The Oto Gomes Crypto Show

The Oto Gomes Crypto Show

By Oto Gomes

Early investor in the blockchain since 2013 and leader in the crypto movement, Oto Gomes has forged his success with technical skill, endless curiosity, and his ability to connect.
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  1. Number 1: The Navy Grounded Him for 2 Years and Took $50,000 Back W/ Hans Toohey

    Oto sits down with Hans Toohey — former Navy helicopter pilot, Harvard Kennedy School grad, and co-founder of Remnant Finance — for a conversation that starts with a broken contract and ends somewhere very few finance conversations go. Hans was twelve years into a career he'd planned his whole adult life around when he refused the mandate, filed a religious accommodation request, and got benched from the cockpit for two years while the Navy sat on his appeal. What he did with those two years is why this episode exists. He'd studied contract law as an elective at Harvard, so when the Navy tried to rewrite his contract retroactively, recoup a bonus they'd already paid, and claw back years of flight pay, he recognized exactly what he was looking at. He fought it. The class action won. But the bigger shift was what he taught himself while grounded — that the same contractual thinking he'd used against the Navy applies to how a family holds and controls its money. From there they dig into human life value, why most fathers are "a McLaren insured like a Civic," the protect-save-grow order of operations, the average-rate-of-return sleight of hand in conventional financial planning, and how whole life cash value works as a contractual, guaranteed, liability-protected asset rather than an expense. This is a long one and it earns it. Grab a notebook. DISCLAIMER: NOT LEGAL, MEDICAL, OR FINANCIAL ADVICE. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. CHAPTERS 0:00 – Intro 0:45 – Meet Hans Toohey & the Red Pill Moment 3:05 – Navy Pilot by Trade 3:45 – Cambridge, 2020 & Watching the World Lose Its Mind 8:15 – The Mandate & the Religious Accommodation Request 13:15 – Boilerplate Denials: How the Shell Game Got Exposed 14:35 – Benched From Flying for Two Years 16:25 – "You Wrote the Contract, I Just Signed It" 18:25 – They Recoup the Bonus & Cancel the Third Payment 20:05 – Sent Across the Country to a Job That Didn't Exist 22:05 – Separating With a Debt to the US Treasury 25:05 – The Class Action & What Winning Against the Government Looks Like 26:45 – Rebuilding Assumptions From Scratch 33:45 – Golden Handcuffs: Pensions, UCMJ & the Fine Print 40:45 – Harvard Kennedy School: Learning Macro From Central Bankers 44:05 – Jekyll Island & the Turn Toward Austrian Economics 46:25 – A Book Arrives in the Mail. He Throws It Aside. 51:45 – Getting Licensed & Trying to Disprove It 54:15 – Life Insurance Is a Contract With 200 Years of Case Law 55:45 – The CFP Model: Buy Term and Invest the Rest 1:01:15 – Human Life Value: What Does Your Family Miss Out On? 1:03:35 – "A McLaren Insured Like a Civic" 1:05:35 – Protect, Save, Grow: The Order of Operations 1:08:45 – Disability, Liability & Creditor Protection 1:12:15 – The Average Rate of Return Fallacy 1:17:45 – Planning in 1990 for a World That No Longer Exists 1:20:45 – How Cash Value Actually Works 1:24:05 – The Power of a Policy Loan 1:31:05 – The Neighbor, the Bank & the $4M Loan 1:38:15 – What Institutions Actually Want From You 1:41:15 – Net Worth vs. Cash Flow 1:42:05 – The River, the Mill & the Dam 1:46:05 – Who This Is NOT For 1:52:45 – Remnant Frontier: Bridging the Two Advisors 2:03:15 – The Distribution Problem Nobody Plans For 2:09:25 – One Minute in Front of Two Million People KEY TAKEAWAYS Hans filed a religious accommodation request against the military's COVID vaccine mandate and was immediately benched from flying. In naval aviation the timing is rigid enough that two years out of the cockpit ends a career regardless of how the appeal resolves. When the Navy demanded he restart a three-year contract they had prevented him from fulfilling, he refused on frustration-of-contract grounds. They charged him with breach, recouped roughly $50,000, and assigned it as a debt that followed him to the US Treasury with 30% added on separation. His framing on protection: your ability to produce income is your greatest asset, and most people insure a fraction of it — "a McLaren insured like a Civic." Protect, save, grow, in that order. His argument is that conventional planning skips to growth, and a failure at the protection or savings layer disrupts everything downstream. LEARN MORE / CONNECT Remnant Finance: https://remnantfinance.com X: https://x.com/remnantfinance The Remnant Finance Podcast — on all platforms MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Becoming Your Own Banker — R. Nelson Nash The Creature from Jekyll Island — G. Edward Griffin The Pirates of Manhattan — Barry James Dyke The Economics of Life Insurance — Solomon Huebner Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines — Cdr. Rob Green CONNECT WITH OTO: Instagram – https://instagram.com/otogomes Website – https://otogomes.live Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RemnantFinance (This episode discusses military legal proceedings, insurance products, and financial strategy; it's for educational and entertainment purposes only, and is not legal, medical, or financial advice.)

