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- 1 weeks ago1h 4m
LFN #267 - Should Freedom People Use AI? Curtis Stone’s Off-Grid AI Talk
Most of us in the freedom movement agree on a lot. We said no to the shot, we don’t want technocracy running our lives, and we’re against AI mass surveillance. But AI itself is where things get nuanced. Is it good? Is it bad? What should be avoided? Is there such a thing as privacy-focused AI? Today on the Live Free Now show, I’m playing Curtis Stone’s talk from Exit & Build Virtual Summit 3. It was one of the most controversial talks we’ve aired, and the comments came in from every direction. Curtis runs his own off-grid AI on his homestead. It sits on his own hardware, runs on his own solar, and doesn’t answer to big tech. He makes the case for why freedom lovers should own their intelligence the same way they own their food, water, and power. He also lays out a warning for anyone building their life on cloud AI. At Exit & Build 6, November 5–8 at Sovereignty Ranch, Curtis will give a full keynote going deeper on this topic. He’s also running an open Q&A Mastermind session covering homesteading, off-grid tech, law and remedy, AI, and whatever else gets brought to him. Today (10/28) is the last day to get the Virtual Immersion Pass with the fast-action bonus, How to Get Crypto Privately. The pass includes every Exit & Build 6 talk streamed live, lifetime replays, and all three Virtual Summit replays. The bonus expires at midnight Central tonight. Get your Virtual Immersion Pass: https://exitandbuild.com/virtual Join us in person: https://exitandbuild.com
- 2 weeks ago46 min
LFN #266 - Doug and Stacy on Why Overthinking Is Killing Your Homestead Dream
Doug and Stacy are the OG off-grid homestead channel on YouTube. Seventeen years at it, 1.3 million subscribers. And they didn’t plan their way into it. They sold the 3,000 square foot house. Moved into a one-bedroom apartment to get used to living small and shed everything they didn’t need. Then they bought land with cash, moved out in July, and Doug lived in a tent while he built a log cabin by hand before winter hit. No running water. No septic. No electricity. No plan past getting a roof up before the cold came. Doug called that deadline the thing that made it happen. “A lot of people procrastinate. Timelines with the weather really make a difference.” In this interview from Exit & Build Virtual Summit 1, they get into: Why overthinking is the thing standing between most people and the life they want. Stacy’s words: “If you just try to study study study, think think think, it’s only going to delay your process.” How Doug learned to live off-grid by apprenticing with the Amish for four or five years. Working for free, butchering chickens, watching how a house runs without electricity. And how it started with an old neighbor lady climbing over his locked fence to introduce herself. The pot belly stove they bought that an Amish woman laughed at, because it wasn’t airtight and wouldn’t have kept them warm. And what they learned from walking through every house in that community looking at stoves. Why Doug says buy the land you can afford, pay cash so you carry no debt, and figure the rest out from there. Why they’re not benign homesteading influencers. They’re freedomed out and conspiratorial about it, which is exactly why they fit what we’re doing. Doug put it plainly: “We’re the poster children of this year’s conference.” They’re coming to Exit & Build 6! November 5-8 at Mollie Engelhart’s Sovereignty Ranch in Bandera, Texas. Doug and Stacy are hanging out the whole event. Not flying in to speak and leaving. Camping, eating, and staying up late with everybody else. Also speaking: Joel Skousen, David Avocado Wolfe, Curtis Stone, Alec Zeck, Mike Winner of Qortal, Jeremy Cordon of Goldback, Hakeem Anwar of Above Phone, Andy Schoonover of CrowdHealth, and the full Sacred Honor Educational Fellowship crew. Plus the implementation zones, where you sit down with these folks and actually do the thing instead of taking notes about it. https://exitandbuild.com If you’ve been overthinking whether to come, go back and listen to Doug and Stacy again.
