EXIT Podcast

Abbie Platt is a friend of mine, and is leading the resistance against CRT, sex education, and mask mandates in the Loudoun County public schools in Northern Virginia. We discuss how this situation got out of hand for years under parents' noses, how COVID remote schooling woke them up, and what they're doing to fight it.

Harry is an EXIT member, and founder of becomepluribus.com, a product to help insure content creators against the threat of cancellation through pledged contributions. We discuss how he got the project off the ground without Learning to Code, and the huge downstream impacts that are possible from projects like these.

Cody blew up on Twitter last year after quitting his job as a physician's assistant - now he has left healthcare altogether, writes fiction and is starting a construction business. We wanted to talk about the experience of leaving behind a substantial investment in a credentialed job like that, and why more and more guys in bug jobs are heading in that direction.

Brett is a published novelist who runs our content creation call. We talk about how he closed a multi-book deal with a major retailer, and how that deal fell apart because they didn't like his tweets. Fortunately, self-publishing has come a long way - we discuss his forays into that world, also the eternal anon vs face debate, & policy solutions that could make free speech easier.

Conversation with EXIT member John Dell about being goof-off subsidized homesteaders, making friends out in the country, getting the fellas together irl, etc.

Most primary care doctors serve 2000-3000 patients per year, which means they basically get ten minutes with the patient, once or twice a year. Dr. Rohal's practice ( covenantmd.net ) serves 800 patients per provider on a direct subscription basis. With no insurance, and no elaborate coding or billing, he's able to keep overhead costs much lower and spend much more time understanding the needs of...

Joe is a data scientist and lecturer in Complexity Studies at appliedcomplexity.io. His study of complex systems has led him to a passion for building communities and carving out space at human scale, which we’re all about here at EXIT. He operates a homestead in rural New Hampshire, where he is active in local government and working to build real things in the real world.

Joe Kent is a SOF veteran running for Congress in Washington's 3rd district. He's running on a promise to demand accountability for the 2020 election, reverse invasive COVID policies, and rein in the unholy alliance between the DNC and the security state. We discuss why political action is still relevant, and how he thinks we can end the corruption and take the country back.

Jenine & Taylor Abegg own savannahill.com , an online jewelry store. Jenine went from buying beads and wire from Michaels to sell to her friends, to having her designs mass-produced overseas and featured at Costco. It's difficult to go into business for yourself - but many people who have succeeded in "owning their job" are nervous about scaling up into a business with employees, suppliers, lo...

If you can learn to code, the path to EXIT is pretty straightforward: you're marketable wherever you go, and you can demonstrate your competence with a five minute review of your Github. If you're a "people person", it's easy to feel locked into your corporate gig, because the value you've built is in your insights, your inside connections, the institutional respectability of your associations, an...

Scott's last turn on the podcast generated so much interest in the group and on Twitter that he decided to join EXIT and pull the trigger on a personal consulting business. He now has a growing portfolio of paying clients, and recently volunteered for a "hot seat" call, in which the full EXIT brain trust helped him to overcome some obstacles to the growth of his business. We discuss the impact of...

Owen Cyclops is a friend and author of Channel One , a book that is currently #3 on Amazon's list of comic anthologies, just behind The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes. Owen and I discuss creating art that can drive a person insane, obsessive consumption of forbidden knowledge, learning to be nice online, what to tell your daughter when she asks if gnomes are real, etc.

Tiffany Langford's family has successfully navigated work and life in an active war zone for decades. She grew up in the Mormon colonies in Chihuahua and Sonora during the height of the drug war, a time when the violence in those regions outstripped the death tolls in Iraq and Afghanistan . Local police and government forces were thoroughly infiltrated by the cartels and could not be trusted. Desp...

Corey Vandenberg is an EXIT member and cofounder of Clixsy, an online marketing and reputation management agency based in Salt Lake City. We discuss: How to get started in digital marketing Offering a service versus offering a result How to recover from online reputational damage Exclusive reputation management tools for EXIT members

Ray Whitcomb owns Junk Removed Now , a junk hauling service in Colorado Springs, CO. He started from a borrowed truck with an antique trailer, & now owns a shiny F-550 and storage facility, and employs five people. We discuss: Finding stable revenue in a business with few repeat customers Maintaining healthy margins when anyone with a truck can compete on price Getting a minimum-wage MBA and h...

Max is an EXIT member and a dabbler in crypto, real estate, and entrepreneurship - but on this episode, I was particularly interested in his experience at an Ivy League school, and his take on the children of our decadent globalist elite. We discuss: Actual communists versus corporate diversity neoliberals The exodus of competence from elite institutions Interdimensional psychic pedophile vampires...

DegreeStudies is an EXIT member who researches "online domestic extremism" for the federales. We discuss: Why the deep state interprets memes as irresistible mind-control sorcery Which niche RW microceleb scares the bugman most, & why it is Dr Bennett How Islamic terrorism held the blue/red coalition together What the Russians are actually up to, if anything Remaining human in the face of cybe...

Tactical Minivan is an EXIT member, a software engineer, and a crypto investor at 0xVentures, a blockchain venture capital fund organized as a distributed autonomous organization (DAO). We discuss: Novel applications of blockchain and NFT technology, especially in gaming Making decentralized finance (Defi) accessible to your grandma The closing of the crypto frontier What you need to know to becom...

Brice is a SOF veteran, an EXIT member, and founder of Antifragile Studies Group , a personal security consultancy. His organization helps individuals navigate dangerous urban environments, secure their homes, and prepare for increased volatility and unreliability in state services and the global supply chain. We discuss: Why there's no escaping urban living or global supply chain dysfunction How...

Brikaeli Guzy is Tanner Guzy's wife, & mother to their five children; Karissa is my wife, & mother to our five children. We discuss: helping women to make an EXIT countering corporate-feminist messaging how to support a spouse who has been doxxed how to rebuild the institutions to support homemaking

Gruntpa is an Iraq and Afghanistan vet with 10 years of experience in information security consulting. His job is find & exploit weaknesses in businesses' IT infrastructure so they can be corrected. We discuss: how to protect your identity online polarization and balkanization what "apocalypse" preparedness is worthwhile for a civilian managing your propaganda diet.

Scott Fischbuch is a good friend of mine & a dangerous Jungian extremist. Most people know it as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), but Scott has elaborated on the system to go well beyond the standard business-school applications. We discuss: finding people who challenge & complement you how to integrate *your* shadow (not just "the shadow") the Jungian roots of the current ideologic...

Jeff & Rita Ebberts have been in the carpet cleaning business for over 35 years. We get into the details of that industry, but the real treasure here is what they've learned from struggle. They've had to move to a new city & start over from nothing twice. They invented a new cleaning solution, fought a seven-year legal battle with their franchisor over the IP, represented themselves after...

Johnny Thomas is CEO of Ventana Tek, a renewable energy company focused on reducing households’ dependence on the power grid. We discuss: how to discern between good & bad grind homeschool & deinstitutionalizing education entrepreneurship as an ADHD “ideas guy” Renewables for liberty-minded people.

Greg Smith is an EXIT member who owns & operates swiftfixbike.com, a mobile bike repair shop. He was doxxed last month, & it was not a big deal, because he owns & operates a mobile bike repair shop. We discuss: the limits of cancellation the virtues of the suburbs the geisha social refinement required to succeed in the mobile bicycle repair game.