The Oto Gomes Crypto Show

Who are you in an agreement, what are its terms, and where do you fit within it?

Oto Gomes sits down with Shawn Rice of Shawn Rice and Associates to discuss trusts, contracts, property, legal authority, and freedom. In a FIRST EVER PUBLIC INTERVIEW, Shawn shares how his Marine Corps experience and a 1992 visit to Cambodia shaped his path, then explains the three questions he asks when examining an agreement.

In this episode, Shawn discusses why he returns to legal texts, how he approaches documentation, and what happens during his firm’s client intake process. Oto also asks him to make these complex ideas easier to understand.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Meet Shawn Rice

01:45 The Marine Corps and Cambodia

03:00 Shawn’s approach to trusts and legal sources

10:00 Why he pursued this work

16:15 Explaining complex ideas through stories

22:45 Working with institutions

28:45 Trusts in practice

34:00 Teaching, scripture, and agreements

54:45 What Shawn’s firm does

1:16:35 The three questions to ask about an agreement

1:21:30 Education and documentation

1:28:30 Shawn’s views on banking and money

1:36:00 Services and client intake

1:47:45 What freedom means to Shawn

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Shawn’s three questions are: Who am I? What is the nature of the agreement? Where in the hierarchy of agreements do I attach? He explains how these questions guide his approach to legal relationships.

For Shawn, understanding an idea is only the beginning. He discusses the research, documents, and administrative work involved in applying his approach.

The conversation closes with a question for listeners: What is freedom worth to you, and how much effort are you willing to put into understanding the rules that affect your life?

CONNECT WITH SHAWN

Contact Shawn Rice and Associates through Oto: APPLY HERE

**WORKING WITH SR&A REQUIRES APPROVAL THROUGH VETTING BY OTO & HIS TEAM**

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DISCLAIMER

This episode is for educational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute legal, financial, or medical advice. The speakers’ views and interpretations are their own. Consult a qualified professional about your circumstances.

Michael D'alton was a mechanical engineering student fighting asthma and eczema that steroids couldn't touch. After a two-year wait to see a specialist ended with "you have eczema" and nothing else, he stumbled into a bioenergy healing session — and by day three, his symptoms were gone.

That was 33 years ago. He's spent the decades since training thousands of people in the practice, building an international healing school, and appearing on Oprah's network, BBC, and outlets across Ireland and the UK.

Oto and Michael go deep on the difference between Reiki and bioenergy work, the biofield and how frequency shapes the body, why identity is the real obstacle standing between people and their health, and what happened when COVID shut down the 27-year-old school that had become his whole sense of self. It closes with Michael's answer to Oto's signature question: two minutes, a million people, one thing to say before you drop the mic.

DISCLAIMER: NOT MEDICAL ADVICE. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Intro

01:00 The specialist appointment that changed everything

05:00 The treatment that convinced him the energy was real

07:00 Reiki vs. bioenergy: "first aid vs. surgery"

10:00 Lockdowns in Ireland and Canada, and losing the filter

12:00 The biofield, frequency, and the Hawkins scale of consciousness

25:00 The radio station analogy — identity and why people relapse

27:00 "We have the innernet" — the technology inside you

29:00 Why finance is the next collective reckoning

34:00 Dependency, identity, and re-internalizing self-worth

45:00 Timelines, doom vs. hope, and one person's frequency vs. thousands

53:00 Losing his identity when COVID shut down his school

1:21:00 Final message: "You're always winning"

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Bioenergy healing works on the biofield rather than through touch, and Michael draws a clear line between it and Reiki — he calls Reiki "first aid" and bioenergy "surgery" for how deep and specific the work can go.

Identity is the throughline of the whole conversation. Michael's read is that people don't stay sick because of the illness itself — they stay sick because being sick has become who they are, and changing that requires a different sense of self, not just a different treatment.

The COVID years form the hinge of his own story. He talks candidly about the identity crisis that hit when his 27-year-old healing school shut down overnight, and what it took to find out who he was without the stage.

CONNECT WITH OTO:

Instagram – https://instagram.com/otogomes

Website – https://otogomes.live

GUEST LINKS

Website — https://www.daltonsbio.com

Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/michaeldaltonbioenergy/

Episode Summary

Oto sits down with Derrick Broze — independent investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, and founder of The Conscious Resistance Network — for a conversation that starts in a Texas state prison and ends with 23 acres in the mountains of central Mexico.