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  2. Number 2: Biden Censored Him on TV, Then His Accounts Started Vanishing W/Dr. Ben Tapper

    Episode Summary Oto sits down with Dr. Ben Tapper — chiropractor, father of five, and one of the twelve people the Biden administration publicly named as the "Disinformation Dozen" — for a conversation about what it actually costs to speak against a narrative. Ben traces his path from a free-range Nebraska childhood to the moment a video of him addressing the Omaha City Council on mask mandates pulled three million views in a day. From there they get into the machinery of censorship: the shadowbanning he screen-recorded, five Instagram accounts deleted one after another, a permanent TikTok ban off a single video, and the financial de-platforming almost nobody talks about — PayPal and Venmo seizing his funds mid-fundraise for a documentary he'd already contractually committed to deliver. They also cover his "why," his read on Bitcoin and the moment the Canadian truckers convinced him, homeschooling, health insurance as an oxymoron — before closing on the lawsuits he's now part of against the Trusted News Initiative and the CCDH. CHAPTERS (Shifted +0:45 to account for the intro) 0:00 – Intro 0:45 – Meet Dr. Ben Tapper 2:15 – A Free-Range Kid in a Household That Didn't Vaccinate 3:35 – The Chiropractor Who Called Him a Quack 6:45 – What's Your Why? 8:30 – "My Children Are My Why" 9:25 – Dinner With Bobby Kennedy at Defeat the Mandates 11:15 – Passivity, Complacency & the Attack on Men 14:15 – Censorship: Where Do We Even Begin 15:25 – Shadowbanning & the Zero-Zero-Zero Test 17:15 – The Disinformation Dozen: Psaki, Then Biden 18:25 – Deleted: Five Accounts & a TikTok Magic Trick 21:00 – Financial Censorship: PayPal & Venmo 21:45 – Raising Money for "The Time Is Now" 22:50 – Day 60, and the Exact Number 23:45 – How the Documentary Did 25:15 – Bitcoin, Lottery Miners & His Son 26:35 – The Canadian Truckers: The Moment It Clicked 28:40 – Good Crypto, Bad Crypto & CBDCs 29:45 – Water as the Next Commodity 31:05 – Oto Explains Real-World Asset Tokenization 34:00 – PMAs, Trusts & Structuring Into the Private 35:55 – Basel III & In-Ground Assets 37:30 – What He's Seeing Five Years On 43:15 – Homeschooling: How to Think, Not What to Think 45:15 – Project Artichoke & the Precursor to MKUltra 47:05 – Supplements, Movement & What He Tells Patients 48:45 – Fascia, Myofascial Release & Why Movement Is a Nutrient 52:00 – Health Insurance Is an Oxymoron 54:25 – Why Cash Pay Changes Everything 56:25 – Suing the Trusted News Initiative 59:45 – What He's Doing Now 1:01:35 – Waves of Tyranny: What Comes Next 1:03:25 – Two Minutes in Front of a Million People KEY TAKEAWAYS Ben was named by Jen Psaki from the White House podium in 2021, then by President Biden three days later. He found out standing in a grocery store parking lot, put his produce down, and opened Instagram to check whether his account still existed. The deletions weren't one event but a sequence: five accounts in a row, the largest at 79,000 followers pulling three to four million impressions a month, plus Twitter and a permanent TikTok ban off a single video with no political content in it. The financial de-platforming gets the least attention — PayPal and Venmo both seized his accounts, and the $46,000 he'd raised for his documentary went to zero mid-campaign, against a signed contract for $59,000 due in sixty days. The Canadian truckers convoy was his turning point on Bitcoin: funds frozen through the conventional system, and the Bitcoin donations couldn't be touched. He's clear he doesn't fully understand the technology and is fine saying so. He's now a plaintiff in litigation against the Trusted News Initiative and the CCDH, with roughly $200,000–$300,000 in accrued legal fees. LEARN MORE / CONNECT Website: http://Drbentapper.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.b.e.n__t.a.p.p.e.r Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/14rUuiSH39u/?mibextid=wwXIfr Substack: https://substack.com/@drtapper X: @Drbentapper1 Documentary — The Time Is Now Legal fund — DOJ v. TNI, Jeff Childers' team CONNECT WITH OTO: Instagram – https://instagram.com/otogomes Website – https://otogomes.live (This episode touches on personal health decisions, medical topics, and financial strategy; it's for educational and entertainment purposes only, and is not medical, legal, or financial advice.)

