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Good now revolutionaries— the show that has been beating the Clarity Act drum for months finally gets the primary source on the mic. Hermine Wong (ex-SEC 2012-2019, ex-Coinbase, current Berkeley Law lecturer) is running the best objective explainer series on the bill anywhere on the internet. On cloture-vote day (2:15pm ET), she walks through what the vote actually is (voting to open floor debate...

Good now revolutionaries— Alex is back from a Dallas RNC side-event where he ended up on a Democrat-organized creator panel debating philosophy and religion instead of crypto (crypto only came up once — World Liberty + Trump/Melania meme tokens). Shout-out to Dennis Porter (Satoshi Action Fund) for the invite and to Kyla Turner (Not So Erudite, Take Back America tour) who architected the event. Al...

Good now revolutionaries— Doug returns to close out the week with Evan for a tight two-hander. Cold open covers Doug decorating the bathroom, the PO Box (Box 32, Tybee Island, GA 31328) that Alex Popovich checks, and Pirate Fest October 8-10 on Tybee — the crew will all be there. Then straight into meme-coin trench tools: DEX Screener, Rick bot, Axiom, GMGN. Doug walks the $COSTCO hot-dog chart —...

Good now revolutionaries— Two-and-a-half hours of After Dark with Evan and Matthew Wiley (Rise Up's intern-turned-research-analyst, one year in on Sept 10). Opens with the Hunter Biden $LAPTOP token — launched on Base overnight, hit a ~$300M market cap on paper, airdrop plan already mechanically broken (Base-native token can't reach the Solana wallets holding Trump-coin losses; real aird...

Good now revolutionaries— Wednesday's show doubled as the Beacon launch showcase and the deadline day for grandfathered $30/month premium pricing. Radio Dan (K-Nine) walks his own trading-journey origin story: met the crew 18 months ago while losing consistently, took Evan's advice in person, sold his ADA and XRP a week before the 10/10 crash, and has since gone through Wyckoff Theory an...

Good now revolutionaries— Full three-host morning show on Tuesday. Alex takes the group through his Claude Cowork setup — inbox scan every 7 AM, calendar pull, HTML briefing page, automatic drafts (with human approval before send), unsubscribed from 280+ mailing lists in one pass. Evan follows with the Claude Design system for his new cover band, Push Play — brand system, promo templates, characte...

Good now revolutionaries— Labor Day solo edition of Market Watch. Will's back from the beach for a tight 17-minute market update. Doug's off enjoying the holiday properly, so Will keeps it simple: BTC's weekly candle just closed bullish above the 55-week EMA after a bearish weekly close two weeks prior. Monthly EMA support sits at $77.2K – $78.2K. Simple rule for September: if BTC e...

Good now revolutionaries— Evan and Alex are back from a week off the air on Labor Day. Alex just came off his first serious spelunking trip in Wisconsin (met Evan up there impulsively; Thai cave rescue lore mentioned), and the crew opens with a listener whose Tangent wallet got drained — a good jumping-off point for the reminder that most crypto losses are user error or software bugs, not glamorou...

Good now revolutionaries— Will Watson runs a short, caffeinated solo morning show — no Evan, no Alex (still Magic-tournament-marathoning in Milwaukee), just Will and the news. Coinbase and mortgage lender Better opened Fannie Mae-backed mortgages that let qualified US buyers pledge Bitcoin as their down payment instead of selling it — you have to over-collateralize at 250%, but if you're plan...

Good now revolutionaries— After Dark takes a full-episode detour from crypto tonight with Justin, Will's best friend from Vegas and a professional trading-card investor. Justin frames the entire TCG market through a portfolio lens: sealed product is bonds (slow, safe, guaranteed value); slabs are stocks (blue-chip vs penny — PSA, Beckett, CGC, and Tag each with different quirks); raw cards ar...

Good now revolutionaries— Evan flies solo Wednesday morning while Alex and Will are off, running through Bitcoin's biggest monthly gain since November 2024 (up 28% in August, back above $81K), the July PCE inflation print (headline 0.2% MoM / 3.7% YoY — slightly worse than expected; core 0.2% / 3.3% in-line), and the Treasury doubling its long-end bond buybacks to $4B+ — a dollar-weakening mo...

Good now revolutionaries— Will's solo Market Watch tonight (no Doug), opening with the audience's top-three-cryptos-for-the-next-bull-cycle question. Will's answer: Bitcoin, Solana, Hyperliquid — with a variant that swaps Solana for Aerodrome + Morpho if you want more asymmetric upside. Frame for the moment: you've survived the bear, we're at the tail end of consolidation,...

