Actually not even. The podcast is on a completely different topic: a response to Vitalik Buterin's bitcoin maximalism assertion (its pretty funny everyone is too polite to accuse Vitalik of ether maximalism given the percentage of the premine he owns).
I encourage you (or others) to read David Krawisz article
http://bitcoinist.net/the-two-ideologies-in-bitcoin/ he is quite knowledgeable about economics and able to reason. He draws a conclusion that is a little different to what most are assuming: that it is investors that drive bitcoins price & network effect, and transactional usage follows; rather than the assumption many make that it is the usage that drives intrinsic value & network effect. I am not sure about that - maybe its a bit of both, but its an interesting and well reasoned argument, that is somewhat reassuring - we're not fully beholden to the success of people like bitpay trying to integrate merchants and the success of those merchants in having people pay in bitcoin etc. if Krawisz is to some extent right.
Adam
Right. At the end of all of this, stands bitcoin's status as limited-supply, censorship resistant money.
It's something of an accident that *right now* bitcoin enjoys superior transactional properties to online fiat payment systems. Legacy money will get better over time, and crypto won't have the same sorts of obvious and immediate transactional advantages that it currently enjoys. How would the btc merchant-service-providers fair if legacy payments didn't suck?
At that point, it should become more obvious that bitcoin's strength and value proposition is not so much in payments, or even "programmable" money, but as fully independent money. People have to eventually find value in that for bitcoin to have a robust future.