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  3. Number 3: Breathwork for Nervous System Regulation: What Most People Get Wrong W/Christopher August

    Episode Summary Oto sits down with longtime friend Christopher August — bestselling author, breathwork facilitator, and co-founder of Beats and Breath — for a wide-ranging conversation on identity, awakening, and the nervous system. Christopher traces his path from a corporate career and a master's degree to two years living in a rural Tanzanian village, and then to the moment that changed everything A near-death experience on a class-five rapid on the Zambezi River, where he lost consciousness and came back with a completely new relationship to breath. From there they dig into the Gene Keys system (shadow, gift, and Siddhi frequencies), the "great solar flash" prophecy tied to 1987/2012/2027 The difference between sympathetic and parasympathetic breathing, and how breathwork and plant medicine can overlap — before closing on Christopher's Mastery Collective, his Beats and Breath app, and a live guided breath with the audience. Chapters / Timestamps (Shifted +1:00 to account for the trailer at the top of the episode) 00:00 – Trailer 01:00 – Intro & Meet Christopher August 03:00 – Leaving Corporate for a Village in Tanzania 05:00 – The Near-Death Experience on the Zambezi River 08:00 – Identity, Ego Death & the Path of Letting Go 14:00 – Masculine, Feminine & the Great Inversion 17:00 – Christopher's Core "Why" 18:00 – 2020, Lockdowns & Building Community in Buffalo 21:00 – Oto's Own 2020 Story: A Cop, a Mask & a Ticket 23:00 – Post-Jab Symptoms & Holding Space Without Judgment 26:00 – What Are the Gene Keys? 28:00 – Shadow, Gift & Siddhi: The Three Frequencies 30:00 – Your Gene Keys Profile as a Soul Blueprint 33:00 – Avoiding the Identity Trap 36:00 – The Great Solar Flash & the Birth of Human 6.0 39:00 – As Above, So Below: Humanity's Densifying/Awakening Split 41:00 – The Coming Timeline Bifurcation 44:00 – Building Sovereign Community Hubs 45:00 – Oto's Announcement: Building Alternative Digital Infrastructure 46:00 – Breathwork as Protection From Energetic Parasites 48:00 – Trauma, the Nervous System & Why We Stop Breathing Deeply 50:00 – Breathwork & Plant Medicine: Where They Overlap 55:00 – The Hijacking of Cannabis & Why Sourcing Matters 57:00 – Sound, Frequency & the Beats and Breath Method 1:00:00 – Beatboxing, Breath Capacity & a Video Break 1:02:00 – Recovering From the Jab: Fasting, Detox & Fundamentals 1:06:00 – The Power of Subtraction Over Addition 1:08:00 – Inside the Mastery Collective & Beats and Breath App 1:10:00 – A New Partnership Announcement 1:12:00 – Final Words: A Guided Breath to Close 1:14:00 – Closing & Where to Find Christopher Key Takeaways Christopher's near-death experience on the Zambezi River in 2014 — losing consciousness underwater and being resuscitated — became the foundation of his breathwork practice, which he describes as "being born again." The Gene Keys system, created by Richard Rudd, combines human design, astrology, and the I Ching into 64 archetypes, each with a shadow, gift, and Siddhi frequency, used as a framework for self-understanding. Christopher's rule of thumb with the Gene Keys: focus 90% of your energy on the gift, 10% on the shadow — the shadow is a gateway, not an identity to collapse into. He points to a prophecy tied to Gene Key 55 with three marker points — 1987, 2012, and 2027 — describing a gradual "mutation" tied to humanity's collective awakening. For recovery and general health, Christopher emphasizes fundamentals over complexity: breath, fasting, clean water, sunlight, and nervous-system regulation (shifting from sympathetic "fight or flight" into parasympathetic "rest and digest"). He and Oto announced they'll be partnering to bring the Gene Keys/breathwork/somatic framework into Oto's academy. Learn More / Connect Christopher August — https://christopheraugust.co CONNECT WITH OTO: Instagram – https://instagram.com/otogomes Website – https://otogomes.live (This episode touches on personal health decisions and detox practices; it's for educational and entertainment purposes only, not medical advice.)

