# Episode 12:  Building the Future While the Old World Burns with Nick Smoot

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Podcast: [Dangerous Intellectuals: The Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dangerous-intellectuals-the-podcast-7526000)
Published: 2025-12-01T15:46:40+00:00
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## Resource

Nick Smoot is torching the old playbook: he’s aiming to shred Medicaid waste, envisions flipping dying schools into profit engines, and is building plans for tokenizing entire cities so citizens earn real equity instead of paying taxes to parasites. While Wall Street panics, and bubbles pop, Nick is building sovereign, gamified communities that run on code, not bureaucrats. This hour-long Dangerous Intellectuals firebomb is pure entrepreneurial rocket fuel: how to launch the next trillion-dollar company from flyover country, why legacy education is dead, and the exact moves to spark innovation and freedom-grade schools nationwide and beyond. Download now, share fast—this is the blueprint the gatekeepers don’t want you to have. https://dangerousintellectuals.com https://www.buildcities.com Duration 01:07:49

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