Derrick's awakening didn't begin with Ron Paul or the Federal Reserve. It began the week before he turned 21, when he was arrested for possession of crystal meth and went on to serve 18 months. He walks Oto through what losing everything taught him, how a library book on cannabis history cracked open his first real questions about the drug war, and how a decade of journalism led to his YouTube channel being deleted in October 2020 with 76,000 subscribers.

From there they dig into the pyramid of power, the parasite class and its relationship to addiction, and where blockchain genuinely serves freedom versus where tokenization becomes a control grid.

The back half is the part worth staying for. Derrick lays out exit and build — his answer to people who consume doom and call it awareness — including the Conscious Agora eco-village he's spent five years assembling, the Freedom Cells network that grew from 2,000 to 40,000 people during COVID, and his rewrite of the World Economic Forum's own essay: Welcome to 2030. I own land, live amongst like-minded people, and life has never been better.

CHAPTERS

0:00 – Trailer

0:56 – Intro & Meet Derrick Broze

1:56 – The Red Pill: Ron Paul, Jim Marrs & 9/11

2:36 – Arrested at 20: Meth, Prison & Hitting Bottom

3:56 – Life as a Felon & the Book That Changed Everything

5:56 – Waking Up to the Drug War's Real Origins

6:56 – January 2020: Seeing It Coming From Mexico

8:56 – Publishing "How to Opt Out" Two Months Before COVID

10:26 – Deleted: 76,000 Subscribers Gone Overnight

11:56 – Shadowbanning & Why He Doesn't Trust the Numbers

13:56 – From the War on Terror to the Biomedical State

15:56 – The Pyramid of Power: Who Is "They"?

17:56 – Addiction, Power & the Root of Dependency

20:56 – Five Years of Research Into One Question

23:56 – Why the Answer Is a Mindset, Not a Family

25:56 – Catherine Austin Fitts & the Independent Media Alliance

27:56 – Tokenization: Liberation Tool or Control Grid?

29:56 – Blockchain Isn't Good or Bad, It's a Tool

34:56 – How His View on Bitcoin Changed

37:56 – Digital Gold vs. Real World Currency

39:56 – Cash, Monero & Why Community Is the Real Currency

42:56 – 23 Acres: Building the Conscious Agora

44:56 – Sugarcrete, Tiny Homes & the Holistic Education Center

46:56 – The Greater Reset Becomes The People's Reset

50:56 – What Technocracy Actually Looks Like

52:56 – Denmark, Digital IDs & the World They're Building

53:56 – Liberation 2030: What's YOUR Vision?

54:56 – Who Profits From Your Doom Scrolling

56:56 – Alchemizing "You Will Own Nothing"

57:56 – The People They Left Behind — That's Us

58:56 – The Books: Trilogy, Technocratic State, Pyramid of Power

1:00:56 – A Man of My Word & Why Addiction Needs Talking About

1:03:56 – Freedom Cells: Mutual Aid, Decentralized

1:06:56 – 2,000 to 40,000 During COVID

1:08:56 – Just Because COVID's Gone Doesn't Mean the Agenda Is

1:09:56 – Two Minutes in Front of a Million People

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Derrick's spiritual awakening predated his political one by four years. Prison and hitting bottom came first; the Federal Reserve and Ron Paul came after. His work has always been the intersection of internal and external freedom.

His YouTube channel was deleted in October 2020 for an interview that YouTube said conflicted with World Health Organization standards. It was restored in mid-2025 with videos and thousands of subscribers missing, and has not moved from 74K since.

On blockchain he refuses both camps. He calls himself a "freedom maxi" — the technology is a tool, the World Economic Forum's vision for tokenization is not the same as a private crypto that keeps you out of the banking system, and collapsing the two is a failure of nuance.

His central challenge: plenty of people monetize your fear and never offer a solution, because doom scrolling is the business model. If you don't want their 2030, what's yours? Write it down.

The Conscious Agora is six households on 23 acres outside Morelia, paid off in January 2025 without a bank — partly in crypto — with a vetting process currently open for three more.

LEARN MORE / CONNECT

The Conscious Resistance: https://theconsciousresistance.com

A Man of My Word: https://amanofmyword.com

The Pyramid of Power: https://thepyramidofpower.net

Freedom Cells: https://freedomcells.org

CONNECT WITH OTO:

Instagram – https://instagram.com/otogomes

Website – https://otogomes.live

(For educational and entertainment purposes only. Not legal, medical, or financial advice.)