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  4. Number 4: Why the Rich Use Private Trusts Instead of Banks W/ Shanna Faye

    From accountant to private trust architect — Shanna Faye breaks down how she uses trusts, offshore structuring, and crypto privacy tools to help people become the steward, not the extractor, of their own wealth. Shanna combines 30+ years in accounting, business consulting, and portfolio management with a naturopathic doctorate in alternative healing. In this episode she and Oto go deep on private trusts, ownership vs. stewardship, tax avoidance vs. evasion, crypto privacy strategies, and why she believes health and wealth are the same conversation. 04:55 — Private trust vs. statutory trust: how Shanna found the difference 11:55 — Ownership vs. stewardship, explained 16:55 — Is there a one-size-fits-all trust structure? 17:55 — Panama Foundation vs. corporation: structuring compared 19:55 — Palau ID, alternate residencies & citizenship options 24:55 — Crypto + trusts: cold wallets, Rocket Exchange, Panama 27:55 — Tax avoidance vs. evasion — the real difference 29:55 — The 1031 like-kind exchange loophole for crypto 31:55 — The CBDC/FISA 702 bill nobody's talking about 34:55 — Staying liquid in an uncertain system 36:55 — Is AI good or bad? Shanna's honest take 40:55 — Why there's no wealth without health 44:55 — Community, tribes, and the toroidal field 47:55 — Catherine Austin Fitts: "relationships are the future currency" 48:55 — What the future monetary system could look like 51:55 — Arcium: the encryption layer working with Solana 53:55 — Shanna's services, strategy sessions & offers 56:55 — Join the Friday Lives / Free Academy 57:55 — Final message: you're responsible for your life 🔑 Key TakeawaysShanna's path into private trusts started almost by accident — she was CFO on a startup development project when she met someone deep in private trust structuring and got hooked. What began as a professional curiosity turned into a full second career, one she now runs alongside her naturopathic practice. She sees finance and healing as inseparable, since most people's relationship to money traces straight back to how they felt loved — or not — growing up. The ownership vs. stewardship conversation is one of the episode's core threads. Oto frames pure ownership as an indoctrinated, extractive mindset — "this is mine" — while stewardship carries responsibility toward a wider community. Shanna pushes back gently, noting there's nothing wrong with knowing what you own; the real red flag is entitlement and scarcity thinking underneath it. Together they land on a "win-win-win" framework — win for yourself, win for the other party, win for the planet. On the practical side, Shanna walks through real options for structuring around a shifting financial system — Panama Foundations, Palau residency IDs, cold wallets held in trust, and private exchanges like Rocket Exchange. She's careful to draw a hard line between tax evasion (fraud) and tax avoidance (legally operating in the negative space of the tax code), and explains how a 1031 like-kind exchange may apply to crypto through the "fixture" clause tied to real property. Midway through, the conversation takes a sharper turn into current events — the 702 FISA bill, the quiet reappearance of CBDC language buried in legislative fine print, and what that means for anyone trying to "stay liquid." Shanna's read on AI is nuanced rather than alarmist: the technology itself is neutral, and the real question is always about intention — is it deployed in service of people, or to control them. The back half shifts into health and community. Shanna argues that an unhealthy nervous system makes it harder to create and easier to become dependent — but she's careful to note it's not always a personal failing, since community is supposed to carry people through illness. She closes with a callback to Catherine Austin Fitts' line that "the currency of the future is going to be relationships," tying the whole episode's threads — trusts, crypto, health, community — back into one idea: stewardship over extraction.📎 Show Notes & LinksShanna Faye's website: https://shannafaye.com Obtaining crypto privately:RocketX (Private Exchange for Crypto) — https://www.rocketx.exchange/Bisq — https://bisq.network/ Encryption service — Arcium:https://x.com/yrschradehttps://x.com/Arciumhttps://www.arcium.com/

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  5. Number 5: He Built a Phone the Government Can't Track W/Hakeem Anwar

