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Escape the Technocracy

Gabriel Custodiet

Escape the Technocracy is a techno-adventure show on privacy tactics and evading technological tyranny.

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  • June 22 · 54 min

    224 - Douglas Tuman: Leading the Monero Charge

    Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Douglas Tuman of Monero fame. They discuss all of his Monero projects—Monero Talk, XMR Bazaar, XMR Chat, Monerotopia—as well as practical topics on how to live on Monero, as well as thoughts on figures in the community and banned accounts. GUEST: DOUGLAS TUMAN → https://x.com/DouglasTuman MONERO TALK → https://www.youtube.com/@MoneroTalk → https://x.com/MoneroTalk XMR BAZAAR → https://xmrbazaar.com/ → https://x.com/xmrbazaar (Account permanently banned: spread the word) MONEROTOPIA → https://monerotopia.com → https://x.com/MoneroTopia XMR CHAT → https://xmrchat.com/ → https://x.com/xmr_chat MONERONODO → https://moneronodo.com/ → https://x.com/moneronodo WATCHMAN'S TORCH PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → https://watchmanstorch.com ESCAPE THE TECHNOCRACY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ (including consulting) → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Gabriel's personal site) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy SUPPORT INDEPENDENT GONZO TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads. Just truth. → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 1:25 – Why did Douglas Tuman devote his life to Monero? 3:05 – Has their been a hijacking of Bitcoin? 4:35 – Monero Talk 8:00 – Douglas running for Congress 11:50 – Is being public important for Monero? 15:40 – Struggles of running Monerotopia 18:25 – Other Monero events 21:10 – Does Doug have troubles being publicly connected to Monero? 21:45 – XMR Bazaar 29:10 – Living off of Monero 30:55 – Why don't privacy influencers talk about Monero? 32:55 – Moneronodo 34:50 – Banned Monero Twitter account 36:05 – Thoughts on Monero Maverick 39:05 – Anti-Jewish sentiment in Monero 41:00 – Medium of exchange vs store of value 44:30 – Should Monero users be more interested in price? 48:00 – Did Doug lose faith in Monero mining after Qubic attack? 50:40 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • June 15 · 59 min

    223 - Paul Rosenberg: The Use of Knowledge

    Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Paul Rosenberg for a fifth time. They discuss the moral, anarchic, and technological questions that continue to define our world. GUEST → https://substack.com/@veraverba (New Substack profile) → https://freemansperspective.com/ → https://freemansperspective.com/product/the-untold-story-of-the-greatest-crypto-project-ever-e-book/ → https://www.amazon.com/stores/Paul-Rosenberg/author/B07TYTP6CD MY PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → https://watchmanstorch.com → Join my exclusive privacy community MY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → https://escapethetechnocracy.com (including consulting) → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Gabriel's personal site) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy SUPPORT INDEPENDENT GONZO TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads. Just truth. → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 1:45 – Clone thought experiment 3:40 – Digital ID 8:30 – Samourai Wallet 12:40 – Judges the biggest part of the problem of government? 16:30 – The Simple Web 20:50 – Wikipedia a decentralist failure? 25:00 – Laissez Faire city failure 32:00 – Quantum Computing 34:05 – Anarchy has no ways to fight off evil 42:50 – Are "defense stocks" immoral 48:50 – VPNs 55:00 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • June 8 · 33 min

    222 - The Psychopath Duology

    Episode 222 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – The Psychopath Duology WATCHMAN'S TORCH PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → https://watchmanstorch.com ESCAPE THE TECHNOCRACY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → https://escapethetechnocracy.com (including consulting) → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Gabriel's personal site) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy SUPPORT INDEPENDENT GONZO TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads. Just truth. → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • May 25 · 1 hr 6 min

