EXIT Podcast

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 that these mechanisms of social control exist, but that the worst people on the planet are deciding who is allowed to speak and what they are allowed to say.In fact, what mainstream conservatives call “cancel culture” is more like an autoimmune disorder, in which the weapons that ordinarily stigmatize socially harmful behavior are turned against themselves, so that the only distinction that is permitted is that it is wrong to acknowledge distinction.The problem with this autoimmune disorder is not that it’s unfair, or Unconstitutional, but that it’s terminal.All the cultural infrastructure that produces healthy family life is being methodically dismantled — and “healthy family life” is not merely a nice thing to have: it is the means by which a culture continues, genetically and memetically.As these institutions collapse, some of us are still getting lucky — meeting the right woman, making a decent living, even raising healthy children — but the odds are looking longer every day for our kids, even with all the advantages we can give them. If we remain in the grip of this disorder — if we can’t find leverage, if we can’t organize against these forces — we will go extinct. First, our way of life, our religious beliefs, our values, everything that makes us “us”, will be replaced in our children with the homogenized values of Citibank and Netflix and Planned Parenthood — and of course, those values psychologically sterilize everyone who adopts them. In other words:It’s about whether or not we get to have grandchildren.If we want grandchildren, we’re going to need alternatives to government schools. We need jobs that can support a homemaker and children. We need to move to better neighborhoods (or build them), so that our children can find good friends, mentors, and mates.But that’s all defensive; we also need to build a way of life that our children will want to adopt and iterate. That means being personally exemplary, and happy, and jacked, and good-looking; it also means building a career where we aren’t miserable and exhausted, where we don’t have to resentfully mumble taqiyya to stay employed. It means funding culture production, and supporting dissident thinkers, so that as the present consensus rots and collapses, we can be ready to replace it with something beautiful.It’s not about abandoning the culture, or forfeiting positions of strength.Only an idiot would tell a factory worker, “You should never strike, you’re giving up all your power in the system!” Organized, strategic Exit — in the form of walkouts, work stoppages, etc. — is the only means by which labor can gain power within the system. And if you think your cultural and institutional leverage is any different as an Amazon project manager, you’re deluding yourself.The purpose of EXIT (the organization) is to help our guys prosecute Exit (as a strategy). In order to push back in the workplace and the public square, our Exit must be three things:* Coordinated: One guy quitting his job or shouting into the void won’t make much difference. We need to build the power to act and speak collectively.* Survivable: To have the courage to push back, our guys need to be financially and socially prepared to weather a short-term adjustment — just like striking workers need to know how they’re going to pay their bills for the duration of the strike.* Credible: Exit doesn’t have to mean a permanent withdrawal, but we do need credible alternatives to the resources that we’re currently getting from these hostile institutions. We can’t be bluffing.EXIT’s solution to this problem is something like Balaji Srinivasan’s concept of a “decentralized network union”. Most of the time, we are building infrastructure that makes us stronger: hiring each other, promoting each other’s work, helping each other start businesses, and investing together. But when someone is directly threatened by doxxing or any other method of backdoor ideological policing, we circle the wagons to make sure they are able to weather the storm and get back on their feet.We are also collaborating on big-picture problems.EXIT has brought together a deep pool of talent: software developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, attorneys, investors, creatives, executives, etc. — all of whom have recognized that it’s not enough to be individually successful. We are creating teams to build:* Cancellation insurance* Legal defense funds* Investment funds* Alternative schools* Preparedness services* Arts patronageMembers with expertise and passion take point on each of these projects — many of which we expect to spin off into inde

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 marketingOffering a service versus offering a resultHow to recover from online reputational damageExclusive reputation management tools for EXIT members 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

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 customersMaintaining healthy margins when anyone with a truck can compete on priceGetting a minimum-wage MBA and homeschooling rowdy boysIdentifying profitable jobs and resale markets 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

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 neoliberalsThe exodus of competence from elite institutionsInterdimensional psychic pedophile vampiresThe possibility of a rightward preference cascade 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

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 sorceryWhich niche RW microceleb scares the bugman most, & why it is Dr BennettHow Islamic terrorism held the blue/red coalition togetherWhat the Russians are actually up to, if anythingRemaining human in the face of cybernetic institutionsBeing in communion with history, & the beauty of LARP 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

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 gamingMaking decentralized finance (Defi) accessible to your grandmaThe closing of the crypto frontierWhat you need to know to become a blockchain engineerThe incoherence of eternal appreciation 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

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 dysfunctionHow individuals can stay safe and even thrive as their environment grows more chaoticWhat and who you need to know to survive in a declining urban centerSkill development for civilians, in order of priority 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

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 EXITcountering corporate-feminist messaginghow to support a spouse who has been doxxedhow 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 bonus episodes, visit blog.exitgroup.us/subscribe

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 onlinepolarization and balkanizationwhat "apocalypse" preparedness is worthwhile for a civilianmanaging your propaganda diet. 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

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 youhow to integrate *your* shadow (not just "the shadow")the Jungian roots of the current ideological realignmenthow we can save the normiewhy countercultural "tribes" always come off as LARP 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

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 lawyers quit the case, & won. Incredible story, don't miss this one. 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

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 grindhomeschool & deinstitutionalizing educationentrepreneurship 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 bonus episodes, visit blog.exitgroup.us/subscribe

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 cancellationthe virtues of the suburbsthe geisha social refinement required to succeed in the mobile bicycle repair game. 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

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 downidentifying the right supplierroute and execution efficiencyfinding, coaching, and retaining customerswhen and whether to scale up 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

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 kidsthe power of stewardshiplife mediated through moviesthe opioid epidemictraveling through the underworld 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

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 businesshow to differentiate in a crowded industryloving your product & knowing your customereasy products to import & shipstarting a good idea at the smallest possible scale 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

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 expertselling bots and the 'Wild West' era of social mediadiversifying income streamsdebt slavery and credentialism as social controldecentralized guns, money, media 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

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 schoolcarving out room for boys in feminized educationthe wastefulness of pushing kids (& adults) beyond their cognitive maturitynavigating the decline & fall of the empire, the future of BYUthe sportsbro, and what can be done about him 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

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 streamscolonizing Detroit, nomadic pastoralismis a "holy city" a contradiction in terms?why used books are ideal for retail arbitragefinding paydirt up & down the value chainbringing your brain to "lowbrow" businesses 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

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 destinyought we to poast at all?rebuilding lost freedoms rather than insisting on thema mental model for preserving one's identity onlinementally-colonized Mormies & HindusHindutva & the imminent reclamation of Aryavartha 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

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 fisherymaking $10K a month from 20-hour workweeksbleach, 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 discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blog.exitgroup.us/subscribe

Tanner is a founding member of EXIT and an expert in content creation and online entrepreneurship. After being doxxed in 2011 and frozen out of a career in talk radio, he built a style coaching and mentorship business, Masculine Style. We discuss:surviving the first few weeks after getting doxxedrhythms in generating and marketing your contentkeeping the lights on while you build your businessbuilding an affirmative culture, rather than just criticizing The Systembeing an aspirational figure for your kids 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

Chase is the EXIT Group's expert on general contracting and commercial agriculture. He has built successful businesses in construction and landscaping, and is now in his second year as a commercial chicken farmer. We discuss:why he left behind a biotechnology major to make his career as a tradesmanbuilding a home for your great-great-grandkidsthe entrepreneurship master class that we are developing together, and the duty to become self-reliant so that you can say "no". 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