Escape the Technocracy

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban explain the nail in the coffin of Firefox: a recent stupid terms of a service that indicates Mozilla can do what they want with the data you generate on their browser.

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Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Dallas of PrivacyPost.io about alternatives to health insurance, especially as one steps away from the doom-loop mainstream thinking as a nomad.

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TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 2:00 – Update on South Dakota residency and CMRA business 6:15 – Dallas' story waking up from the health insurance doom loop 12:15 – Medical tourism 22:30 – Language barrier 25:15 – Paying in cash allows for medical privacy 27:40 – Handling catastrophes 32:45 – Healthshare Plans 35:25 – Health insurance companies goal is not to pay 39:05 – Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) 42:30 – Final thoughts

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Sparrow Wallet creator Craig Raw about his Bitcoin-only wallet. Craig gives an update on his removal of Whirlpool, explains other new features of the wallet, and gives some perspective on Bitcoin wallet development, Lightning, and privacy on Bitcoin.

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TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 2:20 – Craig's thoughts on Whirlpool 6:20 – Latest developments in Sparrow Wallet 14:20 – New verify software feature within Sparrow 17:25 – How do most people lose their bitcoin? 20:35 – Good PC operational security 23:50 – AnonChat Bot in Sparrow Telegram 26:34 – Origin story of Sparrow Wallet 28:56 – Craig's thoughts on ordinals 30:45 – Reasons Sparrow is not on mobile 33:44 – How to have privacy on Bitcoin? 37:00 – Wallet developer's take on Lightning 40:44 – Proper backup of Sparrow Wallet 43:15 – Taproot 45:35 – New PayNym scheme from Ashigaru 46:55 – Bitcoin developments on the horizon 50:30 – Final thoughts

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Roger Huang about his insider views of the current political, moral, and technological soul and abilities of China.

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MENTIONED → https://www.amazon.com/Age-Ambition-Chasing-Fortune-Truth/dp/0374535272 (Age of Ambition) → https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/30/chinas-age-of-malaise → https://www.amazon.com/AI-Superpowers-China-Silicon-Valley/dp/132854639X → https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/13/confucius-comes-home → https://www.amazon.com/China-21st-Century-Everyone-Needs/dp/0190659084 → https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jeffrey-N.-Wasserstrom/author/B001IQWGPW → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wang_Yue → https://www.amazon.com/China-Ten-Words-Yu-Hua/dp/0307739791 → https://www.amazon.com/China-History-John-Keay/dp/0465025188

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Timeline 00:00 – Introduction 1:40 – Guest background 3:20 – What did China learn from the USSR? 12:15 – China's mass material rise in early 21st century 22:20 – The spiritual void of China 37:05 – The state of Hong Kong 45:10 – Best privacy practices while visiting or living in China 55:40 – DeepSeek 1:11:30 – Book recommendations 1:16:30 – Final thoughts

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban explain the massive theft of Ethereum that happened in February of 2025 and what it means for the future of Ethereum.

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Gabriel Custodiet and Urban examine the new geopolitical order of Chinese, American, and European AI plans.

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Ernst J. van Zyl, head of public relations at Afriforum about the craziness in South Africa. They cover the recent events of Trump's cutting off of aid to South Africa and the Expropriation Act, farm murders and tortures, international media cover-up, and the rank amorality that defines the government of the country.

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TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 2:00 – South African decline since Nelson Mandela 13:20 – Trump cuts off foreign aid to South Africa 18:40 – Leaving South Africa is not an option for Afrikaners, nor should they have to 28:30 – Parallels with Rhodesia 34:30 – Farmer attacks and tortures; international media cover-up 45:40 – Boycott an option? 47:48 – Other problems in South Africa 51:20 – Final thoughts

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

In September 2005 something happened in Irvine, California that would change the world, forever. Digitally.

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with economist Peter Boettke about the details surrounding the Soviet economy that Lenin, and then Stalin, attempted to create in their utopian hubris.

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TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 2:00 – What were the first things Lenin did? 7:00 – Did the Soviet economy work initially? 20:35 – Shortage economies 22:15 – Removing sex roles affects Soviet economy? 27:10 – Did the USSR have its own military-industrial complex? 28:30 – Any interesting statistics come out of USSR? 32:35 – Did Trofim Lysenko kill 55 million people? 35:50 – Did the US fight on the wrong side during WWII? 37:35 – Why is von Mises so important? 44:00 – Is economics itself the problem? 51:45 – Poland and Estonia

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker talk about the ascent of Nvidia Corporation, AI and GPU clusters, and go into some details about the ever-useful and unusual technology of graphics cards.

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