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Free Cities Podcast

Free Cities Podcast

Timothy Allen 190 Episodes Jul 3, 2026

The Free Cities Podcast explores alternative governance, new jurisdictions, and the global movement to build freer societies. Hosted by Timothy Allen, the show features long-form conversations with people building autonomous jurisdictions and real-world pathways to more freedom. It focuses on legal structures, incentives, economics, and business models that turn freedom into a way of life. Topics include charter cities, special economic zones, network states, and seasteading. The podcast is the official podcast of the Free Cities Foundation.

Episodes

189 - The Nomad Pioneer Betting on a Free City | Gonçalo Hall Jul 3, 2026 5684 Nomad Villages, the Bali Playbook, and Building a Caribbean Frontier – Gonçalo Hall is a pioneer of the digital nomad movement, the builder behind the world's first Nomad Village in Madeira and the founder of NomadX, who now runs the Roatán Tourism Bureau, a Próspera company whose job is to put a little-known Caribbean island on the map. A year ago, in episode 130, he told Timothy that almost nobo
188 - Plan For Decentralisation | Polycarp Nakamoto Jun 26, 2026 8633 Community, Mesh Networks, and the Plan to Build a Parallel Society on Bitcoin – Polycarp Nakamoto is the masked, anonymous figure at the centre of Lab 484, a research laboratory and cluster of startups based in Austin, Texas, building for Web 5: a second internet that runs peer-to-peer on Bitcoin nodes rather than the centralised choke points of the web we use today. Through Lab 484 and its flagsh
187 - Free Cities Have a People Problem | Daniel Thompson Jun 19, 2026 4382 Building New Cities Starts With People: Digital Nomads, Families, and the Minimum Viable Society – Daniel Thompson is the co-founder and CEO of Noma Collective, a global community of remote workers, location-independent professionals and, increasingly, families, who travel and live together in different parts of the world a month at a time. Born and raised in the UK to a family of musicians, he sp
186 - You're Not Allowed to Say This | Eric Kaufmann Jun 12, 2026 6533 Woke's 1960s Origins, the Race Taboo, and the End of the Progressive Era – Eric Kaufmann is a Canadian professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, where he directs the Centre for Heterodox Social Science. One of the most prominent academic voices on nationalism, national identity, and political demography, he is the author of Whiteshift: Immigration, Populism and the Future of White Maj
185 - Medicine Without Permission | Niklas Anzinger Jun 5, 2026 6387 Self-Sovereign Medicine: Biotech, Right to Try, and the Cracks in the FDA's Monopoly – Niklas Anzinger is a German entrepreneur who has probably done more than any single person to put Próspera on the longevity biotech map. He is the founder and General Partner of Infinita VC, the first VC fund based in Próspera, Honduras, and the founder and CEO of Infinita City, formerly known as Vitalia, a netw
184 - What AI Can't Replace | Matthew Mottola May 29, 2026 4997 He Swapped His Production Team For Claude – Matthew Mottola is an American who fell in love with freelancing in his twenties and then spent the next decade trying to drag the rest of corporate America with him. He was early at Gigster, built the Microsoft 365 Freelance Toolkit, co-authored The Human Cloud with Matthew Coatney (HarperCollins), and now runs Human Cloud as an aggregator of flexible-t
183 - The Bitcoin Free City | Tomek Kołodziejczuk May 22, 2026 6758 He Quit Poland for the Best Job in Bitcoin - Tomek Kołodziejczuk is a Polish bitcoiner from Warsaw, where he founded the Bitcoin Film Festival, now four years old and the first of its kind in the world. A year ago he flew to Roatán to visit Próspera, the Honduran free economic zone he'd been hearing about for years. On his second day he bought a motorbike from Facebook Marketplace to lock the deci
182 - Jailed for a Tweet | Lucy Connolly May 15, 2026 4443 12 Months in Peterborough Prison for One Deleted Post - Lucy Connolly is a mother and childminder from Northampton. On the evening of the Southport murders in July 2024, she fired off an angry tweet, regretted it within hours, and deleted it. A week later, two police officers knocked on her door. Twelve and a half months later, she finally walked out of HMP Peterborough. Timothy Allen sits down wi
181 - Brazil's First Free City | Paloma Lecheta May 8, 2026 7046 The Free City That's Been 45 Years in the Making - Paloma Lecheta is a Brazilian entrepreneur and co-founder of Founder Haus, a hub for what she calls healthy entrepreneurship in Jurerê Internacional, a private neighbourhood on the island of Florianópolis. After accelerating around 1,800 startups across Brazil, she is now part of a small group of founders trying to do for Brazil what Próspera is d
180 - Why Bad Ideas Persist | Crémieux May 1, 2026 4493 IQ, Institutions & Why Every Country Is Run Poorly - Crémieux is a pseudonymous statistician and writer with a large following on Substack and X. He likes to take widely cited studies, reopen the data, and argue the conclusions don't always hold up. His readers include Elon Musk and JD Vance, and his work circulates widely in tech and policy circles. Timothy Allen sits down with Crémieux in Hondur
179 - My Family Owns a Country | Liam Bates Apr 24, 2026 4516 Sealand, Sovereignty & Building Freedom Without Permission - For nearly six decades, the Principality of Sealand has stood as one of the world’s most famous experiments in self-declared sovereignty: a former wartime sea fort occupied in 1967 by Paddy Roy Bates and still run by the Bates family today. What began as a pirate-radio outpost became a long-running test case in jurisdiction, legitimacy,
178 - 8 Hard Truths from 25 Years of Investing in Free Cities | Patri Friedman Apr 17, 2026 4826 Why Most Free City Projects Fail & What Actually Works - After more than two decades investing in charter cities, seasteading, and governance innovation, Patri Friedman has arrived at a blunt conclusion: most attempts to build new societies fail not because of bad ideas, but because of poor execution. Timothy Allen sits down with the founder of The Seasteading Institute and General Partner at Pron

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