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Free Cities Podcast
The Free Cities Podcast, hosted by filmmaker and the Foundation’s creative director Timothy Allen, explores the stories of the people who build, live in, and advocate for Free Cities.
Podcast Episode Archive
Pavol Lupták: Global Opportunists, Parallel Societies & Crypto Anarchy
"Most people didn't care, don't care, and will not care about freedom, and this is a fact. So, freedom-minded people were, are, and will always be a...
Kosta Korenkov & Albina Tokarchuk: Digital Nomads Buying Property in Montelibero
"Montelibero seems like a great, great place to be with great people to have around. And I think it's a combination of those two factors. First, you...
Niko Laamanen: Leaderless Organisations, Moving to Madeira & Bitcoin Adoption
"When you go to Madeira, things tend to happen to you. I've seen this happen. I've seen the light go on in people's eyes when they arrive. They're...
Casey Given: Guiding the Free Cities Narrative
"Showing the bottom up potential of Free Cities is tremendous. I think of the brilliant Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto who talks about dead...
Rahim Taghizadegan: Bitcoin Citadels, Geopolitics & CBDCs
"A dystopia always has a different side: a utopian one. The question is, is it possible to have a Bitcoin utopia while the world is dystopian? So...
Raphaël Lima: Radical Ideas, Brazilian Free Cities & Digital Nomadism
"I'm not here to be a teacher. I'm not here to be the super technical PhD guy. I'm here to tell stories that people think 'That was fun to listen...
Andreas Hellmann: Big Government, Tax Policy & The Free Market
"In Europe you have people who want to break up big companies because they're saying big is bad and that we need more competition and anti-trust...
Titus Gebel: Medieval City-States
"Historical examples are very important because if you come up with a new idea that has never been tried and tested in what I call the market of...
Pierre Corbin: The Great Reset
"There are long-term debt cycles, which are 75 to 100 years. These are often correlated to the rise and fall of the global reserve currency and...
Titus Gebel: Breaking the Political Cycle
"It's inevitable that if you have a legislative body, then over time the number of laws will increase, the taxes will increase, indebtedness will...
David D. Friedman: Asteroid Colonies, Medieval Cooking & Romani Law
"Developing the technologies that would let people live in space habitats.. it's not trivial, but it's a whole lot easier than colonising a planet...
Andreas Baumgartner: Negotiating With Governments, Lifestyle Zones & Digital Nomadism
"I love starting from a positive approach and instead of asking myself 'How can I fight these governments?' as, unfortunately, many people still...
Thomas Walker-Werth: Free City Planning, Frontier Governance & Colonising Outer Space
"I wrote an article trying to apply John Locke's principles of property to something like Mars. His basic principle is that if you mix your...
Knut Svanholm: Seafaring, Praxeology & Bitcoin Spirituality
"The fight for freedom is a constant struggle everywhere. In the long run, it's not as easy as just 'freedom-loving people will move to one...
Jose Birkin: Montelibero, Libertarian Governance & Tokenomics
"This is one of the things that we are proud of: We built a road under anarcho-capitalsm. Who's going to build the roads? We are going to build...
Marek Tatała: Economic Freedom
"I think that sometimes utopias are good. There were also socialist and communist utopias and I don't think that they were used for a good purpose. ...
Federico Fernández: Liberating Innovation
"There is something that you always have to keep in mind. If you bet on the end of the world, you can only be right once. Really... the odds are...
Gabriel Delgado: Próspera Update
"I felt very hopeful for my region that we could get this off the ground, because the reality is that reforming these countries in Central America...
Jacek Spendel: Libertarian Advocacy
"I believe that the ability to vote with your feet is true democracy. When you can relocate easily and decide what system, what jurisdiction works...
Matt & Terry Kibbe: Reaching Hearts & Minds
"You are no longer dependent on elites to tell you what you're allowed to think and we should always be optimistic about that. I think, in a lot of...
Kris Kaleta: Manifesting Community
"When I'm asked what will be happening with the Free Cities concept in the future, I would say that the most important thing is that the internet is...
Mikołaj Pisarski: Mises for the Masses
"This is one thing that the state is very successful at. It has managed to make people feel good about their own complacency." This week on the...
Nikos Sotirakopoulos: Life is Not Suffering
"We can succeed in this world. This is not a vale of tears. Life is not suffering, as Jordan Peterson would put it. We can succeed and our...
Tom Palmer: Liberating Prosperity
"I think that the best can be the enemy of the good & the better, and sometimes we should be careful about saying that we have this vision of...
Martin Leskovjan: Parallel Structures
"We consider art a way of thinking, like a communication protocol. So when you want to talk about change of mindset. When you want to open minds,...
Pontus & Ulrika Lindblom: Vote With Your Feet
"That's the ideal. That's what I think would work best... if you could only vote with your feet instead of voting in a political democratic system."...
Max Hillebrand: The Price of Privacy
"These are the Cypherpunk ideals... to use modern day technologies to define and establish the property rights of individuals in cyberspace. And to...
Caroline King: Homeschool Refugees
"I think that the main trait of unschooled kids is that they ask questions and they want to find out more, whereas in school they are told what to...
Přemysl Bosák: Dispute Resolution
"If you go to court today, it's usually a battle with one winner and one loser... But I would like to explain to people that that's not always...
Jan Mošovský: Tales of Liberty
"Every good story is ultimately libertarian in nature." This week on the Free Cities Podcast we continue our series of interviews recorded in Prague...
Pavla Karon: Freedom Starts Within
"One thing you are in control of is your attitude and your mind. You can always find a little bit of freedom there. That's really where liberty...
Josef Tětek: Enemies of the State, Friends of Liberty
"I am very well aware that the state isn't going anywhere in our lifetimes. It will be a gradual process where it will become more and more...
Alena Vranova: Navigating the Future
"Do you have a Plan B? Do you have a separate form of money? Can you move?... Are you building networks of security & trust?" This week on the...
John Dennehy: Building a Parallel Educational Structure
"For us the ultimate mission is to empower individuals. Bitcoin and Bitcoin education is a tool to make that happen... But the end goal is to...
Zussel Ramos: Landing Your Dream Job in a Free City
"I am a firm believer that Próspera will change Honduras. Honestly, we have suffered so much. So many governments have hurt us. I think that...
Sean Pawley: Banking on the Free City Model
"What I want is experimentation. I don't think that anyone has discovered some kind of optimal method of governing a specific area. I don't think...
Dusan Matuska: Bitcoin Education in a Free City
"More and more people are interested and I think that COVID accelerated this and made people think about: 'OK, should I live where I live right...
Jorge Colindres: Mayor of a Free City
"It's good freedom, for sovereignty, for democracy to not have all the power concentrated in the national government. [...] There's an understanding...
The Free Cities Podcast: First Five Episodes
Last month I travelled to Central America in order to speak about Free Cities at El Salvador’s yearly Bitcoin conference, Adopting Bitcoin. During...