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.)

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.)

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.)

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

Shanna'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.

Shanna 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/yrschrade
• https://x.com/Arcium
• https://www.arcium.com/

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.

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Data Center Impact Map — https://aidatacentermap.org

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Hakeem's Writing — https://tbot.substack.com

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Episode Summary Oto sits down with Tamar Edwards, who was born into the Children of God — a nomadic, high-control religious group her parents joined in the late 1970s — and spent her childhood moving through 24 communes across four countries, largely in Thailand, believing the world would end before she reached adulthood. Tamar walks through what daily life inside the group actually looked like, how the cult's fear-based control system worked, and what happened when it disbanded and she was thrown into mainstream society with no schooling and no relationship to money. She traces her path from clowning and balloon-twisting as a teenager, to yoga and nutrition coaching, to intimacy and sexuality coaching, and finally to her current focus on financial sovereignty — framing embodiment, sexuality, and money as the "three pillars" she's spent her adult life healing. She also shares her own experience with suicidal ideation as a child in the group and reflects on what it means to build genuine autonomy after growing up with none. Chapters / Timestamps (Shifted +48s to account for the trailer at the top of the episode) 00:00 – Trailer 00:48 – Intro & Disclaimer: Meet Tamar Edwards 02:48 – Born Into the Children of God: 24 Communes by Age 12 05:48 – The Culture of "Broke With a Purpose" 09:48 – What Was the Children of God? Origins & Structure 12:48 – Inside the "Boot Camp": Daily Life in the Compound 16:48 – What Made the Cult Possible? Love, Fear & Control 19:48 – Parallels to Today's New Age Movement 21:48 – Childhood Money Beliefs: Scarcity & "Money Is Evil" 24:48 – Learning to Love Money as Learning to Love Freedom 27:48 – Nervous System Upgrades: Acclimating to More Money 32:48 – Ownership & the Spectrum of Stewardship 36:48 – Disbanding of the Cult & the Phoenix Family Connection 38:48 – Advice for Anyone Coming Out of a High-Control Group 40:48 – The Cult Predicted AI & Robots in the 1980s 42:48 – Facing Mortality: A Gift From an Apocalyptic Childhood 45:48 – Identity & Twins: Growing Up as a "We-dentity" 47:48 – From Clowning to Career: Tamar's First Business 49:48 – Discovering Intimacy & Sexuality Coaching 51:48 – Healing an Eating Disorder Through Embodiment Work 54:48 – The Three Pillars: Embodiment, Sexuality & Finances 1:01:48 – Becoming Financially Sovereign on Her Own Terms 1:06:48 – Oto's Sacred Sons Story & the Body as a Map 1:09:48 – The Myth of the Guru: Finding the Teacher Within 1:13:48 – Postpartum Care for New Moms Over 35: Tamar's Book 1:18:48 – Final Words: Chasing the Feeling, Not the Destination 1:22:48 – Closing Thoughts & Where to Find Tamar Key Takeaways Tamar Edwards was born in Sweden in 1981, an identical twin and the third-oldest of 12 children raised inside the Children of God, moving through roughly 24 communes across four countries with almost no exposure to mainstream culture, money, or formal schooling. She defines what turned the group into a cult — one unquestioned charismatic leader plus total isolation from the outside world — and describes how members were "seduced by love, then ruled by fear." Her family's economic model was "broke with a purpose": no personal money, no personal wallet, communal living, and constant relocation, which she says left her with a deep scarcity mindset she's had to unlearn as an adult. After the group disbanded when she was a young teen, she built a career arc from clowning and balloon-twisting to yoga/nutrition coaching to intimacy and sexuality coaching, and now studies financial sovereignty — framing embodiment, sexuality, and money as three interconnected "pillars" of healing. She's written a book, Postpartum Care for New Moms Over 35, drawn from her own experience having her son at 40. Learn More / Connect Tamar's Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/nourishedwithtamar/reels/ CONNECT WITH OTO: Instagram – https://instagram.com/otogomes Website – https://otogomes.live (This episode discusses cult abuse and childhood suicidal ideation. If any of this hits close to home, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available 24/7.)

