EXIT Podcast

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Alex Petkas of The Cost of Glory Podcast and The Classical Society joins us to discuss Lycurgus, the primordial lawgiver of Sparta, and what we can learn from him about the birth (or rebirth) of a nation. Alex’s Presentation (free to listen): * Why Madison invoked Lycurgus in Federalist 38 to defend a Constitution penn...

Ben Wilson runs the How To Take Over The World podcast. He is also an OG EXIT Man , and my co-founder at Constitutional Action — which began over steaks at the Utah Valley EXIT meetup. Ben’s podcast focuses on great men of history, and the lessons we can draw from their lives in achieving our own ambitions. EXIT is a fraternity dedicated to shorting managerial systems, and building the human insti...

The Free State Party invited me to speak at their event in Manchester, New Hampshire this week. It was a chance to pitch what we’re doing and why to a crowd that was values-aligned, but not steeped in exactly the same memetic environment. The “elevator pitch” for this thing is difficult, because you have to question so many premises and dispute so many definitions. I could feel that they liked cer...

Below is my speech from Constitutional Action at the American Fork Veterans’ Hall, April 30th. At last month’s meeting, we presented a historical model for what is happening in Utah, & how we got here — and I made the case that we need a state government willing to defend its citizens and their rights under the Constitution, instead of using the letter of the law as an excuse to ignore the spirit....

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us John Carter joins us to discuss: * Prospects for Alberta secession * Bilingualism as gibs for Quebec in federal govt * Why Poilievre was crushed by Mark Carney * Chinese money laundering in China through banks and casinos * How the occupational class sells the commons to India, China * Emergent identity groups forming...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us (Note: We posted this recording last week in error and withdrew it. This is a re-release to ensure that subscribers receive a working link in their inbox.) Johann Kurtz is the author of Leaving a Legacy and the Becoming Noble Substack. His work, like EXIT’s, is the restoration of the multigenerational family as a sover...

This is a transcript. Recording above. Many on the left (and certain factions of the right) have been freaking out over Trump’s latest Genocidal Madman post. He says: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have complete and total regime change where different, smarter, and less radicalized mind...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Johann Kurtz is the author of Leaving a Legacy and the Becoming Noble Substack. His work, like EXIT’s, is the restoration of the multigenerational family as a sovereign institution — a Great House. He has left his tech job in London and relocated to Romania to write and consult for high-net-worth families full-time. In...

[What follows is a transcript. Please excuse errors.] It’s a great day to talk about the Constitution — because today, apparently, we get to hear whether Ketanji Brown Jackson and Amy Coney Barrett think that we should have a country. EXIT is a fraternity dedicated to shorting managerial systems and building the human institutions that come next. Learn more here: They’re ruling today on whether or...

[This is a transcript — please excuse errors. Full audio recording above.] I’m hearing lately that Utah has Gone Woke. The puppet masters of every institution of power in the Utah conservative establishment are actually secret communists. Governor Spencer Cox is a communist. Also Senator John Curtis, Mitt Romney, the Church, possibly even the Utah Republican electorate itself. EXIT is a fraternity...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Joshua Sheats lives and does business in the US. He believes the 21st century will prove to be another American Century — and after living and traveling all over the world, has concluded that America’s economic freedom and institutional reliability are, if not unique, at least unusual. EXIT is a fraternity dedicated to...

Last month, the EXIT guys had an excellent conversation with Devon Eriksen , author of Theft of Fire and professional Very Good Poaster . EXIT is a fraternity dedicated to shorting managerial systems and building the human institutions that come next. Learn more here: We discussed: * The need for science fiction as a prophetic and inspirational tool, driving innovation in technical fields * Devon’...

Last Christmas, I wrote an article titled George Bailey and the Miracle of Kingship : It’s my take on it’s a Wonderful Life, which is my favorite Christmas movie, and it’s one that many of you seemed to get a lot out of. EXIT is a fraternity dedicated to shorting managerial systems and building the human institutions that come next. Learn more here: In the process of writing it, talking about it,...

Patri Friedman is the founder of Pronomos , the leading venture capital firm investing in charter cities, startup societies, and other “future governance” projects — the institutions that will update and supplant the Westphalian system. We recorded a members-only Q&A with him on the project of carving out autonomy and creating new states. EXIT is a fraternity dedicated to shorting managerial syste...

EXIT is a fraternity dedicated to building family empires. Learn more here: This is a “director’s cut” of my speech at the Old Glory Club/Weaving event in Portland this weekend — a few added digressions and elaborations. Skilos asked me to speak on organizing our guys. Just to give you my resume, back in 2021 I started EXIT, which is a fraternity dedicated to building family empires. Today, we hav...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us [Above is the recording of our discussion with Mike Shelby from Forward Observer, on the broader topic of a “Yellow Revolution” somewhere 2026-2028. Below is a narrower discussion of the role of welfare programs, and the tug-of-war over government assistance, in the coming conflict(s).] If the government shutdown is no...

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. Malachi 4:6 For the last five months, Greg Treat has run our weekly Great Houses call, in which he has laid out a detailed legal, financial, and interpersonal framework for building a great house — a cohesive, influential family that persists bey...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us On last night’s EXIT group call, retired Navy veteran and OG EXIT Guy Francis discussed his evacuation from the Augusta area during Hurricane Helene last September, and relief efforts thereafter. Lessons learned: Preparedness isn’t about gear. Francis’ biggest takeaway from the experience is that physical fitness, mobi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Andrew Isker ( @BonifaceOption ) is a Reformed pastor who has planted a church at New Founding’s community in Gainesboro, Tennessee. He went on Tucker Carlson’s show to discuss his church and the new community a few months ago. We discuss: * Building critical mass for an in-person community * Historical precedents for...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us [ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ] [ Part 3 ] This presentation and Q&A is the fourth in a four-part series. Because of the strong reception to the series, we have made this a weekly call, which is recorded for EXIT members. Modern societies are allergic to cults and company towns. Partly out of legitimate concern for unaccountable...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us [ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ] In this episode of the Great Houses series, Greg discusses the “feudal instinct” — a different way of viewing the obligations between employers and employees, or patrons and clients. The feudal instinct is the drive to fulfill one’s obligations within the ordo amoris : the concentric obligations t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us [ Click here to listen to Part 1 ] In this episode of our Great House series, we address a simplified model of an illegible but enforceable arrangement of patronage between a wealthy family and their clients — or, “How to start a town without a bank”. Starting from the text of John Winthrop’s sermon, A Model of Christi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us Every day, tens of thousands of Americans with irreplaceable engineering and manufacturing expertise are retiring. Globalization and the zero-interest-rate money printer economy have pulled America’s greatest cognitive talents away from building real things in the real world. The infinite pool of cheap foreign labor st...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit blog.exitgroup.us One of the EXIT guys is an estate planning attorney who helps high-net-worth individuals keep their family empires illegible, enforceable, and aligned. In this call, he introduces the architecture of a mutually-reinforcing family business and family trust, which allows the family to incentivize individual risk-taking t...

[Above is my keynote address at NatalCon 2025 this weekend. Full recordings of the event soon to come — please be patient as we get them edited. Below is my response to getting DESTROYED with facts and logic by Lomez later that evening.] I’m very proud of the people we brought together and the conversation they generated this weekend at NatalCon 2025 . I’m deeply grateful to our speakers, our spon...