- 3 weeks ago1h 34m
LFN #265 - Breaking Out of the Legal Matrix | Sacred Honor Educational Fellowship Full Panel
This panel was part of the VIP package for Exit & Build Virtual Summit 3. It wasn’t meant to be public. I’m releasing it free. We had about an hour and twenty minutes with the entire Sacred Honor Educational Fellowship crew to get into the nitty gritty of the private realm. The foundational principles, divine law, and what it actually means to opt out of the legal matrix. Plus a long stretch of audience Q&A, which is where most of the value ended up. Some of what gets covered: The Trifecta framework. Private trusts, private membership associations, and ministries, and how the three work together rather than as separate tools. National status correction. What it means to opt out of being a US citizen, the tax advantages that come with it, and the freedom advantages that matter more. Equity, and how to use it to get out from under encumbrances a lot of people found themselves in without ever realizing they agreed to anything. And the honest version of what this road feels like. One of the best moments in the whole panel is Marcia Ann saying that if this feels overwhelming and uncomfortable right now, celebrate it. It isn’t comfortable to find out that everything you were taught was a lie. That discomfort means your awareness is opening. Then Michael adds the part that stuck with me: don’t stop there, press through until you’re comfortable being uncomfortable. If you want to work with Sacred Honor directly, email us and we’ll connect you. They’re going deep at Exit & Build 6 November 5-8 at Mollie Engelhart’s Sovereignty Ranch in Bandera, Texas. They’re running multiple ninety-minute immersive workshops plus their own Private Realm Implementation Zone across all four days, where you sit down with them about your actual situation. A main stage panel with the whole crew. Deep dives on each individual pathway. Marcia and Michael on the Trifecta. Daniel on status correction. Phil on equity. The seminary workshop. An Allodial Land workshop. If you want to immerse yourself in this world and connect with these people directly, that’s the room to be in. Also speaking: David Avocado Wolfe, Joel Skousen, Curtis Stone, Doug and Stacy, Alec Zeck, Mollie Engelhart, Jeremy Cordon of Goldback, Mike Winner of Qortal, Andy Schoonover of CrowdHealth, and more. Ticket prices go up October 22nd. https://exitandbuild.com And we’re making the trip easy. Shuttles run from San Antonio International to the ranch and back. There’s a Telegram group where attendees are coordinating rideshares and splitting accommodations to bring costs down. Camping, glamping, and tiny homes are all bookable right on the property, so nobody has to drive back to a hotel when the fire’s still going. Questions? Reply to any of our emails or reach out. We’ll take care of you.
- Oct 7, 202656 min
LFN #264 - I Haven't Had Health Insurance in Years. Here's What I Do Instead.
Andy Schoonover is back on the show, and we're catching up on where CrowdHealth is at now. For folks who haven't heard me talk about this before, CrowdHealth is a parallel economy alternative to health insurance. It's a peer-to-peer crowd of people, a lot of them freedom folks and Bitcoiners, who fund each other's health events directly instead of running everything through an insurance company. I'm a member. Ryan's a member. My bill usually runs well under $200 a month. Here's the argument Andy makes... There are two broken options in front of most people. Insurance supposedly protects you from a big bill, though it often doesn't. But by transferring the risk to a third party, it strips out any reason for you to care what anything costs. Nobody asks the price. That's a major reason prices keep climbing. Going uninsured keeps you price conscious. You ask what things cost because you're paying. But it leaves you exposed if something catastrophic happens. CrowdHealth's bet is that you can have both. Community support for the large, unexpected costs, with members keeping ownership of their own healthcare decisions and the tools to make those decisions well. As Andy puts it, putting ownership back with the individual is the only way to bring real consumerism, and real cost reduction, to healthcare. We get into how it actually works day to day, what happens when you have a real health event, how they handle holistic and natural health practitioners, what it costs, and where the model is headed. Andy is speaking at Exit & Build 6 November 5-8, 2026 at Mollie Engelhart's Sovereignty Ranch in Bandera, Texas. He's taking the main stage and then spending time answering questions directly from attendees about CrowdHealth. If you've been curious about opting out of the insurance system but had questions holding you back, that's your chance to ask the founder in person. Four days on working regenerative land with hands-on implementation zones where you actually build instead of taking notes. Also speaking: David Avocado Wolfe, Joel Skousen, Curtis Stone, Alec Zeck, Doug and Stacy, Mollie Engelhart, Jeremy Cordon of Goldback, Mike Winner, and the full Sacred Honor Educational Fellowship crew. https://exitandbuild.com Try CrowdHealth Our community gets $99 a month for the first three months with code LFA. https://www.joincrowdhealth.com/promos/lfa
