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Free Cities Podcast

Timothy Allen 190 Episodes Oct 9, 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

203 - Should You Fix Your Country or Leave It? | Raphaël Lima
203 - Should You Fix Your Country or Leave It? | Raphaël Lima Oct 9, 2026 4686 When do you stop trying to change your country and start building a life somewhere else? Timothy Allen catches up with Raphaël Lima, the creator of Ideias Radicais and co-founder of Settee, during the Free Cities Conference in Próspera. Since their last conversation in Lisbon in 2023, Raphaël has run for office in Brazil, become a Christian and moved to Paraguay. For years, he encouraged people to
202 - The Cost of Staying Put | Patrick Hiebert
202 - The Cost of Staying Put | Patrick Hiebert Oct 2, 2026 4969 How much freedom can you actually build without legal autonomy, and what's the real price of staying put? Two men who've answered that question differently, swapping questions in Próspera. - A different format this week. Timothy and Patrick recorded during the Free Cities Conference in Próspera, and with neither of them having much time, they made it a collaboration with Patrick's own show, The Fr
201 - Nobody Understands What's Inside the Black Box | Trey Goff
201 - Nobody Understands What's Inside the Black Box | Trey Goff Sep 25, 2026 14426 What happens when powerful AI tools can find weaknesses in software that humans have missed for years? And how much do we really understand about the systems finding them? Timothy Allen sits down with Trey Goff, Chief of Staff at Próspera, for a conversation that begins with a Bitcoin wallet exploit and ends nearly four hours later with consciousness, community, the nature of a meaningful life, an
200 - Will Próspera Survive Its Own Success? | Erick Brimen
200 - Will Próspera Survive Its Own Success? | Erick Brimen Sep 18, 2026 6850 Everyone asks what happens if Próspera fails. Almost nobody asks what happens if it works. - Four long years of building a Free City while the government of the day tried to repeal the law underneath it. An arbitration claim large enough that Honduras walked out of ICSID. Two television crews in twelve months, Channel 4 and ABC Australia, both arriving with the same script and interviewing many of
199 - The Hanseatic League in the Cloud | Petar Čekerevac
199 - The Hanseatic League in the Cloud | Petar Čekerevac Sep 11, 2026 3825 The four layers of building a new jurisdiction, and why the network state might be a backup layer for the world - Petar Čekerevac is a Senior Fellow at Atlas Network, working on their Project on Decentralizing Technologies. He was executive manager of Libertarian Club Libek in Belgrade, he helped set up the Serbian media outlet Talas, and he is an advisor to Bitcoin District in Próspera. The conve
198 - We’re Building a New Country in Europe | Daniel Jackson
198 - We’re Building a New Country in Europe | Daniel Jackson Sep 4, 2026 4760 At 21 years old, Daniel Jackson is already president of a country. There is just one problem: he currently can't enter it. If you follow Free Cities, micronations or alternative governance online, there’s a good chance Verdis has suddenly appeared in your social media feed. Daniel says Verdis-related content has generated more than 200 million views over the past year, much of it following footage
197 - They'll Blame You When It Fails | Dominic Frisby
197 - They'll Blame You When It Fails | Dominic Frisby Aug 28, 2026 4495 Gold, Bitcoin, and who gets the blame when the money fails. - Dominic Frisby has written about gold for MoneyWeek for the best part of twenty years. He co-wrote and narrated Four Horsemen, and wrote Life After the State, Bitcoin: The Future of Money? and Daylight Robbery. He writes the newsletter The Flying Frisby, performs stand-up, and has a satirical song you have probably heard without knowing
196 - The Panopticon Is Already Here | Gareth Icke
196 - The Panopticon Is Already Here | Gareth Icke 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

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