Walking with Jaguars

#10 - Riki Bassic - From Fiat to Faith: Bitcoin and the Search for Truth

In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Riki to explore what it means to wake up inside systems that no longer make sense, and why Bitcoin often becomes the first crack in the illusion. We begin with institutions. Government, money, education, media, and the quiet bureaucracy that seems to operate without consequence. We break down how short political cycles create short-term thinking, how unelected administrators hold real power, and why so much of modern life feels performative rather than accountable. From there, we move into money and incentives. Inflation, debt culture, credit expansion, and the illusion of wealth. We talk about what happens when you start questioning the monetary system, how Bitcoin reframes time preference and sovereignty, and why opting out can feel like regaining clarity rather than making a financial bet. The conversation deepens into plant medicine. Riki shares his first ayahuasca ceremony and how it confronted him with blind spots around love, fatherhood, and self-worth. Finally we explore faith. Riki describes how ayahuasca unexpectedly brought him into Christianity, not through doctrine or performance religion, but through direct experience. If you want a grounded conversation about institutional illusion, Bitcoin as a realignment tool, plant medicine, faith, family, sovereignty, and long-term thinking, this one is for you. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠ [⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/]https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ [https://mattblanco.xyz/books/] ⁠⁠ [⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/] Follow Riki's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/rikibassicfiatisascam/] Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/mattinthejungle/]⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ [https://x.com/mattinthejungle]⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@mattinthejungle] | Website [https://mattblanco.xyz]

#9 - Aga Akaiyah Fortune - Detoxing the Mind, Body and Spirit with Kambo

In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Aga, also known as Akaiyah Fortune, to explore Kambo as both a physical medicine and a consciousness practice, and what it looks like to work with it responsibly. We dive into physical detoxification and what people are actually carrying in their systems. Candida overgrowth, mold exposure, heavy metals, parasites, and how compromised detox pathways can impact mood, energy, clarity and resilience. Then we dive into the wonderful world of Kambo. Aga explains how Kambo interacts with the body’s detoxification pathways through peptide signaling. We break down preparation and integration, contraindications and unpack a controversial but important topic: tapering off SSRIs and opiates with the support of Kambo. From there, we zoom out to ethics and access. We talk about the current free for all with psychedelics, potency culture, bad dosing advice, and why proper screening and guidance matter more than ever. We also explore the tension between lineage and direct revelation, when tradition is essential, and when the plants can teach you directly, which is a topic I love to ponder. Finally, we bring it home to voice and creativity. Aga shares her journey of vocal liberation, how years of inner work opened the channel, and how healing eventually becomes play. We talk about why music and medicine are inseparable, how sound moves energy in ceremony, and what it means to finally live as an artist. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠ [⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/]https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ [https://mattblanco.xyz/books/] ⁠⁠ [⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/] Follow Aga's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/aga.akaiyah.fortune/]⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/aga.akaiyah.fortune/] | ⁠Ceremonies [https://www.thesomaheart.com] | Music [https://open.spotify.com/artist/76lPqvIo9NRUiTsVa7Oi1a?si=epLo3FX_QMCeaDLfrD-Tig] | Candida Cleanser [https://candidacleanser.com] Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/mattinthejungle/]⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ [https://x.com/mattinthejungle]⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@mattinthejungle]

#8 - Bram Kanstein - Beyond Bitcoin: Freedom, Plant Medicines and Universal Truth

In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Bram to explore what sovereignty actually means when you stop treating it like a financial concept and start living it as a moment to moment practice. We unpack why Bitcoin is not the destination, it is the anchor. Bram breaks down how Bitcoin creates a shared, verifiable truth in a world of narratives and manufactured uncertainty. We talk about why sovereignty is really the ability to make conscious choices, why outsourcing your decisions is the quiet form of slavery, and how opting into responsibility is the only way out. We also bridge Bitcoin, plant medicine, and the importance of having children despite fiat money being one of the greatest spiritual crimes of the modern era. If you want a grounded conversation about Bitcoin, truth, sovereignty, plant medicine and building a life with clarity and responsibility, this one is for you. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠ [⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/]https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ [https://mattblanco.xyz/books/] ⁠⁠ [⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/] Follow Bram's Socials: Twitter⁠⁠ [https://x.com/bramk]⁠ [https://x.com/bramk] | ⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/nellhunterbtc/]Instagram⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/bramkanstein/]⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/bramkanstein/] | ⁠Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@bramk] | ⁠⁠Retreats [https://goingbeyondbitcoin.com] Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/mattinthejungle/]⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ [https://x.com/mattinthejungle]⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@mattinthejungle]

#7 - Nell Hunter - Building Bitcoin Communities

In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Nell Hunter to unpack what it actually takes to build a real Bitcoin circular economy and live with sovereignty in a world designed to make people outsource their power. We dig into the Bitcoin Basin in Queenstown, New Zealand and why building peer to peer community is both inspiring and brutally hard. Nell breaks down how circular economies solve the chicken and egg problem, HODL vs spend, and how 43 local businesses accepting Bitcoin becomes a living proof point that the money can work in real life, not just on Twitter. From raw milk regulations to cash bans to broken incentives in farming and business, we explore how central planning quietly rewrites entire economies one rule at a time. The thread running through it all is simple: when you insert a third party into every transaction, you delete the free market and you delete responsibility. Finally, we bridge Bitcoin and plant medicine as parallel initiations. Both demand proof of work. Both reveal how much you cannot explain to people who have not lived it. And both push you toward the same destination: radical responsibility, clearer perception, and a life you actually chose. If you want a grounded conversation about Bitcoin adoption, circular economies, sovereignty, and the deeper psychology behind why people refuse to see what is right in front of them, this one is for you. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠ [⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/]https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ [https://mattblanco.xyz/books/] ⁠⁠ [⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/] Follow Nell's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/nellhunterbtc/]⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Bitcoin Basin [https://www.instagram.com/thebitcoinbasin/] Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/mattinthejungle/]⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ [https://x.com/mattinthejungle]⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@mattinthejungle]

#6 - Brett Higson - The Immaculate Choice of Bitcoin

In this episode of the Walking With Jaguars Podcast, Matt Blanco sits down with Brett to break down the real state of money, markets, and sovereignty in a world drowning in fiat illusions. We dig into why Bitcoin is the only free market left, how infinite liquidity props up dying institutions, and why most cryptocurrencies are just psychological casinos dressed as innovation. Brett explains the three functions of money — store of value, medium of exchange, unit of account — and why Bitcoin is the only asset that still meets the standard. From generational nihilism to doomsday psyops, we explore how fear shapes time preference and keeps people dependent on failing systems. Bitcoin becomes the counter-move: hard money, honest incentives, and a way to build long-term meaning again. We briefly touch on plant medicine as another tool for clearing the internal noise so people can take responsibility and actually build a life worth living. If you want a grounded conversation that cuts through hype, delusion, and fiat theatre, this one is for you. Get my free reading list of 50 books to awake the spirit: ⁠⁠⁠ [⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/]https://mattblanco.xyz/books/ [https://mattblanco.xyz/books/] ⁠⁠ [⁠https://mattblanco.xyz/books/] Follow Matt Blanco's Socials: ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/mattinthejungle/]⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ [https://x.com/mattinthejungle]⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@mattinthejungle]