- Sep 30, 202645 min
LFN #263 - A Month of Transactions Erased: What Happened With Zano and What I Learned
We've been big supporters of Zano, thye have been a sponsor of this show and of our events , and I've personally onboarded scores of people into it. So this one isn't easy for me, and I took a few days before saying anything publicly because I wanted the full picture and I needed to work out where I actually stand. Here's the breakdown. About a month ago Zano pushed a network upgrade through a hard fork. There was a flaw in the new code that nobody caught for an entire month. An inflation bug, meaning whoever found it could mint Zano and Freedom Dollar out of thin air. It surfaced on Friday the 25th when the price dumped around 25 percent and somebody on the team asked why so much was suddenly being sold. Nobody knows how much got created. There's still no public number. A person close to the project said they couldn't confidently establish the amount, which is why they rejected simply buying the fake coins back. The marketing lead told Cointelegraph it was "considerable." Some of it sat in accounts with visible balances and can be counted, but once it got spent into ordinary private outputs it stopped being traceable. That's the tradeoff with a privacy coin, and it's why a clean audit is so difficult. The post-mortem still hasn't been published. So the team faced two bad options. Do nothing and accept that the supply everybody was promised might be meaningless. Or roll back the chain. They rolled it back. First they announced 24 hours, then walked the language back to a "coordinated network upgrade," then rolled back a full month. On this show I get into: Why immutability is the whole point of a blockchain, and what it means when a month of it can be undone. What the speed of that decision tells us about how decentralized the project actually is. The transaction I lost. Three weeks ago I helped a meat vendor at the Bastrop Farmers Market set up a wallet and bought $130 worth of meat with Zano. I've eaten the sausage. When my wallet resyncs I'll have the Zano back and he won't. I'm going to go make that right with him. Why I don't think this was insider action or a cover-up, and why I still think the rollback may have been the right call for the project's survival. The part that bothers me most, which is that the core team didn't catch this for a month while outside parties are running AI across crypto codebases hunting for exactly this. Where I land now. I'm blockchain agnostic. Bitcoin for preserving wealth, Monero for trading outside the system, and why I can't recommend Zano for trading right now even though I want these guys to make it. And the lessons I'm carrying forward about crypto, about counterparty trust, and about why precious metals still have a place in all of this. Exit & Build Virtual Summit 3 — This Saturday, October 3rd 12:00 to 5:00 PM Central. Free. A wallet is just software. What makes a parallel economy real is a dozen people you actually trade with. This summit is about community, and we're doing it as a Virtual Block Party with live music throughout and an open chat full of people in your state. Featuring David Avocado Wolfe, Curtis Stone, Michael Cobb, the Sacred Honor crew, and Prezence playing live. https://courses.livefree.academy/exit-and-build-6-virtual-summit-3 Exit & Build 6 — November 5-8, 2026 Mollie Engelhart's Sovereignty Ranch, Bandera, Texas Four days immersed in a working counter-economy. Buy your meals with crypto, silver, or Goldbacks. Sit down in the implementation zones and get your wallet funded and your plan built instead of taking notes about it. Speaking: David Avocado Wolfe, Joel Skousen, Curtis Stone, Doug and Stacy, Alec Zeck, Glenn and Eric Meder, and more. https://exitandbuild.com
- Sep 16, 20261h 24m
LFN #262 - Joel Skousen's Private Workshop: How to Actually Use Strategic Relocation (Never Released)
We played Joel Skousen's Exit & Build 2 keynote a while back and the response was huge. In that talk, Joel mentions a workshop he was giving the next day. A lot of you wrote in asking to hear it. It was an exclusive Sunday session. Never released publicly until now. This is Joel getting into the mechanics of Strategic Relocation. How to read the threat maps and narrow the whole country down to two or three states. What his state ratings actually measure: population density, private land availability, building permits, statewide land use planning, growing season, water quality, taxes, corruption, crime, personal liberty, gun rights, alternative medicine freedom, homeschooling freedom, and proximity to military targets. Then he gets into basements, which turns into one of the most practical stretches of the session. Which states actually build them, why most of the South doesn't, and how to get one poured anyway without paying ten times what it should cost. Then he opens the floor. Real people with real properties asking about their actual situations. Alaska. The Upper Peninsula. Northern British Columbia. Georgia. Kentucky. West Virginia. A woman