infrastructure bill and the New York moratorium bill.

    Jun 13, 2022·23m·1 clip
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    Wake Up Read #2: The Remnant, the parasite and the masses

    Jun 8, 2022·43m
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    Ep 72: Theology & Mythology. Money Messiah Pt 3 with John Vallis

    Host Aleksa (Svetski) and John Vallis continue the Money Messiah series in part three, titled 'Theology and Mythology,' exploring how myths and religions emerge as narratives for modes of being and why institutions corrupt the original philosophical idea.

    Jun 5, 2022·54m·3 clips
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    Wake Up Reads #1: Bitcoiners are the Remnant.

    Jun 1, 2022·36m
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    Ep 71: Money Messiah Pt 2 with John Vallis

    Host Aleksa (Svetski) and guest John Vallis continue their 'Money Messiah' series in part two, exploring what value is, where it comes from, and whether nirvana is a terminal goal or an interstitial experience that enables action.

    May 29, 2022·47m·3 clips
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    Ep. 69. One Million Bitcoin Supply Cap w/ Knut Svanholm

    May 8, 2022·2h 1m
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    Ep 68: Marxism, Chinada, Truckers & Politics w/ Benjamin Dichter

    May 1, 2022·1h 31m
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    Ep 67: Metaphors & Change, with Tomer Strolight

    Apr 18, 2022·2h
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    Ep 66. Technology & Tournament Males (Meta Series Pt 2)

    Mar 28, 2022·2h 20m