Live Free Now w/ John Bush
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LFN #262 - Joel Skousen's Private Workshop: How to Actually Use Strategic Relocation (Never Released)
<p>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.</p> <p>It was an exclusive Sunday session. Never released publicly until now.</p> <p>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...
LFN #261 - 1 in 5 Male Cattle Are Producing Milk. Nobody Wants to Say Why. | Mollie Engelhart
<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Mollie thinks the hormone growth implants used in over 90 percent of feedlot cattle are the obvious...
LFN #260 - Bastrop to Terminate Flock Contract. How to Make this Happen In Your Community
<p>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.</p> <p>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...
LFN #259 - Bastrop Packed the Room Against Flock Cameras. Here's What Happened.
<p>Yesterday I went to a Bastrop City Council workshop because Flock cameras were on the agenda.</p> <p>Was the first time I've engaged a local or state government in a LONG time.</p> <p>It was a packed house. The council said it was the most people they'd ever had at one of these workshops. Person after person got up to speak against Flock. Exactly one person registered in favor, and they didn't even speak.</p> <p>I got the chance to speak twice during citizens communication, and I'm playing both of those videos on today's show.</p> <...
LFN #258 - David Avocado Wolfe Joins the Exit & Build 6 Lineup
<p>David Avocado Wolfe is joining us in person at Exit & Build 6, November 5 through 8, 2026, at Mollie Engelhart's Sovereignty Ranch in Bandera, Texas.</p> <p>Three decades as one of the most recognizable voices in natural health and superfoods. Longevity, nutrition, raw and living foods, herbalism, soil and mineral density. And one of the loudest voices telling people not to outsource their health to institutions that haven't earned the trust.</p> <p>Which is exactly what exit and build is about. You can't build a sovereign life on a body that depends on the system you're trying to exit.</p> <p>...
LFN #257 - Joel Skousen: Strategic Relocation, Home Security, and Escaping What's Coming (Never Released)
<p>Joel Skousen has spent nearly five decades helping people answer one question: where should you live when the systems around you start to fail?</p> <p>This talk has never been available publicly. Joel delivered it at Exit & Build 2, and we're releasing it now for the first time.</p> <p>In it he walks through the core of his life's work:</p> <p>Strategic relocation and how to evaluate where you live right now. Population density, prevailing winds, nuclear and military target proximity, water access, growing season, state law, and the neighbors you'd actually be depending on. Joel breaks...
LFN #256 - How to Get Local Businesses to Accept Gold & Silver (16 Years of Counter-Economy Lessons)
<p>I've spent over 16 years building the counter-economy. Trading precious metals for goods and services with real businesses. Actual trades, actual people, actual yeses.</p> <p>In this video I break down exactly how I do it. The scripts, the mindset, and the moves that get a business owner nodding instead of staring at you like you just asked to pay in seashells.</p> <p>You'll learn:</p> <p>How to walk up to a farmers market vendor and get a yes on the spot<br> Why pitching a brick and mortar is a completely different game than pitching an...
#LFN #255 - Agorism 101: Opt Out of the System w/ Sal the Agorist
<p>Sal the Agorist is joining us at the Exit and Build Virtual Summit 2 on August 8th... so we're replaying one of our best conversations with him to get you ready.</p> <p>In this episode we get into what agorism actually means and why Sal thinks politics can't ever produce freedom, no matter who wins the next election. He breaks down the counter-economy... entrepreneurial noncompliance... and why every regulation they pass just creates ten new ways around it.</p> <p>Sal will be one of our speakers at the Exit and Build Virtual Summit 2 — Strategy Edition, happening online August 8th...
LFN #254 - Pragmatism Is Killing the Freedom Movement (Here's What to Do Instead)
<p>On today's Live Free Now show, I'm breaking down a recent post I saw shared by Alec Zeck about pragmatism versus principles, and why so many in the freedom movement choose pragmatism over consistent principles rooted in the philosophy of liberty.</p> <p>I'll break down why I became a full on anarchist, a voluntaryist, and why I reject government wholeheartedly. And I'll share why we need to go further than just philosophy, into actually applying the philosophy of liberty.</p> <p>In this episode:</p> <p>Why I reject government wholeheartedly as a way to organize society<br> ...
LFN #253 - 5 Ways to Find Your Freedom Crew (24 Years of Hard-Won Lessons)
<p>In this episode I'm breaking down 5 powerful strategies to meet freedom friends and build your own freedom crew, drawn from 24 years of organizing freedom lovers, homesteaders, agorists, and folks who question the official narrative.<br> Here's what we'll get into:</p> <p>Where to actually find your people (the spots most folks overlook)<br> What to look for so you connect with the right ones<br> How to strike up a conversation without it feeling forced<br> How to organize your own meetups and keep them going<br> What to watch out for so you protect yourself and your...
