Timothy
Timothy Allen

https://www.freecities.fm

Chronicling the global movement to build freer societies.

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2026-07-28 08:38:13 UTC

Interested in the nomadic life?
Here are 23 conversations to inspire your next move...
https://www.freecities.fm/search?topic=podnomads

2026-07-27 23:55:26 UTC

Joey Flores dropped out of school at 16. His CEO found out by accident, because nobody had ever read his CV.
He now runs marketing at a company doing tens of millions.
His point: the CV is dying. Applicant-tracking software filtered him out for years for having no degree, screened out before a human saw his name. So he stopped applying and started building things people could see. Now he hires the same way, the person who shipped something beats the person with the tidy résumé every time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr8YsUSiXYQ

2026-07-24 09:05:46 UTC

The first country on the internet.
Not a network state that amasses people online and hopes to manifest something physical later. An actual membership passport, a social safety net that follows you across borders instead of dying at them, mapped out to 2050.
New epsiode with Joey Flores 👇
https://fountain.fm/episode/50oqpay64qsLYVIfatPT

2026-07-21 08:54:28 UTC

The UK House of Lords just voted for a measure that would put age checks on VPNs. It will probably die in the Commons. But the fact that they voted for it at all is the tell.
When I last sat down with @nprofile…9d4q, she called this. Her point: privacy tools only protect you when everyone uses them. The moment only the privacy-conscious reach for a VPN, you stop being hidden and start being flagged. You become the one person in the room with the curtains drawn. The state doesn't need to read what you're doing. It just needs to see that you're the type who hides.
And the deeper point: privacy itself is being further reframed as suspicious. "What do you have to hide" becomes the whole argument. You forget why there's a door on the bathroom. You forget why you write in a private journal.
Her answer: The ID checks are here. Now what? Encryption is how you put the doors and curtains back in a digital world. Bitcoin is how you keep the ability to transact when permission becomes the default.
Full convo👇 https://fountain.fm/episode/vH5TROQYv6U5zGpX5jqL

2026-07-19 08:41:57 UTC

"Being a tourist in a country is better than being a resident of a country."
Episode 165 of the Free Cities Podcast is Rahim Taghizadegan, Austrian School economist, on why exit is more powerful than voice.
> Why the Bitcoin citadel meme started as an insult and became a plan.
> Why your house might be a liability wearing an asset costume.
> Why intentional communities fail and contractual ones don't.
> Introduction to citadel.garden, his network of quiet, family-oriented refuges: 25 houses per location, held through a Swiss structure backed by Bitcoin, deliberately not advertised. Insurance, not utopia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soAsJKORVEU

2026-07-17 11:18:15 UTC

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Plenty and yes Tomek talks about this in depth in his episode.

2026-07-17 08:55:45 UTC

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2026-07-17 08:53:32 UTC

Fifty-one episodes about Bitcoin.
That's one episode a week for almost a year, if you're feeling ambitious.
Over three and a half years the Free Cities Podcast has been asking a different question: once you hold money the state can't debase, where do you actually live? What do you build?
The archive now has its own page:
On privacy: @nprofile…8p0e on the praxeology of privacy, @nprofile…n0n6 on the architecture of freedom, @selfBankt on decentralised networks.
On the state: @nprofile…3hw8 on why democracy drifts toward totalitarianism, @nprofile…2zl8 on digital authoritarianism, @nprofile…8xhx on CBDCs.
On exit: @nprofile…3424 on choosing a parallel life, @nprofile…pe2j on overlanding and self-sovereign identity, @nprofile…e5aa on the Bitcoin Free City he actually lives in.
On the big picture: @nprofile…a8xg the sovereign individual thesis, @nprofile…s8g7 on fiat as the biggest addiction of all, Polycarp Nakamoto on decentralised mesh networks.
And on this protocol: @nprofile…8r4g on Nostr and anarchy, @nprofile…27f2 on liberating creators from the attention economy.
Bitcoin fixes the money. These conversations are about what gets fixed next.
All 51, one page: https://www.freecities.fm/search?topic=podbitcoin

2026-06-26 11:05:13 UTC

Poly episode now up on YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdKHpUS1cAs