Good now revolutionaries— Evan + Will (Alex out on his spelunking + reunion trip) open with the Pengu IPO rumor. If Pudgy Penguins (parent = Igloo) IPOs, the Pengu meme coin is functionally dead — 'who's going to buy the meme coin when you can buy the stock?' Expect a rally in the entire Pudgy ecosystem into the IPO announcement. The airdrop-history debate settles: Pengu distributed...

Good now revolutionaries— Will opens with the magic-show weekend that reminded him and Violet exactly how badly the iPad-baby generation has forgotten how to talk to strangers (the 50-and-up crowd runs conversational laps around them, effortlessly). Then straight into the on-chain sleuthing: LookOnChain caught a World Liberty Financial wallet adding single-sided-Trump-token liquidity to Uniswap po...

Good now revolutionaries— The full crew's back for the Thursday close-out. Bitcoin is still in consolidation and Will's frame is straightforward: below $72K we're in the same 6-month range, don't be shocked to see a trip back to $62K where Binance's liquidations are magnet-strong. If you're feeling FOMO, that's the signal to DCA over two months on a schedule — no...

Good now revolutionaries— Rise Up After Dark 093 opens with first-timer Anisha Kapoor — AI technologist, former financial analyst, and Network School / SheFi alum — walking through her year-long pivot from a laid-off higher-ed financial analyst into backpacking Asia, Balaji's Network School (now permanently based in Kazakhstan), and building small-business AI implementation in the Florida + C...

Good now revolutionaries— Evan's fiber install came with an immediate cable cut, so Alex and Will opened solo. Alex ran the RUMS-audience version of TI 028's SEC 402-page rules-proposal breakdown: what Reg D, Reg CF and Reg A tiers do, the $5M / 4-year no-accredited-gate startup exemption, and — importantly — what's NOT in it. The broker-dealer definition question that scared crypto...

Alex and Emily break down the 402-page SEC rules-proposal guidance document that Paul Atkins' SEC dropped today — a direct response to the fundraising side of what should've been in the Clarity Act but got carved out. The headline: a new startup exemption of $5M raised over 4 years with no accredited/non-accredited distinction, and broad expansions to Reg D, Reg CF, and Reg A. Currently...

Good now revolutionaries— Radha's Rule 611 question opened the show hot. Hyperliquid Policy Center + Duro Labs (Pyth) jointly petitioned the SEC to repeal Rule 611 — the trade-through rule that forces execution venues to route your order to the best displayed quote. Alex's clean framing: this is a pro-institution, anti-retail change. Jake Chervinsky (CEO of Hyperliquid PC) argues the rul...

Good evening revolutionaries— Will's back from his brother's Montreal bachelor party running on 9-12 shots of tequila, three pregame bars, a strip club, and a hard stop at 4am Sunday. So it's a short show. Cold-open callback to the VP quote that started Will's career: "The people who are most successful in this field are the ones who can still show up hammered and hungover...

Good now revolutionaries— Evan and Alex opened with the big Rise Up news: the purple Arculus wallet is officially going to print . Fariba confirmed with Compose Secure, targeting November delivery — in time for Thanksgiving "how's that crypto thing going" family conversations. Pre-orders still open. Jito's got a brand-new bag too: revamped jito.network with a dedicated BAM sect...

Good now revolutionaries— Alex Popovic drove the show solo for the first 50 minutes and turned it into a live-audience Q&A masterclass on why the Clarity Act really isn't passing (the president is the biggest reason, the ethics clause is garbage, and if it doesn't pass this session it starts over in the 120th Congress). The FOMO Hyperliquid question got a real answer: Alex's own...

Good now revolutionaries— Jim Bazzani from Caleb & Brown joins for the first time on Rise Up After Dark. Jim's Melbourne-based, Fort Lauderdale-adjacent (moving to the States later this year), and gave the cleanest concierge-crypto-brokerage pitch we've had on the show: every client gets a dedicated broker, $500 minimum trade, no minimums to transfer in, buy/sell/swap/custody like an...

Good now revolutionaries— CPI dropped at 3.4% — headline AND core met expectations. Will's read: "meh" is bad news in disguise. The market didn't get the excitement it needed to force a run at the higher liquidation levels, so the ~$60-62K Binance liquidation target below stays in play. Meanwhile the Rise Up Trading Discord is LIVE for premium members — Will walked through the...

Alex and Emily's book-club edition of Trust Issues on The Unbanking of America by Lisa Servon — the book Alex thinks every crypto person should read immediately after the Bitcoin white paper. Servon spent time actually working at a check cashing spot and a payday-loan storefront to document what banking looks like from the outside of banking. Her core reframe: payday loans and check cashing a...