Sal the Agorist is joining us at the Exit and Build Virtual Summit 2 on August 8th... so we're replaying one of our best conversations with him to get you ready.

In this episode we get into what agorism actually means and why Sal thinks politics can't ever produce freedom, no matter who wins the next election. He breaks down the counter-economy... entrepreneurial noncompliance... and why every regulation they pass just creates ten new ways around it.

Sal will be one of our speakers at the Exit and Build Virtual Summit 2 — Strategy Edition, happening online August 8th. Register free below.

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Topics covered: agorism, counter-economy, opting out of the statist economy, Bitcoin Cash vs Monero, buying crypto without KYC, entrepreneurship and infopreneurship, financial privacy, decentralized exchanges, Exit and Build Virtual Summit 2.

Joe sits down with professional boxer, kickboxer, and mixed martial artist Rico Verhoeven.
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Krystal and Saagar discuss the flock camera revolt, China gives Iran key weapons systems.

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He never fired a shot in battle, but George Washington called him "the general baker" — and without his bread, the Continental Army might have starved before it ever won independence.

Christopher Ludwick was a German immigrant, a trained soldier, and one of Philadelphia's most successful bakers when the Revolution began. As a German-born businessman, he could have easily sat the war out like many of his neighbors did. Instead, he pledged 200 pounds of his own money to the American cause, built ovens with his own resources at Valley Forge, and used his fluent German to talk Hessian soldiers into abandoning the British without ever lifting a sword.

In this episode of The Way the World Works, we tell the story of Christopher Ludwick, the unsung "Baker General" of the Continental Army, as part of our America 250 series spotlighting the lesser-known heroes of the American founding. It's a story about how ordinary skills, freely given, can make an extraordinary impact — and why the free market's specialization of labor helped win independence just as much as any battlefield victory.

• Who Christopher Ludwick was — a German immigrant baker in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia
• How his training in the Prussian army and years studying baking in London shaped him
• Why George Washington nicknamed him "the general baker"
• How Ludwick pledged 200 pounds of his own money to the American cause
• Why he personally built ovens at Valley Forge to bake bread for starving soldiers
• How bread, not weapons, helped keep the Continental Army alive during its darkest winters
• Why Ludwick's fluent German made him a secret weapon against the Hessian soldiers
• How he convinced Hessian mercenaries to desert without ever lifting a sword
• Why he risked his life baking free bread during the 1797 yellow fever epidemic
• How he gave away his fortune to fund education for poor children after the war
• Why Ludwick's story shows that specialization and free markets built America as much as battles did

0:00 Unsung Heroes of the American Founding
0:37 Meet Christopher Ludwick, "The General Baker"
1:06 From German Soldier to Master Baker
1:49 An Immigrant's Dangerous Choice
2:34 Pledging Everything to the American Cause
3:46 Feeding a Starving Army
3:57 Building Ovens at Valley Forge
4:57 Turning Hessian Soldiers Against the British
6:58 Risking His Life in the Yellow Fever Epidemic
7:38 Rebuilding and Giving It All Away
9:20 Free Markets, Specialization, and Unsung Heroes
10:26 The Power of Bread

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Most city-building games let players draw roads, place buildings, and watch a convincing skyline appear. Cristian Gonzalez kept noticing what was missing: homelessness, discrimination, parking, disconnected jobs, and the people who bear the cost when the economy turns. By leaving those things out, the games teach players to see cities as collections of buildings rather than places shaped by transportation, inequality, public services, and human behavior. His indie game Microlandia reverses the usual formula with cartoonish graphics and a demanding simulation that challenges the simplified logic of traditional city-builders, where growth often arrives without transportation constraints or social consequences. Microlandia gives players a place to test what happens when those tradeoffs enter the model and see how one decision reshapes the rest of the city.

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On today's episode, Andy & DJ discuss the motive behind the Idaho In-N-Out Burger shooting as the armed citizen involved speaks out, Zohran Mamdani's proposal that would require a government ID to purchase food in New York City, and MySpace's latest effort to make a comeback and compete with today's leading social media platforms.

According to one activist, yes, and with a name that almost no one used.

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Krystal and Saagar discuss MAGA abuser doubles down, Spain migrant crisis, New York sues Kalshi.

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Atlanta’s Buford Highway supports apartment communities, small businesses, and an international food scene that draws people from across the region. It also carries six to eight lanes of fast traffic, and drivers use it as an alternate route when nearby interstates clog. More than 20% of trips happen outside a car, yet roughly 90% of the corridor’s space is reserved for vehicles. Rebecca Serna, executive director of Propel ATL, and Sagirah Jones, the organization’s program director, hosted walk audits to put residents, planners, and elected officials on the same road and show how people navigate it every day. The audits exposed an unexpected barrier: many people supported bigger changes while remaining convinced that someone else would never allow them.

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On today's episode, Andy answers your questions on how to stay committed to long-term goals when progress feels slow, how to deal with outgrowing your friend circle while building something bigger, and how to scale your service business into an empire.