living off grid in a yurt in California asking whether there's any way to stay. A doctor asking where a physician can still practice freely. Somebody asking about burying a shipping container as a shelter. He also names which news sources he trusts and which ones he thinks are compromised, and he doesn't spare anybody, including some names this audience holds dear. About Joel Skousen Former Navy and Marine Corps fighter pilot turned architect. He began writing The Secure Home in 1979, making him one of the genuine pioneers of the modern preparedness movement. Author of Strategic Relocation: North American Guide to Safe Places, still the definitive reference on threat-based relocation, and co-author of The High Security Shelter Book with his son, a structural engineer. He has published the World Affairs Brief weekly for decades and has designed high security residences and retreats across North America, Canada, and Latin America. Joel is speaking at Exit & Build 6 November 5-8, 2026 at Mollie Engelhart's Sovereignty Ranch in Bandera, Texas. He's giving a full talk plus an in-depth workshop, and he'll be around the whole event to talk relocation, preparedness, and whatever else you bring him. You can walk up and ask him about your own property. Four days on a working regenerative ranch with hands-on implementation zones where you leave having actually done the thing. Also speaking: David Avocado Wolfe, Curtis Stone, Doug and Stacy, Alec Zeck, Glenn and Eric Meder, Mollie Engelhart, the Sacred Honor crew, and more. Get your ticket: https://exitandbuild.com
- Sep 14, 20261h 25m
LFN #261 - 1 in 5 Male Cattle Are Producing Milk. Nobody Wants to Say Why. | Mollie Engelhart
Rancher Mollie Engelhart was at a talk in North Dakota when a man walked up and told her that close to 20 percent of steers were lactating at slaughter. She raises cattle. She milks cows. She'd never seen it once. Then he showed her the research poster, and it was real. Researchers from West Texas A&M and Cargill evaluated 20,481 finished cattle from 33 feedlots and found 6,078 lactating. Among native beef steers, 14.55 percent. Among dairy-cross steers, 19.66 percent. Steers are castrated males. Mollie thinks the hormone growth implants used in over 90 percent of feedlot cattle are the obvious suspect. The lead researcher disagrees and thinks the cattle have simply gotten fat enough that their own tissue is triggering it. We get into what she found, the pushback since she published, and what's happening at Sovereignty Ranch. Then we spend real time on the part that doesn't trend. Mollie went from vegan chef in LA to running 200 acres in the Texas Hill Country, and we talk honestly about what that costs. The hours, the grit, the toll on your body and your family, and the difference between people who talk about building and people who build. Mollie's reporting: https://members.acresusa.com/lactating-steers-hormonal-implants/ Mollie is speaking at Exit & Build 6, November 5-8 on her own land at Sovereignty Ranch in Bandera, Texas. Four days with the builders in this movement, hands-on implementation zones, and food grown right there that you can pay for with crypto, silver, or Goldbacks. https://exitandbuild.com
- Sep 2, 20261h 9m
LFN #260 - Bastrop to Terminate Flock Contract. How to Make this Happen In Your Community
Bastrop, Texas just voted to cover its Flock surveillance cameras and put contract termination on the agenda. Dozens of residents showed up. The city acted in one meeting. Here's how it happened, and how you can do the same thing in your town. In this episode of Live Free Now, John Bush breaks down the Bastrop Flock fight from the inside: the open records requests, the contract clauses nobody read, the difference between the two Flock audit reports that ended Pflugerville's program, and the exact steps activists can use to get automatic license plate readers out of their own cities and counties. Flock isn't the only camera on the pole. This is one battle in a much larger fight against the surveillance state being built around us, and it's one we can win at the local level. WHAT WE COVER: - How Bastrop went from a study committee to a termination vote in two weeks - The two-report trick that hides who's really searching your town's cameras - Why turning cameras off is not the same as ending the contract - The 8-step playbook to remove Flock from your city or county - Why the real goal is banning ALPRs altogether, not just switching vendors Whether you're in a small town or a big city, red county or blue, this is cross-partisan and it's winnable. Over 80 jurisdictions in 28 states have already ended their Flock contracts. Yours can be next. Fighting bad policy is not the ideal way to create greater freedom. The best way is building the alternatives to government and big tech that let us live free right now. If you want to organize beyond politics and help build those alternatives, join us for our next Freedom Cell social dinner at Community Gardens here in Bastrop County: https://www.facebook.com/events/1391604606249179/ Keep up with everything from John at livefree.academy/newsletter Free daily email.
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