Episode Summary

Oto sits down with longtime friend DJ Mike Winner — co-founder of the decentralized network Qortal — for a deep dive into consciousness, sovereignty, and building outside the centralized internet. Mike traces his path from an early astral projection experience at 12, through a "germ theory" awakening from Dr. Bear Lando, to co-founding Qortal as a fully open-source, node-to-node alternative to the World Wide Web. He and Oto unpack the philosophy behind "sovereignty taxes," the difference between legal and possession-based ownership, and why cognitive sovereignty matters as AI use grows. Mike then walks through how Qortal actually works — minting, QDN, the CORT coin, the app ecosystem (QTube, Qmail, QShare, and more) — before showing how he used AI agents (including his own trained assistant, Merlin) to build Terrain TV, a free, AI-curated health-freedom video platform with 46,000+ videos.

Chapters / Timestamps

(Shifted +59s to account for the new intro at the top of the episode)

00:00 – Trailer

00:59 – Intro & Catching Up with DJ Mike Winner

02:59 – The Red Pill Moment: Astral Projection & "The Creature from Jekyll Island"

05:59 – Germ Theory, Chronic Illness & the Allopathic Debt System

07:59 – From Hollywood to Alpha Vedic: Finding His Path

09:59 – The Art of Inquiry: Trusting Truth Within & Daily Meditation

11:59 – Dependency, the Sovereignty Tax & the Entrepreneur's Dilemma

13:59 – AI as an Ancient Technology & the Convergence Point

14:59 – Techno Bros, Ownership vs. the Rental Economy

17:59 – The Myth of Prometheus & Natural Law

19:59 – Crossing the Bridge: Technology as "Techne"

23:59 – Why Big Tech Isn't Censoring Like It Used To

25:59 – The Sovereign Stack: Decoupling Step by Step

28:59 – The Danger of "Purity Spiraling" & What Is a Luddite?

32:59 – Moving Into a Creator-Based Economy

33:59 – Legal Ownership vs. Possession-Based Ownership & Cognitive Sovereignty

36:59 – What Is Qortal? Reacting to Crypto Centralization

39:59 – Qortal's Time-Based Minting Consensus

42:59 – How QDN Works: Decentralized, Censorship-Proof Storage

46:59 – CORT Coin, Minting Pools & the Leveling System

49:59 – The Qortal App Ecosystem: QTube, Quitter, QShare & More

51:59 – Names, Wallets & Permissionless Identity on Qortal

53:59 – Getting Started: Hardware, Setup & Syncing Your Node

56:59 – Acquiring CORE Through P2P Trading

58:59 – Free Hosting, Qmail & Owning Your Own Data

1:00:59 – Bitcoin Storage & Where to Learn More

1:01:59 – Mesh Networking & Getting Off the ISPs

1:04:59 – Terrain TV: Building an AI-Powered Curation Platform

1:09:59 – The Terrain Philosophy Beyond Health

1:11:59 – Meet Merlin: Mike's AI Familiar Built in OpenClaw

1:13:59 – Running His Own CRM for True Data Sovereignty

1:14:59 – Can We Ever Fully Ditch Internet Providers?

1:18:59 – Final Words: Trust Yourself & Take Action

1:20:59 – Where to Find Mike: Winnr.digital & Closing

Key Takeaways

Qortal (Cordal) is a fully open-source, community-run, node-to-node network — never VC-funded, never trademarked — with a blockchain spine that uses time (not competition) as its consensus and minting model.

QDN (Qortal Data Network) stores content by chunking, encrypting, and spreading it across the nodes of your followers, so the more followers an account has, the faster and more redundant its content becomes — with no central server to shut it down.

The app ecosystem includes QTube (YouTube alternative), Qmail (encrypted P2P email with no middleman), Quitter (Twitter-style), QShare, QShop, and more — all funded by small CORT transaction fees rather than hosting or subscription costs.

Ownership on Qortal runs through a permissionless naming marketplace — names cost a few CORT, follow you across every app, and moderation happens through community blocking rather than centralized censorship.

Mike built Terrain TV, a free AI-curated health-freedom platform pulling from YouTube, BitChute, Odysee, and Rumble, in about 60 days using AI coding agents — including his own trained AI assistant, "Merlin," built in OpenClaw.

Mike frames the core practice as recognizing "sovereignty taxes" — the time, attention, and money we give up for convenience — and gradually walking across the bridge to open-source, self-owned alternatives (Qortal, ProtonMail, local AI) rather than abandoning existing tools all at once.

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Qortal — https://qortal.org (or the community-recommended https://qortal.dev)

Terrain TV — https://terraintv.com

Mike Winner's site — https://winnr.digital

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