2026-06-04 09:03:42 UTC

New episode is up, but only for subs rn.
Niklas Anzinger has spent the last few years building a biotech hub inside Próspera. In this conversation he makes the case that the FDA's monopoly on who gets to try what medicine is costing lives, and that the cracks are finally appearing.
Dog cancer vaccines built at home for $3,000 with AlphaFold.
Sid Sijbrandij going founder mode on his own bone cancer.
China eating 30% of global pharma licensing deals in a decade.
Montana and New Hampshire quietly cracking open the Right to Try framework.
And why Próspera's insurance-based regulatory model might be the most important governance innovation nobody's talking about.
Early access on @Fountain now. General release Friday at 6.15am GMT.
https://fountain.fm/episode/d0sQp6idoayM1GrrVXHx

2026-05-18 10:05:17 UTC

Some context from the country that birthed free speech.
A 44-year-old mother was sentenced to 31 months in prison for a tweet. She deleted it after 3.5 hours. The police came a week later.
She served 12 months prison.
She's out now, on licence until March 2027. The state can put her back inside for what she says publicly between now and then.
Britain arrests roughly 12,000 people a year for things people have said online.
If you're here, you probably already understand why this matters. Here's Lucy Connolly telling her story.
https://fountain.fm/episode/ER6rtwYRUDZmSIgWVZ5r

2026-04-03 15:54:49 UTC

"Just a bit of economic freedom can cause absolute miracles. It did in the past. It can do so again."
In Episode 176 of the podcast, I sat down with James Price - a former senior adviser across five UK government departments including the Treasury and Cabinet Office.
This isn't your typical political commentary. James has been inside the machine and explains, with remarkable clarity, how it actually operates.
Some things that stood out:
→ When the UK government changed in 2024, only 200 people across the entire state changed roles. Everyone else stayed exactly where they were. → Civil servants are more likely to die in the job than be fired. → Special advisers are "constitutionally not allowed to tell civil servants what to do." → During the vaccine rollout, a minister had to tell civil servants to Google the logistics industry because they had zero experience moving anything anywhere.
He breaks down how democracy got eaten from the inside by the people nobody voted for. How the blob digests every election and nothing changes. How Hayek and Burnham saw all of this coming 80 years ago. And why more people are starting to ask whether the nation-state is the problem — not the solution.
This one's a masterclass in how the modern state actually works - and why it doesn't.
https://fountain.fm/episode/tuZpY3c4GgvGqdbO8qnk

2026-02-04 21:24:39 UTC

AI won’t inevitably create tyrants.
It’s just as likely to erase ignorance, making the quietly prepared too expensive to control.

2025-10-24 09:56:40 UTC

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https://fountain.fm/episode/LpL83JKMG4eXH6qIupJp?t=739

2025-10-24 07:34:44 UTC

It's a wild one this week. I've got Alex Jones on the pod...
https://fountain.fm/episode/LpL83JKMG4eXH6qIupJp
@nprofile…qa67

2025-10-23 18:55:15 UTC

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Lol. I wish!

2025-10-23 08:55:31 UTC

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Doesn't always work. https://image.nostr.build/66544481c077c6c587ea3bee66ba3d10edf14bf612e0398cefd73433d4f49eef.jpg

2025-10-10 11:23:51 UTC

Desk job finished for the week. Down to the wood shed away from it all. Early autumn nip in the air. Bitcoin podcasts streaming in the background. This is my perfect fucking life rn.
https://blossom.primal.net/e0549507209d6bdbb9da57cfe4771bc58eb6a010e5aa0ac27ebf82c03afae5c1.jpg

2025-09-12 06:59:43 UTC

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Episode webpage here: https://fountain.fm/episode/3M16xIw3SijaibF4pwIu

2025-08-16 09:44:49 UTC

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2025-08-16 09:44:18 UTC

"To realize that freedom is correct, the state is evil... that's a scary thing because it literally subverts hundreds, thousands of years of propaganda".
We've got Max Hillebrand on the pod this week...
LISTEN: https://fountain.fm/episode/aB170b3sqAG5nod6HXrc

2025-05-30 15:21:57 UTC

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Link works for me. Here it is on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4mhsKmbBKMNtxMyaSxZHcf

2025-05-30 10:22:37 UTC

You've heard of Ross Ulbricht.
But have you heard of Ian Freeman?
Ian is serving 8 years in federal prison for selling Bitcoin on localbitcoins.
I've got his wife, Bonnie on the pod this week to tell the story...
https://fountain.fm/episode/TbPPmHFgpR51paizSRyZ