216 - Lauren Rodriguez: A Samourai Wallet Saga
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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 → (Sign the petition and donate to the families) → (Lauren Rodriguez Twitter) → (Keonne Rodriguez Twitter) → (Keonne’s “Notes from the Inside”) WATCHMAN TORCH PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → → Latest updates from Watchman Privacy MY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → ...
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215 - Parallel Mike: System Reboot
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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 → → → WATCHMAN TORCH PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → → Latest updates from Watchman Privacy MY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → (including consulting) → (Gabriel's personal site) → SUPPORT INDEPENDENT TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads. Just truth. → TIMELINE...
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214 - John Robb: Brave New War
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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 → → → MY PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → → Join my exclusive privacy community MY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → (including consulting) → (Gabriel's personal site) → SUPPORT INDEPENDENT GONZO...
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213 - NanoGPT: Pay-Per-Prompt AI Service
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks Milan de Reede, co-creator of Nano-GPT.com, a pay-as-you-go AI aggregate service with certain privacy features. De Reede gives an update on NanoGPT and discusses some practical tips for using AI. GUEST → → → Previous episode (173): MY AI PRIVACY COURSE → MY PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → → Join my exclusive privacy community MY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → (including consulting) → (Gabriel's personal site) → SUPPORT INDEPENDENT GONZO TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM → No sponsors. No ads....
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3D Printing for Radicals
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212 - The Hated One: Privacy or Profit
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with well-known privacy YouTuber The Hated One. They discuss the difficulty of maintaining integrity while recommending privacy tools, the problem with Proton’s expansion into other services, societal changes that would benefit privacy, cryptocurrencies, and current advances of surveillance. GUEST → → → WATCHMAN’S TORCH PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → ESCAPE THE TECHNOCRACY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → (including consulting) → (Gabriel's personal site) → SUPPORT INDEPENDENT GONZO TECHNO-ADVENTURE JOURNALISM →...
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211 - Naomi Brockwell: Nothing to Hide
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Episode 211 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – Naomi Brockwell: Nothing to Hide Gabriel Custodiet speaks with the long-time privacy instructor Naomi Brockwell about her origins, how to onboard normies to privacy, Flock cameras and private property, her updated thoughts on Bitcoin and crypto, and the mistakes parents make exposing their children online. GUEST → → → → MY PREMIUM NEWSLETTER → → Join my exclusive privacy community MY PRIVACY TUTORIALS → (including consulting) → (Gabriel's personal site) → SUPPORT...
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Samourai Wallet Update
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210 - Keonne Rodriguez: Going to Prison for Privacy
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of the trendsetting Bitcoin wallet Samourai Wallet. Keonne was inexplicably arrested in a violent and oppressive military-style raid of his property in April of 2024. He was charged with the bizarre accusation of conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmitter despite never transmitting money. Keonne tells his story and explains how he has been condemned to prison and stripped of his constitutional rights. SUPPORT KEONNE AND BILL OF SAMOURAI WALLET (AND SIGN A PETITION FOR A PARDON) → MY PREMIUM...
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Watchman Privacy UPDATE
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info_outlineGabriel 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