    221 - Max Hillebrand: Evade Censorship with Nostr

    Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Max Hillebrand about Nostr: a censorship-resistant social media protocol. GUEST → https://towardsliberty.com WATCHMAN'S TORCH PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → https://watchmanstorch.com ESCAPE THE TECHNOCRACY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → https://escapethetechnocracy.com (including consulting) → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Gabriel's personal site) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy SUPPORT INDEPENDENT GONZO TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads. Just truth. → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 4:15 – Max Hillebrand's nomad lifestyle 7:35 – Current status of Germany 8:50 – Overview of Nostr 12:30 – Problems with traditional social media 16:10 – Shadow banning and opaque rules distort reality 18:55 – Where did Mastodon go wrong? 20:05 – Which is the biggest thing Nostr has achieved so far? 22:45 – How to run Nostr 27:55 – What are you responsible for as a Nostr user? 31:20 – How do we follow people on Nostr 32:40 – Where does content get hosted? 35:00 – Balance between user-friendly and sovereign 36:45 – Hardcore privacy on Nostr 39:50 – Is Nostr full of only Bitcoin talk? 44:05 – Ongoing maintenance of Nostr 46:30 – Do you have to be in Lightning to use Nostr 49:50 – Quality of life problems 54:00 – Other interesting aspects of Nostr 57:00 – What does censorship-resistance mean? 1:01:20 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • May 11 · 1 hr 20 min

    220 - Max Tannahill: A Modest Bitcoin Proposal

    Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Max Tannahill, one of the handful of Bitcoiners who believes in the original vision of the project, and one of the handful of people in the world who actually uses Bitcoin. GUEST → https://x.com/maxtannahill → https://t.me/maxtannahill → https://bip47db.github.io (A Decentralised On-Chain Directory for BIP47 Payment Codes) SAMOURAI WALLET SUPPORT → https://billandkeonne.org → https://recluso774.substack.com (TDevD writings) WATCHMAN TORCH PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → https://watchmanstorch.com → Latest updates from Watchman Privacy MY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → https://escapethetechnocracy.com (including consulting) → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Gabriel's personal site) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy SUPPORT INDEPENDENT TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads. Just truth. → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 2:05 – What was the significance of Samourai Wallet in Bitcoin? 8:05 – Upcoming Bitcoin conference – any hope? 14:40 – Latest from Bill (TdevD) 20:50 – BIP-361 25:55 – The BIP process is not Bitcoin 35:10 – BIP-110 40:05 – Worse example of a Bitcoin podcast episode or article 44:22 – Who is worse for sound money: Luke DashJr or Jerome Powell? 47:18 – Opinion on Bitcoin company Strike 50:30 – Max's BIP-47 suggestion 1:09:10 – Is flying the English flag racist? 1:12:30 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • May 4 · 1 hr 17 min

    219 - Maya Parbhoe: Suriname Decentralized

    Gabriel Custodiet speaks with former Suriname presidential candidate Maya Parbhoe. They discuss this small South American country and Maya's radical ideas to completely transform it, her backstory, recent controversy related to her presidential run, and where Bitcoin fits in to her ideas. GUEST → https://x.com/MayaPar25 → https://x.com/srdecentralized WATCHMAN'S TORCH PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → https://watchmanstorch.com ESCAPE THE TECHNOCRACY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → https://escapethetechnocracy.com (including consulting) → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Gabriel's personal site) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy SUPPORT INDEPENDENT GONZO TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads. Just truth. → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 2:00 – Suriname 8:00 – About Maya Parhoe 20:55 – Running for president of Suriname 32:20 – How to transform a country like Suriname 51:40 – Maya Parbhoe recent controversy 1:06:20 – Future endeavors for Maya Parbhoe 1:13:15 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • April 24 · 58 min

    218 - Ray Youssef: The War Chief in Chains

    Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Ray Youssef, a crypto entrepreneur formerly of Paxful, who was abducted by federal agents and taken to the US where he is currently facing troubling allegations. He gives an update on his situation and also discusses some of his other views on the Global South, why he is persona non grata at Bitcoin conferences, and why decentralization is not the best process for human freedom. GUEST → https://x.com/raythewarchief → https://therayfund.com WATCHMAN'S TORCH PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → https://watchmanstorch.com ESCAPE THE TECHNOCRACY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → https://escapethetechnocracy.com (including consulting) → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Gabriel's personal site) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy SUPPORT INDEPENDENT GONZO TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads. Just truth. → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 2:00 – Ray Youssef introduction 19:00 – Ray Youssef captured 20:50 – Stepped down from NoOnes.com 30:15 – Is decentralization the goal? 34:45 – Ray banned from Bitcoin conferences 38:15 – Ray is building a video game 43:20 – Goethe's 'Faust' 50:03 – Testosterone as critical for comprehending the truth Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • April 17 · 1 hr 29 min

    217 - The Politics of Bitcoin (Zelko & Samourai Wallet)

    Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Zelko of RoninDojo and Samourai Wallet. They unpack the crazy politics in the Bitcoin community: from the fuzzy "red lines" of Bitcoin company, to the gradual diminishment of Bitcoin's cypherpunk origins, to FOSS gaslighting and the recent Ocean Mining censorship. Oh, and Bitcoin is not for Progressives. Note: Originally recorded December 2023 ZELKO & RONINDOJO → https://twitter.com/BTCxZelko → https://twitter.com/RoninDojoNode → https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch/citadel-dispatch-e026-using (Node comparison) SAMOURAI WALLET → https://billandkeonne.org/ → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPY-5SR-jPQ (Bitcoin: An Experiment in Anarchism) WATCHMAN TORCH PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → https://watchmanstorch.com → Latest updates from Watchman Privacy MY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → https://escapethetechnocracy.com (including consulting) → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Gabriel's personal site) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy SUPPORT INDEPENDENT TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads. Just truth. → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html

  • April 10 · 48 min

    216 - Lauren Rodriguez: A Samourai Wallet Saga

    Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Lauren Rodriguez about how her political prisoner husband Keonne Rodriguez is doing in prison, some updates on Samourai Wallet, and some reflections on the injustice surrounding this event and similar events. GUEST AND SUPPORT SAMOURAI WALLET → https://billandkeonne.org/ (Sign the petition and donate to the families) → https://x.com/leamuirleyn (Lauren Rodriguez Twitter) → https://x.com/keonne (Keonne Rodriguez Twitter) → https://www.therage.co/tag/samourai-wallet/ (Keonne's "Notes from the Inside") WATCHMAN TORCH PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → https://watchmanstorch.com → Latest updates from Watchman Privacy MY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ (including consulting) → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Gabriel's personal site) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy SUPPORT INDEPENDENT TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads. Just truth. → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 4:00 – How is Keonne doing in prison? 9:35 – Lauren's perspective of the April 2024 FBI raid 13:05 – Has Lauren's life been complicated by connection to Keonne? 14:00 – Keonne threatened with solitary confinement for writing from prison 17:05 – What is Keonne looking for from listeners? (sending letters and books) 20:15 – Taylor Swift? 22:25 – Who is The Skinwalker? 23:50 – The backwardness of prison 26:30 – Lauren's life and current mission 29:35 – Lauren's perspective of the Legal Industrial Complex 35:50 – The Rodriguez's financially crushed by the legal system 39:50 – Victim of Operation Chokepoint 2.0 43:20 – SamouraiWallet.com owned by scammers? 45:40 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • April 6 · 54 min

    215 - Parallel Mike: System Reboot

    Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Parallel Mike on the Iran War, the technocratic boot falling on Europe, food crisis and solutions, the rise of gold and its acquisition, working within the banking system, and the fight against dopamine hits. GUEST → https://substack.com/@parallelmike → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYt8UcqG2wvkehnmiF_9Akw → https://x.com/parallel_mike WATCHMAN TORCH PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → https://watchmanstorch.com → Latest updates from Watchman Privacy MY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ (including consulting) → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Gabriel's personal site) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy SUPPORT INDEPENDENT TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads. Just truth. → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 2:05 – Europe in a precarious position – where to go 7:40 – Iran war: Mike's latest thoughts 19:05 – Food crisis and solutions 26:20 – Rise in gold price and present gold dynamics 34:30 – Acquisition of gold 39:50 – Best options within the banking systems 45:18 – Avoiding dopamine hits 52:00 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

  • March 9 · 59 min

    214 - John Robb: Brave New War

    Gabriel Custodiet speaks with John Robb, a futurist military analyst. They discuss his original book, Brave New World, and how thinking about modern warfare involves understanding how cultural movements and politics are shaped by viral moments and the scarcely predictable movements of "the network." Episode was recorded in late 2025. GUEST → https://johnrobb.substack.com/about → https://x.com/johnrobb → https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-War-Terrorism-Globalization/dp/0470261951 MY PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → https://watchmanstorch.com → Join my exclusive privacy community MY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → https://escapethetechnocracy.com (including consulting) → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Gabriel's personal site) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy SUPPORT INDEPENDENT GONZO TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads. Just truth. → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 2:45 – Guerrilla warfare as the way to understanding current events 4:45 – How us guerrilla warfare like open source software? 14:15 – How does the powerful force respond to guerrilla movements? 17:30 – What is "The Network" 27:20 – Mass SIM network found in New York City 33:10 – Other examples of dangerous military technology 41:00 – Race hustling 45:40 – Fake online content: how influential? 49:00 – AI futurism 57:00 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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