EXIT Podcast

EXIT member and shaolin.ai founder Zach Martin and I discuss what the machines have planned for us in 2023. * What creatives and wordcels need to learn to make money with AI * How a large language model like ChatGPT differs from true AI * How NLP opens up new frontiers for machine learning & surveillance * Why ChatGPT probably isn't the Singularity * Launching a business with EXIT This is a public...

Even among smart dissident types, the default explanation for the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan is basically just “grit” and “sticktuitiveness” and “giving 110%” (plus maybe “asabiyyah”, which is a $10 dissident word for “teamwork”). But if that was the secret sauce, it doesn’t explain why ISIS collapsed under comparatively light military pressure, never to return; or why Al Qaeda is basically...

My conversation with Clay Martin — Green Beret, preparedness expert, and author of Concrete Jungle, Prairie Fire, Last Son of the War God, and Wrath of the Wendigo. We discuss how to network and prepare without getting Waco'd, how to teach boys what they need to know without getting sued, who you need to know in your local area, and how to be useful in an emergency when you're not a leg-breaker. P...

Our resident fed @DegreeStudies is back to talk about the Musk Twitter purchase, the RW blackpilling in response to the midterm fiasco, and the desire to lead versus the desire to serve. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.exitgroup.us/subscribe

In this episode, I discuss why we started EXIT, who we’ve brought together, and a few of the things we’ve accomplished. A few thoughts: It’s not about “cancel culture”. As many progressives have pointed out, people don’t have to like the things you say. “Reading the room” and dealing with social disapproval is part of life — and in a sane society, this can be a healthy thing. The problem is not th...

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 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with oth...

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 homes...

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 cybernet...

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 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bon...

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. This is a public episode. If yo...

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 ideological reali...

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 their la...

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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonu...

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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...

This week we talk with Cindy Sullivan at Nova Bin Wash. She is a serial entrepreneur with experience in fitness centers, dog grooming, and mosquito removal - & she has volunteered to take mentoring calls from the group, so reach out if you're ready to get started. We discuss: buying a truck with low/no money down identifying the right supplier route and execution efficiency finding, coaching, and...

Braxton is a motivational speaker, a colt trainer, & author of The Glass Factory, a memoir of his recovery from catastrophic injuries after a suicide bombing in Ramadi in 2006. We discuss: breaking colts, raising cattle, raising kids the power of stewardship life mediated through movies the opioid epidemic traveling through the underworld This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this wit...

Kevin Owens is the owner of gmdice.com , a tabletop gaming website that he bought for $12,500, which now brings in $10-20K a month in revenue. We discuss: why buying can be better than starting a business how to differentiate in a crowded industry loving your product & knowing your customer easy products to import & ship starting a good idea at the smallest possible scale This is a public episode....

Citizen Hush is a prolific content creator, entrepreneur, and a cool guy who likes guns a lot. He has dipped his toes into pretty much every hustle you can think of - from pulling weeds by the bucket to courting VCs for a tech startup - and the common thread running through all of it is a jealous defense of his personal liberty and autonomy. We discuss: building content as a student rather than an...

Matthias Cicotte, better known to his friends as J. Reuben Clark, is a lawyer, homeschooler, & poster of good tweets. He is developing a series of history books for children based on classical sources (Plutarch's Lives, Caesar's Conquest of Gaul, etc). We discuss: why literally any homeschool arrangement is better than public school carving out room for boys in feminized education the wastefulness...

Exit member Robert B is a prolific side hustler who has cleared $1200-$2500 a month reselling books on Amazon for a few hours on the weekends. We take the first 20 minutes to dream about the future, then get down the the brass tacks of the retail arbitrage business. We discuss: stability in mobility, freedom through diverse income streams colonizing Detroit, nomadic pastoralism is a "holy city" a...

Indian Bronson is a personal friend, a Miami booster, a BJP operative, & a guide to wagies on the path to personal sovereignty, much like his personal hero, Harriet Tubman. We discuss: Miami's techbro-futurist destiny ought we to poast at all? rebuilding lost freedoms rather than insisting on them a mental model for preserving one's identity online mentally-colonized Mormies & Hindus Hindutva & th...

Karlanea Brown is co-owner of RDM Aquaculture, one of the largest privately-owned shrimp fisheries in the United States. We discuss: startup and consulting costs to start your own fishery making $10K a month from 20-hour workweeks bleach, silicone, & pigshit in imported shrimp (96% of US consumption) what it takes to make it in the shrimp game #grindset This is a public episode. If you'd like to d...