Podcast Episodes

S02E11 Stephen DeLorme – Bitcoin and Freedom by Design

Season 2 Episode 11

“It's really difficult to engineer freedom tech—solutions that require you to kind of take ownership of your money, take ownership of your data. These things typically have engineering solutions that…

Published on 9 hours ago

S02E10 Dan Gould – Turning privacy into Bitcoin's economic edge

Season 2 Episode 10

“Bitcoin exists to remove intermediaries from the movement of money online. Without privacy, if someone can see how money is moving, they don't like someone you paid, they can discriminate based on t…

Published on 1 week, 1 day ago

S02E09 Tim Bouma — Digital ID architect builds the escape route

Season 2 Episode 9

“You cannot have trust without some form of governance. And governance is basically rules.” Tim Bouma has spent two decades inside government building Canada's digital identity framework. He's also b…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

S02E08 Trey Sellers – Power Without Permission

Season 2 Episode 8

"If you go into a local community bank and ask for $50,000 in cash, you're going to get a lot of questions—and very likely they're going to say, 'Come back in a week, we need to order that.' The cash…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

S02E07 Rob Brinded – Can you trust your mind?

Season 2 Episode 7

What if the mind you trust is running a four-year-old's survival code?

Rob Brinded, author of Glitch: The Hidden Code Running Your Life (And How to Debug It), joins Shawn to reveal how childhood prog…

Published on 1 month ago

S02E06 – Privacy's last stand

Season 2 Episode 6

September 2025 marked a critical turning point in the surveillance economy. Disney paid $10 million for illegally collecting children's data. Google faced $425.7 million in penalties for nearly a dec…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

S02E05 Live from Imagine IF 2025

Season 2 Episode 5

This week we feature the “Open Communities in the Age of Control” panel, recorded live on September 20th at the Imagine IF conference in Nashville. The discussion dives into the erosion of trust in a…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

S02E04 Alex Newman – Trust Crisis: Paths to Renewal

Season 2 Episode 4

Centralized systems—Big Pharma, globalist agendas, government education—are crumbling under their own weight, leaving trust in tatters. Alex Newman, investigative journalist and CEO of Liberty Sentin…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

S02E03 Jeffrey Tucker – Breaking the spell of consensus

Season 2 Episode 3

Jeffrey Tucker, founder of the Brownstone Institute and Austrian economics advocate, joins Shawn to dissect the COVID-19 response's devastating impact on institutional trust and explore paths to pers…

Published on 2 months ago

S02E02 Mathias Buus – The future is peer-to-peer

Season 2 Episode 2

In This Episode

Shawn interviews Mathias Buus, CEO of Holepunch, about revolutionizing the internet with peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies like Pear Runtime, Hypercore, and Keet. Mathias shares his jou…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago