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Free Cities Podcast

Free Cities Podcast

Timothy Allen 190 Episodes Aug 21, 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

196 - Gareth Icke: The Panopticon Is Already Here
196 - Gareth Icke: The Panopticon Is Already Here Aug 21, 2026 5277 Why are so many people suddenly questioning the official version of everything? - Gareth Icke grew up surrounded by some of the most controversial ideas in Britain. His father, David Icke, built an entire body of work around hidden networks of power, manipulation and control, and Timothy came across many of those books when he was younger. He found the way David connected institutions, incentives
195 - How to Survive a Hostile Government | Christian Betancourt
195 - How to Survive a Hostile Government | Christian Betancourt Aug 14, 2026 4770 A first hand account from inside the worst four years. - Christian Betancourt is a Honduran lawyer, entrepreneur and one of Próspera's earliest residents. He was also one of the first people Timothy Allen ever interviewed for this podcast, back in episode three in 2022, when Próspera consisted of little more than the Beta building and the Honduran government had just begun its campaign against the
194 - Two Founders, Two Futures | Liam Martin & Nick Francis
194 - Two Founders, Two Futures | Liam Martin & Nick Francis Aug 7, 2026 3912 One says relax. One bought a Bunker. Two founders on whether AI is coming for your job. - Liam Martin is the co-founder of Time Doctor and Running Remote, and the creator of Peppermint, an AI tool that builds a working digital twin of you out of your emails, messages and calls. Nick Francis spent more than fifteen years building and running Help Scout as a fully remote company. Both were recorded
193 - Fifty Years of Watching It Go Wrong | Mark Frazier
193 - Fifty Years of Watching It Go Wrong | Mark Frazier Jul 31, 2026 8280 He knew the men who tried to start their own countries. He watched every one of them fail. - Mark Frazier has been in this movement longer than almost anyone alive. He put out libertarian magazines in high school, and by eighteen he had been made publisher of Reason, back when it ran out of a truck driver's apartment and had three hundred subscribers. That was 1970. Over the following half century
192 - The First Country on the Internet | Joey Flores
192 - The First Country on the Internet | Joey Flores Jul 24, 2026 3872 A Country on the Internet, a Passport by 2050, and the Death of the CV - Joey Flores is Head of Marketing at SafetyWing, the Y Combinator-backed company building a global social safety net for remote workers. A two-time startup founder whose YC-funded music startup was acquired, he dropped out of high school at sixteen and now lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. Timothy Allen sits down with Joey at the Runni
191 - Everyone Needs a Plan B | Vance
191 - Everyone Needs a Plan B | Vance Jul 17, 2026 5969 Second Passports, Plan B Residencies, and the Americas Super Cycle - Vance is the founder of My Latin Life, an immigration agency covering residency visas across Latin America. A Canadian-American software developer, he began travelling after reading Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek and arriving in Playa del Carmen in 2018. Timothy Allen sits down with Vance in Próspera for a practical guide to i
190 - Building Prosperity in the Danger Zone | Joyce Brand
190 - Building Prosperity in the Danger Zone | Joyce Brand Jul 9, 2026 5583 Spencer Heath, the Entrecom Model, and the City With One Owner – Joyce Brand is a proper OG of the Free Cities world: author of 'Pioneering Prosperity: The Morazán Model for Free Cities', co-author of Spencer Heath's posthumous Economics and the Spiritual Life of Free Men, and one of the very few people in this movement who has actually lived in a Free City. She spent three years as an early resid
189 - The Nomad Pioneer Betting on a Free City | Gonçalo Hall
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
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
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
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
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

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