    Episode Summary Oto sits down with Hakeem Anwar — founder of #TakeBackOurTech and Above, a privacy-first phone, laptop, and communications company — to map out exactly how the surveillance system works and what people can actually do about it. They trace Hakeem's path from a decade-deep conspiracy rabbit hole through a big-tech career to founding Above after COVID convinced him he was "coding his own prison." From there the conversation covers the AI data center boom (and the free tool Hakeem built, aidatacentermap.org, to track its water and power use), Palantir's "unified surveillance" model, the push toward digital ID, why he's grown wary of Bitcoin's transparency, and a live demo of de-Googled phones, offline maps, and the F-Droid app store. They close on Hakeem's long-term vision: small communities running their own local servers and mesh networks, fully independent of Big Tech. Chapters / Timestamps (Shifted +1:05 to account for the trailer at the top of the episode) 00:00 – Trailer 01:05 – Intro & Hakeem's Red Pill Moment 03:05 – Rabbit Holes: From Conspiracy to Big Tech 04:05 – COVID, Freedom Cells & the Pivot to Above 08:05 – Why Privacy Matters: From Snowden to Data Brokers 10:05 – Brainwaves, EEGs & Where the Surveillance Line Stops 11:05 – The Data Center Boom: Four Theories on Why 13:05 – Inside AIDataCenterMap.org: Mapping Power & Water Use 16:05 – The Hidden Cost: Heat Islands & Water Wars 17:05 – San Marcos, Texas: How One Town Pushed Back 19:05 – Arizona's Data Center Gold Rush 21:05 – Wi-Fi Sensing, EMF & the Surveillance Feedback Loop 26:05 – Palantir & Unified Surveillance 28:05 – Digital ID: Why Nigeria Is Getting $200M to Build It 29:05 – Terms & Conditions: What Are You Really Agreeing To? 31:05 – Going Private: Why Oto Is Ready to Ditch His iPhone 32:05 – Inside F-Droid: The Open-Source App Store 34:05 – Is Bitcoin Compromised? A Privacy Maximalist's Take 38:05 – Forking Bitcoin: 35,000 Versions & What That Means 41:05 – Demo: Reading the "Nutrition Facts" on Your Apps 43:05 – Offline Maps & Passive GPS: How It Actually Works 45:05 – Wi-Fi Sensing & Seeing Through Walls 47:05 – Above's Movement: Hundreds of Thousands Going Private 49:05 – Layer Zero: Mesh Networks & Replacing the Internet 52:05 – Encrypted Chat, Phone-Over-Internet & Video Conferencing 54:05 – The Power of Taking the First Step in Your Community 58:05 – Sourcing, Repairability & Above Protect Insurance 59:05 – Vision: Community Server Farms & Sovereign Computing 1:01:05 – People Power: The Antidote to Centralized Control 1:02:05 – Re-Internalizing Self-Worth in a Tech-Dependent World 1:04:05 – Building an "Autobot": Oto's AI Assistant Plans 1:05:05 – Local AI Hardware: The Above Quantum 15 1:10:05 – Free Support: Above's White-Glove Onboarding 1:12:05 – Final Words: Have Faith & Invest in Your Health 1:14:05 – Closing & Where to Find Hakeem Key Takeaways Above builds de-Googled phones and laptops running open-source software (like GrapheneOS) that show users exactly which companies are tracking them inside any app, with no ads and no logging on Above's own services. Hakeem's aidatacentermap.org tracks hyperscale data centers' estimated water and power draw, and includes case studies like San Marcos, TX, where a local group blocked a data center by showing up 100-strong to a rezoning hearing. By 2030, data centers are projected to use 40–50% of current total US power consumption, according to the map's estimates. Hakeem describes Palantir's model as "unified surveillance" — pulling disparate data (library check-ins, traffic cameras, police records) into one investigative platform — and ties it to the broader push toward digital ID. Offline tools like the F-Droid app store and OpenStreetMap let phones navigate and function fully without an internet connection or Google/Apple location services. Hakeem's long-term vision is community-run mesh networks and local server farms (8–30 households pooling resources) replacing reliance on Big Tech infrastructure entirely. Learn More / Get Started Data Center Impact Map — https://aidatacentermap.org Above Phone & Laptop — https://abovephone.com (use code OTO50 for $50 off any device) Hakeem's Writing — https://tbot.substack.com CONNECT WITH OTO: Instagram – https://instagram.com/otogomes Website – https://otogomes.live

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