From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)

“people are high-fiving and it's like oh wait a minute there's a crypto provision in there in the infrastructure bill”

“the person who crafted that provision didn't intend it to be as wide sweeping as it was”

“now what you're seeing are these things called collectives and what a collective is is it's a group of boosters”

“if congress doesn't step in and find some sort of way to stabilize this the whole thing will probably just go professional”

“i think the real divide is who believes in american democracy and not”

“faith and democracy isn't given it's earned”

“90 percent of members don't understand it at all”

“the final five percent are folks like me who have spent a ton of time on it and are now coming to some pretty clear…”

“committees are where the real work happens”

“once it goes through committee it goes to the house floor passes the house floor now it gets kicked over to the senate”

“once castro took over my family was driven into exile my grandfather was part of a pro-democracy movement”

“my grandfather turned him down because he kind of saw castro for who he was and that was the end”

“i think i'm ready to go and you know i was 16 at the time”

“anthony we're gonna offer you a scholarship and i said i'd be honored to play for you coach whoops i botched the line”

“if peyton manning is your quarterback and you can stay on the field for 16 games you're probably going to have a good year”

“i like you but you're hurt and i can't have hurt people”

“the 2016 election was probably the biggest thing that upended that where i saw a situation where i just stopped recognizing politics in our country”

“i thought okay this is actually going to be a lot worse than a than i even thought”

“my view remains that it's an unforgivable assault on the country and it was led by the former president”

“that was my moment where i thought to myself okay i think i've just learned something or stumbled onto something that can be unbelievably impactful…”

“i had two computers up i had my personal computer up which had the wall street bets for him and then i had the hearing”

“i've made two oaths in my entire life okay i've made one oath to my wife and i've made an oath to the constitution those…”

“i think it's important that we send a message to every future president forever”

“i took like a little margin a couple hundred bucks or something and started playing around in d5”

“i just give it all the united way when it's over the united way accepts crypto donations”

“if we could move our primary electorate participation from like 20 to 50 i actually think our politics would moderate and they would improve dramatically”

“get engaged actually follow the primary and look it's like do i like this candidate or not”